Injured, two homes destroyed. An investigation under way. And bad time to tweet . New information on that big flub at the Academy Awards. Theres a mistake. Moonlight, you guys won best picture. A and the twitter post that may have led to one of the most embarrassing mixups in history. Today, tuesday, february 28th, 2017. From nbc news, this is a special edition of today, on the hill, with matt lauer, live from capitol hill, and savannah goo guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to this special edition of today. Im matt lauer smackdab in the middle of washington. And savannah sackdab in the middle of studio 1a in new york city. There you are. Ive been looking at your beautiful shots of washington, d. C. This morning. And i think, arent they peaceful when they sleep . It looks so good. Such a beautiful spot. It will be a busy night in washington. Im standing just above where the inauguration took place, just about a month ago. And let me set the scene for you. Im standing on the speakers balcony. He doesnt know were here. Thats not true. Just down the hallway from where i am right now, President Trump, tonight, will deliver his address to a joint session of congress. Seated behind him will be speaker of the house, paul ryan. Well step into his office for an exclusive interview. Lets begin with peter alexander. Hes on the east front of the capitol. Peter, good morning to you. Reporter matt, good morning. Another gorgeous backdrop. White house officials tell me that President Trump will be putting the final touches on tonights speech over the course of today. Already, theyre giving us a preview. Senior white house Officials Saying the theme of tonights speech will be renewal of the american spirit. An optimistic vision for all americans, that some may view as a departure from his inaugural address. President trump will focus on what hes already accomplished in his first month in office and also focus on the economy and security going forward. As he prepares for his first formal pitch before congress. President trump, ready for his closeup on capitol hill. Offering a preview on fox news. All i can do is speak from the heart and say what i want to do. We have a really terrific, i believe, Health Care Plan coming out. And ill be talking about the military. Ill be talking about the border. Reporter mr. Trump teeing up his speech. Promising a massive military buildup. Pumping an additional 54 billion into the pentagon, intelligence agencies and ho homeland security. We have to win. We have to start winning wars again. Reporter the president is vowing to slash spending from other agencies, including the state department and epa, that could have a Significant Impact on domestic programs and foreign aid. But the pushback from 100 retired generals and admirals, including david petraeus. In a letter sent to congressional leaders and Trump Administration officials. They warn now is not the time to retreat from diplomacy and development. Untouched, medicare and Social Security. Mr. Trumps plan, unacceptable to democrats. Once again, middleclass people, working families, are going to be hurt. Reporter repeating repeal and replace obama care, President Trump surprised at the complexcy of health care reform. Still looming over the white house, lingering questions about the Trump Campaigns possible ties to russia. Mr. President , will you appoint a special prosecutor on russia. Reporter President Trump responding under his breath as reporters were escorted away. This is what he said three years ago. I was in moscow reecently. An i speak undirectly and directly, with vladimir putin. Who couldnt have been nicer. Reporter darrell issa is standing by as special prosecutor. Russias involvements in activity has been investigated up and town. And the question becomes, if theres nothing further to investigate, what are you asking to investigate . Reporter the republican chairman, siding with mr. Trump. Thats what im concerned about that we dont go on a witch hunt against american citizens because they appear in a press story somewhere. Reporter the top democrat, arguing their investigation is just getting under way. It is, i think, way premature to draw conclusions about whether there was coluciollusi. Reporter meanwhile, the white house is drawing fire from bill owens, the father of ryan owens. The senior owens has raised questions about the mission. I can tell him on behalf of the president , his son died a hero. And the information that he was able to help obtain, through that raid, as i said before, was goings to save american lives. Reporter but multiple Officials Say the raid has not revealed any value, as of yet. This morning, we are getting an update on this evenings speech and who the president has invited as his guests. It includes maureen scalia. And three individuals whose loved ones were killed by undocumented immigrants. The white house tells me that tomorrow we should expect the president will announce his revised travel ban, executive order, thats been on hold by a court for more than three weeks. All right, peter. Thank you very much. Im joined now by the House Speaker, paul ryan. Hes giving us an exclusive interview. Mr. Speaker, good to see you. A busy time. You spent some time with the president at the white house yesterday, going over the agenda. One of the things we learned yesterday, was a little more about the outline for his budget. He is planning massive spending increases in the areas of the military, intelligence, National Security. And to offset that, massive cuts in other domestic programs. And he says he will not touch Social Security and medicare. Does this work . Well, we havent seen the full budget yet. Youve seen a piece of a budget, which is what a new administration always does. But this is a promise he made. We have gutted our military in many, many ways. And we had huge increases in domestic spending. We have long believed that we put our spending out of balance on what we call Discretionary Spending. Weve hurt the military and given lift in other areas. Hes trying to get the balance right. Are there enough cuts to be made in Discretionary Spending . And if you dont touch entitlements like medicare and Social Security, and youve been talking about this for a long time. Its not popular. But we have to make tough choices on the entitlements. Can he ambulance tbalance the b without touching them . We never proposed to change benefits for current seniors and people about to retire. People in the tenyear budget window, we budget on a tenyear basis. Were not going to change benefits for anybody in or near retirement. No one has proposed that. People like me have been saying, those in the younger generation, xgen on down, these programs will be bankrupt by the time we get there. We have to reform them for the next generation. Does the president agree with that . I believe he does. On Social Security, that problem is not as acute as our health care problem. Replacing obamacare is entitlement reform. And that helps us with health care. The point hes trying to make with the first piece of his budget, much to follow, is our military has been hollowed out. I met with the admiral that runs the pacific command, theyre running out of munitions. They have a problem and hes trying to address that. You mentioned health care. The last time we sat down in your office was january 12th, 2016. We cleaned the place up a little bit. A good job around here. I said to you then, why is it that republicans have been trashing obama care at six years at that point, and seven years now, and not presented a viable replacement. And you said, we will have that plan for you. That deadline came and went. We ran on a plan last year. But you didnt give us a plan that can be voted an now. And you know that republicans within their own party, have deep disagreements on how to replace obamacare. So, do the American People have a right to say, weve heard the criticism for year after year, and yet, we still dont have something that can be put on the president s desk . Thats what were doing right now. Were not writing some bill in the back room andin Harry Reid Office like obamacare was written. Were doing this stepbystep. Were having public hearings. Having committees work on legislation. This is how the legislative process is supposed to be designed. Not hatching some bill in the back room and then popping on the americans front door. Your predecessor made your job a little tougher last week. I saw. All of the repeal and replace is not going to happen. Its happy talk. What theyre going to do is fix some bad parts obamacare and put it in a conservative box. Thats not what were doing. Obamacare is collapsing. I think the democrats got too far ahead on the ideology. And they gave us a system where the government runs health care. They gave us a system where costs went up, not down. They gave us a system that took i way the things that people liked. Those promises were sold to the American People and were violated. Now, we have a collapsing market place. We believe were in a rescue mission to step in and prevent this collapse. A lot of people disagree that oba obamacare is collapsing. Aetna said its in a death spiral. Let me read you something the president said yesterday. This is a guy that ran one of the things he ran on, im going to repeal and replace obamacare. And he said this about health care. I have to tell you, its an unbelievably complexiplex subje. Nobody knew health care could be so complicated. Nobody knew health care could be so complicated. Ive been working on health care for a couple decades. Doesnt that take your breath away when the president of the United States says nobody knew . Hes a business guy that came to office. Not a policy wonk working in congress on health care. How do you run on repealing and replacing obamacare when you didnt know its a complicated procedure. Obamacare is breaking the health care system. The bill that were work on is the bill that we ran on last year. The bill were working on, is the bill were working with the senate and the white house. Its much like the bill that tom price who was the Gold Standard reformer of health care, introduced last year. He is the health and Human Services secretary. Lets take a step back. People want peace of mind in a health care system. People want to be able to have choices in a health care system. We want to get costs down. We want to give people more choices. We believe in a patientcentered system, where all of the providers of health care services, doctors or hospitals, compete for our business as patients and consumers. We should make decisions on how health care works, not a distonight bureaucrat, which is restricting our choices. Onethird of counties have one plan to choose from. Doesnt it seem often that mr. Trump talks about big ideas without diving into the details of how to accomplish his promises. Like im going to defeat isis . Or im going to repeal and replace obamacare. And im going to build that ball and the mexicans are going to pay for it. As a guy that dives into details, doesnt that frustrate you . I see him as a chairman, as a president , much like successful president s have been. He gets people around him who are detail people. You hire jim mattis to be your secretary of defense, to defeat isis. You put tom price, an orthopedic surgery, chairman of the budget committee, who has been working on health care his adult life, on health care. You delegate the details. Delegate the details to people who know what theyre doing. And you make sure that the objectives are met. The goals you ran on for the American People to improve their lives are met. Thats the kind of commander in chief we need in this country. A couple of quick things. I spoke to former president bush on the subject of possible russian ties to trumps associates during the campaign. He says the American People need answers. Is there anything you could hear that would make you decide we need a special prosecutor to look into that . Well, thats the executive branch. I understand that. We think we need to do an investigation here with our Intelligence Committees. Theres one thing thats unique about this. This gets into the methods of collection of intelligence data. Sources and methods that is sensitive. Its the most sensitive tool in our National Security tool box. Thats why we have an Intelligence Committee of men and women in congress, who have gone through the process of understanding those tools. That to me is where the investigation were beginning an investigation. An Intelligence Committee with a majority of republicans. And people want an investigation. Its a bipartisan investigation. The house and senate Intelligence Committees are beginning investigations. Weve had one for a while. Were increasing the scope of that investigation. You have to be mindful of the sources and methods of our Intelligence Community, so you dont compromise how we gather intelligence. Dont forget, the Obama Administration had an exhaustive investigation before they left office on this point. The point is, we need to get answers. We need to make sure that nothing happened, that shouldnt have happened, as we go forward. Thats what we do as our jobs in congress. And we think the Intelligence Community is the right place to do it. Were going to spend time with you this morning and take a tour outside of your office. We fixed the place up. Enjoy your time this morning. Mr. Speaker, thank you so much. Back to savannah in new york. I will be joining chuck todd and lester holt for coverage of President Trumps address. You can watch it 9 00 eastern, 6 00 pacific time. And well have the highlights and reaction tomorrow morning on today. Now, to breaking news overnight. A tragic plane crash. It happened in southern california. And it was caught on surveillance video. You can see the small plane returning from a cheerleading event from disneyland. And it slams into a residential neighborhood. Steve patterson at the scene for us this morning. Hi, steve. Good morning. Reporter crews on the ground tell us all of the victims involved were people onboard that flight. Five of them. Three were killed and two are clinging to life. We spoke to neighbors who not only saw the moment of impact, but recall the harrowing moments that followed. Horror on the ground in riverside, california, when a small plane slammed into a residential neighborhood. The impact killing passengers, leveling homes and sending a fireball into the sky. The wreckage burning for hours. Pillowing black smoke seen for miles. Two women who were ejected from the plane survived. Witnesses were shocked to see the victims pulled from the rubble. I heard the lady that was pulled out when i was rushed to the hospital. I heard her scream, help me, help me. Like, i need help. We didnt know where she was. Reporter fire Officials Say five people were in the cessna 310, the victims flying back to san jose, after attending a cheerleading competition at disneyland. Its horrible. Especially when you couple together that they were going to a cheer competition. And this is supposedly a happy time. And then, just to have a tragic stint li incident like this. Reporter the plane went down a halfmile away from the riverside municipal airport. The two women who survived this onboard that flight, remain in critical condition. The National Transportation safety board will launch a full investigation into the cause. Savannah . Steve patterson, thank you so much. We turn and get a first check of the weather from mr. Roker. Severe stuff to talk about over the next two days, including stuff that stretches from the gulf coast all the way up into new england. Right now, a line of showers and thunderstorms pushing through. But today, we have an area of risk weather. Riskaverse weather. 36 Million People. Nocturnal tornadoes, could be a big problem. And some could be strong. And it is a wide risk. As we look at tomorrow, 87 Million People. From new york and new england, all the way down to the gulf. Tornado threat, a little weaker. But widespread wind damage. Chicago could be in that enhanced risk by tomorrow. The cold front continues to push to the east. As we move into tomorrow, the line of strong storms stretch from new york all the way down into atlanta. Airport te ldelays over the nex hours will be big problems here in the east burke at farmers, weve seen almost everything, so we know how to cover almost anything. Even a truckcicle. [second man] how you doing . [ice cracking] [second man] ah,ah, ah. Oh no [first man] saves us some drilling. [burke] and we covered it, february fourteenth, twentyfifteen. Talk to farmers. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum good morning. Clouds are starting to break. Get enough sunshine to warm into 60s this afternoon. 66 in philadelphia two degrees away from the record high this mpb. 66 with sunshine breaking through the clouds in new jersey. Little cooler at the shore with sea breeze into the 50s today. Warm again to the 60s for the Lehigh Valley. Then partly sunny skies this afternoon before clouds return this evening for delaware. High of 66. Have a great day. And that is your latest weather. Savannah . Al, thank you. Who was behind the oscars best picture flub . Were going to break it all down from the confusion on the stage to the accountant. Was his backstage tweet to blame . And matts tour of w