Out in an exclusive live interview. All that, plus a terrifying bus crash caught on tape. Guardrails designed to prote protect. Do they pose a danger . And the new silver fox. Steve carell will be here, today, wednesday, june 28th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And, good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on this wednesday morning. Hoda, once again, in while savannah takes some time off. Good morning. We have a lot going on. We have everything you need to know to get your day started. We want to start on this wednesday morning with that crippling cyber attack. Its a new form of ransomwear thats targeting systems around the world. Keir simmons is here with the latest on that. Good morning. Reporter its unclear who is behind this cyber attack and the full extent of its impact is difficult to gauge. But this morning, the list of Companies Impacted around the world is growing. This morning, an International Cyber attack has reached americas shores. The global virus called petya, crippling thousands of machines worldwide. Taking control of computers and demanding digital ransom from their owners to gain access. Even if victims pay a ransom, they may not get control of their systems. Among the targets, maersk, the Chernobyl Nuclear plant switched its radiation monitoring to manual to protect against attack. Two hospitals in western pennsylvania were hit. Patients posting on social media, saying some surgeries were canceled. This is a profitable business. We have to remember that organized cyber crime totals 445 billion on an annual basis. Reporter the outbreak is the most sophisticated attacks, using a dozen tools that were stolen from the National Security agency and leaked online by a group called the shadow brokers. Its fast spreading. Were seeing the ukraine, the u. S. , in india and the u. K. And other countries, as their worm is spreading around. What can all of us do to protect ourselves . Use long, complicated passwords. Keep your operating system and antivirus system up to date. Back up your computer on an external drive. And never click on suspicious emails or web links. Good to see you. Thanks. Republican leaders are voicing confidence in the future of their Controversial Health care bill. That, after a white house meeting with President Trump, just hours after delaying a planned vote. We have complete coverage beginning at the white house, with nbc National Correspondent peter alexander. Peter, good morning. Reporter hey, hoda. It is back to the drawing board for Senate Republicans who insist they will keep after it even after this embarrassing delay. For the house, that time helped them to pass the bill. But the same may not be the true for the senate, as they get an earful as they head home. The longer this goes, the harder it gets. This morning, after a stunning setback for the Gop Health Care bill, Top Republicans say they arent giving it up for dead. Everybody around the table is interested in getting the yes. Interested in getting an outcome. Reporter President Trump, hosting dozens of gop senators, touting progress and strategy on his effort to push through an obamacare repeal. Were getting close. But for the country, we have to have health care. If we dont get it done, its noi going to be something were not going to like. Reporter later tweeting, i just finished a great meeting with the republican senators concerning health care. They really want to get it right, unlike obamacare. The Senate Majority lead eer pulling a vote. Its a complicate ed subject. Reporter nine gop senators oppose the bill. As the republicans reboot, the challenge doesnt disappear. Finding a bill that satisfies conservatives who complain it didnt go far enough. We promised to repeal obamacare. The current bill looks like were keeping large parts of obamacare. Reporter and those closer to the center. I cannot support a bill thats going to result in tens of millions of people losing their health insurance. Reporter among the opponents, utahs mike lee, echoing a democratic line of attack, highlighting how the first draft of the bill included hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts for affluent. Now, moderate republicans urging their leaders to change course. When did we get to the point when we said, no. Were not going to talk to democrats about a fix. We should be working with our colleagues on the other side of the aisle. Reporter a lot of people think a bipartisan plan is the way to go. Top republicans say theyre goal is to come up with an agreement by the end of this week to be reviewed by the independent budget scorekeeper while lawmakers are away for the forty of july recess, which would set up a vote, if they come up with the votes, when they get back. Peter alexander. Thanks. Amid mounti ining tensions the u. S. , whats being called an act of defiance by the regimes leader. Kristen welker this morning. Reporter good morning to you. The white house is not only warning syria against another chemical weapons attack this morning. Its putting iran and russia on notice, too, they will bear some responsibility if syria does act. This comes as the president s Foreign Policy is coming under fresh scrutiny. Syrian president Bashar Al Assad outside of damascus, touring a Russian Military base. The visit some see as defiant, coming hours after the u. S. Put his regime on notice over a potential chemical weapons plot. Sean spicer telling asad, he will pay a heavy price. The message came as a surprise to some National Security officials, who tell nbc news they were caught off guard by the timing of the statement and the threat of military action, a major step. Some in the defense and state department stress they were aware of the intelligence. Now, the white house is pushing back. Arguing all necessary officials were alerted. Was there a principals meeting, a deputies meeting before that statement was issued by sean spicer . I know there was a routine meeting that took place. Reporter but this isnt the first time President Trump may have kept some of his own team guessing when it comes to Foreign Policy. Big stuff. Reporter one of the president s first actions, his controversial travel ban targeting residents of seven muslim majority nations was announced after limited consultation. Mr. Trump signed off on a raid in yemen, over dinner with a few, key advisers. But the disconnect was on display when saudi arabia announced an embargo against qatar. Trumps secretary of state criticized the move. But the president tweeted his approval and blasted qatar from the rose garden. The nation of qatar has been a funder of terrorism. Reporter the white house is on the same page when it comes to facing the press. After days of refusing to answer questions on camera, this Tense Exchange between a journalest and sara huckaby sanders. News outlets get to go on day after day, and cite unnamed sources, use stories without sources. Were here to ask you questions. Youre here to provide the answers. And what you just did is inflammatory to people all over the country who look and say, see, once again. The president is right and everyone else is fake media. And everyone in this room is trying to do their job. Reporter as for the president s Foreign Policy, a senior says its not accurate hes not with his principals on all key policy issues. And syria, we may learn about that as nikki haley appears on capitol hill at a preplanned hearing. Thank you very much. Lets bring in chuck todd. Chuck, good morning to you. Good morning, matt. The house had a hiccup when it came to their health care bill. They went back to work. Then, they passed that bill. Now, the senate has pulled the vote. Are we seeing deja vu or Something Different . Its different in this case. One advantage the white house had in the house is that the president has some ability to lean on house members. Hes popular in a lot of the house districts. He had an ability, many of them share the same political base. Many felt they had to listen to the white house. The difference here in the senate, is the senators are much more independent actors. The idea of the white house leaning on them actually, you know, almost emboldens them to push back. I would never write off Mitch Mcconnells ability to get anything through the senate. He defied the odds and pulled off the Supreme Court issue he did last year and ended up getting a conservative Supreme Court justice. The guy knows how to maneuver legislatively. If it was anybody else, this morning we would be saying this bill is dead. Only because Mitch Mcconnell is so good at behind the scenes aspects of this, is this thing on life support. A lot of the senators will be going home for the july break. Theyre going to be seeing their constituents. Does this extra time help the passage of the bill. This is not wine. It does not get better over time. This is a bill that gets harder to support over time. This is why Mitch Mcconnell so badly wanted in to be done in a week. You know . A shock and awe sort of legislative strategy. Introduce it on a thursday and vote on it and get out of town. Now, you have the mobilization of opposition groups. Any of the republican senators that decides to have a public event over the fourth of july, theyre probably going to be hounded by protesters. Probably going to be hounded by constituents. I dont think time is on the side of Mitch Mcconnell. They have a week to get this done. Or theyre going to have to admit, they have to work with the democrats. Chuck todd. Thank you very much. You got it, guys. Theres a lot more to get o to, including a lawsuit being filed against the makers of highway guardrails. Theyre supposed to keep you safe. But do they actually pose a deadly safety risk. Heres nbcs catie beck. Reporter tomorrow will be exactly one year since lauren gamble and her friend, jacob davison, were killed when their car plowed into a highway guardrail. Laurens mother remembered seeing her for the last time. I waved and that was it. Last time i saw her alive. Reporter lauren was 21 years old. Just out of college. She was just so wonderful. Reporter as part of their investigation, officials looked at the metal barriers. The guardrail went through the car. Its not supposed to do that. Reporter gamble blames this piece for the deadly outcome. In your mind, do you think there could have been a different result had that guardrail been different . Absolutely, yes. Reporter in 2016, four families last loved ones on tennessee highways in similar crashes. Three are expected to file suit against the guardrail manufacturer, the lindsay corporation. Claiming the guardrail didnt collapse on impact, like the one in this video on the companys website. The failure of that system is piercing through and acting as an impaling system, killing t i occupants of the vehicle. Reporter lindsay defends its guardrail, saying it meets safety standards. And they have no reason to conclude that it is unsafe. Writing a statement that reads, the equipments inability to singly prevent every tragedy does not indicate a flaw or defect. Theres a variety of factors that cricket to the severity of impact. They are monitoring the performance across the country. Gamble says she doesnt want other families to suffer like they have. We want to save other families from this pain. Lauren would want that. She would want a difference in this world. Reporter for today, catie beck. Were learning about what caused a Train Derailment in new york. Dozens of passengers were injured. Service was disrupted for hours. The accident, the latest in a series of problems facing transit officials and frustrating riders. Nbcs Thomas Roberts has the latest on this. Thomas, good morning to you. Reporter good morning to you. And the a. M. Rush hour Getting Started here. We got new information overnight with the mta confirming this is an issue of human error. Its not what was reported to be something wrong with the infrastructu infrastructure. They use spare rail for efficiency on the tracks to repair them. But this case, the spare rail wasnt bolted down. Its a nationwide practice. But thats not enough for millions of people that have to commute today that realize this is not a track defect. Chaos, deep underground. A subway train derailing. Sending people to the floor. Smoke, darkness and fear. Up and down, all over the sides. People were flying all over the cars. It was traumatizing. Im really shooken up right now. We have to go this way. Reporter the passenger who took this video, said he thought he was going to die. These photos show the derailment damage. Passengers taking pictures of a door ripped off of the train car. Passengers shuffling out, car by car. Dangerously walking along the tracks. The thing right there is the third rail. In the middle. Reporter until they made it to the platform. Overnight, the mta said, the cause was an improperly secured piece of replacement rail score stored on the tracks. It was human error, not a track defect. Earlier this month, passengers tried to claw their way out of this dark and steamy f train after it was stuck underground after it lost power. For f sake, six the subways. New yorkers are bracing for a summer of hell for computers. Am track overhauling penn station after two derailments this year. Earlier this month, President Trump gave a speech about instra structure. The promise of a safe and reliable infrastructure hasnt within kept. Reporter but he cuts funding to the department of transportation by 13 . The American Society of Civil Engineers have slapped the u. S. Transit system with a dminus grade, noting theres a 90 billion rehabilitation backlog. So, work crews have been here overnight, trying to get everything back up and running for those commuting this morning. Three dozen people were injured in this accident. They are all expected to be okay. One commuter this i spoke to this morning, said she was in one, two, three. I tried to speak to some of the mta workers. They were courteous but couldnt give me a statement. Al and dylan can confirm this. If youre going to be late to work, and because its an issue with the subway, today is a Beautiful Day to walk. Take that into account. Thomas, thank you very much. Al is back this morning. Were happy youre back, honey. Get on one of the city bikes. A little exercise. You didnt want to do that yesterday in massachusetts. Torrential rain pour, downpour. We had hail, a real mess. People are diving for cover with all this going on. And were going to see this kind of weather in the midsection of the country today, stretching from the dakotas all the way down to kansas, parts of missouri, as well. We have an enhanced risk of storms. 16 Million People at risk. Much of iowa under enhanced risk for tornadoes. Tomorrow, it extends from nebraska, kansas, all the way to cleveland. 22 Million People at risk for damaging winds. A torrential downpour. Were looking at the system, pushing past into the great lakes tomorrow, into tomorrow night. Isolated storms along this front. And rainfall amounts anywhere from three to five inches. Upwards of six inches as you get upwards of six inches as you get into parts of missouri and into upwards of six inches as you get into parts of missouri and into good morning. Im bill henley. Temperatures a little cool for this time of year. 81 degrees in philadelphia the high temperature. Look at the suburbs. Sunny skies and 80 for new jersey also up to 80 degrees and close to that at the shore. Plenty of sunshine for cape may and all the beaches into the upper 70s today. Humidity stays low. North westerly winds keeping you comfortable from the Lehigh Valley and delaware too. Have a great day. Latest weather. Matt . All right, al. Thank you very much. Just ahead, an american journalist taking captive in syria nearly five years ago, not as much of a claim of responsibility since then. Well talk to his parents exclusively. First this, is today on nbc. Its time that we bring addiction out of the darkness and into the light. To everyone struggling in silence addicts, family, friends you are not alone. Its time we lift each other up, reach out, say something. Addiction is a disease. Dont suffer. Dont wait. Help is within reach. Call 844 reach nj or go to reachnj. Gov the road to recovery starts now. Just ahead, how would you react if you thought someone was trying to kidnap your child . 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