Successful in the tech world. All that, plus a houseswallowing sinkhole in florida, triggers a new emergency. The star witness takes the stand at the top chef trial. And the countdown begins. The olympic winter games six months away. How is the usa shaping up . The athletes you need to watch, today, tuesday, august 8th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. So nice to have you with us. So nice to be together. Its like running into a High School Sweetheart years later. Its kind of wonderfully awkward. Yeah. Like you really let yourself go, havent you . No. Its great. Good to see you again. We havent been together for three weeks. We have a busy morning to start with. The Trump Administration weighing its options for north korea, after the regimes harsh response to the new u. N. Sanctions. They may be the toughest sanctions ever. But could they play into kim jonguns hands . Well about all of this with u. N. Ambassador nikki haley. First, Peter Alexander with the latest on all of it. Good morning. Reporter good morning. North korea is vowing revenge, condemning the sanctions, warning that the u. S. Will pay dearly. President trump is waking up with a serious polly showdown on his hands, as he gets prepared to welcome the Vice President and cabinet secretaries to his bedminister property this week. The Trump Administration dealing with north korea. Were going to start fighting back. Reporter the president holding an hourlong phone call with his secretary of state, overseas in arsia. As kim jongun warns its missiles are not on the negotiating table. From a state tv broadcaster, this apparent threat. Theres no bigger mistake than the u. S. Thinking its safe because its across the motion. A missile that can reach as far as chicago, the president touting a u. N. Vote for 1 billion in sanctions against north korea, supported by both china and russia. Mr. Trump demanding the penalties be implemented right awash aw away, as his National Security adviser says all options are on the table. Mr. Trump is trying to reenergize his core supporters. Taking aim at familiar targets like the media. Tweeting, the trump base is bigger big er and stronger than ever before. From his golf resort in new jersey, teeing off on richard blumenthal, for talking about hoax, and russian collusion. The attack on plumen thals tar ets, underscoring the election interference. He said he told staories and it was a lie. He cried like a baby and begged for for giveness like a child. Theres no evidence he bragged about it or cried when the scandal erupted during his 2010 senate bid. Late monday, blumenthal, undeterred. I have no idea about what is in his mind. What i do know is, i will not be distracted by this bullying. Reporter President Trump certainly not giving up twitter for his august break. 13 tweets on monday alone. Six of them bashing the media. Today for the first time of this selfdescribed working vacation, were going to see the president working. Heeds schedu hes scheduled to host the health and Human Service secretary on the opioid crisis. Matt and savannah . Peter, thank you. Were happy to have nikki haley here with us, ambassador to the united nations. Congratulations to the vote. 150, in the security council, who means you got russia and china onboard with this. Looking at the list of sanctions, theyre severe. They target a lot of north koreas expaorts, like coal and other minerals. 1 billion a year they can use for this nuclear program. But they have lived under tough economic sanctions in the past. Why are they going to work this time . We dont know its going to work. But its something we needed to do. We said on saturday, this wasnt going to stop our north korea problem. It is going to send a strong message and a united message. It was a strong day for the united states. It was a strong day for the united nations. You had the entire International Community tell kim to stop. You did. And you got china and russia onboard. And that was a diplomatic feat. And the devil is in the details, as you know better than anyone else. How do you get china and russia to implement and enforce these sanctions . I read a quote from a north korean expert in the times this morning. The resolution, 1 ye1 years in e past didnt work. They basically very much said we have to enforce these to be for for this to be legitimate. We have to hold the countries accountable. We will be watching to see who is enforcing. More importantly than that, china accestepped up and said, theyre not only going to vote for this, they announced theyre going to enforce and urged other countries to enforce. The Missile Launch took place right next to their border. Their ground shook. The Chinese People felt it. They know this is series. For decades, your country has been trying to build up some kind of Nuclear Deterrent or offensive capabilities. Youre now this close. Youve got a nuclear device. Youve got missiles that youve shown can reach the heartland of the united states. Your last step is to combine those two things. Why in the world would you negotiate now when you are this close to having the weapon that will give you the strongest hand . He may not negotiate now. I think what we did was, we sent a message. Now, we have gone directly after their hard currency. Think about it. All of the revenue that comes into north korea. It doesnt go to feeding their people. It goes to a Ballistic Missile program. They will not longer will have the money to do that. Can you stop him in time from combining those two things . The missile and shrinking the nuclear twidevise to fit on of t missile. We tried to ask him, whats your end game . If he decides if he strikes to united states, is that something he can win . Senator lynindsaey graham wan this program. Well show you what he said. If theres going to be a war, its going to be over there the hes told me that to his face. He said the president told him that to his face. Theyre not going to tolerate a nuclear north korea, even if it means war. Have you heard that, as well . Zb i know the president is prepared to protect the American People. All of the balls lie in kims court. He has to decide, how far to you want to take this rhetoric . As the person who has to take this to the united nations, as the president said to your face what he said to Lindsey Grahams face . He has not said that. He said all options are on the table. And the discussions we had, well do whatever it takes to counter north korea. Separate issue. Theres a new poll that shows the vast majority of americans do not trust what theyre getting out of the white house. Sucks in ten dont consider the president honest and trustworthy. And only 24 of americans say they trust all or most of what they hear from the white house. Its one thing when youre talking about crowd sizes in the inauguration. In your line of work, this is serious. Does the white house have a credibility problem . Does that concern you . As a governor, every day, you try to get the trust of your people. Thats part of your people. And the only way you get the trust, is not by what you say, by what you do. If you look at the actions, this president , all of the new investment thats happening, a lot of people will say, i dont believe this or that. You say that, look at the actions, ait acknowledges it tacits acknowledgment because you cant trust the words. I dont see that way. I look at results. I know theres back and forth and sometimes unnecessary chatter that goes back and forth with that. But you have to look at the results. This is a time we have to look at the American People and say, are they better today than yesterday . And i think they are. The administrations just received a sweeping report on Climate Change, coming from scientists at 13 federal agencies. It hasnt been made public yet the but its been reported, that were feeling Global Climate change right now. And human activities are primarily responsible for that Global Climate change. Given the fact we just pulled out of the paris climate accord, will the administration embrace the results of this study . First of all, you have to look at, just because we pull out of the paris accord, doesnt mean we dont believe in climate protection. Were saying were not going to sell out american businesses to do that. Will we embrace the results of this report from 13 federal agencies . I havent seen the report. But i dont see any reason why they wouldnt. A lot of this is, were not saying that Climate Change is not real. It is real. Its how do you have that balance between making sure you have jobs and businesses moving and how you protect the climate . The answer is in the middle. Ambassador, nice to have you here. Appreciate it. We have a lot more for you this morning, including major news including the safety of some of the military aircraft. The marine corps is considering to order a temporary aviation standdown to refocus marine pilots and crews on safety. This follows a series of accidents, including the crash off of the coast of australia over the weekend. Tom costello has the latest on this. What can you tell us . Reporter this would not be undecemb unprecedented. But it underscores safety concerns in the military. In a standdown is addressed, it could last 24 hours, giving every ground crew time to focus on the basics. It comes after three marines were killed in the crash off of australia on saturday. In the coral sea, search teams have found the wreckage of that marine corps mv22 osprey that went into the water, while trying to land on a tip during military exercises. Of the 26 people onboard, 23 were rescues. The lee marines killed. Nathan ordway of wichita. Ruben vilasco of los angeles and Benjamin Cross of maine. It would take forever to express the love that we had and have still for him. Part of me is gone forever. Reporter saturdays accident comes just three weeks after 15 marines and a sailor tied when a kc130 crashes into the mississippi. Five f16s crashed in july alone. Three of them fatal. Now, the marine corps is considering a temporary standdown. Its not clear whether the standdown will apply to battle zones. The osprey accident follows an osprey crash off japan last december, during a refueling mishap. But the osprey is not the plane that suffered a series of crashes duringdeployment. It has a good Safety Record over ten yards. Reporter the fleet is aging. The average plane is 15 years old. The average fighter is 30 years. The planes are getting old. And the aviators are getting tired. That increases the potential for aviation accidents and incidents. Reporter now, remember the air force never stood down after the first gulf war in 1991. Pilots continued to fly the nofly zone. Then, the war in bosnia, before iraq and afghanistan. Decades of war have meant wear and tear on planes and equipment. An urgent manhunt is under way for the suspect that killed a police in western massachusetts. Clinton police officer, gary michael, was shot and killed during a traffic stop. That happened monday night. Police are searching for 39yearold ian mccarthy. They consider him armed and dangerous. An update on a manhunt we told you about on monday. The search for a rape suspect is now over. They found the body of Brandon Powell with a selfinflicted gunshot wound last night. The suicide ends the manhunt after powell escaped custody on friday when he overpowered a depu deputy. A growing concern in florida about a dangerous sinkhole. Its swallowed up two homes. That happened last month. Now, more houses in the area are being condemned. Kerry sanders is in land olakes just north of tampa. Good morning. Reporter its five homes. Its what you cant see thats of greatest concern. The land is beginning to buckle. Lets take a look from above, as you can see from the drone of this area, some of the fife homes that have added to the two, that were swallowed, are in the shot. But the land around it is starting to show divots. And the experts say the divots suggest that the larger. And those in homes that are unaffected, the question is, could they be next . This morning, new urgency for residents living around this sinkhole near tampa. Five more homes have been condemned and are slated for demolition. Officials finding cracks in foundations and sidewalks. Sad. Its a disaster. A sinkhole. Reporter seven homes falling victim to this houseeats natural disaster. Our affiliate wfla flew overhead. The house itself is gob. The pool still stands. And the debris thats in it, theyre pulling it out, piece by piece. Reporter Emergency Operations are under way to shore up the hole, dumping limestone in its edges. In this part of florida, sandy soil sits on top of a layer of clay and a layer of limestone. Water or Drought Conditions can dissolve the layers, forming a sinkhole. This one is interesting to scientists at the university of south florida. 67 years ago, there was a large lake here. In time, it was filled in. Becoming orange groves and vacation homes. If the neighborhoods history may have played a role in the formation of this monster sinkhole. My suspicion is this is all the material that was once at the bottom of the lake. And this area used to be lake bottom. Reporter that sinkhole there, large enough to swallow a 747. Homeowners in this area are wondering why their Mortgage Companies didnt require them to have sinkhole insurance. Of course, its now too late to purchase it. Matt, savannah . Heart goes out to them. Kerry, thank you. Theres new developments in a story we told you about last week. Hackers have put out more insider info from hbo. And they threatened to issue even more if the company doesnt pay a ransom of several million dollars. Using the name mr. Smith, the hackers served up a fresh batch of stolen files on monday. The data dump includes what appears to be scripts from five game of thrones episodes. Including one episode that has not run yet. Hbo is working with police and Cyber Security experts. Al is here with the first look at the forecast. Not hacked. Ready for release right now. We have a lot of weather to talk about. Out in texas, big problems. San antonio, massive flooding. A lot of high water rescues. This one dramatic where authorities had to actually get a couple offed ladders to get this guy you of an suv. Thankfully, there were no injuries. Right now, as were speaking, lets take a look. This is houston, texas. Theyve had up to eight inches of rain in the last couple of hours. And it is still coming down right now. So, flooding is a big problem there. Theres flash flood watches and warnings. This is live radar over houston. As we pull out, theres more heavy rain to the west of houston, as well. Showers and thunderstorms making their way from texas into louisiana. All part of a stationary front across the area. Flooding from heavy downpours. Were expecting four to five more inches of rain from houston to the east and heavier rain as you get up into central you get up into central mississippi here ya go. Awesome, thank you. Thank you. Thats. Not your car. Your cars ready wrong car. This is not your car . I would love to take it, but no. Oh, im so sorry about that. 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