Another hack attack. The hunt for the gang behind this heist. The video that will have you laughing until it hurts thursday august 17th, 2017. Announcer 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. Nice to have you along with us on a thursday morning and a lot to get to, including that powerful display of unity in the wake of that violence in virginia. Overnight in charlottesville. Complete coverage and well start in charlottesville this morning with nbcs Gabe Gutierrez who was there. Gabe, good morning to you. Reporter good morning. The vigil not widely publicized as to not attract unwanted attention from White Nationalist groups. But word spread and the response was overwhelming to honor heather heyer. By candlelight they came on the university of virginia campus, a solemn vigil as charlottesville came to grips with last weeks violence. A slowmoving mass of people gallering peacefully over ground that hundreds of torch carry White Nationalists had taken just days ago. Those who attended singing spiritual songs and sharing messages of healing and stren h strength. This the community, the community they attacked. The Community Rising up to show who we are. 26yearold Marcus Martin was injured after pushing his fiancee out of harms way when the Dodge Challenger plowed into counterprotesters. Martins sister said he suffered broken bones and is scheduled for surgery on friday. Its a healing process. Its going to take some time. Reporter earlier thursday a memorial for heather heyer, the woman killed in the car crash. It will be all right. Reporter her mother, susan bro with a tribute. Tremendous tried to shut her up. Guess what, you just magnified her. Reporter the grieving parent with a message of unity, equality. I want this to spread. I dont want this to die. This is just the beginning of heathers legacy. Her words, a call to action. If youre not outraged, youre not paying attention. And i want you to pay attention, find whats wrong. Dont ignore it, dont look the other way. You make a point to look at it and say to your self, what can i do to take a difference. Thats how youre doing to make my childs death worthwhile. Reporter heathers mother went on to say, quote, if ive got to give her up, make it count. A public memorial is now scheduled for the two state troopers that were killed over the weekend in a helicopter crash. Also virginias Governor Terry mcauliffe is urging local officials in the state to remove confederate monuments. Back to you guys. All right. Gabe gutierrez, thank you. President trump is dealing with fresh fallout over his controversial comments about the violence in virginia. This morning more lawmakers and Business Leaders are distancing themselves from the president. Nbc White House CorrespondentKristen Welker has that part of the story. Kristen, good morning to you. Hi, matt. Good morning to you. President trump defiant and unapologetic this morning taking aim at one of his republican critics tweeting this morning publicity seeking Lindsey Graham falsely stated i said there is moral equivalency between kkk, neonazis and White Supremacists and people like heather heyer, such a disgusting lie. He cant forget his election trouncing. The people of South Carolina will remember. But the backlash is growing this morning and could hit at the very heart of mr. Trumps presidency. This morning from Corporate Board rooms to congress, President Trump facing growing outrage over his response to the violence in charlottesville, following a flood of resignations from ceos on two white house Business Councils the president preemptively dissolving the groups rather than the members did tweeting rather than putting pressure on members of the council and strategy forum, i am ending both. Eight business and labor leaders had already announced they were quitting the groups because of the president s controversial comments comparing White Supremacists with counterprotesters. You have some very bad people in that group. But you also had that were very fine people on both sides. Ceos writing intolerance, racism and violence have absolutely no place in this country. Overnight apple ceo tim cook also weighing in an email to employees he slammed the president s position and announced apple would donate 2 million to groups working to rid our country of hate. A stunning rebuke from mr. Trump who touted his business expertise during the campaign. I will be the greatest jobs president that god ever created. I tell you that. Reporter all this as the political drum beat against the president gets louder, many republicans distancing themselves. The president speaks for himself. Both president s bush releasing a rare joint statement saying america must also reject racial bigotry, antisim tichl and hatred in all forms. Vice president mike pence on defense. The president has been clear on this tragedy and so have i. The attorney general speaking out against hate but not his boss. In no way can we accept, apologize for racism, bigotry, hatred, violence. Meanwhile this morning new scrutiny of the president s inner circle. In an interview with the american prospect embattled top adviser steve bannon describing the White Supremacists in charlottesville, its a fringe element. I think the media plays it up too much and we gotta help crush it, you know, help crush it more. These guys are a collection of clowns. Bannon also discussed his plans to neutralize opponents including ptop officials to President Trump who disagree saying those adversaries are there. An email from a conspiracy theorist to conservative journalist. Government officials and friends with the subject line, the information that value dates President Trump on charlottesville. The email equates confederate general robert e. Lee and George Washington and a little that black lives matter has been infiltrated by terrorists. No response yet to that from the white house or mr. Doud. One more headline from the steve bannon interview, he had this to say about democrats. The democrats the longer they talk about identity politics i got them. I want them to to talk about it every day. If they are talking race, we go with this, we can crush them. Kristen, thank you very much. Chuck todd and Stephanie Ruhle here. Thank you for being here. I want to start with stephanie. The president has been in politics very long. Obviously a learning curve there. He likes to tout his success in business. When have you Business Leaders walking away from Councils Like this. When have you people like tim cook and jamie dimon rebuking and speaking out against him, in some ways might this send a stronger message to him than when politicians speak out. Think about the irony jamie dimon, the financial industry, this was the most hated industry in america just a few years ago and now they are setting a bar in terms of moral leadership. This is a huge, embarrassing blow for President Trump and jared and ivanka to led this council. Are they setting a bar or grandstanding. Have you to wonder down the road if and when President Trump gets around to dealing with things like deregulation and tax reform, are these same people going to be right on board . They arent afraid of President Trump anymore. At this point hes said so much but done so little and hes so far away from the agenda. Jamie dimon says walk away from him, strapped to make money deregulation, tax cuts but at some point enough is enough. Not just this week. They had to deal with the travel ban, immigration policy, paris accords. They want to go back to work. They are tired of hearing about this. Biggest fallout big business. What about the political fallout. Did you expect it to be more . Did you expect resignations . Do you think theres more to come . I think its possible theres more to come. If youre john kelly youre relieved you made it 24 hours without some highprofile resignation. There was some hints but none of that came to fruition. The republicans its fascinating to watch Republican Leaders here. On the one hand they are very uncomfortable. On the other hand they are not sure if they speak out, they are not sure how the base is going to react to them. They are still making a political calculation with the president. Wrong they are making a calculation thats beyond their own politics right now. That could change but right now thats where they shall. Steve bannon has always been a part of this story kind of weaving in and out. Now he seems to be waging war inside the west wing and now the press. Where is is it headed . This interview with the american prospect its hard to believe a former Media Executive doesnt know hes on the record. Lets set that aside. He doesnt deny he was on the record but he said i didnt know he was going to quote me. The stuff he says about north korea saying the president is simply bluffing, that is going to really irritate the National Security team. However, steve bannon is also speaking to the president. What hes saying on charlottesville and what hes saying on, hey, youve got them n now. You think this was a terrible moment for the presidency, i think this was a defining moment he says. I think its an interesting dare to the president here. The National Security folks want him out. National security adviser, secretary of state, they want him out, john kelly may want him out but does the president. Does the president want to throw him overboard and risk alienation with his base. I think bannon is daring the showdown in this white house. He worries what bannon could do on the outside once he returns to the media. Thats for sure. Chuck and stephanie, thank you very much. Much to talk about in the headlines including a desperate search under way for five crew members under way on an Army Helicopter that went down off the coast of hawaii. Two black hawk crews training exercises tuesday night when visual and radio contact with one of the helicopters was suddenly lost. Search and rescue crews found pieces of fuselage and helmet in debris field off the coast of oahu. The army notified families. Show you dramatic video of a brazen jewelry heist wednesday in west london. You can see six robbers armed with sledgehammers exiting the jewelry store, jufrg on their mopeds and speeding away. They grabbed undisclosed amount as they looked on. Good news and bad news for lottery. Start with bad news. If you had a ticket, you didnt win the jacket. The good news is no one else did either. Its now skyrocketed to 510 million. The next drawing saturday night. Buy it in 44 states plus washington, d. C. , puerto rico and u. S. Verge islands. A story that broke overnight, hbo fallen victim to another hack attack. The target its twitter account. Kelly cobiella has the latest on this. What happened . Reporter first the massive hack last week, scripts, company data stolen, now another big Cyber Security headaches for hbo. Hbo reeling from another heart attack hack attack. Tape over. The hijacker hijacking hbo, hbo now, last week tonight with john oliver and game of thrones. Also compromised the game of thrones facebook page. In its post in our mind hbo asked to contact the group which was also responsible for highprofile hacks of facebook ceo mark zuckerberg. Hbo regapd accounts in 40 minutes and deleted the tweets which nbc news archived before they were taken down. Hbo saying overnight only that we are investigating. It comes a week after hbo was hit by another attack where a Different Group calling themselves mr. Smith demanded hbo pay them millions of dollars sending hbos ceo a fiveminute video set to ominous music from game of thrones. The group also leaked what and to be confidential hbo documents, internal emails from a company executive, a plot summary for the next game of thrones episode. This is absolutely a very terrifying issue for people in hollywood. In a statement hbo says a forensic review is ongoing. Its working with Cyber Security firms and Law Enforcement to resolve the incident and the company has no reason to believe their email system as a whole has been compromised. An anonymous group, hard to verify whether that group was behind the latest attack. On top of all this the next game of thrones episode was accidentally released early in spain and norway this week and copied before hbo was able to take it down. Matt and savannah, hbo says this is not at all related to that stolen material. All right, kelly. Thank you very much. Its getting hard to follow all that. I know. Got to start watching game of thrones apparently. Did you watch baseball last night . I didnt. Back to the video at the top of the show, ceremonial first pitch in boston didnt go as planned. Jordan, a bone cancer survivor, had the honor of throwing out the first pitch red sox game. But the pitch, a little bit outside. All right. Thats a ball. Probably thought he was working from a safe distance. Everyone at fenway reacting. Others with a few nervous laughs. Le andrown he responded, yikes. To make matters worse, im a pitcher. As for the photographer, hes okay. He later tweeted, im the one who got hit, and i will never stop laughing at that video. Wow. That is amazing. Not exactly in the strike zone. Well by the way, that makes this look like a perfect first pitch. Exactly. Nobody got hurt. Exactly right. There you go. 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