Communities from virginia to new york, buried by the blizzard. D. C. Shut down again today. Out west, a state of emergency. A cliff that has homes teetering on the edge. Wild scene. Stop, orlando police. Stop a driver in orlando ignores police, then tries to get away. [ gunshots ]. How it came to a dramatic end with that driver under arrest. Then and now. The first photo of the cast of friends reunited, as the one member who wasnt there opens up about his time on the set, and doesnt rule out an even bigger reunion. Today, tuesday, january 26th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. Im excited about the friends reunion. I ordered a latte from gunther this morning. Central park. Itll be fun to have them back together. They got together as part of a tribute to the legendary director, james. Now, six days away from the first votes in this president ial election. The Democratic Candidates making their pitches to voters in iowa last night during the final town hall before the caucuses. Lets start with nbcs andrea mitchell. Good morning. Good morning, savannah. It wasnt a debate. But in separate appearances, the democrats run into tough questions when they tried to win over the undecided voters. Reporter within minutes, Hillary Clinton faced a blunt question from a young voter learning toward Bernie Sanders. Ive heard from a few people my age they think youre from you on why you feel the enthusiasm isnt there. Ive been around a long time. People have thrown all kind of things to me. If youre new to politics, the first time you paid attention, you go, oh, my gosh, look at all of this. You have to say to yourself, why are they throwing all of that . Ill tell you why, because ive been on the front lines of change and progress since i was your age. Reporter sanders was asked how he defines being a democratic socialist. Creating a government that works for all of us, not just a handful of people on the top. Thats my definition of democratic socialism. Reporter each was asked to react to the others tv ads. The one leader who has what it takes to get every part of the job done. Reporter sanders said she has voted for the iraq war. I was not secretary of state, but experience is important, but judgment is also important. Praise for his simon and gar garfunkle themed ads. I think thats great. I think thats fabulous. I loved it. Reporter in the final days, sanders economic message is resonating with voters who are hurting. Its so hard to do anything to pay your bills. Youre ashamed all the time. To millions of people who are experiencing exactly what you guys are experiencing, do say that. We dont make change. Reporter president obama with politico seemed to be tipping toward clinton. She can start here, day one, more experience than any nonvice president has ever been in who as quires to this office. Our new surveymonkey out today, clinton maintained her double digit lead over Sanders Sanders is still 68 over clintons 21 . The trend could have an impact in iowa if the voters show up to vote. Thank you very much. On to the republican side, the rivalry between donald trump and ted cruz is intensifying again, as the Iowa Caucuses get closer. Nbcs National CorrespondentPeter Alexander is covering the gop. Good morning to you. Good morning. On the republican side, new this morning, another growing National Lead for donald trump. The nbc news surveymonkey online tracking poll has trump at 39 , increasing his lead over cruz. Hes up 22 points as cruz falls 4 points. Rubio a distant third. The candidates kicking off a final sprint to the finish line. Reporter donald trump is convinced if it aint broke, dont fix it. Picking up the pressure on cruz. He could run right now for Prime Minister of canada. Hed have no problem. Calling cruz a liar for his rivals ad that accuses the billionaire threatening to bulldoze a womans home. Trump said that lies never work and cruz sa nast is a nasty guy. We cant have him in there, when every other senator thinks hes a whack job. Hes going to insult but im not going to respond in kind. Reporter trump says its personality, not policy. Using the front runners words. Cruz is mocking trump, too. Two corinthians 3 17. Two corinthians walk into a bar. Reporter while the rest of the field is running out of time for a surge, Chris Christie raised eyebrows for this exchange with a young woman, who asked why he left new jersey to campaign in the midst of blizzard cleanup. I have friends and family calling, sending me videos, pictures all over the state of flood. All over the state . Theres been one county thats flooded in the state. One county. I dont know what you expect me to do. Want me to go down with a mop . Christie noted 500 people statewide were still without power. He offered to call the girls friends who were impacted. More drama ahead of this weeks Republican Debate, donald trump threatening to pull out because he doesnt think megyn kelly can treat him fairly. Fox said trump is scared to face the questions, and hell learn if hes president , he doesnt get to pick the journalist. Thank you very much. Chuck todd is nbcs political moderator of meet the press. Good morning. That appeals to the hearts of democratic voters, and Hillary Clinton appeals to their head. Did you see or hear anything last night in the town hall that changed that . I dont know if i saw anything that changed it, but i thought Hillary Clinton was sort of acknowledging the place that she is in this race a little bit. Trying to fix it a little bit. I thought that she was trying very hard to engage, trying to stay nimble a little bit. She didnt come across as bitter. Bernie sanders was somewhat defensive. He got a couple questions that werent necessarily intended to force a contrast with Hillary Clinton, and he decided to take it. One was on guns and one when he watched her ad, he went at foreign policy. You saw sort of a i felt you saw Bernie Sanders tense and a relaxed clinton. Im the experienced candidate. Sanders had a good comeback. Experience matters, so does judgment. Do you think she handled that, when it was her chance to respond . No. I thought that was his strongest moment, as far as an issue, trying to beat back the idea that hes not ready for the job. You know, she doesnt have a good answer and it doesnt help that the Current National security situation in the middle east is a mess. I think it only helps reinforce the sanders charge, especially with democratic votes. I want to play this sound bite one more time from the president , doing an interview with politico, and ask you about it on the other side. This is talking about hill ary lary clinton clinton. Listen. She can start here day one, more experienced than any nonvice president has ever been in, who aspires to the office. If youre running the clinton campaign, you have to think its an endorsement and play that tape any time you can. Thats right. I mean, she goes, im touched. I think she was not just excited but relieved. Remember, sanders is trying really hard to play the role of obama here again. To create this sense of deja vu again. I think Hillary Clinton, their strategy and it has been this way for three weeks, dont just stand next to the president. Hug him, do whatever it takes. This is a case of the president trying to reciprocate. Its the most engaged hes been on this race. Seeming to hug Hillary Clinton back after she did him the same favors. No coincidences in politics . Is this something they worked out ahead of time . I feel this is something where the president was trying to do her a solid. He said hes not going to endorse until the, quote, primary season is over, but he knows theres pandemonium in his party if she loses iowa and New Hampshire. Theres calls to joe biden, the Michael Bloomberg thing. You know, if she can win iowa, she can calm a lot of nerves. Ten seconds, chuck, donald trump threatening to pull out of the Republican Debate over megyn kelly. Does he do anything with that strategy, other than make her a bigger superstar . I think it does. Look, i think hes working the ref a little bit. Already, if he gets a question he doesnt like, he can just chalk it up to that. Expectation. Chuck todd, thanks very much. Talk about the weather. There is mounting frustration this morning over all that snow from the east coast. Historic blizzard. Airports struggling to get back on track. With neighborhoods not plowed today, people are starting to voice their anger and frustration. Nbc National CorrespondentMiguel Almaguer is in washington, where the federal government and the schools are closed again today. Miguel, good morning. Savannah, good morning. Itll be another tough day in cities like washington, d. C. This is what many neighborhoods look like. Theyre buried in snow. Cars are still packed underneath it. Storm, and some are still struggling to make it around town. Reporter first one. One plow, and that was it. Reporter really piling on. It appears theyve stopped working. Reporter amid the first melting, a virtual meltdown. All our driveways, were ready to go, but the roads are not cleared. Reporter travel on ice. Subway rails stuck. 13,000 flights frozen. Were melting snow and probably will be the next ten days. Reporter at washingtons reagan airport, runways were clear, but theres nowhere for cars to park. We wanted to make sure everything was okay so we came last night. Reporter travelers trapped at the airport along with cleanup crews. We sleep in our shops, spa rooms, bunkers. Some guys sleep in their trucks. Reporter the lucky few who got out captured a Winter Wonderland below. A different story on the ground. Back roads buried. Even snow plour ws stuck. I shovelled all this stuff. Reporter in washington, the nations second busiest you subway system, resumes operation today. Amtrak is not entirely back on track. The train isnt coming. Opposite of good. Reporter with exhausted crews still on the problem job. Maybe a couple more days. Reporter from boston to new york to d. C. , some havent seen a plow for days. This is the only way in and out, huh . Reporter with neighborhoods buried in snow, locals are brimming with frustration. You cant abandon people. You cant leave them here. While its going to be a tough day for folks who own this motorcycle and cars like this here, there is good news. The city says theyre going to plow the side streets at some point. The airlines are back on track. Much of the snow should melt. Potential for black ice. Back to you. Miguel almaguer, thank you. Can relate out to why people are frustrated. Theyre still looking at the snow. Its not going to go somewhere fast. If it did, wed be talking about flooding. Got some interesting video. We have this great satellite image from earth day to nasa. This was before we had our storm. Now look at after. This is sunday. The one was tuesday and now sunday. The northeast, boy, what a mess. Were also tracking that potential noreaster. Heres the good news, it is going to stay to our south. The bad news is, its bringing a lot of rain from louisiana all the way into alabama, then into florida. Severe thunderstorms. The energy gets transferred and then up and away. Thats good news because we do not need any more snow. Most of the models agree, it keeps all the moisture offshore. Fantastic. No problems. Everybody wins. Was caused by el nino. Take a look what el nino has california. This is pacifica, california. All these homes have been red tagged. You can see why. The beach, the cliffs, all eroded. This is unbelievable. They dont know when these homes are going to or if theyre going to fall into the ocean. But you can see all of that collapsing. How much shoreline was there when they built those things . About 200 more feet of oh, man. Wow. As you can imagine, those are not inexpensive homes that are ready to go into the ocean. Thats south of san francisco. The country. We do have a thin layer of clouds. Well make it up to 73 degrees today. Overnight tonight, a small chance, warm at 63 but check out tomorrow. An 80 chance of showers and thunderstorms that continues into into a 50 chance thursday. Thats your latest weather. Matt . Al, thanks very much. President obama announcing major changes monday on the use of solitary confinement in including a ban of that practice for jewel nil uvenile and lowlevel offenders. The president wrote, solitary confinement for juveniles has been linked to depression, alienation zpt and the potential for violent behavior. Also, the longest a prisoner could spend in solitary would be 60 days for a first offense, rather than the current 365 days. The reforms would affect about 10,000 federal prisoners. Now to the growing concerns over this zika virus. The World Health Organization warns the mosquitoborn virus is likely to spread to all the countries around america except chili. There have been no cases yet of infection in the United States yet. However, in los angeles county, several doctors have contacted Public Health department tests for patients exhibiting symptoms. A pregnant woman was among those patients. Now more about the wild scene we showed earlier. Orlando police releasing video about what started out as a routine traffic stop and ended with an officer opening fire on a young driver. Natalie has more. This incident happened last week. It is still under investigation. Orlando police say it all started when they pulled over a 17yearold for a seat belt violation. What they didnt realize at the time, the car he was driving was stolen. Reporter the footage is striking. [ gunshots ]. Shots fired Reporter Police officer shoots at a car in an orlando, florida, shopping center. Stop orlando police, stop Reporter Police say the january 16th incident started when officers spotted the driver not wearing his seat belt. Stop the car reporter this is newly released Police Body Cam footage. Put your hands up now reporter when the suspect smash the cars windows. Still, the suspect then backs up into a parked car. Before trying to make another escape. Thats when the car comes right toward one of the officers, who says he was forced to fire four shots to protect himself. Another angle from store surveillance shows the driver of what turned out to be a stolen car getting shot at, but managing to get away. A witness described the terrifying incident to our affiliate but did not want to be identified on camera. Everything happened so fast. I just froze. When in a state of shock because i wasnt expecting them to pull out guns and open fire. The car eventually crashed. The 17yearold driver was arrested after fleeing on foot. He was treated for a bullet wound to his shoulder and is charged with assaulting police. The officer, meanwhile, involved is on paid administrative leave. Where its a good thing they had the body cam footage. They actually back up the investigation now. Natalie, thank you very much. Now to another dramatic scene, this in florida. 13 people saved from a sinking yacht last night. The 106 foot serena iii went down off the coast of broward county. It appears the vessel took on water after running aground. No one was injured. The boat sank in 1200 feet of water and is unrecoverable. Reporter the man hunt for three escaped inmates in california entering a fourth day. 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