Im natalie along with tamron and looky, looky, looky outside. Look who the cat dragged in. Hi, kids. Our good friend hodyho. I always wonder what had happened at 9 00. Youre supposed to be working. This is a preshow to warm you up. The preshow. This is when youre mixing and then you start drinking during your hour. Hoda is here, of course. Weve got willie in New Hampshire and also al is down in South Carolina covering the storms for us as well. Were going to touch base with all, but lets start off with you, al, and the historic flooding, something the governor years. Yeah, guys, ive got to tell you it is startling how this area has been brought to its knees but this weather. Lets go to our drone. Weve got a look at the congaree, how do i pronounce this again, the Congaree River. Ive been having trouble with if all day, but you can see the flow of this river. Heres a statistic that just is a mindbogler. At the height of this yesterday 1. 4 million gallons of water was flowing past this point per second, per second. Thats that would fill two olympic swimming pools per second. It is now down to about 1. 2 million, but its still an amazing amount of water thats flowing, and the and the deep water rescues that went on yesterday, we have video to show you that is just unbelievable. Away. First of all, hundreds rescued. There you go. People using boats to swift water rescues. People using actually human chains to get people out of high water, along rope lines. It was unbelievable. Of course, our fourlegged friends had to be rescued as well. The Animal Shelter here is really suffering, and people, unfortunately, driving into high water and having to be rescued. There was one video of a pickup truck that was floating down the street and a Good Samaritan grabbed a tire iron, swam out to the guy and bang the out the back window and he was able to climb out so thousands rescue. Hundreds of people. Thousands are still out of their homes. Weve also got nearly 30,000 people without power right now. Thats pretty amazing, and all columbia residents are told to boil water because they have had water main breaks and there have been sewage backups, big problems, and, in fact, they may have to evacuate. There are three hospitals in columbia, two of them downtown because of the lack of water they may have to start evacuating the high school and at the university of South Carolina the dorms are without water so they may have to evacuate as well. A really still dire situation, guys, that continues to be tracked. Back to you. All right, al. Thanks so much. Youre doing a terrific job there. The human chains that they had to form to help each other. Neighbor helping neighbor. . Its hard to believe just a few days ago talking that joaquin is hitting and everyone breathes a sigh of relief and its turning away. And there were always fears of a second storm system and al warned and predict that had sadly this was the potential outcome but to your point, natalie, seeing those people really and being since taken by a surprise even with the warnings, and you know, hoda, with your ties to new orleans, whenever we see people on the tops of roofs, you know, begging for help and assistance, that sends a special shiver through all of us and now we have another potential information. Its funny. When i worked in new orleans, and it was a day we remember, like katrina, but the images looked very similar to South Carolina. Everybody thought it was just rain, not going to be a big deal and all of a sudden Something Like that happens. Water rises so fast. Lets lighten the mood, a lot of people enjoyed themselves over the weekend in other parts of the country. Some tuned into snl, season premiere. Miley cyrus hosted. I was a little scared. You never know whats going to happen, but hillary made a guest cameo and played a bartender named val. Shes in a sketch with Kate Mckinnon as secretary clinton. It really is great how long youve supported gray marriage. Yeah. I could have support it had sooner. Well, you did it pretty soon. Yeah. Could have been sooner. Fair point. Maybe you should take a vacation. A vacation . A vacation. What are you saying . Did somebody say vacation . Oh, my god, they are multiplying. If we r are one theres always tomorrow i heard hillary at the town hall asking if she had any kinds of musical talent and somebody that had to stand there. Willie is in hollis, New Hampshire for a pancakes and politics town hall with Hillary Clinton. Hey, willie, nice to take a toss from you on a show, hoda kotb and i saw secretary clinton right before the town hall and what should i call you secretary clinton on val and, please, i an awesome venue in hollis, New Hampshire, right along the massachusetts border with an Amazing Group of people who are either hillary supporters, people thinking about supporting hillary or independents maybe supporting Bernie Sanders or somebody else, and they got the opportunity in a setting that we dont see very often with a president ial candidate sitting in the round for about an hour, hour and a half answer their questions. We did, of course, talk about benghazi, we talked about emails and about what her Foreign Policy would look like as president , but us a pointed out there were some lighter questions getting to know Hillary Clinton a little bit, including one that was asked about what song or instrument would be played at her inauguration. Secretary clinton, youve had a lot of you have to questions this morning, this may be the toughest one you get all day, but many years we go we saw another clinton at his inauguration playing an instrument and song. What song or instrument would you play at yours . Saturday night on saturday night live i sang lean on me with Kate Mckinnon who plays me better than i play me, so maybe that will be the song because it it wasnt as bad as i feared. You know, all my friends from literally grade school and high school, you know, were just emailing me like crazy. I cant believe you sang, you know, the person who the choir instructor would say, you know, hillary, you can sit with your friends who are sopranos as long as you dont sing so probably thats a good start i think. Were you impressed by secretary clinton today . Absolutely, yes. Anybody change their mind about supporting her . Yes. Yes. A very strong woman, very capable woman. Very strong woman. We had a great crosssection, people representing the state of New Hampshire which obviously, guys, is so critical if you want to become the nominee. Got to win in this state. Yeah, willie, thanks so much. A great crowd. Thanks to them for participating. Fun this morning. It was. Strong women, friday we celebrate the Breast Cancer survivors right out on the plaza with our pink party today. It got us thinking of a promise that we made last year. Lets get another woman should join us, another hot woman should join us this fine morning. Surprise. Were like connected. Nbc is out of hot women so they sent me in. Oh, dear. They are using every single one they have got today and then they said, kath, do you mind if you go in, fine, here i am. You are the one with the sheer lace top. Oh, imagine that. You still got it, my friend. I still have too much of it, i know that. Youve got presentee. How are you guys doing . How was your weekend . Soggy, but not anywhere near like South Carolina where people are truly suffering. I was thinking and praying for everybody over the weekend between the fires in california and the devastation on its like yeah, yeah. Matt pointed out when he interviewed governor nikki haley, point the out the Church Shooting and now this and asked about the resilience of the people in this state. And she is always emerging as such a leader and yet a calming influence and people love her down there. Yes. Its a challenge for everyone. May be in the news, a couple of president ial cycles from now, who knows. Were you surprised, and last year we challenged our viewers to help us raise 10,000 for Breast Cancer research. Oh, i remember this. Yes. It was a major moment. It went viral. Somebody went under. I did in a gown and actually some jewelry from anne taylor lost that raised money for Breast Cancer. I want to point out your wet hair is good. You are being kind. Hody is not kind but shes honest. Okay. So, this year the stakes are as they say higher. Okay. Now what . Like a blackjack table of some sorts. Were raising thetantics and were gambling in a sense because were asking you at home to help us raise 50,000 by the end of the month. Whats the thing in. Heres the deal. Last year i said if we raise the money all four of us, that would be willie, al, natalie and myself would all get dunked. I have never seen a dunker that fits four people. So youll have to build that. Well need a bigger dunker. Anyway, were asking you to head to today. Com if you could please start donating, even the smallest amount. Yes. We had kids last year who raided their piggy banks, you know. It brings out the best in people. Thats sweet. Bricks out best in people. And you need to join us as well. Thats nice. Were up the next hour. We have hair issues. Oh, come on. Theres going to be some surprises along the way. Maybe youll surprise us. Oh, okay. Are we being railroaded . We are so grateful to have this opportunity to be dunked for a great cause. Its going to happen. Thats right. And all the proceeds go to the Avon Foundation for women. Awesome. Lets head back down to al in columbia, South Carolina, with a exwhich of the wetter. If you got two dunk tanks, if you make them for threes, if hoda and kathie lee would join and we got 100,000. Someone just raised it even more. Al roker just raised it to 100,000. Im so glad i have an isb in. He said 100,000 and we have to get dunked, too. Oh, okay, for that. Well do it. Are you guys in . Were in, were in. Youre in. 50 for me and 50 for hoda. No, we dont get paid. It doesnt go for me, for me to dunk and you to dunk, i think its worth it. And we have a month and should be fair to our viewers. Lets just keep it at 1 and youre in. We need to raise it and go for the 100. I need to pray about this. 100 if were in. While shes praying will you update the weather there, please. All right, okay. Amen. Its the lords work. Lets show you what weve got happening as far as our weather is concerned. So look at this. You can see that this swath of rain is still coming in, especially myrtle beach, hearing word of evacuations going in right now and additional heavy rain, east and South Carolina and southern north carolina, 40mileperhour wind gusts as this low lifts up. Well be watching this. Again, another couple of inches before the rain is all over and were also looking at the at the Congaree River reaching not quite record flood stage, but its going to be there right now. 30 feet and then start to drop as we head towards wednesday, but, again, volatile situation still going on here in the carolinas. Were going to continue to track it for you. Ill be with lester holt here in the carolinas tonight for nbc nightly ne good morning. Another cool day. A mix of clouds and sunshine. A chilly breeze. Temps at the coastline upper 50s boston this afternoon. 59 framingham. Through the day tomorrow, more sunshine. Not as breezy tomorrow. Not as cool either. Upper 60s tomorrow. Wednesday close to 70. Thursday continuation of sunshine. Temps cool once again near 60. Only chance of rain this week with a cool front on friday. A scattering of showers. Temperatures on friday mid and upper 60s. And thats your latest weather. Guys, i think all six of us, 100,000, boom. Boom. 100,000 each, come on oh, okay. We keep raising it, kathie lee. We have a month. Coming up, weve got daye d to the couple who set aside the whole day to sell their old car oops. Nanas got the kids til 9. But its only 2. Guess youll just have to see a movie. Then get some dinner. What a pity. Clorox knows a family of 5 can do a number on the toilet. Clorox toilet wand comes preloaded with cleaner, so you click, swish, and toss. No more icky toilet brush. I love it. Of course you do, mom. Disinfecting. For your real life. I really like this organic soup. Yeah. At least we know what hes eating. 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His mom vanilla and im dark chocolate and i wanted to write a Little Something that touched on their experiences. You have a lot of questions as he was being raised. Is that why you wrote the book . No, no, i wrote it from my childhood because i didnt have anything like this to refer to when i was a kid. Luckily a lot of the kids today, you know, are in the classes and schools that are a little bit more diverse but that doesnt mean that these issues dont need to be looked at. Your first book chocolate me where you say you addressed so of the questions you got growing up. Was that tough in. Tough for me and then i think my cousin is of mixed race and, you know, people werent as comfort able comfortable with who they were and kind of standing up to where they came from. This book touches on that and we hope it will make it even easier. Does walker like the book in. Yes. It is he read it to you or you to him . I read him to him and then he tells me which pages to repeat. Thats so cute . Illustrations are all in the family. Shane w. Evans illustrated chocolate me, andy straighted this one and will illustrate Everything Else i write. I love a lot of things about you but your name in particular, day e taye and then your nickname, scotttaye and it just stuck. I like that. When you get in trouble was trouble . It was scott or just the back of my moms stade de gerland trouble with your first and middle last name. No name, just a smack. We teased a little bit in our open of the show about how you wear your love for your son on your sleeve literally. Literally, my left arm. You got some art. This is his name, what camera should i look . Right there. So thats his name is walker, his nickname. How long did that snake. No more than an hour because im a little bit of a sissy and these are two dinosaurs that he drew, really into dinosaurs and then he i had him write i love daddy. Thats great. This is my favorite one right here. And now im waiting daddys boy for sure. 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