Santa domingo moving west at 17 Miles Per Hour. Right now we have watchings and warnings in puerto rico, haiti, the Dominican Republic. Tropical force winds haded north and east. This is the track of the system, the way we see it now. It gets over the mountains and it couldle get sheared by mountain peaks. Then over the bahamas. It stays a minimal Tropical Storm. Monday morn ing ing it makes its way up into southern georgia. You can see the cone of uncertainty spreads out. Up to four states involved in the cone of uncertainty. Right now we feel good about the chances of not making landfall as a hurricane. Intensify. Well continue to monitor this, guys. Al, thank you very much. Well have more on the reason youre in new orleans later on. All right. Turning to other news. Powerful scene in roanoke, virginia as thousands gathered outside of wdbj for a candlelight vigil after two of the employees were shot and killed during a live broadcast. Stephanie gosk has an scli look inside the gunmans home and more on that tribute. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning, savannah. Vester flanagan may not have suicide. Police found items in his rental car that make i look like he was ready to run. Documents obtained by nbc news show he sent a text message to a something stupid. The two blessings we have today reporter crowds gathered late thursday in the wake of wednesdays shocking murders. Destruction reporter remembering two lives lost. Many rallying to reform gun laws, an issue stressed b andy parker in t. E wake of his daughter alis s murder. How often will wensee this. Newtown, charleston, the movie its got to st. Reporter meanwhile a clearer picture of the shooter, vester lee flanagan, is starting to take shape. Thursday authorities searched for evidence inside this apartment where flanagan lived until yesterday. This video provided to nbc news shows a near empty interior aside from the refrigerator which flan fwan covered in photos of himself. Flanagan shot himself in his rental car. Inside the vehicle officers found six magazines of ammunition, a todo list, 17 stamped letters, three license plates, a wig, sunglasses and a shawl. Thursday wdbjs general manager incidenceplagued time. Swrumt. He confronted an anchor in the hallway. Management made the determination that it was the appropriate time to separate him from the company. Reporter according to Court Documents following his termination an altercation ensued, parts of which were recorded by adam ward. Flanagan insulted him and flipped the camera off. Similar conflicts existed more tallahassee, florida. He had a short fuse. Reporter including a female coworker claiming he physically confronting her for noting he made a slight onair mistake. He wanted to take it outside. I was stunned. He didnt handle constructive criticism well. Always appeared personal with reporter meanwhile the live. They have been getting a little bit of help. Their sister station in missouri sent a reporter to handle the investigation and the local nbc affiliate which is normally their arch rival said anything theyve got, wdbj can have as well. Matt, savannah, good to see you. Not a time for competition. Thank you, stephanie. Democrats are descending on minneapolis today for the summer meeting of the Democratic National committee. Stakes are especially high for Hillary Clinton. Nbcs Kristen Welker is there. Good morning to you. Reporter matt, good morning. Secretary christian lintons main goal is convincing that she is still the main candidate but Vice President joe biden is mulling a decision and back in d. C. Secretary clintons mission is sure, reassure the Party Faithful she can weather the political storm caused by her emails. She decided to go on the offense. Extreme views about republicans, we expect that from terrorist groups. We expect that from people who dont want to live in the mo dempb world. But its a little hard to take coming from republicans who want to be the president of the United States. Reporter republicans fired back releasing this statement. For Hillary Clinton to equate her political opponents to terrorists is a new low for her flailing campaign. Meanwhile, some Top Democrats say clinton should address nagging questions about her emails. The american are concerned about this. Even people who love hillary are concerned. Reporter over shadowing it the potential candidate whos not here, Vice President joe biden still weighing his options. Members of the super pac are here in force. 250,000 people signed a petition and would love to see him. Folks at the dnc are excited for it. Reporter secretary clinton met with top testimonies last night. Shes still the strong democratic frontrunner. In fact, Vice President biden comes in third behind Bernie Sanders. Hell have his work cut out for him if he gets into the race. Matt . The people who wynt to see joe biden run are they nerrlus that perhaps hes standing on the aidelines for too long . Ge reporjer they wan to see a sign, thats for sure. The general consensus is tat more theanerrier. If Vice President biden got n the race he would either win or make hilm ry clinton sa snger in a general election. Some folks s i if secretary clinton turns the corn on the e email controversytit could make it harder for Vice President biden to make his case. Then a reality check. While biden met with a major labor leader thursday he hasnt taken the practical steps, lay any of the groundwork to mount a serious cam tan at this point. A lot of folks are watching for that. You have biden himself who un undecided undecided, very much mourning the loss of his son beau. I have been told a decision is several weeks out. Kristen, thank you very much. With more than a year before the election a lot of people are already making technician how t candidates. Voters were asked to describe top candidates offering any of the words that c e to mind. For donald trump, the most popular descriptions, arrogant, blowhard and the word that came up the least, winner. For jeb bush it was his last name that made the top of the list followed by family, honest, weak, brother. Top words used to des ribe llary clinton, liar, dishonest, untrustworthy. Theretis good news for her. The word least associated with clinton was unqualified. There were positive words further down the list for all candidates its fascinating to see what people said. One last note slut f on politics and hair. Trump wants you to know, yes, his hair is really, its really his. This after the New York Times reposed on a radio host calling him the manbe with thd toupee. To prove i he enlisted help from the crowd during his rally in South Carolina. I dont wear a toupee. It is my hair. I swear. Come here. Come here. We are going to settle this. Come on up here. You have to do an inspection. This is crazy. Real quick. Dont mes it up too much. I do use hair spray. Is it mine . Look. It is. Say it, plea. Yes, i believe it is. She said, i believe it is. Cool as a cucumber. No, no. Quite a moment on the campaign trail. Tamron has a s wacary situation at a Georgia School overnight. This is still developing. We are getting more information. Good morning. A university was put into lockdown after a deadly shooting ivedsity. Students say a fight broke out between several people in the cafeteria. Junior christopher stark was shncot and rushed tonche hospital where he later died. No arrest has been made. Australian Officials Say the number of migrants found dead in an abandoned truck has risen to more than 70le people. Police found the truck parked on the safety lane of a main highway connecting vienna and budapest. Three people were arrested in connection with the deaths. The war in syria led to record numbe of migrurants attempting to cross into europe fr rom afr be this year. Frightening moments in south florida in a neighborhood when a food truck exploded. Officials say the trucks 100gallon propane tank leaked, ught fire and blew up. The explosion sent debris flying as far as 1 0 feet and shattered windows of nearby ho els. Thankfully no injuroes were reported. Spectacular pictures from hawaii where the kilahea volcanorais erupting the floe moved more than a half le in less than 24 hours. It is throning a subdivision of homes. They are three miles away. Slowly but surely, summer is winding down. Its a good time to shak in the sun while you can. What better way to catch a few rays than here at the top of a wind turbine. 200 feet in the air. This is drone video from rhode island. The pilot said, i see a sunbather. Look, a person. No word on how he got there. We assume he climbed. A local rad s ytion is reporting hes a mon yok who works for the abbey. There is more to the story. The way i reah it the drone operator was surprised to see hi 10m up there and the guy was surprised to see the drone. What are you looking at . Can i not get peace anywhere . I had to leave the monastery. Tamron, thank you so much. Back to new orleans for a check of the weather from mr. Roker. Al. A monk up there . , brother. I cant believele i cant believe it. Oh. Im sorry. Lei didnt have a prayer of making that joke work. We have sunshine through northeen new england. Wet weather down through florida. Not from erika but from a stationary front there. We are going to get to visa checkout is such an easy way to pay onlinel enter eour username and password. A few clicks. And check out. Simple as that. No reentering payment and billing info. You feel like youre onestep ahead. Say hello to visa checkout. Visa. Everywhere you want to be. It nice cool start outtthere. Plenty of sunshine. 65 degrees in the city. Still some 50s and down to 49 in ssex right now. Weather headlines, plenty of sunshine. Winning stretch of weather continues right into the weekend. The heat is going to build up as we go into the week. Were following the path of Tropical Storm erica. Its up to 90 degrees next week, monday, tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. Maybe a couple of thunderstorms by thursday afternoon. And thats your latest weather. The reason we are in new orleans, tomorrow marks ten years Hurricane Katrina devastated this region when it made its third landfall. Yesterday president obama was here commemorating the occasion. President s bill clinton and geor bush will be here in t next 48 hours. Katrina. s bn ten years and four storms sizi but they refer to it as the storm. Ohs s others changed forever. It was an america few recognized. More than 1800 people dying. Half a million left homeless with more than a billion dollars in damage. New orleans was broken. Ten years later, 80 of the population is back. There is a new levee system that officials claim is safer than before and the economy is strong. But the recovery has been uneven t. Story of the lower ninth ward isnt close to being finished. Everywhere else has come back except for down here. Reporter this couple rebuilt their home. It took seven years, but few of the lower ninth ward own property. Without titles there was no relief money. Many just never returned. How hard is it when you drive past empty lots . Its bothersome. Where there is an empty lot there was a family. We try to figure out where they may be and if they want to come home. Reporter a lot of home. People need to eat. A meal was something you could look forward to. Reporter jay nicks owner of the parkway bakery said he got lucky. There was a bucket truck and they said do you have po boys. I said we dont have any electricity. He took the bucket truck, turned on the power at the pole. We could. Everybody came. It was wide open, free. Reporter he made repairs to his shop. Ten years later its thriving. Standing as a beacon of hope for the recovery. A lot of this area reporter across town Billy Nungesser gave us a tour of his neighborhood. This guy here built backup elevator. He has a levee in front of his house. Exactly. Starting to protect yourself. Le will bert wilson discovered his shop, ten feet under water. When i opened the door i started crying first. Reporter he started cutting hair in the street until a helicopter landed. I thought, who would send a helicopter into the middle of br where im cutting at and blow the operation away. But guys jumped out and got a hair cut. That started the First Responders getting hair cuts. Reporter mr. Chill never gave up. Later got a donation and opened a new shop in his neighborhood. It is a familiar story here. Ingenuity, determination and luck helping to bring people back. You ay kn ck me town, but eventually i will get up. Thats the greatest thing about resiliency. New orleans and each individual who helped we build, we will stand together. Reporter the two watch words you hear over and over again. Hope and perseverance. There is a lot of energy going on in this region. Back to you. Such a great city. It is. We have all spent a lot of time there. Coming up, will we see a verdict today at the closely watched trial of a former prep school student. Jury deliberations under way. We are there live. Plus, the wifeoof the first person to rush the gunmann a parisbound train. What shes telling us about her husbands heroic actions, his recovery and what she did when he was shot and wounded. First, this is today on nbc. Coming up, Jerry Seinfeld in every Auto Insurance policy has a number. But not every Insurance Company understands the life behind it. Those who have served our nation. Have earned the very best service in return. Usaa. We know what it means to serve. Get an Auto Insurance quote and see why 92 of our members plan to stay for life. 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High of 83. 87 tomorrow and sun and few clouds mixing in. Were back to a mini heat wave next week up around nient 90 degrees. Coming up on the today show, tips for getting the kids out of the house and back into the classroom as painlessly as possible. Back in a half hour. 7 30 a. M. , august 28, 2015. Wrapping up the week with a great concert on the plaza. Darius rucker is here and will take the stage in the 8 30 half hour. We look forward to that. Beautiful day for a concert. Lets look at the headlines on this friday morning. Democratic insiders will have plenty to discuss at the dnc meetings in minneapolis. President ial candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are scheduled to speak there. The roanoke, virginia, Community Came together the honor victims of the horrific shooting during a live broadcast. A candlelight vigil was held outside of wdbj where the victims Alison Parker and adam ward work. Tropical storm erika is hitting puerto rico after dumping around a foot of rain on other parts of the caribbean triggering deadly mud slides. Janet shamlian is in san juan for us. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Its been a deaf state vastating morning in the caribbean. The number of missing has jumped to more than 20. Rescuers cant get into the hardest hit places after flood waters and a foot of rain devastated the island. 80 of the island is without electricity. Its been completely cut off from water. Meanwhile Tropical Storm erika is continuing to track west. It has become a disorganized rainmaker. Heavy storms here in puerto rico overnight. We are between storm bands now. There has been damaginging winds. The island is prepared. Stores and businesses completely shut down yesterday at midday. Erika remains on the missouri. Well get the forecast in a moment. Thank you so much. A verdict could come today at the high profile trial of a student at a prestigious prep school in new hampshire. The student accused of raping a young younger classmate. Gabe gutierrez is covering the case. Good morning to you. Matt, good morning. This case brought National Scrutiny to the question of Sexual Assault in high schools which many advocates say isnt di