Fici cloud of controversy, despite a tcry say for zika carrying mosquitos begins iniami beachhirning as a pregnt womenn floda have nowte . . Z positive for that vis. Nfleasoksff with a owns, the subo rematch between the broncos and the panthers that came down to the wire. And the kick and a shocker o the cour sere williams is out of e u. S. Open. Today, friday, september 9th 2016. Nnouncer frobc news this today wit mla and thri tudio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning everyone, weome to today on a friday morning. Something tells me our night. Thats right. I was watcnghe serena matc what a shocknd you were watching the home shoppi network again. Exactly. Thes the tennis match. Boy, the end of that Football Game was exciting. We will talk more about both o those things. On this friday morning we have to start with this breaking news. North korea conducting what it call a higher level nlear test ovnitnd its triggering swift c[m . Ondemnatio from the Obama Administration anotwo on all of this. Bill, good morning to you. Reporteg,r good moas fu a it was provocative and it was meant to be both. Rth koreas fifthnd Largest Nuclear test. Kim jongun moving ever closer it seems to a weapon that could one day strike the u. S. Announced proudly on state television north koreas strongest everucartest. Watched withride p in its in south kea around the worl it was powerfulugh t cause anarquake measuring 5. 3. South koreas presideled it an act of fanat . H . Recklessness. But this testas aimed at projecng power, the timing deliberate today as north reas july 4th thenniverryf the fnd of the state. Its leaders meeting and boasting thathis tt moves they can mount a nucarar head on noh koreas leaderong sed a huge increase tests and missiles this year, the biggest concern, that he i edging towards a Nuclear Missile capable of reaing americas west coast. The u. S. Joined russia today in condemning the test. President obama briefed on air force one said the world had to ensure provocative actions are met with serious consequences. But the question is how or what i was no north korea after their Fourth Nuclear test earlier this year and they were already anticipating this next one. No state on earth is more sanctioned, but all those tougher sanctions and diplomatic pressure have no affect at all in preventing this test. Matt, savannah. Bill, thank you. Now to new controversies and attacks in the president ial race. We are now 60 days out from the election. So lets get to this state of the race today. Hillary clinton hosting a meeting here in with a Bipartisan Group of Security Experts and of course one im on that agenda, the fight against isis. As for donald trump, he is making two stops today, first in washington, d. C. , then a rally in florida where a new poll shows trump and clinton a now tied. That same polling shows the two president ial hopefuls are locked in extremely tight races in three other crucial battle grounds. In ohio Trump Holding a 1 point carolina by four points, 47 to 43, and she is up 5 points, 48 to 43 in the all important state of pennsylvania. The table is set, lets get right to nbc National Correspondent peter alexander. Good morning to you. Reporter matt and savannah, good morning. This weekend the nation will pause to commemorate the 15th anniversary of 9 11, you can see one World Trade Center behind me. This morning hillary cnton is loin betweenherself and donald trump particularly on national security, bringing together that team of experts including David Petraeus as donald trump is facing new scrutiny about his praise for Vladimir Putin. On this 9 11 anniversary weekend Hillary Clinton is attacking her rival on national security. We have never been threatened as much by a single candidate running for president as we have been in this election. Convening national Security Experts. I was opposed to the war from the beginning. Reporter on iraq trump is doubling down. I opposed going in and i did oppose it, despite the media sang, oh, yes, no. I opposed going in. Reporter but the evidence shows hes rewriting history. Here he is in 2002, six months before the war. Are you for invading iraq . Yeah, i guess so. Reporter trump again point to go from august 2004. I made a detailed statement in an interview to esquire magazine. Reporter but that article was published 18 months after the war began. The billionaire is also under fire for complimenting russias Vladimir Putin. In that system he has been a leader, far more than our president has been a leader. What would Ronald Reagan say go a republican nominee who president. Reporter once again mike pence is defending trump. I think its inn arguable that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader in his country than barack obama has been in this country. Reporter and now new fallout over trumps characterization of the intelligence officials who recently briefed him. I am pretty good with the body language, i can tell they were not happy. Reporter this morning two intel officials with knowledge of the meeting tell nbc news retired general Michael Flynn governor Chris Christie intervened. Christie calls that untrue and flynn blasts the report as total bs telling nbc news they are Anonymous Sources and theyre lying. Reporter this morning nbc news has learned that senator tim kaine Hillary Clintons running mate received his first classified intelligence briefing here in new york yesterday, governor mike pence will get a similar briefing today. All right. Peter, thank you. Lets bring in Nicolle Wallace and Mark Halperin for analysis. Ground polls, its just one poll but they do show donald trump closing in. For those who this summer left this candidacy for dead, i mean, are you saying this morning maybe not so fast . He is still behind but he now has a path to victory in these four states, pennsylvania, ohio, florida, north carolina, they hold the key to a chance for trump to win and the race is narrow. The clinton folks can say all they want that this is over. It is not over. Let me ask you about the comments that donald trump now mike pence have made about Vladimir Putin, being complimentary or brog tore toward president obama, whichever way you look at it. Paul ryan was asked about them yesterday and simply said im not going there. How would you like to be walking a mile in paul ryans shoes right now. Listen, he made his bed and he is going to have to lie in it. The more interesting chase down, they were chasing republican members of congress around the capital yesterday to get them to comment. To get them to comment. They caught john mccain heading most sort of i think staunch antiputin voices, you know, stood with ukraine you know, stood with georgia. Hes pressing the closed door button and got out before the doors closed. You know, to the degree that the modern gop has stood for anything it has stood against Vladimir Putins aggressions in the region. So whats the strategy here . There is no strategy with donald trump. There is no strategy on this one. I called one of his advisors, i said whats the he said its not that he thinks hes good, he thinks hes strong and i said, well, thats not what hes saying. How do you explain . Now you have mike pence doubling down. Some people are surprised mike pence is doing that because his role in some of the controversies has been to walk back a rail bit. I cant find a trump advisors who explains it or defends it. Usually if trump does something controversial, they will say he believes it, theres an upside, maybe there is a downside. He will win people in the United States who support vladimir constituency is. Based on what you saw wednesday night from both candidates what do they have to do differently in the first debate . Well, Hillary Clinton has to change and shes shown signs shes willing to do that. She knew she had to wake up and get herself on offense with these comments that trump made to you on the generals and putin. I think trump is buoyed by the tightening in the poll. Trumps style will be what it was the other night, i think her style will change. She wants to show people ready to be president not just in preparation and resum . But demeanor. Thank you. Also this morning theres controversy, spraying for zikacarrying mosquitos is under way now in miami beach. A lot of people were opposed to this. This as Health Officials in florida say dozens of pregnant women have now been infected with the virus. Nbcs Tammy Leitner has more on this. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning, matt. Just about 90 minutes ago they spraying with naled in miami beach. A plane flying 300 feet offshore blanketed parts of south beach. They were originally supposed to spray on thursday but this got pushed back because of protests and this comes as the zika cases continues to increase. For months florida officials have been aggressively spraying mosquitos on the ground, now for the first time in miami beach they are spraying from the sky in an effort to reduce the population even but some florida residents worry the chemical being used to be narmful to their health. Cases of zika are exploding, florida Health Officials confirming 84 pregnant women in the state have contracted the virus. The number of travelrelated infections confirmed in the state has swelled to 604 and there are also an additional 56 locally acquired cases. The majority of those in mooid. On thursday scientists and doctors held a forum to share fighting zika. There continues to be local transmission pregnant women will be affected. The rise depends on what we do with mosquito control. Reporter the meeting come one day after a baby born to a zika infected mother is found to have microcephali causing severe Brain Development issues. Just back from summer recess Congress Failing to pass funding to fight the spread of zika. Florida congressman david jolly holding up a jar of mosquitos on urging his colleagues to get it done. Now, they are not active carriers, but they could be. Can you imagine, colleagues, the fears and anxiety in this chamber if these 100 mosquitos were outside this jar, not inside this jar. This is the fear of floridians, right here. Reporter another round of aerial spraying is set for sunday morning. Matt. Tammy, thank you very much. Now for an extraordinary warning from the faa. On planes. Nbcs tom costello covers aviation for us, he is at Reagan National this morning. What can you tell us . Reporter we are talng about the galaxy note 7 phone from samsung. As you know it has a propensity in some cases to catch fire, that could be a very dangerous situation inside a passenger plane. Samsung already recalling globally 2. 5 million of these because some passengers, some customers i should say, have said that the phone has actually caught fire, burning case, actually burning a car as we. The faa not citing any specific incident has it i wish ice this warning but it is strongly urging passengers do not use the phone in flight, do not charge the batteries in flight, do not put the phone in a checked bag. Airlines around the world have been cck down on lithium ion batteries because of the tendency to overheat and catch fire posing a big risk to passengers inside a commercial passenger plane in bulk. Now the fa. A urging all Samsung Galaxy note 7 users keep the phone on when they are traveling, do not charge it in flight and do not check it in a checked bag. Back to you. Tom costello, thank you. Now a major rescue operation in the french alps overnight. Dozens of tourists were trapped when the cable cars they were riding in suddenly stopped working. Keir simmons has more on that ordeal. Keir, good morning to you. Reporter good mog. Nightmare. Look at this dramatic video of the rescue operation taken from a rescue helicopter. You can see how high those cable cars are. French Officials Say 30 people had to spend the night up there and they have only just been rescued. The terrifying rescue winching tourists to helicopters high above the french alps hampered by poor visibility. More than 100 people included a than 12,000 feet. The final tourists brought to overght many oer facing a frightening descent by rope including these women from michigan. They tried to take upith the helicopter,ut the fog came in so the two rescuers stayed with us and then we did a ba lay after we decided there was no other way to get down and thank goodness they were able to help the americans trapped for ten hours. It was just before midnight when they finally belayed us out of the gondolas which was quite an experience. Just tired, wanting to get out of there. Reporter the High Altitude operation in the shadow of month blanc, europes tallest mountain, rescue services from france, switzerland and italy fighting to free the tourists then climbing to the cable cars with blankets, clothing and food for the nit. Technicians loosening cables, finally freeing the last of those trapped. Their ordeal over, tears of relief, to be back on safe ground. And once rescuers realized that they werent going to get everybody down they sent people to every one of those cable cars to spend the night there to reassure them, but, guys, i have been on those cable cars, it is cramped, it is very high, it is not a place you want to spend the night, matt. Ten hours is a very long time. As we mentioned at the top of thehow big night in sports. Tale of two tv sets. Lets start with tennis. Serena williams in the women semifinal of the u. S. Open. Record 23rd major tournament he championship of her career, but that bid fell short last night when she double faulted on match its back, the nfl season kicked off last night right here on nbc with a rematch of super bowl 50, the defending champion broncos and the carolina panthers. Newly retired quarterback Peyton Manning surprised the bronco fans, he entered the stadium with the Vince Lombardi trophy in his hand. During the National AnthemBrandon Marshall took a knee following in the footsteps of colin kaepernick. Denvers trevor simian broncos to a come back, two touchdowns in the fourth quarter, take the lead. The panthers had a chance to win, 9 seconds left, that 50 yard field goal sales wide left. Denver wins 2120. A lot of composure by a new quarterback replacing Peyton Manning. I think he had taken one snap last year and going against the reigning nfl mvp. Football knowledge. I had ten seconds of material. Dylann is here for al. The weekend is going to be pretty nice for most areas. Right now, though, we have heavier rain moving through wichita, kansas, through cast city, missouri. We had five inches of rain in wichita itself yesterday alone. Thats why we do still have flash flood warnings in effect this morning because of the heavy rain and the rain thats still falling. We have a summertime setup here, warm, moist, humid air moving in from the south combine cold front, thats going to trigger more stornls, especially this afternoon as this cold front moves eastward, we will get a break through tomorrow morning, then another round of storms, more in the ohio have i ever real as we go into saturday afternoon. I want to point out to you where we have our best chance of stronger storms today, thats right in through this area, des moines, including wichita down into springfield where we could see large hail, damaging winz and dangerous cloud to ground lightning. Thats a look at the weather across your country. Your local forecast is coming up the moments that connect us dont happen overnight. They happen one morning at a time, and one cup at a time. Folgers, the best part of wakin up. All right. Dylan, thank you very much. Just ahead, as we approach 20 years now since the murder of Jonbenet Ramsey her brother speaks out for the first time. 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