Its lights one week after the shooting massacre there, as we learn more about the gunman, the millions he made gambling, and the simple hotel policy that could have foiled his deadly plot. All that plus hollywood titan Harvey Weinstein fired amid more allegations. Angelina jojolys offer to capture a war lord. And this shocking seen on a moving school bus. Today, october 9th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on oa monday morning. Apparently it was a busy weekend on twitter. Thats where political fights take place this morning. New controversy facing the white house this morning. The president locked in a highprofile feud with a key member of his own party. We have two reports, beginning with kristen welker. Kristen, get us started. Good morning. Reporter matt, good morning to you. President trumps latest war of words is particularly striking because this time its with the republican chairman of the Senate Foreign relations committee, bob corker. Senator corker, making an extraordinary charge overnight. That the president s actions are endangering the country. And his threats to other nations could lead to another world war. This morning, a major republican rebuke. Top gop senator bob corker telling the New York Times, President Trump could put the nation on the path to world war iii, and that the president s tweets from undermined american diploma diplomacy. He concerns me. He told the times, he would concern anyone that cares about our nation. He is alarmed by President Trump. He treats his office like a reality show. Like hes doing the apprentice or something. The harsh words came after corker made this comment. I think secretary tillerson, secretary mattis and chief of staff kelly are those people that help separate our country from chaos. Reporter over the weekend, the president went into attack mode, slamming corkers decision not to run for reelection. Corker begged him for his endorseme endorsement. And said, he didnt have the guts to run. Corker contradicted that account to the times. The president asked him to reconsider. Its a shame the white house has become an adult daycare center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning. The faceoff is notable because corker, a tennessee republican, was a staunch trump supporter. But after the president s controversial response to the violence in charlottesville, a rift opened up. The president has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability, nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. Reporter corkers concerns come amid the ongoing north Korean Nuclear crisis, after kim jongun touted his arsenal over the weekend. The president delivering a vague warning, tweeting, only one thing would work. Later, asked for an explanation by nbcs peter alexander. Whats the one thing that will work with north korea . Youll figure that out pretty soon. Reporter the president waging a new battle over immigration this morning, with the white house demanding a Border Security crackdown in exchange for protecting young, undocumented immigrants, known as d. R. E. A. M. Eers from deportation. The most controversial request, funding for a border wall. A key campaign promise. We will build a wall, believe me. Reporter also on proposals, cracking down on sanctuary cities. Tougher action on unaccompanied minors. Democratic leaders said the white house cant be serious about compromise, given the hard line policies theyre asking for. Lets go back to the war of words between bob corker and the president. Corker has announced hes not running for reelection. But hes a sitting u. S. Senator. So, his vote is important on key issues. Reporter the president needs his vote to get tax reform and immigration reform. Mr. Trump is expected to announce a new iran policy. Corker may be essential to carrying that out, as well. Hes not an antitrumper. He was supportive during the campaign. His name floated as a potential v. P. Nomine, secretary of state. This back and forth could send a powerful message that the trump faithful are starting to lose their faith. Part of the rift that opened up with senator corker had to do with secretary of state rex tillerson, who corker supports. Obviously, theres been tension between the president and tillerson. Where are we on that this morning . We saw that on display again over the weekend, when President Trump tweeted. He seemed to undercut his secretary of state. And then, he was asked about the tweet in which he said that north korea had made fools out of u. S. Diplomats. And he said, what is the situation between you and your secretary of state . And the president responded and acknowledged that, look, there are sometimes disagreements and that sometimes he wishes his secretary of state would be a little bit tougher. And while there are saebs that the situation may be untenable, theres no scenes that a tillerson departure is imminent. Matt and savannah . Kristen welker at a rainy white house. The white house involved in a new controversy, over the player protests at nfl games. Mike pence added more fuel to the fire, when he walked out of the colts 49ers game after some players knelt during the national anthem. Peter alexander with that story this morning. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you. This is the latest chapter in a divisive national debate. But it escalates things. Mike pence, leaving the Indianapolis Colts game, hosting the San Francisco 49ers, to publicly demonstrate his disapproval with nfl players protesting silently during the national anthem. Vice president mike pence touching down in los angeles after walking out in indianapolis. Pence leaving sundays 49ers colts game, after more than 20 players took a knee during the national anthem. The Vice President and his wife did stand, hand over hearts, tweeting out the picture. Tweeting, President Trump and i will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our flag and our national anthem. I dont think its too much to ask nfl players to respect the flag and our national anthem. The president said he asked the Vice President if any players kneeled. Adding, im proud of him and second lady, karen. Pence threw more than 1,800 miles from las vegas to indianapolis. And another 2,000plus miles back to l. A. , ahead of a political fundraiser. Critics pounced. Democrat adam schiff tweeting, after all of the scandals of unnecessary travel by cabinet secretaries, how much taxpayer money was wasted on this stunt . At the stadium, reporters traveling with pence were told to stay in the van because there may be an early departure from the game. Its not surprising that the 49ers would take the knee because Colin Kaepernick started the kneeling. Calling pences walkout a p. R. Stunt. Our team has had the most players protest. He knew we were probably going to do it again. And so, this is what a person looks like. Reporter still, jerry jones issuing a warning to his players. If we are disrespecting the flag, we will not play. Were going to respect the flag and im going to create the perception of it. The nfl is defleclining to comm. But President Trump is tweeting. The trip by Vice President pence was long planned. He is receiving great praise for leaving game after the players showed such disrespect for the country. A senior pence official tells us the Vice President was hopeful the players would stand but would leave if the players didnt. Thank you. Nate is pushing farther inland after slamming the gulf coast at a hurricane over the weekend. It made landfall twice, in louisiana and mississippi, causing damaging flooding, knocking out power to tens of thousands of people. Dylan is in for al this morning. Shes been tracking this for us. It was a category 1 hurricane when it made landfall. The more significant landfall was near biloxi, mississippi, with the storm and winds up to 85 miles per hour. The benefit of the storm was it was moving quickly. We did see some areas of flooding, the downpours, the tropical nature of the downpours, we cant see Long Duration flooding. Even parts of North Carolina picked up 11 inches of rain on the eastern side of the storm. Now, the storm is posttropical. Its getting up into new york, where were seeing the heaviest rain. Also a band through maryland. That will move through the i95 core dridor to this afternoon. This is going to go into the northeast. And most of the rainfall with this storm will continue to race away. Highest amounts for the next 12 hours or so, will be upstate new york, with three to four inches of rain possible. But the storm is moving on. Its moving forward at about 60 miles per hour. Its almost out of here. Flying through. Dylan, thank you. Nate put more strain on fema, which is already stretched thin after responses to hurricane harvey, irma and maria. And the frustrations in puerto rico are growing. Gabe gutierrez is in san juan for us. Good morning. Reporter good morning. This island cant seem to catch a break. There was new flash flooding overnight here in san juan. As a rainstorm blew through. But in the wake of hurricane maria, it is the political firestorm that is intensifying, as frustrated residents wait for help to arrive. This morning, three weeks after hurricane maria, much of puerto rico is without power and without water. Jeffrey buchanan is spearheading the relief effort here. Nbc news rode with him on a supply air drop mission on the western part of the island. We shouldnt pretend this is going to be painfree. This will take a lot of hard work to get people back on their feet. Reporter the mayor blasted fema in a series of tweets for not moving fast enough to deliver supplies. The head of the agency firing back. We filtered out the mayor. We dont have time for the political noise. Reporter theres been improvement in puerto rico. 78 of gas stations are now open. 77 of supermarkets. But only about 12 of the island has power. And not oneven onethird of cel phone towers are working. Water, food, are critical. Were working to develop critical pathways to get to everybody. Reporter President Trump tweeting, nobody could have done what i did for puerto rico with so little appreciation. We really did a good job. They had beautiful soft towels. Very good towels. And they were screaming and they were loving everything. I was having funnel. They were having fun. They said, throw them to me. Throw them to me. Reporter outside of san juan, some remote towns are desperate. More than 40 of the u. S. Territory still has no running water. We need medicine. We need insulin. We need gasoline. Reporter in miami, this warehouse is full of supplies that the state representatives have said they have been slow to get to puerto rico because of bureaucratic red tape. Its frustrating to see it stateside or in some facility not getting to the people. Reporter the death toll is up to 39. But the actual number could be higher, as Funeral Homes have not reported more bodies are reporting more bodies that have not been included in government figures. Matt . Savannah . Gabe gutierrez, thank you. A moving scene in las vegas. Overnight, the bright lights of that iconic strip were dimmed. That marks the oneweek time period since the shooting there. This as investigators struggle to find the gunmans motive. National correspondent Miguel Almaguer has the latest. Good morning to you. Reporter more than 1,000 leads have poured in. Investigators have put up billboards asking for the publics health. This as theyre no closer as to why the gunman went on his spree. This morning, police are scouring new images like this go, go, go. Reporter theyre always focusing on the gunmans hotel room. And on sunday, arriving back at stephen paddocks home. Investigators, no closer to finding the reason why. I can tell you that i really dont have an answer for you about motive. Reporter undersheriff kevin mcmahill, in addition to the cache of weapons and ammo, there was a note in Paddocks Hotel room. It may have been ranges as to where he was shooting at. Reporter irs records saw paddock earned 5 million gambling in 2015. One gun dealer telling police, he sold paddock racer rounds last month. Bullets that leave a trace in the dark. But were not used in the massacre. Officers who breached his room at mandalay bay, talking to 60 minutes. So many guns. Stacks of magazines everywhere. All kinds of monitors and Electrical Equipment he had in there. It looked like almost a gun store. Reporter investigators are now questioning how could no one know of paddocks murderous, meticulous plot. His brother, now said to be in las vegas, is cooperating. Casi casino mogul steve winn, questioning why the gunmans stay never raised red flags. The scenario that were aware of would have indicated that he didnt let anyone in the room for two or three days. That would have triggered a whole bunch of alarms here. Reporter wynn adding, paddock didnt seem to fit any profile. The most vanilla profile one could possibly imagine. He didnt fit the profile of a problem or a compulsive gambler. Reporter with contributes growing, jason aldean, who was performing when gunfire began, remembering the 58 lives lost, during husband appearance on saturday night live. With words we hurt for you. And we hurt with you. But you can be sure that were going to walk through these tough times together, every step of the way. Reporter and with music. I wont back down reporter overnight, vegas dimming its famous lights in memory of the victims. With many still hospitalized, samantha feranda, shot three times, finally going home. Im just grateful that i didnt have to completely say goodbye to all the people that i love. Reporter this morning one of the victims families has hired an attorney that was hoping to freeze the gunmans assets. His brother said hes a multimillionaire. They want his money to go to the grieving families. Matt . Miguel almaguer, in las vegas. Thanks very much. Breaking overnight, wildfires burning out of control in northern california, threatening homes and leading to ev evacuations there. A fire above napa forced people from their homes overnight. The flames are threatening one resort in wine country. A second fire burning near the city of calistoga. And in sonoma county, theres more going on near santa rosa. Out west in california, theres 25 Million People under red flag warnings. And conditions will be favorable for fire to spread today. Humidity is down to 10 to 15 . And winds could gust up to 70 miles per hour. Bad news for the fires out that way today. But we will start to see some slow improvements as we go into oh, you brought butch. Yeah butch growls at man hes looking at me right now, isnt he . Yup. butch barks at man butch is like an old soul that just hates my guts. laughs vo you can never have too many faithful companions. Introducing the allnew crosstrek. Love is out there. Find it in a subaru crosstrek. Good morning, im meteorologist bill henley. Rain moving in this morning and still with us this afternoon. Temperatures in the 70s to start with. Later this afternoon, the clouds will start to break, the rain moves out. 80 degrees in new jersey. Upper 70s for the suburbs. And 80 in philadelphia. Pretty good downpours at times this morning in the Lehigh Valley. Id expect less than a half inch of rain during the day. Late this afternoon, drying out. Up to 77. Delaware, lateday clearing and 80. And thats your latest est forecast. All right, dylan, thank you very much. Just ahead, the growing scandal facing Harvey Weinstein, as one of the most powerful men in hollywood is fired from his own company. Were live with developments. And the potential gamechanger when it comes to the high cost of health care. Is amazon going to get in the Prescription Drug business . First, on a monday morning, this is today on nbc. Coming up, the surprising thing Angelina Jolie offered to do to help capture a dangerous african warlord. And hodas here. Were visiting a family impacted by breast cancer. We gave a husband and kids hi, im mindy kearns. Its great to finally meet you. Nice to meet you too. Your parents have been talking about you for years. Sorry about that. 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