morning. breaking news. back on u.s. soil, sergeant bowe bergdahl arrives in texas overnight, in this country for the first time in five years. he's yet to see his family, so what's next for the former prisoner of war. >>> marching toward baghdad. iraq inching closer to civil war as militants push closer to the capital city, while the white house weighs u.s. military options. >>> tasteful or tacky? the bitter feud between donald trump and the mayor of chicago over this giant sign. neither side backing down. we'll let you weigh in as donald trump joins us live. >>> and "today" exclusive. former president george h. w. bush takes us behind the scenes of his thrilling skydive to celebrate his 90th birthday. >> i think i landed a little hot, but other than that, it was great. >> and he's already planning to do it again today, friday, june 13th, 2014. >> from nbc news, this is "today," with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> and good morning. welcome to "today" on a friday morning. friday the 13th. >> feeling superstitious? >> not me. not me. >> yo

killed in the same gruesome manner as james foley. the kurds are supported by the u.s. the image is titled "a second message to america" as this comment from president obama echoed around the world. >> we don't have a strategy yet. >> reporter: but it's clear isis has america in its sights. it claims james foley was tortured using water boarding. the group apparently growing in number. from prison nadidal hasan reportedly wrote to isis asking to joan. in ukraine it's estimated 293 people have been killed in the fighting. nato is set to hold a crisis meeting after releasing satellite images set to show russian artillery inside ukraine last week. the president promised more sanctions, but ruled out military intervention. >> we are not taking military action to solve the ukrainian problem. what we're doing is to mobilize the international economy to apply pressure on russia. >> reporter: this morning ukraine's prime minister is pushing to join nato. if that happened it would anger russia and oblige america and european to defend ukraine. >>> chuck todd is nbc's political director and m

bergdahl is back in the u.s., we have new video of bergdahl's plane after it landeded in texas following a flight from germany. bergdahl's plane landed at san antonio. the pentagon says that he was taken to an army medical center. bergdahl is expected to be reunited with family members and continue his recovery. late last month sergeant bergdahl was released by the taliban after being held for five years. bergdahl was part of a secret prisoner exchange in which five high ranking taliban members were released from the u.s. prison at guantanamo bay. >> new this morning the american red cross is helping more than two dozen people after an apartment fire in bucks county. flames hit the building along cedar avenue last night. crews managed to contain the blaze to a boiler room but several of the apartments have smoke damage. nobody was hurt and investigators are now looking for a laws. >> philadelphia completes are looking for a man and woman they say shot someone outside after gun shop and took seven guns. it happened at the sports center in the bustleton section of philadelphia. police say

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california. she became a u.s. citizen a year ago. she is 102 years old and she is voting today in the u.s. because she hopes to see immigration reform in her lifetime. her message for every voter is simple. despite your age, get out there and vote. it is 8:06 right now. let's get another check of the weather with mr. roker. al? >> thank you so much, natalie. who is 26 years old today? >> i am. >> what's your name? >> john hartley. >> where are you originally from? >> toronto. >> you have that bacon. fantastic stuff. i love it. hey, lot of wet weather. pacific moisture just streaming into the pacific northwest. heavy rain later today right through the afternoon hours and turning cloudy. 57, 6:00 in seattle. rest of the country, we're looking at wet and windy weather in the pacific northwest. rain stretching from texas all the way into the ohio river valley. plenty of sunshine along the eastern seaboard. gorgeous day in miami today. sunshine, 77. beautiful down in southern california. l.a. looking at 79 degrees and sunny. there you go. that's what's going >>> good morning. i'm meteorolo

ringleader who will now be interrogated for as long as a week before arriving on u.s. soil will silence critics. they insist that it is far more effective to try him in u.s. courts. they have a good track record of convictions in this cases than sending him to guantanamo as some republicans have been demanding. savannah and matt? >> andrea mitchell, thank you. >>> in the meantime, president obama is scheduled to meet with congressional leaders today to talk about the u.s. options in iraq. this as al qaeda-inspired militants step up their assaults across that country. nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel is in baghdad. richard, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, matt. the militants from isis are continuing their campaign to try and topple the iraqi government. now focusing on key economic targets, roads, oil, the airport. kurdish troops are battling to keep militants away from iraq's northern oil fields in kirkuk. the radicals from the al qaeda offshoot isis are trying to triple the government with a reign of terrorism and attacks on key infrastructure. they have