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the u.s. rushing firepower to its ally. and concerns renew of an all-out wash. back at home, a highly-anticipated interview between donald trump and elon musk plagued with tech issues. muvgs musk blaming an online attack. what the former president said. hundreds of young voters get together to actually talk to each other. can it help overcome their differences? a terrifying beating caught on tape. a group of bikers in los angeles surround a car and attack the driver. that man speaking out this morning. and a new setback in the fight to get jordan chiles to keep her olympic bronze medal. why the court of arbitration for sport won't we consider the decision, and what steps usa gymnastics will take next. it's tuesday, august 13. "early today" starts right now. good morning, i'm frances

rivera. the middle east is a powder keg this morning, as a bloody war in gaza rages on. israel is also preparing for attacks on both iran and hezbollah. both have promised retaliation after two high-profile assassinations blamed on israel. the u.s. has promised to back israel in the event of any escalation and is rushing naval reenforcements to the region. for the latest, let's turn to claudio lavanga. bring us up to date on the latest. >> reporter: good morning, frances. that's right. in response to a threat of an imminent attack by hezbollah and iran benz against israel, the u has taken the rare step of announcing the deployment of the uss georgia and ordered the uss abraham lincoln, a carrier strike group, also equipped with fighter jets, to accelerate its ongoing transit to the region. now this move came after the

u.s. secretary of defense lloyd austin had a telephone call with his israeli counterpart, gallant in which he told israel essentially that the united states will take every step to defend israel, which according to gallant is facing a threat from hezbollah and iran like never before and warned them not to start a warbecause the response from israel will be like never before. on the diplomatic front, the united states, france, germany, the uk and italy yesterday issued a joint statement in which they called for a deescalation in the region as well as offering their, again, once again, the support for the ongoing efforts to find a cease-fire and hostage deal in gaza. the next round of negotiation will be held in cairo on thursday. back to you, frances. >> claudio lavanga, thank you. the ukrainian offensive inside russia continues with its military saying it has captured nearly 400 square miles of

territory in the kursk region. the new video showing ukrainian soldiers removing a russian flag from the side of the building there. american diplomats visiting there celebrated the developments. >> bold, brilliant, beautiful. keep it up. putin started this. kick his ass. bottom line is to this administration, i appreciate your support. let these people fight. >> russian president vladimir putin promised to, quote, knock out the enemy from our territories, after a local governor told putin in a televised meeting that ukraine now controls 28 russian villages. now to the race for the white house. late last night, donald trump wrapped up a twom-hour-long cal with elon musk. it was hosted on x and started 40 minutes late because of technical problems. musk said there was a cyber attack, but nbc news could not verify those claims. during the talk, the two men attacked kamala harris as being

too far left. >> they're rewriting history and making kamala sound like a moderate when in fact she is far left, far, far left. >> worse than bernie sanders. she is considered more liberal by far than bernie sanders. she's a radical left lunatic. and if she's going to be our president, very quickly, you're not going to have a country any more. >> mr. trump has been criticized recently for spreading misinformation about vice president harris as she rises in the polls. garrett haake is following the campaigns. >> reporter: former president trump returning to what was once his favorite messaging megaphone, posting on x, formerly twitter for the first time in a year, writing, are you better off now than you were when i was president. and promote ago inting an intit elon musk. it comes as he faces growing

criticism from republicans who say he's not spending enough time attacking vice president kamala harris' record. he had a baseless conspiracy theory about biden. >> he's going to walk into the room, and he's going to say "i want my presidency back". >> reporter: and falsely saying that large crowds were a.i. fakes. harris writing, this is an actual photo of a 15,000-person crowd, and trump has not campaigned in a swing state in over a week. low energy? a new poll shows harris leading trump in key battlegrounds. >> stop questioning the size of her crowds and start questioning her position when it comes to what did she do as attorney general on crime. question what did she do when she's supposed to take care of the border as a sczar. >> reporter: harris appearing to

adopt the trump plan. >> eliminate taxes on tips for hospitality workers. >> reporter: trump has been campaigning on the no tax for tips pledge for months. >> we are not going to charge taxes on tips, people making tips. >> reporter: trump saying harris is conning the american public and will flip right back. the fbi is investigating the trump campaign's assertion it was hacked by iran. a judge has ruled against robert f. kennedy's effort to appear on the new york ballot this fall. the democratic-aligned group sued kennedy, who lives california over the new york address he used on his forms. kennedy said democrats are showing contempt for democracy and says he will appeal and win. there's new video this morning of a disturbing attack in downtown los angeles. a driver saying he had to fight

for his life after a group riding bicycles surrounded his car and began beating him. and a warning, some of the video is hard to watch. here's morgan chesky. >> they're fighting this dude, bro. man. >> reporter: a stunning attack in downtown l.a. this video capturing the frenzy on august 2nd, when a crowd turned on shiloh friday evening. >> i passed the intersection, and i pulled over. and i got out to figure out what happened. and they suddenly, like, surrounded me. >> reporter: he says when he realized someone damaged his car he got out. and that's when others decided to join in. >> i managed to run away from them. and, like, i ran, like, about 200 or 300 feet down the street. and when i, like, looked back, so i saw how, like, a few of

them were, like, jumping on the roof of my car, on the windshield. >> reporter: while there's no video of what happened prior, footage from a feesh balcony shows the frightening play by play. some focussed on vandalizing his car, digging through its contents and another group targeted him. >> i came up to my car to pull the doors, and, like, some of them, like, were, in my back. and they started, like, hitting me and punching me. >> reporter: the attack left him with a broken leg and covered in cuts and bruises. lapd says they have yet to make any arrests. meanwhile, he credits his survival to an unknown woman who pulled him away from the crowd to safety. >> um, like, close my head, and i was on the ground. so, and suddenly, so someone, like, pulled me out and she literally saved my life.

>> our thanks to morgan for that report. a 4.4 magnitude earthquake rattled southern california on monday. residents reacting in real time to shaking in their homes and on the job. >> wow. let me call my family. you see this stuff is still shaking right here. >> make sure that our studio lights, everything stays safe. everything's shaking. >> the epicenter was near south pasadena, just i.c.east of l.a. a water pipe burst at city hall and one person was rescued after being trapped in an elevator. it is the second quake in the region felt in the past week. meantime, there's a tropical storm churning in the caribbean this morning. let's turn to ryan hanrahan who's tracking ernesto for us. >> good morning, everyone. yes, we have a tropical storm, this is ernesto. it's about to cross the leeward islands heading toward puerto rico.

winds of 40 mooiiles per hour. it looks like it's going to strengthen over the next couple days. a tropical storm warning in effect for the virgin islands and puerto rico. here is the expected track of the storm. you can see the tropical storm getting very close to puerto rico by tonight and early tomorrow morning. winds around 60 miles per hour. and the storm strengthens into a hurricane as it heads to the north. it looks like it stays in the open atlantic ocean well to the east of the united states, though it's getting fairly close to bermuda by the weekend. the other story a little closer to home is the heat. we've got a heat advisory in effect for a good chunk of the south. 35 million people impacted. temperatures today well into the 90s to near 100. 100 in dallas.

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an inquiry were made within the one-minute deadline. this last-minute leapfrogging has happened before. aly raisman overtook a gymnast in 2012 after her coach appealed her decision on beam. that decision stuck. the two-time olympian speaking on "today". >> i'm so gutted for jordan. athletes have obviously lost their medals before. but typically in what circum circumstances? >> cheating, testing positive for banned substances. all these are when the athlete explicitly broke the rules. >> so how unusual is jordan chiles' situation? >> incredibly unusual. quite unprecedented. >> reporter: a chaotic controversy not of the athlete's making. emilie ikeda, nbc news. still to come. a rivalry between superstars is renewed on the billboard album charts. and it's slime season on

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