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the greatest nation on earth, i accept your nomination to be president of the united states of america. >> kamala harris makes history. the first woman of color to ever accept the party's nomination begins laying out her vision of the future and mounting her case against donald trump. and the former president firing back overnight. his reaction to his rival's big speech, as he gets ready for a rally in battleground arizona. just weeks after harris made an appearance of her own. ukraine takes the fight to russia, launching a wave of new strikes. the explosive attacks at an air base and the rail ferry. relief could finally be on the way for everyone in the market for a new home. the big news on rate cuts expected from the fed today. from a pommel horse to the floor routine. one of the breakout stars of the paris olympics finds a new competition. what's next for the man dubbed

clark kent who helped the u.s. men's gymnastics team win a medal for the first time in 16 years. it's "early today." good to be with you. good morning. i'm frances rivera. it was another energizing night for democrats in chicago. vice president kamala harris making history as the first woman of color to accept a major party's nomination for president. harris framing this election as a chance for the country to move past the bitterness and chart a new way forward. >> let's get out there. let's vote for it! and together let us write the next great chapter in the most extraordinary story ever told. >> nbc's alice barr joins us now from chicago. good morning, alice. this was a critical moment for the vice president. what was her message to voters? >> reporter: frances, and she approached this moment, this

task, of letting voters know what she stands for by focussing on her past. she talked about her childhood and especially about the lessons she learned from her mother, who emigrated to the u.s. at age is the of 19 from india. she pledged to work to restore reproductive rights, to offer a tax cut to the middle class and end the housing shortage. and she says she would bring back the bipartisan border bill. the vice president also gave several warnings about what she says a second trump term could look like. >> consider the power he will have, especially after the united states supreme court just ruled that he would be immune from criminal prosecution. just imagine donald trump with

no guardrails! and how he would use the immense powers of the presidency of the united states. not to improve your life, not to strengthen our national security. but to serve the only client he has ever had. himself. >> reporter: right after vice president harris wrapped up her speech, former president trump called in to fox news to give his reaction, saying harris could have achieved a lot of the goals she laid out during her time as vice president. >> she can do all of of the things, many of the things that she's talking about and complaining about. it was a lot of complaining. she talks, but she doesn't do. it's no action. but, you now, look, other than that, it was a nice-looking

room. >> reporter: there's no doubt that democrats were super energized by this convention over the past four days. the question now is whether they can turn all of that momentum into cold hard votes in november. frances? >> alice barr, thank you. donald trump hoped to bring attention away from chicago and to the southern border. he spoke about his call for stronger border policies in the shadow of arizona's border wall. garrett haake asked mr. trump about the nbc news reporting that he's expected to get an endorsement from robert f. kennedy jr. today. >> reporter: what role would he have either with your campaign or in your administration? >> well, i don't want to get too much into it, because you're telling me something i don't know, other than i've always been friendly with him. if he were to endorse me, i would consider it a great honor. >> that's despite all the things he said about vaccines, 9/11 conspiracies, would that reflect

upon you if you put him in your administration? >> no, it doesn't mean administration, but certainly having his endorsement, things that he assupports i also agree on. >> the campaign has already filed paperwork to withdraw from the race there. donald trump will continue campaigning in arizona today as well. in arkansas, the state supreme court blocking a petition to bring abortion rights to the voters this november. the court ruling it all comes down to paperwork. advocates did get more than 100,000 signatures to put abortion rights on the ballot. but last month, the secretary of state rejected the effort for not following rules on paid signature gatherers. the state justices upheld that rejection, meaning arkansas' near total ban on abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest will stand for now. ukrainian drones struck a military airfield in russia. part of kiev's expanding wave of

strikes inside enemy territory. the regional governor said the attack was repelled, but a massive fire broke out at a defense ministry facility. our erin mclaughlin has this report. >> reporter: new video shows a critical ferry terminal, which helps connect mainland russia to occupied crimea on fire. russian officials blame kiev. so far, no comment from the ukrainians. the ukrainian air force released footage of another attack on russia. pointedly saying it shows a u.s.-made bomb being dropped on russian platoon based in the kursk region. volodymyr zelenskyy, the closest he's been to kursk since ukraine's surprise invasion. he says he wants the region to become a buffer zone on russian soil to help protectmajor ukrainian cities to the east, including kharkiv, where we saw first hand how in recent months the russians have been relentlessly bombing civilians, including this shopping mall.

mina says she was working back in may, the day of the russian rocket attack. cctv footage shows her walking through the store. and then. [speaking in a global language] i fell on the floor. everything was falling on me, she says. and then i remember seeing the second rocket strike. miraculously, she survived. that same month, across the city, a recreational camp site also attacked. the camp manager tried to save a pregnant woman, but he says she was already dead. he was later hit in his leg and hand. the ukrainian war crimes prosecutors tells nbc news that ever since the kursk incursion there has only been one airstrike on this city. in car kieffkharkiv there is re fear the reprieve is only temporary. days after that super yacht sank o

sank off the coast of sicily, the body of a british tech tycoon was found yesterday. mike lynch was one of those trapped on the yacht. his daughter is still unaccounted for. a man was arrested in an airport in australia after he exited a plane through the emergency door and walked onto the wing while it was parked. the plane had just arrived at melbourne airport. other passengers said the man began acting erratically, scaring those on board before opening the door. police arrested him for aggressive behavior and breaching aircraft safety protocols and taken to a hospital for evaluation. tomorrow nasa will decide if the bowingeing starliner is saf enough to return to earth. the mission was supposed to last about a week. the agency's backup plan involves making two seats available on the spacex "crew dragon" mission, but that would

mean keeping the astronauts at the international space station until february. the starliner would then return empty. okay, could we finally see relief from the brutal heat wave? nbc meteorologist angie lassman is tracking the temperatures for us. make those plans out doors for once. >> finally friday, and not a lot of good news for cooler air in the south. we're going to keep it quite warm and above normal. 16 million people under alerts this morning. a lot of the same areas that had just been dealing with triple digit temperatures are once again going to surge to 100-plus. lubbock, elpaso, sonora. the pacific northwest running a little on the cool side for this time of year. we're ending up into the 100-plus kind of range for the middle of of the country here for tomorrow. even sioux falls will be a little warmer than normal,

chicago as well. this is something we see lasting through the weekend and into the upcoming workweek. st. louis, 97 will be your high. for the northeast, a little different story. we're going to get back to warmer than normal temperatures by the time the weekend gets around. but we've been dealing with nice, refreshing air. that comes to an s for chicago a indianapolis. and a bit of rain to track this afternoon in denver. and that's a look at your forecast, frances. back to you. >> see you in a bit. thank you, angie. a volcano in southwestern iceland has erupted lava into . it flowed away from a nearby fishing town.

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now investors would also like to have an indication of by how much the fed is going to cut rates. however, jerome powell is unlikely to go that far today. nonetheless, at this stage, experts suggest we will see a 25-basis-point cut in september. but one of the key questions at this stage is what is going to happen between september and the end of the year. by how much will interest rate changes happen during that process. i also want to take you to canada. we are monitoring the development out of canada this morning. with freight trains actually on track to be running again in the coming days. this after government intervention that basically sent both sides of the argument into final binding arbitration. this is important for u.s. consumers as well. because canada exports 75% of their goods to the u.s. mostly by train. >> yeah, it would be a major disruption.

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