it's wednesday, august 26t. coming up on "early today," a battle of the titans. >> okay, who's next? excuse me, sit down, you weren't called. sit down. sit down. go ahead. >> and that was just the beginning. then, we will show you what's happening with your money as stocks continue a wild ride. and new details on the south carolina teen who went missing on her first day of school. and a guy who with ruined a million 1/2 dollar work of art. good morning everybody and thank you for joining us on this wednesday. another day and another dispute for gop nominee donald trump.

he clashed with univision jorge. >> okay. who's next? excuse me, sit down, you weren't called. sit down, sit down, sit down. go ahead. >> reporter: i have a right to ask a question. >> no, you don't. you haven't been called. go back to univision. go ahead. go ahead. sit down, please. you weren't called. go. yes, go ahead. hi, chip, yes. >> ramos was later allowed to

return and asked two questions but instead the conversation turned to the lawsuit that trump filed against univision after not airing the miss universe pageant. >> go ahead. i think so because i am going to bring jobs back. how much am i suing univision for right now? do you know the number? no, no, no, tell me. then you're apart of the lawsuit. how much am i suing univision for? wait, wait. it's $500 million and they're very concerned about it. i have to tell you. >> afterwards, trump talked about the tense exchange on fusion. >> as a reporter, my job is simply to ask questions and that's why i'm here.

>> saying in part, ramos was simply trying to hold a candidate for presidency accountable. one woman wrote, he is not only a journalist he's become the voice of the latino constituency. and another person i feel like someone messed with my dad, it's on. >> and a war of words has rerupted between the gop frontn are -- runner and fox news. we have the details. >> unbelievable. >> reporter: it's the intersection of reality tv and presidential politics. fox and trump reigniting the feud. ceo demanding trump apologize.

>> welcome to the kelly file, everyone. >> reporter: trump tweeted liked the kelly file much better without megyn kelly. and her colleagues rushed to her defense. >> he started tweeting against megyn kelly, totally unwarned. and online, leave megyn kelly alone. >> you call women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals. >> what i say is what i say and honestly, megyn, if you don't like it, i'm sorry. >> reporter: after that, it went down hill. >> you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. >> reporter: a truce apparently seemed to have been made. apparently not. he teed off on trump for the

comments last night and calling it an unprovoked attack and is unacceptable and it is disturbing. and trump spoke back saying he doesn't feel she's a quality journalist. at the same time having the lead in the polls in south carolina. >> that was peter alexander reporting. and donald trump will be fielding question with matt lauer his feed feud with megyn kelly. that's later this morning on "today." and another roller coaster ride for stocks overseas. and despite a stimulus china's shanghai index tumbled in the final minutes of trading. and the nika jumped. and the dow went up almost 2% and a volatile final hour saw the dow plunge 200 points and as one expert put it, if monday was a boxer being knocked to the

the dow plunged and still snot as bad as we saw earlier in the week. as one said if it was a boxer to the mat, tuesday saw it back up again but still wobbly in the beet. over night two were shot in afghanistan. no nationality and it happened in the health and prove vance and a pair of attack ers wearing an afghan uniform opened fire on a vehicle. both attack ers were kill in the return. we don't know yet if they were members of the afghan mar army. france has opened up a terror investigation. the suspect was led into court. three charges starting with attempted murder and mass murder. that's because they say he wanted to kill every single person on the train and apparently had the arsenal to do it.

an ak, nine clip and 237 rounds. a remover and unloaded clip, box cutter, gasoline and a cell phone. the suspect said that he was just try to go rob people on the train. prosecutors say that he was recently in turkey and possibly syria. the analysis of the phone shows that he watched a video on the train before the attack. meanwhile just hours ago the first of three americans acredited for the attack is back. >> there's no end in site for the fires blaze nothing the west. the largest fire is burning over 400 square miles in washington. california firefighters vann diverted, and meanwhile over 40 fires are burning in california alone.

it's in full swing and storm clouds rolled in and bringing in a big wall of dust. you can see the massive dust cloud to the left of the scene. the storm also brought wind gust and heavy rain in the area. nbc bill is here with the hump day forecast. happy wednesday to you, bill. >> that's to so many of you. yeah, both t of them. so we still deal with the moisture, and there's not a rain left here. just a little bit many new mexico. we will get more in the afternoon. it's going to make it as far as salt lake city as the front comes through. it's going ring it up, and it won't get up there in western montana. we will get isolated areas with the flash flooding, but crowd to ground and you get the thunderstorm with the rain and it will cause new fire. it's a great fall and that's areas of the smoke creating

unhealthy breathable air and it should bring more approval late in the week. that's going to bring it in the northwest. we are not going forget about it and it's heading in the general direction, but then it's a category one hurricane near florida sunday night into monday. very quiet along the 48 and seattle andramento at 96 and then 93. a lot of people waiting in the west for fall and more wet and less hot. >> yeah, that's right around the corner. thank you so much bill. new details on the south carolina missing teen just

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leading the news in people.com, philadelphia inmates and guards work together to hand-carve chair for pope francis. this is 6 feet tall and carved out of black walnut. the pope plans to meet with 100 ininmates starting on september 27th. and the most read story in the washington post, stephen hawking believes he's solved a huge mystery about black holes. in a nutshell, the physicist focuses on the information paradox. and where the info goes. he says our concept of time as we know it could be altered. wow, that's heavy stuff.

dr. james "red" duke has died. he was working when john f kennedy was assassinated. and the first surgeon to receive the president at the hospital and credited with saving the life of texas senator john connolly who was also shot that day. he was 86 years old. a kansas man is charge would animal cruelty after police say he tried to use a dog as a weapon. when he was approached because of suspicious behavior, he pick up the dog and threw it at him and then swung it by the leash. well, that dog is okay and as you can see is at an animal shelter. makers of honest tea set up tea stands on the honor system around the country. so, what's the most honest city? in atlanta, people left a dollar in a box, 100% of the time. congratulations. the least honest city, washington d.c. where someone allegedly stole money from the box.

>> that's not funny, but that's funny. one bad seed. >> they took all of the money. a couple of people in miami made a splash on tuesday when they actually got married under water. the couple wed in front of an iconic underwater statue on the anniversary of its installation. a notary afidid the ceremony an this morning a tomato ceremony. it's considered the world's largest food fight. i would think that's the world's largest food fight. >> is that where they do the running of the bulls? >> yeah, i just don't want to do the clean up. celebrating birthdays day, mccauley mccullcon, and mccarthy is 45. now keep it right here for more news, weather and sports. thanks for watching "early today." we hope that you have a great wednesday. aeireouny'shan anadratn--a crant

entire country's thanks and admiration, a sacramento man saves lives aboard a train, and now he returns home. unsettling scene on the streets of san francisco after a tourist is shot. now san francisco police reexamining protocol. a cliff rescue under way in daly city, where a woman is in danger. "today in the bay" starts right now. very good wednesday morning to you. thanks for joining us, i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> i'm sam brock. first, a quick check of weather with meteorologist kari hall. good morning. >> good morning, sam and laura. it is cool to start out the day, but it's going to be heating up this afternoon. as we take a look at the temperatures, it is in the upper 50s to lower 60s