good morning everyone. i'm alex witt. donald trump has made history. >> the billionaire political outsider told americans he was the fareless law and order candidate needed to protect the country spiraling out of control. >> we will be a country of generosity and warmth.

the attacks on the police and the terrorism of our cities threaten our very way of life. any politician who does not grasp this danger is not fit to lead our country. >> capping an unusually controversy-filled convention trump brought the hammer down on hillary clinton, his democratic rival. >> after four years of hillary clinton what do we have? isis has spread across the region and the entire world. libya is in ruins and the ambassador and his staff were left helpless to die at the hands of savage killers. >> and he laid the recent spade

of violence, bringing back his ban on immigration. >> we must immediately suspend immigration from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism until such time as proven vetting mechanisms have been put in place. we don't want them in our country. them in our country. >> ultimately trump says it is he and he alone who has the power to fix the country's problems. >> on the economy i will outline reforms to add million of new jobs and trillions in new wealth. nobody knows the system better than me which is why i, alone, can fix it. i have made billions of dollars in business-making deals. now i'm going to make our country rich again. >> but a familiar scene took place on the convention floor

during trump's prime time address as a code pink protester interrupted the speech. it was one of the most talked about moments of the night. >> this time the terrorists target lbgtq community. no good. as your president i will do everything in my power to protect from violence a anand anand op rerks ssion. >> it is so nice to hear you cheering for what i just said. thank you. >> the former registered democrat and real estate was presented by ivanka who spoke

directly to female voters. >> my father will change labor laws that were put in place and he will foe wus on making quality child care affordable and accessible for all. he will fight for this and i will fight for him too right alongside of him. >> but the front covers of newspapers across the country said it all. while it was trump taking center stage it was bernie sanders who may have stolen the show on social media. it read trump, i alone, can fix this. is he running for president or dictator? reaction came swiftly from both sides of the aisle. john stewart delivered an old

school take on trump's speech. let's take a listen. >> i'm enjoying the gymnastics portion of the program that is about to occur. it will be the contortions many conservatives will have to do to em brags donald j. trump, what they have said for years they hated for president barack obama. >> notoriously thin skinned. >> aauthoritarian. >> no grip on reality. >> a thin-skinned narcissist with no government experience. yes, that sounds exactly barack obama. >> don't you love him? it is a so called deadly

heat dome that is effecting 119 million americans. 26 states are feeling the effects. the triple digit heat index has air-conditioning services seeing three times their normal workload. residents are flocking to the water. they are trying to beat the scorching heat and stifling humidity. that, my friend, may be the worst of it all. >> we are almost all under the dome. >> yeah, that's tough. it's not the most intense heat wave but it's hard to top this. we have the heat dome from the desert southwest to areas of southern california and spreading into the ohio valley. the peak of it is heading over the central plains here from kansas city to st. louis. they will feel like 110 to 115 today.

it is opressivly humid. many people under watches or warnings. 41 million people under excessive heat warnings today. that's a huge chunk of the population. this is tropical storm darby. right now it has 65 miles per hour winds and roughly about 400 miles away at the current time. it takes the storm towards hawaii and brush past temperatures in the northwest will be warming up slightly this

weekend. we have a tropical storm, heat, thunderstorms, pretty much everything. >> a little frightening. >> yeah. now to the other story make headlines. head of dade county telling why an officer shot an unarmed caregiver while he was lying on the ground. police receive add call about a suicidal man walking around with a gun in his hand. he actually had a toy truck. here he is trying to explain the situation to police as he lay on the ground. >> they say the officers did not hear his plea and thought he was being threatened by the patient who they didn't know was

autistic at the time. an officer aimed and fired trying to hit the patient but instead hit him in the leg. >> this is not a case of police abuse. this is a case where a police officer was trying to save mmr mr. kenzly's life and unfortunately he shot one astray. >> there is no reasoning. there is no rational. i come from a family of law enforcement. there is no reason to shoot a man with his hands up who is complying but even goes one step further and he is trying to help an autistic adult comply with you also. they basically shot someone who is trying to get another individual to comply with them. that's unacceptable. period. >> he has been released from the hospital. the miami-dade states attorney

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against four men and a woman all currently in custody all connected with the bastille day attack. they discussed the logistics and took photos of the crowd in july 2015. . a mother and her boyfriend will face charges. her children were found wandering without shoes or water as punishment earlier this month. temperatures were pushing to triple digits. none of the kids needed any medical attention. security lines are everywhere these days and even suicide squad members are not exempt. the weapons are being checked thou thoroughly. they are tagged by security and allowed inside. pretty cool. the unveiling of a plaque by

prince charles went to unvail. no damage was done. it quickly went back up there on the easel. it commemorated his visit to the nature preserve to meet with the members of the wild site trust. >> he is a pro at that, not the dropping of the -- but he is like what are you going to do? he didn't bend over. >> yeah, my instinct would be like -- >> yeah, well. >> we are not royals? >> yeah, although some people think they are. clinton will hold a rally today. it is only a matter of time before clinton makes her vice presidential announcement which could be in the next 24 hours. the count down begins. happy birthday to don henry a and celina gomez.

breaking news overnight. several people are injured after a driver slams into their car in the south bay and takes off. plus, making history. donald trump delivers one of the longest acceptance speeches in decades during the grand finale of the republican national convention. >> i humbly and greatfully accept your nomination for the presidency of the united states. and nearing an end. the current search for the missing malaysian flight could be the last. "today in the bay" starts right now. good morning on this friday. thank you very much for joining us. i'm sam brock. >> i'm