developing over night new details in the allegation from the trump white house that phones were tapped by the obama administration but the fbi is pushing back hard. the u.s. marine corps is rocked by a widespread scandal involving naked photos of female colleagues. north korea launches four illegal missiles near japan. winter isn't done yet. with 19 million at risk for severe weather ahead, including a few tornadoes. a big reveal from adelle. "early today" starts now. good to be with you on monday. i'm frances rivera. this morning, a new controversy

is engulfing the white house. nbc news learned james comey asked the fbi's department to reject donald trump's latest claims after accusing former president obama without evidence of wiretapping his trump tower office during the 2016 claim. he waged the claim via twitter. it turned the political world on its head. >> reporter: explosive allegations from the president. >> reporter: new accusations from the president in a series of tweets. president trump allegation that former president obama tapped his phone during the election. >> this is one of six tweets he fired off. he wrote, terrible. just found out obama had my wires tapped in trump tower. nothing found. this is mccartyism. >> there's no evidence to back up the claim. >> the president is offering zero proof to support this allegation. >> reporter: the white house won't say where exactly this information is coming from. >> former president obama

spokesperson kevin responded to that. >> any suggestion otherwise is false. >> the president of the united states is accusing the former president of wiretapping him. >> i think this is something that if this happened martha -- >> if, if, if. >> i agree. >> why is the president saying it did happen? >> he is going off information he is saying that lead him do believe this is potential. >> it is such a serious allegation, if it's true it's a extraordinary political scandal. if it's not true, it's an extraordinary political scandal. >> i imagine the president and the white house in the days to come with outline what is behind that accusation. i have never heard that before and i have no evidence or no one presented anything that indicates anything like that. >> i have seen no allegation of

that in the media, whether potential fisa court application or denial of the application or recent application or surveillance for that matter. >> it would be helpful if he turned over to the intelligence community any evidence he has. >> if he falsely spread this kind of misinformation that is so wrong, it's beneath the dignity of the presidency. >> i can deny it. >> there's no fisa court order. >> not to my knowledge. >> of anything at trump tower? >> no. >> that's an important revelation. >> in the end it's going to be the truth that will determined what's involved in. not tweet. but the truth. >> in the most recent statement, the white house says it will not comment further on the matter until a congressional investigation is made on the allegations. a new orc poll says a special

prosecutor should investigate between russians and trump campaign asosuates. but the white house could change the story today as they expected to unveil the new executive ordering. late in the evening, we learned from a south korean military official north korea sent missiles off. janice is in beijing. what more can you tell us about this missile launch? >> reporter: they landed in the sea of japan, three within the exclusive economic zone, about 200 miles off land. that's alarmed japanese officials and what they see as a new and growing threat for north korea. north korea warned they would

fire missiles. south korean officials say what this does is give proof that they need that u.s. designed missile defense system deployed by the end of the year. this is the second test since president trump took office. not believed to be the type of missile that is are capable of reaching the u.s. the state department said in a statement the u.s. will use its full range of capabilities against this growing threat. china also said it was opposed to the launch, but officials did note the u.s. south korea joint military drills as exasperating the north. china remains opposed to the defense missile system and difficult to pressure beijing to reign in the north. >> janice, thank you. back here at home, the u.s. marine corps is in the middle of a massive scandal involving

naked photos. nude photographs of over two dozen female service members were allegedly shared online among military personnel on a private facebook page. members of congress are calling for an investigation. >> it's disgrayful. to treat fellow marines, fellow service members. this goes to absolute disrespect for women sacrificing everything, even their lives to this country. >> sergeant major ronald green said there is in place for this demeaning behavior in our corps. it may have tarnished the reputation of the military service with one female saying i am never re-inlisting again. the problem will require a two-pronged approach. >> top down guidelines and

enlighten leadership to create the kind of environment this behavior cannot occur. now to maybe welcome news this tax season. your chance of getting audited are dropping. 1 million audits in 2016. a drop of 16% from the year before. it is the sixth straight year of decline since 2004. the irs says budget cuts forced layoffs leaving fewer resources for enforcement. they estimate the cuts cost the country $8 billion in uncollected taxes each year. cold temperatures didn't scare brave souls away from polar plunges. that's shepherd, a very important plunger for that dive in lake michigan. the star of the upcoming "chips" remake was one of the first in the lake, uniform and all. thousands took the plunge to

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