from a wikileaks bombshell over the spying tools to republican infighting over their own new health care bill, the administration has its hands full. breaking news overnight, a terror strike with multiple casualties is taking place at this moment at a military hospital in kabul. here at home, more than a million acres are burning in four states and a half-dozen have died from fast-moving wildfires. this morning, the ntsb wants answers in what caused a freight train to smash into a bus killing four.

good to be with you, i am franc francis rivera. wikileaks released what the cia says it's an entire hacking capacity to get into your electronics. apple releasing a statement saying many of the issues leaked were already patched in the latest phone software. microsoft and google say they are investigating, but for some americans this breach could hit closer to home. >> reporter: in some of the most common electronic devices, spying on their owners. designed to break into iphone or android and bypass secure

messing apps. and even a hack from microsoft windows named after a character in a popular will ferrell movie, and wikileaks is not revealing its source and the cia is not commenting. computer experts and former intelligence officials are treating the documents as real as well as the alleged security breach. >> we have always been worried about spies inside our agencies, and what is different now is technology allowed the fruits of the spying, if you will, to be more powerful in the hands of our adversaries. >> the spying tools would have been used exclusively for foreign surveillance, but the breach is asking questions about whether americans could be targeted. >> when you see something connected, a home, a light switch, and remember, that means

hacker connected. >> that was peter alexander reporting. at least six people are dead and a million acres have been scorched across texas, oklahoma and kansas, and 22 counties in oklahoma are under a state of emergency there, and the largest evacuations was in reno county, kansas, where 10,000 people evacuated their homes and one person was killed in both of those states and there are four more victims in texas, including boyfriend and girlfriend, two young ranch hands trying to move cattle when they were overcome by smoke and flames. and the situation is still dangerous but officials say fire activity is slowing down and they expect today's weaker winds will make it easier to fight the fires. one day after introducing their republican obamacare fix,

they are all bashing the house plan as nothing more than obamacare lite and rhino care. >> we are divided on replacem t replacement. we are united on appeal and divided on replacement. >> it's a missed opportunity. >> do we need to lower the bar in what we believe is conservatives simply because a republican is in the white house? >> there are things that have to be done that have to be included but we have a starting point, and i think amidst the harsh disagreement we can find a pony around here somewhere. >> according to cnn, trump did warn of a 2018 election bloodbath if republicans could not get a bill passed after seven years of promises, and the president singled out rand paul in the late-night tweet after

paul voiced his opposition to the plan. it has been four days since president trump accused obama of wiretapping his trump tower headquarters. >> i have not seen that evidence. >> i think the president of the united states, who stated categorically that trump tower was wiretapped, that he should come forward with the information that led him to that conclusion. >> with little to no public remarks from president trump himself, it has been left up to his aides. >> has the white house come up with any evidence -- >> i addressedthis yesterday.

>> do you believe believe mr. president. >> it's not a question of new proof or less proof or whatever. >> has the evidence been shared with you or other senior members of the president's staff as to why he made this particular accusation? >> as far as me, no. >> if the i guess what i am trying to get to, if he is sitting on the information, and he is recommending the intelligence communities look into this, and you talked about they have resources and staff, and they do, and why expend that if the president has it? >> i think there's a directing the ongoing investigation and asking congress as a separate bo body to look into something. >> meanwhile on capitol hill, currently up for the number two job at the department of justice would ultimately lead any

investigation in the ties between russia and the 2016 campaign. >> no president can go say go wiretap that american citizen, right? >> my answer to that, senator, is i would hope and agree with you that that would not happen. >> he would not commit to a special prosecutor on the issue. and today we have word the first public intel hearing on russia's interference in the election will be held in two weeks, and sally yates and fbi director will be testifying. to breaking news overnight in afghan capital of kabul where men dressed as doctors stormed a hospital. correct to say the siege for the better part is over now? >> well, the latest report is

it's over, and nbc news is seeking to confirm information, the attack on one of kabul's main military hospitals left at least four dead and 66 people injured, and those numbers, unfortunately, are likely to rise. and the hospital is one of the afghan capital's main medical facilities and 200 meters away from the embassy, quite literally across the street. hospitals in kabul are typically surrounded by high levels of security and this is one of the most secure, and reports say the g gunman entered the hospital doors through the streets, and they were disguised as medical personnel, and they attacked staff and observers in afghanistan warn the taliban and other groups like isis are likely to increase their attacks

in 2017. >> thank you. biloxi, mississippi, is reeling after there was a scary collision, and a freight train slam into this charter bus, and 48 people were on the bus. first responders had to pull victims through windows and use the jaws of life to remove two victims from the bus. most of the passengers were members of a senior center in texas, and the bus was traveling from usaa casino. they recommended bus not cross tracks there, and a team is going to investigate. a rhinoceros killed by

poachers in a zoo, and they shot and killed the rhino. investigators estimate the horn is up to $42,000 on the black market. rhinos are under constant threat from poachers in the wild. and we will turn to bill karins for the weather. >> we are still dealing with a storm up in canada, and we still have the flow of moisture coming in here to the west, too, and winter storm warnings and advisers in montana and idaho, and snow in the higher elevations in the cascades. this flow of moisture will continue for a while. and snow heaviest in the northern rockies, and we continue with our active weather pattern into the west right through the end of ts weekhi. o

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today is international women's day, and women around the world are expected to participate in a day without a woman. planners are urging women to stay home from work and avoid spending money, and women should wear red to highlight the economic power and significance of women. oil could be flowing through

the dakota pipeline as soon as next week after a judge denied a request to halt construction. native-american tribes from around the country are gathering in washington for four days of protests. and it is day three of alaska's famous iditarod dog race. the thousand-mile race kicked off on monday. investors among others are taking note of international women's day. a statue of a young girl was placed face-to-face with wall street's famous bull. the grade school aged girl is staring down the charging bull to point out a lack of diversity on corporate boards and wage gaps that women face. kate rogers has more news on that front. good morning. >> a new report shows women hold 25% of senior management roles around the world, and that's up just 1% from last year. in the u.s. women hold 23% of senior positions and one-third

of companies have no women in top rolls. airbus has a solution for being stuck in traffic, and it unveiled a prototype if the roads become too congested. airbus says it will not be a working system for at least a decade. bentley takes the wraps off its first ever electric car. the concept is a two-seat convertible and has leather throughout the cabin and the front grill is made of silver. bentley is not saying how much the car costs or if it may ever be available. >> you have to ask how much it costs, then you can't afford it. thank you. >> thank you. still ahead, alec baldwin has a special thank you for president donald trump. that's next. morocco and notes of jasmine

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alec baldwin has advice for donald trump, leave the tweeting to your staff. he speaks from experience. he quit twitter for a time after being trolled by online criticism. baldwin is crediting his trump impression on "snl" for reviving his comedy career, and he says he is concerned about viewers that worry about the, quote, maliciousness, of this white house. >> i hope he doesn't go away. >> and this is probably the world's cutest battle. two pandas race to the stop of a wooden play set. it's game on. >> a little challenge there. >> eventually, you know, gravity takes its toll, and the little guy goes down. >> yeah, he's like, see you later. >> we'll see you after the break when "early today" comes back.

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let's talk about the timing of the rain. we will continue during the day, and watch the shifting through coastal areas of oregon, and then we head back up into a more washington state from portland. we'll get rounds of rain and mountain snow, especially at the highest elevations. and the great weather, you have to draw a line from san francisco to vegas southward and that's where it's looking like there's some of the best weather in the country. jewish groups were hit with another round of bomb threats. across ten states bringing the total number up to 135 since january. many have been repeatedly targeted. 100 senators cosigned a letter calling for swift action against the increasing anti-semitic

incidents calling them unacceptable and un-american. sean spicer said the trump administration continues to condemn the threats and is looking for ways to stop them. there's a new development in the murder of a north korean's half brother, kim jong-nam. there's a video posted on line and it's claiming to be his son. it has been confirmed that it is kim jong nam's son in the video. it was posted bay organization devoted to help north koreans flee. it has protected him at the family's request. officers responded to a call about a cow that was attempting to climb from the trunk of a small car parked along interstate 10. so this is what officers found inside. there was one inside and one right there. whaeufplt a

>> what are they doing? >> look what they found. there's two cows. one in the trunk and one wedged in the back seat. the driver was nowhere to be found. what a strange mystery, two cows. >> long they're right up. the president himself crashed one of the tours of the white house to mark the occasion and even calling that young boy so he could pose with him. but it didn't entirely go as planned. after many noticed one particular person right over trump's shoulder. none other than his former rival, hillary clinton, whose portrait still hands there, you can imagine social media lost it. others referring to it as a clinton photo bomb. and it made the wall street journal front page. and somebody may say, maybe it appears that the election of hillary clinton may always be looming over trump. >> he didn't remove the picture. >> maybe we will see an executive order on that one. >> i'm frances rivera, have a

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