breaking overnight, the white house warns syria over evidence they're planning another chemical attack. health care for 22 million people hanging in the balance. republicans against their own new bill but trump has a plan to push it forward. wildfires and extreme temperatures and overflowing rivers from extreme snow melt. police are on the lookout for brazen robbers caught in the midst of a vicious attack. the nba crowns the best of the best. "early today" starts right now. >> good tuesday morning. i'm frances rivera. breaking overnight, the white house delivering a stern warning

to herian -- syrian president bashar al assad, saying the they would pay a heavy price and matt bradley is following the details from london. what more do we know? >> thanks, frances. middle eastern observers are calling this an unprecedented step in u.s. foreign policy, so rare to fire a shot across the bow like it did last night. the president's statement was pretty vague. the white house said they're seeing movements on the ground that they say are similar to those that led up to the chemical attack in western syria back in april. that attack killed 100 people and injured hundreds more. in response, 60 cruise missiles

at the syrian government air base that he said had been the staging ground for attacks. that was the first time the u.s. forces attacked the syrian regime. remember, the u.s. says it's fighting in syria only against isis. just in the past week, things in syria have become so much more complicated. the u.s. shat doot down a syria fighter jet and if bashar al assad uses chemical weapon again and the president follows through in his threat to punish the government, it could make a volatile government even more fiendishly complicated. >> thank you. >> breaking news for silicon valley this morning and regulators hit google with a

fine. more fines could be on the way if google doesn't changes the way it ranks searches within the next 90 days. google previously said it has not done anything wrong. it can appeal to the european court of justice. >> today members will vote on a motion to move a vote forward to appeal blake, on track to have a vote by the end of the week. the nonpartisan congressional budget office said millions would be uninsured. kasie hunt has more.

>> if you're on the fence and not so sure this report helps you much. >> obviously it's not good news and so it will are to be a factor. >> democratic senator brian schatz tweeting it's confirmed this thing is a [ bleep ] sandwich. and mitch mcconnell has more room to negotiate even though he faces protests in the ranks. >> i would like to delay the thing. there's no way we should be voting on this next week. >> senator johnson is one of five republicans who say they'll vote no without changes. only three no votes would sink the bill. >> are you a yes on the health care bill vote or a no? have you decided? >> no, i read it this weekend. i'm still focusing on it.

>> the president on the phone with conservatives and moderates, a delicate balancing act. >> you move it this way and this group doesn't like it. you move it a little bit over here -- you have a very narrow path. >> where does the health care battle go from here, edward? >> frances, the very first challenge will come up today. the mission motion to succeed is expected to come up. if nothing changes in the language, republicans say there are four senators who will vote no on that proceeding forward. those senators are senators susan collins, senator rand paul and senator dean heller. they won't allow it to even come up to debate. republicans need two of those senators to change their mind. republican vice president mike pence will be here on capitol hill today. first he'll start with lunch and then one own one with the senators who are very nervous with the bill and finishing his

day with dinner with senator ben sass, might cotton, james lee and the goal is to finally get a final passage of it on friday. >> edward lawrence, thank you. check out nbcnews.com for a fascinating piece of what will happen if the senate plan becomes law. >> and a nearly $3 million settlement has been reached between philando castile and the city has be

-- the castile family and the city. >> and this video may be disturbing. you see one man is knocked down on the ground and remains motionless. police say the victims' wallets and cell phones were stolen, both men were taken to the hospital, one in critical condition. one suspect is 21-year-old dejuan paul. they're asking anyone with information on the other suspects to call police. >> and wildfires are waging and a deadly heat wave is blanketing millions and rivers are overflowing from snow melt. mig uel almaguer is in the fire zone. >> reporter: this is what firefighters call a recipe for disaster, fast-moving flames flamed by hot winds, torching dry terrain. residents rushing to evacuate on

sunday, an inferno within feet in this area. in utah more than a dozen homes have been lost. >> you feel so bad for the ones that have lost already. i just can't believe it. >> fueling fire, record breaking heat and now the scorching temperatures are triggering another problem. rivers raging from snow melt. near sacramento, this daring rescue, a swimmer stranded, no time to spare. across the west, a triple threat, ferocious flames, killer heat and dangerous currents. >> thanks to miguel almaguer. i want to bring in meteorologist bill karins. talk about this triple whammy, bill. is it going to let up at all? >> the biggest surprise in all these wildfires, it's early in

the season. we had a really wet winter, all the snow that was up in the mountains. usually a lot of the vegetation is green, usually in the fall we get the rapidly moving fires. we have all these blazes because things were so hot and did dry out pretty quickly. 21 large fires out there, red flag warnings for a central portion of the rockies. temperatures are heading down into 80s and pacific northwest has many areas today in the 80s or 70s. >> and last night the first of its kind, the nba's inaugural award show in new york. the oklahoma city thunders' russell west brook was named the

league mvb, beco mvp. he had 42 triple doubles this season. a fun first night for the nba awards. >> kind of cool they have those awards. something to look forward to in the postseason. >> just ahead, the bizarre body language between president trump and the indian prime minister. and why did his son-in-law just hire one of the most powerful attorneys? who is done with treatments that don't give you clearer skin. be the you who controls your psoriasis with stelara® just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. some serious infections require hospitalization. before treatment, get tested for tuberculosis. before starting stelara® tell your doctor if you think you have an infection or have symptoms such as: fever, sweats, chills, muscle aches or cough. always tell your doctor if you have any signs of infection, have had cancer, if you develop any new skin growths

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francisco... and the cloud cover sitting over the skyline--- keeping a live look right now downtown san francisco on your tuesday morning, and would you look at that. that cloud cover is back and better than ever sitting over the city skyline keeping things comfortable to start off your day here. the heat wave, a distant memory this week. many people pretty happy about that. good morning and thank you for joining us. i'm sam brock. >> and i'm kris sanchez in for laura garcia-cannon. last night we were watching a movie, and my little one said, i need a blanket. we don't have an ac so that's a good thing. >> we're also going to see those temperatures starting to go up as we head to the weekend which won't be too bad. we're not talking about high