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. breaking overnight, the gop senate's trumpcare gets a fatal blow. what senate raspberry plan on doing next. >> outrage. new details in the shockg shooting death of an engaged woman in minneapolis as her family demand answers. >> and rest secures in an all-out hunt for a father missing in that devastating surge. >> and slow and steady wins the race. "early today" starts right now.
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good to be with you, i'm frances rivera. we begin out of washington where senate majority leader mitch mcconnell's healthcare plan suffered a fatal blow. two current republicans came out against the proposal just after the president sat down with gop lawmakers at the white house. a vote on the plan was delayed after senator john mccain needed surgery for a blood clot. that delay seemed to only embolden opponents of the bill as jerry moran and utah senator, mike lee rejected the bill and put mitch mcconnell below the 50 votes needed to get it through his chamber. here's what the president said two months ago after the house passed its bill. >> we will get this passed through the senate. i feel so confident. this is a great plan and i feel it will get even better. make no mistake, this is a repeal and replace of obamacare, make no mistake about it.
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>> reaction from him came swift overnight, republicans should repeal failing obamacare now and work on a new healthcare plan that will start from a clean slate. dems will join in. the focus falls on mcconnell as both critics and supporters look to see how he will move forward on republicans' key campaign promise. chris pollone. good morning to you. what happens next? >> reporter: yeah, frances, it looks like republicans are unified in that aspect taking the lead from the president and his tweet and majority leader mitch mcconnell appears to just do that instead of repeal and replace, just repeal obamacare. he reads it is now apparent the effort to repeal and immediately replace and repeal of obamacare
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will not be successful and we will take up in the house bill a repeal of obamacare with a two year delay. so that's what's scheduled to happen in the next few days. mcconnell said he will try to they can they say up to 32 million american could lose their health insurance if a repeal was passed and it would add about $137 billion to the defic deficit. >> thank you. new details on the fatal shooting of an australian bride to be outside her home in minneapolis, no word why an unarmed woman was apparently shot through the door by a patrol officer and now the medical examiner has ruled her death a homicide.
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blake mccoy has more on the shotting. >> reporter: justine damon, 40 years old and engaged to be married next month dead after calling minneapolis police for help. speaking for the first time her fiance fought through tears. >> the death of justine is a lost to all who knew her she touched so many people. >> reporter: her soon to be stepson has taken to social media. >> my mom is dead because a police officer shot her for reasons i don't know. i demand answers. >> reporter: she called 911 saturday night to report an assault behind her home. two officers responded to that the officer's body camera was not turned on. >> reporter: when you hear the camera wasn't turned on at the time, what do you think? >> i have the same question. >> reporter: all patrol officers
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are equipped with body cams, unlike areas where it is automatic these needed to be turned on automatically. the news is making headlines where she was from in australia. >> she was treasured and loved and we will really miss her dreadfully. >> reporter: friends describe her as a spiritual healer seen sprngs she shared with her fiancee, one question still unanswered. how could this happen? >> the be skprngs local authorities emphasize this is
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still a rescue mission. >> we'll still hold out hope, e we. >> this morning rescue workers will continue along a two and a half mile stretch of the verdicte riverwere sfnchs nbc's gabe gutierrez has more.
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indiana police are pleading for help to identify the suspect >> this horrible crime has torn a hole in our families. >> reporter: police hope this new composite sketch will help lead them to a killer and solve a disturbing double murder mystery that has gripped delphi, indiana. >> the reward now topping $230,000 as the mystery of what happened to two young girls deepens. gabe gutierrez, nbc news. >> a woman was dragged by a
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metro train in role. her bag got caught in the doors and online lookers yell for the driver to to stop while the passengers pulled the emergency stop but they didn't work. the woman suffered several broken bones and is in intensive care. >> heavy rainfall in maryland on monday. some areas received three inches of rain flooding roadways.
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bill karins fills us in on the forecast. >> we have 13 million people under excessive heat either watches, warnings or advisories. i think solution will see the worst of it. it will be about 102 heat index in st. louis. temperature jumps to 100 by the time we get to wednesday. by the time we get to friday, could go up to 102. when we add on the humidity, arriving. >> this is a little funny, i guess. the houston astros laid to rest
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one of their own. they held a mock funeral for beltran's glove. the team dressed all in black. he may have lost his glove but the bat is still alive. if it works, keep going. >> as long as that bat doesn't go anywhere, i think the team and fans will be okay with it. >> just ahead, the cities for best and worst for first-time buyers and the president pouncing on made in america week. introducing the easiest way to get gillette blades text "blades" to gillette on demand text to reorder blades with gillette on demand... ...and get $3 off your first order
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here in the united states. despite the president's push to promote manufacturing here at hope, it not exactly going according to plan. critics point out his products are made everywhere but here. >> reporter: president trump is focusing on what got him there, jobs and manufacturing, showcasing products made in all 50 states. >> made in the usa. we're going to put that brand on our product. >>. >> reporter: but on made in america week, critics counter the president never put his money where his mouth is wonderi wondering. >> reporter: the wours argues president trump is trying to roll back stifling regulations. >> when i hear made in america, i hear made in michigan, made in
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macomb county. >> and we analyzed four places in all, places where donald trump fueled the serge and now ra rate. >> reporter: but there's a twice to the story. the president's support is slipping from where he was in november. dave pelt ser cooling on his candidate. >> i'd probably give him a b and that might be going too far. >> too much chat on. >> some people are saying when are we going to see this change, when are we going to get what we
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>> and kate rogers joins us this morning. good morning to you. >> the stock market doesn't seem to be reacting to the collapse of the health care bill. futures are pointing to a higher open right now. however, the u.s. dollar is at a ten-month low falling against the pound and then. this could be seen as another major roadblock for president trump's maybe agenda. the streaming service atting more than 5 million new subscribers in the second quarter. netflix says the majority of its subscribers now are outside of the u.s. and shares of blue apron slumping on the news that amazon may begin its own.
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we have another edition of "drunk donald trump." >> we have a lot of different states. some states need this, some states need that, but we're getting it together and it's -- it's going to happen. right, mike? >> watch out. >> we can slow you down a little bit and see what it sounds like. >> who needs friend in low places, when garth books planned to pay for her honeymoon. when she said yes. chelsea, where do you want
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to go on your honeymoon? where? no idea? i tell you what. if you pick hawaii, we'll pay for it, okay? >> how's that? this couple needs to stay in touch with garth when they have their first baby. it's like, uncle garth, a baby. >> alec baldwin is taking on oo new iconic role. >> you want answers? i think i'm entitled. >> you want answers? >> i want the truth! >> you. >> so we're not going to hear it until it's live? >> we'll hear it in spring of 02018. pretty intense for live tv.
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the rain fail forecast on thursday does show some of that his and miss, slow moving, isolated flash flooding at worst. temperatures still very hot, salt lake city at a hundred today, interior sections of california still right near the century mark if not higher. frances? >> thank you.
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california lawmakers voting to extend the landmark climate law due to jerry brown extending it putting caps on carbon emissions. it will now be in place until the year 2030 as governor jerry brown looks to make california a leader in the fight against climate change. some republicans oppose the move saying it amounts to a gas tax. it did pass with bipartisan support. some student loan debts could be wiped out as a loan holder doesn't have critical paperwork and making the debt essentially uncollectible. it is $12 billion of student debt. owe workers at a ford dealership made a surprising discovery about $100 million worth of marijuana smuggled in a ford fusions assembled in mexico.
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they delivered it before assembling any of the evacuation. the slowest race, the snail racing championship in norfolk england. the tournament has been held since the 1960s. each begins with a call slow, steady, slow. about 113 competed in the 13 inch course. larry is this year's winner taking home a silver mug full of lettuce, the time it took, 2:47. got to have a whole lot of patience. >> i guess it could be entertaining. could you see your kids getting
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into that? >> maybe for the first 10 seconds. >> then they'd be flicking the snails across the table. very foggy out there.
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it is tuesday morning, a live look outside right now at the golden gate bridge. hard to make out at the moment. pretty foggy along the coastline right now. you will find it's chilly when you step outside the city by the bay. good morning and thank you for joining us on this tuesday. i'm sam brock. >> and i'm kris sanchez in for laura garcia-cannon. we want to get right to the forecast because it is changing, kari. >> it will be a good change, something we've been waiting on since the weekend. our temperatures will be copping down several is more degrees today and especially for the inland areas you'll notice the difference by this afternoon. we're going to see the highs reaching into the mid-80s for san jose and cupertino. still 91 in gilroy. it will be

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