i hit them with everything. i got the white supremacists, the neo-nazi i got them all in there. let's see. kkk, we have kkk. i got them all. >> donald trump barn storms arizona relitigating his response to the charlottesville violence while chaos rerupts between protesters and police just feet away from where he was speaking. >> a navy commander gets relieved of his duties as the recovery of lost sailors continues. >> plus why the wife of the treasury secretary is being referred to as a modern day marianne twa net. >> and highest paid actors,

revealed but just how women compare. early today starts right now. >> i'm phillip mena. >> i'm francis rivera. overnight a free wheeling donald trump before a party faithful in a packed convention center? phoenix. speaking for over an hour he brought back some of his favorite lines going after the media, critics and naysayers and critics while threatening to build a border wall. all while protesters line the streets nearby ghegt skirmishes, shouting matches only to be rebuffed with pepper spray. the streets did ultimately calm and all four arrests were made. but inside the packed arena the present went on resembling the candidate who barn stormed his way to the white house and ugds the opportunity to relitigate his own response to the charlottesville violence seen earlier this month. >> what happened in charlottesville strikes at the

core of america. and tonight this entire arena stands united in forceful condemnation of the thugs who perpetrate hatred and violence. they asked me what about race relations in the united states. now, i have to say they were pretty bad under barack obama that i can tell you. the media can attack me, but when i draw the line is when they attack you which is what they do when they attack the decency of our supporters. >> and while the president spent a considerable amount of time on charlottesville, he also waded into another controversy hinting at pardoning arizona sheriff joe opyo just months before his sciencing after a judge ruled the former law enforcement agency was guilty of obtain a court order to stop detaining undocumented immigrants. >> was sheriff joe convicted for doing his job?

that's what -- [ cheers ]. >> he should have had a jury. but you know what? i'll make a prediction, i think he's going to be just fine, okay. >> for more on the president's speech, we go to nbc cristening we ker in phoenix. >> good morning, overnight in phoenix, arizona, president trump delivering a stem winder of a speech here that lasted for more than an hour. he revived his attacks against his favorite target, the media, accusing the media of failing to fully represent his remarks about charlottesville. the president relitigating that battle effectively saying that his first response, his second response, his third response to the violence in charlottesville was acc raurate, was on point, did he leave out key comments that he made initially. for example, he didn't reiterate that he had said there was plenty of blame go around. of course that was the root of so much criticism from democrats, republicans, and

members of the business community. but this was a wide-ranging speech. the president also hinting that he may pardon controversial sheriff joe ar pyo who's of course an immigration hardliner. a lot of people outside protesting that very fact not wanting him to be pardoned. the president also touched on a range of other issues. some of his favorite campaign lines, build that wall, lock her up, and he took aim at the two republican senators here in the state, although not mentioning them by name. senator john mccain who of course didn't vote for the health care bill and then senator jeff flake who wrote a book very critical of president trump. he said he wasn't going to mention them by name because his top aides had asked him not to. the president even signaling that he thinks nafta may at some point be dissolved. this was a crowd that was energized, it was the party faithful, they ate up every word. the president looking to regain

momentum after several difficult days. but he abandon his carefully crafted speech for monday night. this was president trump unplugged and the crowd loved it. back to you. >> all right. thank you. a major change at the top for the u.s. navy just days after an oil tanker slammed into the "uss john s. mccain" near singapore. some remains of the ten sailors who were missing after the crash have been recovered. though the navy did not say how many bodies were found. janice is in singapore with what's happening and also this leadership change. >> reporter: good morning, francis. this change of command is among the first steps of the navy's operational delay that is happening worldwide. the commander of the seventh fleet was due to retire within a few weeks. his replacement was tapped in may. but he's going to be replaced immediately because of what a statement from a pacifica man called loss of confidence.

the navy doing investigations and some soul searching these days, in particular, to find what has been going so terribly wrong. two major deadly mishaps in as many months, two other incidents so far this year in this latest crash involving the "uss john s. mccain" they're looking at all possibilities. was tw exhaustion, heavy traffic in this shipping lape? they're even looking at the possibility of a cyberattack though thai they say there's been no evidence of that found so far. in the meantime, the search area has been expanded. they're also adding for divers to the search to try to recover the remains of those sailors that are still missing. francis. >> all right, janice, thank you very much for the update. new medical research could potentially save the hundreds of thousands of americans who die each year from a condition called sudden cardiac arrest. it's different from a heart attack and is so dangerous nearly everyone who suffers from it dies.

nbc news medical correspondent dr. john torres has the details. >> just 43 years old lin howard never imagined her heart would suddenly stop beat sblg i had no health problems before this pitd was completely healthy. >> but the mother of three suffered a sudden cardiac arrest, a condition so deadly more than 90% don't survive. >> the goal is to nip sudden cardiac arrest in the butt because by the time it happens it's too late. >> it's not a heart attack which is caused by a blockage. sudden cardiac arrest is caused by a short circuit in the heart and there hasn't been a good test to determine who's vulnerable. >> we don't have any real predictors of risk. >> after this doctor stu studied a million people he found a possible solution using an ekg, an inexpensive test that's been around for a hundred years. >> we're look at six data points on this ekg ranging from the heartbeat to electrical activity

recorded from the heart. >> dr. chu discovered that data is the key to predicting who's at risk. the goal now to get that risk score included on every ekg and implant high-risk patients with ady fib bra later that shocks the heart back to normal. >> can it be lifesaving. >> absolutely. >> lin howard nows that ady fib bra lator and hopes more people can benefit from her risk. >> anything to keep this from happening to at least one person would be great. authorities in kansas city say one man is dead after a record rainfall pummeled the region contributory negligence ergz widespread flooding. nine inches of rain fell in missouri and kansas, police responded to 300 calls of people stranded in their cars or rooftops. rushing waters also swept through in oesherland, kas. one homeowner said he's dealt

with flooding before but this is different. >> this is the worgs the we've ever seen it. meanwhile nbc meteorologist bill care rens is tracking a tropical storm here. >> it was harvey and then it fell apart and now it's going to become harvey once again today. that's going to be the story. we have flash flooding in kansas city we'll picture that from texas to louisiana. about 100% chance this becomes a tropical entity or depression or tropical storm later in the day today. and golf threat looks like friday evening that's when the heaviest rains will move on shore and the impacts could be emenic. we're talk seven inches of rain, maybe half a foot to a foot of l n all the way inouisiana.

exception. we're warm interior sections of washington state still into the 90s where it's been all summer long. and it doesn't look like anything's going to change in the west for a while, hot and dry. >> all right. thank you, bill. we have a blockbuster deal in the nba to tell you about. two all-stars are on the move. cleveland cavaliers are trading kyrie irving to the celtics in exchange for thomas. he reportedly asked to be trade from the cavs just a few weeks ago. cleveland will get jae crowder a first round draft pick and an taye decidesic. the two teams will face each other on october 15th it's the first game the year they won't have to wait long. >> an interesting story involving a treasury saektz wife and a car owner batles back during a dual.

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we're here with more on the story and that gets nasty out there. >> be careful what you post especially when your muss is a top official in the u.s. government. here's a ghost a glamour shot of mrs. linton getting off an airplane. she's dressed to the nines and tags the individual designers she's wearing. we tallied up the outfit costing $14,000, a berke kin bag, tom fiend know ford she was accompanying her husband on a government trip to kentucky. so a random woman from oregon commented glad we could pay for your little gettaaway, deplorable. she shouldn't have replied, right. don't reply. well, she did and it was a dooz decide. she goes r oh, did you think was a personal sflip adorable. i'm pretty sure we paidmore taxes toward our day trip than you did. pretty surety amount we sacrifice per year than you'd be willing to sacrifice if the choice was yours.

you're adorably out of touch. she then said called the women's kids cute while telling them to go watch a new episode of game of thrones. jenny miller is that woman and she lives in oregon. >> when i saw that picture i just thought about how much money this one person must be wearing and how much good that amount of money could do elsewhere and wondered what her real motivation for doing that was and why i and other taxpayers were paying for her to travel in such a luxurious style to wherever it was she was going. for her to call me out of touch and be so demeaning to me and call my life cute and little and whatever else she said, was just the height of what poccracy. >> louise linton has made her account private now. they are reimbursing the

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maybe in colorado we get a few chances of storms the next couple days but all the other areas of the west are going to stay dry as all the action will be down along the coast. >> thank you, bill. fast forwarding into your wednesday, president trump heads to reno to speak at the 99th annual american legion national convention jts and tonight's power ball jackpot has climbed to a whopping $700 million. that's the second highest in u.s. history. one-time cash pay outwould be over fou hundred $43 million before taxes. and the air guitar world championship kick off today in finland. if you want to see if francis, bill and i show off our own guitar skills you can follow us on instagram nbc underscore today. >> how about an adefrpt because dwe try. are the boy scouts deliberately undermining the girl scouts in the female group's president sent a letter to the boy scouts president of getting them to recruit girls to appeal to millennial parents.

this is a bad idea because girls learn best in an all-girls swliernt this comes to scout pagt bow scouts spokesmenman said that he was exploring admitting female members but said no decisions are going to be made and what's going to happen to the name if they do if it's going to stay boy scouts with girl members. >> it's going to get complicated. a 5-year-old kevin will junior never got the chance to meet his father who's a police officer who was killed in the line of duty before he was born. but his dad's colleagues from the houston police department never forgot and wanted to share this milestone day with him. his very first day of kindergarten. officers walked with kevin and his family for nearly a mile and of course kevin's mom was overwhelmed. >> i wanted to have a few officers walk kevin to school and then i it went viral. >> i'm sure there will be a round two, milestones beyond first day of kindergarten. >> that's so nice of them to do that. >> we thank you for being with us phona wednesday.

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♪ a very good now wednesday morning to you. taking a live look outside overlooking downtown san jose. a nice start halfway through your-week-old. not a bad way to start. good morning. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> and i'm marcus washington. good morning to you all as we start this day bright and early -- or dark and early. >> the sun will emerge. >> it will. it's going to be a much more sunny day though we do start out with clouds and fog along the coast and in san francisco. we will have some warmer temperatures. the south bay up to 90 in gilroy. we're