the newly minted millionaire. someone in massachusetts is waking up the winner of the $758 million powerball. harvey is now a tropical storm posing danger to the gulf coast. the tale of two trumps. divisive on tuesday, united last night. now escalating the fight with senate republicans. >> no, no, no, no. >> disturbing video of a high school cheerleader who appears forced into doing the splits by coaches and teammates. when erin was -- everyone was looking skyward. the obamas brought their daughter to college. "early today" starts right now. good to be with you. i'm frances rivera.

this morning, the texas coast is bracing for impact as tropical storm harvey threatens to become a category 1 hurricane by week's end. bringing heavy rain and flooding with it. much of the area is under a hurricane watch. volunteers near houston have begun filling sandbags for residents and bottled water is flying off the shelves as officials urge residents to prepare for the storm. >> make sure that you have what you need, lanterns, flashlights, extra batteries, all of that. especially food and water. >> and gas prices are on the rise as oil refineries brace for disruptions in production. this comes on the 25th anniversary of hurricane andrew, a devastating category 5 storm that slammed into florida. killing 65 people. bill karins is here with more on harvey and where it's strengthening now. >> good morning. the storm is more symmetrical

and over the top of the warm water now. all the check marks are going off for the possibility of rapid intensification. there's a new airplane heading into it. the last update was 45 miles per hour. and i'm sure it's going to get it to 60 miles per hour. the hurricane center thinks it will get hurricane strength in th 24 hours or so. after that the issue will be a stalled system and an epic amount of rainfall from the south portions of texas possibly into even louisiana. we'll deal with the storm surge and winds in about 36 hours from now and a rainfall problem until next week. a lot of models are pinpointing corp. mi corpus christi. hurricane warnings have been issued to about south texas. the situation had been serious and now it's even more. >> all right, bill, thank you. now breaking millionaire news. we have a single winner of the record setting $758 million powerball jackpot.

blake mccoy is here this morning. blake, what do we know about the winning ticket? >> even my lucky green tie couldn't help us out. if you are waking up out west, you didn't win either. the winning ticket was sold right here, this tiny little store called the handy variety in watertown, massachusetts. this is just outside boston. since there was only one winning ticket, whoever won will get the largest single payout in u.s. lotto history. $758.7 million, the cash option in this case, $480 million. there was one larger jackpot in 2016, split by three winning ticketholders. so what does that cash do to your life? we caught up with lotto winners gilbert and jackie in southern california that won $266 million playing mega millions in 2010. at the time, that was also a record.

>> we didn't buy a new car. we didn't travel anywhere. we didn't do a lot of that stuff. we actually -- that was one of the first things we did is set up our family foundation. >> it put us on a different trajectory than our life would have been. >> so they set up a foundation, helping hispanic kids have better access to college, which is a cool way to spend the money. well deserving people to win the lot tow. >> they're going to get the lawyers and the financial advisors. >> family and friends they never knew about come out of the woodwork. >> yeah. most states you have to come forward with your name. i believe massachusetts is one, unfortunately. >> blake, thank you. after casting himself as the victim of bad news coverage, blasting everyone from the media to fellow republicans, the president appeared in nevada wednesday where we called for unity. the head snapping change of

tones comes as james clapper offers a troubling assessment of the commander in chief. nbc national correspondent peter alexander has more. >> reporter: more white house whiplash in reno, a declaration of unity. >> it is time to heal the wounds that divide us. >> reporter: a presidential 180 from arizona. >> repeal and replace! >> reporter: repeatedly taking aim at the media. >> the very dishonest media. and they're bad people. they don't like our country. i really believe that. >> reporter: president trump abandoning the discipline displayed just 24 hours earlier, his scripted afghanistan speech. instead, accusing the press of misrepresenting his response to charlottesville. >> they don't want to report that i spoke out forcefully against hatred, bigotry, and violence. and strongly condemned the neo-nazis, the white supremacists, and the kkk. >> reporter: but mr. trump omitted his own most controversial words.

>> hatred, bigotry on many sides. you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. >> reporter: former director of national intelligence james clapper, who briefed the president during his transition, now questioning his fitness for office. >> i worry about frankly, you know, access to the nuclear codes. >> reporter: on stage playing to the crowd, like an aging rocker delivering riff after riff, threatening a government shutdown over his border wall. >> believe me, we have to close down our government, we're building that wall. >> reporter: outside, a wall of resistance. thousands of protesters. inside, the president even antagonizing members of his own party, like senator jeff flake. >> who is weak on borders and crime. >> reporter: house speaker paul ryan calling for the party to come together. >> it's important we stay unified to complete our agenda. >> reporter: this morning the white house is dismissing reports of a dissin grating

relationship between president trump and mitch mcconnell insisting they remain united on many shared priorities and will meet again as planned when congress gets back from the august recess. >> thank you. hundreds rallied outside nfl headquarters in support of colin kaepernick who remains unsigned for the 2017 season. his supporters say he's being blacklisted for his advocacy. colin kaepernick knelt dug the anthem last year to bring attention to the police brutality. new york congressman gregory meeks compared him to another civil rights champion. >> we've got to make sure that the modern day muhammad ali, colin kaepernick, we surround and support him and tell the national football league that we

will not lay down. >> the naacp says they have requested a meeting with the league, as well. a milwaukee high school student attacks a teacher in the middle of class punching him repeatedly in the face as he drops to the floor. the teen was arrested and police say he could face possible charges of battery. this braising theft in new orleans where a pickup truck crashes through a convenience store window. several men then rush in and try to rip out the atm, to no avail, the truck backs in dislodging the at m and the suspects take off. it's the second time the store has been hit. authorities arrested two suspects after they confessed. they're searching for the others. we turn back to bill karins who is here on tropical storm harvey. >> yeah. we knew we were going to deal with a horrific rainfall situation, now it's intensifying, now we're also dealing with storm surge issues. the storm surge warning has been issued. 5 to 7 feet of storm surge will occur with the landfall throughout saturday morning.

especially. then the rainfall forecast and this is the ridiculous part. one of the worst i've seen probably going back. it's like a floyd type forecast. 10 to 15 inches of rain in the next seven days from san antonio to houston central louisiana. this is a area prone to flooding. over a foot for the huge section. side pretty much everywhere. a slight chance of storm around flagstaff. >> that's going to be the trend. not a lot of changes in the forecast today. the west will remain very warm. >> all right. thank you, bill. all right. there was something very cool that almost happened in the major leagues last night. los angeles dodgers pitcher

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welcome back to "early today." a dangerous situation taking place in the next three to four days in south texas. harvey didn't look impressive 24 hours ago. now it looks like a classic storm in the middle of the gulf. it has time to intensify. very concerned what it's going to do by the time it gets to south texas. computer models are taking it in that general direction. we'll watch that story. there will be a lot of evacuations. i'm sure fema will need to head to the area. pretty nice day in los angeles. >> bill, thank you. as president trump continues to take aim at hillary clinton after the election, she's having her say about the man who she says made her skin crawl during awkward debate moments. >> she's acknowledging her own mistakes in the devastating

defeat. here is nbc's andrea mitchell. new reporting reveals hillary clinton's lead over donald trump was a lot less certain than previously thought. especially the last two weeks. as we hear the first excerpts from her upcoming book about the tense standoff at the second debate. >> donald trump was looming behind me. it was incredibly uncomfortable. he was literally breathing down my neck. my skin crawled. >> their face-off two days after the "access hollywood video." the trump campaign trying to intimidate her. steve bannon inviting women accusers from bill clinton's past to sit in the front row as trump circled her on stage. now for the first time, publicly, she's wondering should she have stood up to him. >> do you turn, look him in the eye and say loudly and clearly. back up, you creep. get away from me? it certainly would have been better tv. maybe i have overlearned the lesson of staying calm, biting my tongue, digging my finger

nails into a clenched fist. >> i could tell, yes. i could. >> reporter: clinton kept her cool not wanting to appear weak a. >> she can share thoughts she had. things she might have done differently. >> a moment captured on "snl." has nbc news reports it was among the high points for clinton in the final month. 19 days later, fbi director james comey reopened the e-mail investigation. in the final stretch, a more disciplined trump going on offense. when clinton fell behind in her book "a more reflective clinton." writing i couldn't get the job done. i'll have to live with that for the rest of my life. >> thank you. fascinating to get inside her mind and see what the thoughts were. >> yeah. i'm sure a lot of regrets and details that everybody is fascinated to hear after that historic time. thank you for watching. >> have a great thursday! see you back here tomorrow to

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good thursday morning to you, taking a live look right now outside on san jose. as you can see, a beautiful, dark pork to start out the day as we've again, our thursday, almost hitting friday. thanks for joining us and waking up with us i'm marcus washington. >> and i'm laura garcia-cannon. nice day ahead. >> nice day starts out with some more fog, something we haven't seen that much of for most of the weekend. we're going to see some denser fog at the coastline and slightly cooler temperatures for the inland areas. we're going to see those highs in san francisco, up to 65 degrees, 83 in napa, santa rosa, antioch 89 degrees and san jose up to 81. we'll talk more about these numbers and the