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good morning, i'm phillip mena. >> i'm frances rivera. we begin with the country at the tej of its seat. the porn star versus the president. adult form actress and porn star stormy daniels speaking on national television. she speaks of her ongoing battle against the president of the united states, alleging she had an intimate relationship with donald trump back in 2006. >> so, i excused myself and i went to the rest room. you know, i was in there for a little and came out. he was sitting on the edge of the bed when i walked out, perched. >> and when you saw that, what went through your mind? >> i realized exactly what i had gotten myself into and i was like oh. here we go. >> and you had sex with him? >> yes. >> and the interview daniels continues to demand that she be released out of her $130,000 nondisclosure agreement

facilitated by trump's lawyer michael cohen a week and a half before the 2016 election. she was not only intimidated to remain silent on her affair with trump, she was outright threatened. >> i was in a parking lot going to a fitness class with my infant daughter, taking the seat facing backward in the back seat, diaper bag, getting all the stuff out. and a guy walked up on me and said to me, leave trump alone. forget the story. and then he leaned around and looked at my daughter and said, a beautiful little girl, it would be a shame if something happened to her mom. and he was gone. >> you took it as a direct threat? >> absolutely. i razz rattled. i remember going into the workout class. my hands were shaking so much i was afraid ways going to drop her. >> did you ever see the person zbhen >> no. if i did, i'd be able to know it right away. >> you'd be able to recognize the person? >> 100%, all these years later if he walked in this door right now i would instantly know. >> overnight a lawyer for

michael cohen fought back against the accusation his client had anything to do with such a threat, demanding a retraction, apology, and daniels cease and desist from making false and defamatory statements. the white house and mr. trump's laurp have denied the claims of an affair. with sarah huckabee sanders saying nearly two weeks ago saying, quote, we take the safety and security of any person seriously. certainly would condemn anyone threatening an individual. >> still, mr. trump has remained conspicuously silent on the alleged affair, even as he wakes up in the white house this morning, while the first lady remains at their palm beach resort for a planned stay. and while stormy daniels says the alleged threat she received left her rattled, she claims she didn't go to the police out of fear, instead agreeing to the proposed $130,000 settlement outright, saying it's clear proof it's part of a cover up. >> was it hush money to stay silent? >> yes. the story was coming out again. i was concerned for my family

and their safety. >> i think some people watching this are going to doubt that you entered into this negotiation because you feared for your safety. they're going to think that you saw an opportunity -- >> i think the fact that i didn't even negotiate, i just quickly said yes to this very, you know, strict contract and what most people will agree with me, extremely low number is all the proof i need. >> just last week daniels teased the world about her 60 minutes tell-all with this tweet reading, quote, technically i didn't sleep with the potus 12 years ago. there was no sleeping and it was just a goofy reality tv star. >> now she's laying bare the intimate details of their alleged affair. just list tone what daniels had to say about her, trump and an episode involving a magazine in which trump appeared on the cover. >> does this normally work for you? and he looked very taken back, like he didn't understand what i was saying. i was talking about yourself normally work. someone should take that

magazine and spank you with it. and i'll never forget the look on his face. he was like -- >> what was the look? >> just -- i don't think anyone has ever spoken to him like that, especially a young woman who looked like me. and i said, you know, give me that. i remember him going, you wouldn't. hand it over. and so he did and i was like, turn around. drop 'em. >> you told donald trump to turn around and take off his pants? >> yes. >> and did he? >> yes. so, he turned around and pulled his pants down a little. he had underwear on and stuff i gave him a couple swats. >> going a step further, daniels said this when it came to her alleged relationship with mr. trump. >> you were 27, he was 60. were you physically attracted to him? >> no. >> not at all? he >> no. >> did you want to have sex with him? >> no. but i didn't -- i didn't say no. i'm not a victim. i'm not -- >> it was entirely consensual? >> oh, yes, yes. >> you work in an industry where

condom use is an issue. did he use a condom? >> no. >> did you ask him to? >> no. i honestly didn't say anything. >> and while many have pointed out that daniels hasn't presented evidence substantiating her alleged affair with trump, her attorney made sure to tease there is more evidence to come, saying this is just the beginning. >> and stories of the president's alleged trift isn't the only headline rocking the oval office this morning as trump's legal team dwindles down to a team of one. quote, the president lost two lawyers in the past four days including one who had been on board for less than a week. nbc newsome has confirmed joseph digenova, a veteran washington lawyer and his wife victoria bowed out from trump's legal team due to a, quote, conflict of interest leaving the president with just one personal lawyer, jay sekulow. meanwhile it looks as if there trump may not be dup with his staff shake ups as they eye david shulkin as the next person out of the administration. a close friend of mr. trump,

newsmax ceo chris ruddy said this about the near future. >> he did say that he's expecting to make one or two major changes to his government very soon. and that's going to be it. >> on saturday reported 800,000 men, women and children took to the street of the nation's capital demanding gun control. with more than 1 million people participating in the march for our lives across the country, making it one of the largest protests since the vietnam era, as students led by those from parkland, florida, spoke out and called for change. >> i have a dream that enough is enough. >> arming teachers will not work. more security in our schools does not work. >> we cannot keep america great if we cannot keep america safe. >> we need to arm them with pencils, pens, paper, and the money they need. >> some republicans said they respected the demonstrators'

right to speak out, while remaining against any gun ban, but here was one reaction that made waves from former pennsylvania senator rick san or um. >> it's all about politics. is this really all about politics or is it all about keeping our schools safe? because if it is about keeping our schools safe, we have to have much broader discussion than the discussion that is going on right now. how about kids instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking cpr classes. >> with the president in florida, the white house issued a statement highlighting the d.o.j.'s rule banning bump stocks and recently signed pieces of legislation intend today keep children safe. still democratic leader chuck schumer said true gun reform legislation needs to be brought forward, calling out republicans in congress. >> the n.r.a. represents a small minority, but it has a strangle hold on leader mcconnell, on speaker ryan, and if they were simply let the bills come to the floor, they would pass.

>> now to california that avoided the much feared flooding and mudslides when a powerful storm swept the region last week, but it dumped record rainfall triggering dramatic rescues across the state. firefighters say this driver is lucky to be alive after his car got stranded on the road, washed over by flash floods. they helped the man jump from the roof to his car to a rescue boat bringing him to safety and shared the video on their facebook page warning, don't push your luck near flooded roadways. >> if you've ever imagined what mars might look like, take a look at this. a swath of eastern europe was coated in this orange snow over the weekend. it originated from sand storms from the sahara desert mixed with rain and snow creating that erie color there. the storm extended from greece all the way to russia. so big it was captured by nasa satellite imagery. skiers in resch captured images of orange slopes on mountains. this rare phenomena happens once every five years. >> definitely worth taking those

pictures and posting them. we're talking about storms. nothing of that kind. regular spring storms, bill? >> we're all right with that. >> of course. >> remember the problems with the east coast and the west coast. we're focus using on the middle of the country. we have flood watchers from tulsa to st. louis in the next two days we could see localized amounts from 2 to 4 inches of rain and maybe a little flooding out of this. we also could get severe weather over the next two days. isolated tornadoes, ablien all the way north wards, oklahoma city is at risk also large hail possible. this is what you expect as we head through march and into april. the only issue is going to be by the end of this week this is a slow moving storm system. these rainfall totals when you get to the red and pink, that's 2 to 4 inches of rain from missouri to louisiana and mississippi and alabama we could deal with

north of minneapolis we could get snow. it is the flood potential that will get the headlines from texas to the south. building implosion in downtown austin over the weekend after warnings they went out to the community. 40-year-old university of texas building collapsed straight down. this one went as planned. demolition crews explaining it's safer and quicker than going brick by brick in the other direction. for the people of austin, caution was much needed in the wake of this month's bombings. some buildings don't fall where they expect. >> we've had buses that stop in the front. >> super dome in detroit. thanks, bill. facebook gets aggressive trying to retain your social media trust after the cambridge analytica controversy. details next on "early today." hey allergy muddlers: are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool? try zyrtec®

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alexandra, this 5th grader is still taking in her new-found status as one of america's youngest anti-gun violence activists. >> i feel like the day today was really surreal. i mean, i personally haven't done anything like this and it feels like i'm really making a difference. >> reporter: naomi says she was inspired to do something after the school shooting in parkland, florida last month. so she helped stage a walk-out with her classmates at george mason elementary school. >> this is really proven to me the strength that i have as a person and what i could do beyond this. and while i was standing on the lawn, it was all pretty surreal to me. >> reporter: she says she was featured in a video that went viral, then she got the call to speak at the rally. >> i kind of just felt like this is the beginning. i'm going to keep going, so i can't really give a final put-together. i'm still kind of letting it sink in.

>> reporter: already she feels the impact her voice is having as young people turn a tragedy into a movement. >> thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> thanks, darcy for that report. >> so great. that's what this weekend was about, it seemed like it was the young people and the movement and really trying to make a change. >> from child to child to child it's going to catch on. >> that's right. let's get another check of the weather from nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> let's look at the weekend ahea -- week ahead. we're talking about winter storms to typical string like weather. from abilene to oklahoma city. we stall it from east texas, arkansas, louisiana, northern mississippi and tennessee. this is where we're going to have our flood threat day after day if we get the thunderstorms. then traveling over the same areas. we'll trek sometime heavy rain in pennsylvania. by the end of the week we finally kick the storm system out of here and we'll try to draw you out of the deep south after a wet week and rain showers as we head toward the weekend in the east.

>> we can handle that, bill. thank you. thanks for waking up with us. i'm frances rivera. >> i'm phillip mena. tw. ure to follow us on itter,

just a few hours after stormy daniels' "60 minutes" interview airs, the fallout fast. salacious personal details and a possible connection leading to the mueller investigation. and shakeup at the white house. the new week that could begin with more firings and personnel changes. after the harvesting of personal information from 50 million users, facebook fights back hard to regain your trust. >> there is now a new king of superhero movies as "black panther" dethroned all others. and can sister jean help this year's cinderella kids bring home a national title? "early today" starts right now. good morning, i'm phillip mena. >> good to be with you. i'm frances rivera. we begin this morning with a story keeping the country at the edge of its seat. the s