. she encountered the suspects, and she was critically injured. >> my son ran in the house dad, dad, a jeep just ran over a cop in front of the house. >> breaking overnight, a female baltimore cop killed during a routine traffic stop. now police are urgently searching for the suspect. then to that overactive volcano in hawaii, producing dangerous laze, a combo of hydrochloric acid and glass. ditching mountains of medical bills. and is a new healthy breakfast eating phase about to become an egg a day keeps the doctor away? now she that she is a windsor, you will not believe

the list of rules the new duchess must live by. "early today" starts right now. >> good tuesday morning. i'm frances rivera. >> and i'm phillip mena. a manhunt is under way in baltimore after a police officer was killed responding to a call about a suspicious vehicle in a suburban neighborhood. officials say the female officer was critically injured after a confrontation and taken to the hospital where she was pronounced dead. authorities are now asking anyone with information to call police. nbc's pete williams has more. >> reporter: in the air and on the ground, state and local police launched an urgent manhunt in a suburb of baltimore, maryland after a baltimore county police officer was killed. >> can you let us know if you have any vehicle description or anything? >> reporter: she had been dispatched to check out reports of a suspicious vehicle. police say it appeared the people in the vehicle had broken into a house. >> she encountered the suspects, and she was critically injured. our officer was transported to the franklin square hospital where she was pronounced deceased at 2:50 p.m.

>> reporter: they were searching for as many as four suspects in their teens and 20s. one got into another car and sped away, then jumped out and ran off. though initial reports said the officer was shot, witnesses say it appeared she was actually struck by one of the suspects driving away. >> my son ran in the house stating dad, dad, a jeep just ran over a cop in front of the house. >> reporter: residents near the shooting scene were urged to stay inside. streets were shut down. schools in the area delayed afternoon dismissals holding the children inside and told parents to stay away while the search was going on. >> our thanks to pete williams for that report. mother nature is displaying her power on land, sea, and in the air as hawaii's fiery kilauea volcano continues to explode. the lava flow is now reaching the pacific ocean for the first time, creating a new toxic danger in the air. where the magma meets the water, laze is formed. laze is a cloud of hydrochloric

acid knicksed with shards of volcanic glass, making the air hazardous to inhale. miguel almaguer tells us more about the increasingly treacherous conditions on the big island. >> reporter: exploding to life, kilauea is moving faster, spreading farther. a river of lava pouring into the ocean where magma cascades into the water, laze is formed, a haze of hydrochloric acid mixing with shards of volcanic glass, dangerous to breathe. just like the sulfur dioxide in ash blanketing the air. >> the ash is falling. it's very vogee, very sulfur and it's very high right now. >> reporter: with molten fireballs launching through the sky, a high velocity lava bomb catapulted into its first victim. >> down! >> reporter: marc klaas senn rushing to help his neighbor struck in the leg. darryl! >> reporter: his friend rushed to the hospital as claussen

stops the home from burning. >> a 1200 pound rock glanced off the railing and hit him. >> reporter: with new fissures splitting the earth open, lava is rolling over the highway, cutting off escape routes. at least four more homes destroyed. herschel hood laos more than just his house. we have two cats. they wouldn't leave. so i dead goodbye to them. and everything else. >> reporter: a spectacular display of nature's power in the air, on the ground, and now out at sea. even from a safe distance away from this massive fissure, we can certainly feel its heat and its power. in local communities, this is what they're worried about, the lava bombs shooting into the air and destroying homes, as you've also seen, causing injuries. meanwhile, this lava field is feeding right into the ocean where they're worried than toxic air. frances, back to you. . that is just an unreal image, miguel. thanks. a handful of republican

lawmakers in the house of representatives is calling for a second special counsel to be appointed today. they're set to introduce a resolution claiming, quote, misconduct at the highest level of the doj and fbi, demanding the investigation of the fbi over the alleged surveillance of donald trump's 2016 presidential campaign. as they continue to call for the end of robert mueller's russia investigation. their demands coming after the president summoned top justice department, fbi, and intelligence officials to the white house as he too demands answers amid reports his campaign was surveilled. nbc's tracie potts has more for us from washington. hey, tracie, good morning. >> hey, phillip, good morning. good morning, everyone. in addition to the president's tweets over the last few days about this, we are also now hearing from vice president pence. he says this is disturbing and americans should be concerned about it. >> we read the press reports, but it's all very troubling. it's all very troubling to those of us that hold the fbi in such

high regard, that there are even allegations that people were assigned to surveil or even spy on our campaign. >> reporter: on monday, president trump called the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and the head of the fbi, chris wray, to the white house to talk about this. the white house says that the current inspector general's review looking into the early stages of the russia investigation will now expand to include whether there was surveillance on the trump campaign. meantime, today the president will focus on north korea and south korea. south korea's president is here for what will turn out to be a pretty brief visit to the white house, less than two hours to try to convince president trump to stay in this june 12th summit. there is concern, and the vice president talked than as well, that north korea could pull out. >> is this summit with north korea on june 12th going the happen? >> well, as the president often says, martha, we'll see.

i don't think president trump is thinking about public relations. he is thinking about peace. it would be a great mistake for kim jong-un to think he could play donald trump. >> reporter: straight pompeo who twice visited north korea says the u.s. is committed to diplomacy here. phillip? >> just about three weeks away from that proposed summit. tracie, thank you. we are getting a closer look at a shoot-out between police and a gunman at president trump's golf club in florida. a gunman stormed the lobby of the trump national doral early friday. you can hear the loud blaring of gunshots in the background. the suspect was wounded and taken into custody. after spending three days in the hospital, he appeared before a judge for the first time and was charged with nearly a dozen counts, and he remains behind bars. nbc's catie beck has details. >> reporter: the dramatic shoot-out between police and an intruder at the trump national doral hotel in miami. >> shots fired, shots fired!

>> reporter: a firefight captured on police body cam. fire alarms blaring as bullets fly, round after round. the damage visible all over the hotel's luxurious lobby as the video shows officers carefully climbing the stairs where suspected gunman, 42-year-old jonathan oddi was arrested. police say he scaled a fence at the hotel owned by the president, stole an american flag, and began screaming rhetoric against president trump and former president obama. suffering gunshot wounds to the leg, oddi survived and now faces multiple felonies, including first-degree attempted murder of a police officer. catie beck, nbc news. a moment of silence was held on the house floor monday in honor of the ten people killed in the santa fe high school mass shooting. but it turned dramatic after a person was heard yelling out in

protest right as the moment of silence was ending. >> mr. speaker, i yield back. >> with that objection, five-minute vote willing continue. >> do something! >> now initial reports claim it was a protest in the gallery shouting, but it turns out that person was in fact democratic congresswoman donny watson coleman from new jersey. she was calling for action in response to this latest school shooting. a three-hour car chase across southern california hit speeds of nearly 100 miles per hour. the hours long tri-county pursuit came to a bizarre in riverside county after the suspected car thief drove wreck lislie on highways and streets. at one point appearing to drive circles. where am i going to go, left or right. about two hours into the chase, the driver then abandoned the stolen toyota camry and tried to flee on foot along with his

female passenger. well, despite changing his shirt, officers arrested both the driver, christian beltran and the passenger, cecilia martinez. parts of the world are dealing with violent floods and raging water from intense storms. in turkey, fast-moving flash floods stranded dozens of cars and trucks, main roads submerged, even trapping a city bus. heavy monsoon rains claimed five lives in sri lanka. landslides and flooding there have forced evacuations. here at home rising rivers have dumped inches of rivers all over north carolina. it's responsible for highway closures and several water rescues. >> let's check with bill karins. good morning. >> good morning. not in the southeast there is a lot of moisture available. well pop the storms up overnight. now they're dying down. still some heavier rain down around key west, moving into south florida. but this is a moisture plume that continues to come up from the south there is a lot of humiditiment you're going to get the sunshine and the storms will build up this afternoon. and we're actually going to do this pattern right into the weekend. rainfall thursday.

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medical bills are among the biggest financial burdens facing millions of americans today, and now one former voice of doom is turning the tables for many and helping himself in the process. here is nbc's lester holt. >> reporter: when a medical emergency strikes, 43 million americans are left with a different kind of trauma, crushing financial debt. for three decades, craig antico was the voice on the end of the line. you're the guy that had to call up and say pay up. in a nutshell, what was your message? >> message you owe this bill and we need to have payment. >> reporter: but now antico is using the same expertise that allowed him to collect debt to abolish it instead. what made you want to make a

difference and help people? >> will, i tell you, when you go to work and you're having to make 200 calls a day to people who can't afford to pay, it just wears on you. at 5:00, you just want to go home. now i can't wait to get up. >> reporter: antico and a fellow collector started rip medical debt, a nonprofit that uses donations to buy up batches of overdue medical bills from hospitals and doctors for just pennies on the dollar. so $100 donation allows the group to wipe out $10,000 in medical bills. they can't respond to individual pleas. they use a formula to find and forgive the neediest. reagan adair couldn't keep up payments for migraine treatments. >> it is aggravating to go out there and see that the bills are in the mailbox. >> reporter: but one day a surprise. a yellow envelope with good news. nearly $3,200 of her debt was

forgiven. >> nobody does good things when no one is looking. and he's doing that. he's helping so many people. >> reporter: rip says they have forgiven more than $120 million in medical debt for more than 60,000 patients. their ultimate goal, a billion dollars. >> you may get this letter out of the blue that says your debt is gone. >> that's exactly right. it's a random act of kindness that you can get this letter or a call from rip medical debt saying your debt is no longer due. >> wow, that is awesome. our thanks to lester holt for that report. make sure to look out for the yellow envelopes. don't throw it in junk mail pile. >> that's right. it could be your angel of relief. this month for asian pacific heritage, early today is celebrating. today's honoree is a young entertainer who gets to represent his culture in the movie industry. derrick was chosen to star in "a wrinkle in time." his motto is to reach big and

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tonight. it is tuesday morning. and the warriors are back at it tonight. the dubs will face off against the rockets in game four of the playoffs. and you know who we're supporting around here. go, warriors. >> good morning, thanks for joining us, i'm laura garcia. >> i'm marcus washington. of course we'll get to your traffic in just a moment. what can we expect today? >> it looks like a great day once again. we start out with clouds and it clears out with breezy winds and comfortable temperatures, here's a live look outside in san jose this morning as you get ready to step out. you're seeing some clouds. will still see them in the mix through about noon and upper 60 and low 70s today. it's going to be a very nice and comfortableay