♪ an aeromexico plane goes down with 100 people on board including u.s. citizens. everyone survived. president trump says all voters in the u.s. should have a picture id to cast a ballot, the same w you need a picture id to buy your groceries. too little too late, a judge blocks the release of blue prints but did the legal order come soon enough? new york city police want your help finding a arsonist who sprayed gasoline around a station and ignited it. and a suspected shark thraoef. the washington nationals

beat the mets a score you have to see it believe. there it is if you can see. "early today" starts right now. we begin with breaking news. a frightening plane crash in mexico. a mexico jetliner went down shortly after take off in the northwestern state of derango. miraculously everyone survived. it was on its way from derang tee mexico city. the jet took off during a storm and was hit by gust of wind skwruts before the crash. >> crews racesed to the crash site just about 1,000 are feet from the runway. they evacuated using the emergency slide. the u.s. board but provided no other details. they said in part we deeply events of this

evening involving flight am 2431. we're focussed on doing everything in our power for the well being of our passengers." and president trump is campaigning both for himself the state's republican candidates up for reelection. while discussing stricter voterer id laws, he claimed amaycons already need picture ids to do things like buy groceries. >> you know if you want to go out and buy groceries you need a picture on a card, you need id. you want to go out buy anything, you need your id and your picture. the only time you don't need it in many cases is when you want to vote for a president, when you want to vote for a senator. yreman. it's crazy. >> the president's next stop on thursday. pennsylvania. a federal judge is moving tine block the blue prints of 3d

guns. a tex tex-based company was going to be able to upload the blue prints today. as nbc's tom costello explains. >> reporter: they almost look like plastic toys but experts insist so-called ghost guns can be very lethal. nine attorneys general and democrats have tried to stop this man from posting free 3d guns online. >> this is the doing of the trump administration. a long pattern of letting the gun lobby get whatever they wanted. >> reporter: president trump tweeted i am looking into 3d plastic guns being sold to the public. already spoke to the nra. doesn't make much sense. it was the trump administration that said they could can after the obama administration had

sued to block him. >> this changes the safety of americans forever if this is allowed to happen. >> reporter: hisas one killed in parkland florida. >> now on the homeland is at risk. terrorists that want to home produce guns, they can. >> reporter: but cody wilson and gun enthusiasts claim -- >> egun control is undead. >> reporter: and various 3d instructions are online anyway. meanwhile they have already confiscated four 3d guns at airport said since 2016. >> it's a terrorist's dream, a hijacker's dream. somebody who wants to hurt you can make their own gun. >> reporter: 3 prints can range from several hundred several thousand dollars. the better the printer, the

better the quality of the gun. the cat's out of the bag because he already put all of that information online. back to you. >> all right. tom, thank you. paul manafort is hot seat as his trial is underway. its are the first case brought by special koupbs robert mueller to go to it court. es for though paul manafort was the trump campaign chairman for three months this trial is not about that. for nearly a decade robert mule's prosecutors told the jury he made millions representing russia's neighbor, ukrain and a putin ally but stagsed at least 15 million to avoid paying taxes and lied to banks to get 25 million in loans on his houses. but the lawyer said the man who

hid the money was manafort's former business partner, tkpwaeuts, who was empwezling money from the lobbying firm. >> president trump's name wasn't even mentioned in court and he has distanced himself. >> 49 days or something. >> he did attack robert mueller tweeting cuacanlution is not a crime but that doesn't matter because there was no collusion. he's 69. if convicted he could get up to 10 years in prison. a new fire is quickly exploding inside the northern california where firefighters are struggling to contain massive wild fires in windy conditions. dozens of homes noth of san francisco have been ordered to evacuate. elsewhere the car fire is responsible for burning more than 900 homes and ilcanning six

people. the seventh most destructive fire in california history. it's already destroyed seven homes and a threat to 12,000 more in mendocino. more than one dozen large wild fires burning through californiax it's unclear how rapidly they'll rr be able to mobilize units across state. a department is facing tough scrutiny after an officer opened fire and killed a veteran who had just defended his home from an intruder. it all a-appears to be a tragic mistake. >> reporter: in aurora, colorado, a police911 for help. a vietnam vet had found an intr i co offic arrived on scene and heard gun fire. the male was shot.>> reporter: shot and killed was the home

owner, not the suspect who had broken into the house. they discovered the intruder in the bathroom already shot and kill canned. calling it a heart breaking and tragic situation for everyone involved. the officer who shot the home owner has been placed on paided a min straeufbt reassignment. he says home owners have a right to defend themselves. more than a gun in they hand. >> as soon as they arive, place the weapon down and comply with ev directive. >> reporter: but it now centers around police, what happened and could officers have done anything differently than killing a man defending his own home? a man accused of taking part in a shark heist at a texas aquerium. they say two men have confessed to the crime. but now we know anthony shapb told them where they can find

the gray horn shark. investigators say the men grabbed the shark from the tank and visitors are encourage canned to thufp animals but they hid it in a baby strollerer, walked out. it's expected to make a full recovery. a second major league baseball player has come down with hand, foot, and mouth disease. he was just diagnosed with a mild case. it generally effects young children under five. it's believed he may have contracted it after he was traded from the blue jays to the yanks. and noah syndergaard was placed on the disabled list after pick it division rivals the worst lost ever, winning by a total of 25-4. meanwhile those 25 runs were a franchise player to

fulfill a life-long dream. down 19-1 in the 8th. short stop stepped up to the mound and it didn't go so well. the mets summed up their historic loss on twitter with that emoji. aprupo. to arer bad -- >> rain in the seventh and -- >> really bad. the fires in the west, the heat. we have a chance at severe storms during the day today. wind damage is the greatest. although an isolate tornado is possible. tearier sections of the -- and how about the blooding? chance of the next two days of about 23 million people it looks like the state of west virginia got added to this as we rr speaking.

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