breaking news overnight. hundreds injured when a pier collapses at a popular resort during a concert. we'll have the latest. counterprotests vastly overwhelmed white nationalists as many remember a fe lost one year ago in charlottesville. they met on "the apprentice," now omarosa manigault is talking about it. >> john kelly said this is the end, we want you to leave, but what's interesting is, they take me into the situation room, the doors are locked, they tell me i

can't leave and they start to threaten me, put fear in me, to put me under duress. nasa launches a ship into space at speeds faster than ever before. as it approaches the sun with incredible new technology. and going back to the sandlot one more time with the stars of the kid classic. you're killing me, monday, "early today" starts right now. good morning, i'm phillip mena. >> i'm frances rivera. breaking overnight, hundreds of people have been injured after a pier collapsed at a popular music festival in the spanish city of vigo. officials say 316 people were injured. nine have been rushed to the hospital, two serious condition. no fatalities have been reported at this hour, according to a local paper. the wooden platform packed with concert goers, many teenagers, gave way during the first song of the concert after a rapper told them to jump. the platform, nearly 100 feet

long, collapsed within a matter of seconds, sending people tumbling on top of each other into the sea like dominos. it remains unclear why the platform collapsed. the city's mayor has announced an investigation. exactly one year after demonstrations in charlottesville, virginia, turned deadly, a planned protest in the nation's capital, but they were outnumbered by throngs of counterprotesters. >> there were tense moments, but security was tight. similar scenes played out in the city of charlottesville, as well, as the community there is still healing from last year's tumultuous protests. nikki, good morning. >> phillip and frances, good morning. officials here were preparing for months for yesterday's demonstrations, but in the end, far fewer far right protesters showed up than expected. about two dozen unite the right

demonstrators showed up sunday under heavy police protection. far fewer than the 400 organizers had planned for. >> we're in 2018, we're not in the jim crow era. white people are becoming a minority in the united states and europe, and we face real discrimination. >> reporter: the protesters themselves were in the minority, outnumbered by counterdemonstrators, kept back behind police barricade. >> we need to let them know and the world to know that the world is against them, and specifically most of this country is against their ideas. >> reporter: a mostly peaceful protest cut short by mother nature. >> today was a success because it was a very peaceful protest. there was no violence. everybody cooperated. >> we proved we could do a peaceful rally and we could speak and we did that. >> reporter: but afterwards, counterprotesters did scuffle with police and were pepper sprayed. in nearby charlottesville, the site of last year's deadly rally, a calmer scene.

susan breaux, the mother of the woman killed during the protest, addressed supporters. >> my daughter had a mission and it's my job to complete that mission. >> reporter: one community still trying to heal on the anniversary of a tragedy and shutting down white nationalists. ultimately, there was one arrest made at the d.c. protest. phillip and frances? >> all right, nikki, thank you. lingering questioning this morning after a horizon air employee was able to steal and crash an empty passenger plane from the seattle-tacoma airport. officials believe the 29 year old took the passenger plane on a bizarre joyride before slamming into a nearby island over an hour later. fbi seattle says they have located human remains and are waiting results from the medical examiner's office. hans nichols is there to give us a deeper look. hans? >> reporter: we're learning more about the life and the passions of richard russell and just how

many friends he had. at the same time, investigators are still trying to determine how he crossed a busy tarmac and made it all the way on to runway 16-c before taking off. >> oh, my god. what is happening right now? >> reporter: before richard russell made it into the sky, investigators want to know how he made it across a crowded tarmac and on to a runway at seattle's c-tac airport. >> who is dash 8 holding on runway? >> reporter: causing confusion in the control tower and a call to the military. >> you need to call and scramble now. >> yeah, we are. >> reporter: a pair of f-15s on his tail, russell stayed airborne for more than an hour before dying in a fiery crash. his flight reveals a troubling security gap, where thousands of ramp workers and mechanics have the same broad access russell had. >> for me the biggest red flag is that this is something that aviation security is not

designed to prevent. >> reporter: making an insider attack one of the biggest potential threats to commercial aviation. >> we're fortunate in the sense that it wasn't a terrorist, somebody focused on causing mass destruction. what this incident did was demonstrate vulnerability that is still existing here almost 17 years after 9/11. >> reporter: as investigators work to determine if tighter security could have prevented russell's flight. a video he made reveals a man who enjoyed his work. >> look at all them bags. oh, a purple one. >> reporter: and loved to travel. his final act leaving a family in grief and friends in mourning. >> he was friends with everyone. some of us are lucky to have one or two good friends. he had dozens of really good friends. >> reporter: many of the friends just saw the guy at their tenth high school reunion in alaska, one saying he appeared to be in good spirits. phillip? >> hans, thank you for that report. president trump's legal team believes they are ready to

handle any findings from special counsel robert mueller. in a new interview, mr. trump's attorney rudy giuliani says the team is prepared to rebut any conclusions from the investigation into russian election meddling, telling the paper, "a negative report gets it over with. we can answer it with, i think, a better report from us and then we get to wait and see what happens in congress." the legal team also sent a proposal to mueller about a possible sit-down with the president, but giuliani told the journal there won't be an interview until after september 1st to avoid interfering with the midterms. the first trial in the special counsel's investigation will resume this afternoon, the prosecution is expected to rest their case against paul manafort today, who's facing tax and bank fraud charges that pre-date his time with the campaign. explosive revelations about a former white house aide about her time in the administration. omarosa manigault union revealed

she made a secret tape when she was fired by chief of staff john kelly. the tape was recorded in the situation room, which is raising questions this morning. kelly o'donnell has details on the fallout. >> reporter: omarosa manigault union is recasting herself from defender to adversary. >> he is truly a racist. >> reporter: her own conduct and credibility are also under scrutiny after she secretly taped john kelly inside the highly secure situation room. >> this is a white house where everybody lies. the president lies to the american people. sarah huckabee stands in front of the country and lies every single day. you have to have your own back. >> reporter: for 15 years -- >> omarosa is a very nice person. >> reporter: her fame and career were intertwined with donald trump. now she expresses regret. >> it is hindsight, but i will say this to you, i was come

police -- complicit. >> reporter: she learned about a tape where mr. trump used the n-word during the production of the apprentice, but she had not heard it herself. she told "meet the press" she did but only after her book was completed. >> i heard your voice. >> you heard the tape since publication? >> reporter: she brought another tape of her own to "meet the press," which she made when the chief of staff fired her last december. >> is the president aware of what's going on? >> let's not go down the road. this is a nonnegotiable discussion. >> yes, i have to protect myself and i have no regret about it. >> kellyanne conway putting her as an opportunist. >> the white house hit back hard, reacting to mangold union's appearance on "meet the press."

sarah huckabee sanders says to sneak a recording device into the situation room proves a lack of character. frances? >> all right, kelly, thank you. omarosaman goe omarosa manigault newman will be on the "today" show later today. cessna 172 headed for an airport when a fuel line ruptured. the pilot reported a rough running engine for touching down on the interstate. miraculously, no cars were damaged during the landing, but one of the two people onboard did suffer minor injuries. let's turn to bill with the forecast. good morning. >> good morning. still looking at hot and dry in areas of the west, especially the northwest, but the worst weather today is in pennsylvania and new jersey, already throughout the middle of the night, we've been dealing with flash flooding concerns. heavy rain and thunderstorms

continue to pour off the atlantic. this is after a soggy weekend, too. 20 million people at risk of flash flooding through tonight. red flash flood warnings, mountainous terrain, you can get big problems in a hurry. today, still warm in boise, but not like last week. looks like you're heading back into the108 in palm springs, hee desert southwest is more typical what you expect this time of year. talk about the week ahead forecast coming up in more of the same, unfortunately. >> seems that's the thing, summer for us. >> san diego looked nice right about now, though. thank you. as a champion of major league eating, surely experienced an upset stomach, but this weekend an upset of a

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leading the news, a nasa spacecraft is rocketing towards the history books, launching an extraordinary mission to touch the sun. while this weekend's blast from cape canaveral is decades in the making, the parker probe is named after the scientist whose theories they'll test. nbc's tom costello has more on the man who waited 60 years for this moment. >> reporter: cutting through the silence of space, nasa's parker solar probe is lightning fast, traveling at 430,000 miles per hour and built to withstand temperatures of 2,500 degrees fahrenheit. the mission, to literally touch the face of the sun.

>> we want to understand all that's happening here so that we can protect our infrastructure, we can one day travel the stars. >> reporter: to do that, the probe will orbit the sun at a distance of 4 million miles. for scientists, it's a unique opportunity to study the sun's corona, the outer atmosphere of the sun that is a million degrees hotter than the sun itself. the scientist who made that discovery in 1958 is professor eugene parker from the university of chicago. the parker probe is named after him. what is it like to have a major nasa mission named after you? >> a bit of a thrill, i have to admit. >> reporter: dr. parker is 91 now. the theory he hopes to confirm, that magnetic solar winds get hotter the further they extend from the sun. >> one needs now to get out there and see and detail, okay, what kind of waves is it, where do they come from on the sun. >> reporter: those magnetic explosions on the surface of the sun occasionally blast the

earth, disrupting power grids and communications. >> why is that churning, beautiful, bubbling, boiling that you see on that surface back there actually, you know, heating up the plasma and then sometimes shooting it out towards us? >> reporter: the sun is the only star we can actually study up close. for dr. parker, whose solar wind discovery was at first dismissed by critics, vindication in a probe that now bears his name. >> that's the fun of doing serious science. >> reporter: serious science indeed. tom costello, nbc news, chicago. >> incredible. >> fascinating. >> yeah, thanks for existing, man. the 100th pga championship wrapped up over the weekend. in the end it was brooks koepka who was the fifth player to win both the u.s. open and pga championship in the same year, finished 16 under after he sunk this par putt, but the internet was buzzing over this guy here in the red shirt, tiger woods, after an impressive showing, a

costly miss on the 14th hole caused woods to finish second at 14 under, but he's warming up. >> all right, thanks for starting your week with us, i'm frances rivera. >> and i'm phillip mena. be sure to follow us on facebook, itter, andtw

/s a handful of white nationalists showed up for demonstrations outside the white house as counter protesters far outnumbered the lot. while in charlottesville, a look back at one year since heather heyer lost her life. >> is the president aware of what's going on? >> this is a nonnegotiable discussion. >> the secretly recorded tape of white house chief of staff john kelly firing trump advisor omarosa manigault newman, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. >> chaos around the globe with flooding fires, droughts and more. as scientists sound the alarm over our swiftly changing climate. >> a baggage handler manages to