breaking overnight, another firefighter has died battling the largest wildfire in california history, marking a grim toll on first responders. do you think he's mentally competent to do this job? >> no. i don't think he's fit. >> the escalation of she said/he said between the fmer apprentice and the president is heating up this morning with new late-night tweets. a house explodes into flames after a small aircraft crashes directly into it. but this was no accident. new details on the man behind the deliberate attack. we'll also have the latest update on the health of aretha franklin. and then a long lost marilyn monroe movie scene that may

leave many blushing. "early today" starts right now. good morning. i'm marlie hall. >> and i'm phillip mena. we begin this morning with breaking news out of london. a car has crashed into the barriers outside of parliament and has prompted a large police response. at least one person has been arrested there, and there are reports of injuries. for more on this, let's go right to vincent mcveinny who is there on the scene. vincent, what can you tell us there? >> hi. good morning. i was on the green outside of parliament when there was a loud bang from around the corner. people started running. and when i ran towards it, a car had smashed into the anti-terrorism barriers just outside of the house of commons. people were running away from it. a pedestrian i spoke to said that the car was driving fast and drove purposely into those barriers. within about 60 seconds, there were armed police response units all around the car.

about three to four big suv vehicles, each of those carrying about three officers with machine guns all jumping out. there were about 10 to 15 police officers were guns pointed. others were rushing out of parliament as well. at the car, smoke was coming from the bonnet, which was pretty impacted, and they were yelling at the car. they pulled out a man. he was about 6 feet tall. he had a beard. they have now arrested him. they have continued to move pedestrians and the public back from parliament, shutting down all the roads in central london. more emergency response vehicles have poured in. ambulances, fire engines, and police cars and police motor bikes. over the police radio we have heard they are treating this as counterterrorism and they're advising people to stay away from this area. they're also saying a number of pedestrians have been injured. i've spoken to people who saw the crash directly, and they said they thought some people did get hurt in this incident. >> vincent, thank you for painting the picture there

outside of parliament where a car has crashed. more breaking news out of california where the largest wildfire is the state's history has claimed the life of a firefighter. state fire officials confirm that a firefighter from utah assigned to the raging mendocino complex fire has died, marking the sixth fatality connected to the wildfires scorching california. >> that blaze composed of the ranch fire and the river fire has burned through nearly 350,000 acres. firefighters are gaining ground on the flames with the ranch fire 59% contained and the river fire 100% contained. friends and family of aretha franklin are rushing to her side amid reports the queen of soul is gravely ill in detroit. a source close to the singer has reportedly told cnn that the 76-year-old is in hospice care at her home. the singer has been battling failing health in recent years, canceling concerts last summer.

the performer became the first woman inducted into the rock & roll hall of fame in 1987. an outpouring of support flooding in. fans celebrating the legend at a jay-z and beyonce concert. the president is firing back at former staffer omarosa manigau manigault newman. president trump tweeting late last night producer mark burnett called to say there were no tapes of the apprentice where i used such a terrible word as attributed by wacky omarosa. nbc's nikki carvajal is joining this morning with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it really does seem straight out of a reality show, doesn't it? former allies turned enemies. omarosa on a media blitz the past couple days speaking to nbc news several times yesterday. she's making claims about the

president's fitness for office. she's talking about his mental state, and she's releasing tapes. one of them which was recorded in the white house situation room. the president's current allies calling that inappropriate and questioning whether or not it's even legal, and they're really going after omarosa's credibility. one of the more explosive claims that you mentioned is this rumored tape. this has been talked about in hollywood circles for a couple years now, that the president during filming of the apprentice used the n-word. she addressed that yesterday with nbc's chris matthews, and she talked about his overall treatment of african-americans. >> it sounded as if he used it every day. it rode off his mouth kind of like when you first heard the "access hollywood" tape. you would never imagine he talked that way. it kind of rolled off of his tongue. as i've seen today just having him call me out of my name, call me a low-life, say that i'm not intelligent, this is what he does when it comes to african-americans. >> reporter: so in response to these claims, the president saying that in the past, omarosa

has called him a great civil rights champion and that didn't change until she got fired. omarosa also says that she believes that these tapes will be released, and she thinks they'll be released before the november midterm. phillip? >> never short on the drama there. thank you. new questions this morning over the fbi's decision to fire an agent caught at the center of a political firestorm. senior counterintelligence agent peter strzok faced claims of bias after sending anti-trump text messages in the weeks before the election. the president cheered the news of strzok's firing, but his lawyer says it was the result of political pressure, and strzok has growing support. a gofundme has already raised $184,000 for him. justice correspondent pete williams tells us more. >> reporter: once one of the fbi's top counterintelligence agents, peter strzok is out, fired over text messages he exchanged during the campaign with an fbi lawyer, lisa page, about donald trump. in one, she asks, he's not ever going to become president,

right? right? and strzok, at the time a senior agent on the russian investigation, responds, no. no, he's not. we'll stop it. strzok insisted his private views never affected his work. >> i separated out my personal beliefs from any action i took officially as an fbi agent every day. >> reporter: but to house republicans critical of the mueller investigation, he was exhibit a. >> i don't appreciate having an fbi agent with an unprecedented level of animus working on two major investigations during 2016. >> reporter: the justice department's inspector general said strzok made investigating russian election meddling a higher priority than the clinton e-mails, concluding, quote, we did not have confidence that strzok's decision was free from bias. president trump tweeted, finally, asking based on the fact that strzok was in charge of the witch hunt, will it be dropped? but strzok's lawyer says an fbi disciplinary review recommended a suspension, not firing. >> trump also, and his allies on

capitol hill, repeatedly called for strzok to be fired. so it's not a secret back door thing. they are publicly demonizing this man and saying he should no longer be an agent. >> our thanks to pete williams for that report. another small plane crash out west. this time in utah, killing the pilot. but investigators say it was no accident. police say dwayne yout was arrested hours before the crash for allegedly assaulting his wife. after being released on bail, he purposefully flew the plane into the home with his wife and a young child still inside. according to authorities, the house quickly became engulfed by fl flames. we turn now to the major flood emergency racing across the east coast. millions under flash flood watches after relentless rain. roads and homes completely swamped, triggering widespread evacuations and dramatic high water rescues. this one here happening in pennsylvania. a 12-year-old trapped in the middle of a raging creek, pulled

safely back to shore. and another scare in pennsylvania after some 30 rafters were reported missing in a swollen river. but after an hours-long, multi-county search, all are now accounted for. the wild weather also giving way to this rare phenomenon here, a waterspout spotted spinning off the shore in new jersey. the flood threats there continue with word that more rain is on the way. nbc meteorologist bill karins is here again with more on our weather. >> the rainfall is going to be in the forecast for the northeast but not like the downpours of saturday and not like the downpours of yesterday. this is how that map is going to play out. you notice at 10:00 a.m., area near rochester, syracuse, potential for heavy rainfall. then by 5:00 p.m. tuesday, hit and miss scattered storms. these are not the huge downpours like we've had the last couple days. this is more of your typical afternoon storms. it finally begins to exit as we go through this evening. again, we still have some people under the flash flood watches. a lot of them have been dropped now, which is good.

the forecast for some areas at least will be nice today. atlanta looks good. new orleans, no problem. areas from chicago to detroitho warmer than you probably like. chicago at 90 degrees today. so we're going to get a couple dry days in a morow before more rain returns. another severe weather warning. a different tomorrow is coming. celebrity big brother has announced adult film star stormy daniels will be joining the uk reality tv show starting thursday. the season's theme, eye of the storm, will reportedly revolve around redemption with cast members asking viewers for forgiveness for past scandals. daniels is currently in the midst of a legal war with trump

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was proud and humbled by the honor. an indianapolis guidance counselor may lose her job after the catholic school she was working for for 15 years learned that she has a wife. >> i've hidden everything from social media. i've hidden it from, you know, people that i love because i knew that i was -- i was at risk of losing my job over this. >> shelly fitzgerald was placed on administrative leave from roncalli high school after someone got a hold of her marriage license and turned it in in to an administrator. once word reached the archbishop she was given a choice to resign or dissolve her marriage. the school put out a statement on facebook with their written expectations. fitzgerald said she is staying positive and wants to be a catalyst for change. new developments following a fatal encounter in florida that reignited the debate over the stand your ground law. what started as an argument in a convenience store parking lot quickly escalated and ended with

an unarmed man who was dead. 48-year-old michael drejka pulled the trigger, attempted to use the stand your ground as a defense. after an investigation, he is now facing manslaughter charges. nbc's gabe gutierrez has the details. >> reporter: michael drejka is in jail charged with manslaughter. he's seen in this surveillance video last month shooting marquise mcglockton. >> i've been in i guess a daze because that was my baby. so today when i heard that he was getting charged, i guess i could start healing. >> reporter: mcglockton had gone inside a convenience store in clear water, florida, with one of his kids to buy snacks. outside drejka confronts his girlfriend about parking in a handicapped spot. mcglockton leaves the store and shoves drejka to the ground, who then pulls a gun and shoots him. >> he felt after being slammed to the ground that the next

thing was that he was going to be further attacked. >> reporter: the shooting sparked protests and outrage over why drejka, who is white and had a legal conceal carry permit, wasn't charged in the death of an unarmed black man. the case renewed the fierce debate over florida's controversial stand your ground law which gives people the right to protect themselves using deadly force. >> i thought the guy should have been arrested from day one. >> reporter: investigators said they reviewed two prior incidents of improper exhibition of firearms by drejka. since the shooting, he has not commented and is now being held on $100,000 bail. gabe gutierrez, nbc news. when we return, a late night comedy montage as omarosa delivers brand-new material for the overnight crowd. you're watching "early today." entresto is a heart failure pill that helped keep people alive and out of the hospital. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren,

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there's so much material. >> all the castoffs, they all get their turn. nur news by the numbers. an original box of 1999 first edition pokemon cards has been sold for $56,000. it's said to be one of the few known unopened sets printed in english since its release decades ago. >> this rare autographed baseball just sold for over $600,000 by scp auctions setting a new world record. the ball is signed by the inaugural hall of fame class of 1939 including babe ruth, ty cobb, and honus wagner. >> that looks like the one from the sandlot. with three lounges, three dining rooms and an open air jacuzzi, don't forget the six luxury cabins here, this is one of the 65 super yachts that dutch shipyards plans to roll out this year. that will be good enough to take second place behind italy in the yacht industry. >> i'd like to live there if only i wasn't sea sick.

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welcome back. we have some good news. we are going to get significant rainfall in the areas that has the drought in the middle of the country, areas like oklahoma. this is how much rain could fall. the areas of yellow have the chance for getting excessive amounts, one to three inches. maybe as high as four inches. that's missouri north west corner of arkansas, even our friends in eastern portions of kansas could get significant rainfall. we don't think we're getting too much flooding out of it. it's been very dry in that area. sometimes rain can be beneficial. in the northeast, we don't know what that means. >> when it comes every day, it's hard to think about it that way. >> thanks so much. coming up, a pregnant woman accused of shoplifting. her response ahead. plus running on fumes. how the government could crack down on the teen vaping epidemic. you're watching "early today."

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in today's top stories, the defense will get to work first thing this morning in the trial of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. prosecutors finally rested their case after ten days of testimony. and now the defense team is expected to begin calling witnesses. manafort is facing charges for tax evasion and bank fraud that pre-date his time with the campaign. meanwhile, his attorneys have filed a motion to acquit several of his charges tied to loans made by the federal savings bank, saying the government failed to show he misled the bank in their case. the fda has approved a smartphone app for digital birth control. the app natural cycles uses body temperature and a woman's cycle to calculate when she is most likely to get pregnant. it then recommends no safe or

safe sex. experts are skeptical about whether this is an effective means of natural contraception for women who want to avoid getting pregnant. studies show the app is 93% effective. as vaping grows among teens, the fda is trying to fight back. more than 2 million middle and high school teens use e-cigarettes. that's nearly 12% of high school students and 3% of middle school students who vaped in the past 30 days according to the cdc. this puts teens at high risk for developing nicotine addictions, the fda says. the administration is now considering banning flavored liquids as these are believed to draw teens to e-cigarettes, and next month they'll launch a vaping prevention campaign targeted specifically at teens. a north carolina woman was out shopping when she was accused of hiding merchandise under her shirt. turns out she was just pregnant. >> i wanted to just hide under the blankets and just crawl under it and just hide from the world. i felt so ashamed, so humiliated.

>> she is 34 weeks pregnant with twins and was doing her back to school shopping for her son at a charlotte area staples. as she went to pay for the items, a police officer who had been contacted by the manager confronted her about what she was concealing beneath her shirt. she replied, twins, and even lifted her shirt exposing her belly to prove to the officer she was not stealing merchandise. staples says that manager has now been fired. >> fired and embarrassed. you got to be 100% sure on that. a long lost nude scene from marilyn monroe's final film has been discovered. the footage is from a movie called the misfits. it was shot in 1961 during a love scene with clark gable but was cut by the director. while working on a biography of the movie star, author charles casillo discovered that the footage was locked in a safe by producer frank taylor. that now belongs to his son. the scene would have been one of the first nude scenes by an american actress at the time, and i can't believe how many people are going to line up to purchase this.

who knows what will pop up first? tmz or -- >> i wonder if we'll get to see it. thanks for joining us this morning. >> and stay here. the news continues right here on nbc.

good tuesday morning to you. thank you for starting your morning with us. >> let's get a look at that forecast. a little bit cooler later today? >> yes. that's what we were feeling yesterday. it's nice. as we took a live look outside a few clouds. we'll see the low 70s for early afternoon. here is a look at micro