breaking overnight, police make a major arrest in the case of the missing pregnant mom and her two young daughters. >> president trump strips the security clearance from former cia director john brennan, but is this just the tip of the iceberg that might include other noted critics of the president? >> you'veeen in law enforcement for a while. it's pretty intense. >> i've never seen anything like this in my concentrated in one connecticut city. dozens paid a dear price. >> today the jury begins deliberating the fate of former trump campaign chairman paul whos elephants help provide scientists with the secret to fighting cancer? >> is elon musk about to help

l.a. solve its infamous traffic troubles? "early today" starts right now. >> good morning. i'm marlie hall. >> i'm phillip mena. we learned the husband of the pregnant mom and two daughters is in custody. the 3 and 4-year-old vanished from their home in denver. the brother shared this post on facebook stating, he killed my pregnant sister and my two nieces. her disappearance prompted a statewide emergency alert. >> i was trying to get home as nafta as i can. i wasi was gng everything trying to get home as fast as i can because none of this made sense. >> police are trying to get answers to the questions everyone now wants to know. authorities have not released any new evidence to the public after searching in and around the family home with dogs. but police have scheduled a news conference or 10:30 this morning to provide updates on this pregnant mother and her children. >> in an unprecedented move,

president trump has security clearance for former cia chief john brennan, a vocal trump critic. secretary sanrs making the announcement accusing brennan of erratic behavior and abusing his access without offering evidence. louisiana senator john kennedy defended the move saying, americans expect intelligence experts to be above politics. >> mr. brennan has demonstrated that that's not the case. he's been totally political. i think i called him a butt head and i meant it. >> and brennan is not the only one who may lose his clearance with the president offering a lengthy list of officials under review. for more let's go to nbc's susan mcennis in washington. susan, good morning. >> reporter: hi, marlie, good morning. others were told their security clearances could be yanked as administration, and that is significant. brennan fired back calling this

an effort to suppress free speech and punish the president's critics. >> i do believe that mr. trump decided to take this action. as he's done with others to try to intimidate and suppress any criticism of him or his administration. and revoking my security clearances is his way of trying to get back at me. and this is not going to deter me at all. i'm going to continue to speak out. i think he fears individuals who could damage him, damage t amer people. >> reporter: many other career national intelligence owe firnlz are on this list. just to name a few, james clapper former director of national intelligence, james comey former fbi director clashed with the president many times. sally yates former acting attorney general and many, many others. all of them having served democratic administration tz, all of them critical of the trump white house.

also we have the president in an interview with the "wall street journal" seemingly drawing a straight line between the yanking of this security clearance and the warning of the others and the russia investigation. the president saying, i call it the rigged witch hunt. it's a sham. these people let it. something had to be done. marlie? >> susan, thank you. >> hundreds of newspapers across the country firing back against president trump's attacks against the press. as many as 350 papers are answering a call to action by the boston globe according to its op-ed editor, all running staff editorials today denouncing those attacks. the globe editorial staff writing, to label the press the enemy of the people is as unamerican as it isngers. "the new york times" writes, criticizing the news media is entirely right, but insisting the truths you don't like are fake news is dangerous to the lifeblood of democracy. it is not just the big names either here. local papers are also joining in. north carolina's fayetteville observer writes, last we checked, we are the people.

still, some organizations are warn warning this move could backfire. the baltimore sun says it agrees while the president's rhetoric is destructive, the coordinator effort to feed the narrative we are somehow aligned against this republican president, in fact, we're sure he will somehow spin it thus. recent polls find americans views on the press are largely divided by party lines. the quinnipiac poll release this had week finds 51% of republicans say the press is the enemy of the people. compared to just 5% of democrats and 24% of independent. >> breaking news overnight, a frontier airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landingraleigh-durham international airport due to an unknown odor in the cabin. the flight from orlando to philadelphia diverted there after several passengers reported feeling ill. five were treated on scene, three others were transported to a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. the cause of the odor remains unknown at this time. the airline has dispatched a new plane to continue that flight. >> the search for survivors

nt in genoa, italy. this has left at least 39 people dead. the interior minister has declined to say how many people may still be trapped underneath the jagged concrete and twisted steel debris. the investigation into the cause of the collapse is now focusing on possible design flaws in the 51-year-old bridge as well as past maintenance. nbc's lieu see kafanov joining us from genoa. good morning. >> reporter: hey there, good morning. this is still officially a search and rescue operation, although obviously the hopes of thdeath toll has been revised firefighters say there is roughly 30 cars on that bridge when it collapsed and so the damage was so great that they haven't actually been able to figure out exactly how many vehicles, trucks and cars they've recovered. they've been able to pull out

bits and pieces. this has been a painstaking operation. they have been using sniffer dogs, heavy equipment, you can probably see the cranes and the machinery behind me, drilling through some of the bits of concrete trying to cut through the steel to get to any of the cars and any of the potential people trapped beneath. we do understand that some of the funeral, a state funeral is being planned for saturday for some of the victims. there have been several foreign nationals, some french young people among the victims as well as italians. two families including a family of three, the youngest victim 8-year-old boy, guys. >> lucy on the scene there. thank you. >> a frightening scene in connecticut where city officials say at least 76 people have fallen ill from suspected drug overdoses. first responders arrived at a park near yale university to find dozens of people of a variety of ages screaming and dropping to the ground as emergency crewsthem. so far no fatalities have been reported.

authorities suspect a mass overdose is linked to k-2 synthetic marijuana and have arrested at least one local man believed to be connected to the incident. nbc's ron allen has the latest. >> reporter: a massive emergency response in a city park, frantic efforts to save lives. police say dozens of victims overdosing on what authorities suspect is a synthetic street drug called k-2, or synthetic marijuana. people blacking out. panicking. this man fled when paramedics arrived. at least 40 victims taken to hospital in less than 24 hours. some in critical condition. >> there were some that were lethargic, some in respiratory duress. >> reporter: at one point a press conference interrupted by an emergency call. >> we're getting another call of a person. >> reporter: authorities say the outbreak struck first near the city's main green, then spread across new haven. police telling us they have a suspect in custody. >> i believe he may have been trying to give this out as

samples to people so that -- to get them addicted. >> reporter: you've been in law enforcement awhile. this is pretty intense. >> i've never seen anything like this in my 21 years. >> reporter: synthetic marijuana are plants sprayed marketed as pot. they irk u they issued a nationwide warning about pot laced with rat poison. whatever caused today's overdoses may have been laced with an opioid like fentanyl. >> thank you, ron, for that report. >> an nbc news exclusive making major headlines this morning, twitter ceo jack dorsey sat down wide ranging interview with lester holt. the two spoke about the company's week long suspension of alex jones which came after a tweet calling for people to get ready for the battle, battle rifles ready, rather, against the media. here's why dorsey chose what he said a time-out for the talk ow over an outright ban. >> a time-out seems, seems minor

compared to the implications of someone suggesting a call to arms against a particular group, in this case the media. how do you respond to that? >> well, i feel, you know, any, any suspension whether it be a permanent one or a temporary one, makes someone think about their actions and their behaviors. and -- >> you think he's going to change his behavior based on a time-out? >> i don't know. we have found that it does have the potential to change, impact and change behavior. so whether itit in this case to change some of those behaviors and some of those actions, i don't know. but this is consistent with how >> one american reeled in a massive fish and with it possibly a world record. sword fisherman gary carter caught an 808-pound marlin in portuguese waters off the island of madera. it took an hour to reel in this big catch.

he might now shatter the previous world record of 714 pounds. that's a big one. >> yes. what are they going to do with that thing? so many questions, not enough time. let's hand it over to bill karins for the morning weather. good morning. >> good morning. we'll be tracking showers and thunderstorms the next couple days. right now we have showers on to have louisville, lexington, cincinnati, cape girardo in missouri. as far as the forecast goes we're tracking the storms through the ohio valley. we also have showers and storms lingering back near omaha today. this afternoon:00 p.m., national could have some storms. another round possible near the cincinnati area toward lexington. then as we move into friday morning we are still tracking the n th move by friday afternoon. waandorthern new england and through the ohio valley. hit and miss storms that will also cool you off. that's a look at till have hit and miss

showers including oklahoma and little rock. it's thursday, time to talk about the weekend forecast coming up. >> thanks, bill. >> want to hear it. >> drama at suntrust park all before the end of the first in the bottom of the inning. the marlins jose drove braves star rookie ronald with his very first pitch. robbing him of the chance to go for his fourth straight lead-off homer. that led toeated him and the braves manager. clearing both benches, they were tossed and both dug outs warned. he left but x-raie h>> andrew's cuomo a never being great getting reaction. trump campaign manager manafort is in the jury pen. more. more? got a company i can trust.

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showers and thunderstorms through atlanta. and maybe storms for kansas city and the midwest. very summer like, i don't think anybody will have their entire weekend washed out. >> that's good to hear after the past couple weeks. we need it. >> absolutely. >> just ahead, the growing outrage to the catholic response to the predator priest scandal and why hasn't the vatican said anything about it. ♪ you got it from your parents. and they got it from theirs.

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ann thompson with reaction against the survivors. >> reporter: good morning, marlie. as we wait to see what if anything the bishops will do in the wake of the grand jury report, all eyes turn to the pennsylvania legislature to see if it will adopt one of the recommendations of the grand jury, that the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse be eliminated because of protects the predator more than the victim. in painful headlines, survivors of priest sexual abuse like sean see a glimmer of hope. >> if this report does not eliminate the statutes of limitations, what is it going to take to do that? >> reporter: for pennsylvania state representative mark, it's a crusade. he was raped by a priest. >> victims should have any amount of time to come forward when they're ready. >> reporter: the grand jury report detailed a litany of alleged crimes. a priest who abused five girls in one family, another who raped at least 15 boys, and still another accused priest who left

the clergy and the diocese recommending him for a job at walt disney world. is this just a pennsylvania problem? >> no, i don't think it's a pennsylvania problem solely at all. >> reporter: mike was one of the boston globe spotlightorters that uncovered the web of deceit in that city's arch diocese. >> this is the same old depravi. he prayed for the victims of the genoa collapse, but no mention of the abuse victims here or in chile where police raided the offices of that nation's bishop's conference. an omission new york's cardinal timothy dolan said should not be misinterpreted. >> we actually know how furious the pope is about it. we actually know how frustrated he is about it. >> reporter: many of the faithful are frustrated, too, shattered by this latest breach of trust. the pennsylvania attorney general says the hot line that was established for victims on tuesday has already gotten more

than 150 phone calls and e-mails. this story isn't over yet. marlie? >> ann, thank you. >> billionaire and auto industry heavy weight elon musk has joined the cause to help.a.traf. the musk-owned boring company says they have plans to build a dugout loop from east hollywood and transport4minutes. they are the leading company in this project. it will bead lib live picture--

welcome to thursday morning. let's take a live look outside overlooking city by the bay. nice lights out there this morning. we have been enjoying nice cooler temperatures buts the weekend approaches things will crank up again. hanging on. >> good morning. i'm laura garcia.

>> i'm marcus washington. we want to get a look at what kwee can expect as we head out the door. summer is here. >> summer is trying to hang on, warm up today. we're starting a warming trend today. it will be more 63 for san temperatures. 59 for palo alto.