power your day with megared. mr. president, will you strike iran, sir will you >> thank you >> a $110 million u.s. drone blown out of the sky by iran in an unprovoked attack new reports that president trump ordered retaliation, then pulled back a live report coming up. >> a mind-blowing twist at the trial of the u.s. navy seal accused of executing a teenage prisoner >> this is the most surprising turn of events it sound like a script that was written for tv movie >> a neck horn the new health warning about a's bizarrant hunched over

ur smartphone. >> the man rushes the tsa and plows through the screeners at e to kickoff your friday? "early today" starts right now >> good to be with you on this friday morning i'm frances rivera >> and i'm marlie hall breaking news overnight, a dramatic escalation in tensions with teheran president trump reportedly approved military action against iran to strike back for gunning down an unmanned american drone over the strait of hormuz. but according to "the new york times" and the washington post, the president pulled the plug on the operation at the last minute citing multiple senior officials, the times wrote, planes were in the air and ships were in position, but no missiles had been fired when word came to stand down. nbc's craig boswell has the latest craig, good morning. >> reporter: marlie, good s afma very big mistake shooting down a u.s. drone, "the new york times"

reports the president, as you said, ordered military strikes multiple senior officials involved in these deliberations and these briefings say the president approved those strikes and those targets, according to officials, included radar and missile batteries. it comes after iran shot down the unmanned u.s. drone yesterday the u.s. says was an unprovoked attack in international waters now, iran says it was over their air space. the military operation in response, after a bipartisan meeting at the white house, and while no >> the goal was to avoid any casualties in so ts s you might call symbolic, although of course it would be incredibl in video you saw just before that sound was the trail of smoke coming down from that pentagon video from that drone. there it is right there. the drone going down just

moments after it was shot. that is an unmanned surveillance video. now, this latest escalation comes after the u.s. accused iran of attacking oil tankers last week. dramatic escalations in the tensions marlie, back to you. >> craig boswell from d.c. thank you. >> things taking a dramatic turn in the courtroom when another seal who was granted full immunity took the stand confessing he was the killer of the 17-year-old isis prisoner. steve patterson has the shocking details. >> reporter: frances, they are calling this a once in a lifetime moment, the prosecution witness testifying on the stand admitting to the crime during that testimony in a case that's already fraught for the prosecution. a stunning turn in the trial of a highly decorated navy seal platoon leader accused of murder l admissioy medic cory scott testified he

was the one who killed an unarmed isis detainee, not chief edward gallagher the admission a shocking blow to a case already riddled with challenges >> this is the most surprising turn of events it sounds like a script that was written for a tv movie i don't recall this ever happening in the military trial. >> reporter: scott says he saw gallagher stab the teenage isis fighter captured in iraq in 2017, but testified the stab wound was not life-threatening he was breathing through an airway tube. scott says he killed him because he feared the detainee would be turned over to the iraqis to be tortured and left to die the defense asking, how did you i pu te until estopped breathing. did you suffocate him? yes. did chief gallagher kill the terrorist? scott replying, no with nobody, no physical evidence and now a confession from a key witness, the prosecution's case is unraveling >> i think the panel will be

extremely hard-pressed to convince gallagher of murder when the prosecution's star witness confessed to it. >> reporter: and scott unlikely to face any charges either before the trial, scott was granted immunity in exchange for his testimony. following scott's testimony, the defense filed a motion to have the case thrown out the judge denied that request, and so now the trial continues upp underneath a cloud of uncertainty. frances? >> steve patterson for us. thank you, steve >> protesters packed a court in philadelphia saying more needs to be done after dozen from duty after sharing offensive and racist posts on social media nbc's ron allen has the details. >> reporter: anger erupting at a philadelphia city council meeting and demands dozens of officers be fired for offensive facebook posts made public by an advocacy group >> we are here on behalf of the people because we will not have

racist police patrolling our streets. >> reporter: the plain view project published several,000 social media posts from colonel officers in eight cities that endorse violence, racism and bigotry. >> it makes me sick, to be honest with you. it really makes me sick because we are in a position to know better >> reporter: in philadelphia, 300 officers implicated, 72 now assigned to desk duty. the largest number taken off the were youe posts?mo >> no. >> reporter: michelle, retired from the philadelphia police >> it damages the ones that do the good work in this city it damages us all. it damages the city. >> reporter: the philadelphia police union called it an overly broad social medianvhe officers due process. >> what do we want>> rorter: whe investigation grows, strust ronil allen, nbc news, philadelphia >> some alarming news about the effects of spending too much time on your phone australian researchers suggesting humans are growing

horns on the base of their skulls nbc's stephanie gosk has the details. >> reporter: look up pay attention. sustained bad posture over a tiny screen could lead to one of these. it does look sort of like a horn, but actually this is a bone spur near the base of the skull. researchers in australia examined hundreds of x-rays and found that roughly 40% of people 18 to 30 years old who use their phones more than 4 1/2 hours a day developed the growth the likely cause all that is all like screwed off. >> reporter: the bone spur is something typicall, not young adults >> it's really scary it's a big find. it's a big sign. it's also that we're changing. we're changing the physical aspects of humanei >> reporter: add the horn to a growing list of ailments caused by our tech use, like text neck and texting thumb.

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welcome to friday morning. a live look from the east bay. good morning walnut creek, good morning, bay area, if you're up early, getting a jump on your weekend plans, i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. the weather outside, kari? >> it was great yesterday. it was really nice and comfortable. today just a little bit warmer but not much. and we're about to wrap up spring here in the next four hours. this is a look at the cloudy skies over san jose and campbell will start out with upper 50s and normally we're reaching 80 degrees.

weovehat today and hotter tomorrow. we'll look