today the world cup champion u.s. women's soccer team will be with ticker tape parade through the canyon of heroes they may also be one step closer to equal pay with the men's team new fallout from the well-connected billionaire financier jeffrey epsteiepstein. and mounting pressure on the trump administration newly released video shows the tragic moment of impact when a tour helicopter collides with a small plane over the italian alps this morning increasing questions about safety in the tourist industry from "the rry sanders show" to "men in black" we'll look back at the incredible career of rip torn, one of hollywood's biggest hell raisers. and serena williams opens up about one of her toughest

moments ever early today starts right now good morning i'm marlie hall. >> and i'm frances rivera. glad to join you once again. new york is transforming into soccer city as we speak. preparations are under way for a ticker tape parade to honor the u.s. women's national team all 1900 tickets to the city hall ceremony that follows were snapped up within minutes. meanwhile, on the heels of the world cup victory senator joe manchin has proposed a bill that would block federal funding for the men's team until the women receive equal pay. co-captain megan rapinoe emphasized last night while talking to rachel maddow that it's time to move forward. >> i think everyone realizes now it's like okay, it's time for the next step. it's time to work together to get this to a better place, be collaborative. the conversation is not about equal pay anymore. >> the women's national team has proven themselves time and again. they'vfour s, including in 2015

when the last ticker tape parade was held in their honor. hollywood is payinsday at h home in cocut. thn black" and "dodgeball. he also won an emmy for his work on "the larry sanders show." >> son, i think you screwed up the yogurt but that's all right everyone screws up the yogurt. i used to screw it up back when it was ice cream and my car smelled like rotten milk >> look, he's doing fine >> nepotism is always bad. just look at kiefer sutherland >> containment may be a moot point, old friend. it continues looks like the party's over and the last one to leave gets stuck with the check well, you sorry little ingrate >> if you can dodge ball >> what? ow >> seth macfarlane reacted to the news saying "rip torn always made me laugh.

and former co-star rob schneider said "they don't make them like rip anymore. rip torn dead at the age of 88 there is a growing political storm surrounding accused sex trafficker jeffrey epstein this morning. a pair of presidents, trump and clinton, are rushing to distance themselves from the billionaire financier. both were in epstein's orbit at the time prosecutors say he was procuring underage girls for sex. and the newly unsealed indictment against him is drawing fresh criticism from democrats. nbc's stephanie gosk has more. >> reporter: after pleading not guilty to sex trafficking charges, jeffrey epstein sits in a manhattan jail cell. a far cry from parties like this one in mar-a-lago. alongside donald trump in 2000 president trump distanced himself from the billionaire socialite. >> well, i knew him like everybody else in palm beach knew him people in palm beach knew him. he was a fixture in palm beach i had a falling out with him a long time ago. i don't think i've spoken to him for 15 years

i wasn't a fan >> reporter: this is what the president told "new york" magazine in 2002 "i've known jeff for 15 years. terrific guy he's ae likes beautiful women as much as i do and many of them are on the younger side." epstein, who made hi people's m, moved in powerful circles, connected to more than one president. bill clinton's office released its own statement on monday. "president clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes jeffrey epstein pleaded guilty to in florida some years ago or those with which he has been recently charged in new york." adding that clinton hasn't spoken to epstein in over a decade but did fly on his plane for trips connected with the clinton foundation in 2002 and 2003 president clinton took a total of four trips on jeffrey epstein's airplane, one to europe, one to asia, and two to africa. during that time federal prosecutors say epstein was creating ay assaulted

in his florida and new york city homes until 2005 democrats turned their attention to labor secretary alex acosta, with calls for his resignation >> instead of prosecutinx trafficker of children, acosta chose to let him off easy. >> reporter: acosta, a former florida u.s. attorney, cut a widely criticized plea deal with epstein in 2008. epstein avoided federal prosecution by pleading guilty to state charges including soliciting prostitution from a minor. he registered as a sex offender and spent 13 months in jail but had permission to leave six days a week and work from a local office acosta commenting for the first time since epstein's new york arrest the crimes committed by epstein are horrific with the evidence available more than a decade ago federal prosecutors insisted that epstein go to jail, register as a sex offender now that new evidence and

additional testimony is available, the new york prosecution offers an important opportunity to more fully bring him to justice but an attorney who says he struck financial settlements with epstein for three alleged victims holds acosta personally responsible for what he calls an awful deal >> mr. acosta's office categorically kept us in the dark they failed to inform any of my clients what deal that they were attempting to cut. >> reporter: his clients, he said, felt they were taken advantage of twice, by a predator and a broken system >> thanks to stephanie gosk for that report. caught at the center of the political firestorm is labor secretary alexander acosta with democrats demanding his resignation, president trump was non-committal about acosta's future with the administration nbc's sarah dallof has the latest from d.c. sarah, the president said he feels very badly for acosta but left the door open on his role in the administration. >> reporter: yeah, that's exactly it, marlie the president really giving?

mixed messages as he spoke to reporters, saying that he does feel very badly for his labor secretary but also suggesting that it's possible to find career mistakes if one is to look back 10, 12, 20 years within anyone's career however, the president did say that he plans to give that 2008 plea deal a closer look. >> what i do know is he's been a great -- really great secretary of labor the rest of it we'll have to look at. we'll have to look at it very carefully. but it was a long time ago and it was a decision made i think not by him but by a lot of people so we're going to look at it very carefully >> reporter: and in the past the president has kept on other embattled cabinet secretaries including ben karson and betsy devos. one thing he does have working in his favor right now as to his future, the president genuinely seems to like him. marlie >> sarah, thank you.

and coming up on the "today" show savannah guthrie will sit down for an exclusive interview with one of jeffrey epstein's accusers shocking footage shows the final moments of a helicopter after it collided with a tourist e. the mounted gopro cameras captured the deadly crash that killed seven people overt italian alps tom costello has more on the growing concerns over safety in the tourist industry >> reporter: it was a beautiful chopper ride over the alps that suddenly turned deadly a tourist plane carrying three pilots learning alpine flying crashing mid-air into the helicopter that had just liftedd five on board the chopper dead two on board the plane also killed the video just released by the search and rescue team it comes amid a string of accidents involving tourist aircraft six passengers killed when two tour planes collided in alaska two chopper crashes in hawaii, three dead five tourists killed in new york when their chopper went down in the east river >> this is really buyer beware

you as the customer have to do your research to determine the safety level of this company because they don't operate at the same more consistent robust standards as a major airline >> reporter: search google or the faa and the ntsb websites. is the operator certified as an air taxi are the pilots licensed to the minimum standard or required to nt if so, what happened and if it doesn't sound safe, don't go tom costello, nbc news, washington the gulf coast is bracing for a possible tropical storm that could make landfall this week louisiana is at risk and the state is stocking up on sandbags and implementing emergency pumps in areas that are already prone to flooding. this storm could become dangerous over the next 48 hours. >> here's nbc meteorologist bill karins he's tracking it and telling us more about the threat here >> we have about three days to watch this storm system. every hour that goes by that it doesn't get more organized is better because that gives it

less time over the water to get stronger right now it's still disorganized but there is a cluster of thunderstorms near that red x and that's where the hurricane center's kind of saying where the center's going to try to consolidate. i want to show our european computer model from the overnight. this actually has it developing during the day today, becoming a tropical depression, maybe a storm by tomorrow morning at this time. you can see just south of new orleans. and then it takes it kind of parallel to louisiana coastline and then northward by the time we get to friday into saturday the european computer model actually has it going up to hurricane strength anything from depression to a low-end hurricane isf it just yl afternoon storms in areas like florida and areas where it's not raining it's brutally hot in texas. one thing we know for sure is we're going to get some heavy

rain regardless of the intensity of the storm system. so that'll be a problem no matter what. >> a lot to watch for. bill, thank you. >> thanks, bill. there's no denying rapper kanye west has some out of the box ideas and now the grammy winner is using the force to help combat homelessness in the august 2019 cover story for "forbes" magazine the rapper says he is building low income housing inspired by "star wars." west says the units will be replicas of luke skywalker's infamous tatooine home from the hit movie "star wars new hope. no word on when they're set to open taill ahead some great summer geway deals to look at and we'll look back at the incredible life of billionaire and presidential candidate ross perot. it has three times the cleaning power of the leading spray to dissolve kitchen grease on contact. and it's great for bathrooms! just keep pumping the power nozzle to release a continuous burst of mist and make quick work of big jobs. it even works on stainless steel. it cuts through 100% of dirt, grease and grime.

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from texarkana >> the party's over and it's time for the cleanup crew. >> reporter: henry ross perot founded electronic data systems in 1962 with a $1,000 check. later selling the company to general motors and becoming an early tech billionaire in 1992 he catapulted into national politics. >> if you want to register me in 50 states, number one, i promise you this, between now and the convention we'll get both parties' head straight >> the most successful third party candidate since teddy roosevelt in 1912 to this day bush and clinton supporters debate who perot hurt more in 1992 >> you don't care about anything but making money, there will be a giant sucking sound going south. >> reporter: at a time when public trust in government was lower than during watergate, perot appealed to a group of disenchanted voters on one issue. the deficit. selling his message with folksy charisma >> as i've said before, it's time to take out the trash and clean oucos h. ross perot!astedt

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thanks for starting your morning here with us. i'm marcus washington. >> and i'm kris sanchez, in for laura garcia. i feel rested because it was so comfortable to sleep last night, don't you think? >> yes. >> nice and cool. >> could we get a little more sleep, though? >> real code. >> go back to your department. >> we will have some warmer weather in the forecast, just slightly warmer today. we're starting out with some clouds. a live look outside in san jose, you can see the clouds and as we normally reach the low 80s,we'r about that number, maybe slightly lower today. we have warmer wer