breaking overnight a granddaughter of robert f kennedy is found dead at the family compound. a navyvy fighter pilot is dd while flying maneuvers in death valley eye witnesses called it an atomicing bomb as a gas explosion shot plams 300 feet in the air. residents nearby evacuated the fire ball so biggi it coulde seen 40 miles away

our look at singer r. kelly who arrived for his date before a judge today. >> the nfl preseason is off and running. as we kick off your friday, "early today" starts right now good morn. >> that breaking news this morning the kennedy family says the world is a little less beautiful today. a granddaughter of robert f kennedy has died 22-year-old saoirse kennedy hill she volunteered to help build schools for indigenous communities in mexico. "our hearts are shattered by the loss of our beloved saoirse. her life was filled with hope, promise and love paramedics were called to the kennedy compound in hians port, massachusetts. she was taken to cape cod,

hospital where she was pronounced dead. . from walking red carpets to walking in shackles, singer r. kelly is scheduled to appear in a court appearance in his sex tr trafficking case we captured footage after being jetted in from chicago he was in an tan prison suit, orange shoes and handcuffed in front. the r&b star has been held without bail since his arrest earlier this month after being charged in separate federal indictments in chicago and new york with a slate of sex crimes against minors kelly's lawyers asked a judge to grant him bail on the new york charges. but since he was denied bail on chicago federal charges, r kelly

denied all allegations and it could be good news for cattle ranchers. according to "bloomberg" it will open the eu up to more beef exports. this amid new tensions in the trade war with china after he announced a 10% tariff on billions of china-made goods which could effect everything from smart phones and computers to baby products >> reporter: if it's on your shopping wish list, there's a good chance it's also on president trump's tariff list. $300 billion worth of tariffs made in china with americans paying the price, not china including apple iphones, laptops and tablets. smart watches, tvs and gaming consoles vacuum cleaners and home afliens plienss, clothes and shoes, bicycles and baby products at delta children's furniture

nearly everything is made in china. they supply big retailers like walmart and pottery barn >> we just put a tax whether it be the crib or the car seat or the stroller those now became more expensive. >> a new shot fired in the trade war. >> reporter: the news sent the stock markets into a nose dive the dow jones sliding 280 points the move is on top of the 25% tariffs already imposed by the president. the president blames chinese president xi for failing to come to an agreement. >> he said he was going to buy from our farmers, he didn't do that he said me was going to stop fentanyl from coming into our country, it's all coming out of china. he didn't do that. >> we could pay more as soon as

christmas and back to school shopping he still insists it will be china paying, not the american consumer meanwhile there's talk this could go on for weeks if not years. thank you. we're getting an early preview of what to expect in 2020 firing back after they blasted him and his policies at their second debate this week. and tracy, it really looks like president trump's rally last night was a direct response to the past two nights of democratic debates doesn't it some. >> reporter: so this is it the president's rebuttal to what we heard in detroit over the last two nights with the 20 candidates who want a replace him as expected. the president rip undped into te who were some of his biggest challengers. he also picked up on something

we heard from a lot of critics that it may not be a smart strategy for democrats to spend so much time talking about the obama administration i was watching the so-called debate last night. and i also watched the nighting before that was long, long television and the democrats spent more time attacking barack obama than they did attacking me, practically. so what's going to doing. a guy like sleepy joe is going to come and say i can do better. he wants to it go back to sleep. >> reporter: also representative will herd ofx it tx h texas hasd he is leaving. he's the sixth republican in recent weeks to do so. north korea ramping up its

aggression, for a third launch in over a week as they seek to continue denuclearization talks joining us with the latest is matt bradley what does the president have to say about all of this? >> reporter: those missile test its are can coming fast and furious. and the north koreans are mostly angry about joint military exercises between the u.s. and south korea coming up in a few weeks and they're clearly trying to provoke the u.s. but here's what the president had to say. >> oh, sure, sure. because these are short-range missiles we discussed nuclear what we talk about is nuclear. those are short range missiles, sure and a lot of other countries test that kind of missile also >> reporter: he's right. that wasn't part of the agreement. the handshake agreement in 2017 was about long-range ballistic missiles

still it's hard to see how longing the president is going to by able to maintain this cavalier attitude to what is obviously a provocation by the north and a lot of analysts are saying maybe kim jong-un who understands domestic u.s. politics is trying to exploit them because he knows as the president heads towards the 2020 presidential elections, he's go dog want to point to his dealings with north korea as his only real major foreign policy accomplishment so maybe he's try oog poke the bear and see how much he can provoke the president ahead of 2020 people in central kentucky say it was like an atomic bomb went off in their neighborhood authorities claim a ruptured gas line caused that massive explosion. the fire was visible for 40 miles.

federal investigators are on had scene to try determine what caused it it for a second time in a week the tsa has made a startling discovery. a rocket launcher seized this time he was trying to bring it as a souvenir you may remember authorities seized a similar device at the it same airport. you see a lightening strike that sparks a house fire in cape coral. they believe the blaze jumped from palm tree to the home everybody got out safely meanwhile commuters in atlanta had to compete with quarter size hail and up to 40 miles per hour thunderstorms brought more than ten it inches of rain to areas

of kansas and they face a threat of even more yesterday morn thing rain was serious in eastern ks can ks it's a repeat of the same weather pattern. we're not getting the heavy rain over the exact same locations as yesterday. we have one severe thunderstorm warning and a flash flood warning from the same area upwards of seven in the highest area and this will extends all the way to oklahoma. evilen tomorrow we'll do this all over again we'll have to watch out for the flash flooding threat. and probably five/six hours it will get better during the afternoon. year going to be very soggy in florida.ir mass that's go

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and good morning to you this friday. thanks so much for joining us. i'm marcus washington. >> and i'm kris sanchez in for laura garcia. kari hall will have our forecast in a minute, but we're starting with some breaking news right now. vianey, you have trouble on the roadways. >> eastbound 80 at appian way we have a big rig that has overturned, and there is a sig alert, we're talking about four lanes blocked, only the slow lane is open, so let me get right to that map for you there. you could see we're starting to notice delays even though it's only 4:30 in the morning right now. we are going to possibly reopen