breaking overnight, president trump tweeting the impeachment inquiry is a coup as the inspector of the state department makes an urgent request to brief congressional committees the ex-dallas police officer who killed an unarmed man sitting in his own apartment is found guilty by a jury now it's the sentencing phase. pop star selena gomez is tackling the issue of immigration on a very personal level. as she brings her father into the fold prince harry and meghan markle suing a uk tabloid. harry speaking out about fears of history repeating itself after the death of his mother, princess diana the remarkable outpouring for a veteran who passed away with no known family harley quinn eyes fans with

an eye-popping new trailer for the flick "birds of prey." meanwhile, 2020 candidate kamala harris has called on twitter to suspend trump's account because it is intimidating tweets to the whistle-blower trump took that and was like, "you can take away my presidency but you'll never take away my twitter! >> with that, "early today" starts right now good morning i'm phillip mena >> and i'm rens rivera we begin with breaking news. only hours after going to new talks with the united states, it appears that north korea has conducted another ballistic missile test japanese officials say that one of the missiles made it into the waters of their exclusive economic zones nbc's janis mackey frayer is following this from hong kong. janis, what are you learning about this latest launch >> reporter: well, this is actually the 11th launch by north korea since may. but in the other cases it was a test of short-range ballistic missiles this time officials believe they

are dealing with one that came from the sea, and that would be the first time in a few years that north korea has done this, tested something that was launched from a submarine ship or an underwater platform. now, this comes ahead of talks that are scheduled for the weekend, and at a time when it isn't clear whether it's going to have much reaction from the united states. recently president trump's former national security adviser john bolton has been criticizing what he called the president's courtship of north korea and his willingness to turn a blind eye to recent missile tests by the regime kim jong un is also trying to leverage his position heading into these talks on the weekend, maybe figuring that presiden trump won't mind but submarine-based technology is more difficult to advance, or to detect, and it would pose a greater threat to the united states or its allies in the region so the stakds a little higher

heading into these talks frances? >> janis mackey frayer for us. jan janis, thank you the case of a former dallas police officer sparked outrage across the country, and now a little over a year later a jury has found amber guyger guilty in the shooting death of her unarmed neighbor, botham jean. guyger now faces up to 99 years in prison. gabe gutierrez was at the courthouse >> good morning. it was high drama in this texas courthouse the jury of eight women and four men handed down the guilty 1rer verdict after being sequestered for more than a week about five hours of jury deliberations led to this moment >> we the jury unanimously find the defendant, amber guyger, guilty of murder as charged in the indictment >> reporter: the family of the man amber guyger shot erupted in cheers but the former dallas police officer sat silent the dramatic verdict capped a trial that had captivated the country. >> i ask god for forgiveness

i hate myself every single day >> reporter: guyger had claimed she feared for her life when she killed her unarmed neighbor, botham jean, mistaking him for a burglar in her apartment turns out she'd accidentally barged in on his unlocked apartment on the wrong floor >> it's a sad reality that this community waited on pins and needles to decide whether or not someone could be held guilty for killing an unarmed black man in his home while eating ice cream. >> reporter: during closing arguments, guyger's attorneys had brought up texas's so-called castle doctrine, similar to stand your ground laws in other states, which allows someone to use deadly force against an intruder in self-defense why is it absurd to apply the castle doctrine in this case >> because there were so many instances as the prosecutors argue that she knew or should have known that she was not in her apartment. >> reporter: perhaps the trial's key moment was when guyger was cross-examined and pressed on her intent at the time

>> when you aimed and pulled the trigger at mr. jean, shooting him in center mass exactly the way you were trained, did you intend to kill mr. jean? >> i did >> reporter: during sentencing jean's mother took the stand >> my life has not been the same it's just been the most terrible time for me. >> reporter: sentencing is expected to resume later today amber guyger has already been booked into jail, but she now faces up to 99 years in prison botham jean would have turned 28 this week. phillip? >> heartbreaking story gabe, thank you. a dramatic escalation in president trump's war of words with democrats in the wake of the house's impeachment inquiry. in a late-night tweetstorm the president suggested, "what is taking place is not an impeachment. it is a coup, intended to take away the power of the people, their vote." well, we should point out a coup is a violent sudden seizure of power while impeachment is a process spelled out by the

constitution >> meanwhile, house speaker nancy pelosi will meet with intelligence committee chairman adam schiff later today to talk about the investigation. nbc's peter alexander has more on the new questions surrounding the president's inner circle >> reporter: mike pompeo ignoring questions in italy. >> do you have any comment on reports you're on the july 25th call with president zelensky >> reporter: the secretary of state now caught up in the impeachment firestorm with new revelations he was on that july call where president trump asked the ukrainian president to investigate joe biden and his son. just last week pompeo deflected when pressed what he knew about that conversation. >> so you just gave me a report about a whistle-blower complaint, none of which i've seen >> reporter: pompeo trading accusations with house democrats, who subpoenaed him for documents, accusing them of trying to bully five current and former state department officials called to testify. pompeo vowing to prevent or expose any attempts to intimidate democratic lawmakers later

warning his actions could serve as evidence of obstruction another member of the president's inner circle under growing scrutiny personal lawyer rudy giuliani now hiring his own lawyer. after house democrats demanded that he turn over text messages and phone records. would giuliani testify >> i don't know. i'm weighing the alternatives. i'll kind of like go through i'll get all my evidence together i'll get my charts >> reporter: then there's attorney general william barr, the senior justice department official telling nbc news barr requested the president ask australia's prime minister to assist a justice department inquiry into the origins of the mueller investigation. barr has alreauk and italy, seep >> barr should be talking to australia. he should be talking to italy. he should be talking to the uk to find out if the service improperly >> you have to appear to be neutral when you are the attorney general of the united

states and i fear that he has crossed the political line >> reporter: despite mike pompeo's pushback, the former envoy to ukraine has agreed to testify this week, and we have now learned the state department's inspector general has made an urgent request to brief congressional staffers on documents related to the ukraine issue later today. phillip? >> peter alexander for us. peter, thank you the impeachment inquiry is firing up president trump's base the republican national committee and the trump re-election campaign raised a whopping $125 million in the third quarter. well, that brings this year's total to over 300 million. that's double what president obama and democrats raised at this point in 2011 for his re-election campaign well, if you you feel like president trump has been tweeting a whole lot lately, you are 100% correct while fighting off an impeachment inquiry the president has broken his own twitter record the commander in chief posted nearly 800 tweets in just september.

well, that's about 100 more posts than during any other month of his presidency. last month the president's twitter feed mentioned impeachment 39 times the words "witch hunt" appeared 21 times and house intel committee adam schiff was also another hot topic. to london now where prince harry and meghan markle are taking a stand against what they call ruthless treatment by the british tabloid press. they have filed a lawsuit and harry is even evoking his late mother, princess diana joining us from johannesburg is chapman bell chapman, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, phillip. day ten, the final day of this tour to africa harry and meghan expected to arrive here any minute but it's the statement released last night that's really overshadowing at least the latter part of this tour, and it seems prince harry has just ha e in media freedom but his wife has become one of the latest victims of a british tabloid press that wages campaigns against individuals with no

thought to consequences. he goes on to say that he's been a silent witness to her private suffering for too long and that there comes a point when the only thing to do is to stand up to this behavior because it destroys people's lives. and he's talking about these tabloid stories about meghan that he says are untrue. and while this statement is about a court case, it actually is a bigger statement where he's basically firing a warning shot more or less to say stop this behavior he goes on to talk about how he watched his mother falling victim to the same powerful forces and that his deepest fear is history repeatingmorning. now to heroes in action. police in texas were caught on thank you, chapman camera a family of four got caught in high waters, flood waters there, from tropical storm imelda the con roe police department released this body cam footage of police officers forming a human chain to pull the children and adults to safety the officers were involved were

recognized by the police chief for their heroics. >> and we can bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins now. that was the part of the houston area getting pummeled the most -- >> they were doing that during the lightning storms, too putting themselves at risk let's get into the big headline, and this is incredible october heat wave. numerous, too many to mention locations in the south and southeast, saw their all-time warmest october day ever yesterday. and some of them will break that record today we're expecting 99 in birmingham montgomery could easily be 100 they were 101 yesterday. memphis is expected to crush their record, wheaicislike raleh to the north we're even going to do it too. it will cool off tomorrow in the north. but today is very shot charleston, west virginia at 97. washington, d.c. at 96 that could tie your all-time hottest october temperature ever recorded that's loo aand 50s today.

and new england will begin to clear off during the day also. the big shock will come on thursday for people in the northeast. temperatures will be about 30 degrees cooler >> it's going to be a shock to the system for sure from what we've been used to all right, bill, did ythank you. in today's quick hits the nypd will deploy undercover officers to theaters screening "the joker" this weekend while there have been no credible threats connected to the film starring joaquin phoenix there are concerns jordan peel sxiz monkey paw productions has signed a five-year production deal with universal pictures under the deal universal will develop peele's next two original films writer actor and director tyler perry received a star on the hollywood walk of fame nod r eangl s ent moguwa horefocrti an empire spawned by a series of films starring madea we'll be right back. dinner's almost ready. but one thing we could both agree on

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on this day in 1967 thurgood marshall was sworn into the u.s. supreme court, become the nation's first african-american supreme court justice. nbc's george lewis has this look back >> reporter: on the supreme court marshall was the champion of civil rights and civil liberties. in speeches he wasd in the south was better off than a kid in south africa so what? we're not in south africa. we're here >> justice marshall served 24 years on the high court. in florida it was an overwhelming response on tuesday for the funeral of an army veteran who died with no known family here's nbc's kevin tibbles >> reporter: a military funeral for an old soldier but not a forgotten one. >> no comrade should ever be

left behind. >> reporter: when 80-year-old edward pearson passed in naples, florida, no family could be found. his obituary was brief "this veteran has no immediate family all are welcome to attend. in the 1960s pearson was an army private first class. he lived alone in a hurricane-battered home. news of the solitary funeral quickly spread his military family mobilized. >> all veterans should be honored every day. >> he will be remembered for now and ever more. >> reporter: some 1500 gathered. veterans, citizens from near and far. >> what a tribute. >> reporter: as taps played, pfc edward pearson moved on. with respect and dignity kevin tibbles, nbc news. october is breast cancer awareness month. matthew knowles, the father of

singer beyonce and solange knowles, is kicking off the month by revealing he's battling breast cancer. the 67-year-old has not disclosed what stage or how long he's had the disease breast cancer research group susan g. komen tweeted the news from knowles saying in part, "breast cancer doesn't discriminate we're so sorry to hear the news." according to research, an estimated 500 men die from breast cancer every year the white house also honored the start of breas month. the presidential residence was illuminated in pink, which is the color that symbolizes the fight against the disease. a color you're going to see all out there this month >> it's nice to bring awareness. like you said it's something that not only affects women but men as well. thanks for waking up with us i'm phillip mena >> and i'm frances

and good morning on this wednesday, october 2nd for you. taking a live look out at the bay bridge. we've been watching overnight to

see if we hit any 30-degree temperatures in the north bay. oh, yeah it's a cold one out there. but you know what? warm right here inside as we start the day for you. >> hot in here. >> thank you. >> always. >> it's all you, buddy. thanks for joining us this morning. i'm marcus washington. >> and i'm laura garcia. did it get that cold overnight? >> it will drop a few more dreegz. as we take a live look in fremont we are starting out with all clear