president trump has ordered all u.s. troops out of northern syria as conditions deteriorate, but could our military be caught in the middle? a key witness is set to testify in the impeachment inquiry today as the president's former russian aide is expected to spill all on rudy giuliani's efforts to pursue a shadow policy on ukraine. outrage in texas after a police officer shoots and kills a woman in her own home. the officer was called to check on her, and now family wants answers. rescue crews are still searching for a missing worker in new orleans after the collapse at a hard rock cafe construction site where two died and 30 were injured. and sports fans will be

bleary eyed all day as the yankees/astros went into the wee hours of today "early today" starts right now and good morning i'm dara brown. >> and i'm phillip mena. it is a holiday on capitol hill, but there is no break for the house impeachment inquiry into president trump. a former aide on russia and europe is expected to testify before lawmakers today, and later this week, the u.s. ambassador to the european union is in the hot seat after initially refusing to comply with the subpoena. meanwhile, joe biden's son is also breaking his silence after coming under fire from the president. nbc's kelly o'donnell has the latest >> reporter: after the president's repeated taunting -- >> whatever happened to hunter >> reporter: joe biden fighting back >> no one has asserted my son did a single thing wrong no one has asserted that i have done any wrong, except a lying president. >> reporter: and for the first time biden's son hunter is also speaking out through his attorney about hisnternational

business ties that have been weaponized by president trump. hunter's announcements an attempt to blunt those attacks, first cutting ties to a chinese investment firm. hunter intends to resign from the bhr board of directors on or by october 31st. joe biden pledging unlike the trump family -- >> no one in my family will have an office in the white house >> reporter: president trump's pursuit of political ammunition on joe and hunter biden from ukraine triggered the impeachment inquiry. the president denies applying pressure. >> there is no quid pro quo. >> reporter: this week a key witness. trump donor and ambassador to the european union gord sondland will testify before the congress sondland sent messages to other state department officials who raised questions about whether u.s. military aid or a white house visit were tied to ukraine investigating the bidens sondland's text provided the president's core defense >> from ambassador sondland,

there is no quid pro quo he said that >> reporter: but nbc news has learned from a source close to sondland that he will tell congress that he wasn't speaking for himself but relaying the president's assurance that there was no quid pro quo. however, sondland does not know independently if that is actually true. ambassador sondland is to testify thursday, and another former insider, fiona hill, who had been the president's expert on russia and europe on the national security council will testify today, and she is expected to say rudy giuliani and ambassador sondland sidestepped normal protocols with their work on ukraine phillip? >> kelly, thank you. the situation in syria is rapidly deteriorating, and president trump has ordered a withdrawal of u.s. forces from northern syria the defense secretary says about a thousand troops will be evacuating meanwhile, fears of an icist resurgence grows after isis supporters escape from a

kurdish-run detention camp our chief correspondent richard engel is on the ground for the latest >> reporter: the u.s. is getting out of syria at the worst time just as turkey is making rapid advances in its war against u.s. allies, the kurds of syria advancing with the help of arab militias u.s. officials tell nbc news and they say the militias include former members of al qaeda and isis it means turkey, a nato country, is using alleged terrorists to attack the kurds who fought with u.s. troops against isis for four years and carved out their own unofficial little state in the process. now that autonomous zone the kurds call rojava is collapsing. and as the turks and their militias push deeper into syria, the big news dropped like a bomb nearly all of the one thousand u.s. troops still in syria are leaving, announced by defense

secretary mark esper. >> i spoke to the president last night. he suggested we begin immediate withdrawal. >> reporter: with fears they'll be ethnically cleansed by turkeys and its militias isis is seizing this moment to regroup. hundreds ofisis fighters' families broke out of a detention camp president trump tweeting the kurds and turkey have been fighting for years others may want to come in and fight for one side or the other. let them facing an assault they cannot stop, kurdish forces called on syria's president, bashar al assad, an ally of russia, to deploy along the border. it's the end of kurdish self-rule here, which they earned fighting alongside u.s. forces a u.s. official told me it's a failure of u.s. values, helps american adversaries and gives isis new lease on life richard engel, nbc news, northern syria in fort worth, texas, there is a growing call for answers. community leaders demanded just

outside the house of a woman killed by police a neighbor called a non-emergency number out of concern for 28-year-old atatiana jefferson after he saw her doors open and lights on the fort worth police department leased this body cam footage of an officer walking around the outside of the home just after 2:00 in the morning. he is seen stopping at a window and yelling put your hands up before quickly firing his weapon the department says the officer perceived a threat the statement also said a gun was found in the home, but did not specify where it was found a lawyer for theefferson family says the officer fired so quickly that he did not have time to perceive a threat. the officer has been placed on administrative leave while the department conducts an investigation. two people are dead and more than two dozen injured after a deadly hotel collapse in new orleans. it happened at a hard rock hotel that was under construction, and officials say crews are frantically searching for a worker who is believed to be missing in the ruins of the hotel. nbc's dan sheneman has the laters

>> reporter: rescuers in new orleans are still looking for one worker, missing since a whole collapsed. >> search and rescue continues to remain our top priority at this time. >> reporter: the worker was at the hard rock hotel, under construction just outside the french quarter when it partially caved in saturday. a large crane was brought in to assist rescuers. >> we have teams that are currently making entry as we speak into the building in an effort to try and locate the one victim we have that we have not been able to locate. >> reporter: at least two lives were lost when the building crumbled one of those bodies has been recovered. 30 people were hurt. one remains in the hospital. >> it's just sad. >> reporter: phillip outlaw was in a hotel nearby saturday when he felt the ground shake. >> i knew there was lot of possibility a lot of people were getting hurt at this time. >> reporter: family members waiting for news about loved ones have gathered near the hotel. but they can do little but wait. dan sheneman, nbc news

an urgent search is under way in birmingham, alabama police say 3-year-old kamille mckinney was kidnapped while she was at a birthday party on saturday night they fear the girl is in extreme danger officials released this photo of a person of interest overnight this unidentified man was detained for questioning police are searching center point, alabama and asking for the public's help to find the little girl. police are on the scene of what they're calling a suspicious incident. officials say they responded to reports of shots fired a mall in boca raton once on the scene, they discovered one victim who sustained a trauma wound in the food court by hitting his head against the door while leaving the mall authorities say they did not identify any suspect and have not found any gunshots or shell casings. the victim was transported to the hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries, and that the source of loud bangs remains under investigation. is the end of the world as

fortnite fans knott. the wildly popular video game is currently unplayable when users logged on sunday, they saw the digital universe explode, leaving nothing but that black hole there. fans say that the fortnite apocalypse is a stunt to hype up a highly anticipated new map no announcement has been made yet leaving players literally in the dark a battle of the bullpens between the astros and the yankees. >> there is a fly ball into right, back at the wall. this game is over! correa ends it >> minute maid park erupting on that walk-off homer from carlos correa in the 11th inning. the yankees took a 2-1 lead in the fourth, but aaron judge's first home run of the season but houstonianss right back with a shot from george springer, and from there out it was all defense until that correa bomb the astros win it, 3-2

also a stunning week six in the nfl. first to sunday night football right here on nbc. pittsburgh in los angeles, and the steelers undrafted rookie third string quarterback devlin hodges making his first career start in primetime he manages to leads the steelers to victory, 24-7 to the meadowlands, sam darned wearing a flak jacket under his jersey to protect his spleen as he recovers from mono. he still managed to throw for 338 yards, and the visiting cowboys suffered their third loss in a row. the final 24-22, jets. on to kansas city. if it seemed like the texans offense was on the field for most of the game, you're not crazy. deshaun watson led for 36 plays more than patrick mahomes. the texans would overcome three turnovers and beat the chiefs 31-64. up mex, the falcons and the

cardinals in a nail-biter. rookie kyler murray passed for 340 yards. the cards blew a third quarter lead the atlanta falcons will have a chance to tie the game matt bryant with the game-tying extra point wide left. the final from glendale. cardinals, 34. falcons, 33. the 49ers are the only undefeated team left in the nfc. after dominating the rams, who lost their third straight, the final niners, 20 the rams, 7. in a battle of the rimless, extreme pillow fighting right here washington dodged last-second heroics as miami failed on the two-point conversion that would have won the game. the redskins escape miami, 17-16. this week's biggest fantasy star was stefon diggs. he put up 43 points. then matt ryan distant second followed by james conner ravens star lamar jackson and number five there, tight end for the chargers, hunter henry

>> busy, busy sports weekend. >> fun well, nbc meteorologist janessa webb is here with the latest weather what are we looking for? i'm. >> i'm not sure it was fun >> a cowboys fun. >> i'm hurt this morning i'm frowning still let's talk about weather-wise across the midwest we're seeing frost advisories and freeze warnings. some of the coldest temperature of the season so far overnight lows are going to hit the upper 20s to mid-30s and daytime highs are really not going bounce back fors by best mark only mid-30s today as you wake up, you're going to see a lot of frost across the upper midwt into teshe new york city 71 still very chilly. almost winter like for the west.

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simone biles has made history once again the four-time olympic gold medalist work a world champion record at the 2019 world gymnastics championships in germany with her 24th and 25th gold medal wins, making her the most decorated gymnast in history. the 22-year-old's historic wins shattered the long held record of 23 wins add held by male gymnast vitaly scherbo in the 1990s. >> amazing. >> yes a hand to helping heroes who need a home. to help solve a problem for veterans adjusting to life after military nbc's steve patterson has that story. >> reporter: after years of

putting his life on the line, michael reyes is finally being rewarded with something most americans feel our veterans and their families deserve >> it's undescribable. >> reporter: the keys to a rmal le. what was it like to get your set of home keys >> it's amazing. i can't describe it. i can't describe it. it's much better than coming home from deployment, i'll tell you that >> reporter: reyes, his wife beverly and their two daughters are the newest members of this brand-new neighborhood comprised entirely of veterans how much are homes here? >> for here we're going 250. >> reporter: 250 >> 250 is what they're going for. you won't find that in the area. >> reporter: brother, you won't find that in the whole state of california all possible by homes for nonprofit called homes for families, which provides affordable housing for vets at cost so far the organization has helped just shy of 400 military families move into their dream homes, and it's always busy building more.

>> i am very proud of the work we're doing. it is the american dream. >> reporter: a dream most americans don't get a chance to share in federal housing officials say 40,000 vets are homeless on any given night. homes for families fights this by building empowering whole military communities built by the same veterans who move in, every resident is required to donate 500 hours of sweat equity working construction, while also receiving trauma therapy. >> these are our grief s and loss workshop books. >> reporter: career counseling and financial support. >> that's part of what being self-sufficient is so it's the veterans that do the work. >> reporter: for the reyes family, it's changed everything. >> to be able to provide a home for my family, which was essentially the whole reason why i joined the service, and to finally achieve that goal, it's undescribable. >> reporter: a new lease on life for those of us who would give everything to defend it. steve patterson, nbc news, santa clarita, california.

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on the heels of president trump's decision to pull all 1,000 u.s. troops from the region, the kurds make a deal with russia and syria's bashar al assad to attack turkey as chaos erupts. rescue crews in new orleans are searching for a rescue worker after a deadly collapse at a construction site. in texas, growing anger and defor answers, as police shot and killed a 28-year-old woman in her home. if you could leave home without your wallet, cash, and id, would you be willing to chip your body? 222-year-o 2 your body? 222-year-o your body? 222-year-o 2 your body? 222-year-o