protesters take to the streets in niger and take aim at the french embassy demonstrators smashing windows and setting fires in a show of support for a military coup. the response from neighboring west african countries kidnapped amid the chaos in

haiti. an american aid worker and her child taken during an eruption of gang violence there the response from the state department as the u.s. embassy races to evacuate all nonessential personnel from that country. back here at home, former president trump defiant in the face of new charges. his message to supporters as the race for the presidential gop nomination heats up. a major recall this morning for america's most popular truck. why nearly a million ford f-150s need to go into the shop starting today gen z spins a new hobby. why so many are hooked to crocheting, thanks to tiktok it's the last day of july. "early today" starts right now glad you're with us. i'm frances rivera >> and good morning. i'm jessica layton there was chaos on the streets of niger as thousands demonstrated in support for the military coup. rioters attacked the french embassy, many waving russian flags and chanting the name of vladimir putin military leaders ousted the democratically elected president

last week. other west african leaders held an emergency summit announcing sanctions and threatening military intervention unless democracy is restored within a week a horrific suicide bombing killed at least 55 people in pakistan sunday. more than 100 are wounded. it happened in a northwestern bajaur district, a political rally for a pro taliban cleric we want to go live now toe ali arouzi who is tracking developments for us. good morning do we know who is behind this? >> good morning, frances at least 55 people have been killed, over 100 injured in a blast that tore through a political rally. that death toll is expected to rise with dozens more in the hospital you can see images of about 100 people under a canopy when the blast went off close to the stage. ambulances have been ferrying the injured to the hospital while the more serious were

taken by helicopter. now the blast seems to have targeted the juif party. it's an islamist party which has a coalition with the ruling government now nobody has taken immediate responsibility forbe this attack, but officials in pakistan say it bears all the hallmarks of being orchestrated by the isis affiliate in the region, isis-k now they have previously targeted the juif party because isis-k feels that they don't interpret a strict enough form of islam in afghanistan. and that's why they have targeted this party. and this blast is the latest one to rattle afghanistan where we've been seeing an uptick of these sort of blasts where both the pakistan taliban and isis-k are trying to carve out a

poss position for themselves in afghanistan. and also this is getting very close to elections in afghanistan coming out this fall so they probably want to disrupt those elections. pakistan's prime minister has vowed revenge on them. frances? >> we'll all watch the rising tensions and rising violence ali, thank you white house officials say they are in regular contact with haitian authorities after an american woman and her daughter were kidnapped in thcapital of port-aince asur allie reports. >> reporter: violence sweeps across the island nation >> i'm a nurse from new hampshire, but now i live in haiti. >> reporter: 31-year-old alix dorsainvil and her child were taken thursday from the campus of a christian non-profit near haiti's capital, port-au-prince her husband founded the non-profit, which confirmed the kidnappings, saying they were taken while serving in the community ministry

but details about how they were abducted are still unclear the state department ordering evacuation from haiti's u.s. embassy and issuing its highest level travel warning the same day the pair was kidnapped since the assassination of its presidident in jululy of 2021 1n earthquake one month later, haiti has collapsed into anarchy. with armed gangs now controlling an estimated 80% of its capital. >> we have very deep concern for the situation there. we are also very focused on working together with partners to try to help the haitians restore security, restore stability. >> efforts by the international community to form a multinational police force had made little progress until saturday, when kenya volunteered to take the lead alix and her child, apparent victims to the country's chaos, as the search for them continues.

>> our thanks to allie for that report with less than a month for the first gop presidential debate, the wide range of candidates continue to struggle to make a dent in the armor of former president trump, even as he prepares for further legal trouble. for more on this, we go to nbc's brie jackson in washington brie, good morning what does the republican primary look as we move into august? >> good morning, frances so far several republican candidates have met the requirements to take the stage in milwaukee on august 23rd for the first gop presidential debate while former president trump is unsurprisingly among that group, he has yet to confirm his participation for the event. at a rally in erie, pennsylvania on saturday, he even crowd sourced the question of his attendance >> should i get up there with 10 or 12 hostile people and a hostile network and be abused with terrible questions?

should we do the debate? >> and so whether or not he appears at the debate, the former president will likely have his plate full with legal issues following last week's superseding indictment in the classified documents case. all eyes are once again on special counsel jack smith on whether he brings charges against trump and his investigation into 2020 election interference trump's rivals continue to tread carefully on criticizing him over his legal entanglements on cbs on sunday, nikki haley warned against renominating trump, saying that his numerous indictments and investigations could serve as a distraction for the gop in the election. one group of people displaying apathy or outright hostility towards trump's reelection bid are his former employees nbc news reached out to 44 of the former president's cabinet members. while many declined to comment,

only four have gone on record saying they'd back the former president in 2024. frances? >> and brie, have the candidates started to lay out their case against president biden? >> so republicans are increasingly taking aim at president biden and bidenomics that's what the president has been touting furiously over the past couple of months. and a sunday campaign video, trump attacked biden's economic agenda, calling his actions an economic calamity and a human tragedy. meanwhile, the president is not appearing bothered by this line of criticism president biden and the first lady spent the first weekend in delaware where they were met with chants of four more years from crowds at rehoboth beach sunday biden is expected to stay in delaware through this week >> brie, thank you and now to an nbc news exclusive. the parents of a 15-year-old girl in colorado allegedly murdered by an ex-boyfriend are

speaking out alma lopez and hector silva, the parents of lily silva-lopez are casting blame on police in greeley, colorado for not protecting their daughter from her accused killer the parents claim authorities did not do enough to follow through on several complaints of domestic violence. the killer is alleged to have shot lilly multiple times last month after she trie end their relationip a spokesman for thpoce force said he could not provide some details due to thengng investigation, but added that the department has not received a formal complaint from any family member about the handling of that case while some parts of the country might see relief, the south is still stuck in the heatwave nbc meteorologist michelle grossman is tracking how high the temperatures will climb. good morning >> good morning. we're going see the temperatures soaring into the triple-digits once again we're going cords over thnext few days. so6 million americans still under heat alerts across the south. it's actually in portions of the

south central state, dallas, austin you're going to see excessive heat warnings today. that's in the hot pink colors. this is extending from the central plains, into the southeast. and we do have possible record-breaking temperatures over the next few days impacting nine states where you see the red dots that's where we're expecting record-breaking temperatures temperatures into the 100s once again. 106 today in dallas that could tie the record of 106. houston into the triple-digits as well. san antonio 103. monroe we're looking at 101. that's going continue tomorrow with te for monsoonal moisture in the southwest. but it's going to be hot too phoenix today 107. 103 in san angelo. so the steamy weather continues for the last day in july but we're also looking at scattered showers too.

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