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the east and the south now the nation's capital braces for its strongest storm in a decade, and more severe weather on the way spells trouble for summer travel. our weather team is tracking exactly when you might see those storms in ukraine, missiles rain down, leveling building, injuring dozens and killing several people we had have a live report with the latest babies are dying in nursing pillows with more than 160 deaths in the last 16 years. u.s. officials are getting ready to issue safety regulations. we've got the nbc investigative report asking why regulators haven't stepped in sooner. hollywood is honoring a revolutionary director william friedkin has died at the age of 87. we look back at his films. a cubs fan looking to catch more than fly ball at a game she's looking for a kidney donor and hoping someone in the stadium will step up to the plate. it's tuesday, august 8

"early today" starts right now >> good morning. i'm jessica layton >> glad you're with us i'm frances rivera. wicked weather plagued the south and east coast leaving at least two people dead. a 22-year-old was let by lightning in alabama so far there have been no reports of tornados along the east coast but close to a million people lost power and hundreds of thousands are still in the dark after severe thunderstorms hit from georgia to new york many states sustained wind damage, hail, heavy rainfall and flooding more than 8,000 flights were delayed and over 1700 were canceled the philadelphia phillies postponed their home game as the city saw 70 mile per hour wind gusts. and aive drooer captured the

moment a power line fell onto the streets there. 33 adult and 14 kids and one dog were trapped inside their cars until all these lines were de-energized luckily, no one was hurt nbc meteorologist angie lassman tracking yet another system that could bring more dangerous weather across the u.s former president trump's legal team firing back at the justice department's request for a protective order they issued their response last night, opposing the order to limit what mr. trump can share about evidence tied to charges in his 2020 election interference case. nbc's alice barr has the latest. >> reporter: the trump legal team responding to the special counsel's request to limit what the president can say publicly about evidence in the case involving his efforts to overturn the 2020 election mr. trump's lawyers arguing that amounts tos to censor-ofship, sn

cite his post saying "if you come after me, i'm coming after you. the former president over the weekend also slamming special counsel jack smith >> this guy's a maniac they gave plme a maniac. >> reporter: as well at judge and former vice president mike pence. mr. pence has sharpened his rhetoric against his former boss >> president trump asked me to put him over the constitution that day >> reporter: and could become a star witness >> i have no plans to testify. but people can be confident, we'll obey the law >> reporter: the trump team arguing he and his vice president merely disagreed over whether pence could unilaterally move to reverse the election, something constitutional scholars say is not allowed. >> what president trump did not do is direct vice president pence to do anything

he asked him in an aspirational way, asking is covered by the first amendment. >> reporter: in anns ens nbc n exclusive, ron desantis still acknowledging what the former president refutes. >> of course he lost joe biden's the president. >> reporter: all this as another potential trump indictment could come as soon as this week, regarding efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia in washington, alice barr, nbc news turning now to ukraine, where officials say seven people were killed in two different missile strikes on an apartment complex in an eastern town dozens were injured by the fiery blasts ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy shared this video of the devastation on his official telegram account we want to go live to josh letterman, who has been tracking that's developments for us good morning what more do we know about these

attacks right now. >> reporter: good morning. these two missiles hit about 40 minutes apart in an eastern town in the eastern donetsk region partially controlled by russia but still partially controlled by ukraine the official says in addition to those killed, there were more than 60 people injured, including police officers, emergency workers and civilians. those missiles damaging apartment complexes as well as residential buildings as well as restaurants, shops and administrative buildings in the area and it comes one day after saudi arabia had hosted a peace summit about the ukraine war that moscow responded to very angrily, to the fact that russia was mott invited to participate in those talks at the same time, we were learning that ukrainian intelligence says they have uncover ad uncovered a potential assassination attempt against ukrainian president volodymyr

zelenskyy. ukraine's security service saying they are dhave detained woman who was gathering information about the planned trip of volodymyr zelenskyy to mykolaiv she was caught red-handed while trying to hand over that information to the russians. the trip went off safely it come when is uks when ukrain striking assets in the black sea. the last former minneapolis m police officer in the killing of george floyd has been sentenced. yesterday he was sentenced to four years and nine months it will run concurrently with a three and a half year sentence on a separate conviction on a federal civil rights charge.

tao held back bystanders when over chauvin knelt on floyd's neck, killing him in 2020. investigators are looking into why two choppers crashed into each other. one crashed and killed the pilot and two others the aircraft were fighting to contain a small brush fire in riverside county and in texas firefighters are still investigating an explosion that happened at a sherwin-williams paint factory just outside of dallas the blast sent this massive fireball rising through the air. officials say one employee was hurt and treated on the scene. a hazmat team is still there monitoring air quality it seems to be the summer as the lottery, especially as jackpots keep climbing the mega millions continued its losing streak. but lucky for players that means the prize ballooned to

$1.5 billion this could be the largest mega millions summer and the third largest in all of u.s. lottery history. you still have time to play. the one in 302 million odds before tonight's drawing at 11:00 p.m. eastern >> remind me as soon as we leave here turning to the forecast. severe storms are moving out and another round is brewing angie lassman has her eye on this wet weather >> good news for folks in the northeast and new england, we're seeing this wrapping up. we're still dealing with lingering showers over parts of new england. those are on the way out as this storm continues to exit. we will however still have additional rainfall to pick up on, and that leads to potential issues with flash flooding through the afternoon hours today. so we'll keep a close eye on that at system moves away. we dry out getting into

wednesday. when it's all said and done, maybe an inch to two inches in vermont and new hampshire. that's where we see the highest additional totals as it move's way. meanwhile, another system we're going to track over the central part of the country. warnings stretching from oklahoma to texas and arkansas this is going to be something we see lasting into the afternoon and evening hours tonight as we havemillio 7 million people at . the biggest issues are the potential for large hail and wind gusts that's somethingtorms for folks. that goes for the southeast, too. 92 in montgomery with thunderstorms this afternoon and

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nursing pillows. they have known about infant deaths linked to these pillows for decades why last hasn't the agency taken action sooner >> when i got lira yhere a year half ago they had already commissioned a study >> reporter: pillows that were firmer with more defined edges were safer there are uses not related to breast-feeding, is that okay or not? >> i've got grave concerns about that >> reporter: are the pillows the problem? or the problem that people aren't using them properly >> we're not going to blame the parents using the pillows. if a product is sold to you and looks like it should be safe for sleep, we want it to be safe for sleep. >> reporter: bthey say

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