but msnbc's new documentary is really good and premiers tomorrow on msnbc. plan to watch it, and i'll see you after. now it is time for "the last good friday morning. right now on "first look," a new story about national security that takes snooping and oversight to a whole new level. march of anger. that's what today is being called in egypt as the country braces pore new violence. kidnapped teen hannah anderson surfaces publicly days after being rescued. >> plus, an 8-month-old escapes in a dramatic high speed chase. a major dog food recall to tell you about. and box office showdown as "the butler" debuts. good morning, i'm mar rare schiavocam schiavocampo. an unsettling report about the

national security agency reportedly breaching privacy rules thousands of times each year. a may 2012 audit obtained by the post counted more than 2700 incidents in the prior 12 months alone, most of them involve the unauthorized surveillance of americans or foreign intelligence targets in the u.s. ranging from significant violations of law to typos resulting in unintended interception of communications. in a statement, the agency said in part "when nsa makes a mistake in carrying out its foreign intelligence mission, the agency reports it to oversee overseers. edward snowden they say provided them the documents earlier this summer. in a statement to the huffington post he said the media is being "miss led about his situation." he said his father and father's wife and attorney do not represent him in any way.

turning now overseas to egypt, marches are planned for today in the wake of a deadly government crackdown earlier this week. right now more than 600 protesters are confirmed dead in clashes with security forces. president obama has issued a stern rebuke to egypt's leaders. nbc is in cairo with the very latest. >> we are about an hour away from friday prayers. it's been a tense morning in cairo and across the country with sporadic clashes and continued fatalities. the death toll we cannot confirm 100%. we're getting conflicting accounts not just from the government forces but also from the muslim brotherhood. some military activity, as well despite the end of the curfew. we saw several thanks take up position to block off access road to tahrir square. they've announced this formally through state division that no pedestrians or cars will be

allowed in the vicinity and setting up barbed wire, as well. what some of the local papers are running, this is the government owned newspaper citing again the cabinet saying a criminal plot to undermine state institutions and showing a picture of firemen trying to put out an inferno at one of the government buildings. on the right, an interesting column they're writing that the war will be more won with the foreign world than one that's fought domestically. that shows you the importance of this tit-for-tat going on with the international community, the u.s. statement, a punitive arguably directed measure at the egyptian military, whether that will be enough to rein the violence new jersey remains to be seen. >> thanks so much, u sef. turning out west now, firefighters continue battling raging wildfires. dozens of homes have been destroyed and fires spanning

thousands of achers. near park city is, utah, flames have prompted mandatory evacuation orders. firefighters are beginning to get an upper hand with the blaze said to be 50% contained but it's not just utah. fire officials in a dozen states are fighting at least 39 states. historic drought conditions are being blamed. hannan anderson makes her first public appearance as new details emerge about her kidnapping. she arrived at a fund-raiser for her family near san diego thursday, but her father spoke on her behalf. >> she's doing good day by day and we'll keep moving forward from here. >> court papers obtained by nbc san diego detail dozens of items seized from james dimaggio home including letters from hannah and firebombs. the documents did not elaborate on the letter or nature of the devices. they say he exchanged about 13

calls with hannah in the hours before he allegedly killed her mother and her brother. conspiracy theorists you were right from the movie independent day" to x files, sky is phi files have speculated about area 51. now for the first time, the government is officially recognizing area 51 and sits location about 125 northwest of las vegas, but no confirmation of ufos or space ships. in newly released documents, the cia says the site was used for aerial surveillance program and kept secret to hide it from the quo soviets. the republican national committee is expected to vote today on a potential boycott of cnn and nbc over planned documentaries about hillary clinton. nbc entertainment along with cnn are planning separate hillary programs. rnc officials have threatened to ban nbc and cnn from presidential primary debates in

2016. we have amazing dashcam video to show you from georgia. it shows a high speed kidnapping coming to an end. an 8-month-old boy is safe after being kidnapped and taken on a 100-mile-per-hour chase. the suspect fleed on foot. the child was unharmed and may have even slept through the entire ordeal. sleeping like a baby. and now it's time for your first look at this morning's dish of scrambled politics. yet another woman has come forward now with claims of sexual harassment by diego mayor bob filner. this time a 67-year-old great grandmother. and nancy pelosi of california tweeted mayor filner is out of rehab and should be out of office. she added he should not subject san diegoians to the pain and expense of a new election. chris crist-ie talked about

the election saying they have to focus on winning. he said for our ideas to matter, we have to do win. if we don't govern all we do is shout into the word. bert lance, carter's first budget director has died at the age of 82. he was credited with the phrase if it ain't broke don't fix it. mike bloomberg is appealing a court ruling against the stop and frisk policy and says it would be irresponsible if the next administration decided to stop the appeal. west virginia county judge michael thorns bury has been charged in a love triangle plot and suspended. he allegedly had al affair with his secretary and tried to frame her husband for crimes he did not commit. barbara bush, the daughter of former president george bush said she would like to see hillary clinton run in 2016 but did not say she would vote for

clinton saying it would depend who she would be running against. michelle obama told parade magazine that the country is ready for its first woman president and mrs. obama said a definite no when asked if she would run in the future. former house speak ser newt gingrich is now on instagram. his first post was a photo of him hanging out with some lemurs. very random indeed. i'm a big fan of lemurs. they're very cute. >>ure like a zologist. >> beyonce and animals give me life. >> that's your therapy? . >> exactly. i love it. if i had told you it was going to be august 16th and we weren't going to have a hurricane yet -- >> i would not have believed you. >> i would have lost a lot of money. here we are is, tropical storm aaron is well out in the atlantic. i have zero concerns with this storm ever affecting anyone listening.

as far as the gulf, it doesn't look like it's going to develop anytime either, sending moisture and heavy rain up through the southeast washing out some people's weekend plans. overall, we're just on borrowed time here. this is fantastic. sooner or later we'll probably have to deal with a storm. as of now all is good. rain in the southeast. it's not horrible but kind of cloudy and gloomy. through the weekend, there will be episodes of heavy rain. areas of yellow is 2 inches, red is 3 and the darker red is up to 4, 5, even 6 inches of rain. the southeast is going to get soaked, unfortunately. the rest of the country looks great. look at the weekend forecast. another cool fall-like morning in the northern half of the country. besides the intermountain west way too hot, the ohio valley, kansas city, st. louis, everyone's looking at a pretty nice weekend. on sunday the southeast could get some wet weather, but besides the southeast, i mean,

this is. >> it's good news. we'll take it. >> ten out of ten. >> are you a big coffee drinker? >> i don't drink coffee at at all. on this shift is, either you're doing ten cups a day or none. >> a new health study talks about the amount of coffee you drink plus a major dog food recall to tell you about. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. ♪

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news this is morning. investigators have recovered the data and voice recorders from that ups cargo jet that crashed in alabama, killing both pilots. the ntsb said while the flight recorders were badly damaged they're cautiously optimistic they can obtain useful data. >> the white house making good on a promise from 2010, the first family's residence will have a number of american made solar panels installed on the roof this week. certain varieties of iams

and eukanuba pet foods were recall this had week. big coffee drinkers may not be happy about a new study. researchers found drinking four cups of coffee a day increases the risk of death from all causes by more than 50% in young men and women. and budweiser is now the king of emergency rooms. according to research from johns hopkins, 15% of patients in the er due to alcohol-related injuries said they drank budweiser. the study noted malt liquors which account for only 2% of the u.s. beer market accounted for 46% of beer consumed by er patients. turning now to business where stocks are on course for the worst week in four months. on the flip side, the labor department says weekly jobless claims are at their lowest levels since october of 2007. that's good news but signals that the federal reserve will cut back on its $85 billion a month purchase of government bonds causing stocks to drop.

one errant chicago's o'hare is testing out a flu verification process for "uss passport holders. travelers can scan their passports, fill out a declaration form electronically. it is saving 15 minutes per traveler. a preliminary deal between sony and viacom allow zg vi cam to skim traditional pay tv dividers and stream cable programming over the internet tonight tvs and game consoles. the ceo of blackberry could make a cool $55 million if the company is sold and he gets fired. next season, major league baseball may have an extensive instant replay review process on almost everything except balls and strikes. the teams will vote on the proposal in november. and coming up next, richard liu will be here with all the rest of your sports highlights. vietnam in 1972. [ all ] fort benning, georgia in 1999.

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it's time for sports and richard liu is here with our headlines. good morning. good friday morning. >> that's right. don't forget that one. the super bowl champs got a little bit of a test. the ravens joe flacco to torrey smith there, smoking 77 yard sprint for seven points. but then, well, after that will great touch down, flacco, he flubs. and then runs for the fall recovered by atlanta. free ball. atlanta gets possession but not the win. baltimore, 27-23. san diego chargers and chicago

bears, matt for the ta a fantasy football favorite, jay cutler tossing the normally clutch back sprinting for the end zone but gets caught at the 5 and not what he wanted there. man tile te'o a pre-season game injury, the bears 27-21. the angels save face avoiding the sweep by the yanks with an 8-48 win. alfonso soriano earns his 14th rbi in three games. there you go. soriano adding oomph to a slumping is lineup. this amazing it dodge. brandon crawford's defense on point. the giants down the nats 4-3. jason dufner tweeted this of his pga championship trophy. yeah. what he calls the two newest additions to the duffner household and added a little bit earlier that cup can hold 43 cups of beer. >> he has a puppy and trophy. >> and it can hold 43 cups of

beer. want arena footballe? arena football takes its affordable ticket prices west. detroit rockers now are the l.a. kiss. yes, kiss, as in rock and roll. gene simmons, paul stanley. simmons says an l.a. kiss game will be like a kiss concert. he said it's going to be thrilling and heart pounding action if you go to that one. in london, trying to save 300 tigers in the world, what do we have here? 300 naked people. >> i think i did something like that in zpleej many people considered that. they ran 900 feet there in the zoo there in london and raised about $93,000, almost $100,000. >> it's a great cause. tigers are amazing animals. declining in the wild. >> they really were behind it. >> thanks so much, richard. it's time to dig deeper into today's top political stories. and for that, we're joined by

politico's seven surreally in washington. >> happy friday right back at you. >> the rnc has been holding their summer meeting in boston the last few days and politico says the party is in worse shape now than they were right after the presidential elections. why? >> they're holed up in boston but it's no tea party. i think that really when it comes down to is two things, technology and the future. the obama campaign in 2008 and 2012, they had an amazing incredible technology outreach. those e-mails that you get in your inbox can asking for donations raised big bucks for the dras and republicans are still playing catchup. also they need to transition i think in voter outreach as they look to reach out to minority groups like hispanics which we've heard a lot about from the right. >> george w. bush's daughter barb brack recently told "people" magazine she would like to see hillary clinton run for president in 2016 after her grandmother barbara recently said we've already had too many

bushes in the white house. all of this can't make jeb very happy. what do you make of this? >> i don't know what to make of it. i want to go to dinner at the bushes and be a fly on the wall there. i don't know what to make of it though. >> but i mean, it's a little odd from that political family, wouldn't you say? >> it definitely is. you have to wonder if they're trying to maybe plot a political future for herself or if she is going to more of a chelsea clinton role. we've seen chelsea step to the forefront a little bit with the clinton foundation. will the bush daughters do that, as well. >> john mccain has been critical of the handling of the syrian crisis and we're slowly starting to hear democrats say the same thing. can is we expect more members of the president's party to be publicly critical of how he's handling this? >> i do, especially on the sunday shows this weekend, it's going to be extremely interesting to see which democrats will start speaking out. this comes down to this aid, this $1.3 billion aid we send to

egypt. and i think that the calls have definitely elevated and will continue. yesterday, the president canceled a biennial exercise, military exercise, but that's just a war games photo op. aid and the money is i think where we could have more of a foreign policy impacting >> all right, kevin, thanks so much. and have a great weekend. >> you too. coming up, bill karins and richard liu will be back for first buzz. we'll talk about all the stories that caught our eye this morning. that's next. you're watching "first look." if you've got it, you know how hard it can be to breathe and man, you know how that feels. copd includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. spiriva is a once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatment

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buzz, all the stories we're talking about today. it's animal friday. >> why not. >> the first one's a new story. there's a new species, the first carnivorous mammal species discovered in 35 years. the. he's a little teddy bear like creature that lives in south america. just two pounds. they realized this was a new species because they thought he was part of another group of similar animals but he refused to mate with this other group. they would send the animal from zoo to zoo and he refused to mate. they realized it was a different species. >> is it a bear? >> like a raccoon-like creature. >> i have some guys that should be tested for that. >> richard, you have an animal story for us. less fuzzy. >> we're talking about a snake in a clubhouse. the tampa bay rays manager known for trying to do things to

loosen up the team. so before the game yesterday, what he did against as he brought this 20-foot python called asia. evidently it's because it is the year of the snake in the lunar calendar. it worked. they won last night. 7-1. >> matt is a little bit i've genius down there. >> there was one player standing on the table. something you wouldn't do, right. >> i'm not afraid of snakes. >> i have no idea who. >> so a 6-year-old goes to a zoo in china and he left crying. he was very upset because. >> what happened. >> the lion started barking. >> this is the central province of hugh nan in china and the lions, they were faking it. this is a tibetan mastiff supposed to be a lion. >> and started barking >> this is the best story ever. >> they were trying to convince people this was a lion? >> the zoo has a history of it. they had a white wolf in a

leopard cage. >> hilarious. >> poor kid. >> you could do a funny zoo. >> i would want to go see it. >> happy weekend. this is "first look." way too early starts right now. have a great weekend. >> these reforms had nothing to do with the disclosures of edward snowden. >> i called for a thorough review of our surveillance operations before mr. snowden made these leaks. i actually think we would have gotten to the same place. >> yeah, he called for these a long time ago. he would have gotten to the same place, which means that ed snowden has ruined the president's surprise. >> and we've got new revelations about the government spying programs, the violations that led to the unauthorized use of data of thousands of americans. and the rivalry within the republican party continuing to grow. why rand paul and his father are on the offensive about chris

christie's 2016 strategy. get this, expanding instant replay in major league baseball. the new proposal under consideration and the groups that still need to sign off. this is "way too early." >> all right, gang, ready to rock 'n' rolle? there we go. i had to make sure they were paying attention. i'm thomas roberts in for brian shactman today. it is friday. august 16th. some serious stories to top the news today. the muslim brother hood is calling for a day of anger with anti-coup rallies around the country. more than 600 people reported dead as images of blood soaked streets pour in it, so too does the international backlash against the military. the u.s. has canceled planned war games with