i don't know. that sounded funny. hi, everybody. dworng, i'm thomas roberts live from baltimore. it is tuesday august 5th. welcome to way too early, the show that always responds to the call but only if you are playing the clarinet. we're going to begin with some news over the ebola virus. with another possible scare in the u.s., officials are waiting the test results for a man who showed up at manhattan's mount sign high -- sinai hospital yesterday with symptoms. officials say it's unlikely the man has the disease but he's being isolated out of an abundance of caution. the virus is only transmitted through bodly fluids not casual

contact. meanwhile, a second american is expected to arrive today. americans are concerned about patients being treated here in the u.s. one doctor, a decorated air force colonel and surgeon, says while he trusts doctors at emory hospital it was foolish to bring ebola patients to the u.s. >> they could have taken the medical equipment and the serum to africa and treat the patients there rather than bringing the patients here and potentially contaminating continental u.s. even though the risk is minuscule. >> since last week, there have been at least 22 inquiries about suspected ebola cases in the u.s. so far there have been no confirmed cases anywhere in the western hemisphere. the issue is being linked to the undocumented children in central

america crossing the u.s. border. on an indiana show, representative rokita wrote to the president. >> he said look, we need to know just from a public health standpoint with ebola circulating and everything else, that's my addition to it, not necessarily his, but he said we need to know the condition of these kids. >> rokita isn't the first member of congress to suggest that the children are an ebola threat. we turn our attention to the middle east after four weeks there are renewed hopes of an end to the violence between israel and hamas. over night, a 72-hour cease-fire went into effect. in the coming days, egypt plans to hold talks with the two

sides. israel announced all of its troops are out of gaza after destroying all the tunnels. it warned it will respond to any attacks. the u.s. and u.n. praised the cease-fire urging both sides to honor it. there have been several temporary truces before, all of which failed to bring an end to the conflict. one israeli was killed and several others hur hurt when a backhoe rammed into a bus. shelling could be heard in gaza and israel accused hamas of launching a series of rockets. more than 1,800 palestinians, mostly civilians have been killed since the crisis began. israel has lost 64 soldiers and 3 civilians.

meanwhile, president obama signed off on a $225 million funding package for the iron dome system in israel, but there are still signs that the u.s. and israel are at odds over the number of palestinian civilians killed. >> that suspicion that hamas fighters are operating in the vicinity of innocent civilians does not justify taking strikes that put the lives of those innocent civilians at risk. >> i personally expect more from our allies, particularly the united states, to understand that we are in a desperate struggle with a terrorist group that is using the civilian population as a human shield, that is trying to destroy this country, an ally of the united states. >> republican congressman brooks is accusing democrats of waging a war on whites. he was responding to a comment on fox news sunday talking about hispanic voters.

>> this party, your party cannot be the party of the future beyond november if you are seen as the party of white people. >> this is a part of the war on whites that's being launched by the democratic party and the way in which they are launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else. it's a part of the strategy that barack obama implemented in 2008, continued in 2012, where he divides us all on race, on sex, greed, envy, class warfare, all those kinds of things. >> in an interview later with an alabama newspaper, the congressman doubled down. they are attacking, by the democrats, opening soliciting votes based on skin color and that's wrong. nobody should be attacked base on skin color. >> chris mcdonnell is making a long anticipated move six weeks after losing to thad cochran.

the tea party is challenging the results, he's asking the state gop panel to reverse the outcome and make him the winner instead. cochran was certified as the winner by over 6,000 votes. but according to mcdaniel says there's invalid bat lots. they are believed to be from african-americans who turned out to vote for senator cochran in the run-off. >> they asked us to put up or shut up. here we are. here with the evidence. the integrity of the elections process of the state of mississippi matters. matters. but likewise the integrity of the republican party and its primary system and a party and a

system that we love so much, it matters as well. >> senator cochran's campaign defends the results and in a statement said in part we're dedicated to the defense of the votes of those mississippins who voted on june 24 for thad cochran as their united states senator, an election which has been thorough reviewed and examined as any in modern mississippi history. >> washington and the rest of the nation remembering, former white house press secretary james brady on monday. he was left paralyzed after the assassination attempt on president reagan. only 69 days after ronald reagan took office. >> shots were fired at president reagan in washington. >> six shots were fired. the first meant for the president exploded in the head of a white house press

secretary, james brady. brady had halls been known as the bear, big, irreverent even at his bosses expense. when candidate raegan said trees were killed by carbon dioxide. >> brady shot for his life, struggled to speak and to walk. the raegans insisted he keep the title of press secretary and renamed the briefing room in his honor. >> i hope this room is always filled as much integrity and good humor has jim brady broke brought to this. >> he's still my y and h. >> he worked tierlsly against gun violence, the brady bill, and background checks.

the assault weapons ban lasted ten years until congress let it lapse. >> he's still just as funny. >> not to mention funny looking. >> his greatest achievement was saving the life of the president of the united states. >> he lived for another 33 years, valiant to the end. >> james brady was 73 years old. the gulf coast, the city of naples, florida, cleaning up this morning after record rainfall brought on flash flooding. more than 6 1/2 inches fell. dozens of cars were stranded when roads became impassable, and the forecast today calling for scattered thunderstorms. we shift our focus to wall street. live from london with what we

can expect today. good morning. >> good morning to you. we might just get a pause for breath because we had the best market's performance since july 18th in the session yesterday and the early futures just look to be flat to negative. but there's a lot of news flow, so there is a chance that we might see sentiment change here. we're looking for factory orders and nonmanufacturing ism on the data points and walt disney will be the key corporate that will come after market close. we are looking to see how guardians figures. it may be a little early to book that movie into the profit line here but disney has had a phenomenal run over the last self -- thefle months. where we continue to see problems here that's gm, gm has acknowledged that the department of justice has contacted them. they have delivered a subpoena and they are asking questions

about subprime lending on auto loans since 2007, this just comes at a tough time for mary barra the new ceo who is already grapling with an investigation that's on going into what they knew at the company about faulty ig nigses. more problem it seems for gm. on a different note, we've got forbes with a different list. it has listed the highest paid actresses. >> sandra bullock $51 million. gravity did the job for her in 2014. but she had a special deal here that gave her some of the profit on this story. jennifer lawrence also having a similar type of contract around the hunger games, we think, which means that she came in

number 2. jennifer aniston number three. quite nice to see some old familiar faces still continuing to make big money at the box office. >> a trifecta of america's sweet hearts. it's interesting to see who comes out on top there. a newly implemented set of school nutrition guidelines aimed at combatting childhood obesity, have some critics claiming it could cause a stop to bake sales. however, there is a little wiggle room to have them on the campus because the law says the states can allow for a set number of in school bake sales each year and according to the washington post, georgia will allow 30 sales per school year, same for tennessee. illinois schools have nine and if the bake sales meet the food

guidelines, there will be no limit on the number of annual sales. this brings us to our twitter question for you this morning, do you think this policy is good or bad? how should schools handle healthy bake sales and healthy habits? tweet your answers at #way too early. still ahead on way too early, battle of the beltways, the nationals hosting the or yols in interleague play. you won't believe who joins these surfers for the ride of their lives. that story and a check on the weather when we come back. stick around. be. >> committed to the overthrow of

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welcome back, everybody. it's time now for sports and weapon to start with baseball. rays and a's tied in the bottom of the tenth. two outs and bases loaded. he sends one up the middle, scoring the game winner and the athletics walk off with a 3-2 win. we take you to the capital now, the o's trailing the nats. baltimore even things up. scoring, the man from second and the oriole bats, we wake up after that. then it's adam jones' turn. he rips a single to left. bringing home, young. baltimore ends the inning with a

5-3 lead and it was in the eighth that we get caleb joseph who lines one up the middle for another two runs. the orioles go on to win it 7-3. for the bronx, tigers and yankees scoreless in the third. bases loaded. >> carrera is on the run. still going back. what a catch by carrera. >> the tigers ezekiel carrera keeps it out. tigers pitcher, ver lander is talking to kate upton. striking out eight to earn his fourth straight victory.

2-1 yankees. to los angeles, the dodgers hosting the an gels. garrett richards pitched a complete game striking out nine to shut out the dodgers 5-0. let's check the weather. >> we are looking at the threat for more flash flooding today across the interior portions of the west. while the rain is certainly welcomed by those drought stricken areas, flash flood watches today for northern nevada and idaho. in the northeast, it's warm and humid one. typical summertime warmth but get ready for the thunderstorms. we expect to see showers and thunderstorms some of which would produce heavy rainfall in

the northeast, thomas. coming up at the top of the hour on morning joe, kentucky senator rand paul says the gop needs to do a better job of expanding its tent. why is he hanging out with someone floating presidential impeachment talk? we're going to reveal if your alma matter is on the list of this year's top party schools. back after this. honey, look i got one to land. uh-huh. (vo) there's good more... honey, look at all these smart rewards points verizon just gave me. ooh, you got a buddy. i'm like a statue. i just signed up and, boom, all these points.

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water animals but i like this one. i want to get to our twitter responses. we asked you do you think you think the new school nutrition guidelines on bake sales is a good or bad sales and how should schools handle it? some of the best responses. we thought this was going to be a good talker. >> we have a lot of mixed opinions. i may actually need to join the tea party after reading this. kids aren't obese because of mom-baked cookies. what's so bad about being healthy? i mean, i love cup cakes but dear god this nation backs to back off the lard. >> it's all about moderation. next on way too early, the stories we're going to be talking about and morning joe. stick around. ♪ claim. that's why allstate claim free rewards gives you money back for every year you don't have one.

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business forum this afternoon. the white house is billing the event as the largest gathering of african leaders ever in washington. a second american missionary affected with ebola is setbrants week are the only ebola patients ever treated in the u.s. ramping up for a potential presidential run, senator rand paul will continue his brief through iowa today. that does it for "way too early." "morning joe" starts right now. stick around. ♪ join us in an effort to restore confidence, dignity and decorum to this institution. >> former white house press secretary james brady died today at the age of 73. >> only 69 days after ronald reagan took office. >> one bullet striking reagan in the chest. another penetrating brady's skull. >> the tragedy turned brady's