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a new video emerged of a domestic violence incident. the security footage obtained by tmz sports shows an altercation between rice and his then fiancee in an elevator. rice appears to hit his fiance powerfully knocking her off her feet straight to the floor. rice previously was suspended for two games over a separate video of the same incident released earlier this year. it fwhaz this video that he is seen dragging his future wife's unconscious body from the elevator. here's how head coach john harbaugh reacted when rice was initially suspended and then again last night after the new full video footage surfaced. >> it's really not, it's not a big deal it's just part of the process. we said from the beginning that the circumstances will determine the consequences. there are consequences when you maek a mistake like that. i stand behind ray. he is a heck of a guy. he's done everything right since. he makes a mistake. all right? he has to pay a consequence. i think that's good for kids to understand it works that way. that's how it works.

that's how it should be. and we'll move forward and the next guy will have to step up and then ray will be back, you know, when the time comes. so it's not something that we're dwelling on as you say, we're not worrying about. we're moving forward. >> i have nothing but hope and good will foray and jenay and we'll do whatever we can going forward to help them, you know, as they go forward. it's something we saw for the first time today, you know, all of us. and it changed things, of course. you know, it made things a little bit different. >> so many including players past and present believe the initial two game suspension was too lenient, especially compared to other punishments for nonviolent infractions. even president obama weighed in last night with a white house statement reading, "the president is the father of two daughters. and like any american, he believes that domestic violence is connecticut temptable and unacceptable in a civilized society. hitting a woman is not something

a real man does. and that is true whether or not an act of violence happens in the public eye or far too often behind closed doors. stopping domestic violence is something that's bigger than football and all of us have a responsibility to put a stop to it. now rice had three years worth of $10 million left on his contract and his jerseys, they reportedly been pulled from the mainlior supporting goods stores like models and dicks. one of the major questions now deals with when the nfl learned about the full video. now the league released a statement reading, "we requested from law enforcement any and all information about the incident including the video from inside the elevator. that video was not made available to us and no one in our office has seen it until it was released by tmz. but this morning the website tmz sports reporting no one from the nfl ever asked the hotel and casino for video inside the elevator writing, "multiple sources tell tmz sports cat seen yoe made a copy of the elevator sports video for police and

we're told that rice's lawyer had a copy of the video which he got in the criminal case. and here is the tmz managing editor last night. >> i have gotten conflicting stories on this and we have some people saying they saw this. but i now believe they actually turned the blind eye to it. and it's a shameful story. that the nfl knew that this surveillance video existed. >> so we should point out this is tmz's reporting. nbc news has not independently confirmed these claims. this does bring us to our twitter question for you this morning. what are your thoughts? do you believe the nfl and ravens didn't see the full video until it was released by tmz? had no clue about it? tweet us your thoughts using the #waytooearly. coming up in a few hours, president obama will meet with congressional leaders from both parties as he begins to lay out his plan to defeat islamic state militants in iraq and syria.

defense officials say the plans may include expanded air strikes to reclaim territory that isisi seized in iraq and president obama is expected to tell americans wednesday that it will likely take years to destroy the group. administration officials are scheduled to give classified briefings to the entire house and senate wednesday and thursday about president obama's plans. the white house hopes the speech and briefings will make lawmakers buy in to the president's strategy. but press secretary josh earnest hedged on answering whether buy in means president obama will seek congressional approval or not. >> the president has the direct question. he didn't give a direct answer either. yes or no? >> i don't know. i covered him for years. i don't know what you mean by a congressional buy in. buy in seems to me would imply a vote of some kind. a vote on appropriations or authorization or a sense of the congress resolution, some kind of a vote s that what you want from congress? a vote on this?

yes or no? >> again, if you want to get insight into the president's current thinking about this, then i would refer to the answer he gave to chuck in the interview 48 hours ago. but the other thing that i would point out that is also part of your question is if the president decides to expand the operation and these are the kinds of questions that are best answered after the president made fundamental decisions about what he wants to do there. >> meanwhile, secretary of state john kerry is heading to the middle east to build an international coalition dedicated to defeating isis. more than 40 countries are already onboard. and new "washington post"/abc news polling shows 71% of americans support air strikes in iraq. that's up 26 points since june. and nearly two thirds are in favor of air strikes in syria. close to 60% support giving arms and ammunition to kurdish forces who are battling isis. the poll says that 56%

disapprove of how president obama is handling foreign affairs and the obama presidency has been a failure. fourth american who contracted the ebola virus will return to the u.s. for treatment today. the unidentified patient will be taken to emory university hospital in atlanta. this is the same hospital that treated two other americans who were released last month. richard secra, a missionary is currently receiving care at the nebraska medical center in omaha. doctors there say they are very pleased with his progress so far. meanwhile, the world health organization is reporting a sharp increase in the number of ebola cases in liberia. the group is warning thousands of additional cases are expected in the near future. we shift our attention to business news. it is a big day for apple. it's not only the new iphone and ipad and the smart watch that the company is expected to unveil today. geoff cutmore joins us live from london with more on that. what can you tell us? >> hey, good morning you to, thomas. i hate to be a bit of a party

pooper. but from the financial markets perspective, you know what? these new products announcements from apple are giving us less and less bang for the buck in terms of the share price. so whatever we get today, it's worth bearing in mind the first announcement of an iphone, the next day we saw the share price up over 8%. you just can't be that excited six times round, right? so subsequent anonouncements evn over 30 days and in fact you have to wait until some 12 months or so after the announcement to really see any follow-through. having said that, as you say, we are look forg something else on the table here and this nfc technology could be interesting. this is the technology that allows mobile phones to pay for goods and services in stores. so could we be looking at the death of the credit card if

apple as we believe puts this in the iphone six and is able to make this technology more available? that could be ground breaking. so there may be something important in this. one more thing to mention. while we're on the apple story, for youtube fans of a generation, you, too, are expected to play a part in the cooper tino announcement today. whether they're going to play, whether they have a new song, we're not so sure. is it in the name of love that they're playing or it is for the cash? i'll let you make up your own mind on that one. >> all right. we'll have a little throwback synergy there looking at the old pictures of bono. let's talk about home depot. geoff, they're making a little news today trying to move the needle as well. >> yeah, absolutely. i mean it's only taken six days. so maybe some home depot customers may be a little agrieved here. home depot coming up, fessing up, yes, there was a breech in our online security. we will make good any fraudulent

transactions that took place on your account because our system was the problem here. although, home depot coming out and saying they don't think pin numbers were taken. there wasn't breech on accounts. they don't think pin numbers were taken. so that's slightly reassuring. and just one more story. while we're in the online retailing space. twitter, now a lot of us who watch this ipo of twitter have been asking how is this business going to make money? apparently some twitter users will find a buy button on their feed. this is a service that they're trialing. they want to tie up with fancy and a few other retailers. would you buy goods from twitter? i guess is the question you could ask yourself. >> makes it easy for everybody. thank you geoff cutmore. >> two former presidents were smiles on monday as they reunited in washington. they announced their presidential libraries along with those of the elder bush and president lyndon johnson will launch a presidential leadership

scholars program. while they spoke about important aspects of decision making and leadership, they also showed a clear fondness for one another. take a look. >> it's a fantastic use of our ability to bring people together. and the reason why leadership, i know in washington everybody assumes we're talking about the next, you know, president or next senator. we're not. we're talking about leadership in all aspects of life. >> the founders said our job was to create a more perfect union. they never said our job was to agree on everything. but if you read the constitution, it ought to be subtitled let's make a deal. we were laughing about going to restaurants and having to spend our time taking selfies with people. >> at least they're still asking, you know? >> yeah. that's right. and it's like, used to be people want to shake your hands. now they want to have shaking

your hand and have a record of it. >> at least they're still asking. so former president bush shared advice with his predecessor on becoming a granddad. >> be prepared to fall completely in love again. you're not going to believe it. you're just not going to believe the joy and the fun. i'm looking forward to talking to you after after that child is born. it's going to be awesome period for you. and yeah, get ready also to be like the lowest person in the pecking order in your family. >> family food chain dynamics totally changes. still ahead, the best action from monday night football. full highlights. eli manning's giants the low lights. and record flooding in the southwest. several areas in states of emergency. we'll get an update. bill karins will be here with that and much more coming up right after this. guys! you're not gonna believe this!

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welcome baction, everybody. time for sports and nfl monday night doubleheader. we start with a late game in arizona. we jump to the end of the fourth. cardinals with the ball, trailing the chargers 17-12. the quarterback carson palmer finds the rookie john brown on a slip screen right. there he caps the 91 yard drive with a touchdown to give arizona the lead. the lead is, they hang on to win it 18-17. all right, so to detroit. it might be a long -- very long season for giants fans after new york got beat up by the lions last night. detroit quarterback matthew stafford gave his team an early lead connecting with calvin johnson. he scored twice in the first quarter. giants beat eli manning with two interceptions and they won the opener. joey, how do you really feel? >> horrible. horrible. >> yjoey his horrible. >> that giants super bowl was a long time ago. >> you poor guy. >> did you see that flooding pictures yesterday? >> i did.

amazing. >> the phoenix stuff. we had vegas. we had areas of virginia, too, hampton roads. phoenix yesterday this is the desert. they get eight inches of rain a year. they picked up over three inches in one day. this was like epic stuff. the most they ever had in one calendar day in the phoenix area going back over 100 years. and as can you see, the results of it. we're fine this morning. things improved in the phoenix area. we're not concerned there anymore. the other concern we're going to have is going to be severe weather out there. and, of course, the worst of it is going to be heading into the great lakes and into the ohio valley. and thomas, yesterday it snowed in calgary and alberta, canada, like inches of snow. and that cold air is heading to the midwest. not the snow but we have big changes coming. >> really, that quickly? >> yes. >> all right. >> so fall is upon us? >> yeah. leaves, pumpkins, scare crows. >> and the harvest moon? >> the full moon was great last

night. i think it is setting now. it was beautiful. >> okay. all right. so for those that are out on the west coast, they can still catch some of it, right? >> yep. coming up the top of the hour on "morning joe," the latest reaction to the indefinite suspension of ray rice. "new york times" sports columnist will join joe. when we come back, we'll huddle around the water cooler for a special announcement from then with and ounly stephen colbert. back after this. wherever morning takes you, take along nature valley soft-baked oatmeal squares. oatmeal. cinnamon. softly-baked. nature valley soft-baked oatmeal squares. but they don't yet know we're a family. we're right where you need us. at the next job, next adventure or at the next exit, helping you explore super destinations.

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all right. we told you about the big product announcement april sl expected to make later today. tell your friends that according to forbes, apple sold the 500 millionth iphone earlier in march. that is 500 melon phones in about seven years. pretty amazing, right? let's check in with lewis. he is around the water cooler for an epic family feud matchup. >> that's right. we have steve harvey on the show yesterday. last night he had a day time role as host of the game show family feud on to the night show when fallon and the family took on the roots. let's take a look at this. ♪ >> name another term for marijuana. >> quest? >> weed. >> weed.

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look. >> as a patriot, there is nothing i enjoy celebrating the overthrow of the monarchy. on the other hand, another royal baby is on the way. >> another royal baby is on the way. >> we have a spare to the heir. >> an heir and a spare. >> it's an heir and a spare. >> oh, my gosh! an heir and a spare! and i can't believe i care. but i do. we did it. well-being technically, will and kate did it. the royals are truly a special class of people, folks. they nothing have sex with a 1-year-old in the house. so thank you. thank you, prince william and duchess kate for giving the whole world a much needed break from the whole world. you deserve every bit of attention you're getting instead of me. which leads to my own exciting announcement. i'm pregnant!

[ applause ] am i showing? i peed on that stick last night and it got wet so i think that means this is a go. i don't know exactly how far along i am. but by judging the scale, you know, my baby already weighs exactly the same amount as last night's chipotle: >> colbert baby would be american royalty. >> it's a good thing men don't get pregnant. we could not handle it. lewis, thank you, sir. we want to get your responses to our twitter question. earlier in the show we asked you if you believe that the nfl and the ravens didn't see the full video of ray rice until it was released by tmz sports. our producer has some of the responses. i don't think people out there watching us believe it. >> no. nobody -- they don't believe it at all. i believe that the nfl never saw that video before today, the same way i believe that santa

exists. >> yeah. >> and then so fishy it swims. make you wonder how thorough the nfl's "investigations" are. and then lance says, they saw it. they were just hoping it wouldn't come out. >> yeah, i think a lot of people expect better. thanks so much. coming up on "way too early," a look at the stories you'll be talking about in the day ahead. "morning joe" is just ahead. stick around. nineteen years ago, we thought, "wow, how is there no way to tell the good from the bad?" so we gave people the power of the review. and now angie's list is revolutionizing local service again. you can easily buy and schedule services from top-rated providers. conveniently stay up to date on progress. and effortlessly turn your photos into finished projects with our snapfix app. visit angieslist.com today. ♪ my golden years will not just be gold plated. i had 3 different 401(k)s. e*trade offers rollover options

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before we toss it over to "morning joe," president obama is getting ready for critical meetings with congressional leaders to lay out his plan to defeat isis. he'll meet with them this afternoon at the white house. and listen to this, former secretary of state hillary clinton will hold a high dollar fund-raiser for the democratic women's senate network at her washington, d.c. home later today. ticket prices, they start at $10,000 a pop. that's going to do it for "way too early." thanks for watching. "morning joe" starts right now. ♪ when someone that you care

about does wrong, you know, and is faced with the consequences of doing wrong and rightfully so, it is tough. it is hurtful. and and my pain is for both of them as a couple, you know, in going forward. my hope is they can make it work. and from everything that i understand and talking, you know, to ray up until his suspension, talking to him a lot, you know, it seemed like they were really working hard and doing well in that direction and i hope they can weather this part of it too. i'll be praying for that. >> early yesterday afternoon the news came out, i guess not much of a shock after tmz video was leaked. sacked. unbelievable story coming out of baltimore with ray rice, something that obviously upset a lot of us yesterday morning when we first saw this video, and mika we got bill