whether or not to start a formal investigation of the governor. it's just getting started. we'll keep you posted. it's just getting started up there. we'll keep you posted. "first look" is next. it's wednesday, july 1st. right now on "first look" historic church many south carolina goes up in flames again 20 years after it was burned to the ground at kkk. head heads are rolling at the time prison where the two escaped. ben and jenn are headed for a divorce after ten years. that and more on a busy wednesday. "first look" starts now. hello everybody. thanks for waking up with us. i'm betty nguyen. it happened again. another church went up in flames. this morning, fire officials say

the 8,000 square feet church in south carolina is a total loss. there's no official cause yet, and there were lightning storms passing through. many the aftermath of the horrible charleston massacre two weeks ago, a string of fires and seven predominantly black churches in a week has people wondering if it's all connected. this same church was burned to the ground 20 years ago by ku klux klan. fbi is investigating. three and a half weeks after the escape from the prison fa till silty, the boss and other employees are fired. the remaining escapee is revealing his plan. >> da tells nbc news t david

sweat started planning the escape in january. sweat said he navigated the maze of cat walks for months all along. the night before the escape the duo conducted a dry run breaking out of prison. >> they did get out to the point of the village and did actually pop one of the manholes up. >> they retreated back to their cells. >> if they were able to pop open a manhole cover the night before why not escape that night? >> i felt they had a plan to have joyce mitchell pick them up in a car and drive away. >> according to wylie, they abandoned the plan to head to mexico through west virginia. sweat tells investigators matt was sick drinking and slowing him down. >> there were occasions he heard the helicopter sheriff deputy vehicle pulled up in the

vicinity of where they were. they were somewhat surprised. he said matt fell backwards and made some noise. the sheriff's deputy didn't locate them. >> breaking into cabins like this one, sweat says they tuned in to am radio, changed directions as this they moved towards canada. >> he thought he was going to make it until he came into contact with the sergeant. new with backlash against donald trump this morning over his comments about mexicans. miss universe is dropping out. his other pageant miss usa is dropping out. yesterday in new hampshire, donald trump reacted to the

decision to sever business ties. >> they left 51 wonderful girls that worked so hard all their lives to become a representative and go to the miss usa pageant in louisiana. they're all waiting there right now. they left them just abandoned them. so did, as you know, univision. >> as for univision, trump filed a $500 million lawsuit against them yesterday which they said is false and ridiculous. president obama is expected to make announcement about the united states and cuba. both are expected to open embassies in each other's capital capitals. tracey, this is a big deal. not everyone is celebrating. >> no. not everyone thinks this will be good for the united states. jeb bush tweeted it will

legitimize repression and does not promote freedom and democracy. president obama is expected to announce we're going to open the embassy and cuba bah will open one here. so far we have an u.s. interest section. this is the next step in normalizing connections. cuba was first taken off the states to sponsor terror. there's roadblocks here's. we have a trade embargo that only congress can lift. congress could throw roadblocks trying to hold offer on funds, cut off the money or delaying the ambassador. >> thank you for that report. also this to tell you about. greece has become the first to default on the imf loan. greece missed the payment hours

after the request of the prime minister for a third bailout was rejected by other eurozone nations. president obama addressed the crisis. >> it is an issue primarily of concern to europe. this is not something that we believe will have a major shock to the system. >> a referendum is scheduled for sunday. greek voters will decide to accept the austerity program. the vote would force them to stop using the euro as currency. team usa is headed back to the finals. facing the german team americans had their work cut out for them n. the 69th minute of play carly lloyd converted first score of the game. late in the match, lloyd made a

beautiful pass to kelly o'harra. solo recorded her fifth straight shutout. the u.s. team will play winner of england and defending world cup champion japan. go team us zrksusa. listen to this story. girl skoutss are making news after giving back a $100,000 donation. the girls reportedly received the money from a donor in a letter the donor wrote please guarantee our gift will not be used for transgender girls. if you can't, please return the money. in a move going viral, the girl scouts gave the money back and started the campaign girl scouts is for every girl. so far they have doubled that number with almost $250,000 in

donations. turning now to our nation's capital. 50 girl scouts are waking up on the white house lawn. michelle obama, first lady, is hosting the girl scout campout as part of her let's move initiative. the girls even got a visit from the president. >> you know what you guys are having so much fun. unfortunately i've got to go to work. i am not allowed to have fun. we can have a group hug. >> oh. look at this. the president gets bombarded by the girl scouts all of them wanting to get in on that group hug. then this. say it isn't so. ben affleck and jennifer garner

announced their split. it said we have made the difficult decision to divorce. we go forward. they have three kids between the age of nine and three. rolling up on nine minutes past the hour let's get down to business with landon dowdy. good morning. >> good morning to you. after closing the first half of the year with small gains, the latest news out of greece. they missed the loan payment to imf. dow, nasdaq and s&p 500 suffering worst month since january. auto makers report sales numbers today. expected to be a strong month for the industry. that's demand for pickup trucks and suvs. gas prices lower than this this time last year this could be the first time best first half since 2002. mcdonald's takes a stab at

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a wall suddenly collapsed. no injuries but definitely scary moments. thunderstorms woke up a lot of people in greater new york city area in last few hours. strong line of storms going through, even severe thunderstorm warnings. the line strongest portion,

through west chester, about to get to connecticut. there's definitely lightning strikes. i said people have probably been woken up by this. thunderstorm warnings about to expire. only going two more minutes. we'll see if they issue that. line of storms through long island and up through connecticut. heavy rain if in missouri this morning. heavy rain expected missouri to tennessee. how much rain? areas of red is possibility of up to three inches of rain. that's significant. had a lot of wet weather in missouri as we went through spring. the threat is high. this will track throughkentucky and west virginia. we had wind damage yesterday. we could get some today. scattered strong storms missouri to tennessee. for new england, the threat is first half of the day that will

improve throughout the day. connecticut and long island give yourself some time as the storms come through. we want to take you to hong kong where a massive march is taking place. look at this. the 18th anniversary of the hand over. tens of thousands are in the streets calling for free elections. fire crews say the wildfire that's destroyed homes and businesses in central washington is 47% contained. here's a look at the destruction before and after images. it shows the neighborhood as it was and after homes were burned to the ground. eu officials say isis militants are sending 100,000 social media messages everyday. he said the social media network

is a challenge for security. 3,000 hillary clinton e-mails cover march through december of her time as secretary of state. they reveal officials including emanuel and axle rod knew she was using a personal account for business, something she has come under fire for. jeb bush posted 33 years of income tax returns dating back to 1981. they show in 2013 he made nearly $7.4 million, mainly from consulting and speaking gigs. he's taken in $29 million since leaving florida governor office in 2007. the man that turned a business selling shoes from the back of his car into a multibillion dollars world class company is stepping down. knight began nike in a hand

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at this morning's "scrambled politics." new jersey governor chris christie is is running for president. before announcing yesterday, music by john bon jovi said he gave chris christie permission to use his song. the supreme court has ruled the six foot tall monument will have to come down because it benefits public property to benefit a religion. buzz feed got a gop candidate, the ted cruz to offer best imitations of characters from "the simpsons". we're not sure cruz should be the replacement just yet. >> smithers release the house.

excellent. hidy ho neighbor. presidential candidate hillary clinton posted this old school photo of her and bill on twitter last night. she wrote the hippest way to spend $10, being one of the first to support hillary clinton in 2016. nice hair bill. rand paul was looking for cash yesterday. he held a fun raisefund-raiser in denver. this makes him the first to seek from the legal weed industry. >> courting marijuana donors is i think a very good plan. once they give you money, there's a good chance they'll forget and give you money again. >> that's your morning dish of "scrambled politics." we didn't forget. we're joined by jonathan allen,

chief correspondent. what do we owe this week? >> i totally forgot. pass the degreeoritosdoritos. >> exactly. munchies. hillary clinton has released e-mails during her time as secretary of state. what did they reveal? >> mostly a haystack from which the needles have been removed if there were any. these are the e-mails hillary clinton chose to turn over. she unilaterally decided which were work and which were personal e-mails. i don't expect us to find anything dirty. this is stuff that's been through a vetting process. >> there's concern katherine due value, heading up the release of e-mails, could be failing to disclose important information.

what do you know about that? >> she was involved in the irs scandal previously. they're trying to make a connection and say this is someone that's not been forth coming in the past. they're trying to make it about her in terms of what's not delivered to committees. they're argues it's what she turns over in response to information. >> remind us about the irs scandal and her involvement overseeing that. >> she was basically the head council of overseeing what gets seen. this was whether the irs was political gain bipartisan gain. it was looking into particular organization, republican-leaning organizations. republicans believe the irs was not responsive to requests for information.

them that's happening at state department now. one could make the argument -- they also point out one might also point out the response and question is not surprising that it's consist can ent given the same person. this may be the expert inside the government on it. >> interesting. we'll see how it plays out. jonathan thanks for joining us twice. double thank you to you. have a good day. >> thank you the. just ahead, a boxer from the mean streets of if i fill gets a shot. get ready for sylvester sta alone and creed. your look at the installment of the classic franchise. that is next. and we'll find a top rated provider to take care of it. so i could get a faulty light switch fixed? yup! or have a guy refinish my floors? absolutely! or send someone out to groom my pookie? pookie's what you call your? my dog. yes, we can do that. real help from real people. come see what the new angie's list can do for you.

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. entertainment news shall we? misty copeland is the first african-american woman to hold the title in the company's 75 year history. copeland has been outspoken about the lack of african-americans in ballet. now as one of the most respected dancers of all time, she's redefining the modern ballerina. >> i don't think i could be a part of this field if i didn't like to work hard. trailer for new rocky sequel "creed" is released. this story follows an aspiring young boxer's journey to the ring to follow his father's footsteps. >> i heard about a third fight between you and apollo behind closed doors. is that true? >> how do you know all this?

>> i'm his son. >> hits theaters november 25th. you got your tickets, right? >> it brings back the childhood. >> we need song "eye of the tiger" to play. >> i'm sure it will. way too early starts now. >> chris christie's campaign slogan is telling it like it is. this is in contrast to hillary's slogan explains this is not what it looks like. >> document dump. 3,000 pages of hillary clinton e-mails released by the state department. this morning, a look inside her mind set as secretary of state. thea dry run. the two prison escapees reportedly had a trial run. and president obama spoke about how last week stack add up to monumental events in his

life. this is "way too early." the show that unlike greece hasn't defaulted on loan payments at least as far as i know. ♪ ♪ good morning. it's wednesday, july 1st. i'm ayman. we begin in the nation's capital as washington scans through latest batch of e-mails released from hillary clinton's time as secretary of state. while you were sleeping, 3,000 e-mails from 2009 from hillary's personal account, many focus on everyday events and scheduling issues. one of the take aways, sidney blumenthal having a greater role than originally believed. they were in regular contact about a host of issues