life or death. another day, another feud involving who else, trump. it's 5:30 on the east coast, 2:30 out west. it's "way too early." good morning everyone. it is friday july 17th. i'm amy holmes. we begin in chattanooga, tennessee where a gunman opened fire on two facilities yesterday killing four marines and leaving three others wounded. it's called an act of domestic terror. the suspect mohammad youssuf abdulazeez is also dead. we do not know the names of the

marines who were killed. >> we have no idea at this point what his motivation was behind this shooting. we are just beginning this investigation. we will explore option. at this point, we don't have anything tying him to an international terror o. >> this comes as officials tell nbc news the suspected gunman was not in any federal terrorism database and not under investigation. his father was once investigated years ago for terrorist ties. that investigation was closed and his father was remove ed from the watch list. officials suspect it may have been isis-inspired because of target and timing. the muslim holy month of ramadan ended yesterday. so far, there's no concrete information on isis ties. 10:45 yesterday morning the gunman opened fire on a military recruitment center in

chattanooga and drove seven miles to a marine corps senter and opened fire again. the second location is where the pour marines were killed and is also the suspect was killed. it's unclear how he died. one defense official saying the gunman used an automatic weapon. others saying he was armed with numerous weapons. yesterday in the oval office president obama promising a thorough investigation. >> obviously when puff an attack on a u.s. military facility we have to make sure we have all the information necessary to make an assessment in terms of how this attack took place and what further precautions we take in the future. i ask all americans to pray for the families who are grief-stricken at this point, and i want everybody to

understand we will be thorough and prompt many figuring out exactly what happened. >> our hearts of course going out to those families. a navy sailor wounded, a marine recruiter shot in the leg. police officer dennis shot in the ankle but expected to recover. joining us from chattanooga, tennessee, dave wagner. dave, what else are we learning about this survivors and what they're saying about the attack? >> reporter: amy, i can tell you now, this is the second of the two crime scenes. this is where the gunman came and shot and killed those four marines. so many witnessed these shootings. first of all the first happened in a busy shopping center strip there. we spoke to the head of the army recruiting center. he was inside the building at the time of the shootings. this is when he said. >> we heard one shot go off which kind of alerted us at.

a second or two went by we heard the first fire. at that time we knew it was gunfire at our location. then we went into what we call active shoot otherer drill. we moved to the rear of the building barricaded in got down on the ground and waited for it to be clear. we knew right away it was gunfire after the initial first pop. most of us in the office are combat veterans have heard it before. we're soldiers shoot all the time know what gunfire sounds like. it was pretty much instantaneous we knew it was gunfire. maybe one or two seconds we you exactly what we needed to do. >> reporter: again, this is the scene where the four marines were killed. it is still very much an active crime scene here in chattanooga. >> i see the police car behind you. less than 24 hours out. what more do we know at this

point about the suspect? >> reporter: we've talked a little about him here. we know he's 24 years old mohammad youssuf abdulazeez, lived with his parents. his dad is in fact a city employee. the gunman not on terrorist watch lists. there is an interesting kind of divergence of opinion on who this guy was. if you look at his high school yearbook entry, it says my name causes national security alerts, what does yours? we did speak to some of his friends who knew him well they thought. they said they saw a very different person. he's what they said. >> i don't want the to see him painted as just a career are terrorist, like this is what he was brought up to do. that's not the kwas. >> it's an unspeakable thing he did. there's no way that it can be explained in any sort of way.

it's awful. but i want people to know he wasn't always like this. he was a completely different person growing up. he was the guy next door. >> reporter: again, that gunman is now dead. authorities very much investigating what prompted this shooting here that left four people dead and others injured. certainly four families and an entire community in fact, in some ways the entire country, grieving over this. >> thank you so much. dave wagner reporting on the ground from chattanooga. we appreciate it. life behind bars or death by lethal injection. that's the question mow facing the jury after it determined james holmes was legally sane when he killed 1 people during the aurora colorado movie massacre in 2012. jacob rascon has more on the verdict.

>> it took jurors two days to decide, guilty of murder manyin the first degree. james holmes shot 82 people in a packed movie theater three years ago killing 12 of then. his capital murder trial lasted two and a half months. the jury of nine women and three months included 256 witnesses including ashley who lost her 6-year-old daughter veronica and unborn baby in the shooting. >> i was told that she didn't make it. that she had passed away. >> in closing arguments, george told the jury to reject holmes claim he was insane and focus on his elaborate planning of the attack detailed in a diary. >> this guy walked into that theater and tried to murder everyone in it. >> daniel king admitted his client carried out the attack

reminded the jury that every mental health agent said he suffer ised from mental illness. >> the mental illness caused this to happen. >> the guilty verdict is a relief for many in colorado especially family and friends of 12 victims and hundreds of survivors of the movie theater massacre. onto politics. a poll conducted early this week has donald trump surging in the race for the republican nomination. trump leads the field 18% followed be by governor scott walker and jeb bush. trump's support climbed seven points from last month and 14 points since may. in a poll voters are asked if they agree with his wording on immigration. republicans, 70% agree with

trump, 27% disagree. trump appeared before a pack add room in new hampshire yesterday and continued to hammer away at jeb bush. >> i'm going to win the hispanic vote. bush isn't going to win even though he'll say five words in spanish. he's not going to win. he's not going to put anybody to work. he's not going to negotiate with china. who would you rather have negotiating against china, trump or bush? >> meanwhile, trump taking to twitter yesterday to dispute comments from the party's 2008 presidential nominee senator john mccain. it began when mccain criticized trump's event in arizona calling it quote very hurtful to me. what he did was fired up the crazies. mccain continued we have an extreme element within our republican party. we did to some degree regain control. now he galvanized them. trump hit back tweeting thousands of people that showed

up for me in phoenix were hazing americans. the tweets got a big reaction online including one from longest serving member in congress john dingle. he tweeted at trump, quote, delete your account. president obama went where no sitting president has gone before to a federal prison. the president met with half a dozen inmates and kaed off the week long push to overhaul what he calls a broken criminal justice system. he's not the only politician raising the issue. senior white house correspondent chris jansing has more on the historic visit and bipartisan push for reform. >> it's a dramatic image, first sitting president to walk the

halls of a federal penitentiary looking inside the cell and calling for change. >> we have of reconsider if 20 or 30 year life sentences for violent crimes is the best way for us to solve these problems. >> he's talking about people like barbara scribner who was sentenced to 30 years in prison leaving behind an infant daughter. >> i thought i would -- to be blunt, rather be dead than deal with this. >> on monday president obama commuted the sentences of 46 non violent drug offenders like barbara. the u.s. is world's biggest jailer. one out of 99 americans in behind bars majority black or hispanic at cost of $80 billion a year. now reform gets rare bipartisan support. for the first time the speaker of the house got behind the legislation. barbara scribner was away from

her daughter for years. >> i had to do it non existent or second hand. it was devastating. >> now barbara is in college and an inter-- and the president says more should have hah chance. >> these people made mistakes i made and a lot of you made. that's what strikes me. united nations will likely vote on the iran nuclear deal next month. many parties are far from pleased. some are telling the obama administration that going to u.n. before congress is the wrong move. >> i think the administration should wait until after the congress had review period. i don't know what the is lost by delaying that until after the review period.

i personally believe it would be wrong to go before. >> as you remember the president planned to go directly to the u.n. security council without coming to congress. that's why we passed the iran review act manythis the first place. them knowing that or going to security council this tuesday to pass this agreement and also do away with all other u.n. security council agreements resolutions put in place, i'm sorry. i look at that as a front to the american people. >> republican presidential candidate ted cruz sent a letter threatening to block state department nominees and funding unless the president lets congress vote first. this as a poll finds 80% of americans believe u.s. cannot trust iran on the deal with nuclear weapons.

kerry will return to the gulf next month. secretary of state joins "morning joe" for his first interview this morning after the historic agreement with iran. now let's turn to business. a lifeline for greece and better than expected corporate earnings helped propel nasdaq to all time high. >> it was a bunch of things we're seeing at the moment. yes, all time highs. you are on a roar tech side. not to ignore bigger financials that have been strong. some not making it as strongly yesterday in the showing. you had yellen talking about how the economy is on recovery. data has been getting better as well.

here in europe greek parliament passing austerity measures. we have a vote today on whether or not they're going to pass on that money to greece. there's thought that will pass. the government will reshuffle and take place today as well. the tech rally, nasdaq higher 3.5% on the month alone. yesterday, all time lieemme high. let's look at companies seeking gains. netflix surging 18%. the movie service subscriber a strong database. second growth quarter very strong. they're larger than the traditionally very big companies. they're larger than fedex, larger r than gm. google 12% jump after trade. very much helped by growth revenue. ebay higher than 3.5%. just as ebay and pay pal split. they reached a deal to sell off

enterprise agreements. they came with that announcement before the must be of announcements yesterday. they've been trying sell it for ages and finally did so is. let's talk about uber. they're overtaking taxes in their battle for business traveler. analysis has been done. if you take business cars out, uber wins. they account for 55% of ground transportation receipts. they withhold 43%. it's down to price. people don't want to pay more to drive around in the cities in they don't have to. >> makes sense to me. thank you live from london. we appreciate it. quick update on former president george hw bush. doctors say he's in good spirit. they expect him to make a full recovery from the neck fracture. the doctor says the injury common in older people could have been worse.

they plan to let it heal without surgery. we're told he'll remain in the hospital for rehabilitation. the recovery is usually three to four months for this type of injury. stunning images of a tornado that touched down in illinois. for some areas, the threat is not over. bill karins has the forecast. then this -- >> we shouldn't have too many men on the project. you know how that can be. i'm assuming you can work together without being caddy. i didn't know men could be funny. >> carly fiorina turning the tables to look at the work place. we'll show you the created moments to get her point across.

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hello. good morning. >> good friday. >> still ahead, we're looking at funnel clouds touching down. >> pretty impressive tornado yesterday in illinois. thankfully it's where you want out over the open field, ruined crops. that was about it. it was a strong tornado. for the most part it had multiple suction points that go up to the base of the thunderstorm. it was impressive and pretty nasty. thankfully very little if any damage was done by those. let's take you to the forecast. hot weather continues to dominate the maps today. not only in the deep south, it spreads to kansas city st. louis to north. by the time we get to peak, 4:00 to 5:00 numerous areas 100 to 106. kansas city one of the hot spots on the map. rain in areas of michigan spreading to western new york ohio, pennsylvania during the day today. forecast today, few storms in

florida. also the northern plains. by the time we get to the weekend, it's going to get hot. looking at humid conditions in the east. by the time we get to sunday d.c. could be upper 90s with a heat index approaching 105. >> wow. >> it's going to get very hot weekend. don't be fooled by today. >> don't be fooled. turn on ac sounds like. thank you bill. appreciate it. still ahead, carly fiorina takes on sexism in the work place. next on "way too early." have? 18%? 20? introducing nutrient-dense purina one true instinct with real salmon and tuna and 30% protein. support your active dog's whole body health with purina one. ♪ ♪ ♪ it took serena williams years to master the two handed backhand.

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