'll be back next week. because if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." for today. if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." s it it is monday, july 27th. latest nbc poll puts donald trump at or near the republican field. and the race tightens for hillary clinton. new developments in the desperate search for two teenage boys who went missing in a small boat off the course of florida. nearly six months after being found unresponsive in a bathtub in her georgia home bobby kristina brown has died. why fiat chrysler is buying back some of its vehicles. that and so much more. "first look" starts right now. good monday morning, everybody. hopefully you had a good

weekend. one man is showing a whole lot of strength in the polls. two nbc polls show donald trump running strong. he leads the pack in iowa he places second. meanwhile, hillary clinton continues to lead big in iowa on the democratic side but her margin over bernie sanders is smaller in new hampshire. kristen welker has more. >> there's a movement going on. it's a very strong movement. >> reporter: donald trump, known for his brash style and controversial comments is surging. he tops the pack in new hampshire with a seven-point lead over jeb bush. and two points behind scott walker in iowa. 44% of voters view him unfavorably. that number jumps to 53 in new hampshire.

hillary clinton tried to get away from her e-mails and back to policies. >> we need to have a democratic president in the white house. >> reporter: but saturday she was forced to defend the use of a private e-mail account when she was secretary of state. doesn't the fact that we're having this debate underscore the problem of using a private server when you were secretary of state? >> not at all. no. this would be the same debate since the vast majority that i sent and received was already on the state department system unclassified state department system. >> reporter: and the new nbc merist poll shows it could be taking a toll. topping bernie sanders by 29 points in iowa and 13 points in new hampshire 20% of iowa's democrat voters view her unfavorably and that number gets even higher in new hampshire. 23%. to what extent do you worry that the e-mail issue would hurt secretary clinton in a general election? >> i think it would hurt her a

lot. >> i don't see it hurting her at all. >> reporter: trump has repeatedly slammed clinton for the e-mail issue, but set his sights on the republican challengers. >> i'm not thinking about hillary right now but i'm thinking about a man who is strong on common core, a man weak on immigration, jeb bush. >> reporter: meanwhile, clinton ignored a chance to take a swipe at him. do you want to comment on donald trump? he's campaigning here today. >> that was nbc's kristen welker reporting. exclusive live interview with republican national committee chairman reince priebus. after a weekend in kenya, president obama continues his trip. he spent the past few days pushing for democratic progress. now he's in a country where the prime minister got 100% of the vote in the last election. >> reporter: he sat down with that prime minister early this

morning. first let's show you the arrival. president obama touched down a short time ago, about an hour and a half ago in ethiopia. there was a ceremony at the national palace. he got the red carpet treatment, a military guard escort and then he sat down with the prime minister. we're expecting in the next couple of hours a press conference between the two of them. the real highlight today could end up being a meeting with several african nations, including the african union. they've got a deadline coming up in a few weeks, august 17th, to accept essentially a peace pact between those nations. they're trying to deal with the violence going on right now in south sudan. the white house says the u.s. wants to put pressure on that process to make it happen and team up with key nations to try to bring peace to that region. one of the things we're bringing to that region is a lot of money. $40 million just in this fiscal year for humanitarian aid. betty? >> tracie thank you.

a frantic search is under way this morning off the search of florida. rescuers have desperately been searching the ocean overnight. two young boy ss. their boat was found capsized. nar neighbor hall of fame quarterback joe namath asked for prayers as their family remains optimistic. >> perry is just as sharp as can be and austin has been on the water for a while. they're just as fine as can be these two young fellows. >> we're not sure how much food or water they have. we're positive they're strong and they know what they're doing out there. >> the families are offering a $100,000 reward for anyone who finds the children. bobby kristina brown the only child of late singer whitney houston and bobby brown,

has died. ♪ i just want to say clap your hands ♪ >> reporter: the only child of the one and only whitney houston. >> how think you is? >> reporter: that childhood documented in a reality show about her father bobby brown when bobbi kristina brown was 14 her parents divorced and headlines of drugs and domestic violence violence. five years later, houston was found dead in a bathtub at a beverly hills hotel. authorities ruled it an accident listing heart disease and cocaine use as contributing factors. soon after, bobbi kristina spoke with oprah winfrey. >> does it seem real? >> sometimes no you know. sometimes it's -- it's so surreal that i still walk in the house like mom? >> reporter: a year ago, she said she married nick gordon.

>> being a newlywed really is a beautiful, beautiful thing. >> reporter: in the tabloids they were a controversial couple. her mother had taken gordon in when he was younger and he was often seen as bobbi kristiny's adoptive brother. her father later said they were never legally wed. january 31st at her home near atlanta, police say a friend discovered bobbi kristina face down and unresponsive in her bathtub. for months her family kept vigil as she was put on a ventilator moved to a rehab facility and finally placed in hospice care. >> now that she is not here i am my mother. i am my mother and i am my mother's child. >> i think in the end, bobbi kristina brown will be remembered largely in context of her mother but hopefully she'll be remembered as the light of her mother's life. >> reporter: bobbi kristina brown was just 22. gabe gutierrez, nbc news atlanta. >> so young. funerals will be taking

place today for two of the victims of the movie theater shooting in lafayette louisiana last week. both maycie greaux and jillian johnson. we're learning more about the shooter. bobby bobby jichlt n bobby jindal told nbc that he should never have been able to buy a gun. >> working to confirm reports that houser visited three other movie theaters in recent weeks. police are still searching for a motive in the shooting. new york magazine's latest edition is shining a massive new light on the alleged bill cosby

rape controversy. it's simple yet powerful. 35 accusers sitting in rows. all of them were interviewed for the main piece. the most dramatic part the empty chair at the bottom right. within hours of this cover's release #the empty chair was trending on twitter, dedicated to victims of rape who are too afraid to come forward. bill cosby has vigorously denied all sexual assault allegations and has never been charged. we turn to morgan brennan with cnbc. after an investigation into the recall processes, chrysler was found to have failed 23 safety recalls that would have recovered 111 million vehicles. cash penalty, agreement to spend $23 million on meeting new

requirements and buyback of half a million vehicles. stock prices are pointing to a lower week opening after last week the lowest opening of the year so far. after the shanghai stock market collapsed 8.5% today on slowing concerns of a slowing -- on concerns, excuse me of a slowing chinese economy. best buy will become the first retailer other than apple stores to sell the apple watch. it will be available online and in more than 100 stores. that starts august 7th with another 200 stores claiming to have them in time for the holiday shopping season. in last week's apple's earnings report the company did not give an exact number of watches sold since its launch but did say they were above expectations. so now you'll be able to get those watches if you're so inclined at best buy. back over to you. >> thank you very much. red sox/tigers. sox have lost 7 of their last 9. david ortiz was able to get the

ball going. big papi delivered not one, but two three-run home runs and drove in a career high 7 home runs. very rare sight, blue jays taking on the mariners. due to poor base running and great awareness, mariners got their 11th triple play in team history. this one stranger than most though. it was a 3-6-2-2 triple play first in the majors since 1955. and only the second time in the history of the game. nothing but net. it's not exactly a term you hear in baseball. but that's exactly what mike trout did. bottom of the sixth, he takes the 3-2 pitch and hits it deep into center field for a grand slam. look at this. the ball actually lands in a fan's homemade net that says trout net. i ko guess you could say they were fishing for trout. angels win.

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welcome back to first look on this monday morning. overnight, thunderstorms have cooled you off from baltimore to philadelphia. new york city had a pretty good downpour around 3:00 am. few storms existing right along the connecticut coast, few there in southern rhode island. in general, this is starting to weaken and head toward coastal areas. probably until about 10:00 am the sun will come back out in about all of these locations. as far as the wet weather goes and any problem weather goes during the day today, i don't think we'll have a lot of it. yesterday another flash flooding in indianapolis.

another inch of rain. now this is the all-time wettest month in the history of indianapolis. the records started there about 1850, 1860. this was a big record. over now, 13" of rain this month alone. very soggy. heat advisories, hot weather conditions, missouri all the way down to louisiana. this is how it's been the last month or so. as far as heat index late this afternoon, i think we'll top out about 100 to 110 from new orleans all the way up to omaha, 107 in little rock 106 there in memphis. during this week all the hot weather begins to shift to the east. it will start to feel like 100 plus from florida to the carolinas throughout this week. even areas up to new york city we should be 95 to 100. >> i'm shocked by those triple digits across the u.s. >> one of the hottest weeks of the summer. >> summer is here. stories making news this morning, police in milwaukee are on high alert after video of an apparent lion sighting went

viral last week. a police officer spotted a cat-like animal at a nearby creek. unfortunately, though they weren't able to find the lion. according to the milwaukee zoo, none of its lions is missing. check out this footage of a polish fighter jet taking off and flying straight up as if it were launched into space. the takeoff seems to start off pretty normally until the pilot presses the make like a rocket button causing the plane to fly vertically. now to france. this is just beautiful. hot air balloons rose to new heights yesterday, breaking the world record for the most hot air balloons soaring into the air at the same time. 433 balloons took to the sky from an air base in eastern france. kind of majestic. still ahead, hillary clinton's plan to help the environment. plus fighting among senators and accusations of lying. scrambled politics is next. go roam sleep in sleep out star gaze

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renewable energy to power every single home in america. >> clinton will speak more about her plan to fight climate change today in iowa. during a rare senate session last night, several republicans harshly criticized senator and republican presidential candidate ted cruz. export/import bank. last night, senators made it clear that cruz's accusations do not sit well with them. >> squabbling may be tolerated in other venues and perhaps on the campaign trail but have no place in the united states senate. >> mike huckabee is drawing criticism after using a holocaust reference to slam the iran deal. s it so naive that he president obama, would trust the iranians. by doing so will he take the

israelis and march them to the door of the oven. host john oliver also talked about the iran nuclear deal and brings up an ad that is critical of the deal. take a look. >> end after ten years. then iran could build a nuclear weapon in two months. congress should reject a bad deal. we need a better deal. >> oh, a better deal. of course. why didn't john kerry think of that? in fact why stop there? why not get an even better deal while you're at it or even ask for the best deal plus $100 and a free hotel bath robe? that's how diplomacy works, right? you just ask for it and they give it to you. that's my understanding. >> that's your dish of scrambled politics. jane timm is here in studio with us this morning. that's hilarious there.

a better deal. >> best deal. bestest deal. >> exactly. the devil is in the details. let's get to these details with hillary clinton. she's, you know on the road touting this renewable energy plan. could this plan be a game changer? >> i'm not sure it's a game changer. i think it's very indicative of how hillary will campaign for the next 400 and some odd days. she was asked about fossil fuels at a campaign event in new hampshire. would you ban fossil fuel on public lands? she didn't give the answer the activists really wanted but came out several weeks later and said here is how i will fix this problem. she's not going to come to the front with everything everybody wants to hear but a deal that everyone will handle an alternative versus a ban is much more popular on a campaign trail. >> it's pretty extensive, though. she wants, what renewable energy sources in everyone's home something along those lines. >> climate change is very important for the progressive movement which she struggles with. she is definitely liberal

enough. she's very cozy with certain donors on wall street. she's been in politics forever. she is maybe not the hope and change candidate but this is a very concrete proposal where she can say i'm going to make big changes, not just talk about this. >> we alluded to ted cruz earlier. he really got a smackdown by his own party. is that going to hurt him in his campaign if your own party is pushing against you? >> he has always championed himself as someone who can take on his own party and smack them down. he is struggling to do even that. i think this is really the donald trump effect. donald trump has come in and become the gop's terrorizer in chief and cruz is losing that title. you've seen trump's poll numbers rise as cruz's have fallen. this party is saying we have enough troubles. you can sit down senator cruz. >> quite a statement. thank you, jane. just ahead the name of this competition translates into a flying day in german. but these contraptions -- yeah they didn't do much flying at

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today at 3:00 pm eastern on "the cycle," new cancer trials in dogs that could prove cancer cure for humans. see it here first on msnbc at the forefront of this research. meantime have you ever wanted to build your own plane? red bull flugtag is just that. they built homemade flying machines launched them on the pier to see how long they fly. >> see the crowd? >> the crowds are very big.

they toent take flight very often but just crash into the water. >> that one was in the air. >> barely. two seconds maybe. "way too early" starts right now. >> we have a winner. i'm on the plane and i see this vicious tweet. i've been nice to scott walker. you know he's a nice guy. he came up to my office three, four months ago, presented me with a plaque. i helped him with his election. i liked that he was fighting. i didn't know what the hell he was doing, but he was fighting and i like a fighter. does that make sense? then today i read this horrible statement from his fund-raiser about trump. i said oh, finally, i can attack. >> donald trump sets his sights on the only republican ahead of him in the latest nbc news poll of iowa voters. we'll break down the numbers for you. plus hillary clinton answers questions about her

private e-mail server after an internal review recommend aid justice department investigation. will she be able to turn the page? finally at peace, only daughter of whitney houston and bobby brown dead at the age of 22. it's 5:30 on the east 2:30 on the west. it's "way too early." good morning. it's july 27th. i'm ayman mohyeldin. trump is favored by 18% in the latest cnn poll with jeb bush within the margin of error at about 15% and scott walker close behind. meanwhile, most republicans still believe bush will ultimately be the nominee. only