it's monday, july 11th. right now on "first look," following meetings with our nato allies and u.s. troops stationed in spain, president obama is back on american soil, where the focus is on dallas and calming protesters while reassuring police nationwide as tensions remain high. then we'll hear an incredible story of loss and love from a family enduring the death of one of the dallas police officers. that and more as a special edition of "first look" starts right now. good morning, everyone and thanks for joining us today. i'm betty nguyen. tensions are at a breaking point in cities across the nation as black lives matter protesters take to the streets following recent police-inlved shooting deaths. hundreds were arrested after clashing with police. a major bridge in memphis was blocked after a group veered off

a designated route. a march sprung across the pond in downtown london. dozens of officers were injured including one seriously in st. paul, minnesota. that officer is recovering from a broken vertebrae. after a protester dropped a concrete block on his head. nbc's blake mccoy has more. >> reporter: despite more than a dozen warnings to leave they remained defiant protesters marching on to i-94 the main freeway connecting minneapolis to st. paul. police say protesters hurled rocks, glass bottles, fireworks, even a molotov cocktail, injuring 21 officers. none seriously. police responded with smoke and tear gas to disperse the crowd. eventually making more than 100 arrests. the hours long showdown is the most tense we've seen so far in minnesota with a police shooting of philando castile last week and video streamed live to facebook showing the aftermath, has sparked public outcry.

in baton rouge, louisiana protesters taunted police for a second night. one officer had teeth knocked out when he was hit by a projectile. more than 100 arrests when they marched for alton sterling, another black mon killed by police. another arrested for blocking the highway, deray mckesson. the visible face in the black lives matter movement. he was freed on bond. >> i remain deeply disappointed in the baton rouge police department and i'm hopeful that the department of justice intervenes, both in the death of alton, and with the way that they treat protesters. >> reporter: protests have spread nationwide. in new york, chicago and las vegas streets and highways also shut down, even in london people rallied with the message black lives matter. at church services across the country sunday, a time for reflection, and soul searching. >> to understand what black people feel you have to be in the shoes of black people. to understand what law

enforcement feels you have to be in their shoes. that's the hard part. >> reporter: back in minnesota children marching too. >> who are we? what do we want? >> reporter: a simple message but no simple way to achieve it. president obama cut his european trip short and is traveling to dallas tomorrow. he will deliver remarks at an interfaith memorial service. vice president joe biden, president george w. bush, and first lady laura bush, will also be in attendance. nbc's edward lawrence joins me now live with more. what can we expect from this visit? >> betty, this visit -- the president, first of all, cut his trip short by just one day. he's trying to heal the nation here. the president will be briefed this morning at the white house about the latest in the investigation in dallas, where five police officers were killed. president obama is back in washington, after spending the weekend in europe. he now turns his attention to healing the nation, while balancing the call for justice from the black lives matter protesters. >> i think that the overwhelming

majority of people who are involved in the black lives matter movement, what they really want to see is a better relationship between the police and the community. >> reporter: he will travel tuesday to an interfaith memorial service for the victims of the dallas shootings. the dallas police chief says the gunman, micah johnson, had sinister motives for his murder spree. >> based on evidence of bomb-making materials, and a journal that this suspect had been practicing explosive detonations, and that the materials was such that it was large enough to have devastating effects throughout our city. >> reporter: brown also mentioned the suspect wrote the letters r.b. in his own blood on the walls of the parking garage, where s.w.a.t. teams cornered him. meanwhile, over the weekend, protests erupted in states recently affected by police shootings. minnesota and louisiana. and cities protesting in solidarity from the east coast to the west coast.

over the killings of african-american at the hands of police. and the president still facing tremendouses about the feeling among law enforcement that he sides more with activists than police. betty? >> all right, lawrence, thank you so much for that. the family of one of the officers killed in the attack is speaking out for the first time. the mother and sister of officer patrick zamarripa, valerie and laura talked to msnbc's chris jansing about his love for family and how they learned of patrick's death. >> well, first of all, thank you for doing this. >> thank you. >> tell me about patrick. >> patrick was a fun-loving, crazy, wonderful human being. wonderful. everybody loved him. >> he was your middle son. >> he was middle child. and he didn't let anybody forget that. >> what do you mean by that? >> because you know how they always say the middle child

syndrome. and, he was, i'm the middle child, so i get my way. but he was always the mediator between the other two. >> but did he get his way? >> not always. but he made sure he tried to. >> he was your little brother? >> yes. patrick is my little brother. >> tell me about him. >> he's my first best friend i ever had. he -- i used to always tell him he was the main man in my life. he's just so -- patrick is so awesome. he's super smart. patrick loves music. patrick can play the trumpet. patrick can read music really well. he can pick up an instrument and make music come out of it. he didn't like to tell people about that. patrick loved baseball. and he loves football.

he's like such a people person. and we've been making fun of him lately because he's running, you know, like he's at work and he'd run into celebrities and he would approach them like if he'd known them all their life. and so that's the type of person he was. >> but little brothers can be a pain in the butt. >> they can be. and patrick was. but, i used to always tell my friends that i never -- i never realized how much i loved him, you know, growing up, until -- until i left him, which was when i joined the military, and i left him, and then i used to call home all the time and check on my brothers. we've always been the type of brothers and sisters that hug each other and let each other know that we loved each other. i'm not trying to, like, discredit or anything but i mean i took really good care of my

brother. i ironed his clothes. i, you know, i cooked for em. i took really good care of my brothers. i loved them so much. and patrick would help me. i mean, he was like, you know, like i said, he was like the man in my life. he took the trash out for me. he did -- he killed bugs for me. you know, stuff like that. and pumped gas for my mom. >> he would put the mouse traps, and then when the mice got caught, chase us around the house with a dead mouse. >> he would get it. >> and chase us through the house. look, mom, look, i got it. get that away. he'd just be running through the house chasing us with that mouse. >> he played baseball. local, you know, little league. he played baseball, and he loved baseball so much. >> golf. >> he played baseball throughout high school. he loved golf.

he took up golf later on after high school. >> one of the top prospects for the texas rangers? >> he was at a game, i swear, they put -- we used to joke there's 250 home games most seasons, and he's probably at 200 of them. you know. and we'd get mad, patrick, why don't you ever invite me? oh, i'm going to the game. but it's too hot for her today. he would take lyncoln with him if the weather was going to be good. he made sure he was at ranger games. every year, opening day. >> one of the top prospects for the rangers said he had a chance encounter with your brother, and he posted about how fantastic he was. how was so vivid in his mind when he met your brother and your son. does that surprise you at all? >> no. >> no, not at all.

>> because when you're an athlete you meet so many people. >> yes. >> but he remembered patrick. >> patrick had that kind of personality. you just levitated to him. he was the funniest, most caring -- he wasn't shy to talk to you. you know. none of my kids are. and they're friendly, and always taught to be respectful, first of all. and that's one thing he did. and when he met these baseball players, or movie stars or, whoever he met, he was always, oh, guess who i met. and when he -- >> he'd text us right away with the screen shot. >> one of his favorites growing up was my father used to call him tom landry, because he was always so serious looking, patrick. and one -- he had gone on a band trip from high school, and they were in washington, and waiting for the flight, and tom landry was sitting there, and -- >> the real tom landry.

>> the real tom landry, before he passed. and patrick got to meet him, and toll him you're my idol. my dad calls -- my grandfather calls me tom landry. and tom landry just chuckled with him, you know. he called us, mom, you'll never believe who i met! he was so excited. so, he met people all the time. all the time. >> he spent his entire adult life in service to his country and his community. >> yeah, he did. >> you must be proud of that. >> i was super proud -- i am proud of my brother. and anywhere i went, people who know me, they know that i was proud of my brother. and i never realized how much i talked about -- >> did you -- >> yeah -- i told him. and i never realized how much i talked about him until, you know, like now that everybody is sending me messages or calling,

and i just never realized how much i talked about him in the past, about both of them. that's what everybody keeps saying. we know how much you used to talk about patrick, and baby -- that's what i always called my baby brother. you used to talk about patrick and baby all the time. and you know, like did i really? we remember like specific things that i talked about with them. >> growing up they always they of course they fought like brothers and sisters fight, you know, have arguments and disagreements, but they always had each other's back. he would take up for her. take up for the younger brother, too. or whoever did something wrong, they would have -- take the blame. always. the other one who did it, you know, the older sibling would probably take or the younger sibling would take the blame for it. and he would always come up and say i did it. i did it. knowing good and well it wasn't him that had done it. >> he was close to your children, too? >> yeah, he was. le. >> what do you tell them?

>> well my oldest one, raquel, she is very devastated. very devastated, because she understands what's happening. my son sean, he was devastated when we told him, like in shock. but i don't think he understands yet, and i don't think he's going to understand until sees my brother, and realizes that this is a good-bye for now. he's going to be -- he's going to be very upset when he sees my brother like that. because he looked up to my brother. >> did they like seeing him in his uniform? >> oh, they loved it. patrick would go to career day for them at their school. and they would super proud of him. and they loved any time they

could see him in either uniform, his police uniform or his navy uniform. they would get -- they would be on top of the world. and they thought they were like the cool kids in the crowd, because -- or even if he just picked them up from school, or showed up to volunteer at the school for when he was needed, they were proud of him. even if he was just really close. >> just a little look there in to the families who have lost so much in that tragedy. just ahead, we'll get a look at the weather, and new details on walmart's battle against amazon prime. it's 15 minutes past the hour as the sun comes up on new york city. you're watching "first look."

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voters want. >> which is? >> they want 29% say gingrich, 24% rubio, 18% kasich. >> okay but who does trump want? >> trump probably wants gingrich or maybe chris christie. but over the weekend, he was with lieutenant general michael flynn. >> right. >> who is a democrat, he's pro-choice. he's career military. so i mean that's another out of left field choice. but again it sort of fits in, i guess you could say, with donald trump being so -- >> would that be mass appeal though for him? >> there could be some appeal. he's career military. but the big problem is he is totally untested on the national stage. that's a tremendous leap to go from being unknown to being basically harassed by the media 24/7. and he has a short time to introduce him. he was also campaigning over the weekend with mike pence who a lot of people like because he's a republicans like because he's very proven social conservative. so those are two names -- >> but chris christie is going to be with him today. >> right. >> so we're going to see how that -- meshes together those

two. >> yeah -- >> you're smiling. all right i'll move off of that. let's get to this convention. because trump can be really in for a fight here. there are reports that the anti-trump movement can maybe keep him from picking his own vp candidate. is that possible? >> it's possible. but i think there's like these rules provisions where they can pass a resolution saying people can vote their conscience. honestly at this point because trump has the delegates, because the overwhelming majority of republican voters have spoken i think it's highly unlikely. not only that it's going to be such a volatile convention anyway. you have 50,000 people there, protesters, police, the police fearing terrorism. i think that would be putting too much of a wild card in a convention that's already going to be just, you know, very problematic. >> quickly, we hear bernie sanders is going to be endorsing hillary clinton tomorrow. given that he's waited -- how much of an impact will this have? >> oh, huge. his supporters, their movement, it will matter.

there's already signs they're going over toward clinton. pew had a poll out saying that 85% of bernie sanders supporters have already said they will vote for clinton but they need the permission, in a sense, from the messiah himself. >> the man. >> from bernie. they need his okay. so it's finalry going to happen so hillary can go to the convention. >> so nobody feels the bern in a bad way then. >> not yet. >> just ahead an update on two western wildfires that have forced a large number of evacuations. plus your man day morning forecast all of that is up next it's 24 minutes past the hour.

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destroyed three homes. that fire is zero percent contained. nearly 2,000 people have been forced to evacuate. and authorities say it was sparked by a camp fire that was not properly extinguished. two campers have been arrested and charged with arson. and in southern california, authorities say an 1100 acre brushfire in santa clarita valley is now 49% contained. some of the 2,000 residents who were evacuated have been allowed to return to their homes. a little bit of good news there. the latest on the weather outside. steve is here with a look at the monday morning forecast so hopefully we can start the week off right. >> we're doing that in many places, betty. there are a few problem spots. first look at the weather, this sticks out like a sore thumb. this is a cluster of storms that is ripping through northern minnesota right now with severe thunderstorm warnings, just north of the minneapolis area. it's about 90 minutes away, so we are going to be looking at strong storms throughout the day across minnesota. meanwhile, much of the country is looking at heat. betty, we're going to be dealing with temperatures in the 90s for a lot of sections of the south,

and the southwest. so get ready to have a plan to cool off. pools, beaches -- >> anything you can do, okay. thank you. i'm betty nguyen and this is "first look" on msnbc. don't forget to like us on facebook. "way too early" starts right now. unrest in america. protests break out from the deep south to the midwest. president obama returns to try to unite the nation, as some accuse him of deepening the division. plus -- >> we're convinced that this suspect had other plans, and thought that what he was doing was righteous and believed that he was going to make law enforcement and target law enforcement, make us pay for what he sees as law enforcement's efforts to punish people of color. >> chilling new details about the man who killed five dallas police officers, and wounded

eight more. how police improvised to end the standoff. it's 5:30 on the east coast, 2:30 out west. this is "way too early." good morning, it is monday, july 11th. i'm chris jansing, anchoring live in dallas, texas. president obama has cut short his trip to europe, and will travel here to dallas tomorrow to give remarks at an interfaith memorial. when he was last on american soil he was in a country that was divided over the dialogue of race and policing. but now he's back and his return is met with days of violence and protest unseen in years. last night in memphis, black lives matter demonstrators shut down an overpass, tying up traffic for much of the night. at the same time in baton rouge, 48 arrests so far as police clashed with protesters donning gas masks. on saturday, 100 people there were taken into custody. furious over the death of alton sterling. whose shooting was captured on video. among the detained, one