this morning we're learning new information about the man behind the controls and a safety system that might have been able to prevent the tragedy. and new overnight, remembering the man known as israel's last founding father. leaders are gathered in jerusalem right now paying their final respects to former israeli

president and prime minister shimon peres. plus, donald trump supporters are beginning to bring up former president bill clinton's marital indiscretions, just as his team pushing praise for their candidate's show of restraint during the debate. good morning, everyone, it is friday, september 30th, i'm alex witt alongside louis burgdorf. investigators will be back on the scene in hoboken, new jersey, this morning at the site of the horrific train crash which left one person dead and more than 100 injured. that accident happened yesterday morning just before 9:00 a.m. during the busy rush hour commute. new jersey governor chris christie said the train was traveling at a high rate of speed, crashing through a series of barriers, before slamming into a station wall. at this point, investigators say

it is still too early to say what specifically caused the train to barrel into that station. they say their search for an answer is being slowed because of safety concerns, this due to the canopy of the building, which has collapsed on to that train. meanwhile, officials have identified this woman killed of hoboken. governor christie said she was struck by debris as she was standing on the station's platform. the train's engineer has also been identified, thomas gallagher, who was injured, spoke with police within hours of the wreck. and the hoboken terminal, which is situated right across the river here from manhattan is one of the busiest in the greater new york city area with an estimated 50,000 commuters each day. it was unclear how long the terminal will remain closed, but engineers have been working on a plan to get new jersey transit trains in that area running again. in the meantime, there are expanded shuttle, bus, and ferry services for commuters. joining us now from hoboken, new jersey, jay gray. good morning to you, jay.

what more are we learning about the conductor of the train? >> reporter: good morning, alea. we know he is cooperating fully with investigators and we know he's worked for the transit authority for about 19 years and there are no red flags in his record, they say, no infractions, no medical issues, no criminal history. again, he's said to be cooperating fully with investigators here, who want to find out why, according to witnesses, the train seemed to not slow down at all as it cleared the station here. they will continue to question him. they are also blaming information from the black box or event recorder that was pulled from the locomotive. they don't have access to the rest of the cars on the train at this point, hope to later today. there are structural problems inside the station just behind me here, alex, so that's prevented them from getting into the other cars. the ntsb expects to be on site for the next week to ten days.

>> all right, we'll check in at the bottom of the hour. >> some of those inside the train or on the station platform spoke out yesterday about their terrifying experiences. the people in front of me were badly injured. we heard people screaming in the first car, they were trapped, they couldn't get out. they couldn't manage to get us off of that same doorway, one of the gentleman lifted the lever for us to get off and once we got off, we realized people were stuck and they had to get out the windows, police were trying to rescue them. the conductor came off, he was completely bloodied. that's when we noticed there were more injuries, more severe. i just feel the strain from the impact, but nothing like what those people might be feeling. that's all i really know from what we were able to get out, and we saw that the entire structure had collapsed on to the front of the train car. >> i saw the train, heard the

train screeching, and people were yelling "run," and i started running and people were falling over each other. i felt like i was running for my life, among other people that were running, there was a man with a toddler over his shoulder and he fell down as we were trying to exit the platform, and myself and others helped him up and we saw the ceiling collapse and heard the water. >> terrifying accounts of the crash there. officials say the train in hoboken was not equipped with the train technology that could have prevented it from racing off the rails and the crash has some calling for more action to keep commuters safe. miguel almaguer has more. >> reporter: lessons learned, the amtrak derailment in philadelphia last year left eight dead and more than 200 injured. a train traveling at speeds exceeding at 100 miles an hour. in california, 25 lost their

lives, 135 hurt when a commuter train slammed head-on into a freight train in 2008. these just two of the 145 rail line accidents experts say could have been prevented with positive train control or ptc. >> year after year we're going to continue to see accidents that could have been prevented by ptc. >> reporter: the advanced braking system is designed to automatically stop a train before certain accidents like those caused by speeding or ending in head-on collisions. only 22% of trains currently have the advanced braking system. while trains like this one in los angeles have ptc, there are ways to maximize your safety. experts say whenever possible ride in the center of the train so there's less impact from collision and also face the rear, so during extreme braking you're pushed into the seat and not across the aisle. gerald atkins narrowly survived

a crash, he was seated in the first car. >> i would sit in the middle car, it's the safest place. don't sit in the back or front. >> reporter: train travel is still among the safest ways to commute, but tonight there are more questions on how to make it safer sooner. >> miguel almaguer there. leaders from around the world are in jerusalem to pay their final respects to shimon peres. the nobel laureate died on wednesday after suffering a major stroke earlier this month. former president bill clinton was in attendance along with president obama and secretary of state john kerry. president clinton recalled his friend's luminous smile and declared that the day of peres' death was israel's first day without shimon peres. >> he started off life as israel's brightest student, became its best teacher, and ended up its biggest dreamer. he lived 93 years in a state of

constant wonder. called the rest of us to rise above our wounds, our resentments, our fears. >> joining us now, ambassador marc ginsburg, managing director of lubbock strategic communications. i know you knew him well, spchlt he was both a divisive figure, also seen as a uniter, sharing the nobel prize for trying to bring peace to the middle east. can you explain how he transformed israeli politics, and as president clinton was saying, he was a dreamer but took concrete steps to solidify the israeli state. >> alex, he really in the beginning of his political career, he was very much a hawk. he had become israeli's major procurer of defense weapons and, in effect, built up israeli

defense forces. he established israel's first asymptomatic weapons program and he also emerged ultimately as one of the great entrepreneurs of israel's military. he also was probably the most important champion of the settlement policy that led to settlement expansion in gaza and the west bank, but he began realizing the hope for peace was not going to be able to be obtained if israel was going to insist on buying palestinian lands, so he began shifting his views in the late '80s, early '90s to become a champion for seeking an accommodation with the palestinians and, indeed, in 1992 he was the secret emissary with the norwegians that led to the first direct engagement with the palestinians that led to the oslo accords and ultimately his peace prize that he shared. >> and can you kind of describe the difference between when peres was at the height of his

power and his attempts to bring peace with now, secretary kerry spent much of his early tenure trying to do the same. >> when prime minister raheem and president peres were partners in peace, even though that was the odd couple of israel, the two of them were essentially committed to the fulfillment of the oslo accords, but after the prime minister's assassination, prime minister peres ultimately lost to prime minister netanyahu in the 1996 elections, so what happened is israel's politics got the best of prime minister peres. his vision for peace was no longer consistent with the reality of the shifting ideological currents when netanyahu became prime minister in 1996, when prime minister sherone became prime minister in 2000, so the deterioration of the peace process ultimately resulted in the latest effort by the united states that failed when secretary state kerry's

aborted peace initiative failed about a year and a half ago. >> all right, ambassador, thank you for joining us on this important day and also personal day for you. >> thank you for having me. let's turn to politics now as donald trump fends off allegations of discriminating women for their looks. commending the candidate for not talking about it. >> i'm very proud that at the very end when she attacked him and went off on this whole rant about women and you could see his face. in the republican primaries he would have just smashed her. instead he came off looking like a gentleman and she came off looking pretty mean and miserable. >> every time a woman would come along and say bill clinton did something to her, who was the biggest attacker of that woman? and she's a feminist. >> it's amazing when you hear her talk about sexism and these various claims that are ridiculous, aside from,

obviously, bill her husband being maybe the worst that's ever lived. >> i thought he was a complete gentleman to her and hasn't gotten a lot of credit for that. at the beginning he said very graciously secretary clinton, he said may i call you secretary clinton and she sort of looked and he said, i want you to be happy, it's very important to me. at the end of the night after she hit him with some really negative attacks, he said to her, i came here ready to play rough and say some things about you but i won't because your family is here. it's fair game to think about how hillary clinton treated those women after the fact. >> and in an interview with necn, donald trump said bill clinton is fair game but continued to hold back on what he says was hillary clinton's role. >> i would have had the right to have done it and he's a member of the campaign, it's not like he's not campaigning. he's campaigning, and i would have been able to do it if i wanted to do it. i didn't want to do anything like that in front of chelsea, their daughter, who i happen to think is a nice woman.

>> how would that reflect on hillary clinton? >> you have to figure that out, i think it's simple to figure that out. >> hillary clinton shrugged off reports that trump may be poised to get personal about bill clinton's past indiscretions. >> he can run his campaign however he chooses. that's up to him. i'm going to keep talking about the states in this election. i'm going to keep talking about my agenda. >> earlier in the day clinton held a rally in des moines, iowa. recent polls have shown her trailing donald trump in that state. in front of a crowd of roughly 2,000 she made a push for early voting. >> we've got a bunch of active iowans here. are you ready to go to the polls? well, luckily in iowa you can start today. lots of folks don't have that opportunity across the country. so when you finish here, you can go vote. and we can be on the path to

victory here in iowa. >> still ahead, jeb bush seems to have no qualms in saying he doesn't plan to vote for donald trump or hillary clinton. so is gary johnson on his radar? plus, rory mcilroy gets heckled by a fan. why the pro golfer probably regrets inviting the man on to the green. that story and a check on your weather when we come back. ♪

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the arizona republic is reportedly facing major backlash over its endorsement of hillary clinton. a senior editor tells "usa today" the paper has receive add steady stream of cancellations and even a death threat. since 1990 the paper has never backed a democratic president.

bush responded last night after delivering remarks to a group of students at harvard university. >> i'm going to vote and i made it clear i'm not voting for donald trump or hillary clinton. the presidency is a place for whatever reason i'm not comfortable supporting either nomin nominee. >> he was also asked if his father would be voting for hillary clinton in november. >> i thought it was a little inappropriate for a person to overhear a frail 92-year-old man in a private setting at a reception for the points of

light foundation, which focuses on volunteerism, to hear this and then immediately go on facebook and put it on there and go on national television, not even show up at the board meeting. i thought that was inappropriate. >> let's get a check of your weather now with msnbc meteorologist bill karins. where oh where will matthew go? >> i'm going to get to that. that's not our immediate concerns. i want to update if you're traveling and heading out the door in the northeast, we have the rain problems, flash flooding wasn't too bad yesterday. still have areas of heavy rain near philadelphia that will shift towards new york city this morning and into this afternoon and up through southern new england, too. first the forecast for today, there is some gorgeous weather middle of the country, no problems in the great lakes, florida has thunderstorms not associated with matthew, just typical afternoon storms for you. there's the gloomy weather in the northeast. now to the interesting stuff, category 2 storm, almost looks like an eye is trying to peek out right there. center of the storm has been

going just south over the last couple hours, the latest update from the hurricane center, they didn't make too many big changes with this update, 100 mile per hour winds, in order to get to a category 3 it has to get to 115 miles per hour. i think that will happen later today. now due south of the dominican republic and have our eyes fixed around the areas of jamaica and haiti and it takes that turn, if it takes it later, goes straight to jamaica, closer to nassau and miami. if it's to the right and takes a turn earlier, it's more of a problem through the turks and caicos. you can see how we're looking there. this should be a category 2 to 4 storm somewhere through the bahamas through tuesday and wednesday of next week. notice our spaghetti lines, some of them do hit, florida could be in play and all of them hit we have to watch areas, especially eastern north carolina, very closely come wednesday and thursday. see how north carolina sticks out like a sore thumb here,

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welcome back. time now for sports and the star of week four in the nfl with the bengals hosting the dolphins on thursday night football.

a.j. green making a statement last night after a quiet week against the broncos. green's 166 reception yards by the end of the third quarter outtotalled miami's 152 as a team. he ended up with 173 yards and a touchdown as the bengals defense contained the dolphins to just one score in the first quarter. cinci improves to 2-2 after a win. meanwhile, the nfl has officially announced six-time grammy award winner lady gaga will headline the super bowl half-time show february 5th in houston. i look forward to that. turning now to major league baseball, where the race for the american league wild card will go down to the final weekend of the regular season. the orioles made sure of that after shutting out the blue jays 4-0 in toronto last night. baltimore's win puts them with the jays for the top spot there. meanwhile, the tigers are sitting a game and a half back after yesterday's matchup in detroit against the indians was

rained out. that will be made up on monday if it carries playoff implications. in the national league, a controversial ending to the reds/cardinals game. st. louis with a runner on first. >> the 2-0. molina hits it out to deep left field. that ball is sinking. it will be a play at the plate, it's safe! safe! safe! i believe, though, that could be a ground rule double. >> a lot of people are scratching their heads with this one. the play appears to be a ground rule double as the ball careened off the left field wall. umpires don't call it, leaving the burden on cincinnati to call it. however, the officials leave the field before the reds have to argue, making the hit a walk off double, which is good for a 4-3 cardinals victory. the win puts pressure on the

giants, who beat the rockies last night, to keep st. louis a game back off the second league national wild card spot there. and finally, with one round of golf in the ryder cup set to tee off just hours from now, the drama already began during yesterday's practice round after players invited a heckling fan from the gallery out on to the green for a shot to sink a putt. rory mcilroy and andy solven kept missing the putt, so justin rose sweetened the pot adding a $100 bill. here's how it all played out. that is unbelievable. the american fan sinks the putt and shows up the pros. hopefully the rest of the tournament is just as exciting. that's like something out of a dream for that fan, alex. >> that was huge, i was cheering him on. good job. >> unbelievable. still ahead, first there were accusations about possible ties to russia, now donald trump is facing questions over cuba. plus, we continue to follow

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off the rails. another deadly crash on a commuter train. a mess for morning commuters. we'll get a live report and talk about the health for america's infrastructure. plus, the first day without shimon peres. this morning presidents clinton and obama eulogized the prime minister who tried to bring peace to one of the holiest places on earth. another foreign policy flop for gary johnson puts the rest of the field on the hot seat.

hey there, good morning, everyone, i'm alex witt alongside louis burgdorf. investigators will be back on the scene in hoboken, new jersey, this morning at the site of that horrific train crash, which left one person dead and more than 100 injured. that accident happened yesterday morning before 9:00 a.m. before the busy rush hour commute. new jersey governor chris christie said the train was traveling at a high rate of speed, crashing through a series of barriers, before slamming into a station wall. at this point investigators say it's too early to say what specifically caused the train to barrel into the station. jay gray is joining us with the latest on this tragedy. jay, good morning to you. >> reporter: hey, alex, good morning. most mornings 15,000 commuters or more move through the hoboken station behind me here. this morning only a handful inside. recovery teams and investigators trying to figure out what went

wrong here. in just minutes the morning rush unravelled. >> i have heavy structural damage, i have people trapped on the train. major, major causality. >> reporter: the train sped into the hoboken station, slamming into and over the bumpers at the end of the track. >> it was just horrific. it was an explosion of concrete, dust, electrical wires. >> reporter: the canopy above the terminal collapsed, falling to the ground along with steel beams, brakes, and shattered glass. a 34 year old was standing on the platform. the hoboken resident and mom was killed by falling debris. >> we heard people screaming in the first car, they were trapped, they couldn't get out. >> reporter: more than 100 on and off the train were injured, including the engineer, who's said to be cooperating with the ntsb investigation into the crash. witnesses say the train never

seemed to slow down. ntsb ntsb agents hope to get information from the black box. >> we hope to get information such as speed and braking. >> reporter: investigators do have access to the locomotive, but structural damage to the station has kept them out of the rest of the train. investigators hope to gain access to the rest of the cars later today. the ntsb inspects to be on site for the next week to ten days. >> thank you so much. joining us from washington, former director of research and development at the railroad association, steveditmier. good morning to you, steven. first of all, talk about what you see here with this accident. i know it's too early to draw any conclusions, but what are your thoughts? >> what appears to have happened is that the engineer was bringing the train into the station, but for some reason as

he entered the station failed to slow down and apply the brakes to stop the train. this is called a stub end station. the track ends right in the station, and all the time thousands of trains a day all over the country go into these stations safely. the national transportation safety board is going to check that the signal system was working well, that there were no braking problems on the train, they are going to check the black box on the train to see how all of the components and the engineer were working together, and they are going to interview the engineer to find out what he was experiencing as the train went on through. >> steven, i mentioned you were instrumental in developing the positive train control policy and it's my understanding that ought to have been implemented some time last year and there have been extensions. talk about what that is,

positive train control, and were that to be on the train, which i understand it was not, might that have helped prevent this crash? >> positive train control is a system that consists of digital data communications, a positioning system that locates the train precisely on the track. in the case of new jersey transit, that involves transponders placed between the rails. it involves sensors, onboard computers on the train, and control center computers. the national transportation safety board has been lobbying for this technology for years. the railroad industry got off to a slow start. first of all, the federal railroad administration took

well over a year to write the regulations for implementing the system, and so it took longer to implement. by the end of 2015, the railroads informed congress and the federal railroad administration that they weren't going to be able to implement the system on time. and that might mean not being able to carry commuters, not being able to carry hazardous materials. congress extended the deadline last fall into 2018, so the extension was granted. >> all right, steven, thank you very much for your insights, appreciate that, history and currently what we're dealing today with hoboken. thank you. leaders from around the world gathered in jerusalem this morning to pay their respects to shimon peres. it's a who's who of dignitaries, including prince charles and canadian prime minister justin trudeau. president obama was the tenth u.s. president to meet with him and as he said, the tenth to

fall prey to his charms. he spoke a short time ago about his friend. >> i know from my conversations with him that his pursuit of peace was never naive. every year he read the names of the family that he lost. as a young man, he had fed his village by working the fields during the day, but then defending it by carrying a rifle at night. he understood in this war torn region where too often arab youth are taught to hate israel from an early age. he understood just how hard peace would be. we won them all, he said of israel's wars. we did not win the greatest victory we aspire to, release from the need to win victories.

>> for more we go to nbc news correspondent kelhl who reports from jerusalem. >> 90 delegations from more than 70 countries in jerusalem this morning to pay their final respects for president and former prime minister shimon peres, who passed away at the age of 93 on wednesday from complications of a stroke. world leaders from africa, asia, the united states, of course, europe, canada, latin america, really showing the effect peres had on populations around the world, on politicians around the world. this size of gathering in israel hasn't happened in more than 20 years, since the death of former prime minister, the assassination back in the '90s, so it's an incredible security operation, more than 8,000 security officers here to keep all of these dignitaries safe. among the first to eulogize the

former prime minister peres is the current prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, calling him a great man of the world. president clinton also speaking today, praising peres' efforts in the peace accords back in the '90s, he's largely credited as the architect of the oslo peace accords. of course, granted the nobel peace prize. but interestingly, the only arab leader in attendance today, palestinian president mahmoud abbas, and his attendance fairly controversial within the arab world and palestinian territories. peres is not looked upon in the most favorable light in the arab world, but perhaps in a sign of his legacy, both abbas and the current prime minister netanyahu

shook hands before the ceremony began and exchanged a few words. peres will be buried alongside his partner in peace, former prime minister rabin. back to you. >> thanks so much. in the wake of gary johnson's inability to name his favorite foreign leader, the rest of the field got their first question. >> who's your favorite world leader? >> let me think. well, i like a lot of the world leaders, one of my favorite is angela merkel. >> well, i think merkel is a really great world leader, but i was very disappointed that when she -- this move with the whole thing on immigration. i think it's a big problem, and really, you know, to look at what she's done in the last year and a half, i was always a merkel person, i thought really fantastic, but i think she made a very tragic mistake a year and a half ago.

>> in fact, donald trump has had a history of wild swings on the question of angela merkel. merkel was selected as time magazine person of the year. they picked person who is ruining germany. here's trump just last month. >> in short, hillary clinton wants to be america's angela merkel. and you know what a disaster this massive immigration has been to germany and the people of germany. >> and in an interview with "time" magazine in august 2015 trump said unprompted merkel was, quote, probably the greatest leader in the world today. meanwhile, gary johnson is still contemplating his choice. newsweek alleges a company run by donald trump violated bans by spending tens of

thousands in cuba. interviews with former trump executives suggest it funneled the money through a consulting firm while exploring the possibility of building a hotel and casino there. while the trump organization has not responded, trump was asked about the report in an interview yesterday while clinton went on the attack. >> i never went to cuba. never been to cuba, never did business with cuba. nothing else to say, i never did business with cuba. i would tell you very openly if i did. >> we have laws in our country, and the efforts that come with making to get into the cuban marketplace for business interests and of the laws of the united states and the environment businesses operate under because of the sanctions shows he puts his personal and business interests ahead of the laws and the values and the

policies of the united states of america. >> in florida, marco rubio said, "this is something they are going to have to give a response to. i mean, it was a violation of american law if that's how it happened. i hope the trump campaign is going to come forward and answer some questions all about this." still ahead, is there big trouble ahead for one of the world's biggest banks? global markets are rattled this morning. a live report from london for you. and bill karins has what's shaping up to be a rainy weekend. back after this.

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will have on the bank? >> we're still trying to work it out, louis. the report that you referred to, that's definitely one of the factors as to why we're continuing to see the selling off deutsche bank at the region of 5%, almost gone below tenures for the first time ever, hitting record lows earlier this morning. we're also seeing all the other banks trading in negative territory, down 2.5% to 6%. many of the german banks and italian banks also suffering under what's being seen as a pretty broad selloff. now many people are still saying the immediate cause of this trading down of deutsche bank has to do with a large fine that's being given to them via the u.s. department of justice. they are still going to be disputing this, and this is a fine that has to do with mortgage-backed securities, but then you have the opposite side of the coin where i have been speaking to people at least a year ago and i quote one of them verbatim who i remember saying to me deutsche bank is sick, as

in ill. this was a year ago, as in something doesn't look right with regards to its ratios out there, so this has been something going on for a long time, bubbling, and now you can wonder why are things coming to the surface now. they had a long time to get to gris ps with issues facing them, a lot of it had to do with structural refinancing within the banking system, but they have been struggling for years and we are seeing them trading close to these all-time lows still at the moment. louis? >> live from london, thanks so much. let's get a check on the weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, you're tracking hurricane matthew. >> all weekend, all week. >> you're not sure where it's going to go, but doesn't look great. >> no, there's going to be some major issues with it. definitely some other countries will have a devastating blow from the storm. those details in one second. first, if you're heading out the door this morning, i-95 wet weather, philadelphia has wet weather, shifting towards new york later this morning, from d.c. all the way up through southern portions of new

england, pittsburgh included, too, and cleveland. middle of the country looks great, cool in the ohio valley. afternoon showers and thunderstorms will plague florida. through the weekend forecast, this storm lingers here. it looks like a good deal of rain, especially early on saturday in southern new england and central new england, northern new england looks like showers continue back in the ohio valley. finally into sunday, more of the same. southeast and middle of the country is looking west. now for matthew, last night it was a tropical storm, then became a hurricane, and now it's become a category 2 hurricane. we call this rapid intensification. the winds have been favorable, water is warm, and it may get stronger today. the hurricane center has it going up to a category 3 hurricane throughout later tonight, into tomorrow morning. then it takes the bend, our friends in jamaica are going to be preparing for a major hurricane throughout sunday afternoon, sunday evening, and monday morning. here's the position at 2:00 a.m.

monday morning, dangerously close to kingston, then it should be heading up towards guantanamo, eastern portions of cuba. still haven't ruled out an impact of haiti either. there are mountains here, that's why it weakens, then tuesday night into wednesday it begins to head through the bahamas. the cone of uncertainty is 240 miles on average. that's why the cone is so wide. it goes almost to south florida or it goes safely out into the waters of the atlantic. we'll be watching that in the days ahead. all of our spaghetti lines are different computer models. in the north, then somewhere near the bahamas tuesday and wednesday. this could be a strong one. looks like by the time we get to the middle of next week this could be a major hurricane off the southeast coast. >> thanks so much, we'll keep track of that cone of uncertainty. just ahead, intelligence officials say there's little doubt russia is trying to impact the america elections. that report when we come right back. his cash rewards credit cad from bank of america

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hillary clinton expressed doubts whether the united states should go forward with military forces. those comments from a february fundraiser were revealed in an audio recording appearing on the washington free beacon website which reports it obtained the information from the hack of a clinton campaign staffer. this latest hack revelation ntinues to raise concerns of how hacking and russia in particular is trying to

influence the upcoming presidential election. nbc's cynthia mcfadden has more. >> reporter: intelligence sources tell nbc news there's no doubt the russians are trying to influence the presidential election. nbc news has examined the classified materials used by those who brief both hillary clinton and donald trump. the secret materials indicate that u.s. intelligence has drawn direct links between the russian government and hacking activity against the 2016 election. only 39 days away. according to two sources at the department of homeland security, there have been attempts to hack the election systems in at least 20 states. >> we are doing an awful lot of work through our counterintelligence investigators to understood just what mischief is russia up to in connection with our election. >> reporter: nbc news has also learned from a senior u.s. intelligence source that inside a secure briefing room this summer admiral michael rogers, the director of the national security agency, told the

congressional intelligence committees, "we believe potential adversaries might be leaving cyber fingerprints on our critical infrastructure, partly to convey a message that our homeland is at risk if tensions ever escalate towards military conflict." in other words, a warning from the russians. senator dianne feinstein and congressman adam schiff, both leaders of the intelligence communities, issued their own warning. "we have concluded the russian intelligence agencies are making a concerted effort to influence the u.s. election. this is to raise doubt about the security of our election and may well be intended to influence the outcomes of the election." >> if we're even talking about russian influence in the election, that's a problem for people accepting the credibility of the results. >> that was cynthia mcfadden

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welcome back. the cleveland cavaliers are making it clear last year's championship season was an all around effort. >> here's what it means.

everyone from the players to the custodial staff after quicken loans arena are going to get a championship ring. that is right. the owners have decided to present rings to more than 1,000 employees throughout the cavs organization, however, they are not going to get the same jewel-encrusted ones. >> still pretty nice. >> still a nice gesture. before we toss it over to "morning joe," a look at the day ahead. due in court this morning, the boy will appear in juvenile court. two students and a teacher were hurt in that incident. the tulsa police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man will appear before a judge today. betty shelby will be charged with first-degree manslaughter for the killing of terence crutcher two weeks ago. hillary clinton has two events in florida today. her rival donald trump will attend a rally in michigan while mike pence will be at a rally in indiana. chelsea clinton will attend an

event in wisconsin, before heading over to michigan for another event later in the day. that's it for us, i'm alex witt alongside louis burgdorf. "morning joe" starts right now. say this is the thing i learned. this is the thing i learned. i learned a lot of things in life. say less, right? talk less. listen more? >> less is more. >> that's why i suspect donald trump so much when he said yesterday, i know a lot of stuff about this woman, but i'm not going to say anything, right? brevity. my statue when i go. joe scarborough. i don't talk much, right? right? other people say it, not me. >> something is going on. >> actually, many people were saying that's not exactly true. >> so hold on, so donald trump says i'm not going