break news...a plane carrying brazilian soccer team crashes overnight. a tennessee wild fire, smoke near dolly par done's dollywood. >> was it terror behind the ohio state university rampage and the hero cop that saved lives? >> president-elect donald trump will choose one of obamacare's most outspoken critics? >> banned for life, delta airlines bans a passenger who went on an obscenity laced tirade against passengers who supported hillary clinton. and one fan's fandango starts right now. good tuesday morning, everyone.

>> we begin with breaking news overnight. a chartered plane carrying 81 people including a professional brazilian soccer team has crashed into a mountainous region of colombia. the plane declared an emergency around 10:00 p.m. eastern time on its way to the city of med l medellin. there have been conflicting reports but so far the airport is confirming six people were pulled from the wreckage. airport authorities say rescuers could only access the crash site by land due to bad weather conditions. overnight thousands in t tennessee are under mandatory evacuation orders, multiple wildfires are burning in the blue ridge mountains. drivers captured these images while fleeing from the resort towns of gatlinburg. fire reached the edges of the country music legend star dolly parton's theme park dollywood but it has not been damaged so far. according to authorities, all the active fires remain within the great smoky national park. the original wildfire which grew

rapidly throughout monday appeared to be human cause. fortunately some rain rolling in from the east should help firefighters. this morning new details on the horrific attack at ohio state university that it left 11 people injured after the suspect, 18-year-old osu freshman abdul raz ak ali artan ran into them with a car and ran after them with a butcher knife. >> i'm at ohio state and there was a guy who crashed his car and ran out with a knife. >> he was eventually shot and killed by an officer on the scene. this morning that officer, 28-year-old alan horujko is being hailed a hero as investigators look into what motivated artan, a somali refugee. two attacks, was it terrorism and was it home grown? investigators are searching through the suspect's home for clues while senior law enforcement officials tell pete

williams they are still a long way from knowing just what motivated the attack. just shortly before artan carried out the attack he wrote on his facebook page he had reached a, quote, boiling point, making reference to a lone wolf attack. america, stop interfering with countries he especially muslim ummah community. we are not weak. we are not weak. remember that. never forget. forgive and forget, love. now the osu community holds vigils. forget. love. we are now 52 days away from donald trump becoming the nation's 45th president and construction is in full force on trump's inauguration platform. right there in front of his future home. this morning the trump transition team wakes up on the verge of some major cabinet

announcements with vice president elect musings. >> the pending cabinet news comes on the same day as a high profile dinner between donald trump and mitt romney is set to take place. kelly aevnne conway goes to twitter. meanwhile, political reports conway is now quote increasingly unlikely to take on a formal role inside the administration. >> that as we get news that georgia congressman and chairman tom byrum price has been picked for trump's human hhs secretary. an interesting choice given that surprise a former orthopedic by trade and staunchly against obamacare. >> that as another marquee graces through thump tower with

general david petraeus meeting with trump, himself. here's what the gem had to say following that meeting. how'd the meeting go, sir? >> the meeting went very well. i was with him about an hour. he basically walked us around the world, showed us a great grasp of the challenges out there and some of the opportunities as well. >> the embattled general is thought to be up for secretary of state. but the multi-tasking president-elect also went on yet another twitter tirade this one aimed at cnn's jeff zeleny for not finding everyday in trump's baseless phrase of voter fraud. at one point given giving a 60-year-old a prominent place on his twiths feed. trump tweeted cnn is so embarrassed by their total 100% support of hillary clinton, and yet her loss in a landslide, they don't know what to do t. boardf of elections certified trumped that apparent winner, even as nominee jill stein

pursued her recount in michigan and pennsylvania, following wisconsin's announcement, it would begin its recount as early as thursday. stein pushed back again critics with msnbc thomas roberts. >> what i had said, whenever i was asked, would i call for a recount if there were doubts about the credibility and the results. i always said yes. this is not about helping one candidate or hurting another candidate. this is not about advancings my own career. my campaign is not financial to win here. >> you probably remember this video, delta airlines has taken the unusual state of investigate a passenger for life after he was caught on an obscenity laden rant on passengers who voted for hillary clinton. >> trump, baby! that's right. this man knows what's up. we got some hillary folks here. come on, baby, trump! >> now the flight to pittsburgh was still investigated in

atlanta within it happened, it was at the get a, delta said they should have removed him. they offered refund to commerce on board that flight. a united airlines 747 bound for tokyo landed safely back if san francisco after one of its four engines failed after takeoff. one passenger reported a loud bang and flames coming from the engine. the plane landed without incident. a passenger on board a united flight pulled over the emergency exit door and jumped out of the plane as it was taxiing in houston. the woman jumped to the ground and ran to the terminal before she was taken into custody. the improvement. just as high as the force awakens. yesterday was the first day of the ticket pre sales ahead of the premier. fandango's ticket site went up at 12:01 fans flooded the server

t. website started to crash. customers took to social media complaining about long waits and the site going down. fandango tells customers a digital wait room had been created. hopefully after waiting in that wait room, you guy versus your tickets and are you all set for december 16th. >> yeah, not getting a lot of confirmation people got their tickets. we may have to do it the old fashioned way. after all the shopping, it's time to give back. today is giving tuesday. we will tell you about that ahead. first, nbc meteorologist bill karins is looking out ahead today. >> first, the pictures were amazing what happened near the gatlinburg area. high winds continues. we still see wind ten-to-20 miles per hour during the day today today. the radar is encouraging. >> that will continue through the morning hours. as far as the severe weather

threat goes, again, it's mississippi, louisiana, and a portion of tennessee here, maybe an isolated tornado. here's a closer look at your day ahead. so we're going to get another round of severe storms, this afternoon into this evening. so we'll get a break this morning. a little clean-up from that wind damage in mississippi. also, heavy rain will be moving up, airport delays are likely. so we're going to have airport delays. we had fires yesterday, hopfully, we won't have too many tornado today. >> bill, thank you very much. just ahead, an unusual development in the charleston massacre case. then an incapacitated driver leads to a harrowing rescue and it is all caught on tape. "early today" is back in two. poetry in motion.

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harmonious relationship, lining up to pay their respects to the deceased dictator. >> if it wasn't for the cuban people to be here and everybody is here. >> you see soldiers trocrying, men crying. >> it's most incredible. he did many, many things for cuba. >> moving on to an unusual development in the charleston massacre case, dylann roof acts as his trial. the judge called it quote a strategically unwise move. roof's lawyers can stand by and help him if he asks. he faces 33 federal hate crime charges for fatally shooting nine black parishioners at a church last year. south carolina prosecutors plan a second trial on nine counts of

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first alert, heavy rain is moving into our area. we're in for a wet couple of days. we've issued a first alert because of potentially dangerous driving conditions. a teenager shot and killed. philadelphia police are searching for the person who opened fire on a street in mayfair killing a 14-year-old. and prime time disappointment. the eagles were perfect at home but the friendly confines of lincoln field were not enough to stop the visiting packers. that was a hard one to watch. i'm tracy davidson. >> and i'm katy zachry. let's get right to meteorologist bill henley with his first alert

neighborhood forecast. conditions right where you live, right? >> and the first alert is for all the neighborhoods in our area. we'll see round one of rain during the day today and another round coming through tomorrow. and there will be periods of heavy rain. this time of year that can lead to slippery roads, if there are still leaves on the roads and the drains. be on the lookout for that. an extra element to deal with this morning. doppler radar shows the system slowly moving into the area. that's light rain that's just starting to move into southern chester county. a few very light rain showers in the upper lehigh valley. this first round of rain will be fairly light. scattered showers to start with you but we'll get some steadier rain during the day. and look at these temperatures, much warmer than yesterday. a couple neighborhoods in new jersey are 32 degrees warmer than yesterday at this time. it's 47 right now for new jersey, the lehigh valley, the suburbs are right at 50 degrees

in fiphiladelphia with a pretty strong wind, in spite of the rain we'll see a warm-up into the 60s this afternoon. i'll break these down hour by hour. first, jessica boyington has your traffic. from broad street to the expressway, we'll see some of those detours. take local vine. that's a detour. also out in philadelphia a traffic light is malfunctioning around the boulevard and 9th street. you might be diverted there. looking for an accident in king of prussia to route 422. no major delays because of that right now. most of the majors are looking good and dry. more updates in the next ten minutes. it is 4:30 and we're following breaking news. a plane crash carrying a brazilian soccer team has crashed near medellin, colombia. it was on the way to t