donald jr. the son of the president is waking up at the center of the russian investigation into election meddling. on the heels of the much anticipated trump-putin meeting, fallout over plans and more. >> i am sure that vladimir putin could be of enormous assistance in that effort since he's doing the hacking. >> the battle to draw isis from the second largest city is coming to an end. massive flooding is causing major damage in parts of the world and spidey is cleaning up at the box office. "early today" starts right now. >> a bomb shell new report could be the smoking gun investigators

have been looking for. donald trump jr. did confirm he met with a kremlin russian lawyer in the days just before his father clinched the election for president. he was promised damaging information about hillary clinton but he wasn't the only one in the room. also in attendance, paul man fort and jared kushner. a statement read in part i was asked to have a meeting by an acquaintance with an individual who i was told might have information helpful to the campaign. i was not told her name prior to the meeting. that was the end of it and there was no further contact or followup of any kind. my father knew nothing of the meeting or these events. trump jr. also said the lawyers statements were quote, vague ambiguous and made so sense

adding that it quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information. before changing subjects to discuss the adoption of russian children. a statement from president trump's personal lawyer reitlated the president was not aware of the meeting. >> it was a very short meeting. it was a meeting apparently about russian adoption and after about 20 minutes the meeting ended and that was the end of it. >> but just listen to this assessment from former george w. bush ethic's chief. >> the bush administration never would have tolerated this and if this story is true we'd have one if not both of them in custody by now and we'd be asking them a lot of questions because this is unacceptable. this it's self-treason depending on whether the new york times story is true. >> the leaked meeting comes as the president says it's time for

the u.s. to work with russia and move past the issue. and also pushing for a cyber security partnership with moscow that's causing concern in parts of washington. we're joined by tracie potts and what is the president proposing and how's the reaction. >> >> reporter: the president walked out of that meeting with vladimir putin saying that he wants to partner with him to form a cyber security unit, in fact, here's his tweet. he says putin and i discussed forming a cyber security unit so that election hacking and many other things will be guarded. here's some reaction from key republicans here on capitol hill. senator obviously will not happen. while the president of the united states would tweet it is inexplicably bizarre he says. from marco rubio, partnering with putin on a cyber security

unit is akin to partnering with ass assad. and more from other republicans. >> it's not the dumbest idea but it's pretty close. he is literally the only person i know of who has any doubt that russia attacked her election in 2016. >> i am sure that putin could be of enormous assistance in that effort since he's doing the hacking. >> reporter: now, this morning the president backing off that a little bit in his latest tweet actually overnight saying that the fact that he and putin discussed cyber security doesn't mean it's going to happen, but that a cease fire talking about the one in syria can and did. >> all right. thank you. breaking overnight a new york state trooper was killed in the line of duty in new york. officials say the trooper was responding to a call of shots fired during a domestic dispute when he was fatally shot. the suspect who is a 32-year-old

active duty army infantryman has surrendered to law enforcement. his wife was also found dead at the scene. police are now investigating the incident. celebrations have begun as iraq declares victory in its battle to retake mosul. the country's prime minister congratulating soldiers for a successful operation against isis. and yet the fighting continues against the remaining militants who still hold a few patches of ground. we're in london this morning. how close are the iraqis to victory here and what's next for mosul? >> reporter: well, they've been celebrating about iraqis prime minister has been celebrating with troops after they've driven most of isis militant from most of their last strong holds, but as you mentioned, fighting still continues. iraqi forces are pushing to retake the last slither of ground where islamic stit

militants are holding on to a tiny portion of the old city which is west of the tigris river. a senior iraqi general says his men are closely backed by u.s. coalition air strike continuing to advance and clearing territory in the old city. but they believe there's still hundreds of isis fighters remaining in the neighborhood and they're using their families including women and children as human shields, but the fighting appears to be in the dying stages of what's been a bitter battle that's raged for nearly nine months, but the smile on iraqi prime minister's face i think says it all that this is now finally drawing to a close. back to you. >> all right. thank you. greek police have arrested at least 11 suspects in the killing of an american tourist in a bar brawl. eight of the suspects were charged with homicide with intent. a lawyer for one of them says his client will plead not

guilty. he says the local resident did hurt the america but claims he did not hit him on the head. the victim was found dead outside of a bar with a serious head wound. he was working on a photo shoot to launch a new clothing line. he was in a greek resort island and the circumstances of the bar fight were not immediately clear, but police say it involved two groups of people including bar staff. well, thisern mooing's commute is about to get a whole lot tougher. amtrak is beginning eight weeks of emergency repairs at new york's penn station today. the project has been dubbed the summer of hell. service will be reduced by 20% for the passengers who pass through penn station every day. that means much longer delays not just on amtrak but also on the new jersey transit and the long island railroad. the repairs follows a rash of issues over the last few months including derailments, floods and crashes.

this morning at least 50 large wildfires in a scorching heat wave have communities on edge there in the west. evacuations are in effect for thousands of people while others are without power to cool their homes. steve is in a fire zone near santa barbara. >> reporter: a fight for control, massive tanker planes trying to contain some of the 50 large wildfires in 11 states from the air. some 5,000 firefighters are now on the front lines of 14 blazes burning across california. including santa barbara county raging out of control. >> this is when the fire behavior starts to really pick up. >> in just one day it's chewed through thousands of acres destroying at least 20 structures including homes. >> it moved at a quick pace through here and it burned really hot. the house that was standing right here didn't have a chance. >> reporter: the flames engulfed the children's nature camp

forcing the staff to evacuate leaving behind several animals. just two miles away campers barely made it out alive at the circle v ranch. firefighters were able to get everyone to safety before the camp was torched. parents relieved. >> they said the phone lines were down and the firefighters were fighting the fire. >> reporter: and in los angeles, flames of a different kind when an explosion at a power plant left 140,000 people in the dark, some waiting 12 hours before it was restored. >> woe don't have anything. we're going to have to sleep in the heat. >> reporter: temperatures expected to cool but not fast enough for crews stretched thin fighting flames on multiple fronts. >> well, temperatures are rising in the midwest which you'll see a dangerous heat wave lasting through wednesday. we're joined with the forecast. good morning. >> good morning. that's right. the heat is building across the midwest and that heat will be sliding to the east. look at the storms right now into iowa and into milwaukee. they are powerful with lots of

lightning as well. we're watching for 23 million americans at risk for severe weather and that does include the potential for damaging winds. as this big dome of heat works its way across the country look for hot high temperatures in the triple di triple digits. that's a loo ss as the ground gives way.

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look at that 5 degrees in the suburbs. 61 in new jersey. lehigh valley at 61 dreegsegree right in the middle 60s to start with. we will see sunshine today. beautiful day today. temperatures will be climbing into the 80s this afternoon. some spots destined for the tupper 80s, but today. go through it hour by hour. break it down for you when i'm back in ten minutes. first, jessica boyington is watching your monday morning traffic. starting off with the roosevelt boulevard this morning. here's our camera around wissahickon after. both directions look good. not a lot of cars on the road. good drive there. clear on the vine street expressway. don't have any construction to worry about this both directions in between broad and schuylkill. east and westbound is open moving through center city. ended with the schuylkill. checking in with drive times here. there is construction on the westbound side. right before the blue route. see lane restriction there is. right now traffic is getting through the area just fine.

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