horrific crash of a marine plane. the investigation begins. this morning we're learning more a about donald trump jr.'s meeting with a russian contact. the white house dlamed no collusion occurred. they want to speak with the jr. donald. republicans are feeling the heat over health care. at least 80 demonstrators arrest ed a as legislators work behind closed doors. excitement is brewing over two new studies that say coffee may help you live longer. dra pattic shots of water spouts captured near a popular vacation destination. and the rookie rules the home run derby. "early today" starts right now.

good evening good to be with you. developing overnight, 16 people are dead after a military plane crashed in western mississippi. responders rushed to the scene to put all the flames carefully keeping their distance. a lot of live ammunition was on the plane. jessica holly has more from the crash site. >> reporter: local, state and federal investigators are now working together to determine what caused this c130 plane, a military lane, to come down just outside moorehead, mississippi. investigators confirmed 16 people were on board. all 16 bodies have been recovered, but at this time, their families have yet to be notified of their death. investigators believe this u.s. marine corps plane took off from tennessee, but they were una able to tell us the plane's final destination. the plane exploded in the air before coming to the ground, investigators were unsure that was the cause. i'm jessica holly in

mississippi, back to you. military officials are on their way there to investigate the scene. so far a tweet from the marines only o confirm the crash and say further information will be released as available. also breaking this morning, an air force recruiting a office in tulsa, oklahoma, was the scene of an explosion of a pipe bomb, according to initial reports. a bomb squaden unit arrived on the scene and eyewitnesss describe seeing a backpack being tlahrown from a motorcycle prio to the explosion. an fbi spokesperson says they have no knowledge on that front. both the fbi and atf responded to the explosion and are at the scene alongside tulsa police. lucki luckily, no one was hurt. the white house looks to be consumed by russia-related head lines including this bomb shell from "the new york times." it alleges donald trump jr. could help the campaign with negative information on hillary clinton. writing, quote, before arranging a e meeting with a krem

lin-connected russian lawyer he believed would offer him compromising information about hillary clinton, trump jr. was informed in an e-mail that the material was part of a russian government effort to the kapd si. questions on russia only grow. his lawyer dismissing reports calling it much to do about nothing. we're joined by tracie potts. good morning, how has the president been responding and what more do we know about the lawyer? >> the fact that he's respond through a lawyer is new. he's hired a criminal attorney to represent him on issues related to russia. . let's take a look at statement from donald trump jr. through his lawyer dealing with the situation of him meeting with the russian attorney. he says that he was told by someone he knew that there could be information about hillary clinton, ab alleged wrong doing by the then democratic party front runner.

his take away from that was that it could be potentially helpful to the campaign. he goes on to say he had no knowledge of specific information. there was no understanding that e he would use the information, whatever it turned out to be, reliable or credible, completely backing away from that. now the senate intelligence committee want s s to talk with donald trump jr. he says he would be happy to tell them what he knows and more sarcastically saying i'm the first person on the campaign to ever take a meeting to hear information about an oen point went nowhere but had to listen. the attorney, the trump jr. lawyer, has donated to democrats in the past. he was also a pretty big mob lawyer, handled several cases for the mob and has also handled cases for a russian national

accused in a cyber security case. >> certainly interesting, thank you. in hawaii an active duty soldier was arrested and charged with planning to provide support to isis. the 34-year-old allegedly swore allegiance to isis and attempted to provide both military documents and training to the gjihadist group. according to the fbi, it was not plotting attacks on the u.s. and was acting a all on his own. his attorney said it may appear he may have, quote, service related mental health issues after two deployments to the middle east. this washington the battle over health care has turned in a major test ofs will and time. president trump tried to turn up the heat gafrs senate leaves on the august recess. attempting to sway on the fence republicans to vote for a a plan some say is already dead. it comes just as senate leadership tried again to tweak their health care bill in a series of emotional protests. casey hunt has more.

>> reporter: republicans feeling the heat over health care. staging loud protests in more than a dozen house and senate offices. 80 demonstrators aesed. republicans still huddling behind closed doors trying to thread the needle between conservative who is say the first draften wouldn't repeal obamacare and moderate who is thought it went too far to slash medicaid. congressional sources tell nbc news they are hoping to release a second draft by thursday with tweaks to sweeten the deal for both sides. but moderate republican senator susan collins telling nbc news that's not good enough. >> i don't think we can fix this bill by doing a tweak here and a trim there. it needs a complete overhaul. >> reporter: collins is under pressure from both sides. liberal group spending millions on the air waves. >> when you vote on u new health care bill, think about what's

right for maine. >> the president tweeting i can't imagine the congress would leave washington without a beautiful new health care bill, fully approved and ready to go. in oklahoma where the only doctor is 87 years old and the sole hospital closed last year, she relies on medicaid and feels abandoned by the president she voted for. >> when he said on the campaign that everybody deserves the right to get health insurance, i think he should have stuck with that. and this right now a lot of people are looking at him as a turncoat. >> reporter: an issue so personal it could shake the president's strongest supporters. >> thanks to casey hunt for that report. vice president mike pence became the latest republican to come out for an all-out repeal of obamacare regardless of whether senate republicans can come to an agreement on its replas ceme. now 18 former penn state fraternity brothers will be back in court. panic text messages were ree vealed sent after a sophomore

fell down a floigt of stairs after a night of drinking. they include, i don't want to go to jail. hazing is a huge thing. make sure the pledges keep quiet about last night and the situation. and e he looked expletive dead. the new evidence unfolding before his parents. >> the text messages were d devastating. the family find it extraordinarily difficult to hear that and see it if front of their very eyes. >> the defense attorneys got into a shouting match accusing her of cherry picking evidence. they have been charged with a variety of crimes ranging from evidence tampering to involuntary manslaughter. now to north carolina, where this water spout was one of several spotted in the area monday. officials say one came ashore as a tornado and ripped shingles right off a home. >> i really want to see the

lightning it strike. oh my! >> her wish just came true when lightning struck a building near her home just outside of houston. today millions are at risk of severe weather and dangerous heat is spreading. we have the details on what we need to look out for. >> ib credible lightning if in that picture. we're seeing lightning right now in ohio between columbus and cincinnati. and some rain sweeping across the northeast. i'd say the latter part of the day. a weak front come iing through t will trigger not only the hefd rain but gusty winds. the heat e is on. it's going to be dangerous today in st. louis where your highs will get near 100 degrees. the heat index, 104. that's a ññ declared over

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string of violence. breaking overnight. shooting leaves two people injured. one victim may have been a innocent bystander. >> missing mystery. police try to piece together the disappearance of four men. tracking storms. severe weather coming our way. what you need to know before heading out the door. issued a first alert because of that sever weather heading our way. good morning. >> let's get right to meteorologist bill henley. for the reasons why we've issued is first alert. >> good morning, vai. it's quiet morning. this afternoon we could see some sever storms take shape. issued first alert for

pennsylvania, new jersey, delaware. two this afternoon into the evening that and that is for loejized wind damage. heavy downpours and potentially hail as well. the storms to start with are to the west. this is not the main feature, but we're going to see some wet weather possibly this morning. showers are starting to settle down. it's this afternoon that we'll likely see form ises pop up in parts of the area. not everybody gets that tvd later today. where we are right now 70s. 77 in philadelphia. 70 degrees in the lehigh valley. temperatures climb. in fact they sore this afternoon into the 90s for new jersey and delaware. 84 the high temperature for the lehigh valley. 90s for the rest of the area. at the shore, looks like we'll see sunshine and temperatures to the 80s today. break it down hour by hour with the future cast. show you when the storms are likely in your neighborhood when i'm back in ten minutes. first, jessica boyington has your first alert traffic. watching moving through center city.

vine street expressway closed this morning. ia around broad street. right now diverting all traffic off. police activity here. westbound side. both correcti directions closed both westbound and eastbound. watching the schuylkill. westbound side right lane closed. you can see both directions of course with the drive time not seeing increase there. 11 minute on the westbound side. from the vine to blue route. speeds still in the 60s. watching a crash in abington. around mount caramel avenue. now to breaking knew in camden county. police are investigating a suspicious death in a house there. police say last night a man was found dead in a home along mansion avenue. not clear how he died or whether he lived at the home. continues to make calls to the police and county prosecutors office for more information. bring you any new details throughout the morning and nbc 10 app.