think that i'm funny when i grow up. . busted. the last holdout of alabama's dozen yale escapees is captured. late breaking details ahead. >> stunning rebuke. the acing head of the dea tells thousands of agents to disregard president trump's message to police. dangerously high temperatures in the northwest. zoos forced to close early. meteorologist bill karins with the details. >> and could this be the catch of the year so far? whoa. "early today" starts right now. good morning. i'm phillip mena. >> thanks for starting your morning early with us. authorities capture the last remaining inmate from sunday night's jail break in alabama. officers arrested brady

kilpatrick, one of 12 inmates who escaped the lockup by using peanut but thor to trick a guard. he was found in st. maarten, florida, through a coordination between florida and alabama. his 18-year-old sister was also arrested along with her fiance and another family friend. authorities say the couple helped transport kilpatrick from alabama to florida and now facing criminal charges in both states. >> the head of the dea is making a startling rebuke of the president today following mr. trump's controversial comments last week seemingly condoning police violence. take a listen. >> when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you see them thrown in rough, i said please don't be too nice. like when you guys put somebody in the car and you're protecting their head, you know, you put your hand over. like don't hit their head and

they've just killed somebody. don't hit their head. i said you can take the hand away. >> law enforcement officials across the country became concerned following years of police shootings and protests making news coast to coast with those officials claiming mr. trump was encouraging police brutality. press secretary sarah huckabee sanders claiming the president was merely kidding. >> i think guys are jumping and trying to make something out of nothing. he was simply making a comment, making a joke and it was nothing more than that. >> well, now the acting head of the dea not only concedes president's remarks condoned police misconduct but he's warning his over 10,000 officers not to heed the president's words writing agents must act, always act honorably by maintaining the very highest standards in there i i. criminal suspects. >> a developing story has universities across the country on edge. "new york times" and other outlets reported president trump is expected to direct his

department of justice to take on affirmative action in college admissions. the paper reports the administration will redirect resources in from the civil rights department to investigate and ultimately sue universities. it is a dramatic and unforeseen move and we're joined by tracie potts to get a sense of it all. tell us what's behind this announcement and what led up to it. >> here's what we know. "the new york times" published what they said they got their hands on an internal memo that seeks lawyers for a new project in the civil rights division that project focusing on investigating and suing colleges and universities whose admissions policies are demand to discriminate against white applicants. this would be and this is notable, this would be run by a division of the justice department that's full of political appointees of president trump and not the civil servants who normally deal with that issue. according to the "times," according to that memo, it targets intentional race-based

discrimination. programs that give blacks and latinos an edge even if they have lower test scores. lawyers committee for civil rights reacting calling it deeply disturbing. supreme court in the past upheld using race as a factor in college admissions. according to the "times," the justice department declined to give more details. >> tracie potts for us in washington. thank you. with crises involving russia and north korea escalating, strong words from secretary of state rex tillerson as he took the podium of the state department briefing room for the very first time since being sworn into office. andrea mitchell has more from the state department. good morning, andrea. >> good morning, philip. as crises escalate with both north korea and russia, the secretary of state has had his first briefing here since taking office six months ago. six months into the job, secretary of state rex tillerson stepped into the briefing room

for the first type addressing crisises from russia to north korea with a new message for kim jong-un. >> we are not your enemy, but are you presenting an unacceptable threat to us. and we have to respond. >> reporter: that response both care ros and sticks. the u.s. planning to test fire a long-range missile from california but tillerson offering pyongyang direct talks. >> we would like to sit and have a dialogue with them. >> reporter: on russia after vladimir putin's order to remove half the u.s. staff in russia. >> the situation is bad but believe me, it can get worse and it just did. >> reporter: complicating everything trump tweets recently blasting china for north korea. >> how complicated is it for you to do your job with sometimes the president, the commander in chief contradicting u.s. foreign policy on twitter? >> in light of the fact that the president communicates the way he does, just like everything else, it's part of the environment in which we work.

we'll adapt to it. >> reporter: rumors tillerson might quit over disagreements with the president. >> he calls me late at night on the weekends when something comes into his head and he wants to talk. i think if we're not having those differences i'm not sure i'm serving him. i would tell you the relationship between the president and myself is good. >> reporter: as for white house leaks blaming tillerson for widespread vacancies here at the state department, he said the diplomats he speaks to say help us fix all of this. that said, today he'll be meeting with republican congressional leaders about a range of issues including his proposed budget cuts which had he say are way too drastic. >> all right, thank you very much. we've been talking about the extreme temperatures especially in the northwest. look at the extreme measures they had to take at the oregon zoo. the animals doing whatever they could to stay cool. today and thursday the zoo will close early when temperatures are expected to top 105 degrees. that's helpful to the people

visiting the zoo but the animals need a cool dip, too. >> meteorologist bill karins joins us now. how bad is this going to get? >> some areas have a chance for 114, 115. in the northwest, that's like phoenix temperatures. in the middle of the summer. excessive heat warnings from seattle through northern california. this will be days of this heat wave right into the weekend for some plays. reading is one of those spots blistering hot. the potential for all-time record highs into the northwest. so the triple heat today will be making its way all the way up through the pacific northwest. 112 in reading. salem you're going to be close if not breaking your all time high temperature of 108 temperature. we'll watch portland on thursday. all time hottest is 107. right n call the white house a

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fox news is facing new controversy today being dubbed as the make news channel. in one major paper this morning after a lawsuit was filed against the cable giant for allegedly pushing a false story centering on the death of a dnc

staffer. >> nbc's ron allen has more on how the suit goes all the way to the white house. >> reporter: good morning. how are you? as you mentioned, some of the lawsuit, makes pretty dramatic claims. some of its allegations go all the way to the white house. the man suing fox news is named rod wheeler, former washington, d.c. detective who is now a private investigator. wheeler was looking into the murder of a young man named seth rich, a 27-year-old staffer at democratic national committee shot and killed in july of 2016 during the height of the campaign. and a couple of weeks before those damaging e-mails about hillary clinton hacked from the dnc began pouring into the public. his lawsuit claims a fox news reporter made up quotes from him for a story that essentially said that seth rich not russia, was responsible for releasing those controversial dnc e-mails. and that somehow his murder was connected to all of that. according to the suit, it was a fake news story conjured up to "help put to bed speculation

that president trump colluded with russia in an attempt to influence the outcome of the presidential election." here's where the white house and president trump allegedly get involved. wheeler was being paid by a trump supporter and fellow fox news contributor named ed butowsky to investigate the murder. ed said he wan odd help the young man's parents solve the case. wheeler's lawsuit claims bu 2000cy told him the president knew all about the fox news article and butowsky urged wheeler to go on air and talk up the theory that the not the rushes was behind the leak. butowsky said the president just read the article. he wants it out immediately. it's now up to you but don't feel pressure. >> another fox news alert. a huge bombshell in the murder of this dnc staffer. >> an investigator now says seth rich was in contact with wikileaks before he was

murdered. >> butowsky has not returned a call for comment but denied sharing the fox news article with the white house. here's reaction from rod wheeler the man suing fox news. >> first of all, i'm thinking why would the president have to review a sorry pertaining to the murder of a guy in dc. why would the president be involved in this. at that point, it was rather obvious to me that they actually lured me into this investigation. they meaning this fox news reporter and ed butowsky to substantiate this russian narrative thing or debunk that when in fact they told me he was really getting involved just to solve a murder. >> fox news retracted the story a week later after it ran. a statement from fox news president jay wallace says in part the accusation fox news published the story to help detract from the coverage of the russia collusion issue is erroneous. the retraction of the story is still being investigated internally. the white house claims the president was not involved.

>> the president had no knowledge of the story and it's completely untrue he or the white house involvement in the story and beyond that, this is ongoing litigation. i'd refer you to the parties involved which aren't the white house. >> pretty complicated but the bottom line, wheeler's lawsuit moves forward and so does the investigation of russia involved in the 2016 election. the family of seth rich saying they hope the lawsuit ends conspiracy theories about his death. >> certainly a lot of layers there, ron. we'll see what's uncovered from it. just ahead, gene simmons unexpected doppelganger you'll have to see to believe. plus the viral beyonce parody that will blow you away. you're watching "early today." provide the same omega-3 power. introducing megared advanced triple absorption... it supports your heart, joints, brain, and eyes.

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causing flooding and forcing beaches to close to jersey shore. coming up on 4:00 a.m. good morning. this is nbc 10 today. first look at four. i'm tracey davidson. >> i'm vai sikahema. another warmup today. let's get right to bill henley. most accurate forecast in town. >> starting off with temperatures back in the 50s. 60s and 70s.

75 degrees in philadelphia. look at upper 60s right now in the lehigh valley. going to be heating up this afternoon. upper 80s with a chance of afternoon shurs and thunderstorming for the lehigh valley. partly sunny skies in delaware. could see pop-up showers and thunderstorms in philadelphia and the suburbs and even new jersey later today. break it down hour by hour. show you when the heat will be on in your neighborhood when i'm back in ten minutes. first, jessica boyington has your first alert traffic. start on the schuylkill expressway. here's camera around gladwyne. do have ongoing construction project. both directions around the city line avenue and blue route area. both directions east and westbound part of the construction project looks like here in the cameras. do have lane restriction crew on the scene there. pretty much one lane getting by at this point. speeds there are up still even despite that. also watching vine street expressway. closed here too for a construction project in between

broad street and skookle. that will hang out there until about 5:00 this morning. 95 moving through delaware. everything looks good so far. speeds still in the 60s. vai and tracey. now to continuing coverage of the search to the misunderstand behind the murder on the main line. police now know who they're looking for. blind the first murder in haverford township in more than a decade. police believe he could be in philadelphia. joins us now have southwest detectives. >> reporter: part of the sense of urgency is the suspect is considered to be armed and dangerous. learned yesterday he was not the first person he thargted in haverford township. police now say he tried to rob a kid on a bicycle. when that didn't work, he went after 29-year-old lee. according to police,