coming up on "early today," braerking overnight a stabbing spree in central london. one person is dead, five injured. police looking into the possibility of terrorism. >> nbc news has learned trump allies may intervention. new video inside a plane in dubai moments after it crash landed, plus service members infected with zika. and jimmy kimmel's rude awakening. "early today" starts right now. good morning, everybody and thanks for joining ustion today. i'm betty nguyen. police are not ruling out

one woman is dead and others are injured in that attack. londoners are waking up today is an increased police presence as a precaution. let's go to matt who joins us live from london. what's the latest in this investigation? >> reporter: i don't know if you can see, but as you mentioned there is an increased police presence and there's really atypical for this tranquil city. as you can see behind me, there's some police ce an area in front of russells square here in the heart of central london and that's because lost night there was a knifing and that left one woman dead, five injured. three of those people very sent home from hospital and the 1-year-old is now 19-year-old is in custody. police subdued him with a taser gun. the major ran on a platform of

he's urging britains to remain calm and vigilant and report suspicious activity to police officers. the motive is unclear. police are not ruling out terrorism, but they are saying that it's probably a mental health issue or at least mental health is a significant factor in all of this and remember, this is all playing out over the backdrop of an increasingly jitter eye euro jittery europe. here concerns are normally tranquil england and just this week police announced they were going to be arming 600 additional police officers. that's raising the number of armed police officers here in london to 2,800 and that's rare. normally police in britain are famously unarmed and all of this because of this increasing spectra of terrorism across europe. >> thank you so much. well, the trump campaign is

downward spiral as frustrations with the nominee nears a tipping point. key republicans close to trump are plotting an intervention. they're hoping to talk the real estate mogul into a dramatic reset of his campaign in the coming days. we also have word that priebus appealed to the billionaire's adult children for much-needed help. his appeal came after the vice pren himself from trump and endorsed house speaker paul ryan. >> these are two men building a good relationship and i'm very confident after donald trump's elected president and paul ryan's re-elected to congress and as speaker of the house these two men are going to do great things. >> however, trump assured voters his campaign is more unified than ever. >> so i just want to tell you,

it's never been so well united and we started on june 16th i would say right now it's the best in terms of being united that it's been since we began. we're doing incredibly well. >> but things got worse yesterday. a new fox news poll showed hillary clinton's post convention bump continuing to climb. clinton now leads trump by ten points nationally widening a 6-point lead from the month prior. the poll was conducted after the recent trump controversy involving the parents of a muslim american soldier killed in action. in that poll 69% say trump's actions and statements against the soldier's parents were out of bounds. 61% say trump may not have the temperament to serve as commander in chief. compare that to 64% that say clinton does have the temperament to run the country. two additional members of congress say they cannot vote

pennsylvania is a crucial state for trump in november. but there was a glimmer of good news yesterday when the trump campaign announced its recent fund raising total for july. trump all but erased the fund raising in the past few months. $64 million in july, the bulk of it coming from small dollar donations. $82 million were brought in last mont clinton's 9$90 million hall. signaling that trump may have the financial resources to put up a fight against clinton many the final stretch of the campaign. after the wall street journal reported a $400 million payment the u.s. made to iran the same day four american soldiers were released, the question now becomes id the the

the very moment that deal was being implemented. white house denies it saying this was the return of iranian cash. but critics are crying foul. >> reporter: it is a tale of two exchanges. four american prisoners finally released in iran last midnight. at midnight an unmarked cargo plane lo to teheran. $400 million of iran's money frozen since the hostage crisis in 1981. is the payment coincidence or ran some? the president the next day claiming no connection. >> nuclear deal done, the time was right to resolve this as well. >> this was something all started by crooked hillary

left office. the republican foreign affairs chairman -- >> we basically paid ran some to the iranian regime. >> reporter: the administration aggressively defending the deal. >> we do not pay ran some period. >> reporter: former prison's brother -- >> i'm grateful the administration did everything they could to bring jason home and the others as >> reporter: a no ran some policy, the obama white house sticks to when refusing to bargain with isis. >> you should never pay ran some for hostages. i'm concerned that the iranians might think that's the deal they got. now to disturbing news on how the zika outbreak is affecting our troops overseas. 33 u.s. service members are now

the virus and a defense official says all had recently traveled to areas affected by zika. in florida no new cases have been reported but officials are still on alert. florida governor announce yesterday that all pregnant women in the state would be provided free testing for the virus. meanwhile the national institutes of health launch the first trials of a vacne wednesday. animal tests were encouraging but it will take some time before a vaccine is widely available. the cdc is encouraging people to use the bug repellant deet which is safe for pregnant women and children. chaos inside a passenger jet moments after it crash landed in do baio. a plane arriving from india started billowing smoke.

look inside the panicked cabin. >> reporter: a boeing 777 sliding and on fire, smoke billowing from the fuselage. this new video purports to show the panic inside. passengers trying to grab their luggage. >> jump, jump, jump! leave your bags behind. >> reporter: the crew desperately trying to evacuate >> right after we got out the plane blew up. >> reporter: george was on board and said there was no warning of an emergency landing. >> after the plane stopped, then the smoke started coming inside and they were saying just jump, just jump. >> reporter: all three hundred passengers got out alive. there was one fatality, a firefighter battling the flames. the fire gutted the plane from cockpit to tail.

nbc news one possible explanation, an aborted landing because of powerful gusts or wind shear. >> that is quite often beyond the control of the pilots to avoid contacting the ground. >> reporter: they now look to the pilots and the black boxes for answers. all right. back here many the u.s. a busy weather day as hurricane earl makes landfall while here at home the big the heat. it is just not letting go, bil. >> by last night it really got together and it looks the most impressive on satellite imagery. it made it inland right over the top of belize city and it will be weakening the next 12 or 24 hours. it could come down lower than a tropical storm as it goes over land and it's mott going to

that won't be a huge issue. so as far as the heat goes, heat advisories from kansas city, heat warnings from little rock to louisiana. could feel like 115 degrees in areas in northern louisiana today. that will be the worst of it. we still have the flash flood watches we're dealing with. southern colorado all the way into areas of southern nevada and this morning the worst of six tornados reported in north dakota. damaging wind gusts are possible all the way back up into northern portions of michigan. that's your national weather. now here's a closer look at your day ahead. well, you can see where the little tongue of hot air makes it all the way to kansas city. 96. not exactly cool in chicago with a high of 91. we'll see numerous showers and

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>> this is 7news now. >> christa: all right. good morning, everybody. we're good to go here on "today in new england" at 4:57 on this thursday. >> sarah: here are some stories we're covering for you. a woman killed, five others injured in a knife attack in central london last night. a 19-year-old man was arrested minutes after police were recovering this morning after getting hit by a car up in lowell. this was on branch street. no word yet on what might have caused that crash though. >> sarah: friends and family will be saying a final farewell to a seven-year-old boy who drowned at a beach in south boston. a funeral for kyzr willis will be held later this morning in mattapan. >> christa: and david ortiz getting a very special sendoff out in seattle. the mariners presenting the sox slugger with a salmon from the market.

that helped power the team to a big one. he's been getting all sorts of gifts. we've had portraits. a salmon is pretty unique. >> sarah: i can't tell if it was still moving or if they were moving. >> danielle: let's hope it was the latter of the two. current temperatures fairly cool to start. 52 in norwood. check out martha's vineyard at 49. that observation site able to take advantage of the cooling. all of that heat is in the atmosphere. we have locally dense fog this morning, mainly in the norwood area, definitely not as widespread as yesterday. and it won't take long for it to burn off as you see those temperatures warm this afternoon. a touch warmer than where we were at yesterday. we rise into the 80s for most of us. 70s for cape cod. warm sunshine to enjoy. maybe taking you out to the beaches again. water temperatures creeping up into the low 70s. a light sea breeze with us. low tide very early this morning for us.

last day of... well, actually the first day of our sunset happening in the 7:00 hour, something for your planning purposes. the high pressure still in control for us. that ensures the sunshine will stick around. but this will be our next weather maker, not arriving until saturday. timing still to be determined on this, but it looks like scattered showers and thunderstorms are in the forecast for us as we get into saturday. again, scattered in nature. it doesn't look to be widespread, but something that we'll be tracking as we move into the weekend. we have more on your forecast to come. 7news "today in new england" starts right now. >> christa: now at 5:00 a.m. on this thursday, parents on alert in one town up in new hampshire. a young girl said a stranger tried to approach her. >> sarah: double-digits. which presidential candidate is enjoying a ten-point lead in a new poll. >> christa: and a woman recovering this morning after going on a dangerous drive.

soccer team looks the continue its olympic dominance in rio. 7news is live at the summer games. >> this is 7news "today in new england." >> sarah: good thursday morning, everybody. thanks for waking up with us. it's 5:00. i'm sarah french. >> christa: and i'm christa delcamp. i'm going to give just top-ten status. >> sarah: it was amazing this morning. >> bri: top ten. i totally agree with that. if you liked yesterday, you love today, you'll love tomorrow, as well. sunsets, we have the best of summer yet to come. 65 in boston. cooler temperatures away from the metro area. 52 in norwood. 49 in martha's vineyard. we have some locally dense fog mainly around the norwood area. quickly burning off as we get into the day. good news for this afternoon: dew point still staying in check. you won't notice much humidity out there. that starts to creep into the picture as we get closer to the weekend, and as i mentioned before, some scattered showers that we're expecting for