until next time, woo! it's it's tuesday, december 8th, coming up on "early today," hours after the fbi says thean s bernardino shooters have been radicalized for some time, gop frontrunner donald trump calls for a complete shut down of muslims entering the united states. on the heels of mass shootings and as the debate of gun control rages, america is arming itself more than ever as gun sales across the country are spiking. >> maybe a terrorist might not knock down my do, but when mayhem starts to happen, i want to be prepared.

involved shootdauvl dolved shootings, the chicago police department face as serious investigation. russia makes good on a promise to france. el nino strikes the west coast and much, much more on a busy tuesday. "early today" starts right now. and good morning everyone. thanks for being with us. i'm shannon mulaire. has donald trump gone too far this time? political rivals are lining up to condemn his latest proposal, a complete shut down of muslims entering the u.s. >> we have to figure it out. we can't live like this. it's going to get worse and worse. trade centers. it's going to get worse and worse folks. we can be politically correct and stupid but it's going to get worse and worse. >> trump's rivals are stepping

like ridiculous and down right dangerous. and hillary clinton calling the prejudiced. and even conservative stall wrt dick cheney is speaking up, saying the ban is against everything we stand for and believe in. retweeted almost 6,000 times from the democratic mayor of st. petersberg, florida, i'm hereby barring donald trump from entering st. petersberg. >> reporter: president obama appealed to americans not to turn against wrurnone another. >> it is our responsibility to reject religious tests on who we admit into our country.

that somehow muslims should be treated differently. >> reporter: donald trump issued a statement calling for a total and complete shut down of muslims entering the united states until our country's representatives can figure out what's going on. and all muslims. supporters in south carolina embrace it. >> i've had too many brothers and sisters lost over there in those two wars to just let them come here free range. >> reporter: terror leading american muslim counsel, cair says donald trump sounds like a leader of a mob, not a great nation like ours. he's doing the work of isis. just as homeland security leader was speaking in support of extremists. >> we must not force american muslims to run and hide and

>> reporter: it is a clash of rhetoric and policy in a nation divided. in san bernardino increasingly bombastic rhetoric. >> we will carpet bomb them into oblivion. i don't know if sand can glow in the dark but we're going to find out. >> that is not my policy. i believe the focus should focus on radical islamic terrorism. >> that wassand andrea mitchell reporting. and the fbi says the couple involved in the san bernardino shooting were radicalized for some time and seen in shooting ranges in the area. and farook went to this range firing a number of weapons including an assault rifle days

and we have the first look at the couple entering the country. >> reporter: shannon, the fbi now calling this investigation one on quote a massive scale. saying that they confuskiscated 19 pipe bomb make components. and they've gone target practice shooting just days before this massacre and of the five guns confiscated, two were registered and purchased by enrique marcus and a neighbor said his neighbor had become increasingly erratic and odd and after two years, pre pretended like he didn't even know her after running into him at a local walmart. they're also focusing on the

they say was living inside the home with the couple that was effectively a bomb making factory. how, when and by whom this couple was radicalized. shannon. america has seen a spike in gun sales following the san bernardino terror attack. over 185,000 new background checks were processed by the fbi. >> reporter: as the national debate rages over gun control, guns are selling. many worried americans like the hoeg family ready to buy. >> maybe a terrorist might not knock down my door but when mayhem happens, i want to be prepared. >> reporter: a marked increase in the number of firearm background checks following each

a 15% jump following fort hood in 2009. a 17% increase after aurora, colorado in 2012. and 38.7% following new town, connecticut and coming in january, gun tv, a special channel dedicated to firearms. one study suggests there could be fewer mass shooting casualties if more people were armed. >> a small portion of concealed carry can cut down casualties by 10%. >> given that there are over 300 million guns in this country, we'd be the safest nation in the developed world. the reality is americans are 20 times more likely to be murdered

attorney general loretta lynch says the justice department is monitoring the antimuslim rhetoric that's emerged following last week's shooting. they said they prosecute deeds and not words and americans shouldn't let rhetoric turn into violence. mean while, islamic residents took part in a march in kansas city. members declaring terrorism is not islam and being muslim means not harming others. one added nearly all of the islamic world condemns terrorism. >> 99% of the islam world condemn terrorists. and terrorist is very minority in islam, not the real islam. the true islam is peace. >> many also chanted yes, yes peace during that march.

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ring leader of the paris terror attack. he began his police training in russia and will finish in france. days of record rainfall have turned roads into rivers and triggered land slides in the portland portland, oregon area. and the pacific northwest is bracing for even more wet weather. nbc meteorologist bill karins is here with more on that. >> and we've set up in our parade of storms across the pacif pacific, this is what we expect going into our el nino winter. this plume of moisture just pointed straight at washington and oregon for the cascades and also in the olympics, that's where the heaviest rain will fall today and tomorrow. and then shift further south on thursday. this red coloring in here is up

the pink is seven inches of rain and we expect miner to moderate flooding along the rivers. hopefully we won't see major problems. and there's not a lot of cold air, we do have avalanche warnings near the saw tooth mountains and in central california, this is welcome snow. we haven't had a lot so far this season in the central portion of the sierras. that's good news. now a closer look at your day ahead. so, everywhere east of the rockies is dealing with just the opposite of the northwest. lots of sunshine, lots of warmth, a little cool this morning in new england but you're going to get your cool weekend. forecast. new illness is tied to a chipotle restaurant, this time

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