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that and so much more on busy friday. show "early today" starts right now. >> we have breaking news to tell you about. shots fired at a college campus. this time at tennessee state university in nashville. it was apparently prompted by a dispute over a dice game. one killed, two others hospitalized. right now, there's no indication of an active shooter but all of this does come a week after three people were wupd ounded at a nearby off campus party. and texas facing a deluge of water. in odessa, over three inches of rain fell leading to 30 rescues. and in lubbock, over 2000 customers were without power and the national weather service has issued a flash flood watch for

bill karins will have more on all of this. well, with a marathon 11-hour testimony in the rearview mirror, hillary clinton is looking to get back on the campaign trail. after the was over, chairman couldn't identify anything new that he had learned, saying he'd need to read the transcript. andrea mitchell reports. >> reporter: it was supposed to begr about benghazi but soon dissolved into bickry. >> i don't care if you sent it by morris code, what is relevant is that he was sending information to the secretary of state. you need to make sure the entire record is straight. >> and that's exactly what i want to do. >> reporter: while they argued, the star witness tried to stay

unlike in 2013, this time hillaryclipten was poised, . >> i wrote a whole chapter about this. i'd be glad to send it to you congressman. i can only tell you what the facts were and i know that's not the answer you want to hear. >> reporter: other times showing impatience, irritation or scorn. the republicans were also armed and ready. >> it would sure be helpful if we could get to the answer. wasn't a trick question at all. >> reporter: and bar bide the obama white house from work at her state department but sending private advice about libya to her private accounts.

>> i don't know what this line of questioning does help us get to the bottom of deaths. >> i'll tell you, senator. >> i would imagine i've thought more about what happened than all of you put together i've lost more sleep than all of you put together. >> reporter: y cia officer woods, doughty and ambassador chris stevens. >> i sat next to president obama asthma reap marines carried the caskets off of andrews air force base. during a hostage rescue mission carried out with kurdish forces. chief correspondent with dramatic details.

supposed to rescue kurdish host hostages like these held by isis in cages. they had learned they were about to be executed. so, when they sdprd help rescuing them, u.s. forces agreed. five u.s. helicopters headed to the town of hawija landing near an isis prison on the out skrts irts of town. they had already dug graves for their hostages. the u.s. troops there to assist, guard the perimeter decided to step in. to protect their kurdish allies and the hostages. brout 15 guards were killed but not before they say an isis

commando who later died of his injuries. the first to die in combat in iraq since u.s. forces with drew. >> u.s. force are not in an active combat mission in iraq. i can say that directly. >> reporter: they freed the hostages, 75 of them and at least five captured isis guards on the helicopters and left. >> he reports the hostages -- 20 of them were iraqi forces and so-called isis defecters. today is a pivotal cross roads of the presidential season. and dawn onald trump had been leading for 100 days p. sdays.

a new poll shows that ben carson has taken over trump in iowa. and ben carson is now leading in the polls in iowa, too much -- in the corn for its issues in the brain. perhaps to not insult. they blamed that on quote a young intern. ben carson will be on nbc's meet the press this sunday. and trump is disavowing super packs to take the money back and urging others to do the same. yesterday, the man behind the group shut it down to eliminate those accusations. chris christie and the state of new jersey. they are being sued by the nurse

who was detained and quarantine during the ebola panic and claimed she was held illegally against her will. it's unknown if he'll withdraw from the 2016 race. bond has been set for the suspect in a road rage shooting that killed a 4-year-old girl. torez appeared via video but did not enter a plea. and the judge agreed to the $650,000 cash bond. he'ser r accused of fire at the car hitting, this little girl. >> this is possibly one of the most atrocious acts alleged in the history of this sit. >> he went on to say the weight of evidence against torez is substantial and he failed to

appear for a previous felony charge. texas flooding and what's being called a catastrophic hurricane. >> this is one of the strongest storms ever recorded. one of the 20 or 30 top storms ever reported in our planet. this is hurricane pu atricia and it's amazing how strong it got in the last 24 hours. one of the fastest intensifying storms we've ever seen. 1 winds are 185 mile-per-hour and it may be getting stronger than that with the latest pass by the hurricane hunter. and category 5 land fall at about 5:00 p.m. friday, eastern time. 2:00 or 3:00 p.m. possibly on the west coast and note this is red tracks near port viartau.

this is one of the worst hurricanes ever to hit areas of mexico in their history. as far as texas goes, right now, we're okay. we have one flash flood warning. five day rainfall totals because of the storm we're dealing with now and steeling moisture, we're going to end up with a widespread area of rain in texas. and it's expected to be one of the worst storms in our country's history. now a closer look at the day ahead. temperatures will be kept down today. we'll have the clouds and the rainfall. thode worst flooding potential is down towards areas of waco, austin and san antonio. and cooler rain for you in areas of minnesota. updates on the complete weekend forecast coming up.

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now to breaking news out of france. at least 42 people dead and several others injured after a bus crashed. was carrying mostly seniors. texas officials raided several planned parenthood officials demanding hundreds of documents going back to 2010. four days ago, texas threatened to take away funding. well, paul ryan has announced that he is running for speaker of the house. this after saying he would only run if he would be a unifying figure for the gop. if you have a deep craving for cheese, it may be because

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could they help students learn better. now to sports and thursday. nfc power houses, san francisco and seattle both struggling face off at levi's stadium. marshawn lynch powers over the pile on the first drive of the night. lynch finished with 122 yards. and russell wilson sends it deep for a 43 yard td and 17-0 lead-in the end, seahawks dominated the 9ers at home. the unranked bruins would dominate this one. quarterback josh rosen threw for 499 yards. the bears dropped to 5-2. georgia southern taking on appalachian state. eagles with a 12-yard sneak and flip over the defender but avalanche state would take this one 31-13.

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leading the news in the l.a. times, st. louis area shaken by seven church fires in twolweeks. they all follow the same pattern, lit late at night and luckily, no one was hurt. puerto rico looks to organ transplants to help cure ailing economy. they spend thousands on hotel, transportation and cost of care is lower than the mainland u.s.

median weight time, about three weeks. the famous statue at the ronald mcdonald house was vandalized. the children of families who stay in the house for medical treatment, they're just traumatized that the statue is gone. they have no leads. and a replacement will cost about $7500. a baby giraffe makes a debut that los angeles zoo. and the male is expected to be about 10 feet tall by its first birthday. they can grow up to 17 feet tall. it's already 6 feet tall. >> do you feel for that mother? >> oh, yeah. well, if your bunny is destined for stardom, this may be its big break.

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ath of freddy grain police custody. country music star, dwight yokem and pala, he's 75. thanks for watching show hoe. we're following several breaking stories this morning. on long island, a man rushed to the hospital after a violent encounter.

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