is donald trump's campaign in turmoil? one report says the chairman is mailing it in while the staff is suicidal and a mjor republican is startling new details this morning surrounding reports of a $400 million cash payment from the u.s. to iran and exclusive details around isis expansion around the globe. we have a busy wednesday including bizarre sink holes for you including bears at the beach. "early today" starts now. good morning, everybody and thanks for waking up with us today. i'm betty nguyen. a campaign in chaos.

presidential bid which is running off the rails with less than 100 days before election day. john harwood reports from within the trump camp saying long time ally of paul manafort trump's campaign manager and staff sue sigh sal. it's all true and way worse than people realize. rnc chairs apoplectic. there is now talk of key republicans coming out hard against trump after months of standing on the sidelines. the disarray began after trump ignored the pleas of advisors furthering his media fight of a slain muslim media soldier. the turmoil grew even more heated when trump refused to endorse the other leader of his party house speaker paul ryan

quote, i like paul but these are horrible times for our country. we need very strong leadership. we need very strong leadership and i'm just not quite there yet. i'm not quite there yet. trump added that ryan's opponent was running a quote, very good campaign. speaker ryan wasn't the only republican leader trump criticized as he distanced himself as well. here's what trump said about a possible mccain endorsement. >> you ow hate the way our veterans have been treated by john and other people. >> ohio governor tweeted this in response needling trump, quote, republicans are lucky to have great leaders like paul ryan and senator john mccain.

think the voter id situation has turned out to be a very unfair development. we may have people vote 10 times. there's a lot of dirty pool played at the election meaning the election is rigged. and we now have word prominent republicans are bolting from the party. richard hannah becomes the first to back hillary clinton. jeb bush and chris christie are alsoot in november and then there's megawhitman. she's one of the most prolific fund raisers within the republican party. not only will she vote for clinton she says she will raise funds for and vote for the democratic party nominee. she told the new york times that trump is a dishonest demagogue that can lead the u.s. on a dangerous journey. a phone call about a month ago is one of the first indications

disaffected republican leaders. this is enough bad news to fill several news cycles but this isn't your average presidential election and that was clear yesterday when president obama took the unprecedented step of rebuking donald trump head on. >> i think the republican nominee is unfit to serve as president. i said so last week, and he keeps on proving it. means that he's woefully unprepared to do >> the president also had these words for republicans who continue to stand by trump. >> why are you still endorsing him? this isn't is situation where you have an episodic gaffe. this is daily and weekly where they are distancing themselves from statements he's making. there has to be a point in which you say this is not somebody i can support for president of the united states.

>> trump and his running mate reacted to the president last night. >> i think he's the worst president maybe in the history of our country. i think he's been a disaster. he's been weak. he's been ineffective. >> the president actually said that our nominee was quote, unfit to serve as president. well, allowing for the fact that obama knows a lot about being woefully unprepared to be president of >> meanwhile, on the democratic side it was a busy day for vp nominee tim kaine as he made a swing through florida. he had two businesses on his plate. raise cash for the costly race and support african supporters. kaine was eager to meet voters and taste some buffalo wings in the process while making the case for a clinton presidency.

statistical tie in the sunshine state. u.s. officials are pushing back over speculation that ran some was paid for the release of americans in iran earlier this year. overnight in the wall street journal u.s. sent cash to iran as americans were freed. the article details an air lift of $400 million in foreign currencies to iran back in january citing u.s. and congressional staff briefed on the operation. the delivery happened as four am released. the state department denies any ran some accusations. despite the denials, republican vice presidential nominee mike pence brought the issue up in a rally in phoenix during his criticism of the obama administration. secretary kerry stressed it was

president obama saying it was time to resolve the payment dispute. a new front opens in the fight against isis. the pentagon along with libya's government confirmed the u.s. has launched precision air strikes. officials say no u.s. ground forces are involved in the push toward isis held territory. u.s. africa command believes the group has approximately 5,000 fighters in the city. this all comes on the heels of an nbc ns uncovered classified documents showing an isis heat map. the map received by the white house and dated august 2016 was prepared by the national counterterrorism center. it shows isis growing from 7 countries in 2014 to 189 countries with 18 countries in 2016.

as well. a front row seat in the contentious presidential election. extreme weather is pummelling the west. monsoons hit arizona hard yesterday causing flash floods and water rescues throughout the southern part of the state. intersections were closed. schools evacuated as nearly an inch of rain fell in about 30 minutes near phoenix. and in california crews are battling a deadly wildfire that has gutted hom dozen of them. they're working to get the fires under control fighting the flames from the sky. all right. let's get a check on all of this. bill karins has been watching it. we've got fires, floods, you name it out. >> maybe a possible tornado out there. a little bit of everything. the flooding has ceased in areas of arizona and new mexico. steady rains to the east of

about 6 million people are in the flood watch through the day today. maybe one to two inches with isolated thunderstorms. the excessive heat going in the deep south here. 8 million people at risk. i know you're used to it but now but it doesn't mean it's comfortable. did i mention the severe weather threat up along the border here. a little slice of minnesota from fargo all the falls. tropical storm earl is going to turn into a category 1 hurricane later tonight and then hopefully that intensity it won't be doing too much damage but that will be the scene to watch over the next 18 hours or so. the northeast looks great today. now here's a closer look at your day ahead. so today, still very warm and hot from bismark to omaha, but

chance of strong thunderstorms later on today and how about the hottest spots in the country? that's found from oklahoma city to dallas to little rock this afternoon. and how about this video of this mama bear and her cubs i mean, literally it's like they were invited by those people on the raft. everyone was sitting there watching the little bears. they had a good time playing in the water. >> that's at lake tahoe? can you imagine? >> look how close everybody is. >> it's a day at the beach for >> hope they had their beach passes. well, just ahead why the government says flossing your teeth may be a waste of time. really? but first, if you think your day is off to a rough start imagine being the owner of this suv. the vehicle got swallowed up by a sink hole brought on by a water main break. it happened in new york and officials say it will take at least a week to repair the water main and damage. check out this 20-foot sink hole

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hear flossing is not needed. how is this possible? >> well, apparently there was never a lot of really strong research behind that recommendation. the government has been telling us for almost 40 years to floss to get rid of cavities but when the associated press started asking questions about suddenly the recommendation was dropped last year. the ap looked at 25 different studies and found weak of very li actually does prevent cavities. they still recommend flossing but when asked about it again, not a lot of evidence. there are studies out there that support it but a lot more don't show a strong correlation at all. now suddenly the government dropped the recommendation that flossing is necessary to prevebt the cavities.

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