director of the fbi delivers a one two gut punch to president trump on wiretapping and the election. supreme court with a rough start to his own confirmation hearing. new restrictions announced from homeland security on electronic devices on passengers arriving from seven countries. how the fbi cracked the case of tom brady's stolen super bowl jerseys. does this look relacking? the future of baby spas. "early today" starts right now. happy tuesday. i'm yasmin and i'm frances rivera.

explosive day. headlines coast to coast plastered as the head of the fbi denounced the wiretapping allegations. >> i have no information that supports the tweets and we have looked carefully inside the fbi. the department of justice has asked me to share with you that the answer is the same for the department of justice and all its components. >> comby added his name to rebuking the president's claim but not before dropping another bombshell that the trump campaign has been under investigation since last july in connection with russia's meddling in the 2016 election. >> i have been authorized by the department of justice to confirm that the fbi as part of our counter intelligence mission is investigating the russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and that includes investigating the nature

individuals associated with the trump campaign and the russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russia's efforts. >> it all came as comey testified at the house panel that revelation under revelation slowly undermining the president's credibility. nbc's andrea mitchell has more on this. >> reporter: james comey not only saying there's no evidence to back the president's tweets claiming president obama had my wires tapped in trump tower, but also saying it's not even possible. >> so president obama could not unilaterally order a wiretap of anyone? >> no president could. >> reporter: add to mr. trump's tweets that this is mccarthyism and presumably the fbi. >> were you engaged in mccarthyism. >> try very hard not to engage in any isms including mccarthyism. they wiretapped him for obama ridiculous? would you agree?

revealing they're investigating possible coordination between the president's campaign and russia's hacking of democrats. a lengthy probe that could lead all the way to the white house. russia's motives? >> putin hated secretary clinton so much that the flip side of that was that he had a clear preference for the person running against the person he hated. >> reporter: admiral mike rodgers, the tale of two hearings. for democrats it was all about russia and the possible trump campaign connection. >> this was in part an inside job from u.s. persons, willing american accomplices or terribly naive ones or probably both who helped the russians attack our country and our democracy. >> reporter: republicans avoiding the topic of russia instead going after the leaks of classified information allegedly from current and former intelligence officials, specifically about fired national security adviser mike flynn and the russian

>> in theory how would reporters know a u.s. citizen made a telephone call to an agent of foreign power. >> somebody told them who shouldn't have told them. >> reporter: and republicans underscoring that the russian hacking did not change the vote count. >> do you have any evidence that russia cyber actors changed vote tallies in the state of michigan? >> no, i do not but i would -- we're a foreign intelligence organization not a domestic intelligence organization. >> reporter: still the white house tweeted out a real time fact check from democrats. >> the nsa and democrats say it did not influence the electoral process. is that accurate? >> we've offered no opinion on potential impact because it's not something we've looked at. >> reporter: after comey's rebuke asking if the president would apologize to president obama? >> we started a hearing. it's still ongoing. there's a lot of things that aren't being covered in this hearing. >> that was nbc's andrea

mitchell reporting. despite the bombshell news coming out of washington, mr. trump made no mention of the revelations while holding a campaign rally in louisville, kentucky. he remained fixed on health care. >> thursday is our chance to end obamacare and the obamacare catastrophe and begin delivering the reforms our people deserve. >> overnight the republicans unveiled changes to that health care plan. those changes include accelerating the repeal of obamacare taxes to 2017 rather than 2018. also giving states more flexibility in how they want to use their medicare program. in addition to punting on how to deal with older health care consumers ages 50 to 64. they could see premiums rise substantially according to the congressional budget office. the changes come hours ahead of the president's visit to c

speaker paul rina tempt to pull off a victory when the bill comes before the full house for a vote. however, the president could lock in a big win in his supreme court nominee neil gorsucr undergoes the microscope. they're trying to bring down the hammer on the current administration and those same dems may have shown their hand as the first day of hearings got underway. nbc's justice correspondent pete williams has more. >> reporter: with a hug and a kiss from his wife for good luck, the hearing for neil gorsuch comes a year after president obama nominated garland. garland never got a hearing leaving the seat open for president trump to fill. >> i am deeply disappointed that it's under these circumstances that we begin our hearings. >> reporter: democrats said

giving donald trump's tweets about the courts. >> his demeaning and disparaging courts about the judiciary have shaken the respect of judicial ruling. >> reporte judge gorsuch vowed to be independent. >> a judge who likes the outcome he reaches is probably a pretty bad judge. >> reporter: some scholars say gorsuch could turn out to be further to the right. >> i don't think you can expect to get the exact same ideology from neil gorsuch but they're going to be very happy with him. >> that was pete williams reporting. today homeland security and the tsa will officially announce new restrictions on electronic devices on some air travelers. the new rules are in response to threat intelligence and they will specifically apply to passengers flying into the u.s. on certain over seas flights. they will p

from the flight cabin restricting them to checked bags. and in a tweet jordanian airlines warned passengers would not be able to carry on laptops, tablets, cameras and other electronics but cell phones and medical devices would be exempt. >> the fact that this is focused on devices means they must have very specific almost pristine intelligence on the threat. >> u.s. officials have declined to specify the nature of the threat or how long the restrictions will last. heavy rains continue to inundate peru with massive floods and mudslides leaving at least 72 people dead and thousands more homeless. one man lucky to be alive after he tried to drive through raging waters. his car swept into a ditch shattering his windshield. luckily he was able to climb out. >> it looks like a stun, he flips there, gets swallowed up and put him there. could have easily fallen out with that windshield gone. back

thunderstorms on the way for tennessee and the west coast. bill karins has our report. >> that was a good lesson not to drive through the water. today we're watching showers in the mid-atlantic region. if you're leaving early today, philadelphia, d.c., towards the coast. grab the umbrella. later this afternoon that we're going to pop up isolated severe storms. 8 million people are at risk from near memphis, near nashville, chattanooga and huntsville. wind and hail damage is possible with the tornado threat looking pretty low. the warmth continues in the southern half of the country. unfortunately another arctic blast coming down from the north. here's a closer look at your day ahead. well, the warmth continues and then we have our typical battleground going on there in tennessee between the cooler air coming down and the warm air to the south. that's why we'll spark storms. not a bad day in the northeast. cooler day in northern new england with

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let's start with sheena and chuck. >> a few sprinkles out there. i had to use my umbrella, guys. >> just for a few minutes though. certainly not a lot of rain. it's not going to last much longer also. >> i think for most the commute the rain is going to be out of here. if you're south of fredericksburg you have some rain near annapolis. some rain here but that's all continuing to move away, so the green is showing you the lightest of the rainfall and again, that's mostly now east of the district and as we go through the next hour or so i think a lot of this is already going to be clearing out, but keep in mind we have seen that rain moving through so the roadways are wet this morning. some wet paisment out there but there's nothing out behind this. so we'll be drying but the clouds will be hanging around. temperatures will be mild. let's take a look at those mild temperatures currently. good morning, chuck. >> yeah,

or four swipes of the wipers on my way in here early this morning. i would describe it as just enough rain to get a clean car dirty. anyway, temperature wise, as you mentioned, not all that cold at all. temperatures now mid to upper 40s across most of the d.c. metro area. 45 in lorton and springfield. 47 degrees down in fredericksburg. afternoon temperatures today with a clearing trend. now, it may take a little while to get more and more sunshine back but on the whole an improving weather picture as we go through the day. upper 50s to near 60s for the valley. mid-60s down toward culpepper and fredericksburg. more detail about the weekend when we come back in a few minutes. first let's go over to melissa mollet. >> do have a

another problem here southbound 95 affair fax county parkway. left lane getting by. this tractor trailer fire, sounds like the brakes are on fire there so we'll try and get more information about that one. northbound d.c. 295 at benning road here northeast, work zone blocking the right lane this morning. beltway is looking quite good. we'll take a look at that problem on 95 coming up here in just a minute. this morning police in northern virginia are trying to track down dozens of stolen guns that could now be on the streets. >> two of the men arrested in stealing the weapons are also suspected in a d.c. burglary. over the weekend police arrested three men for burglarizing three gun stores in three days. they used surveillance video to connect the crimes. police say the same white u-haul van showed up at all three surveillance tapes. atf ape gents tracked down the men, followed the

them. >> we're impressed in only a week's time they've apprehended the people that broke into our store. they fo they feel they're going to be able to recover the fire arms that were stolen. >> at the time of the burglaries they were already out on bond for a burglary at a cvs store in massachusetts avenue northwest. they are expected to appear in court today on those charges. we're at the live desk with an incident on metro. >> there's a head's up here for rail passengers who use the red line. no longer single tracking. here is what happened last night. two passengers on a train were involved in some sort of a fight. one of them had to be taken to a hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening. back to you. in n