oh, no. >> oh, my go. >> breaking overnight, tragedy in missouri. the tour boat csized killing at least 11 peopleev with seral more still missing. the latest in the desperate search for survivors. >> tornadoes tearing trails in iowa as the state braces for more storms.it >> war wn the white house, growing divide between he west wing and the intelligence community after vladimir putin's invitation to washington. >> a s that will scoop out all the money in your wallet. might cost $1500. "early today" starts right now.t >> good to beyou this morning. i'm frances rivera. >> and i'm danny savalas in for

phillip. breaking news overnight, at least 11 people are dead, among them children. after a tourist boat capsized in missouri on table rock laken branson, it happened as a line of powerfuld storms anwinds topping 60 miles an hour rolled through the area. this storm captured is to blame. >> tre were two duck boats in the water but only one of them made it back. we do have video moments before the tragedy, but a warning it y be tough to watch. witness video shows t duck boats struggling to plow through the stormy current.ar it is not c which one of the two boats capsized. from unfolds as witnesses a nearby boat watch i morhorrors one duck boat disappears from their eyes. >> anybody can read me? i needn a rope the bough. >> it sank and everybody on board here t is tryinget them out of the water. >> officials say one off-duty

sheriff's deputy working helpedy on the duck boat rescue some passengers, but five people are still unaccounted for. dive teams will resume searches later this morning. of the 31 people on board, seven of them have beenra tnsported to the hospital. just one suffered critical injuries, but is expected to okay. in a statement the company that owns the duck bode said it was deeply saddened by the accident vowing to aist victims' families and the rescue. >> severe weather sweptou t the heart land with tornadoes touching down in iowa including this twihat tore through the city of marshall town. the storm downing trees and leveling buildings. it evenag d a hospital forcing evacuation of 43 patients. cal authorities say though several people are injured, oere are no reported deaths. >>iously with this kind of damage you're going to have your bumps andhi bruises froms bouncetion around. we don't have any reports.

i spoke tthe hospital and they don't have anybody reporting to t em with serious injuries this point. >> a farm equipment plant was packed for the0th anniversary celebration. there were a handful of injuries, relatively minor.s ho also damaged in the town. the weather service said it won't be able to assess the strength of the tornadoes later today. to washington where the hite house is apparently fuming, the washington post this morning reporting the president and senior aides are in an uproar with the diraltor of natintelligence dan coates after this interview with our own andrea this astonishing moment. >> we have some breaking the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. say that again? [ laughter ] >> vladimir putin coming to -- >> did i hear you?

>> yeah, yeah. >> okay. [ laughter ] >> that's going to be special. >> that is the nation's leading intelligenin officerng out on stage and before cameras about a white house visit from vladimir putin himself. the west wing apparently did not tell top administration officials about the invitation. it's a moment that's underscoring the tenuous, perhaps fraying relationship between the president and his top thbrass. ne senior white house official telling the post, quote, coats has gone rogue. >> believe it or not, tt wasn't the only major headline. coming out of aspen, nbc lester holt has more. >> two of president trump's top lawnforcement and intel officials with remarkable push back. director of natnal intelligence dan coats on the president standing withti vladir dismissing intel agency conclusions on russian meddling. >>usly i wished he had made a different statement. but i think that now that that

has been clarified. >> and about that one on one meeting between the president and putin. >> if he had asked me how it ought to be conducted, i would have sugsted a different way, but that's not my role. that's not my job. so, it is what it is. >> is there a risk that vladimir pun could have recorded it? >> that risk is always there. >> and hours after, president trump seemed to deny russia was still trying to meddle in u.s. elections. >> is russige still tng the u.s., mr. president? >> fbi director chrisllray g me -- >> the intelligence community's assessment has not changed. my view has not changed.ha which is russia attempted lastterfere with the election and that it continues to engage and malign, influence operations to this day.

>> aimed at our political system? >> aimed at sowing political discord in this country. >>ad i asked if he ever considered quitting. i was told you were threatening to resign. >> i'm a low key guy, but that shouldn't be mistaken for what my spine is made out of. >> so you have -- >> i'll leave it at that. >> okay. and wray weighing in on the allowf a russian offer to u.s. prosecutors to travel to moscow to watch questioning of russian agents under u.s. indictment. >> would you ever envision a world in which you would allow suspects to be interviewed by russia and oerve? re: ll, i never want to say never about anything, but it's certainly not high on our list of investigative techniques. [ laughter ] >> there has also been the suggestion from putin that he would want to come -- hav interview americans. is that something that you would support? >> that's probably even lowern

our list of investigative ing at the techniques. >> now with those revelations of anti-trump texts from top agent peter szok which the inspector general said castve a cloud the fbi, the president intensifying his attack on the russia inv ttigation. t was a total witch hunt. >> is there anything that would allow it to be called witch hunt? >> i've been consistent. i get asked a thislot. i do not believe special counsel mueller is on a witch hunt. i think it's a professional investigation conducted by a man that've known to be straight shooter in all my interactions with him. >> thanks to lester for that report. and it wasn' just the intel and fbi chief speaking out against the president. congress issued a rare bipartisan rebuke unanimously passing a rolution condemning president trump's once touted incredible offer from vladimir tin to interview americans in exchange for those 12 indicted russian hackers. just as a leading republican congressman and formeria official laments the president

has been manipulated by putin himself. nbc's hallie jackson has more ou from the white. >> reporter: brushing off backlash to his one on one, plans now for part two between donald trump and vladimir putin. >> were you aware of that, just want to clarify, because you seemed to be. >> based on my reaction, i wasn't aware of that. >> reporter: the news surprising even the president's own director of national intelligence on stage in aspen. >> would you recommend that there not be a one without note takers? >> if i were asked that , question would look for a different way of doing it. >> reporter: it would be putin's first visit to the u.s. since 2015, and the first since his country interfered in the 2016 election. president trump now on defense after a third straight day of muddled messaging over his posture toward putin. >> look at the sanctions i've put on. look at the diplomats i threw out. look at all of the things that i've done. nobody else did what i've done. obama didn't do it.

ama was a patsy for russia. getting along with president putin, getting along with russia is a positive, not a negative. now, with that being said, if that doesn't workout, i'll be the worst enemy he's ever had. >> now, after a week's worth of clean ups, another one. after the art of the deal president didn't reject one from russia fast enough, the deal would have let the special counsel question 12 recently indicted russian intelligence officials if and only if russia could then interrogate 11 americansutin has problems with. that includes the former u.s. ambassador to russia, mcfaul, and nbc news international affairs analyst. >> what is moursage today, right now to donald trump? >> the president of the united states needs to come out and categorically denouncet. >> the white house is not denouncing putin, but is insisting the president won't play ball on this. quote, it is a propol that was made in sincerity by president putin, but president trumpee disa with it. >> our thanksal to he for that

report. >> we ha stunning footage of of a police who rescued the baby who used the baby as a human shield when they tried to a roast letter f arrest her in texas. they ran outside to h car and grabbed the baby. police were able to safely rescue the infant and then charge 36-year-old evelyn with child endangerment and robbery. >> also caught on camera, an armed carjackingn broad daylight. he gets out of the impala and points the gun at a victim outside a building. the gunman demands the victim's keys to a 2018 orange bmw x1 and the victim complies. north miami police are offering up to $1,000 for information. >> and in nebraska, shocking dashcam video shows a state trooper maneuvering out of the way of a semitruck. look how close that got. it veered into his lane. authorities say theth driver of 18 wheel era peered to have some kind of medical issue

behind theheel causing him to swerve. the trooper suffered just minor injuries according to state patrol. what a vantage point to see ihat what iave vehicle coming right at you. >> terrifying. >> let'surn toichelle grossman with a look at the weekend. and i don't know, we might have to change up some plans outside with these storms, right? >> wee definitely will h to. saturday morning looks good pretty much for everyone in the noenheast. diff story today, thougher in parts of the tennessee valley, ohio valley. the storms that came through iowa yesterday now moving off to the east. we're looking at strong chance of isolated tornadoes throughout the afternoon. nashville, louisville, paduka. also watching the chance for flooding rains. that's a look at the big weather loory of the day. now here's a close at your day ahead. we're looking at northern plerns. teures not bad at all. storms m thated through brought lower humidity. really nice temperatures in the lower 80s. the south,though, still baking. triple digits once again. we're going to see that over the next several days. the southeast again watching

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