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"early today" starts right now. m frances rivera. breaking news. many parts of california are still up in flames with the mendocino complex fire exploding into theargest wil fire in history, according to cal fire. it's charred more than 83,000 acres which i over 1/3 of the size of rhode island. thoseaging flames have torched the mainly mountainous train of clear lake. the mdocino complex blaze is comprised of two fires that have combined to become one massive inferno. with more than 11,000 still threatened. warm weather strong dry winds continue to plague the nearly 4,000 firefightersg battlinthe flames on the ground while they rert that the river fire is 58% contained. the ranch fire is only 21%

contained. an explosive twist. prosecutors bringing the witness to the stand on day five. manafort's former ght-hand man, rick gates admitted to committing crimes with manafort, as well as embezeling hundreds of thousands of dollars. the tax kharpblz manafort faces stems from their work with with the pro-russian government and predate the time with donald an trump. d now manafort's defense team will focus on attacking the ex-aid's credibility. legal analyst has more from the court room fireworks. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, philip. yesterday afternoon, almost at the end of the day the government finally called its star witnessn the manafort

trial, his former aid and front, rick gates. andike all cooperating witnesses, rick gates had a lot to fess up to. he started out the day by co eessingentially to a long list of crimes he committed that he confessed to to the gornment and that he entered into an agreement come into court a testify against paul manafort. and you better expect tha manafort's defense attorneys are going to probe this issue and exploior it f their defense. they're going to call out everything that rick's done in the past. all of his lies and point thaout jury venchally that this man is a liar.do ot believe but definitely fireworks yesterday in the courtroom. meanwhile gates will continue testifying this

morning. they're heexpected to question former aid for another three hours and then the defense will get their chance wit try pautsz with what we can expect and a possible meeting withpecial counsel, robert mueller. >> reporter: let's start with for because as you kno months they've been trying toe negotihis possible interview with the president and the mueller team. now the latest. take a lk. rudy giuliani says he has real reluctance about president trump doing this interview and about allowing anybo questions obstruction collusion between the campaign and any possible russian actors. they're fine with president talt about that actions the president may or may not have taken after he wasfi in , the firing of fbi director james comey, those types of questions they'reryg to severely limit and that's where theio

negoti stand right now giuliani says he's going to sunday letterer as early as today to outline what they think is appropriate for this possible interview. there could be a decision in the next week or so and that trial continues today with rickon gat he stand talking about his actions on behalf ofaul manafort. today cross examination. so we are expecting to hear whether or not -- or how they will challenge him, the embezelment he admitted toet an r that makes him a reliable witness. a new pusngthis mor to from theesident's sta walk of fame. tingunanimously on a resolution to remove the marker. ivhe re his star in 2007 for his working with the miss universe pageant.

just least month a man took a pick taobgs it. and a man shattered the star hammer.ledge instead siting trump's quote disturbing treatment ofomen. the resolution doesn't necessarily mean the l.a. city counsel will follow through and remove it. he latest numbers from chicago police indicate that since friday at least 74 people were shot, 12he of were killed. the city is facing growing complaints to athres perpetrators. chicago's police chief is urging residents to do more as well. >> there are too many guns on the street. too many people within cr record said on the street. >> that violence is concentrated onhe south and west side. here's ron allen with more. >> reporter: genae pattererson was out at a party when police say two gunman opened fire.

>> my baby just left the house. 20 minutes later i got call saying my baby got shot. >> reporter: five other also wounded, including an 11-year-old boy. >> my baby didn't deserve this. she did everything she's suppose tkaod as a teenagerer. >> reporter: shockd and grieving relatives from the mostly black and latin relatives waiting for word about loved ones. and they urge residents to do more to help. >> we as ave city in corner have a accountability and responsibility. if you know who did this, be a y'ighbor, speak up. >> reporter: t facing growing complaints it goes unpunished. more than 80% go unsolved. no suspects arrested yet in this weekend's oongs. ron allen, nbc news. big tech standing in

solidarity against alex jones. now facebook and youtubere following suit after apple crack down on the radio host fames for conspiracy theories. for violating the company'smm ity standers. jones has come under fire in recent days over allegations of hate speech. he confirmed the latest crack down tweet saying quote google, apple and facebook have been exposed for supporting chinese style censorship and now they're imposing the unconstitutional sensorship on thumarecon people." according to cnn thewi stat roll out a an app that will let militarymembers overseas cast their ballots. it was tested dinging west virginia's primary this yea

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