/s a handful of white nationalists showed up for demonstrations outside the white house as counter protesters far outnumbered the lot. while in charlottesville, a look back at one year sincehe heathe r lost her life. >> is the president aware of neat's going on? >> this is a nongotiable discussion. >> the secretly recorded tape os white chief of staff john kelly firing trump advisorar omosa manigault newman, but that's just the tip of theg. iceb >> chaos around the globe with flooding fires, droughts and more. as scientists sound the alarm over our swiftly changing imate. >> a baggage handler manages to steal a passenger jet this morning. investigators are piecing

together just how it happened. >> to a massive sink hole that tried to swallow the car except for passerby and tmwork that saved the day. "early today" starts now. i'm phillip mena. >> i'm frances rivera. xactly one year afte demonstrations in charlottesville, virginia turned deadly, a small group of white nationalists swed up for eye buanned protest in the nation's capital. they were outnumbered by throngs and counter protesters. >> there were some tense moments, but security was tight and the protests were largely peaceful. coming as a relief to law enforcement who had bearing up for this day for months. nbc's nikki carvajal has thela st. >> reporter: lots of people in dc, it was a tense weekend leading up to the protest with permits for about 400 people filed for the unite the right rally. ultimately, only about 20 showed up and by some accou s it was even fewer than that. they were far outnumbered by counter esprters.

thousands of people took to the streets.e there was s shouting between the two groups, but never any physical interaction. they k wereept very far b separated police. some counter protesters towards the end of the night were sort of antagonizing police throwing bottles. they were pepper sprayed. other than that police say it was a peaceful protest and they're proud of the work that they did. >> the folks out there on the lines tak v all thatbal abuse, but to be able to stand up here today and nobody -- know that nobody was killed and no cdy got hurt in oury is a little sense of pride there for our fniks. >> the right blamed weather for why they wrapped up the protest so quickl but definitely a very stark contrast to what happened in charlottesville last year. phillip and frances? yo we're all thankful for that. nikki, thank >> hundreds of protesters gather ed in in the city of charlottesville itself and in stark contrast for the tumultuous clashes last year, protests were largely peaceful leading to only few arrests.

the day also largely focused on healing. tny there taking a mom to remember the woman who was killed in last year's violence. nbc's mia h rodrigu the story from charlottesville. >> reporter: there was tightia security espy here at the site where 32-year-old heather heyer was killed and several dozen others were injured last year when police say james fields drove his vehicle into a ters. of counter prot now, today there have been some standoffs between protesters and law b enforceme no injuries were reported. however there, were four arrests. some of the presters are affiliated with antifa, the antifascist movement. and they wer basically protesting the heavy police presence we saw here this weekend wle others wer out pushing a message that racism will not be tolerated. susan bro, the mother o heather heyer, made her way to the memorial basically paying tribute to her daughter street that has now been renamed heather heyer way. in the mean the statue of robert e. lee which was the

focal point oo much of the anger last year-endin u in protests is still in the park because there isaw a state that prohibits the removal of these confederate monuments. >> maya thank you. >> president trump believes they are ready to handle any findings from mr. mueller. trump attorney and formeror new york mudy giuliani says the team is prepared to rebut any conclusions from the investigation into russian election giuliani telling the paper, quote, a negative report gets it over with. we canwe a it with i think a better report from us and then we get to wait and see what happens in congress. the legal team has also sent a proposal to mueller about a possible sit-down with the president. giuliani told the journal there won't be an interview until after september 1st t avoid interfering with the mterms. >> meanwhile the first trial of the special counsel investigation gets back underway this afternoon. e prosecution is expected to rest their case against former trump campaign chairman paul manafort today.

he isacing tax and bank fraud charges that predate his time geth the campaign. >> lng questions this morning after a horizon air employee was able to steal and crash an empty passenger plane. 29-year-old richard russell took the 76-seat passenger plane for a joy ride before slamming it into an island an hour later and is presumed to be dead. they have located the human remains and await the results from the medical examiner'sof ce. hans nichols is is there to give us a deeper look. hans? >> rep learning more about the life and passions of richard russell and how many friends he had, at the me time investigators are still trying to determine how he crossed a a busy tarma made it all the way onto runway 16 c before taking off. >> oh, my god. what is happening rr:ht now? >> r before richard russell made it into the sky in a horizon air dash 8, investigators want tw how he made it across a crowded

tarmac onto a runway at seattle c tack aport. causing confusion in the control tower, and a call to t military. with a pair of f-15s on his tail, rsell stayed airborne for more than an hour before dying in a faiiery crash. thousands of ramp workers and mechanics have the sameroad access russell had. >> for me the biggest red flag is that this is something that aviation security is not designed to prevent. >> reporter: making an insidern attackf the biggest potential threats to commercial aviation.te >> we're fortun the sense that it wasn't a terrorist, somebody who was focused on causin mass destruction. what this incident did was demonstrat a vulnerability that is still existing here almost 17 years after 9/11. >> reporter: as investigators work to determine if tighter

security could have prevented russell's flight, a video he made revealed a man who enjoys his work. >> look at all them bags. ooh, a purple one. >> reporter: and loved to travel. ies final act leaving a family in and friends in morning. >> he was friends with everyone. some of us are lucky to have oni or twods, really good friends. he had dozens of really good friends. >> reporter: and many of those friends just sawhe guy they call bebo at their 10th high school reunion up inalaska, one of them saying he appeare to be in good spirits. riillip? >> allt, hans, thank you for that report. >> a global heat wave is drawing new attention to the threat of climate change. with this summer's ereme weather in europe, australia and across the globe, scientists are beginning to sound the alarm. here's nbc's matt bradley. >> reporter: in germany, fish ardrowning. in switzerland, thirsty cows are getting air lifts of water. in southern australia, one of th worst droughts in history during their winter. >> this is certainly uncharted

waters it's not a record that we'reou happy ve reporter: this summer's global heat has seen somey- topsturvy weather drawing new atntion to the hot thirsty elephant in the room, climate thange. worldwide the p four years have been the hottest ever recorded, and it's only been a year since president trump withdrew from the paris isreement on climate change. >> the p accord would undermine our economy, hamstring our workers, weaken our sovereignty. >> reporter: but withdrawing won't trump a scientific consensus. rearchers almostll agree human activity is causing the warmh to and they cite this summer as evidence. >> this year willbvusly go down in the record books as a ravaging summer of heat. the earth seems lik it's literally on fire. >> reporter: professor kim cobb spent the year measuhe effect of climate change on coral reefs.

it surprises seasoned scientistsor >> this is a i thought may be ten or more years off. it's kot that i didn'w this kind of thing was coming. r's that i didn't think it was going to comeht now. so it is a k.shoc it is a shock frankly. i really t ught we had more time. >> reporter: without tighter rules and emissions, cobbo expects t see the earth's climate get even hotter, raising the stakes along with the temperature. matt bradley, nbc news. >> we can't say we didn't see it coming. >> n >> the signs have been around a long, long time now. bill karins? >> it's pretty crazy. i hope you saw it, glacier national park dit 1rees the first time ever in the last few days when they had the heat wave in the northwest. records go back to 1943. 70, 80-year period. still, glacier national park, better get there soon. let's talk about what's happening in the east today. more rainy days, slow moving weather systems. this has been the trend over the last, what, month at least, with a lot of moisture, humhity values in areas of the eastern portion of new england.

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>> reporter: at her own conduct and credibility are also under tescrutiny. afr she secretly taped white house chief of staff john kelly insidehe highly secure situation room. >> this is a white houseyb wher evy lies. the president lies to the american people. sarah huckabee stands in front of the country and lies every day. you have to have your own back. >>eporter: for 15 years. >> omarosa is a nice person. >> reporter: herame and hr career were intertwined with donald trump. now she expresses regret. >> it is hindsight, but i will say this to you. i was complicit witte this whi house deceiving this nation. >> reporter: manigault newman writes she learned about a tape where mr. trump used the "n" word during production of t apprentice, but she had not heard it herself. but she toldss "meet the pre," she did, but only after her book was completed. >> i hrd his voice as clear as you and i are sitting here -- >> you have heard the tape? >> i have heard the tape. >> since publication -- >> reporter: she brought another tape of her own to "meet the

press," a hidden recording she made when the chief of staff fired herast december. >> is the president aware of this? >> don't go down this road. this is a nonnegotiable discussion. >> reporter: facing questions whether her actions were disloyal or security violation. >> yes, i have to protect myself and i have no regret about it. >> kellyanne conway painted her former colleague as an opportunists. >>he's trying to sell books and settle scores and you've got to be anti-trump for those to be successful. >> reporter: the white house hit back hard, reacting to manigault newman's appearance onmeet the press." press secretary sarah sanders said to sneak a recording devics into tuation room shows a blatant disregard for national security. she went on to say that to brag about it on national tv further proves a lack of character. frances , >> all rig kelly, thank you. >> tonight a baltimore police officer resigns after damning video is released. we'll show it to plyou. us a dramatic water rescue ught on camera. stay with us. you're watching "early today" on

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counterprotesters clash with c. police in the streets after yesterday's unite the right rally ended before it was scheduled to be tn. >>se demonstrators far

outnumbered the white nationalists who showed up. how they traveled is drawing more attention. >> now neighbors are cleaning up and more rain is headed our way. news 4 today starts now. >> good morning, everybody. welcome to your monda at 4:00 a.m., am i'm aaron gilchrist. >> thousands ofids are headed back to class. >> melissa mollet is keeping an eye on the weathtraffic. >> hard to believe, school is going back in for our local counties. >> i wonder if the kids are happy. >> i'm happy. >> why are youhappy? >> they need to be learning. >> i alwaysir dreaded the day of school. everything felt too new. well a little if its they're standing at the bus