breaking overnight,th a firefighter has died battling the largest wildfire in california history, marking a grim toll on first responders. do you think he's mentally competent to do this job? >> no.on i d think he's fit. >> the escalation of she said/he said between the forme pprentice and the president is heating up this morning with new late-night tweets. a house explodes into flames after a small aircraft crashes directly into it.hi but ts was no accident. new details o the man behind the deliberate attack. we'll also have the latest up ote on the health aretha franklin. and then a long lost marilyn monroe movie scene that may leave many blushing. "early today" startsight now.

good morning. i'm marlie hall. >> and i'm phillip mena. we begin this morning with breaking news out of london. car has crashed into the barriers outside of parliament and hd promp a large police response. at least one person has been arrested there, and there are reports offoinjuries. more on this, let's go right to vincent mcveinny who is there on the scene. vincent, what can you tell us there? >> hi. good morning. i was on the greenutside of parliament when there was a loud bang from around the corner. people started herunning. and i ran towards it, a car had smashed into the anti-terrorism barriers just outside of the house of commons. people were running away from it. a pedestrian i spoke to that the car was driving fast and drove purposely into those e ba. within about 60 seconds, there were armed police response units all around t car. about three to four big suv vehicles, each of those carrying

about three officers with machine guns all jumping out. there were about 10 to 15 police officers were guns pointed. others were rushing out of parliament as well. at the car, smoke was coming from the bonnet, which was pretty pacted, and they were yelling at the car. they pulled out w a man. he about 6 feet tall. he had a beard. they have now arrested him. they have continued to move pedestrians and the publicack from parliament, shutting down london. roads in central more emergency response vehicles have poured in. ambulances, fire engines, and police cars and police motor bike over the police radio we have heard they are treang this as counterterrorism and they're advising people to stay away from this area. they're also saying a number of pedestrians have been injured. i've spoken to people who saw th, crash direct and they said they thought some people did get hurt in thisin dent. >> vincent, thank you for painting the picture outside of parliament where a car has crashed. more breaking news out of california wherearhest

wildfire is the state's history has claimed the life of a firefighter. state fire officials confirm that a firefighter from utah assigned to the raging mendocino complex fire has died marking the f sixality connected to the wildfires scorching california. >> that blaze composed of the ranch fire and the river fire has burned through nearly 350,000 res. firefighters are gaining ground on the flames with the ranch fire 59% contained and the river fire 100% contained. friends and family of aretha franklin are rushing to heride amid reports the queen of soul is gravely ill in detroit. a source close to the singer has reportedly told cnn that the 76-year-old is i hospice care at her home. the singer has been battling fa ing health in recentyears, canceling concerts last summer. the performer became the first woman inducted into the rock &

roll hall of fame in 1987. an outpouring of support ooding in. fans celebrating the legend at a jay-z anbeyonce concert. > the president is firing back at former staffer omarosa manigau manigaul newman. president trump tweeting late last night producer b marknett called to say there were no tapes of the apprentice where i used such a terrible word as attributed by wacky omarosa. nbc's nikki carvajal is joining this morning with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it really o does seem straigh of a reality show, doesn't it? former allies turneds. enem omarosa on a media blitz the past couple days speaking to nbc news several times yesterday. she's making claims about the president's fitness for office. she's talking about his mental state, and sheelsing tapes. one of them which was recorded

in the white house situation om the president's current allies calling that inappropriate andi questi whether or not it's even legal, and they're really going after omarosa's credibility. one of the more explosive claims that you mentioned is thisd rumotape. this has been talked about in hollywood circles for a couple years now, that the president during filming of the apprentice used the n-word. she addressed that yesterday with nbc's chris matthews, and she talked about his overall treatment ofri n-americans. >> it sounded as if he used it every day. it rode off his mouth kind of like when you first heard the "access hollywood" tape. you would never imagine te talkt way. it kind of rolled off of his tongue. as i've seen todayin just h him call me out of my name, call me a low-life, say that i'm not telligent, this is what he does wn it comes to african-americans. >> reporter: so in response o theseclaims, the president saying that insthe pa, omarosa has called him a great civil rights champion and that didn't change until she got fired.

omarosa also says that she believes that these tapes will be released, and s think they'll be released before the november midterm. phillip? >> never shortn the drama there. thank you. new questions this morning over the fbi's decision to fire an agent caughen at ther of a political firestorm. senior counterintellige se agent petezok faced claims of bias after sending anti-trump textessages in the weeks before the election. the president cheered the newrz of 's firing, but his lawyer says it was the result of politil pressure, and strzok has growing support. a gofundme has already raised $184,000 for him. justice correspondent pete williams tells us more. >> reporter: once one of the fbi's top counterintligence agents, peter strzok is out, fired over text messages he exchanged durin the campaign with an fbi lawyer, lisa page, about donald trump. in one, she as, he's notver going to become president, ri ght? right? and strzok, at the time a senior agent on the russian investigation,responds, no.

no, he's not. we'll stop it. strzok insisted his private views never affected his work. >> i separated out my personal beliefs from any action i took officially as an fbi agent ery day. >> reporter: but to housebl repuans critical of the mueller investigation, he was exhibit a. >> i don't apprecie having an fbi agent with an enunprecedd level of animus working on two major investigations during 2016. >> reporter: the justice department's inspector general saidtrzok made investigating russian election meddling a higher priority than the clinton e-mails, concluding, quote, we did not he confidence that strzok's decision was free from bias. president trump tweeted, finally, asking based on the fact that strzok was in charge of the witch hunt, will it be dropped? but strzok's lawyer says an fbi disciplinary review a suspension, not firing. >> trump also, and his allies on capitol hill, repeatedly called for strzok to be fired. so it's not a secret back door

thing. they are publicly demonizing nos man and saying he shoul longer be an agent. >> our thanks to pete williams for that report.no er small plane crash out west. this time in utah, killing the pilot. but investigators say it was no accident. police say dwayne yout was arrested hours before the crash for allegedly assaulting his wife. after being released on bail, he purposefully fw the plane into the home with his wife and a young child still inside. authorities, the house quickly becamengulfed by fl flames. we turn now to the major floodmergency racing across the east coast. millions und flash flood watches after relentless rain. roads and homesometely swamped, triggering widespread evacuations and dramatic high water rescues. this one here happening in pennsylvania. a 12-year-old trapped in the middle of a raging crk, pulled safely back to shore. and another scare in pennlvania after some 30 rafters were reported missing in

a swollen river. but after an hours-long, multi-county search, all are now accounted for. the wild weather also giving way to p this rarnomenon here, a waterspout spotted spinning off the sre in newjersey. the flood threats there continue with word that more rain is on the way. nbc meteorologiri bill is here again with more on our weather. >> the rainfall is going to be ast for the northeast but not like the downpours of saturday and not like the downpours of yeiserday. s how that map is going to play out. you notice at 10:00 a.m., area near rochester, syracuse, potential for heavy rainfall. then by 5:00 p. tuesday, hit and miss scattered storms. these are not the huge downpours like we've had the last couple days. this is more of your typical afternoon storms. it finally begins to exit as we evening.gh this again, we still have some people under the flash flood watches. a lot of them have bee dropped now, which is good. the forecast for some areas at least will be nice today. atlantaooks good. new orleans, no problem.

areas from chicago toro d and also indianapolis enjoying a nice day. here's a closer look at your day ahead. if you want some beautiful weather today, a few spoty rapid c looks pretty good. not bad in bismarck. 81 and sunny. not horrible, but a warmer than you probably like. chicago at 90 degrees today. so we're going to get a couple dr days in a morow before more rain returns. another severe weather warning. a different tomors coming. celebrity big brother has announced adult film star stormy daniels will be joining the uk reality tv show starting thuray. the season's theme, eye of the storm, will reportedly revolve around redemptio with cast members asking viewers for forgiveness for past andals. daniels is currently in the midst of a legal war with trump d his former attorney related to her alleged affair with the president, which he denies. wonder what secrets she'll

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the catholic school she was working for for 15 years learned that she has a wife. >> i've hidden everything from social media. i've hidden i y from, know, people that i love because i knew that i was - i was at risk of losing my job over this. >> shelly w fitzgeral placed on administrative leave from roncalli high school after someone got a hold of her marriage license and turned it in in to an administrator. once word reached the archbishop she was given ae cho resign or dissolve her marriage. the school put out a statement on facebook withtt their w expectations. fitzgerald said she is staying positive and wants to be a catalyst for change. new developments following a fatal encounter in florida that reignited the debate over the stand your ground law. what started as an argument in a convenience store parking lot quickly escalated and ended with an unarmed man who was de. 48-year-old michael drejka

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over why drejka, who is white a and h legal conceal carry t permit, was charged in the death of an unarmed black man. the case herenewed fierce debate over florida's controversial stand your ground law which gives people the right to protect themselves using deadly force. >> i thought the guy should have been arrested from day one. >> reporter: investigators said they reviewed two prior incidents of improper exhibition of firearms by drejka. since the shooting, heas not commented and is now being held bail.0,000 gabe gutierrez, nbc news. when we return, a late night comedy montage as omarosa delivers brand-new material for you're watching "early today." entresto is a heart failure pill that helped keep people alive and out of the hospital. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems,

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good morning. a toddler is dead after falling from a 24 floor balcony in northern virginia. this isn't the first time he has fallen from the same building. storms ripped up trees across the region. a closerk at the damage. >> after those storms went

for the second day in a row, strong storms made a mess of neighborhoods across oureg rion. one of the hardest hit, college park, maryland. >> chopper 4 gave us a look at

the damage. heavy winds toppled trees and crushing cars and blocking rongs. good moro you. i'm eun yang. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. more on the damage just anu . we will start things off with a todayt the forecast for >> melissa is standing by with a look at your we begin with our meteorologist. >> good morning. after a stormy day yesterday and i' sure people saw a little something, tree limbs down by me, it's qet this morning. >> a lot of storms didn't get around my pce yesterday but the winds the airport gusted at 40 miles an hour and bwi, with winds yesterday. the atmosphere will spin some very unsettled conditions