too. i think that was breaking overnight, police make a major arrest in the case of the missing pregnant mom and her two young daughters. >> president trump strips the security clearance from former cia director john brennan, but is this just the tip of the iceberg that might include other noted critics of the president? >> you've beenn law enforcement for a while. 's pretty intense. >> i've never seen anything like this in my 21 years. >> a mass overdose concentrated in one connecticut city. dozens paid a dear price. >> today theury begins deliberating the fate of former trump campaign chairma paul manafo who is facing financial fraud charges. >> plus could elephants help provide scientists with theet seo fighting cancer?

>> is elon musk about to help l.a. solve its infamous traffic troubles? "early today" starts right now. >> good morning. i'm marlie hall. >> i'm phillip mena. we learned the husband of the pregnant mom and two daughters is in custody. the 3 and 4-ye-old vanished from their home in denver. the brother shared ts post on facebook stating, he killed my pregnant sister and my two nieces. her husband, chris watts. before his arrest, chris watts expressing concern as their disappearance prompted a statewide emergency alert. >> i was trying to get home as nafta as i can. i was going through stop lights. was going through everything trying to gets home fast as i can because none of this made sense. >> police are trying to get swers to the questions everyone now wants to know. authorities have not released any new evidence to the public after searching in and around the family home with dogs.

but police have scheduled a news conference or t 10:s morning to provide updates on this pregnant mother and her children. >> in an unprecedented move, president trump has yanked thea security cce for former cia chief john brennan, vocal trump critic. secretary sanders making the announcement aanusing bref erratic behavior and abusing his access without offeringce evid louisiana senator john kennedy defended the move saying, americans expect intelligence experts to be above politics. >> mr. brennan has demonstrated that that's not t case. he's been totally klitical. i th called him a butt head and i meant it. >> and brennan is not the only one who may lose his clearance with the president offering a lengthy list of officials under review. for more let's go to nbc'susan mcennis in washington. susan, good morning. >> reporter: hi, marlie, good

morning. others were told their security clearances could be yanked a well. the outrages behavior -- outrages allegations as well against the administration, and that is significant. brennan fired back calling this an efft to suppress free speech and punish the president'sritics. >> i do believe that mr. trump decid to take this action. as he's done with others to try to intimidate and suppress any criticism of him or his administration. d revoking my security clearances is his way of trying to getk b at me. and this is not going to deter me at all. i'm going to continue to speak out. i think he fears individuals who hisd damage him, damage standing among the american people. >> reporter: many other career nationalntelligence owe firnlz are on this list. just to name a few, james clapper former director of national intelligence, james

comey former fbi director clashed with the president many ytimes. saates former acting attorney general and many, many others. all of them having serve democratic administration tz, all of them critical of the trump white house. also we have the president in anvi int with the "wall street journal" seemingly drawing a straight line between tthe yanking ofs security clearance and the warning of the others and the russia ngvestigation. the president sa i call it the rigged witch hunt. it's a sham. these people let it. something had to be done. marlie? >> susan, thank you. >> hundreds o newspapers across the country firing back against president trump's attacks against the as many as 350 papers are answering a call to action by the boston globe according to its op-ed editor, all running staff editorials today denouncing those attacks. the globe editorial staff writing, to label the press the enemy of the people is as unamerican as it is dangerous. "the new york times" writes, criticizing the news media is entirely right, but insisting the truths you don't like are fake news is dangerous to the

lifeblood of democracy. it isot just the big names either here. local papers are also joining in. north carolina's fayetteville observer writes, last we checked, we are the people. still, som organizations are warn warning this move could . backfi the baltimore sun says it agrees while the president's rhetoric is destructive, the effort to feed the narrative we are somehow aligned against this republican presiden ,fact, we're sure he will somehow spin it thus. recent polls find americans views on the press are largely divided by party lines. the quinnipiac poll release this had week finds 51% of republicans say the press is the enemy of thepeople. compared to just 5% of democrats and o 2 independent. >> breaking news overnight, a frontier airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing at raleigh-durham international airport due to an un odor in the cabin. the flight from orlando to philadelphia diverted there after several passengers reported feeliill. five were treated on scene,

three others were transportedo aospital for non-life-threatening injuries. the cause of the odor remains unknown at this time. the airline has dispatched new plane to continue that flight. >> the search for survors ntinues following a dramatic tridge collapse in genoa, italy. this has lef at least 39 peopled the interior minister has declined to say how many people may still be trapped underneath the jagged concrete and twisted steel debris. into the causeon of the collapse is now focusing onossible design flaws in the 51-year-old bridge as well as past maintenance. nbc's lieu seekafanov joining us from genoa. good morning. >> reporter: hey there, good morning. this is still officially search and rescue operation, although obviously the hopes of finding survivors still alive e neath the rubble is fading every hour that passes. 16 people are missing. the death toll has been revised down to 38 according to the

general local officials here. firefighters say there is roughly 30 cars on that iridge wh collapsed and so the damage was so great that they haven't actually been able to gure out exactly how many vehicles, trucks and cars they've recovered. they've been able to pull out bits and pieces. this has been a painstaking io oper they have been using sniffer dogs, heavy equipment, you can probably see the cranes and the inery behind me, drilling through some of the bits of concrete trying to cut through the steel to g to any of the cars and any of the potentialop trapped beneath. we do understand that some of the funeral, a state funeral is being planned for saturday for some of the victim there have been several foreign nationals, some french young people among the victims as well as italians. two families including a family of three, the youngest victim an 8-year-old boy, guys. >> lucy on the s thank you. >> a frightening scene in connecticut where city officials say at least 76 people have

fallen ill fromuspected drug ovdoses. first responders arrived at a park near yaliversity to a d dozens of people of variety of ages screaming and dropping to the ground as emergency cre rushed to help them. so far no fatalities have been reported. authorities suspect a mass overdose is linked to ar2 syntheticuana and have arrested at least one local man believed to be connected to the incident. nbc's ron allen has the latest.r >> repter: a massive emergency reonse in a city park, frantic efforts to svee li police say dozens of victims overdosing on what authorities suspect is a synthetic street drug called k-2, or synthetic marijuana. people blacking out.ck panig. this man fled when paramedics arrived. at least 40 victims taken to hospital in less than 24 hours. some in critical condition. >> there were some that were unconscious, some were nauseous, lethargic, some in respiratory

duress. >> reporter: at one point a pres conference interrupted by an emergency call. ng we're gettinother call of a person. >> reporter: authorities say the outbreak struck first near the city's main green, then spread across new haven. police telling us thehave a suspect in custody. >> i believe he may have been trying to give this out as samples to people so that -- to get them addicted. >> reporter: you've been in law enforcement aile. this is pretty intense. >> i've never seen anything like this in my 21 yearep >>ter: synthetic marijuana are plants sprayed marketed as pot. they irk u they issued a nationwide warning about pot laced with rat poison. whatever caused today's overdoses may haven laced with an opioidik le fentanyl. >> thank you, ron, for that report. >> an nbc news exclusive making major headlines this morning, twitter ceo jack dorsey s down for a wide ranging interview with lester holt. the two spoke about the company's week long suspension of alex jones which came after f

tweet calli people to get ready for the battle, b tle riflesready, rather, against the media. here's why dorsey chose what he saou a tim for the talk show host over an outright ban. >> a time-out seems, seems minor compared to the implications of soone suggesting a call to arms against a particular group, in this case the media. how do you respond to that? >> well, i feel, you know,any, any suspension whether it be a permanent one or a temporary one, makes someone think about their actions and their behaviors. and -- >> you think he's goiis to changeehavior based on a time-out? >> i don't know. we have found that i h doese the potential to change, impact andhange behavior. so whether it works with, in this case to change some of f those behaviors and some those actions, i don't know. but this is consistent with how we enforce. >> one american reeled in a

massive fish and with it possibly a world record. sword fisherman gar carter caught an 808-pound marlin in portuguese waters off the island of madera. it took an hour to reel in this big cahth. he migow shatter the previous world record of 714 pounds. that's a big one. >> yes. what are they gng to do with that thing? so many questions, not enough time. let's hand it over to bil karins for t morning weather. good morning. >> good morning. we'll be tracking showers and thunderstorms the next couplda . right now we have showers on to have louisville, lexington, cincinnati, cape girardo in missouri. as far as t forecast goes we're tracking the storms through the ohio valley. we also have showers and storms lingering back near omaha today. this afternoon by 5:00 p.m., national could have some storms. another round possible near the cincinnati area toward lexington. then as we move into friday morning we are sti tracking the slow-moving showers and thunderstorms through tennessee and kentucky.fi lly the storms are on the move by friday afternoon. watch out in areas ofan central

northern new england and through the ohio valley. hit and miss storms that will also cool you that's a look at the big weather story of the day. now here's a closer look at your day ahead. well, there is some nice weather to be had today. rapid city looking good. denver looking nice. temperatures warm in th southern plains. we will have hit and miss showers including oklahoma and little rock. it's thursday, time to talk aboutashe weekend for coming up. >> thanks, bill. >> want to heatit. >> drama suntrust park all before the end of the first in the bottom of the inning. the marlins jose drove braves star rookie ronald with his very tch.t robbing him of the chance to go for his fourth straight lead-off homer. that led to heated words between him and the braves manager. clearing both benches, they were tossed and both dug outs warn. he left the game in the second,

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