for the first time, suspected synagogue shooter robert bows faced the j 2ge along wicounts that could lead to the death penalty. >> rest assure wed have a team of prosecutors worsung hard to re that justice is done. and today as the president prepares to visit pittsburgh, f thest of 11 funerals will be held for the victims of saturday's massacre. >> officials are scrambling to warn dozens of people in the accused serial killer's list of potential targets while cesar sayoc faced the judge along with five federal charges. america's southern border, already fortied with thousands of national guard and border police is about to get a whole lot more crowded with over 5,000 active duty military set to

arrive. the red sox's triumphant return to boston complete with a world series trophy. alnd on thisween eve, thousands of jack-o'-lanterns light the way as we head into a busy tuesday. "early today" starts right now. good morning. i'm marlie hall. >> and i'm milissa rehberger. funerals begin today for the viims of a shooting at a synagogue. the firsto be buryeady two brothers, david and cecil rosenthal who att ded the tree of life synagogue since they were boys. religious groups across the country are showing their solidarity with pittsburgh. a group of muslim americansor nized a crowd funding campaign that has now raised more than $178,000 in just two days. the funds will help families with medical bills and funeral costs. >> later today president trump is expected to visit steel city in the wake of the tragedy, to some mixed reactions. some residents saying he is not welcome until he has fully denounced whe nationalism. the tree of life rabbi, howevero saying iuld be an honor to

meet any president. this as the suspect in the shooting, robert bowers, appears in court for the first time. here is nbc's pete williams. >> shots fired, shots fired! >> reporter: two days after the shooting rampage it was the first court appearance of bowers, ju out of the hospital treated for wounds hd recei during a gun battle with police that left four officers injured. wheeled into court, he said he understood the charges and was ordered held without bail. plwers faces 29 counts, the most serious, killing pengaged in federally protected worship that carries a maximumenalty of death upon conviction, and thu.s. attorney says he wi recommend seeking it. >> rest assured, we have a team of prosecutors working hard to ensure that justice is done.or >> rr: according to investigators, while bowers was firing inside the tree of life synagogue, and again after he was arrested, he said he wanted to kill jews. the fbi says he was armed with an ar-15 assault styleth rifle d

e handguns like these, and used them all during the rampage. his social med posts seethed with anti-semitic hatred, including for hias, a jewish refugee organization that helpsu es, which bowers called hostile invaders. a site where he posted, gab said it's been cooperating with the fbi. his posts suggest that he knew a congregation meeting at the pittsburgh synagogue saturday was helping in that refugee effort. he said he did not support or vote for donald trump. unlike package bobefendant cesar sayoc who plastered political views on his van, neighbors say bowers did not spout hate to them. ri nothing that would stand out. the most ting thing is how normal he seemed. >> reporter: a loner who the fbi says was unknown to law enforcement before saturday. pete williams, nbc news, washington. the synagogue massacre is part of a disturbing rise in anti-semit incidents ross the country. recently, according to the anti-defamation league, now many other synagogues areaking extraprecautions.

for more on that, let's go to nbc's stephanie gosk. good morning. >> reporter:mi ssa, security is beefed up at thisog syn in new york city, but the reality is for american jews, even before this soting in pittsburgh, anti-semitism is on the rise with dramatic increases in just the last couple of robert bowers' anti-semitic rants as he gunned down the faithful in pittsburgh were fueled online, in chatooms and on social media where hate lives through. the holocaust refences and the celebration of genocide found on the internet are n just aberrations, but a fact of everyday life. >> the problem that we have today is not that anti-it isemi is here, it has always existed. >> reporter: the anti-defamation reports that after years ofst dy decreases, there has been

a dramatic spike in anti-seminic dent, up nearly 20% between 2016 and 2017, including assault, harassment, and vandalism. jewish community centers faced a nationwide string of bomb threats. jewish cemeteries were desecrated. perhaps the most dramatic example before this weekend was the rally of white supremacists in e.charlottesvi >> you will not replace us. >> reporter: chants of "jews will not replace us" amid he to >> i think what we need are people in positions of authority to speak out quickly, firlyy and forcef when anti-settlementism and any other form of racism eemergency. >> reporter: now is the wake-up nall the country needs. synagogues new york city are actually used to increases in lly after espec attacks on the city. the question will be now whether after the shooting inpi sburgh, the increases in security stay.

milissa? >> stephanie, thank you. the pittsburgh mass shooting is also re-igniting the gun debate. president trump saying shortly after that guns had little to do with the massacre, and perhaps armed guards could have helped. but dramaticlead. including pittsburgh's mayor are again saying that more guns are not theanswer, allith just a week to go before election day. >> reporter: to prevent another pittsburgh, president trump's floating an idea he has brought up before, more guns in the hands ofood guys to stop a bad guy. >> if there was an armed guard inside the temple, they would have been able to stop him. maybe there would have been nobody killedxcept for him, frankly. >> reporter: still, the president says he hates to think ilofng places of worship with armed guards. on that he finds common gund th local faith leaders. >> if we were to simply armor of us, if that would b the solution, simply misunderstands the responsibility each of us has, and the president in particular, to lead news the

direction of peaceful co-existen co-existence. >> reporter: while the national conversation centers more around toxic polital rhetoric than guns, gun control has become an animating issue in some midterm ces like in georgia. democratic candidate lucy mcbath talks openly about the death of her son, killed by a man complaining about loud rap music in his car. >> when my son was murdered, i difference. e a >> reporter: now her grief fuel herself candidacy. she and others like democrat krissy hoolihan running for congress outside philahia are making gun control a central part of theirut campaigns, so are many republicans, fighting against . >> i own guns that no one'sng taaway. >> reporter: a familiar message, and they believe a winning one. stil recent polling shows the issue of guns is not one of the top motivating factors for most voters ahead of the midterms. marlie, back to you. >> , thank you. as thousands of migrants continue their journey to the e u.s., entagon announced a deployment of 5,200 troops to

the southwest border. with aboutna 2,000 natguard troops already there, this puts viughly the same number of troops s at the border as in syria and iraq combined. let's bring i nbcnews's susan michael cohen maginnis in washington, d.c. th. at does this announcement mean for those seeking asylum here? >> hi, good morning, millissmil. 5200 more troops bng sent to the border by the end of the week, as you said, joining 2,000 troops already there. president trump has tweeted that these migrants, these refees now traveling on foot through mexico amounts to an invasion, he says. he says it includes gang members and some very bad people. he did say that there are terrorists among them, but later said he had no proof of that. here's what president trump said when he was asked on fox what happens to asylum seekers. >> what happens is they would catch and release. we're catcweng. e not releasing. so if they want to come over, but we're not even doing that

we're not letting them into this country. we're not going to let gang members. >> but what if they' applying for asylum? isn't the law? >> if they apply for asylum,e weoing to hold them until such time as their trial puts up. >> where? >> we're going to put tents up all over the place. we're not going to build structures and spend all of this hundreds of millions of dollars. >> reporter: and the president has made immigration and borser rity a major campaign issue. this move to increase military the border comes one week before the midterm elections. milissa? >> susan, thank you. ss and president trump add some of that criticism in a wide ranging interview with fox news. he tells laura ingraham he plans to pay his respects in pittsburls today. he defended not cancelling a planned rally and his tone in the wake othe agedy, suggesting doing so would make the suspect too important.al >>es are meant to be fun.ie raare meant to be everything. and i said tone it down. and then you saw the group saying no, don't tone it down, don't tone it down. you should go about your life.

you can't let these people ym disrupt e than they already have. which is disgraceful. what he did is disgraceful. >> ingrahamlso asked president trump about his recent embrace of the term nationalist, which has beenar linked to right politics and even white supremacy. >> do you want to further clarify what nationalism means to you? >> no. to me i don't have to clarify. it means iove the country. i'm fighting for country. i look at two things, globalists and nationalists. i'm someone who wants to take u re of our country, because for many, many years, ow this better than anybody, our leaders have been more worried about the world than the united stat, and they leave us in a mess. >> the president also looked ahead to 2020, saying there isn't a candioute hen't enjoy run against, and he insisted there is no collusion with russia in 2016 on the heels of their big win on sunday night, the 2018 woiod series cha boston red sox are returningome with their trophy. the team beat the l.a. dodgers

5-1 in game yo5. can see them leaving their flight to board charter buses. police escorted the proud boys of summer from their flcross-country ht. as they get closer to home, after an 80-year dry spell, the win marks the fourth title in 15 years. >> sox fans want to know.'s whhe forecast for the parade? >> it looks great on the east coast for the next two days. very nice there. all the problems are in the middle of the country. this cold front is coming through. it's going to srt sucking up that moisture in the gulf, and rain will break out later today. it's light rain. not a huge ordeal. no severe weather. just a chance of some storms, chicago through kansas city, columbia towards st. louis. it's tomorrow we start to see the problems. a lot of moisture surges uprom the south. the areas of yellow and red, that's prime trickmer-treatering t 8:00 p.m., and that's a pouring rain from shreveport to little rock to memphis, lexington, louisville, cincinnati, columbus, and maybe o.to pittsburgh some areas could get as much as 2 to 4 inches rain over the next

couple of days. again, the areases we're highlighting, memphis up to louisvoole. that's a at the big weather story of the day. now here is alor look at the weather ahead. tempatures have really crashed behind this cold front. only in the 40s in some areas of colorado. some of the high elevations are going to get sw in the next 24 hours. we also have a threat of severe weather. not today in south texas, but watch out on halloween afternoon and evening. chances of wind damage and even tornadoes. well, let's go to nfl twork, orchard park and monday night football. tom brady failed to throw as touchdown p for the first time this year. but new englatl had lite trouble with buffalo as theyui sed to their fifth straight win, and calling the bills offense anemic is an understatement. devon mccarty sealedo the deal lead the pats to an afc-leading record. the final score a snoozer, 25-6. that of field goals in game. not the best monday night game. >> thanks, bill. well, still to come, new

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hing else in these allegations. er >> reporter: f sources say they uncovered a list of more than 100 people researched by sayoc, each person on that list now being contacted by the fbi >> thank you so much, kerry sanders. now to a disaster in the sky. hope is fading in the search for th "survivor" of the lionair flight that crashed off the coast of indonesia early on monday. after an excciating 24 urs, search and rescue officials announced they fear there will be no survivors. the lionair passenger aircraft was carrying 189 people, 3 of them children when it lost contact with air trafficus controllers 13 minutes after takeoff from jakarta. the plane, which was a brand-new boeing 737 max 8 was bound for a nearby island off sumatra. now to another deadly burst of gunfire in an american school, this time a high school in matthews, north carolina near charlotte, where police say one 16-year-old student was fatally

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halloween is fast on the way. >> let's get right to the forecast. >> it's all good news. goyb morning, evy. tuesday is off to a quite start. no chances for rain today and no chances for rain tomorrow. a nice little warming trend is coming our way. a chill here first thing this morning. temperatures i our outlying suburbs are in the 30s. inside the national airport it is at 45 next to the relatively warmay ters. it's 47 in annapolis. your planner for todayfter a chilly/cold start depending on how you view temperatures in the 30s and low 40s, it will be all sunshine all the time today with afternoon highs in the upp 50s. the low and mid 60s around town. it's all about the treat instead of the trick for mother nature forhalloween. i'll give you that coming up. good tuesday