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your smartphone. >> the man rushes the tsa and plows through the atreeners the airport. five agents were injured we have thdetails ahead. >> andhi how's ts for a fantentically frighting and exhilarating surprise to kickoff your friday? "early today" starts right now >> good to be with you on this friday morning i'm frances rivera >> and i'marlie hall breaking news overnight, a dramatic escalation in tensions with teheran president trump reportedly m approveditary action against iran to strike back for gunning down an unmanned american drone over the strait of hormuz. but according to "the new york times" and the washington post, the onesident pulled the plug the operation at the last minute citing multiple senior officials, the times wrote, planes were in the a and ships were in position, but no missiles had been fired when word came to stand down. nbc's craig boswell has the latest craig, good morning. >> reporter: marlie, good morning. good morning, everyone

hours after we heard president trump say that iran had made a very big mistake shooting down a u.s. yrone, "the newk times" reports the president, as you said, ordered military strikes multiple senior officials involved in these deliberations and these briefings say the president approved those strikes and thosrge taets, according to officials, included radar and missilbatteries. it comes after iran shot down the unmanned u.s. drone yesterday the u.s. says was an unprovoked attack in international waters now, iran says it was over their air space. the military operation in reonse, after a bipartisan meeting at the white house, and while no government officials have commented, there was fear that there could be civilian casualties >> the goal was to avoid any casualties in iran so thiwould be the kind of strike that i guess you might call symbolic, although of

course it would be incredibly consequential and dramatic action >> reporter: in that piece of video you saw just before that sounwas the trail of smoke comingown from that pentagon video from that drone. there it is right there. the drone going down just moments after it was shot. that is an unmanned surveillance now, this latest escalation comes after the u.s. accused iran og f attackinoil tankers last week. dramatic escalations in the tensions marlie, back to you. >> crawe b from d.c. thank you. >> things taking a dramatic turn in the courtroom when another seal who was granted full immunity took the stane d confessing hwas the killer of the 17-year-old isis prisoner. steve patterson has the shocking details. >> reporter: frances, they ain callthis a once in a lifetime moment, the prosecution witness testifying on the stand admitting to the crime during

that testimony in a case that's already fraught for the a stunning turn in the trial of a highly decorated navy seal platoon leader accused of murder a bombshell admission from the prosecution's key witness, navy medic cory scott testified he was thkione who lled an unarmed isisetainee, not chief edward gallagher the admission a shocking blow to a case already riddled with challenges >> this is the most surprising turn of events it sounds like a script that was written for a movie i don't recall this ever happening in the military trial. >> reporter: scott says he saw gallagher stab the teenage isis fighter captured in iraq i 2017, but testified the stab wound was not life-threatening he was breathing through an airway tube. scott says hkilled him because he feared the tainee would be turned over to the iraqis to be tortured and left toe die thfense asking, how did you do it? scott replying, i put my thumb over his tube untiesl pped breathing.

did you suffocate him? yes. did chief gallagher kill the terrorist? scotreplyingno with nobody, no physical evidence and now a confession from a key witness, the prosecution's case is unraveling >> i think the panel will be extremely hard-pressed to nvince gallagher of murder when the prosecution's star witnescos essed to it. >> reporter: and scott unlikely to face any charges either before the trial, scott was granted immunity in exchange for his testimony. following scott's testimony, the defense filed a motion to the judge denied that request, and so now the trial continues p underneath a cloud of uncertainty. frances? >> steve patterson for us. thank you, steve >> protesters packed a court in philadelphia saying more needsto e done after dozens of officers were pulled from duty after sharing offensive and racist posts on social media nbils ron allen has the deta

>> reporter: anger erupting at a philadelphia city council meeting and demands dozens of officers be fired for offensive facebook posts made public by an advocacy group >> we are here on behalf of the people because we will not he racist police patrolling our streets. >> reporter: the plain view oject published several,000 social media posts from colonel endorse violence, racism and bigotry. >> it makes me sick, to be honest with yo we are in a sition to knowcause better >> reporter: in philadelphiaof, 300 cers implicated, 72 now assigned to desk duty. the largest number taken off the streets in recent memory were you surprised to read these posts? >> no. >> reporter: michelle, retiredla from the philphia police after 27 years >> it damages thones that do the good work in this city it damages us all. it damages the city. >> reporter: the philadelphia police union called it an overly broad social media investigation and says the officers deserve due process.

>> what do we want justice. >> reporter:sthile the inveigation grows, so does t mistrust ronil allen, nbc news, philadelphia >> some alarming news about the effects of spending too much time on your phone australian researchers suggesting humanins are gr horns on the base of their skulls nbc's stephanie gosk has the details. >> reporter: look up pay attention. sustained bad posture over a tiny screen uld lead to one of these. it does look sort of like a horn, but actually this isbo a spur near the base of the skull. researchers in australia examined hundreds of x-rays and found that roughly 40% of pele 18 to 30 years old who use thei phones morthan 4 1/2 hours a day developed the growth the likely cause all that hunching over, sending texts and checking social media. do you find yourself on your phone a lot? >> yeah, i'm addicted. ouyou're like that and yr body off.ll like screwe

>> reporter: the bone spur is something typically elder difficult people might develop after decades of bad posture, not young adul >> it's really scary it's a big find. it's a big sign. it's also that we're changing. we're changing the physical aspects of human beings. >> reporter: add the horn to a growing list of ailments caused by our tech use, like text neck and texting thumb. so what's the solution prop up tablets on a pillow. hold screens higher. or here's an idea. just put the phone down altogether stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york >>ti we're get a first look at the transcript from the closed door testimony from former trump aide hope hicks ich reveals white house lawyers stopped her 155 times from answering lawmakers' questions during theeven hoursefore the house judiciary committee, lawyers intervened on inquiries intoomverything fr james comey' firing to attempts to removal robert mueller >> new orleans pelicans made a foregone conclusion a reality,

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is all the natiol team needed. they beat sweden 2-nil and move on to play spain in the round of 16 on monday >> millions of people out there hoping for some nicer summer weather, hoping that sun comes out here in the northeast. a state of emergency was declared for several counties in new jersey where extreme flooding left people stranded and in need of water rescue. look at the football field it looked more like it was ready to host a swim meet after the heavy rain as severe weather moved through the south, they captured the moment the tree fell onto the truck in north carolina. strong winds lefa trail of damage to homes and power lines. it might be the first day ofbu summer, some areas in montana are seeing snowfall when a weather advisory was issued for counties at higher elevations there are so many things wrong with that. i can'evenmagine >> how are we still talking about snow >> we need to ask you that >> this is going to be for the higher elevations above 8,000 feet you could see one to 2 inches

across t montanaay that severe weather is really going to continue to roll through across the plains. things are starting to dry out folir north caro, damaging wind gusts, but we still have rain in the forecast for at least the next early morning hours before this really starts to push out. across philadelphia, new york, 12:30 things will start to lighten up and finally a break from all this severe weather. that's a look at the big weather story of the day now here's a closer look at your day ahead. you can count on the very warm air across the plains here and that's going to spark up the severe weather that we'll see tloit the weekend. it is nice and toasty across thb south. we ak in the upper 90s i feel like we've been week here.out rain for the finally going to get a break for thsee northeast. stilre weather >> i miss that big round bright thing in the sky can't wait to see it thank you, janessa finders keepers, losers epers? that is not always the case.

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