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developing overnight, italian rescuers continue their efforts to reach survivors. and most vicious aack on hillary clinton to date. >> he is taking a hate movement main stream. he's brought it into his campaign. new details about the deadly attack on the american university in afghanistan. find out what hope solo said that got her suspended for six months and the world's largest aircraft goes down. "early today" starts right now.
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i'm betty nguyen. indiana governor mike pence is back in his home state after a surprise tornado outbreak hit indiana and parts of western ohio. there are reports of more than 30 torpids although an official number has yet to be determined. luckily there are no reports of any deaths or serious injuries. >> it is truly remarkable that -- that there are such a few number of injuries or worse in the wake o the fact that it literally struck howard county virtually at shift change in the afternoon in a great manufacturing town and about the time kids were getting out of school. just about the worst possible time. >> dozens of homes and businesses have been destroyed. one tornado was reported to have thrown grain wag gains 500 feet in the air.
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label. one starbucks was blown to the ground. a witness tells nbc affiliate people were trapped but luckily everybody was able to make it out uninjured. bill with the latest on this. >> it doesn't seem to be the same elements we had yesterday afternoon. no longer tornadoic or one of them does include positions of indiana and ohio. combined with the other slight risk area, 7 million people at risk but the tornado risk is much lower today. >> thank you, bill. and happening right now rescuers in italy are racing against time to save victims buried under rubble. the quake has already killed almost 250 people and injured hundreds more. it's affected historic towns
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italy. the worst hit is armistice. this is what the town looked like before and now after. we'll try to get that video for you. aftershocks complicated rescue efforts and added to the distress but amid the devastation, a miraculous moment. ten-year-old julia was trapped for 17 hours before being found. the italian army is using equipmen a search for others like her. we're live in arm stris. we're joined now. lucy, what's the situation there. >> reporter: a somber morning on what is now day two of rescue operations. the death toll spiking dramatically overnight as rescue workers pull more bodies from the rubble here. you can see behind me the devastation the earthquake took out. this is a home that's been
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and rock and those are the conditions that workers have to deal with. one firefighter telling us it is still an operation for them because these buildings are not structurally sound. the ground still moves around and of course there's the threat of aftershocks. more than 400 of them since this quake hit. for the people here in armistice the focus is on three basic things. who's alive, who's missing. this town is supposed to be full of tourists. now people are stuck trying to get word of loved ones where think -- they're dead or alive. thousands have been rendered homeless effectively overnight. officials have set up camp, temporary shelters but what they're going to do is a big question and other questions for the italian government should more have been done.
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what -- one of the reasons why the quake was so powerful is it is full of stone ancient buildings that have not been reinforce and a lot of people are going to be asking questions about whether more should have been done to reenforce these buildings. but the foe sus is search and rescue. >> that's immediate concern right now. thank you, lucy. >> this morning security forces remain on alert at the american university after an attack killed 12 and injured at least 40. gunmen stormed the campus detonating a car bomb, firing their weapons and launching grenades. wile no group has claimed responsibility kabul is surrounded by the taliban who has fought education particularly among women. the u.s. was quick to respond. >> we condemn this attack in the
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an attack on the future of afghanistan. >> this underscores the significant challenge facing the people of afghanistan as it relates to their security situation. >> the u.s. embassy is advising all u.s. citizens to avoid the area. now, the attack comes two weeks after two university staff, one american, one australian were kidnapped begunmen. their where abouts are still unknown. calling attacks on hillary clinton to a whole new level. >> hillary clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future. >> and clinton hit the billionaire republican right back.
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main stream, he's brought it into his campaign. someone who's questioned the citizenship of the first african american president, who has courted white supremacist, who's been sued for housing discrimination against communities of color, who's attacked a judge for his mexican heritage and promised a mass deportation force is someone who is you know, very much bigotry and paranoia. >> check out the look of a woman during his speech. rolling her eyes and looking away during his speech. critics are calling it a
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american and hispanic voters wednesday in florida. >> you have a right to walk down the streets of your city without having your child or yourself shot at. to the hispanic parents, you have a right to walk outside without being shot. you have a right to good education for your child. >> among the heavy hitting conservatives attacking trump for his rhetoric isio here's what he told lawrence o'donnell. >> donald trump is this empty vessel that the angry and disenfranchised are saying he's like me. i know what he's saying. he is using dog whistles and speaking to people, but they're hearing things and whether he's meaning it or not, i don't know. but people are hearing him say things and each of them different.
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trouble and more importantly, we are if he is elected. >> and this morning we have a major change from trump after the billionaire dramatically reversed course on his immigration stance. >> no citizenship. >> no citizenship. let me go a step further. they'll pay back taxes, they have to pay taxes. there's no amnesty as such. but we work with them -- >> it comes as trump iset hold a round table with ace -- hispanic american activists. hillary clinton is fighting back allegations her foundation benefitted. >> my work as secretary as state was not influenced by the outside forces. i made policy decisions based on what i thought was right.
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this ap report, put it in context. this excludes nearly 2,000 meetings i had with world leaders that looked at a small portion of my time. >> but clinton may have an october surprise to worry about. just promising to leak thousands of democratic documents ahead of the election, documents he says would have a quote, significant impact on the 2016 race. cln trump holds a minority round table in new york before heading to new hampshire. mike pence will remain in his home state to deal with the storms that hit his state last night. and bill, what's the latest on a storm headed for florida? >> well, thankfully in the last 24 hours it has not developed into a named tropical system.
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chance it does develop in the next five days. the best chance of that will be that it will develop into saturday or sunday. but the threat being a few of those could be strong. take a look at this. may just be the catch of the day. catch of the week, maybe catch of the year. minor leaguer of the arkansas travelers, he goes up, oh, did he hold on to the ball? he did. an incredible acrobatic catch denying the home run from the drillers. "early today" back in two. ? the sun'll come out tomorrow... ? for people with heart failure,
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you can pretty much do anything you want. case in point, she had four time all star hold her five rio medals while she threw out the first pitch at the nationals game t and check out that perfect strike. she can do no wrong. the campaign may be over but that doesn't mean the political revolution is done. bernie sanders has finally launched his long awaited post primary movement and he did t great fanfare looking to upend the political system with his new group. tracie, what can you tell us about this new organization? >> reporter: well, they did this launch online last night but here's the thing. more than half the people who were supposed to work with the sanders organization quit before it ever got started. they don't like the fact that he's brought in the former campaign manager to run things. zem several of those folks said
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this was supposed to be a grass roots organization focused on social justice some of the special interests that he talked about during his campaign but they're losing people of the leadership. he is someone they think likes to do a lot of online fund raising, spending a lot of money on tv where the staffers really wanted to go grass roots and go after younger people. sources say sanders even called some of the staff members to stay. letters saying they were concerned. the idea is to move forward with the ideals that sanders had in his campaign and because of the way this has been set up as a 501c 4, sanders is actually not going to have a lot of oversight of this organization. they're moving on with his ideas, but not directed by sanders. >> interesting. okay. thank you so much for that. the world's largest air ship
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made a bumpy landing. in a facebook page hybrid air vehicle said the pilots and ground crew are safe and that they will continue to investigate what happened. the national park service turns 100 years old and to celebrate the agency is waiving park entry fees from now until sunday. >> and growing outrage against the price hike of those now washington is weighing in. you're watching "early today." so you can coax out great flavor effortlessly. hillshire farm. because it's worth doing right. at hillshire farm, there's a reason our slow roasted turkey taste so fresh seconds after carving, we not only seal every slice, we double seal it. the results are something to savor.
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wednesday's closing bell with the nasdaq taking the brunt of those losses. what's the real reason stay at home dads are so happy? the latest on that, but first, what is this about drone delivered pizza? >> reporter: good morning, becky. if you've ever had a cold pizza it may be a thing of the past because they're trying a flying fer shl pizza service coming to a front door, balcony near you in new zealand. this could be the latest service where it will be trialed first and a big catch. a fisherman in the philippines have hauled in what he considered a good luck charm.
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$100 million. and apparently couples are happier when the woman is bringing in the bacon. according to the university of connecticut a study has revealed that men can suffer ill health when they are the main breadwinner but on the other hand, when the woman is bringing in the main financial income she thrives with pride on being the main financial earner. that's the latest in early business news for you, betty. >> and just ahead, a show of she's targeted in a racist hacking attack. someone's hacked all our technology. technology... say, have you seen all the amazing technology in geico's mobile app? mobile app? look. electronic id cards, emergency roadside service, i can even submit a claim. wow... yep, geico's mobile app works like a charm.
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snl star has faced a slew of cyber attacks this summer. the latest that has fans rallying around her to show support. >> reporter: after a fury at the olympics, leslie jones took down her website after it was her website was littered with photos of what appeared to be the comedian. this is just the latest episode in a series of disturbing cyber attacks against jones. last month her twitter aaccount was littered with hateful tweets. recently jones, a cast member of
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ghost busters movie -- >> we welcome back our very good friend, leslie jones. >> reporter: responded to the tweets on late night television. >> i'm used to the insults. it's unfortunate. she also tweeted most of these comments sound they're from ignorant children. >> it appears she was attacked because she's a black woman and she's a public figure, she's vocal. >> reporter: fans and ce katie perry tweeted #i stand with leslie. these acts against leslie jones are sickening. it's racist and sexist. ugly attacks that leslie jones is facing head on. >> this is "early today." at hillshire farm, spice is the spice of life.
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