captioning funded by cbs it's wednesday, july 12th, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." in retrospect, i probably would have done things a little differently. >> speaking out, donald trump jr. defends his meeting with the russian lawyer as both sides raise questions. also in washington, a new health care bill. republican leaders say a revised bill on the way. rushing to danger. dozens of strangering become heroes to help save a family caught in a riptide.

r 57 news rue as cbs headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. donald trump jr. is speaking out about his meeting with a layer connected to the creme anyone in last year's campaign. he calls the charges of collusion ridiculous and insists his father knew nothing about the meeting. but in a meeting he details himself meeting to try to get dirt on hillary clinton seems to go gengts. hena daniels in new york. good morning. >> good morning. even though trump jr. is insisting the meeting amounted to nothing, lawmakers from both parties are expressing unease with the whole situation. >> they had something. i think i wanted to hear it out, but really it went nowhere. >> donald trump jr.

fox news insisting his meeting with a russian lawyer last year was, quote, a wasted 20 minutes. the meeting was set up because she promised dirt on hillary rodham clinton. >> in retrospect, i would have done things a little differently. >> on tuesday trump released the entire e-mail kmain chain leading up to the meeting. rob goldstone said he had a very high level of information about clinton and support for donald trump. donald trump jr. said, if it's what you say, i love it. a dialogue raising concern on both sides of the aisle. >> whether the russians wanted to help trump's campaign have to be viewed in a c

>> donald trump called his son high quality. >> i'm trying to look at a lawyer and said, okay, what statute of the law has been violated and code has been violated. it doesn't exist. >> rob mueller is expected to look into the e-mails and meeting. >> he insists he didn't tell his father about the meeting because, quote, this was nothing to tell. anne-marie? >> hena daniels here in new york. thank you so much, hena. donald trump's meeting has changed. nancy cordes has more. >> this obviously very significant, deeply disturbing. >> democrats describe the e-mail chain as a

idea pushed by the administration and president that there is absolutely no evidence of intent to cord nate or collude. >> hillary clinton's running mate tim kaine went even further. >> new york's lee zelden tweeted, that meeting was a big no-no. >> south carolina's lindsey gral ham said they should have reported the encounter to the fbi right away. >> if you have an e-mail suggesting that they want to help the trump campaign and donald jr. saying i love it. >> i asked marco rubio

would he have done? >> i'm very anti-putin, so i would have -- >> would you have reported it to the authorities? >> i think i would have. >> it's left few republicans willing to go to bat for them on russia. oklahoma's jim inhofe is one of them. >> you guys tried to spend every breathing moment trying to destroy trump. >> his office says he was unaware of that controversial meeting and that he's no longer focused on the campaign, particularly the part that took place before he joined the ticket. nancy cordes, cbs news, capitol hill. ahead on "cbs this morning," we will talk with a member of president's legal team, jay sekulow, about the fallout over donald trump's meeting with the russian lawyer. while the investigation into possible trump campaign

grabbing headlines, senate republican leaders are trying to push through a health care bill. senator mitch mcconnell said he'll try to push through a bill next week. he had to capsle last month when too many fellow republicans rejected that measure. some stel still remain leery. >> he delayed it for two weeks to give lawmakers more time to deal with health care and other issues. and one of those other ushs the lawmakers are dealing with is con girling the new fbi director. the nomination for

wray begins today. at least two homes have been destroyed by a fire outside san jose and a fire inization county forced out at least 15 families. meanwhile a fire north of sacramento has zroeed 41 homes. the search for four missing men in pennsylvania is focusing on farm about 30 miles north of philadelphia. law enforcement officers used a backhoe to dig a deep trench for ka dasher dogs. none have been found. a man held on an unrelated gun charge were released on bail. cosmo dioner doe is a person of court interest. dinardo was in an accident last year and suffered a brain injury. investigators are sifting through the wreckage of a

air tanker to determine why it crashed into a mississippi soybean field. 15 marines and a sailor were killed in the crash. it was carried members of an elite special operations unit to arizona for training. >> every resource that we have that we can pull from will be used to determine what happened and every resource we can give to families as well will be amade available to them. >> the air crew was based in new york. witnesses say plane spiraled out of the sky into the ground. it was the deadliest erma reen disaster since 2005. thousands gathered for the officer who was killed sitting in her police vehicle. she was gunned down on the morning of july 5th.

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all right, get ready for the heat. it's been hot all week, and it's only going to get hotter. where and when you can expect it to feel like it's in the triple digits. >> and what donald trump junior is saying about that meeting

>> and a custom built arm is helping a young boy in texas live out his child in ways he never thought was possible. just how hot is it going to get today? here's allyson. >> it's going to feel at least 100 degrees today. yesterday those morning clouds kept our temperatures behind schedule. then when the sun came out, the temperatures started to soar. today we are going to see some clouds to start as well, even a few rain chances. i still think we'll have a chance to reach into the mid- 90s this afternoon. it's 79 degrees, feels muggy yet again. temperatures around the region, 73 for frederick, 72 for culpeper. these are not thunderstorms, just a few showers for 81, but once they cross over the mountains they're going to start to fall apart. a couple of showers this morning and again this afternoon, very similar to what we had yesterday. with this setup you can't rule out strong to severe thunderstorms. highs today, low to mid-90s. winds out of

warming wind for us. temperatures will start to increase pretty nicely. 93 for leesburg, 95 for washington. how does that compare when you factor in the humidity, we'll get you those numbers coming up. >> pretty quiet so far. we do have some construction if you're heading on eastbound 66 right before you hit the beltway, it looks like by nutley street, the left lane is closed here. i have a traffic lane camera in this area. you can tell from the maps, looks like traffic's moving okay. just not a lot of people out there. even with that left lane closed it's not going to impact you too much. careful if you have a flight out from dulles airport this morning. there are some construction notices in the area. this has been going on for a while. larry and jan we'll get to drive times on 95 coming up. thank you. grass fires race across the hills of silicon valley in california early this morning spreading to at least two homes. ua

closest to the fire to leave the area right away. fire crews have the fire under control for now. they'll be keeping an eye on hot spots throughout the day. recreational marijuana has been legal in the state of nevada for less than two weeks and already dozens of dispensaries in the state are concerned they won't have any marijuana left. the plant sales outpaced the expectations of store owners. passengers departing the seattle tacoma international airport will soon be getting help from a robot. the robot will hopefully speed up the process at the check point. that's a quick look at what's happening right now. the news at 4:30 starts right now. this is wake up washington on wusa9. >> happy

thanks for joining us, i'm jan jeffcoat. >> and i'm larry miller. mike hydeck is off this morning. it's going to be a hot one today. >> yes, it is, we've been getting a bunch of comments on wusa9 facebook page. >> christina says this is really insane. sorry all you loving hot people. >> barbara says we're going to die. here i was laughing at arizona. all right, how long will we be dealing with this level of heat. i'm not complaining. i kind of love it. >> especially after being in that cool studio it feels kind of nice out here. i am one of those people that do like the warmer temperatures. today is going to be hot again. it's today, tomorrow and into friday, and then we're going to see a big relief over the weekend, well, as much relief as we can expect in the summertime. 79 degrees. we are starting off with cloud cover. it might slow our temperature increase like it did yesterday. around the region we're into the 70s, and it feels pretty warm. if you want to do some exercising, the morning hours ara

you have all evening for the temperatures to cool off. if you go at 8, 9:00 at night, it's a little better but it's still pretty muggy just from the heating of the day. this afternoon, this is 4:00 tomorrow. tomorrow's going to be our yellow weather alert due to dangerous heat. we have thunderstorms in the forecast on thursday. they don't arrive until really after the sunsets. today we're going to feel between 100 and 105. tomorrow over 105 for more than two hours. that's pretty dangerous. we'll get to that big relief over the weekend and you can make some outdoor plans this weekend. allyson mentioned a slowdown on 95 in virginia. i know that doesn't sound too unusual, it kind of is for this time of the morning: i normally don't have this kind of slowdown through the triangle area. it used to be red, yellow, maybe things are getting better. it is impacting you if you're starting in fredericksburg heading up to the beltway. it's about a 41 minute drive or if you're starting in dale city, so beyond those delays just about 14 minutes to make it from dale city up to th