back to you. >> gadi schwartz for us tonight. gadi, thank you. we turn now to the series of highway shootings in arizona where police say say person of interest is not a suspect tonight after several hours of questioning. almost a dozen vehicles were shot at over the last two weeks. investigators say they believe multiple shooters are targeting innocent drivers. nbc's miguel almaguer is in phoenix again for us tonight. miguel? >> reporter: erica, good evening. i-10 will be swamped tonight. tens thousands of drivers heading to two major professional sporting events here this weekend. with nobody in custody, many are wondering just how safe this interstate really is. today near interstate 10 in phoenix -- >> possible shots fired. >> reporter: -- police scramble to more emergency calls. >> i did see on the glass. >> reporter: all false alarms. friday, investigators appeared to have their big break. the driver of this suv, a teenager labeled a person of interest, taken into custody. but today police say he's not a suspect. >> all we can say is keep t

gadi schwartz took a look. >> reporter: the odds are, you've seen them. during any game, any time, all those fantasy ads, portioning quick money and a chance to coach your own team from your home or the gym. >> my sister traded you for cam newton. >> reporter: deciding who to start based not on what team is playing but how well individual players are we are forming. >> you can pick from all the players. >> reporter: popular websites like draft kings are raising the stakes. >> if i can put in $3, i can win up to $5,000. >> reporter: according to the fantasy sports trade association, 42 million adults in the u.s. and canada played fantasy sports this year, spending on average $465 a year. it's more than $19 billion. putting money on sports is illegal in most states, but fantasy websites are exempted because it's not based on luck. >> it is not gambling. it is clearly a game of skill. it's something that people spend hours researching. it's part of the entertainment value, and it leads to better outcomes. >> reporter: advocates for legalizing traditional spo

gadi schwartz, nbc news, los angeles. >>> there's been a terrible accident at one of the most holy sites in the world. a deadly crane collapse in saudi arabia at mecca's grand mosque. with more than 100 people killed, many more injured. images from the scene are still coming in tonight. we get late details from nbc's keir simmons. >> reporter: the terrifying moment caught on cell phone video. a towering construction crane collapsing, then panic and calls for god's mercy. it came down on top of one of the most holy places in the muslim world, mecca's grand mosque, smashing through the ceiling just before evening prayer, causing carnage, too gruesome to show in full. at least 107 people were killed, more than 200 injured, saudi authorities say. men in bloodied robes, stunned simply to have survived. the mosque is surrounded by giant construction cranes. a powerful storm apparently caused the collapse. mecca had been hit by high winds and heavy rains. a view from above shows the base of the huge crane toppled. emergency workers flooding the area, carrying away the dead. they died on a holy

thank you, gadi.ly firefighters are battling 33 large wildfires across the country. they've burned about 1.5 million acres. overall, the total number of wildfires so far this year, exceeds 45,000, burning 8.6 million acres. that is more than 13,000 square miles, or imagine this, more than four times the size of new york city. >>> another migrant tragedy in europe. at least 28 people, half of them babies and children, drowned off greece today while crossing from turkey. more than 127 people were onboard a wooden boat when it capsized. and this is the scene along the ha hungarian/serbian border. they're waiting to get on buses bound for austria. that's where richard engel is standing by for us. richard? >> reporter: alex, things here are still quite tense along the serbian/hungarian border. police forces are corralling people so they can be loaded on to buses. a lot of these people do not want to get on these buses. they don't want to be fingerprinted, they don't want to be kept in these lines and they

nbc's gadi schwartz is in arizona this morning. gadi, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. the arrest happened in front of this walmart where the suspect shopping with his young son. the suspect had been followed for a while. they followed him throughout the day and finally the s.w.a.t. team moved in. after a three-week manhunt in phoenix, a s.w.a.t. takedown at walmart. >> they tackled him ten feet inside the automatic doors and within two minutes, they had him cuffed and basically walking him out. >> reporter: police arrested the man they think was terrorizing i-10 by shooting at cars and trucks speeding down the highway. >> we made an arrest. >> reporter: the initial announcement in the form of a tweet from the governor saying we got him. investigators releasing very little about what led them to the 21-year-old leslie allen merritt jr., a local landscaper. ballistic evidence from the gun matches the first four of the shootings. >> the subject is in custody because of the weapon he owned is forensically linked to the

we get more on that tonight from nbc's gadi schwartz. >> oh, my goodness. >> reporter: it was lightning play-by-plays. >> they're going to go ahead and delay this game and same story for football games during the first weekend of the college season. >> and get a little bit of weather in the baton rouge area. >> in louisiana, ls u-verse us mcnees estate. kept state versus illinois and bowling green versus tennessee. some called well before the lightning was obvious. >> within eight miles of the stadium. >> reporter: frustrating fans, one was tackled by security a he ran across the field during the lightning delay. no one was hurt, but take a look at the flurry of strikes in the region. more than 162,000 strike across the country on saturday alone. forecasters warned lightning could be deadly. >> a single lightning stroke could be 30,000 volts 60,000 degrees and the surface of the sun is 20,000 degrees. >> a southern day in venice beach turned to chaos. >> it felt like being hit over the head with a heavy metal object. >> she was one of a dozen people struck by lightning on the beach. she

nbc's gadi schwartz went along for the climb. >> reporter: towering above the sequoia national forestliving icons of resilience that have survived fire, storms, and insect infestations. attracting thousands to come stand next to their massive trunks. but in this historic drought, something is happening to the mighty sequoias. >> this area was identified as having the highest number of trees that are showing symptoms of what we think is drought stress. >> reporter: some of these trees have lost 75% of their needles. that's what you're seeing down here on the forest floor. but to see the true stress of the trees, we've got to go up. these massive sequoias dwarf scientists like anthony ambrose and his team from berkeley, inching their way to the top. >> these trees are some of the most amazing organisms on the planet. they're these huge ancient beings with massive beautiful crowns. >> reporter: we were given rare access to join their climb. >> these giant sequoias are the largest tree on earth and some of them can suck up to 700 gallons of water a day. all of that water has to make it in

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g gadi shswartz joins us from the heart of the flames. >> reporter: this is main street and middletown. there's all kinds of torching going on, house after house, building after building going up in flames. we made our way through what looked like the gates of hell. this was a neighborhood and now it's gone. all around, loud explosions from gasoline and thousand gallon propane tanks. you can feel the heat as the fire rips down main street, the roar of the fire is deafening and across the street is an apartment complex just started to go and it's going to be a total loss. >> do what you have to do to hold it. >> reporter: fire crews tried valiantly to defend people's homes. they called firefighters back after structures are so fully engulfed in flames. >> it's not worth it, go. >> reporter: at morning, the devastation revealed. cobb and middleton mostly deserted. along this shoulder of the highway signs of frantic evacuation. >> it came so quick. it was utter chaos trying to get out of there. >> reporter: the valley of fire exploded in 12 hours and thousands of evac ways are struggling

nbc's gadi schwartz is in arizona this morning. gadi, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. the arrest happened in front of this walmart where the suspect shopping with his young son. for a while. they followed him throughout the day and finally the s.w.a.t. team moved in. after a three-week manhunt in walmart. >> they tackled him ten feet inside the automatic doors and within two minutes, they had him cuffed and basically walking him out. >> reporter: police arrested the man they think was terrorizing i-10 by shooting at cars and trucks speeding down the highway. >> we made an arrest. >> reporter: the initial announcement in the form of a tweet from the governor saying we got him. investigators releasing very little about what led them to the 21-year-old leslie allen merritt jr., a local landscaper. ballistic evidence from the gun matches the first four of the shootings. >> the subject is in custody because of the weapon he owned is forensically linked to the crimes. >> reporter: in video posted on what seems to be his f

gadi schwartz. >>> 107 people have died at a crane collapse. a construction crane went through the ceiling of a grand mosque in mecca just before evening prayer. 230 people hurt. the collapse comes days after the pilgrimage, one of the largest gatherings for muslims in the world. 2 million people attended last year. >>> an nypd officer is on leave right now. it is a case of mistaken identity. blake was outside a hotel texting when the officer took him to the ground, thinking he was a suspect for credit card fraud. he's ha two previous lawsuits. >> absent from the first day of school and students were eraseed from the system or so it seemed. the software glitch went beyond fairfax county to other school districts. this mom likes having access to her kids school records. the new student information system, having just launched this school year. the new s.i.s. let's her check for grades, discipline and health information. when she logged on, her high school aged son didn't exist. >> how could he be dropped? >> she says it started with an excused a

nbc's gadi schwartz is in california for us this morning. gadi, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, craig. this fire is moving fast. from yesterday to today, it has grown in size from 30,000 acres to 60,000 acres. containment is slipping as homes and buildings are in harm's way. unrelenting. >> that fire has to be gone a good couple hundred feet in the air. >> reporter: firefighters red e reduced to silhouettes against the wildfire. heaving the destructive power overnight. >> temperatures of 101 to 107 degrees. >> reporter: it's been a nonstop fight for the last three days. firefighters losing ground, overwhelmed by explosive growth. in these conditions with homes on the line. >> water! >> reporter: every drop of water counts. that's only a few hundred gallons left. not enough for a full defense. >> i got to save some water. >> reporter: the chief forced to prioritize until reinforcements to arrive. this home safe for now. up the road, plans are drawing everyone ready to evacuate. >> i watched my friend's home burn yesterday. let alone

. >>> gadi schwartz says that the kayaker says it was his fault. >> lurking beneath the surface along the nation's coast, sharks showing up and making headlines. >>> dylan marks was the next one to tangle with a shark. >> i wasn't a victim, i have a perpetrator. >> he was pifishing when he decided to hook a hammerhead. he quickly determined it was more than he bargained for. >> i didn't get out of way in time. >> oh, my gosh. >> two weeks ago another kayaker, another close call with a hammerhead. this time near san diego. the same day, a great white chomped down on a long board near california's morro bay and on sunday, in cape cod, a great white rescue effort as dozens of beach-goers rushed to help april beached shark with buckets of water. experts say warm el nino temperatures brought sharks closer to shore. this year alone, 34 sharks in the u.s., including a series of bites long north carolina in june. experts tell us the rise in sightings like these young great whites off the california coast could be considered a success story. with recovery efforts for sustainable fishing meanin

we get the latest tonight from nbc's gadi schwartz. >> acts of terrorism -- >> reporter: shaking hisrges were listed. >> four counts of endangering -- >> reporter: police say the suspect, leslie allen merritt jr., a 21-year-old landscaper terrorized drivers along i-10. he was arrested friday night at this walmart. >> all i have to say is i'm the wrong guy. i tried telling detectives that. my gun has been this the pawnshop for the last two months. i haven't had access to weapons. >> reporter: his bond set at a million dollars. >> i could never afford that bond. i got two kids. >> reporter: police say merritt's gun was linked to the first four of the highway shooting, and according to a court document, the gun was not in pawn status during the time of the shootings. >> they test fired. the test fired bullets were a match to bullet fragments from four casings over the last weekend in august. >> reporter: investigators say merritt sold the gun to this arizona pawnshop. today the pawn manager didn't want to gone camera, but say they assisted with the investigation. his father says merritt

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gadi schwartz, nbc news, sequoia national forest. >>> here's a look ahead.l will be held for fox lake, illinois, police lieutenant joe gliniewicz. the married father of four boys was murdered thursday. -- tuesday. he was calling to report three suspicious men. the suspects are still at large. >>> happy birthday to evan rachel wood, she turns 28 today. julie cavener voice of marge simpson is 65. "i will survive" singer gloria gaynor is 62. keep it here for more weather and sports and news. thank you for watching "early today" we hope you enjoy your labor day. have a great one! a bay area family in mourning this labor day. th >>> a bay area family in mourning this labor day. their son killed in a boating crash. >>> plus flames break out at a local school administration building and now investigators are looking into the suspicious cause. >>> breaking news, a busy bay area inter change closed this after a crash brings down power lines. >>> twiebt starts right now. >> happy holiday. i'm sam brock. >> and i'm kris sanchez in for laura garcia-cannon. we want to ge

gadi schwartz, nbc news, sequoia national forest. >>> here's a look ahead. a funeral will be held for fox lake, illinois, police lieutenant joe gliniewicz. the married father of four boys was murdered thursday. thousands are expected to return the services. the suspects are still at large. >>> happy hirth day to evan rachel wood, she turns 28 today. julie cavener voice of marge simpson is 64. "i will survive" singer gloria gaynor is 62. keep it here for more weather and sports and news. enjoy . >>> right now, breaking news from brooklyn. police are on the scene of a deadly stabbing near the west indian day celebrations. >>> the pope takes a stand on the growing migrant status in europe. how he's asking the faithful to help. >>> beach-goers can celebrate an extension to the beach season. "today in new york" starts now. >>> good morning. it is monday, september 7 ft. it is labor day, of course, i'm kerry barrett. i'm in for darlene. >>> i'm michael gargiulo and storm team 4's dave price is in for chris. going to be a warm one, dave. >> going to be warm but a b

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nbc's gadi schwartz has more. >> reporter: chase, this is zach. a voicemail until the deputy leaving the message thought he hung up. >> my wife work add the herald. she [ bleep ]. >> i'm angered. >> reporter: mcalister was disgusted. as a reporter for a small paper in durango, she called the deputy about a crash with a bike. never expected to hear farnham and a couple deputies talking about her body. >> she hot? >> not hot. i mean, she's got an okay body. not like quadrupleds. >> the idea that public employees could talk so contentiously of women when they don't think they are being heard is shocking. it is not a frat party. it's the sheriff's office. >> reporter: the conversation continued with the deputies insulting her because she was from the u.k. >> she's a [ bleep ]. it's a u.k. thing. she literally grew up on a [ bleep ] island. >> reporter: the sheriff would not allow us to speak to deputy farnham. he got a public information officer to speak on his behalf. >> discipline action was taken on behalf of the officers involved. they apologized

. >> gadi schwartz talks with a man who found himself face to face with a shark and lived to share his story. >> reporter: beneath the surface along the nation's coast, sharks showing up and making headlines. this weekend, dylan marks was the latest to tangle with the shark. >> got a taste of my mortality. >> he's quick to point out this wasn't technically an attack. >> he was fishing when he decided to hook a hammerhead. when he did, he realized it was more than he bargained for. >> i wanted to get the hook out and didn't get out of the way in time. >> two weeks ago, another kayaker, another close call with a hammerhead. this time near san diego. the same day, a great white chomped down on a long board near morro bay and on sunday, in cape cod, a great white rescue effort as dozens of beach-goers rushed to help a beached shark with buckets of water. experts say warm el nino temperatures brought sharks closer to shore. this year alone, 34 sharks in the u.s., including a series of bites along north carolina in june. >> experts tell us the rice in sightings like these young great whites

gadi schwartz has more. >> reporter: next to the family pictures -- >> this was her first time. >> reporterheather corn shows us the type of injection that saved her daughter catherine's life. >> this is where i keep them in lockdown. >> reporter: catherine was a heroin addict saved by paramedics and the drug naloxone during an overdose. since then a supply is always close by. >> i think it should be available to anybody who needs to have it on hand. it should be easier to get that than should it be to get heroin. >> reporter: for years, it has been hard to get without a prescription. but as kate snow reported last year, parents of heroin addicts often keep it on hand. show of hands. how many people are here because someone they loved has used heroin? pretty much everybody. how many people have narcan in your house? wow. >> reporter: a growing number of states have passed laws widening access to the fast-acting drug. since last year, naloxone has been available at cvs pharmacies in two states without a doctor's prescription. and now cvs is expanding access in 12 more states. cvs saying nalo

nbc's gadi schwartz has more for us. there's still some unanswered questions, right?> reporter: there are a lot of unanswered questions and this investigation is really just beginning. a lot of people were breathing a sigh of relief last night, but police are saying do not put your guard down. in fact, this was the walmart where that arrest happened. the suspect was here shopping with his son. we also understand that he had been tailed throughout the day by investigators. and finally, the s.w.a.t. team moved in. after a three-week manhunt in phoenix, a s.w.a.t. takedown in walmart. >> they tackled him ten feet inside the automatic doors an then within two minutes they had him handcuffed an they were walking him out. >> reporter: police arrested the man they think was shooting at cars and trucks. >> tonight we made an arrest. >> reporter: the initial announcement came in the form of a tweet from the governor, doug ducey, saying we got him. investigators are row leasing very little about what led them to merritt, jr., a local landscaper. ballistic evidence from gun owne

here's nbc's gadi schwartz. >> reporter: at the local's farmer's market jordan is the prince of produce. >> here we go, this is awesome. >> reporter: his cause pushing fruits and veggies that are a little too big, too small or too ugly for the average consumer. >> strawberry that looks like a thumb or a carrot that looks like they are dancing. >> reporter: perfectly taste toe eat and giving them an instagram account ugly fruits and veg and suggests everyone give them a chance before they aretorsed away. fork asks grocery stores to avoid vegetable vanity and sell the uglies, too. >> resonates people. we shouldn't be throwing away good produce. >> reporter: 40% of all food produced in the u.s. including fruits and veggies gets thrown away annually, waste eke lent to $165 billion grocery bill or about $1,500 of waste per household. >> there was some discolorration. >> reporter: farmers like tom nunez feel the pain of perfection. what would you say if there's big retailers that would actually sell something like this? >> we'll sell more produce, our yields would go up and it would reduce ou

gadi schwartz, nbc news, phoenix, arizona. >> still a lot of frayed nerves there for sure.'s get a check of the weather from mr. roker. >> calendar says it's going to be first day of fall on wednesday. >> yeah. >> thermometer says completely different, all right. we've got this heat building, big ridge of high pressure. jet stream way up to the north and the start off in the midwest. look at the temperatures today. anywhere from 10 to 15 degrees above normal, denver 5 and amarillo 91 and minneapolis at 78. tomorrow it starts to move east and chicago you're at 78 and little rock five degrees above average at 79. and minneapolis at 75. and new york city city, eight degrees above average, 81. charleston 82 and burlington looking at 78. 12 degrees above average. lots of sunshine here in the northeast. showers along the spine of the appalachians. the southwest looking at wet weather as that low pressure system makes its way in. cooler weather in the pacific northwest which >>> good morning. i'm meteorologist kari. we have temperatures anywhere from 55 degrees in the north bay to

. >>> thank you, gadi. >> now to the race for the white house. democrats and republicans alike slam donald trump for something he did not say this week. he skipped a major gop event last night in south carolina just about 24 hours after he failed to challenge comments made about president obama. nbc's kristen walk elker is live at the white house with more. >> reporter: good morning, craig. could this be the issue that burst the trump balloon after the comments of the president and muslims go unchecked. meanwhile other candidates are back on trail for a busy weekend of campaigning. ten gop hopefuls descending on south carolina friday night. donald trump was a no show. canceling last minute. trump's campaign said he wasn't there because he was closing a this came on the heels of the moment at the new hampshire town hall thursday. country. it's called muslims. one. american. birth certificate, man. >> reporter: trump was immediately slammed from all sides for failing to correct the false claims about president obama who is christian and american. >

that is where nbc's gadi schwartz is this morning. what is the latest? i don't know if you can tell. it's starting to rain out here. odd turn of events. this rain is actually caused by the smoke plume going up. you can see there's still fire burning over here. just a little while ago, that was a row of houses just beyond it. there was a duplex. all of those have been complete were going off over there. spewing off its gas as it started to vent. really bad news out here, the entire town has lost all the water in their hydrants. it's run out. the strike teams are waiting for reinforcements to come in. it's up to them to make sure embers don't flare up and these embers catch up with in trees. a lot of homes lost here in middletown, california. ari? >> i'm seeing the glow of the fires behind you there. how close are you and the firefighters getting to the edge of this and how containable is it at this point? >> it's not containable. this thing is not contained at all. we're hearing it's 40,000 acres moving very, very quickly. it's hard to see in the dark but

and i understand, gadi schwartz, that you have new information. >> yes, bart graves is joining us, ande are at this investigation? >> last night at 6:45 we made an arrest in the original i-10 shooting investigation, and the four different shootings that occurred last weekend in august. we took this gentleman in custody as a 21-year-old man from glendale. we spent pretty much all night interviewing him, and in an hour, he is going to have the initial appearance in maricopa superior court. >> what can you tell us about him, and how long has he been on the radar? >> we have been working this angle for several days along with the atf and the u.s. marshall service, and all of us came together. >> and was he on the radar prior to this with the tips coming in or something that the detectives came across on their own? >> i think that the detectives came across this and good old-fashioned police work that paid off, but the help from the public cannot be discounted, because they were tremendously helpful with the tips and the leads throughout the two-week ordeal. >> this diskconcerting part of t