gabe gutierrez. >> reporter: tonight, what was once tropical depression number 9 has strengthened into tropical storm hermine, slogging towards florida's gulfcoast. >> the risk we have right now is we know we will have storm search. it's anticipated to be 3 to 5 feet, however we have the risk of up to nine feet of storm surge. >> reporter: the dump up to 15 inches of rain in parts of the sunshine state. 42 county is an state of emergency and some places travel already treacherous, a driver rescued after this car was swept off the road. nearly 11 years since florida's last hurricane. fred mets ler is already pumping water out of his gulfport restaurant at high tide. >> trying to keep it where it's not a swimming pool. >> reporter: hermine expected to continue to threaten the east coast with dangerous rip currents through the holiday ween half a world away, hawaii is bracing for hurricane madeline. windows boarded up, fema flying suppies to the big island and hurricane lester not far behind and partnering with nasa to fly a global hawk drone the same once used for the military for spy mi

gabe gutierrez reports on round two of jury selection.. from the beginning....justin ross harris has maintained that the death of his son cooper.. was every parent's worst nightmare."cooper's death was a horrible gut- wrenching accident..."but prosecutors say it was no accident.they claim 22- month-old cooper was murdered by a man who wanted to escape us he has a whole second life with alternate lives and personas."in dramatic testimony shortly after harris was arrested....police claimed that...as his son lay dying in a sweltering s-u-v....harris was exchanging sexually explicit text messages with six women...one of them just 16 years old.prosecutors said harris had also researched child deaths in hot cars...and life without children.in one online chat...he posted...."i love my son and all, but we both need escapes." "it proves motive because he was unhappy in his marriage - we plan to show that he wanted to live a child- free life.."harris has pleaded not guilty to sixteen counts....including murder and child cruelty.a key witness in this

making landfall with winds 80 miles an hour. >> gabe gutierrez. thank you so much. >>> chuck, i know you were on facebook live this morning helping people as they have been planning for their holiday weekend, some folks getting up now at 6:47. what do we know about hermine, where she is going. >> the latest track is more favorable to the d.c. area and points out west of the shenandoah valley. new track, new list of impacts. here's the latest from the national hurricane center. carolina by 2:00 tomorrow afternoon. saturday night into tuesday, the storm slows down and starts hanging around off the jersey coast and then lingers off the jersey coast for several days. this is going to be a long duration event at the beaches. otherwise, around here, not as much of an issue. the impacts, shenandoah valley, hardly a drop, hardly an impact. the d.c. metro, breezy for sure, saturday, sunday and i can't rule out some showers, but showers not heavy rain. the chesapeake bay, windy, rainier at times, especially southern maryland. i'll show you future weather an

as gabe gutierrez explain, authorities are going to extremes to get it off the streets. >> reporter: brandon did not think he would survive. >> i was knocking on the devil's door. i was dead. >> reporter: the 28-year-old had been using heroin for years. then he started mixing the drug with its cheaper alternative, fentanyl and then found an even more carfentanil. an'llfant tranq tranquilizer. an amount smaller than a snowflake can be deadly. today, a cincinnati judge offered immunity to any who turns it in or any other drugs. >> if we had something that blew up and killed 400 people the nation would be out outraged. everyone is kind of, these are addi son, husband or daughter. >> reporter: in less than three weeks, authorities say of the nearly 300 overdoses reported in the cincinnati area, 174 happened in a six day period. there were also large cl clusters of overdoses in west virginia, kentucky and indiana. >> some people are snorting this stuff, some injecting it. >> reporter: the amount county coroner has a theory dealers are testing it here where there's already a market for her

left centre. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you. >>> to presidential politics now, our brand new nbc news survey monkey poll tonight showing a significant majority of likely voters believe hillary clinton won monday's first debate over both candidates on the trail today as clinton courted millennials with former rival bernie sanders. new trouble for trump, among women voters as he feuds with a former beauty queen. we have it all covered starting with nbc's halle jackson. >> donald trump tonight trying to spin what critics described as a debate debacle. >> every single online poll had me winning. >> but 27% of women, a group he needs to win over, said their according to our nbc news survey monkey online poll. multiple trump sources acknowledge he has work to do. one calling his performance a disaster. his team now considering more traditional prep, though trump himself tells nbc in a statement, hard to be unhappy when we are doing so well. the gop nominee now facing fallout for what he said about alicia machado. >> what were the names he called you? >> miss piggy, miss housekeeping, miss eating m

>> gabe gutierrez tonight, thank you. >>> now to the big cyber attack, targeting the world anti-doping agency and affecting star american athletes. today wada confirmed its database containing confidential information on many olympians, including gold medalist simone biles, was hacked. the organization is blaming a russian espionage group in a scandal just unfolding. nbc's miguel almaguer anti-doping agency, tasked with keeping sports clean of drugs, says the hack exposed confidential medical data from some of the world's top athletes. simone biles, venus and serena williams, and elena della don. wada says the sensitive information was stolen by a cyber espionage group known as fancy bear, thought to be russian, through the fishing of e-mail accounts. the target, some of the biggest stars in simone biles had a medical exemption to take a banned substance. she took a stand today on twitter. i have adhd and have taken medicine for it since i was a kid. tennis superstar venus williams reacting. i was disappointed to learn today my privacy medical data has been compromised. i followed the

>> gabe gutierrez in charlotte tonight, thank you. >>> to chilling new details in the terror bombs. we're getting a look now at new surveillance video of the suspect and our first glimpse inside his journal, filled with anti-american rants. the fbi is asking for the public's health to track down two witnesses. nbc's miguel almaguer is now with all the latest. >> reporter: new video obtained by nbc news is said to show terror suspect ahmad rahami saturday evening, first explosive he planted in new york city went off. in the video, rahami drags a suitcase, stopping to fiddle with it before continuing on. also seen two unidentified men, who allegedly took the bag but left behind an explosive device that had been inside. investigators now want to know who they are. >> they are witnesses, there are no criminal charges. they're not in any jeopardy of being arrested. >> reporter: fueledly hate, rahami complaint discussed on capitol hill where a congressman held up a picture of what he said is rahami's bloody notebook. >> it's clear from this journal that mr. rahami was receiving inspiratio

>> gabe gutierrez, thank you. >>> let's bring in nbc's chief legal correspondent, ari melber. there's a legal standard for when police use of deadly force is justified. does the new video shed any light on that central question? >> savannah, officers are always under a test of what a reasonable police officer would perceive to be a risk of imminent bodily harm suspect. this graphic new video does not show the exact moment of the shooting on tape. but the crucial 50 seconds leading up to it. there's positive news in there for officers, because it shows them asking repeatedly, over ten times, for mr. scott to drop what they believed was a weapon on him. still the video raises other questions about the procedure at the scene, how evidence was secured, all questions that won't really fully be answered until the police release their own videos, far they're declining to do. savannah? >> ari melber, thank you. the charlotte shooting impacting the presidential race. hillary clinton now planning to visit the city this sunday. donald trump meanwhile got a surprise endorsement late today

gabe gutierrez, nbc news, memphis. >>> and that will do it for us on a monday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and these are not deplorable people. i can tell you. my wife and i represent non-deplorable people. >> i am probay things. deplore sabl not one o them. >> as donald trump tries to capitalize on his opponent's "bask of deplorables" description of his supporters, a fight breaks out in north carolina. >> hillary clinton recuperates at home. >>> bizarre moment for ryan lochte as two women crash the stage during with the dancing with the stars". over what some states call discriminatory law. >>> plus, fox news removes roger aile's' fame from the newsroom. >>> dangerous dancing like you've never seen, "early today" starts right now. right to be with you. i'm francesry ver have a. i'm ayman mohyel the first presidential debate, hillary clinton is staying off the trail recuperating from pneumonia. she explains why she kept it a secret. >> i just didn't think it was going to be that big a deal. i felt dizzy and i did lose my ba

nbc's gabe gutierrez starts us off. >> after a night of chaos, charlotte officials are now pleading for calm as conflicting stories emerge about the death of keith lamont scott. >> we have got shots fired. >> police say they were trying to serve a warrant tuesday to a different man at this apartment complex when they encountered scott, who had a gun. >> they were instructing the subject, once he got out of the vehicle to drop the weapon. >> did you see any gun on him? >> i did not, no gun, it was a book. >> this woman says she watched the shooting from her second-floor balcony and took a cell phone video of the aftermath. she said scott was reading a book waiting for his son's school bus and was injury. >> the officer said what's going on, what's the problem and he said i couldn't hear what they said, but then he got shot four times. >> he didn't have no gun. he wasn't messing with nobody. >> police say no book was found at the scene. but news of scott's death sparked protests. >> demonstrators clashing with police, wearing riot gear. >> they're jumping on top of cars, stopping traffic

>> gabe gutierrez in charlotte for us, thank you. >>> alarming news tonight about what's being called the largest data breach in history. yahoo revealing that 500 million user accounts have been compromised by what it calls a state-sponsored cyber attack. nbc's joling kent shows us how to see if you're affected and the steps you should take to protect yourself. >> reporter: at least 500 millionah users hacked in a massive security breach. among the personal data compromise said, names, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers and dates of birth, along with encrypted and unencrypted security questions and answers. yahoo is notifying affected customers and recommends users change their passwords and security questions. >> the e-mail is the keys to the kingdom in extraordinary steps to protect it. >> reporter: yahoo is working with law enforcement to determine if a foreign government was behind this hack. the company is in the process of being acquired by verizon and that deal is not done yet. verizon tells nbc news with within the last two days we were notified of yahoo's security incident.

our gabe gutierrez reports from charleston. >> more than a million pe a flash flood watch as tropical storm julia drenches parts of the southeast. >> to wake up to this this this morning, it was quite a shocker. >> one of a few known instances of a tropical storm forming over land and the first to do so in florida, dumping torrential rain near jacksonville. 40-mile-per-hour winds damaging this gas station. the storm spawning a tornado with winds of up to 85 miles per hour in brevard county. >> in 2002 we had a tornado come through our back yard. i think this is like a without power in georgia, as julia crawled north past savannah. >> the wind was howling outside of my house, the rain was pouring. >> the storm expected to soak the southeast for days. >> we could see as much as three to six inches of rain tonight along the coast of south carolina. then the whole storm pulls away tomorrow but we still could see some rain across north carolina on thursday. >> here in charleston, the wind and the rain has been picking up throughout the afternoon. the threat of flash floodi overnight. isola

gabe gutierrez, nbc news, tulsa, oklahoma. >>> wells fargo ceo was grilled on opening accounts without customers permission. it's cost the bank $185 million in fines and over 5300 jobs have been lost so far. senator elizabeth warren called criminal charges. >> you haven't resigned. you haven't returned a single nickel of your personal earnings. you haven't fired a single senior executive. instead, evidently, your definition of accountable is to push the blame to your low-level employees who don't have the money for a fancy pr firm to defend themselves. it's guttless leadership. this is about accountability. you should resign. >> stump apologized before the committee for his role in the scanda has begun new internal procedures to prevent future incidents. >> i am deeply sorry that we failed to fulfill on our responsibility to our customers, to our team members, and to the american public. i accept full responsibility for all unethical sales practices in our retail banking business, and today," stocks are soaring overseas right now. we'll bring you those details next. next. ? ? ? ? ? ? g

nbc's gabe gutierrez now with more. >> reporter: tonight, no curfew, even after chaos struck the heart of north carolina's largest city. charlotte is shaken, but its mayor is defiant. >> today our city is open for business as usual. >> reporter: the attorney for the family of keith lamont scott, father of seven, say police showed them the dash cam and body camera video of scott's death late today. >> his wife saw him get shot and killed, ever forget. >> reporter: police chief kerr putney defending his decision not to release that video publicly. >> if you think we should display a victim's worst day for public consumption, that is not the transparency i'm speaking of. >> reporter: police sources speaking to nbc affiliate wcnc confirmed this witness photo taken moments after the shooting shows a gun at scott's feet. the police chief says show scott pointing the gun at anyone. scott walter at the police union says he's seen one of the dash cam videos. >> it shows clearly what our police chief putney has said. mr. scott came out of the vehicle as ordered by officers, but he had the gun in

gabe gutierrez is in the florida panhandle for us tonight. gabe, good evening. how are things going? >> reporter: savannah, the wind and the rain is really starting to pick up here as hermine gets closer to shore. it has really strengthened throughout the day. now florida's governor is saying that 6,000 members of the national guard are ready to mobilize if needed. tonight the outer bands of hermine are lashing the florida panhandle. torrential rain pounding the coast as authorities warn of devastating storm surge. >> this is life-threatening. we have a hurricane. home. you can rebuild property. you cannot rebuild a life. >> reporter: hermine strengthening into a category 1 hurricane this afternoon. it had already dumped more than a foot of rain near tampa. homes flooded there and in sarasota with fire crews used boats to rescue residents and pets. this restaurant owner scrambling to keep the water out. >> we lost all of our dock. >> reporter: the threat not just wind and rain but even isolated tornadoes. now parts of georgia emergency. the east coast expecting

nbc broke the story and we have gabe gutierrez with the latest. gabe, good morning. >> reporter: sheinelle, good morning. this was a peaceful night of protests in charlotte. we should warning graphic and some may find it disturbing. for the fourth straight night, protests in charlotte. >> what did you think when you saw the cell phone video? >> it was devastating. >> it was very disturbing to hear the wife beg for her husband not to be shot. >> reporter: friday night's march peaceful and passionate. obtained cell phone video from keith scott's wife rakeyia after he was shot dead. >> he has no weapon. don't shoot him. >> reporter: but police shout drop the gun a dozen times. >> drop the gun! drop the gun! >> he doesn't have a gun. he has a tbi. >> reporter: rakey accident last year. police were trying to serve a search warrant on another man and came across scott. >> keith, get out of the car. keith, don't do it. >> reporter: moments later. [ gunshots ] >> did you shoot him? did you shoot him? did you shoot him? he better not be [ bleep ] dead. he

savannah. >> all right, gabe gutierrez, thank you. al roker is here with us, a real busy time in the tropics, i see a mess on your map there. >> that's right. we've been talking about this system two weeks and will be talking about it into next week. hermine is 150 miles southwest of tampa and 45 miles an hour winds and stationary but you see the rain bands already pushing out. we look for landfall sometime in the florida panhandle late thursday evening and continues up the we've gotten from boston, new york, philly, providence, washington, all have to worry about this system going into labor day weekend. we have hurricane watches from destin to the bay. look for hurricane watches, we have tropical storm watches in florida into georgia where we also have the risk of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes from savannah all the way down to tampa. rainfall amounts, 5-10, 12 inches of rain, but 7-8 inches all the way up to the carolinas and georgia. and we've got rip currents from port st. lucie all the way to nantucket. and, as we mentioned,

gabe gutierrez, nbc news, townville, south carolina. >>> the chairman of wells fargo faced more harsh criticism today over bank and credit card accounts opened without the permission of customers in order to meet sales goals. this time it was from hostile members of congress, even after the ceo was stripped of $41 million in compensation and one of his fired employees was there to witness it all. more for us tonight. >> reporter: wells fargo employees say the pressure to cell was unbearable. >> we were led by fear and intimidation. >> reporter: julie miller was a branch manager in allentown, pennsylvania, once recognized by ceo john stumpf himself, but later fired for failing to meet aggressive sales goals. >> with seven checking accounts and 42 product solutions for my branch a day. >> reporter: she seat. >> as you came out here and apologized and said the buck stops with me, then you should be fired because it stops with you. >> again, congressman, the board has that power. >> reporter: house members on both sides pressing the ceo to take more responsibility. >> did wells fargo empl

gabe gutierrez, nbc news, tulsa, involving the country's biggest bank. the ceo of wells fargo on the hot seat before congress today and getting an earful from both sides of the aisle over the millions of fake accounts opened in customers' names. we get more on this from nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: called before congress, the ceo of wells fargo quickly fell on his sword. >> i accept full responsibility for all unethical sales practices in our retail bank >> reporter: but he faced bipartisan condemnation. >> so you haven't resigned, you haven't returned a single nickel of your personal earnings, you haven't fired a single senior executive. >> reporter: the scale of the fraud, stunning. wells fargo admits, its employees fraudulently opened more than two million bank and credit card accounts, forging applications to boost sales figures. frank noticed he was being charged 15 to $20 a month for accounts he never opened. had 15 accounts at once. >> reporter: the bank opened unauthorized accounts in the name of linda and kate edwards when kate turned 18, sh

nbc's gabe gutierrez is there and has late details. >> the chaos erupted just before 2:00, reports of an active shooter in south carolina. a heavily armed s.w.a.t. team swarming townville elementary school. >> the shooter is going to be a white male, all black clothing and blonde teenager opened fire, wounding two students and a teacher before being taken into custody. >> deputies were on scene within seven minutes. >> authorities say it happened on a playground that the shooter never entered the school. >> jamie brought one of the townville firefighters was actually one of the "first outlook" responders to get on scene. and he engaged the suspect and at that >> authorities now investigating a separate crime scene, a home two miles away. where police say the alleged gunman's father was found dead. >> 911 received a call from his family, a short time after the incident at townville. and when officers arrived, they found mr. osborne deceased. he died from a gunshot wound. >> terrified parents scrambling to the school this woman's daughter in kindergarten. >> she just told me they went t

we start with our gabe gutierrez and a warning, the video you're about to see is graphic and disturbing. >> don't shoot him. don't shoot him. >> reporter: tonight, new cell phone video recorded by keith first time shows the moments before the 43-year-old was fatally shot. >> don't shoot him. he has no weapon. he has no weapon. don't shoot him. [ bleep ] don't shoot him. don't shoot him. he didn't do anything. >> reporter: scott's wife, pleading to officers as police yell this order 12 times. >> drop the gun! drop the gun! >> he doesn't have a gun. he has a tbi. you guys. he just took his medicine. >> reporter: rakeyia referring to a traumatic brain injury the family lawyer said scott suffered in a motorcycle accident last year. she asked her husband to get out of the car. >> keith, don't let them break the window. come on out the car. >> drop the gun! >> keith, don't do it. >> drop the gun! >> keith, get out the car. keith! keith, don't you do it! >> keith, don't you do it! >> reporter: from the beginning, police have said scott refused orders and he posed an imminent threat. earlier in

authorities sct synthetic drugs is being manufactured in china and mexico. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you. >>> federal investigators are looking into what caused a mid-air collision between two private planes in georgia, the latest in a straining of general aviation crashes that has the ntsb warning too many pilots are losing control of their planes. tom costello with the latest details. >> reporter: at a rural airport in west by another aircraft circling the location. >> reporter: the wreckage of two planes broken and scattered across the field. three people on board including a flight instructor and her passenger all killed. >> they just confirmed this is two airplanes in a mid-air collision. >> reporter: it happened when both planes were landing at a regional airport with no control tower. >> it appears one plane set down on top of another and both appear to be low wing aircraft and not seen >> reporter: today's accident just the latest in a string involing private planes. september 3rd, two killed near the florida everglades and september 5, a collision in alaska and six in virginia.

abc's gabe gutierrez broke this story and has the latest developments. good morning. >> reporter: sheinelle, good morning. a midnight curfew was once again in effect. this was a peaceful night of protests in charlotte. we should warning viewers the cell phone video released extremely graphic and some viewers may find it disturbing. for the fourth straight night, protests in charlotte. >> what did you think when you saw the cell phone video? >> it was devastating. >> it was very disturbing to hear the wife beg for her husband not to be shot. >> reporter: friday night's march is peaceful but passionate. >> don't shoot him. obtained cell phone video by keith scott's wife rakeyia after he was shot dead. >> he has no weapon. don't shoot him. >> reporter: but police shout drop the gun a dozen times. >> don't shoot him. >> drop the gun! drop the gun! >> he doesn't have a gun. he has a tbi. he's not going to do anything to you guys. he just took his medicine. >> reporter: rakeyia referring to a traumatic brain injury the in a motorcycle accident last year. polic

nbc's gabe gutierrez starts us off. >> reporter: after a night of chaos, charlotte officials are pleading for calm as conflicting stories emerge about the death of keith lamont scott. >> we got shots fired. one suspect down, legacy court. >> reporter: police say they were trying to serve a warrant tuesday to a different man at this apartment complex when they encountered scott who had a gun. >> they were instructing the subject, once he go out of the vehicle, to drop the weapon. >> reporter: did you see any gun? >> i did not. no gun. it was a book. >> reporter: she said she watched the shooting from her balcony and took the cell phone video. she claims he was reading a book waiting for his son's school bus and was disabled because of a previous head injury. >> he walked to the back of his truck and asked what is going on, what's the problem? the next thing you know, i couldn't hear what he said, then he got shot four times. >> he didn't have no gun. he wasn't messing with nobody. >> reporter: police say no book was found at the scene, but news of scott's death sparked protests. demonstrat

gabe gutierrez, nbc news. >>> still ahead here tonight, we're back in a moment with why a food that a lot of kids love to eat is being recalled. >>> a powerful typhoon has killed at least four people and injured hundreds more after slamming into taiwan. typhoon megi came ashore, packing sustained winds of 130 miles per hour. the equivalent of a category 4 hurricane. it brought more than two feet of rain to parts of the country. in the bull's eye next, china, where it's expected to make landfall in the morning. >>> billionaire elon musk has announced a plan to colonize mars within a decade. that's half as long as nasa estimates it will take to launch a man mission to the red planet. but musk's companies spacex has experienced big setbacks recently, including the explosion of an unmanned rocket that also destroyed a pricey facebook satellite. >>> a major recall to tell you about. the usda warns that some tyson chicken nuggets may be contaminated with hard plastic. the company is recalling more than 130,000 pounds. it affects five-pound bags sold at costco nationwide with a use-by date o

gabe gutierrez, nbc news, memphis. >>> and that will do it for us on a monday i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and goodnight. >>> right now on news 3 live at right now on news 3 live at 6:00 -- walter johnson junior ready to reopen to students but still plenty of answers to question about the source of the mercury decontamination that families. >>> plot to kill donald trump. the man who wanted to shoot donald trump is said to plea guilty. the punishment michael sandford faces. >>> helping a community in need. the unusual pairing behind this project. >>> bottom line is this was a serious event. i want to make sure it's known that the district took it very instances and will continue to do so. >> well, tonight, we do know the school will be open tomorrow, nearly a week after the mercury was discovered at walter johnson junior. thanks for watching. i'm reed cowan. >> i'm marie mortera in for jim snyder. some 80 homes where students live have been checked for contamination. this is our top story. our coverage begins with kelsey thomas live at walte