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Morning, its thursday, august 18th im frances rivera. We begin with the blue cut wild fire that is continuing to burn out of control. It forced more than 82,000 people about 60 miles east of los angeles to evacuate. The fire ignited only Tuesday Morning and has ballooned in size to roughly 40 square miles. Its only about 4 contained. Almost 1,600 fire personnel are on hand battling the blaze. Veteran firefighters say they simply never seen anything like it. The fuels are extremely dry, very explosive this time of year. In my 40 years of fighting fire, ive never seen fire behavior so extreme as i did yesterday. Authorities say it has destroyed numerous buildings, although an exact number is currently unknown. And about 35,000 homes are in the line of fire. And the San Bernardino fire chief has a dire warning for those families when they return. In a word it was devastating. A lot of homes lost yesterday. There will be a lot of families that come home to nothing. Unfortunately the end doesnt appear in sight with very strong winds and historic drought feeding the flames. Beverly white is on the ground with more. Reporter were talking about the blue cut fire, the incident being responded to by multiple agencies here in Southern California. It continues to threaten Rural Communities like write food and feeland. Its still burning in the wilderness behind us. Its taken down numerous homes but they cant count them as of yet buzz active flame is standing in the way. Theyre also concerned for firefighters safety. These communities are fueled by propain tanks. A lot of the foes who lost home are gun owners and therefore the ammunition is popping off as the homes go down in wright wood, im beverly white. Really a tough situation, but there is this one moment of relief to share. Check out mike muller. Look at this endearing moment after a dog apparently ran from a burning structure and leaped right into his arms. It was a rare day on the calendar yesterday, donald trump went without speaking to the press or holding a rally. Along with receiving his first intelligence briefing, the republican nominee held a round table with advisers at trump tower to diskusds what Police Departments can do in fighting terror. The topic that drove 2016 was his decision to bolster his campaign. He added chief executive stephen bannon. In a campaign wide memo Paul Manafort said the change is made for a, quote, exciting day for team trump. Going on to clarify, i remain the Campaign Chairman and chief strategist, providing the big picture, long range campaign vision. He will bring a business like daytoday leadership approach to the ceo that is reflective of our leader mr. Trump. Kellyann will provide seen yore leadership on the road with the traveling campaign. Trump staff is embracing the shakeup and what they see as two actually on message teleprompter guided speeches in recent days. Jason miller told the Washington Post yesterday, if youre watching cable news shows, you could make the case this was the best morning for us in weeks. Yesterday conway said trump would keep the focus on clinton to win back republicans. Some of the voter attrition has been among republicans. Those republicans are saying, i didnt necessarily like the last couple weeks and i want you to know that. I like when you take on Hillary Clinton. There are two people you need to take on, Hillary Clinton most of the time, once in a while barack obama. Mainstream, lobbyists, elitist, go ahead. You look across the match and lobby at her. You dont pick a fight with the ref, you dont boo the crowd. Focus on her. We should probably also talk about her poor fundamental numbers. Hillary clinton has reversed gender gaps. Doing so poorly with men, almost everywhere they dont like her, they dont trust her and do not want her to be commander in chief and president of the United States. That gender gap never gets covered but very much in our sights. Hillary clinton and her team addressed Trumps Campaign shake upyesterday. Despite changes to the leadership, the nominee himself hasnt. I think its fair to say that donald trump has shown us who he is. He can hire and fire anybody he wants from his campaign. They can make him read new words from a teleprompter. But he is still the same man who insults gold star families, demeans women, mocks people with disabilities and thinks he knows more about isis than our generals. There is no new donald trump. This is it. After several failed attempts to pivot into a more serious and president ial mode, donald trump has decided to double down on his most small, nasty and divisive instincts by turning his campaign over to someone whos best known for running a socalled news site that peddles divisive, at times, racist, antimuslim, antisemitic conspiracy theories. And whats become clear from this is that no matter how much the establishment wants to clean donald trump up, get him on a teleprompter, and get him on message, he has officially won the fight to let trump be trump. Donald trump received his first intelligence briefing yesterday, but not before making headlines for something he said before going into the meeting. Do you trust intelligence . Not so much from the people that have been doing it for our country. Look whats happened over the past ten years . Look whats happened over the years . Its been catastrophic. In fact, i wont use some of the people that are your standard, just use them, use them, use them, very easy to use them. I wont use them because theyve made such bad decisions. Retired general Michael Flynn was at his side during the briefing. The nominee may be skeptical of the Intelligence Community, here is what flynn said. He got a good, solid set of presentations from some real professionals. I would tell you that one of the interesting things is people in the Intelligence Community know this, is that they present the intelligence. The policy decisions that a president makes sometimes can be in dramatic contrast to the intelligence they receive. That meeting lasted about two hours and governor Chris Christie leading trumps Transition Team also attended and that at a town hall taped in wisconsin earlier this week, trump discussed the civilian toll of his pledge to take out isis quickly with sean hannity. That will mean bombing on a very at a very high level. Every time that happens, you know what the media is going to do, theyre going to find the one area where there is collateral damage, which sadly happens in every war. Weve been a come passionate nation. How do you do it . General flynn and other of the generals, these are great people. I ask them all the time, if you were right now theyre fighting a politically correct war you go and get them out. How long would it take . Ill tell you what, they are telling me they could do the job very, very rapidly. Now, very rapidly is longer than you would like, but they could get the job done and get it done with precision and get it done. We have no choice, sean. We have no choice. We have to take them out. Donald trump with sean hannity there. New questions are being raised about u. S. Swimmer ryan lochtes account of the reported robbery involving him and his olympic teammates in rio de janeiro. Jack cogner and hunter bence were taken off their flight to home from brazil. They left Airport Police station early this morning. Brazilian police say their passports have been temporarily confiscated. A judge ordered the passports of lochte. A u. S. Spokesman says feegen is still in brazil cooperating with authorities lochte is already in the United States. Brazilian authorities did not ask his client to remain in the country. A judge in rio raised doubts said they gave contradictory accounts of the robbery and the judge noted this surveillance video. It appears to show the men joke and unshaken as they return to the Olympic Village 7 00 a. M. She questioned why if they left the club around 4 00 a. M. It took so long to get back home. Nbcs matt lauer spoke with lochte on the phone and said he is by and large sticking to his account of the robbery which he described to billy bush hours after it allegedly took place. I was with a couple swimmers. We were coming back from the france house and we got pulled over in our taxi. And these guys came out with a badge, police badge, no lights, no nothing, just a police badge. Ey pulled us over. They pulled out their guns. They told the other swimmers to get down on the ground. They got down on the ground. I refused. I was like, we didnt do anything wrong. So im not getting down on the ground. Then a guy pulled out his gun. He cocked it. Put it to my forehead and said get down and i was like i put my hands up. Whatever. He took our money. He took my wallet. Lauer says lochte told him that he and his teammates were not pulled over by the allege robbers as he said sunday. He now says they were at a gas station. One of the robbers pointed a gun, quote, in my direction, unquote but did not directly at his forehead as he previously claimed. Lauer also says lochte told him he and his teammates would not make up this story. Lot to follow with that one. Still ahead, louisianas flooding troubles is far from over. Could a federal rate hike be on the horizon . Well bring you those stories and also a check of the weather when we come back here on msncb. Isaac hou has mastered gravity defying moves to amaze his audience. Great show. Here you go. Now hes added a new routine. Making depositing a check seem so effortless. Easy to use chase technology, for whatever youre trying to master. Isaac, are you ready . Yeah. Chase. So you can. Hhis stellar notebooks will last through june. Get back to great. This week sharpie twelvepacks just three dollars. Office depot officemax. Gear up for school. Gear up for great. Welcome back. Certainly news they dont want, in floodravaged louisiana the forecast calls for more rain. The death toll from the historic flooding has reached 13 and the National Weather service is warning that the bad news isnt over yet. The rainfall started friday near baton rouge and for days now the water has flown south toward the gulf of mexico carving a path of destruction. To two students from michigan working in the louisiana over the summer are among some 30,000 people who had to be rescued in the flooding. I was screaming bloody murder. Trying to call 911. I was screaming. I was like, i need help. I felt like i drove into the atlantic because i felt like my car was doing the titanic type thing where the front of it was just flooded. The trunk was up in the air. Homeland security secretary jay johnson is heading to the hard hit state today. The red cross is mounting a relief operation which is estimated to cost at least 30 million. For more on this and weather conditions elsewhere in the country want to turn into bill karins. Thats what we were fearing, bill, more rain would come aspeci especially right there. It was a punishment, they had to be wondering why do we deserve this . Its amazing. We start with the fire and then we have the flooding at the same time in two separate areas. Its been a harsh reality of the drought in the west and the humid conditions and the heavy rain in the south. As far as the fire weather goes today, story not just encompassing the blue cut a area, we have two dozen large fires burning. Red areas mean the conditions are ripe for fires to spread and get newer. Any new fires form, those could spread rapidly too out there. It continues to be very hot. Focussing on the blue cut fire, they have only 4 containment. Here we are two days later. That shows you how dangerous the conditions are. Only 4 contained. Once again this afternoon with it being so hot out there, do expect it to actually increase in size once again do some racing. Northwest gusts of 40 Miles Per Hour. These gusts would be about 35 Miles Per Hour during the day today. The temperatures out west Southern California all the way through the Pacific Northwest about 5 to 15 degrees above normal. During the afternoon, the air is getting so dry with the gusty conditions it has the humidity levels down about 10, 5 in some cases. Thats just like perfect conditions for fires to burn. So thats the conditions in the west. Also our friends in the northern plains, youre at risk for severe weather. Minneapolis, sioux falls, fargo, the possibility of damaging winds and large hail. I dont think theres too much of a tornado threat. We had great thunderstorms roll through washington, d. C. They are now out in the open atlantic. Theres a few showers left. You may want to carry that umbrella with you this morning. Just light showers out there and there will be additional showers later this afternoon. They did notice thunderstorm activity where eerie and pennsylvania meet there, too, in a new flash flood warning. The forecast as we go throughout the day today, scattered storms warm and humid in the areas of the southeast and northeast we will see conditions slowly clearing out, frances. The water is going downened theyll get in these homes and its just ugly. Its a tough part. Bill, thank you very much. Im going to see you later on and youll help me out with olympic sports. Want to turn now to business where yesterday the Federal Reserve released minutes from the july meeting. Hali gamble joins us live from london. Good morning to you. Hey, good morning, frances. Essentially what were seeing right now is a Federal Reserve thats divided on whether or not to raise the interest rates. One the one hand you have strong Employment Data but there are concerns about brexit. Brexit was mentioned 20 times throughout the series of these conversations. So lot of concerns there on both sides. Now, another story of course that were watching is whats happening with obama care. There will be apparently be a major push by the Obama Administration ahead of the u. S. President ial election to get more people signed up to their health care exchanges. And more people in particular, young people, to these exchanges. This comes after another Major Health Care Company Aetna said basically they couldnt make it work. The numbers didnt work. They were losing money. A letter earlier in the month to the department of justice essentially suggested it was important to note the company had been a strong supporter of the developing Public Exchange business and tad min stragss efforts to expand that health care to all americans, unfortunately a challenge by the department of justice to the acquisition of successful blocking of a transaction that would have negative Financial Impact on aetna would compare their ability to support exchanging leaving aetna no choice. Serious concerns in terms of whats going to happen Going Forward for this health care legislation. Frances . Well follow it. Thank you so much, hadley gamble live from london. I appreciate it. Usain bolt is ready to sprint his way to another gold medal. Plus, Michael Phelps announced his retirement, but it doesnt look like he is ready to get out of the pool just yet. All the highlights from last nights Olympic Games next. Were back in a moment. 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Hey, look who we got, bill karins here helping us out with some of that. Bill . Ive been watching a little too much of this stuff. We all are. Its fun. Its almost over. Im getting sad. Usain bolt on his way to a second gold medal in brazil. Last night he advanced to the 200 meter final. Exchanging smiles with rival and friend from canada, andre degrassy as me crossed the finish line. 02 ahead. While bolt is on the right track to compete what he is calling a triple triple, almost sounds like diving, right . Three gold medals at three different games. Justin gatlin failed to advance. Missing a qualifying spot by. 03 seconds. Gatlin blew the lead appearing to show boat to the finish line as he looked to the right. After the race he mentioned he had a stiff ankle. Gatlin is expected to run in the 4 x 100 meter relay. Bolts counterpart Elaine Thompson won the gold in the womens 200 meter final. She swepthe 100 meter, 200 meter since 1988. Usas tori bowie took bronze. Basketball are one step closer after finally defeating argentina in the quarterfinals. They jumped out to a tenpoint lead did argentina midway through the first quarter, but the u. S. Answered with a 272 run that argentina would never recover from. The loss marks the end of argentinas socalled golden age in what was expected to be the final game for manu ginobili. The United States will take on a very good team from spain in the semifinals. How about this, after retiring from swimming following his final race in rio, Michael Phelps cant stay out of the pool. He is already training the next generation of the Great American swimming royalty. He posted this photo to instagram showing phelps along with fiance Nicole Johnson with the couples son boomer in the pool. No word yet on his 200 meter time. No word yet, but i love that little kid. That boomer every chance, every shot of that kid he has the genetics. Phelps is this freak the way his body is built and everything else. He didnt have any floaties. I will be sad when that goes up. Still ahead, ryan lochte is back in america. Two of hi teammates were yanked off a plane leaving rio. Well talk about Donald Trumps attempt to right the ship. Here we go. Tip it. Tip it. Tip it. Tip it. Pivot. Pivot. Shut up shut up shut up [ laughter ]. Okay. I dont think its going to pivot anymore. You think . Always great day when you can throw in some friends action in the morning, right . So will that pivot actually happen and if so, will it actually work . Were back in a moment. Here at outback, its the big steak crab bash. You get half a pound of sweet, snow crab legs. Paired with our new, tender,centercut sirloin. Hurry in. The outback steak crab bash starts at just 14. 99. Bloomin great hhis stellar notebooks will last through june. Get back to great. This week sharpie twelvepacks just three dollars. Office depot officemax. Gear up for school. Gear up for great. The advice that he gets sol is itted, unsol is itted is you have to pivot. You have to pivot. What they mean is on style. What youre seeing just this week, just in the last two days and i think he will go down as one of the best weeks in the Trump Campaign to date because the last two days he gave backtoback policy speeches. Every attempt to pivot the campaign and get him into a more serious mode has totally failed. What were seeing in this is him doubling down on his smallest, most divisive, most hateful inclinations. So i think it will be more of the same. It will probably be worse. The two president ial Campaign Managers with their two very different takes on the state of the race. Is it too soon to say that donald trump has turned his Campaign Around . Well have a look at some new polling from key swing states. And the massive fire burning in San Bernardino county is nowhere near contained. Its marching near a major roadway as residents flee. Major drama involving members of the mens u. S. Swimming team and their story about being robbed at gunpoint in rio. Two of the athletes snatched off the plane just as they were trying to head home. Good to be with you this morning im frances rivera, its thursday, august 18th. We begin with those new questions being raised about u. S. Swimmer ryan lochte about the reported robbery of him and his u. S. Teammates. Jack conger and gunnar bentz who say they were with lochte were taken off their flight home from brazil last night. The two were set to meet with authorities again today to discuss the incident after leaving an Airport Police station early this morning. Brazilian police say their passports had been temporarily con fes gated. A judge yesterday ordered feigen and lochtes passport seized. Lochte is already back in the United States. And his lawyer says brazilian authorities did not ask his client to remain in the country. A judge in rio raised doubts about the groups story saying that lochte and feigen gave contradictory t cans of the robbery and the judge noted this Surveillance Footage released by the daily mail. It appears to show the men joking and unshaken as they return to the Olympic Village around 7 00 a. M. Sunday morning. Plus, she questioned why if they left the club around 4 00 a. M. , as they claimed, it took so long to get back home . Nbcs matt lauer spoke with lochte on the phone last night and sapd he is by and large sticking to his account of the robbery as he described to billy bush hours after it allegedly took place. I was with a couple swimmers. We were coming back from the france house and we got pulled over in our taxi. And these guys came out with a badge, a police badge, no lights, no nothing, just police badge. They pulled us over. They pulled out their guns. They told the other swimmers to get down on the ground. They got down on the ground. I refused. I was like, we didnt do anything wrong. So, im not getting down on the ground. Then the guy pulled out his gun. He cocked it. Put it to my forehead and said get down and i was like, i put my hands up. I was like, whatever. He took our money. He took my wallet. Lauer says lochte told him that he and his teammates were not pulled over by the alleged robbers as he said sunday and he now says they were at a gas station when the crime happened. Lochte now also says one of the robbers pointed a gun, quote, in my direction unquote but not directly at his forehead as he also previously claimed. Lauer also says lochte told him he and his teammates would not make up this story. The other big story were following from Southern California where the blue cut wild fire continues to burn out of control. It is forced more than 82,000 people, about 60 miles east of los angeles to evacuate. The fire ignited only Tuesday Morning and has ballooned in size to roughly 40 square miles and is only about 4 contained. Almost 1,600 fire personnel are on hand battling the blaze. That includes 17 helicopters, 10 air tankers and 2 very large air tankers. They simply have never seen anything like it. The fuels are extremely dry, very explosive this time of year. And in my 40 years of fighting fire, ive never seen fire behavior so extreme as it was yesterday. Rapid rates have spread. We had spotting up to half a mile ahead of the fire. Authorities say it has destroyed numerous buildings, although an exact number is currently unknown. More than 35,000 homes are in the line of fire. And the San Bernardino fire chief has a dire warning for those families when they return. In a word, it was devastating. A lot of holmes lost yesterday. There will be a lot of families that come home to nothing. Unfortunately the end doesnt appear in sight with very strong winds and historic drought feeding those flames. Donald Trumps Campaign took on a much different look after big shakeup at the top of his struggling campaign. Trump elevated veteran republican pollster Kellyanne Conway to Campaign Manager and added chief executive stephen bannon, a campaign rookie whose bare knuckle style is reputed to match his own. Paul manafort said the change has made for an exciting day for trump. I remain the Campaign Chairman and chief manager. They see two on message teleprompter guided speeches in recent days. Spokesman jason miller told the Washington Post yesterday if youre watching cable news shows you could make the case this was the best morning for us in weeks. Yesterday conway said trump would keep the focus on clinton to win back republicans. Some of the voter attrition has been among republicans. Those republicans saying, i didnt necessarily like the last couple weeks and i want you to know that. I like when you take on Hillary Clinton. There are two people you need to take on, Hillary Clinton most of the time, once in a while barack obama. If you want to throw the mainstream media, the lobbyists, the elitests go ahead. You look across the net and keep lobbing her. You dont boo the crowd, pick a fight with the ref. Focus on her. We should probably also talk about her poor fundamental number. She has reversed gender gaps. She is doing poorly with men, they dont like her, they dont trust her and do not want her to be commander in chief and president of the United States. That gender gap never gets covered but its very much in our sights. Hillary clinton and her team addressed trumps shakeup yesterday. She said the nominee hasnt changed. I think its fair to say that donald trump has shown us who he is. He can hire and fire anybody he wants from his campaign. They can make him read new words from a teleprompter. But he is still the same man who insults gold star families, demeans women, mocks people with disabilities, and thinks he knows more about isis than our generals. There is no new donald trump. This is it. After several failed attempts to pivot into a more serious and president ial mode, donald trump has decided to double down on his most small, nasty and divisive instincts by turning his campaign over to someone who is best known for running a socalled news site that peddles divisive at times racist, antimuslim, antisemitic conspiracy theories. And whats become clear from this is that no matter how much the establishment wants to clean donald trump up, get him on a teleprompter and get him on message, he has officially won the fight to let trump be trump. The latest waive of swing states polling confirms that states that have been very much in play for republicans in recent years are increasingly slipping away from donald trump. A new queen pea yak poll in colorado shows Hillary Clinton leading by ten, 49 to 39 . When you add in third party candidates, her lead soninlaw eight. But look at gary johnson, the libertarian candidate polling at 16 . In virginia, clinton leads by 12, reaching 50 to trumps 38. In iowa, clinton leads by 3 , inside the margin of error, add in gary johnson, he is polling at 12 . Now lets look at the rust belt, an area of the country trump is trying to take away from democrats. In michigan, shows clinton with a 10 lead. New monmouth poll in indiana shows trump leading in his home state, 47, 36. You say its not a shakeup, but you guys are down and it makes says who . Polls most of them, all of them . Says who . Polls. I just told you. I answered your question. Okay. Which polls . All of them. Okay. And your question is . Polls. Says who . We mentioned that donald trump received his first intelligence briefing yesterday, but he also made headlines for something he said before heading into the meeting. Do you trust intelligence . Not so much from the people who have been doing it for our country. Look what happened over the last ten years, look whats happened over the years . Its been catastrophic. In fact, i wont use some of the people that are sort of your standards, just use them, use them, use them, very easy to use them. I wont use them because they made such bad decisions. Trump adviser retired lieutenant Michael Flynn was at his side. While the nominee may be skeptical of the u. S. Intelligence community, here is what flynn said once the briefing concluded. He got a good, solid set of presentations from some real professionals. I would tell you that one of the interesting things is people in the Intelligence Community know this, is that they present the intelligence. The policy decisions that a president makes sometimes can be in dramatic contrast to the intelligence that they receive. That meeting lasted about two hours and governor Chris Christie who is leading trumps tran suggestion team also attended. A quote, substantial amount of material about the Hillary Clinton email investigation that the fbi delivered to congress, appears to be unclassified. That means it could be released to the public. In the letter to Office Security yesterday, Chuck Grassley made that observation and requested the unclassified and classified documents be separated in order to make as much of that material public as possible. Among the materials turned over was the summary of the fbis investigation in the clintons use of private email server. Also 302s with clinton and also top aid huma abedin and others and copies of classified emails that were recovered from the server. Meanwhile, clinton Campaign Chairman tweeted this would remind thaul this material is classified so this is leaking of classified material. Looking abroad now, the front page story on todays cover of the financial times, russian tanks on border fuel ukraine fears. It is starting to crumble and comes as conventional forces are building up along the countrys shared border, including russian tanks. Fighting started again in july after russia said it uncovered ukrainian plot over crimea. Still ahead this morning, new information on that cash payout from the United States to iran and its raising questions of whether it was really a ransom for these freed american prisoners. And one of the most heart breaking images yet from the civil war in syria. Look at this. Really, really touched the heart. A boy all alone in the back of an ambulance. Well have the story behind this gutwrenching photo ahead. Im anne howard and im michael howard. We left on our honeymoon in january 2012. 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In a statement a Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman said the u. S. State department should, quote, check their logic and knowledge on the issue. State Department Spokesman said they are investigated if this violated a recent u. N. Security resolution. Thats right, frances. The u. N. Resolution in question basically forbids the sale or transfer of combat aircraft to iran unless specifically approved by the u. N. Security council. The americans say russian air strikes could violate this resolution. Russia said thats not the case. It is a war of words thats been escalated but so has the conflict. Of course it is civilians who are caught in between. I do want to draw our viewers attention to a haunting video that syrian activists released on wednesday. This video has gone viral and captures just a small fragment of the hor rors of that war. It shows the aftermath of yet another air strike on aleppo. In this video rescue workers pull a small boy from the rubble. They take him to an underground hospital. The doctor who treated him says this boy is only 5 years old. You see him youre seeing images now as hes being pulled from the rubble by those workers. Being taken into an ambulance. Hospitals have been under frequent attack by the assad regime. You then see this boy sitting in shock by himself completely alone. He is not crying. He doesnt make a sound. He is covered in dust and blood. It really is a powerful image that gets across the impact this war is having everyday on civilians. A war that has raged effectively as long as this boy has been alive. Just 5 years old were told. This is a conflict frances that is now likely to have a greater toll. Weve seen attempts this month to broker a temporary cease fire in aleppo for humanitarian aid to reach trapped civilians. The u. S. Special envoy for syrian today announcing that no con voice were able to reach besieged areas in the past month because of that fighting and the u. N. Now suspending the humanitarian task force created to help those civilians which means that help will be even further off. Frances . So tough. That image is stuck in your mind. Just like the imagine of the little boy and body washed up on show. Thank you so much, live from london. I appreciate it. We are following this devastation in louisiana. Want to bring back bill karins. Bill, they were hoping they could at least hold off on the weather to at least have that on their side. Thats not the case, at least today, right . They had daily thunderstorms. It hasnt hurt, made the rivers go up too much. It scares the people there and makes the rivers go down slower. This was last night around 7 00 p. M. One thunderstorm, much of the state of louisiana was clear. Very cruel. Right over the top of baton rouge, right where the worst flooding was the only thunderstorm out there and that dumped 2 to 4 inches and put baton rouge, by the way, in record territory for the alltime wettest month theyve ever recorded there. It was just amazing and unfortunate. Now as far as the northeast goes, those thunderstorms from last night are gone. There are still showers left in the areas of connecticut very light showers there, little thunderstorm just to the east of eerie. Well watch some of the storms reforming so many scattered storms, central pennsylvania, up state new york. Boston to d. C. After we get rid of some of the clouds. 5 Million People at risk, rochester and minneapolis. Hot day for you this afternoon with scattered storms through louisiana and the west coast, frances, continues we mentioned the fire stuff, its very hot. Even seattle tomorrow could be into the mid 90s. Its very cruel out there for those firefighters trying to fight these fires this time of year. Yeah. You have to think about that, tough time theyre having. Bill, thank you very much. Still ahead, team usa takes gold, silver and bronze in the womens 100 meter hurdles. Well have that big night and other highlights. The two simones, biles and manuel inspiring new interest for the name. Google searches up 200 just in this month alone for the name simone. Well be right back. Isaac hou has mastered gravity defying moves to amaze his audience. Great show. Here you go. Now hes added a new routine. Making depositing a check seem so effortless. Easy to use chase technology, for whatever youre trying to master. Isaac, are you ready . Yeah. Chase. So you can. Hhis stellar notebooks will last through june. Get back to great. This week sharpie twelvepacks just three dollars. Office depot officemax. Gear up for school. Gear up for great. Time now for sports. Sprinters made history as the first u. S. Women to sweep the podium in an olympic track event. While americans have finished one, two, three in track and field events 61 times dating back to 1904, all were many mens competition. Rollens gold medal in the 100 meter hurdle was also the first for the 2016 u. S. Team on the track. They added a fourth gold medal after bartleto won the long jump with Brittney Reese taking silver. She earned the gold with 23 1 2 feets impressive. Reeses run was one inch shorter. Here is a look at the olympic medal count so far. United states leads all medal categories, 30 gold, 32 silver, 31 bronze for total of 93 olympic medals. China is in distant second with 54 followed and by Great Britain and russia. All those medals may prove to be coil. Athletes take home cash along with those medals. Like any prize winner, the olympians are taxed for what is considered income. Depending on an athletes tax bracket, a gold medal, which fetches 25,000 dollars in prize money could cost almost 10,000 in taxes. That means someone like u. S. Swimmer Michael Phelps may owe uncle sam upwards of 50,000. Allegations of match fixing rio, they dismissed an undisclosed number of referees and judges. After a statement said, quote, less than a handful of decisions were not at the level expected. Two results were especially controversial, mondays unanimous decision awarded to heavy weight gold medal to russia and the unanimous decision to tuesdays quarterfinal awarding bantamweight over michael con lin of ireland. Conlin accused the federation of corruption. Sounds like he was right and suggested russia bribed boxing officials. He dropped out of the semifinal due to an injury, he will still take home the bronze medal. Of course, none of the results will be changed. Like i teld you, bill boxing has been on the down swing for 10, 12 almost all are winding down with couple days that flame will be out. Kind of bummed about it. Bill, thank you. 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Before we toss it over to morning joe want to get you caught up on the other stories happening in the day ahead. Former Chicago Police officer Jason Van Dyke is due back in court today. Van dike is charged with first degree murder of the october 2014 killing of 17yearold mcdonald who was shot 17 times. It sparked protests and reforms within the Chicago Police department. A special prosecutor was appointed earlier this month to handle the case. Jay johnson will get a firsthand look and will visit baton rouge and meet with the officials. Finally this morning on the campaign trail today, Hillary Clinton meets with Law Enforcement officers in new york city. Donald trump holds a rally in battleground North Carolina at the Charlotte Convention center. While his running mate governor mike pence holds a town hall in manchester, new hampshire. Candidates stays on the east coast this morning. That does it for us on this thursday. Thanks so much for being with me. Im frances rivera. Morning joe joe starts right. I think its fair to say that donald trump has shown us who he is. He can hire and fire anybody he wants from his campaign. They can make him read new words from a teleprompter. But he is still the same man who insalts goldwater families, mocks people with disabilities and thinks he knows more about isis than our generals. There is new donald trump. This is it. They may have a point. But wall street journal says. Lets try the asterisk this morning. Trump hits reset button. I think there you