There are meaningful actions we can all take to stop gun violence in this country v their thoughts and prayers while failing to act we are done with that. Some good news for drivers as gas prices are headed south. And an incredible look at the man in charge of the sound for half a million fans atwood stock. Early today starts right now good monday morning im Frances Rivera and im phillip mena. Kicking off your week with some fantastic news here, gymnastics superstar simone biles, she has defied gravity and secured her place in the history books theres one, two, and a third one. And look at how high she is. She has so much time, shes capable of doing even more than that were going to slow it down to figure out how crazy that was. She landed a triple double during her floor routine shes the first gymnast to ever do that in competition that milestone came one night after she also made history with a doubledouble dismount on the balance beam doing a double twist and double flip f. She can repeat those performances in international competition, theyre going to be named after her. These groundbreaking skills have helped biles win her 6th all around title at the u. S. Championships and that ties the record set in 1952 now to horror and heartache in pennsylvania after a deadly day care fire claims the lives of five children the children range in ages from 8 months to 7 years old. The news hit the Lawrence Fire Department especially hard when they learned one of their colleagues lost his children in the fire our firefighter luther jones, three of his children perished in that fire unthinkable. Like i said, its really beyond comprehension. The firefighter was responding to a call just blocks away that night. Nbcs blayne alexander has the latest on the devastating tragedy. Reporter well, frances, good morning to you investigators are still looking into the cause of the fire, but they do believe that it started on the first floor and spread quickly. Its a devastating scene in erie, pennsylvania a house consumed in flames engine 6, engine 8, reported structure fire with entrapment reporter when the smoke cleared, four Young Children were dead. A 5th died later at the hospital there are five people entrapped. Reporter an adult was air lifted for care. Two teens were able to make it they said there were babies still inside i saw flames coming out the side of the window i yelled, fire reporter a Good Samaritan tried to rush in i tried to go inside. I made it to the open living room i couldnt go any further. Reporter records show the house was registered as a day care center. The most recent inspection was within the last year its not clear if the children inside were under that care. Now investigators are trying to figure out what caused that fire as families are left with the horror of five young lives cut tragically short and they were all small children some as old as age 7 and as young as just 8 months now, last year the owner told our nbc affiliate that she had been operating the center from her home for more than 18 years, and hoped to soon expand to a fullsize center frances . So tragic blayne, thank you. The death of Jeffrey Epstein is still shrouded in mystery the medical examiner completed the autopsy, but needs more information before determining the cause of death however, two days after epstein was found unresponsive in his more. Ell, multiple people suicide of Jeffrey Epstein reporter more quont the appt one of the most highprofile inmates being held in a federal jail nbc news has learned as part of the investigation into this incident, they want to know if guards conducted routine checks on inmates including epstein as required one major issue is whether the rules were followed in the housing unit where epstein was confined and whether guards were checking on him every 30 minutes. Reporter sources close to the investigation say epstein underwent a psychiatric evaluation and they cleared him from suicide watch on or about july 29th, allowing him to return to his cell while on suicide watch, epstein would have been monitored every second the bed would have been bolted down his bed clothes would have been taken away but once he was taken off suicide watch, he had clothing he had a bed cell. Reporter senior Law Enforcement officials tell nbc news there is no sign ofowmanha into epsteins alleged sex trafficking indictment w conspiracy count andt talked about people who worked as associates of his. Any prosecutors they have evidence against could become defds defendants in an ongoing case here. It is important for all of us to avoid rushing to judgment, to let the Legal Proceedings to move forward our thanks to kathy park for that report. The questions lingering in the wake of epsteins death are fueling a rash of conspiracy theories online. And this morning President Trump is facing backlash after tweeting out one of those unsubstantiated claims democrats tore into the president for sharing a baseless Conspiracy Theory connecting the clintons to epsteins death. Nbcs Craig Boswell joins us now with the latest from d. C craig, good morning. Reporter yeah, good morning. Conspiracy theorists working over time this weekend democrats nctheories with no evidence linking the clintons to epsteins death. Clintons and President Trump. 2020 democratic president ial hopefuls sounded off im shocked today to see the president not only do a Conspiracy Theory which is strange enough any Conspiracy Theory from the president of the United States but to try and deflect it away from him when its his own Justice Department that runs the federal prison reporter heres what the president s counselor had to say, kellyanne conway. The president wants everything to be investigated. Trying to connect the president to this monster from years ago where theyre seendancing in a video versus other people who were actively, i suppose, flying around with this monster on his island reporter epsteins death on saturday came a day after the court unsealed new evidence and new details in his case with as number of new names. Many of them international names. Among them, and ill read some of these one of them in particular, britains prince andrew, Buckingham Palace in a statement says, and ill quote, any suggestion of impropriety is categorically untrue guys, we expect to hear more about this and certainly hear more about to you. So many questions thank you so much, craig as the communities in el paso and dayton search for a way to move forward a week after the shootings, entertainers and politicians are trying to help them find some comfort singer john legend held a surprise performance for survivors in dayton last night before the concert, the ohio native met with mayor nan wayly and employees of a gift store from across the street where the shooting happened. He also held a press conference, calling for stricter gun control. Meanwhile new york senator Chuck Schumer is proposing a new bill that would require the finish fib to sign off on body armour sales to civilians senator schumer says under the current law anyone can buy a bullet proof vest with tli of a mouse his bill would not apply to law enforce. And lady gaga is helping families in gilroy, california, dayton and el paso, texas, get back to school by funding 162 classroom projects the singer partnered up with donors choose. Org to provide educational tools for 14 classrooms in dayton, 125 in el paso, and 23 in gilroy hollywoods biggest and brightest stars gathered for the nickelodeon teen Choice Awards the ceremony was held in hermosa beach, california, and honored iconic stars from film, tv, music, fashion and comedy which are by viewers robert downey, jr. , won by choice action movie for avengers end game. Singer actress zendaya won choice summer movie actress. And crazy rich asians took home for comedy sean mendez won for summer male artist pop star taylor swift took home the shows firstever icon award. The Jonas Brothers won the teen decade of the ward best of the decade. I didnt know anybody its the teen Choice Awards, come on. Im old school. Lets check out whats going on weather wise here. We have 55 million that are dealing with this brutal heat thats brewing across the south now making its way into the plains and unfortunately thats going to continue until tuesday afternoon. Also stormy conditions for the upper midwest and thats flowing across omaha into davenport as well right now and that Severe Weather risk will continue throughout your afternoon. Fours way to the midwest and northeast by tuesday starting off the week with some storms, but that storm system makes its way to the northeast coming up. Coming for us, too. Janessa, thank you in todays quick hits, good news for drivers out there. Gasoline prices are falling. 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The driver james alex field, jr. , is currently serving two life sentences janessa webb is back with a look ahead lets look at your monday here off to a really good start for the pacific northwest. Sunny and dry conditions, do have a small storm system thats going to impact to the midwest and that will stretch into the northeast by tuesday into wednesday afternoon. Less humid conditions across the upper midwest. Youre watching early today. Well be right back. So you have ten years childhooveva masters in early heres all the numbers, foods in the fridge, oh and lucas likes to pull on jewelry so you might want to lose the nose ring. By their second d, parents are more likely to choose luvs. It absorbs 20x its weight and the new triple leakguards lock away wetness for outstanding leakage protection. Live, learn, and get luvs. And its a disc. The future of laundry is here the Persil Proclean disc. One disc cleans more tough stains better than any of these detergents. 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No. I wanted to make it happen as best i could it was our mission to do that. Reporter the amphitheater at the farm was no small challenge. He built everything from scratch. Some of which is on um, includiy sound board and a massive speaker. You didnt get these at best buy. Right we built them all. Those of you in the back hear well reporter while Musical Legends were made that day handly was too busmonitoring his equipment to remember who stood out. So cool that you were the guy who knew what needed to be done. Correct, thank you. Reporter half a Million People would have said what am i here for . Reporter harry smith, nbc news, bethel, new york bringing the sound literally to those fans and all the people in the audience. Thats right. Shout out to all the audio crew out there making it heard loud and clear. In europe soccer fans competed in whats called swamp soccer, part of the local festival of the theme. Soccer players got together on this field, you can call it that, covered in mud and water you can see how hard it is to play in that mess. Their legs getting stuck almost impossible to run, much less kick the ball it did look fun. Exercise and exfoliation even without the ball, im sure it would be a fun day great time. Thanks for waking up with us im phillip mena im Frances Rivera. Your news continues right here good monday morning to you, august 12th. Taking a live look out in downtown san jose where we start our monday morning. Great to be with you this morning. Thank you for joining us i am marcus washington. Im laura garcia. All right. The gang is back together. Yep. For some kids it is back to cool today. All right. Yeah. We are starting out with great weather. It will be a little bit hotter. Mid 60s in campbell. Weep drop down to 61 degrees at 7 00 and see the temperrwher it is 78. Our south bay high temperatures heading up to 89 degrees we will get a look at all of our micro climates comet up. Mike, you have had