faces the judge that. is so much more. good morning i'm alex witt. breaking news. shots fired at the college campus at tennessee state university in nashville. authorities say the shooting happened in an outdoor courtyard. it was apparently prompted over a dispute over a dice game. one was killed. three women hospitalized with non life-threatening injuries. police are searching for is shooter who fled the scene. in? next to texas which is facing a deluge of water from ongoing storms. in odessa three inches fell in just a few hours. over loaded storm drains flooded streets. and the national weather service issued a flash flood watch for the dallas/fort worth area through saturday. we'll have more plus the category five hurricane making its way right now to mexico. with a marathon 11 orr hour testimony in the rear view mirror mirror hillary clinton is set so get back to capitol hill. after it was over chairman trey gowdy couldn't identify anything new he'd learned saying he'd need to read the transcripts. but tracie potts is live in washington with a good morning. the committee sure went after clinton. how do you think she held up. >> a lot better than some of the lawmakers who got antsy and were wondering how long this was going to go. it was after 9:00 when it finally wrapped up last night. and all day and l.a. half the night clinton was grilled why she didn't provide more security for diplomats in danger. >> i don't know how you're doing but i'm exhausted. >> after eleven hours, republicans admit they didn't learn much. >> i don't know that she testified that much differently today than she has previous times she's testified. >> it went on and on and on. >> how late are we going tonight? you all serving breakfast, congressman? >> so long at one point clinton could barely talk. >> you need some water? >> this time clinton kept her cool. >> i've done everything i know to to do. >> i didn't conduct the business that i did primarily on e-mail. >> it is not a matter if you knew about them. it is a matter of what you did about them. and to us the answer to that is nothing. >> democrats refuse the republican chair over creating an unnecessary show. >> we want to badger you over and over again until you get tired and question get the gotcha moment he's talking about. >> i've lost more sleep than all of you put together. >> it quickly deteriorated into partisan bickering. >> you need to make sure the entire record is correct. >> that's exactly what i want. >> hundreds of security requests never reached clinton's desk. >> over 600 requests. you testified here this morning you have none of those reach your desk that is correct. >> that's correct. >> still no resolution. >> trey gowdy salve said after the thing wrap up last night that they have more witnesses to interview. so we don't know when it will be over. >> yeah okay. a u.s. soldier has been killed in combat in iraq for the first time in fur years. in a hostage rescue mission carried without with kurdish forces. richard engel had the dramatic details. >> reporter: the raid was supposed to rescue kurdish hostages, like these held by isis in cages. u.s. intelligence have learned they were about to be executed. so when the kurds, washington's closest allies in iraq asked for help, u.s. forces agreed. at 2:00 a.m. they headed for the town of hawija landing near an isis prison on the out skirts of town. sources say isis had already dug mass graves for their hostages. kurdish groups stormed in. about 20 isis guards inside fought back. so the u.s. troops there to assist guard the perimeter and community with u.s. aircraft above decided to step in to protect their kurdish allies and the hostages. about 15 isis guards were killed but not before an isis fighter shot one american commando, so far unidentified, who later died of his injuries. the first american to die in combat in iraq since u.s. forces withdrew four years ago. but the pentagon insists this was a unique situation. >> u.s. forces are not in an active combat mission in iraq. and i say that directly. >> when the fight was over the americans and kurds loaded the freed hostages. 75 of them according to use officials and at least five isis guards captured onto the helicopters and left. >> about 20 of them were isis -- today is a pivotal cross-roads in the 2016 election season. donald trump has been leading for 100 days. which is why this is so appropriate. a new quinnipiac poll reveals ben carson has overtaken trump in iowa. go figure. that prompted this since deleted retweet from trump. ben carson is now leading in the polls in iowa. too much in the corn creates issues in the brain? the trump campaign blamed that retweet on a quote, young intern. ben carson will appear on nbc's meet the press this coming sunday. trump is also trying to tush the tables on another issue. disavowing nine unauthorized trump super pacs demanding they return money raised and calling on other candidates to do is same. trying to get out of day's worth of washington reporting that links his campaign manager with the make america great again super pac. yesterday the man behind the group shut it down to eliminate those accusations. chris christie and the state of new jersey are being sued by the nurse who was detained and quarantined during the ebola panic. the aclu filed on her behalf claiming she was held illegally against her will. and the lincoln chafee will address the future of his campaign in a few hours. it is unknown if he'll withdraw from the race. upset in a road rage shooting that killed a four-year-old girl. tony torres appeared via video yesterday but did not enter a plea. torres is accused of opening fire on the pickup truck carrying four-year-old lily garc garcia. she was hit in the head and later died at the hospital. during the appearance judge schultz that is this to say. >> this is possibly want of the most atrocious acts alleged in the history of this city. >> he went on to say the weight of the evidence is substantial and noted he failed to appear in court for a previous felony charge. bill karins has more on the texas flooding now and what is being called the catastrophic hurricane. so much going on. >> overnight things changed so dramatically on the west coast. puerta vallarta, vacations and those cities are evacuating trying to get as many people to safety as well. they are staring at the fourth now tied for the third strongest typhoon or hurricane we have ever seen on our planet and it is the strongest ever measure officially. top three were all estimated typhoons in the western pacific. this is by far the strongest ever flown into by our hurricane hunters aircraft. 200 miles per hour winds. from 185 to 200 and it is moving to the northwest now. the actual forecast path is supposed to split the cities. the it is a tight, very intense ball. wherever that ball goes it is going to be the equivalent of like an ef-5 tornado. and if you are down by the coast it will be a storm surge of like 20 feet. the small fishing and farming towns along the coast are going to be devastated and unrecognizable. we're hoping it won't be horrible in manz neo. but it is still possible. and as far as texas a lot of rain will be over the weekentem comfortably. no problems with fog this morning. looks nice in almost all areas of california. so it is pretty safe to say wi'l probably never stand in front of a storm that strong again. incredible. >> i'm battening down the hatches. >> pray for the people in its way. >> absolutely. thanks so much. can you guess who maid five million dollars just yesterday? 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