Im coming from texas. Back to new york after a year away. I was working the last couple years as a correspondent in new york. And in dallas. I used to get calls as a correspondent to go cover stories random calls in the middle of the night. You know, get up and go, now i know im going to get that call in the middle of the night to come here. Absolutely. Can you furnish your apartment and still be home for the time to come. Absolutely. Welcome. Ready to bring everybody the news this morning. And speaking of the news this morning, a direct threat, we begin from the white house. After the president took to twitter to blast his fellow republicans. Saying if republicans dont repeal and replace the disastrous obamacare, the reprecushions will be far greater than any of them understand. Claiming his fellow gop people were doing very little free throw tekt their president. The president s tweets come ahead of a scheduled statement on health care as the senate gets the long awaited vote this week. On mr. Trumps mind also is pardons. News outlets report he was inquiryi inquiring into his executive powers last week. He says the president hat complete power to pardon. Still, the Attorney Says they never discussed the issue. Let me tell what you the legal team is not doing, were not researching the issue because the issue of pardons is not on the table. There is nothing to pardon from. At a new usa today poll out this morning Shows Americans are evenly divided on the issue of impeach ment with 42 saying congress should remove trum frp office and 42 against. The issue of pardons rears its head due to the steady drip of news coming from the white house regarding russias 2016 election meddling. Anthony scaramucci says the president still isnt fully convinced it took place. Somebody said to me yesterday, i wont tell you who, that if the russians actually hack this situation and spill out the emails, you would have never seen it. You would never have any evidence of them, meaning theyre super confident in the deception skills and hacking. How about it was the president. He called me from air force one. He basically said to me, hey, this is maybe they did it. Maybe they didnt do it. The comments come just as mr. Trumps soninlaw and Senior AdviserJared Kushner is set to head to capitol hill today appearing before officials of the Senate Intel Committee behind closed doors on russias election hacking. It couldnt come at a more precarious time for kushner following news continuing to spill out from that now infamous 2016 meeting at trump tower with a russian lawyer. For more, were joined by nbcs sarah dollop. We have an qulaidea what kushne will say. Jared kushner released a copy of the prepared statement as head of todays meeting detailing four contacts with russian officials sean aying he didnt collude with any foreign officials and did not rely on russian funds to finance any business ventures. He also goes into quite a bit more detail about that june 2016 meeting with the kremlin linked lawyer saying he was invited to attend that meeting by donald trump jr. When he arrived the attorney was talking about a a. Dopdoptions t kushner realized quickly this was a waste of his time, basically, and even went so far to email an assistant to ask the assistant to call him to give him an excuse to leave that meeting. Now todays session before the Senate Intelligence committee will be closed to the public and kushner will not be under oath. He is scheduled to appear tuesday before the house congressional committee. Back to you. All right. Say sarah, thank you. San Antonio Police are investigating a horrific case of human smuggling. At least nine people are dead and more than a dozen others fighting for their lives after they were found inside the back of a semitruck in sweltering heat. Two School Age Children were injured. Police say they found over three dozen people in the truck after a day of 100degree temperatures. The driver is now in federal custody. Nbcs Sarah Rosario is in san antonio with the latest. What can you tell us . Federal charges are expected today against that driver as you mentioned. An agent says the people found inside the back of that 18 wheeler are the victims of human smuggling, most of them in their 20z and 30s. One even as young as 10 years old. Cops were called, were told several people tried to escape from the truck running into the woods nearby. Others hitching rides from people who came to get them. Today federal investigators say they plan to continue searching for those victims and say more arrests are to come. With signs held, protesters called for Immigration Reform in san antonio, texas, after dozens of Migrant Workers were found smug n smuggled in a tractortrailer with no air conditioning on saturday night. We arrived on the scene and found eight people dead in the back of that trailer. Another died at the hospital. Police were tipped off by a walmart employee who called 911 after someone escaped and begged for water. Again, they were very hot to the touch. So these people were in that trailer without any signs of any type of water. So youre looking at a lot of heat stroke, a the lot of dehydration. Reporter 39 people were inside the truck. The survivors rushed to area hospitals with life threatening injuries. Erat tight doors turned the trailer into an oven with temperatures in san antonio exceeding 100 degrees. Devastating. Its horrible. I cant believe that, you know, some people could even do that to, you know, human people. Reporter investigators gave no details on the victims nationality, where they start order where they were headed. To date driver James Bradley jr. From clearwater, florida, will stand before a federal judge as investigators try to find everyone behind this operation. And officials have confirmed this morning that several of the victims inside that truck are from guatemala and mexico. Authorities work to make more arrests in this case, the texas Border Patrol reported four other truck seizures in texas this month alone. Meantime, the survivors of this tragedy are still in the hospital this morning fighting for their lives. Reporting live in san antonio, Sarah Rosario. Thank you. New video this morning of a dramatic rescue outside of tucson, arizona. 17 hikers were stranded by raging waters from flash flooding. Eight of them including a 4yearold boy were hoisted by a rescue helicopter while the remaining nine hikers were waiting for flood watters to subside for a ground rescue. Last week ten people were swept away and killed by a flash flood at a popular Swimming Hole north of phoenix. And heavy damage is being reported this morning in Queens County maryland after a possible tornado touched down. There the storm hit multiple homes blowing the roofs right off some of them. One injury is reported. Police say 8,000 people are without power. Also Emergency Services are asking residents to shelter in place because of the downed wires. Bill karins is here with a look at our monday and week ahead, bill. How we looking . Good morning to you. Welcome, philip. Scary thing. That tornado was at 1 00 in the morning. People were in the homes. Thankfully it wasnt enough to zroit houses. That heavy rain is now moving up through areas of southern new england, new york city is even clearing out. There is still more storms in northern new england. There is not a lot of bad weather to be had. Weve been talking about how dry its been in the west. That is tip calf the dypical of season. The firefighters out there fighting the blazes. Its still brutal. Even into tomorrow, not much of a change in areas like phoenix. We do cool it off a little bit. Salt lake city still hot. A little warm in seattle. Beautiful though, 86 andand ari. The Pacific Northwest warmed up. Look at. That temperatures into the 90s in central washington. We give that you week ahead forecast a little later in the show. All right. Bill, thank you. A lot of people headed to the movies. You have Christopher Dunn kirk claiming victory at the box office this weekend. The world war ii film earned an estimated 51 million. Girls trip beat expectations, taking home 30 million. Then spiderman in third place, roping in almost 22 million this week. As soon as im done moving, i have things to check out. All right. Just ahead, we have an update on senator john mccains health. Then the 23yearold texan fee no, maam hangs tough to win the british open. 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Nbcs reporter is live now in london with more. What is the latest . Well, philip, the taliban have claimed responsibility in yet another brazen attack in afghanistan. They say they were targeting two government buses carrying Intelligence Officers but Government Security forces said it was a small bus owned by the ministry of mines that was destroyed in the blast and all the passengers were mining employees. As so often the case in afghanistan, its ordinary citizens that bore the brunt of this attack with three civilian vehicles and 15 shops destroyed in the blast. The death toll of 38 and 6 o 0 you mentioned said to be civilians. Theyre weighing off the Strategic Options including the possibility of sending in more troops. 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