During a confrontation outside of a Convenience Store in louisiana. They shot him . Oh, my goodness the officers involved placed on administrative leave, protests erupting overnight. And rolling over. No winner in the Mega Millions drawing. The jackpot now soaring to more than a half billion dollars today, wednesday, july 6, 2016. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller mraz. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today, wednesday morning. Nothing short of monumental day. Donald trump and other leading republicans responding to the recomendation not to pursue criminal charges for Hillary Clinton for using multiple servers while she was secretary of state. We have the reaction and the fallout and lets start with andrea mitchell. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning. We are here in Atlantic City where Hillary Clinton had hoped to focus Donald TrumpsBusiness Empire including bankruptcies. It is clinton nah that is on th defensive including from the fbi director. Donald trump in North Carolina attacking Hillary Clinton as unfit to be president. This is one of the most crooked politicians in history. His comments coming after the director of the fbi tuesday blasted clintons use of a private email address and server while she was secretary of state, but recommending no criminal charges be filed against her or her aides. Today is the best evidence ever that weve seen that our system is absolutely, totally rigged. Its rigged. Reporter trump also teeing off on a New York Times report that clinton was open to keeping Loretta Lynch on as attorney after a meeting with bill clinton. Its a bribe the attorney general is sitting there saying if i get hillary off the hook im going to have four more years or eight more years, but if she loses im out of a job. Its a bribe reporter no mention of the bombshell news by clinton or president obama. Campaigning together for the first time also in North Carolina. There has never been any man or woman more qualified for this office than Hillary Clinton. Reporter both democrats tearing into trump. Donald trump is simply unqualified and temperamentally unfit to be our president and commander in chief. This is not a reality show. This is reality. The political heat remains on clinton after the fbi directors scathing comments about her email practices. There is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information. Reporter james comey refuting clintons past claims that none of her emails were classified when she sent or received them. I did not send or receive any material marked classified. Any reasonable person in secretary clintons position or in the position of those with whom she was corresponding about those matters should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation. Reporter and her claim that her private server was safe from hacking. There were no security breaches. We assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to secretary clintons personal email account. Reporter republicans were quick to pounce. She grossly was negligent. She mishandled classified information and she wants to be commander in chief. Reporter and the House Speaker says House Republicans will call hearings to demand that comey, the fbi director explain why he decided to recommend against prosecuting clinton. Clinton trying to turn the page here in Atlantic City is expected to join striking workers at trumps former taj mahal casino. They say theyve lost their pensions because of his business practice. Willie and savannah. Andrea mitchell on the trail. Thank you. A lot to sift through. Lets bring in chuck todd and ari melger. We needed three of you today. I suppose its relief and on the other hand good thing we werent indicted today. Not a great day on the campaign trail. Not something to celebrate, but it is a minimal sense of relief, but look, they have to sit here and rebutt charge after charge because she had a couple of standard talking points and one if i never sent or received email that was marked classified. Thats not true. There were some that did and then he said, you know what . Somebody in her position should have known better even on some of the exchanges that were there. Look, she has a credibility problem, but the head of the fbi that shows she has a credibility problem. On any other day it would be a total and complete disaster an theres something about trump that well, she can recover, i guess. Nicole, no recommendation charges and chuck talked about some of the contra directions laid out, and the account was vulnerable to hackers and she did delete work emails and did use multiple servers and many devices. As you listen to that case, even without a recommendation of the indictment, did you feel the race changing at all . It affirms what i always think is true is that voters always get it right even when they dont have the information, their gut take on people is always right and on the question, we talked about this yesterday on the question of honesty and trustworthiness, she has a 22point deficit to donald trump. What happened yesterday simply affirms what voters know to be true, which is a complicated relationship with the truth. I would say to your point, i watched the 66minute trump speech last night and nearly wept. He got to the points that he needed to make to bring this into focus what the politically neutral fbi director said about Hillary Clinton lying on at least six occasions about her email practices, but it was wrapped in so much other stuff and im not sure that it would be the effective honing in on a message that he needs to prosecute if he wants to win. The question is whether trump prosecutes the political case and still legal questions, ari, about whether this should have been a criminal case. If you look at this statute there was an issue that was raced and theyre keying into a couple of things that the fbi director said. He said she was extremely careless with her email practices. It allows prosecution if someone was grossly negligent and for a lay ear, you hear careless and grossly negligent sounds like the same thing and it sounds like a case that could be brought. I think its an important point, and one james comey himself and the bush administration, what hes saying is there is this standard that they didnt meet criminally and the carelessness is a judgment call. It is a criticism, but i would call it a nonlegal criticism and he very carefully himself picked those words to say that and that goes to what happened yesterday. An unusual presentation that allows people to process this information. It was a clean book of health on the idea that there was no crimes because not only did he recommend no charges. He said no reasonable prosecutor would move forward on these facts and then as just discussed he outlined many other things that was disconcerting for voters. I think whats important here is if theres a page to turn there is a Legal Process that tries to be nonpartisan. James comey works a tenyear term no matter who it is and this is a chance to look at what he said, for voters to assess and for political analysis after the legal analysis from our career investigators say no crime occurred here. Very quickly. I just have ten seconds. Trump said petraeus was charged for doing thless. Is that a correct analysis. He handed books and he also signed a plea deal with prosecutors that said he admitted to misleading fbi agents in october 2012. There are differences in the case and there is a fair debate about all of this, but that case does have different legal facts. Chuck, quickly, Hillary Clinton was out campaigning with president obama hours after this happened and no reference to it, not even a hint about it. Does this go away for her as easy as they hope it will . I dont think it goes away. The cloud is still there. She didnt get the clean, political bill of health. Again, it depends on how well or not well the republicans prosecute this case. I think a lot of republicans are. I dont know about donald trump mixing in as nicole said yesterday with that speech. Mixing in Saddam Hussein. Praise for Saddam Hussein on the day and then trashing comey . He ought to be praising comey and then using his word against her, but this is donald trump. Those were not tears of joy, we should point out. No. This is where trump becomes sort of a little wrapped in a headache and wrapped in a conundrum for republicans because this is a day when you had such a clear, clear strike against Hillary Clinton and you just had to point to it and you almost could have played it at the rally and said dont believe me, listen to him. Also by the way, ivanka trumps husband is coming to his father in laws defense. Halle, good morning to you. Hi, savannah. Jared kushner says hes seen donald trump embrace people of all racial and religious backgrounds, insisting his father in law is not racist. All of this comes after new backlash from one of trumps more controversial tweets. From the soninlaw of a candidate who rarely says sorry, no apologies. Jared kushner now publicly pushing back against accusations donald trump is antisemitic. Quote, my father in law is an incredibly loving and tolerant person who has embraced my family and our judaism since i began dating my wife. Kushner responding to an open letter written to him by an employee, a paper owned by his publishing company. The issue is clear and to pretend is not there is to be willfully ignorant. Dana schwartz the author of the now viral note, sent from trumps account yesterday. It seemed what to be a jewish star of david layered over 100 bills with text calling Hillary Clinton the most corrupt candidate ever. People are seeing having a jewish soninlaw as a get out of jail free card for donald trump and the fact of the matter is its not and i would want to know why Jared Kushner is willing to be so complicit in that. Kushner arguing trumps not racist and any suggestion hes intolerant is not reflective of the man he knows. Wheres jared, my soninlaw. Where is he . My soninlaw is here. Kushner and his wife, ivanka, powerful preferences on the campaign trail. Kushner playing an important part in trumps policy, his strategy and his search for a v. P. Late tuesday, a kind of audition for one possible running mate, senator bob corker of tennessee stumping for trump. And i have the incredible priviledge today to spend time with this man and to spend time with his family and to spend time with those who know him so well. Nbc news confirming hes being vetted as a potential vp pick. Senator corker appearing with trump at a rally late tuesday in North Carolina where trump stirred up some new controversy. You heard chuck mention it a couple of minutes ago. Trump praising Saddam Hussein for how he handled terrorists. Listen. Saddam hussein was a bad guy, right . He was a bad guy. Really bad guy, but you know what he did well . He killed terrorists. He did that so good. They didnt read them their rights. They didnt talk. They were a terrorist and it was over. Reporter this is not the first time trump has made similar comment, but these are gaining traction overnight, trending on twitter. Hillary clintons camp, by the way, quick to respond that trumps quote, cavalier compliments for brutal dictators and the twisted lessons he seems to have learned from their history again demonstrate how dangerous he would be as president and House Speaker paul ryan appearing to distance himself from trumps remarks calling hussein one of the 20th centurys most evil people. Thank you. Another major story we are following this morning. Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius sentenced overnight for the murder of his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. Keir simmons is here. Good to be here. A roller coaster twist in this case. Oscar pistorius will go back to jail sentenced early this morning to six years, but not the recommended 15 years or more for murder during a socalled appeal trial, his culpable homicide verdict was overturned to murder with intent. Stoney faced, Oscar Pistorius made his way into court in pretoria hanging his head at times. Please rise. Facing his stunning sentence. The judge calling pistorius, a fallen hero who could never be at peace. His victims family, the judge said, will never be the same. Reeva steenkamp killed on valentines day 2013. Oscar pistorius in court begging her parents for forgiveness. I would like to apologize and there hasnt been a moment since this tragedy happened that i havent thought about your family. Steenkamp was shot by pistorius four times through the bathroom door at his apartment. He was physically sick when shown photos of her body. He removed his prosthetic legs in court in an attempt to demonstrate his own vulnerability. His defense that he intended to defend himself from burglars, ultimately dismissed, a conviction for culpable homicide overturned and this morning sentenced for murder. The judge saying he did show remorse unlike the prosecutions claim and lowered the minimum is is expected above 100 degrees down across texas and we have excessive heat warnings that include philadelphia and new york city is under this excessive heat warning as well. Its hot and huh mid and thats what makes it unbearable outside. It will feel like the mid to upper 90s today and mid week well still be in the mid to upper 90s. Washington and philadelphia will heat that criteria of a heat virus. Thank you so. The cockpit voice recorder recovered from egyptair flight resealed pilots tried to extinguish a fire aboard the plane before the crash. There was data recovered from the wreckage that showed heat and smoke and fire around the bathroom and the aif on ikds. Frightening moments inside a california Cell Phone Store where an attempt in the abduction was caught on camera. This happened northeast of los angeles. You can see a man open the front door and grab a 4yearold girl. 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Lets go places. Good morning. Im meteorologist kari hall. Its in the upper 50s as you head out the door. A lot of clouds near the coast. Some clearing for the inland areas. Pretty much the way weve seen the weather the past few days. It will be cooler today. Only up to 60 degrees in San Francisco. 76 in the peninsula as well as the north bay, trivalley reaching into the upper 70s. 73 today in the east bay. Over the next few days we stay cooler than average with a breezy wind. Morning cloud and afternoon sunshine. And thats your latest forecast. All right. Thank you so much. Coming up, a Deadly Police shooting of a louisiana man outside a Convenience Store. It was caught on tape and protests have been sparked. A controversy of a coal walk after some people were injured at A Tony Robbins vent. This is today on nbc. Just ahead is it of okay to wear frifs. Wlrp. 72 months. Plus, specially tagged vehicles get a 1000 smart bonus. Only at the ford freedom sales event. Feel free. 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Any indication on what the president might say when we hear from him . Reporter we know theres been a review going on of troop levels in afghanistan for some time now. There are about 10,000 troops there currently and president obama has wanted to cut that number to about 5,500. We believe theres going to be some pushback from his military advisors because the situation in afghanistan has been deteriorati deteriorating. Theres been violence sweeping afghanistan and theres concern about isis and other militant groups getting a foothold there as they have in iraq and syria and elsewhere. So this is the last major decision that president obama is going to make about troop levels in afghanistan. 15 years america has been there. Americas longest war and a war that president obama said he wanted to end and bring all the troops home from when he first took office eight years ago. In 2014 america and nato ended military combat operations th