Dont drive or use machinery until you know how lyrica affects you. Those who have had a drug or alcohol problem may be more likely to misuse lyrica. Now i have less diabetic nerve pain. And these feet would like to keep the beat going. Ask your doctor about lyrica. Thank you for your time. Kate snow picks thingings up right now. If your hour is anything like the last hour, its going to be a busy one. We have a lot going on this afternoon. Thank you. Im kate snow. Several breaking news stories unfolding. As we come on the air shs the American University of afghanistan in kabul under attack. Security forces are engaging with the attackers. Its unclear how many students or teachers might be inside. The pentagon says its still ongoing. And that devastating 6. 2 magnitude earthquake in italy. The death toll rising to more than 100 people. We have a reporter on the ground as search and rescue efforts are underway there. Lets start with afghanistan and the attack on that wellknown university in kabul. I want to get right out to matt bradley, he is following the news moment by moment. What have we learned. One student have been killed and 14 have been injured. Thats not unusual. A lot of folks are saying this attack isnt just targeting americans. They are saying this is an attack on education. The taliban put education in their cross hairs. They are saying this is no exception. Troops deployed and are there in an advising capacity. They are backing up the universitys own security and Afghan Security forces taking the lead in engaging the attackers. We have no word yet on further casualties. This is typical of a complex attack. Multiple gunmen including bombs and small arms. The first used to penetrate the walls of this compound. Students were seen jumping from walls in a desperate effort to try to escape. The local Afghan Forces are also engaging the attackers and trying to hear whether or not they are going to be asking nato for help. They exist all over the world and not affiliated with each other. They offer americanstyle instruction with mostly american or foreign teachers. So as you can imagine it would make for quite a target. This is the Second Attack on this university in just as many weeks. Two instructors . Abducted from their cars. Neither have been found. All of this is coming against a backdrop of some increasing threats against foreigners in afghanistan. They have withstood assassinations, kidnappings, bombings, all striking in the heart of central kabul in sanction wares not unlike this campus. Its easy to see that for the rest of afghanistan and all of this is complicating the situation throughout the country. Just yesterday a u. S. Silver Service Member was killed. So its possible a lot of this is going to get worse before it gets better. Matt following everything from london. Lets bring in richard engel, our chief Foreign Correspondent here at nbc. He knows this region better than anyone in this building. You have been to that region. You have been to afghanistan. Describe to us why would this be such a prime target . Its called the American University. Its coed education. Its a symbol of american values. We have an American University in kabul. Thats why it would be a target. Why its being attacked now is because they can. Because the taliban have been on the offensive. The war in afghanistan has intensified over the last several months. About six months ago the u. S. Relaxed the rules of engagement. Making troops more chovled. They were involved in operations and advising the government. They were only involved in military operations. If they were in danger. The rules of engagement were changed so that american troops could launch combat missions even if afghan troops were at risk. So the numb of american bombardments, airstrikes by drones and aircraft in the north and east and south has dramatically increased. This attack possibly by the taliban, most likely by the taliban although no claim of responsibility has been made could be a response to that escalating war. They are trying to help with the response here. Officially, no. But they dont talk about what special Operations Forces are doing. This is a compound with american faculty, mostly afghan students. And yes, youre going to hear them say officially every time that troops are in the lead. American troops arrived as advisers. But there are American Special ops in there. I wouldnt be surprised if there was a much more involved american role because of the nature of the target. Matt bradley in london, fwook both of you if we get more information on that developing story. Turning to italy. At least 120 people are dead following an earthquake that struck the central part of the country. The quake left several towns in ruin, killing at least 120 po people. That number expected to rise. Once witnessed described the devastation as something out of dantes inferno. Cal perry is tracking that story. There are still many people trapped in the rubble. A lot of these buildings very old. You went over the history. We wanted to give you an idea of what its like to rescue these people. This video in a few moments ago. Take a look. That video giving you an idea of what its like to get to these villages and keep in mind, were talking about 100 miles away from rome. A drive that would normally take two hours, now four or five as the mountain roads become unpassable. The other thing i wanted to show you is we have been talking about how the earthquake was felt 250 miles away. Thats because the plate that runs underground runs all the way here and into the sea. This is one of the major tech tonic plates. That video is stunning. Theres a woman alive under there. I hope they get her out all right. Thank you for bringing that to us. Lets turn to politics now. Donald trump has been rallying supporters in tampa, florida. Talking about immigration, talking about the Africanamerican Community and his support there. He wrapped up about a minute ago. That as an ap report raises new questions about the Clinton Foundation. Something republicans including trump, are talking about at length today. Well have rnc Communications Director coming up in it a moment. Were following all of those stories. But lets turn first to nbcs jacob rascon, who joins me from tampa. Theres a new effort by the Trump Campaign to attract a larger number of black voters. Did anything stick out to you this afternoon . We just lost communication with jacob. That event just wrapping up. Well go back to jacob as soon as we can get him back on the line. Lets take a break and back to politics on the other side. So yeah, ge is digital and industrial. So its indigital. Digidustrial. 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So we have heard him talking in recent speeches by prompter that e he wanted every africanamerican vote during this rally he said he wanted every hispanic voter. He reached out to africanamerican and his ppanic voters. Take a listen to what he said here. What do you have to lose . What do you have to lose . It cannot get any worse and believe me, im going to fix it. Im going to make the africanamerican voter, great people, to the hispanic voter, who have been absolutely treated terribly, i say, what do you have to lose. I will fix it. Will be able to make sure that when you walk down the street in your inner city or wherever you are, you are not going to be shot. So they are reaching out to africanamerican voters with a similar message. We did talk to several hispanic voters here about trumps appeal to them and his flipflop on immigration. And most of them not surprisingly because we heard this before told me that they always expected trump would soften his dotone on deportatio. They always believed he would come back to the center. He was excited about a deportation force. Truthfully, there werent many voters here that is not unusual. It was difficult to find them. Those we did talk to said they simply did not believe the poll that showed he had no support. Jacob rascon, thank you so much. As we go to color bars because the event is ending there. Hillary clinton is fundraising out in california today. This as the democratic nominee is facing increase d scrutiny today over meetings with Clinton Foundation donors. The Associated Press reporting more than half the people outside of government who met with Hillary Clinton while secretary of state also gave money to the Clinton Foundation. For more on all this, lets turn to kasie hunt. Shes covering the Clinton Campaign from los angeles. I know shes out there doing a number of fundraisers, but what can you tell us about the ap report and what youre hearing from the Clinton Campaign. Reporter we havent seen very much of Hillary Clinton the past couple days. Shes been fundraising here in l. A. Behind closed doors with quite a few celebrities. Justin timberlake, shes in Silicon Valley today. So she herself has not answered any questions yet aside from a little bit of joking on kimmel about this foundation issue. They got the calendars that covered the first two years of Hillary Clintons time as secretary of state. They went through and analyzed, okay, who did she meet with who wasnt part of the government. With the assumption that would be part of her regular duties and found that many of them had given donations to the Clinton Foundation. That you had to give money to get time with the secretary of state. Now the Clinton Campaign says thats not the case. Thats not what happened in this instance. They argue the ap analysis is flawed because it leaves out so many of her initial duties. They are pointing out that a number of these people that it cherries her schedule to give a distorted portrayal to the Clinton Foundation. That coming from brian fallon. The Clinton Campaign said she met with eli wazel, the holocaust survivor, as well as others who won nobel prizes and had had work that was much broader or deeper or had connections to the Clinton Family for many years. Then just while this foundation was in sbis tans. They also argue it makes no sense to wind down the Clinton Foundation now as some kepts have called for because of the type of work they do. To people all over the world, her Campaign Officials have been out there arguing that if you try to yank that out from under those people, it could be seriously life threatening. So really the Clinton Campaign in a fullcourt press on defense today. Kasie hunt following Hillary Clinton out in california. Thank you so much. Former mayor Rudy Giuliani introduced donald trump at that event we were just at in tampa. He took it as an opportunity to slam the foundation once again. I am more than willing to predict when the history of our day is written, the scandal you are watching unfold is going to be like the teapot dome scandal was and maybe bigger. Its going to be bigger than watergate. With 76 days to go until the election, thats obviously a big focus of the Trump Campaign today. Joining me is shawn spicer, Communications Director for the rnc. Also involved with advising the Trump Campaign. Good to see you. Thanks for having me, kate. First, i want to get to the Clinton Foundation stuff, but i want to ask you about africanamericans and minority support for donald trump. Our reporter on the trail with donald trump just asked him in tampa how he thinks hes doing with minority voters and trump said, quote, i think were doing really great. But the polls all show something different. Is the campaign seeing something were not . I think you look at a lot of the interactions that trump has with these groups and his commitment to reaching out and hes buoyed by that. Our party needs to do better. We havent done great. Trump clearly understands that and is continue iing the outrea. Go to places and talk to groups and talk about the solutions that these communities face. The good news is we need to do better and the candidate himself is at the forefront of understand iing that and doing what it has to to ask for the vote and earn the vote of these communities. Hes polling worse among africanamerican voters than any other top candidate and the only exception was barry goldwater. How do you turn that around is my question . How do you make that appeal . Last cycle, we got 6 of the black vote. 2008 we got 4 . So we have to do better. We need to go out and earn that vote, talk about how we want to champion the issues that are important to some of those communities. Thats first and foremost. As republicans, we havent gone to places. We havent had those conversations. We have seen donald trump over the last several weeks make an appeal and meet with groups that are important to show that we care about those issues and want to get to their communities and talk to their leaders. Part of this is just showing up. And democrats have taken it for granted. If we look at where we are, we need to do better. But i think trump understands that. He wants to go out and earn it and we have a real shot at going out and earning and respecting that vote and growing from what we had the last couple cycles. To answer your question, i think we need to continue to meet with folks. Hes going to meet with another Group Tomorrow and a group the day after. Part of this is continuing to show that we respect and want the vote of those key communities. Let me ask you about the Clinton Foundation. Its your favorite topic of the day. Brian fallon was on earlier. Let me play what he had to say and ill get your response. What is at issue is a reprehensible attack on a charity that just shows the double standard that Hillary Clinton is being subjected to here. You did not see similar questions raised or attacks launched against george w. Bush. You didnt see attacks on bob dole while his wife was running the red cross. Because these are charitable organizations doing important work and the idea that they would be dragged into a political back and forth and used as weapons for attacks is completely absurd and beyond the pale. Hes insisting this is nothing more than a political attack. Your response . Im sure he is. They have been using the same line going back 30 years. Its always the right thats to blame. Its always republicans. This time you have the fbi that called for various field offices calling for an investigation. Heres the interesting thing. For 263 days, hes yet to face the press. Instead of sending a spokesman, why doesnt she talk about what the work is they have done. Answer some of the questions. This is a 2 billion political machine that they have created. They do some good work, but in large part when you track what the ap found, theres always a quid pro quo. The crown prince couldnt get a meeting with secretary clinton through official channels, but he was told to go through the foundation and after a 32 million donation, would you like to meet with the secretary . You tell me what that looks like. As you know, the state department has said its not necessarily a quid pro quo. Its not a paytoplay, this is what happens in washington. You meet with people who you know. You meet with people who happen to be donors to your foundation. They need to dust up on their latin. I think thats the definition of a quid pro