Ur smartphone. The man rushes the tsa and plows through the screeners at e to kickoff your friday . Early today starts right now good to be with you on this friday morning im Frances Rivera and im marlie hall breaking news overnight, a dramatic escalation in tensions with teheran President Trump reportedly approved military action against iran to strike back for gunning down an unmanned american drone over the strait of hormuz. But according to the New York Times and the washington post, the president pulled the plug on the operation at the last minute citing multiple senior officials, the times wrote, planes were in the air and ships were in position, but no missiles had been fired when word came to stand down. Nbcs Craig Boswell has the latest craig, good morning. Reporter marlie, good s afma very big mistake shooting down a u. S. Drone, the New York Times reports the president , as you said, ordered military strikes multiple senior officials involved in these deliberations and these
Ensures our president elect is successful. This is a meet ing that was going to last ten or 15 minutes. We got to know each other. We have never met each other. I have great respect. The meeting lasted for almost an hourandahalf. And, it could have as far as im concerned could have gone on a lot longer. We have discussed a lot of different some wonderful and some difficulties. I very much look forward to dealing with the president. Well, there is already speculation about who trump will appoint in his cabinet. Will it include anybody from colorado . Our political specialist shaun boyd sizes up the prospects. Reporter trumps family will not be part of his administration. While most president s cabinets are full of washington insiders, trumps like his donald trump a splashy sendoff to dc where in addition to meeting president obama, trump met with his Transition Team to begin assembling a new government. Colorado Campaign Chair robert blah a will change business assembling usual. You wil
Sun sauce. The skies will be clear and any rain we get will be very random indeed. Now we are absolutely Crystal Clear on titan doppler radar. We fired up both coasts worth the radar and nothing is showing up now. We back it up 18 hours and show you the way that showers moved through yesterday. We will have the same pattern today but with drier air in place same sort of coverage and maybe 20 . 80 right now in tampa and 78 clearwater st. Petersburg. Winds mostly calm and going to the daytoday look for a high of 91 degrees starting off a little bit cooler but then seeing the clouds thickened. Only about a 20 chance of rain and very slim but i will show you where the raindrops will most likely fall. We will also get you that tropical update on the three that is coming up in 15 minutes. The family of a young father now pleading for information about his murder. 27yearold adam hilarie was shot and killed in auburndale. His body was found in his apartment sunday night. It doesnt look like an
Swimmer feigen had to pay 10,000 to leave brazil. We are now trying to sort all of the details out. Reporter the olympic sized event getting a lot of attention is whether or not u. S. Olympic ryan lochte and his teammates were ever robbed at gunpoint in rio de janeiro. The athletes station bathroom and were questioned by armed guards before paying for the damage and left. Teammates were escorted off the u. S. Bound flight wednesday night and taken to the Police Station where they faced hours of questioning. Both swimmers heckled as they left the rio Police Station returning to the hotel rooms before boarding a flight out of brazil last night. On the night in question, lochte and his teammates maintained they got an ataxi headed to the olympic village. The guy whipped out his gun, comed it, put it to my forehead and i was like whatever. Reporter Police Released new Surveillance Video from integration where the swimmers say the video from the gas station where the swimmers say the incide
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