Zoo says no animals are missing. Calling out nicki minaj over her tweets. Are there artists tweeting into the fray . Today, wednesday, july 22nd, 2015. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone, welcome on a wednesday morning. Lets ask the guys in the control room to put the images up of a massive warehouse complex fire in north brunswick, 40 miles from manhattan. It has grown to five alarms. Well have much more on that story coming up. But on this wednesday morning, lets start with another breaking story overnight. A United Airlines crew reported being the target of lasers at a new york area airport. This after a dozen similar incidents there last week. Nbcs tom costello covers aviation. What can you tell us . This problem has been growing worse over the past few years. Laser pointers start out with a small light but as the distance grows, that beam of light grows bigger and bigger. So big it can light up a cockpit and blind the pilots. This morning, the police and faa once again investigating an incident at Newark Liberty airport after a green laser was pointed in the cockpit of United Airlines flight as it was landing last night. We just got lasered from our 10 clock position. No injuries reported on the flight that took off from Houston Landing at newark just before midnight. It comes after a string of similar incidents one night last week when 12 different planes were lit up, delta, american, jetblue and united and porter airlines. American 1472, we have a green laser shooting at us right off the wing. The problem is growing. In 2010 more 2800 reports. Last year nearly 3900. A high priority for the faa and the fbi. Its got hundreds of people on board and instead of focusing on the landing of the plane, that pilot is instead focusing on getting hit by a laser. While police often try to follow the people behind the laser, catching them can be a challenge. The penalty for targeting an aircraft, up to a quarter Million Dollar fine and 20 years in prison. The fbi says its hard to profile who targets an aircraft but its very often a young man who is bored or simply fooling around with a new laser. While 3900 laser attacks is a lot, the nations Airlines Point out its a fraction of the 27,000 flights they have every single day across the country. Back to you. Tom, its a very reckless act. Thanks for your report. Were getting our first look at dash cam video from the arrest of a woman in texas days later found dead in her jail cell. Authorities say she took her own life but her family disputes that. John yang has the latest on this story. Reporter good morning, savannah, the department of Public Safety is denying social media claims that that 52 minute dash cam video was edited before they released it. They say it was a technical problem when they posted it and they are now working on reposting it. I should point out those glitches do not appear in the 14 minute section that shows Sandra Blands arrest or in the sections that were about to show you now. Im in my car, why do i have to put out my cigarette . You can step on out. I dont have to step out of the car. Reporter a traffic stop turns into a shouting match between a texas state trooper and sandra bland. Im going to yank you out of here. Youre going to yank me out of my car . All right. The confrontation lasted 15 minutes and captured on state Police Dash Cam he hadedited in part. I will light you up get out of the car the officers arrest report says a handcuffed bland kicked my right leg. Authorities are investigating the troopers behavior and placed him on desk duty. Bland was charged with assaulting a Police Officer three days later she was found dead in jail. This is cell 95, where Officials SaySandra Blands body was found. Its been virtually untouched since that morning. Including her unopened meal from the night before. On a bunk a bible ininspirational booklet. The sheriff says its suicide. The family isnt buying it. Sandra blands family has returned to chicago with sandras remains. They say they are preparing to fwur bury her at a funeral on saturday in chicago. Matt and savannah . Thank you. Lets turn to politics. Donald trump remains the talk of the president ial race with new antics on the campaign trail. Its making it hard for any of the 15 other republicans to get any attention unless of course they are the target of a trump rant. Nbc National CorrespondentPeter Alexander is at the white house with more on that. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning, Lindsey Graham proudly joking hes in the market for a new cell phone after Donald Trumps latest move that almost felt like a scene out of aplayground prank giving his private number to a national tv audience. With trump stealing all of the oxygen here its become impossible for any of the opponents to spark momentum of their own. After seven years, is that the advice that you then be queej to future President Trump . President obama joking on tuesday night. Well, im sure the republicans are enjoying mr. Trumps current dominance anything that makes them look less crazy. Reporter the republican frontrunner released an unrepented. Im a little too strong. They dont like it. Reporter Donald Trumps unorthodox campaign shaking up an already unpredictable race. Were going to turn it around. Reporter it sounded like a roast of his republican rivals mocking rick perrys glasses. He put glasses on so people would think hes smart. It just doesnt work. Reporter and calling out south carolinas senior senator Lindsey Graham in his own state. What a stiff. Reporter the latest in a round of name calling. You dont have to run for president and be the worlds biggest jackass. I watch Lindsey Graham calling me a jackass reporter even reading off graham cell phone number on live tv. [ bleep ] so i dont know, give it a shot. Reporter while graham tweeted probably getting a new phone. The aides hit back, saying his ridiculous campaign is taking focus off real issues like iran and national security. He is someone not bound by same rules that other candidates abide by and thats why hes so dangerous. Reporter tuesdays sparring overshadowed the latest to announce, john kasich, the 16th republican in the race. Were going to take the lessons of the heartland and straighten out washington, d. C. And fix our country. Reporter the break through had to force candidates to get creative, like rand paul torching the tax code as the republican race heats up. Heres why all this matters. Theres an added urgency for republicans this time around because only the top ten of them are going to earn a spot in the first prime time Republican Debate thats now barely two weeks away. Matt and savannah, back to you. Ten participants will be based on an average of the latest five national polls. So, for example, if it were held today that would put trump on stage with bush, Walker Huckabee and christie and perry and senators rubio paul and cruise and ben carson. That leaves out carly fiore ranny and graham and kasich, who just entered the race on tuesday. National security, its always a hot button issue in the race for white house. British authorities uncovered a plot to kill u. S. Servicemen. Prosecutors say a man was allegedly going to stage a car crash at a u. S. Military base in britain before attacking a u. S. Military member with a knife and then detonating a suicide vest. The suspect is also accused of planning to join isis in syria, along with another man. That other man has arrest been arrested. Well continue to follow that. Naltly is covering this massive fire in new jersey. Pictures are incredible. We want to go back to that image. Emergency crews on scene fighting this massive warehouse fire in new jersey and take a look there. The five alarm blaze broke out early in north brunswick. The building is used for auto body repair and store cars for a nearby dealership. Six nearby residential buildings were evacuated as precaution and major highway shut down because of thick black smoke which can be seen from 15 miles away. No word yet on how the fire started or if anyone was injured in it. Defense secretary ash carter arrived in saudi arabia today to sell the Iran Nuclear Deal to top officials there. Saudi arabia publicly has given a cautious welcome to the deal, however in private the main u. S. Arab ally is skeptical fearing the agreement will give the regional enemy too much power. Here in the u. S. , congress has less than 60 days to decide or reject the accord. Now to dramatic Surveillance Video showing an out of control truck trash into an auto dealership. A speeding truck hits a telephone pole and flips over several times. This happened in massachusetts. No one there was hurt. At least six cars at the dealership were damaged and the driver is facing drunk driving charges. Two brothers being credited this morning for helping save an injured shark. The dramatic scene played out on a crowded florida beach. Marcus and logan spotted a hammerhead shark in shallow waters with something hanging from its mouth. Logan decided to pull it onto the beach and with the help of several others remove two steel hooks from the sharks mouth. Logan says the shark did not appear to have other injuries when it swam back into the water. Get the shark far off the shore though. A florida man uses his head after he accidentally got off the bus at the wrong stop. Take a look at the Surveillance Video. Not the smart thing to do so the man apparently ran full speed into the bus door. Smashing his head into the glass, breaking it why . First he because he missed his stop or got off at the wrong stop. He appears to black out for a few seconds. The story is, he aparntly missed the stop and wanted to get back on and the bus driver told him he would need to pay another 2, needless to say, he didnt keep a cool head about it. No. Not very smart. Head butt a bus . Trying to get back in. That will show us. That worked well. Could have been thrown under the bus but running into it mr. Roker good news in the northeast but temperatures have broken a little bit not so much down south. Take a look whats going on in california also. This is donner pass, 3 inches of hail. My gosh, party of four. Im sorry. It slowed up traffic for a long, long time and finally did melt. I80 was a mess. Lets show you whats going on. Look at this. Yesterday morning, it felt like 84 degrees in new york and in philadelphia and washington, d. C. Felt like 90. The front moved through and cooler drier air comes in and boom, right now it feels like its 70 outside. Its 71 in philly and 73 in washington, d. C. And todays highs only getting up in the mid80s with lower humidity. Much more comfortable. 70s in buffalo and syracuse, yesterday everybody for the highs were in the high 90s and into the 100s and today, no real relief from louisiana to florida, temperatures will feel like 100 to 115 with heat advisories in effect. Thats whats going on around the country. Well get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. Its okay. Were still here for you and well be happy to have you back on a reliable network. Come home to verizon and get 300. Verizon. Come home to a better network. Good morning. Im meteorologist kari hall. Low clouds are clearing out across the bay. And its now in the lower 60s for most of us as you head out to the door. Reaching 64 in San Francisco. North bay 83 degrees. And 72 in the east bay. Trivalley will see highs in the lower 80s as well as peninsula 880 degrees. 81 in the south bay. Overall comfortable with low humidity a nice breeze throughout the afternoon. Thats your latest weather. Savann thats your latest weather. Thank you so much. Now to the growing worries for an american imprisoned in iran. It has been one year since the Washington Post bureau chief there was arrested. Hes still being held and with a spotlight on the nuclear deal with iran, the president is under fire for not doing enough to free him. Nbcs chief Foreign CorrespondentRichard Engel spoke with reporters family. Good morning. Good morning, savannah, on the one year anniversary, family members are calling for the Immediate Release of Washington Post reporter saying he lost a lot of weight in captivity and been denied medical care and due process. Jason razion has been held in the harshest prison for a year with almost no access his brother says to a lawyer. He wants to join the community of nations and Broader Community of nations. They cant do things like this. Reporter although he grew up in the states, jason started going to iran over a decade ago to make a documentary about the country where his father was born. Getting to iran was the hardest part. Reporter he became well connected, a guide for foreign visitors like cnns anthony bore dain. Things were going well, he landed the job of a lifetime and married an iranian woman. Then came the knock on the door. They took their computers, their cell phones and their cameras and and paperwork and took them away. Reporter authorities put jason in solitary confinement for five months. His brother says there have been constant interrogations. I know that they ask him a lot about emails and people he knew and friends he had and everybody who came to dinner at his house. Jasons wife was released on bail but not him. Hes being accused of what exactly, espionage . They have several charges, one of which is he isespionage and propaganda. The Washington Post is standing by him. Not one shred of evidence has been produced. He was just a reporter doing his job and doing his job well and fairly. Reporter when the Administration Made a nuclear deal with iran, without securing the release of jason and three other americans presumed held in iran, critics said president obama betrayed them. On monday, he made a promise. Were not going to relent until we bring home our americans unjustly detained in iran. Reporter do you think this administration, the people negotiating from the american side of this deal did enough to work for your brothers release . I dont think that anybody has done enough until hes out. An iranian official today confirmed that jasons status was brought up on the sidelines of those Nuclear Negotiations and suggested if the nuclear deal is passed, it could pave the way for more discussions on a case by case basis. Back to all of you. 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