Sharknado, and the cliffhanger butting all other cliffhangers to shame today. This, july 23rd, 2015. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Great to see you. Remember that time we all got eaten by a flying shark. People waking up going, oh, they survived. A movie, not over, i know that. I really believed you in the role of matt lauer. Very good. Were going to have fun with sharknado 3 later on, but we want to start with a thursday morning with serious news. Candid and troubling comments from fbi director james comey on the threats from isis facing the United States, and that groups increased ability to inspire americans to extremism. Kristen welker is at the white house with more. Officials here have long signaled the terrorist group isis, also known as isil, poses a danger to the u. S. , but the fbi director was asked if the group is now a bigger threat to the u. S. Than al qaeda. His answer, yes. Underscoring the level of concern here. Isil is not your parents al qaeda. Its a very different model. And by virtue of that model, currently the threat were worrying in the homeland most of all. Thats james comey telling an adyunls that isis has become a bigger threat to the United States than al qaeda. Their radicalization efforts have been especially effective, reaching thousands of americans through social media. Urging followers who cant travel to the middle east to kill where you are. They have adopted a model of social media to crowdsource terrorism. U. S. Officials have arrested a significant number of radicalized americans in the last eight weeks. They include some of those who were planning attacks in the july 4th holiday. Critics have accused the administration of underplaying the threat in the past, as reese ptdly as last september, Senior Intelligence officials were downplaying the groups capacity to attack the u. S. , but earlier this month, president obama held a press conference on the growing isis threat. This will not be quick. It is a longterm campaign. Isil is opportunistic and it is nimble. Comeys remarks highlight the deepering concern among u. S. Officials about isis efforts to inspire violence in the United States. What keeps me up at night is the isil threat in the homeland. And i worry very much about what i cant see. Now, comey also said in addition to tracking people who have been radicalized within the United States, officials have also tracked dozens of americans ranging in age from 18 to 62 who have traveled overseas to fight with isis. All this as the u. S. Continues its air campaign to defeat the terrorist group at its source in iraq and syria. Savannah, back to you. All right, kristen welker, thank you very much. Lets bring in clint van zandt. Good morning to you. Even as we learn more and more about isis, clear isis has bekm become ascendant and more and more influence. All along, officials would say its not really as much a threat to the u. S. Homeland. They do more damage overseas. This is a real change to say that isis has now eclimsed al qaeda in terms of the threat to this country. Yeah, two things going on. Number one, the u. S. Military, now, they have been doing a wonderful job overseas of eliminated the al qaeda threat. Number two, isis is continuing to improve its social media recruitment. Right now, there are 21,000 known individuals that are watching isis type of social media on the internet. When the fbi director says its what you cant see, its at least 21,000 people who do see, and what they see are isis recruitment, and realize what isis is doing, many times, is playing to the lowest denominator in the United States. Theyre looking for somebody who is very troubled. Theyre looking for somebody who wants a purpose in life. Who uses drugs, and who is vulnerable to social radicalization. Thats the type of person that isis is targeting. Al qaeda all along has always wanted to repeat that grand spectacular mass casualty attack along the lines of 9 11, where isis seems satisfied to inspire one person hero there, take whatever weapon you can get, do as much damage as you can. Is that why theyre more frightening right now, because they can attack any soft target in any number . As far as isis is concerned, now, savannah, you can recruit these individuals. It takes no training whatsoever. You dont have to provide funds for them. We witnessed that perhaps in chattanooga, as were learning about the level of radicalization that that individual had to kill five of our service people. So its a nocost brainer for isis to just put out propaganda and say you in america, we can give you a reason to hate. Now, pick up a gun and go out and kill somebody. So when they see the level of Media Coverage that theyre able to get from, in that case, killing five of our servicemen, they say why should we invest more when we can get our puppets in america who are following this rhetoric to do it and itdizant cost us anything other than the production of a video . The fbi director said hes crowd sourcing terror. Clint, thank you as always. Lets turn to politics and donald trump heads to the center of the storm today. In the wake of his controversial comments deriding mexican immigrants, a trip to the border. Katy tur joins us from laredo, texas. Good morning. Good morning, matt. Breaking just this morning, the border putroneatrolpatrolmens union has pulled out of all trump events today, saying it was not their intention to indorse any candidate, but adding, make no mistake, our border with mexico is not secure and theres no doubt we need to have an honest discussion about that. This morning, donald trump is set to make his first visit to the Mexican Border as a president ial candidate. He made Border Security his rallying cry with these controversial kaunts about united nationsun undocumented immigrants. Theyre bringing drugs, crime, theyre rapist, and some, i assume, are good people. Two weeks ago, trump told me he visited the border twoory three times before. When was the last time you were there the. Probably three years ago. If you havent been there in three years, how do you know its such a problem . I knew it was bad then, its worse now. Insisting his comments about un undocumented immigrants wont hurt him. Im going to put them to work. Trump is a lightning rod for criticism. Rick perry tore into trump wednesday, calling his candidacy a cancer, and blasting his comments on immigrants. Donald trump the candidate is a sore of division, wrongly demonizing mexican americans for political sport. And after trump publicly revealed Lindsey Grahams cell phone number graham used humor to hit back. Starring in this tongue in cheek video showing how to destroy a cell phone. And joking to Nbcs Kelly Odonnell about trumps temperament. Would you want to give him the Nuclear Codes . If he had a bad day, maybe he would put them on the nrlt net. Trump defended his tough talk, arguing his rivals are picking fights with him. Now, am i supposed to, you know, say, oh, its okay for them to say, one guy, i guess, lindsey graham, called me a jackass. Am i supposed to say okay . Im called a jackass. You have to fight back. Now, as for that wall he promised to build, it would need to span four states, be 2,000 miles long. He tells me that it would be impenetrable. Experts say in order to build that, it would cost billions of dollars. Trump says he would have mexico build it. Unclear exactly how he would do that. Also, breaking just this morning, the hill reporting that trump will consider running as an independent if the rnc doesnt treat him fairly, and so far, he has said the rnc has not treated him fairly whatsoever. Matt. Katy tur for us. Thanks very much. Meantime, from mr. Trumps campaign to his campaign cash, after saying he was worth 10 billion last week, were getting an inside look at his income. Peter alexander has more on that. Good morning to you. Here it is, the mammoth 92page Financial Disclosure form. One thing for sure, trump is a rich man. By far the richest in the race. He holds executive positions or stakes in 515 business entities. More than half of those are named after trump. And his income last year alone, at least 362 million. His fame has been derived from his fortune. Now for the first time, the world is getting a detailed look at just how much hes really worth. I dont need anybodys money. The answer, more than 1. 4 billion. Trump has boasted hes worth 10 billion. His net worth is huge. What we dont know is how huge it is because these documents simply arent built to calculate this kind of wealth. Because the Financial Disclosure form only asked for broad ranges. Nearly 2 million for seven speeches like this one for samsung. Samsung is an amazing company. Close to 600,000 from the central park carousel. Hes still making up to 50,000 off his 1987 bestseller, the art of the deal. And before nbc dropped trumps controversial comments on immigration, the ms. Universe pageant was a money maker, earning trump more than 3 million last year. But trumps really raking it in on the green. His golf empire more than a half billion. His personal water brant, a cool 2aty,000. At least another 1 million for licenseing mattresses. And with acting credits like home alone 2 and zoolander. Trumps pension from the screen actors guild, 110,000. Even his wife is bringing in 105,000 from licensing deals including a skin care collection called caviar that actually has caviar in it. Thats good skin care right there. Bottom line, if donald trump wanted to, he could sell a couple buildings and finance an entire president ial campaign himself. The question right now is whether he wants to and whether the Republican Party is going to give him the chance to be their nominee. Or if he runs that independent campaign hes been talking about. Peter, thank you very much. There are new twists in the sandra bland case this morning. Shes the woman who died in a texas jail cell three days after being arrested in a traffic step. John yang is outside that jail. John, good morning to you. Good morning, matt. New twists indeed. This morning, oflficials are saying the autopsy on sandra brand shows she had marijuana in her system. They want to figure out how long it had been there to determine if it had impact on her death. In order to do that, they made a request of the bland family that the family attorney said is disturbing. Late wednesday night, authorities asked Sandra Blands family to preserve her body for more testing. Now, there have been reports in the media that marijuana was found in ms. Blands system. And i can confirm that. As a result of new information that we discovered today, the district attorney, mr. Mathis, asked the civil attorney to please preserve the body. The prosecutor also said theres evidence she tried to cut herself one to two weeks prior to her death. On her first night in jail, bland left a voice mail message for a friend, struggling to understand what was happening to her. Im still just at a loss for words, honestly, about this whole process, how theyre switching lanes with no signal turn into all this. The voice mail was obtained by ktrk in houston. Newly released documents show earlier that day, she told jail officials she had tried to kill herself in 2014 after losing a baby but said she was not suicidal on that day. Her familys attorney said they were unaware of the past attempt and that in any event, it doesnt matter. She had just gotten to texas the day before. She was about to start a job. Now, others are wondering how this traffic stop went so bad so fast. Get out of the car now texas state trooper said bland kicked him in the leg during the incident that lasted about 15 minutes. Nbc news edited excerpts. Why am i being apprehended . Once the fuse is lit, its not good. We watched the video with houston defense attorney rusty harden who is a former prosecutor. Shes not entitled to physically resist him, but he has got certain responsibilities to make the situation not escalate out of control. I will light you up. Get out. Wow. Now. Wow. For a failure to signal . She feels shes being treated unfairly, but he knows traffic encounters can end up in something bad. Texas Officials Say that with the familys cooperation, the further testing shouldnt delay the funeral scheduled for saturday in chicago. Matt. John rang on this story for us. Thank you very much. Turn to natalie following two dangerous wildfires out west. Good morning, everyone. The fast moving brush fire forcing evacuations in napa unty, california. The rag fire has scorched more than 4,000 acres. Its threatening about 150 structures. Three hikers have been rescued from a popular trail nearby. Meantime, strong winds are slowing efforts to contain a fire at Glacier National park in mont mon. Ash carter arrived in baghdad this morning for an unannounced visit. Hes meeting with iraq leaders. Hes planning to focus on the shiites and the minority sunnis and kurds. Tense moments on one of the Worlds Largest cruise ships when a fire broke out. It happened on a mechanical area as it was approaching jamaica. One crew member was burned. Passengers were sent to evacuation stations with life jackets as a precaution. The fire was out about a half hour later, fortunately. Some dramatic moments on a flight from hong kong to russia after a passenger allegedly became drunk and abusive. You can see another passenger grabs the man in the red tshirt and several others jump into the fray, punching and kicking the man. They used seat belts and tape to restrain him for the rest of the trip. Well, the search is on now for the person who is holding a 7 million lottery ticket. The deadline to cash it in, just a few hours away. Have you seen this man or woman . New york lottery officials circulating this wanted poster in brooklyn featuring an artists very accurate drawing of the ticket holder. The 7 million ticket expired tomorrow so officials are hoping with a little buzz, they may get people to carefully check their tickets. If anybody has been to brooklyn, check the tickets. Can you imagine how bad you would feel it you missed it by a day . I guess everything has to have an Expiration Date at some point. Natalie, thank you. Big thunderstorms youre talking about. That Lottery Winner lost a game of hangman. Anyway oh. Lets see what weve got going on. Showers and thunderstorms, just training along this stationary front. Its been here about two to three days. Thats why its a stationary front. Were going to watch the low pressure systems develop along it in the next 72 hours. Bringing storms from tulsa, st. Louis, nashville, charlotte, on to savannah, brief and heavy downpours, locally damaging wind gusts of 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour. Rainfall amounts along the southeastern coast 1 to 3 inches, also 1 to 3 inches in the next 48 hours in parts of florida. Coast one to three inches and one to three inches in parts of florida. Over the next five days parts of florida can see up to five inches of rain. 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