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hunter biden goes to trial. the president's only living son facing potential jail time if convicted on three federal gun charges. jury selection starts in just a few hours. in ohio, police are searching for suspects in a mass shooting that left one person dead and two dozen injured in
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akron. what they say happened. overseas, the world awaiting a truce in gaza after president biden said israel proposed a permanent ceasefire plan. but this morning, the country's prime minister still not confirming that he's on board. breaking overnight, history in mexico. the country officially electing its first woman president in a race overshadowed by violence. it's the new trend in taking time off, quiet vacationing. where employees go on a trip without telling their managers, but still log in for work remotely. why it could cause a legal problem, even if you're getting all your work done. it's monday, june 3rd. "early today" starts right now. hi there. good morning. i'm frances rivera. just days after the conviction of donald trump, a member of the biden family will stand trial. jury selection will begin in a few hours in hunter biden's trial in wilmington, dell. the president's son is accused
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of illegally buying a gun while using illegal drugs and lying on a government form. hunter biden has pleaded not guilty to these charges. he's been open about his struggles with addiction. this marks the first time in american history the child of a sitting president is going on trial. meanwhile, we're seeing more fallout from the historic verdict in donald trump's hush money case. the first polls are showing what impact it could have on the presidential election. here is nbc's vaughn hillyard. . >> reporter: voters weighing in, reacting to former president trump's guilty convictions. >> my reaction was bleep yes. because he deserves it. >> i think this whole thing has been a mockery. i'm embarrassed for our country. >> reporter: trump leaving new york this weekend for his golf club in new jersey, with a stop at a usc fight. now we're seeing the impact the seven-week trial could start to have on the presidential race. new polling taken after the
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verdict showing a majority approve of the jury's decision. most concerning for trump is the impact it may have on the small pocket of voters on the fence. 11% of gop voters and 26% of independent voters suggesting they're less likely to vote for him now. but largely, the historic conviction keeping the biden-trump rematch in that same months' long deadlock. where it is chaining things, campaign coffers. trump's team reporting it's raked in more than $52 million since the verdict. narrowing president biden's lead in the cash race. >> no one is above the law was reaffirmed. >> reporter: republican legislators now lashing out. several senators, including j.d. vance pledging that they are no longer cooperating with democrat legislation or approving judicial appointees. >> they're going to try to throw donald trump in prison, we're taking the gloves off. >> reporter: a difficult fight ahead for the gop as their party's presumptive nominee faces mounting legal pressures.
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vaughn hillyard, nbc news, new york. breaking news this morning. mexico has elected its first ever woman president. the mexican electoral institute projects claudia sheinbaum has won the presidency. she will also be mexico's first jewish president. polls had also long predicted her win. sheinbaum is a climate scientist by profession. as a member of the ruling morena party, she was the chosen successor for current president lopez obrador. her closest rival was a businesswoman heading up a coalition of business parties. turnout was estimated to be around 100 million people. the middle east is on edge as israel keeps distancing itself from a ceasefire proposal endorsed by president biden. in a friday speech, mr. biden said the proposal originated with the israelis. a senior israeli official this morning telling nbc news that's, quote, not accurate. the anonymous source told our raf sanchez that israel's goal remains the elimination of hamas
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as an organization. josh lederman has the latest. >> reporter: israel and hamas are now under growing global pressure to clinch a ceasefire deal, with thousands of protesters taking to the streets of tel aviv over the weekend, demanding israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu say yes now to a deal to bring home the israeli hostages who are being held in the gaza strip. but at the same time, internet is also being squeezed now from the other side, by far right members of his governing coalition who do not want to see an end to the war, and they are threatening to bolt from his government which could lead to its collapse if he says yes to the deal. haumts is speaking positively about this deal. a senior official saying they do want to see the kind of proposal that biden laid out come to fruition, but first, they need to see all of the details. and theyalso want to make sure that israel is really on board with the proposal for a permanent ceasefire and end to the war that president biden laid out in his speech. the white house, for its part,
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saying over the weekend that if hamas agrees to this deal, they fully expect liz go forward with it too. back to you. >> josh, thank you. now to akron, ohio, where police say at least 25 people were shot at a large birthday party. detectives believe someone drove by and fired shots at the party from their vehicle just after midnight on sunday. some of the chaos was caught on doorbell camera, and the video may be disturbing for some viewers. [ gunshots ] >> a 27-year-old man was killed. two other people were in critical condition sunday. no arrests have been made. police are asking the public to come forward with information that could help their investigation. dramatic new footage from a deadly building explosion in youngstown, ohio. you can see the blast on the ground floor of the bank, destroying elevators. first responders raced to the
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scene moments later. a gas leak is to blame for the blast. they believe a crew is clearing out the building's underground level and made three cuts in some basement piping. the explosion killed an employee at the bank and injured seven others. on sunday, water service was restored to many businesses and residents in downtown atlanta after a two-day outage caused by two water main breaks. many areas still have a water boil advisory, but the city's mayor says one of the water mains has been repaired two. hospitals were impacted and meing me megan tha stallion concert canceled. good morning, violeta. >> june is off to a hot start, and the week is off to a hot start as well with temperatures from 5 to nearly 15 degrees above average. here from parts of texas through the high plains into the midwest, extending west as well, you can see some triple-digits
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there out towards las vegas. for tomorrow, that heat will continue to expand. so expecting even warmer temperatures in the low 90s here in dallas, but comfortably into the triple-digits from del rio, texas, through the four corners, into phoenix, las vegas, san francisco of course much cooler, closer to the coast there. but again, very hot the next few days. this is not going to be just for one day. we'll see that heat expand into las vegas. 111 the high on thursday. friday up to 109. so bringing it down just a bit. but again, this is going to be for a couple of days with nearly 20 million people at risk for these heat watches and advisories. so this is going to stick around the next few days. very hot weather in the west. conversely, east of there, severe weather threat for today, though comparatively speaking a little low than we've seen in the last couple of weeks. still dealing th 23 million wi mf
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southwestern california right into parts of arizona. and that's a look at the weather across the country. frances, back to you. >> okay, violeta, thank you. it was yet another no-go for the boeing starliner space capsule. saturday's launch was scrubbed with just four minutes left in the countdown. nasa says the automatic hold was triggered by one of the rocket's computer systems which was slow to respond during the countdown. the two astronauts on board are safe. they were set to travel to the international space station. they will try again wednesday morning. coming up, a recall alert for toyota drivers this morning. kerduit first, nbc's richa l tas on a journey into the past and uncovers some of his own family's history. it's time we listen to science. one a day is formulated with key nutrients
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francisco bay is called angel island. this former guided missile site has a hidden history. it's one that helps us understand more about newcomers that reach our shores today. nbc's richard lui has that story. >> reporter: america's tech capital has a secret. in the shadows of alcatraz and san francisco bay, another island with other stories of lawbreakers called angel island. >> my grandmother came here by boat. >> reporter: like many newcomer, welcomed by the golden gate. >> she did lie. she memorized the life that was not her own. >> reporter: katie's grandmother fanny arrived on angel island at age 12, claiming to be a u.s. citizen. >> this is your grandmother's transcript. there is a discrepancy. inspectors are pointing that out. >> reporter: but she wasn't a u.s. citizen. so for weeks she was interrogated and detained. as immigration officials tried to prove she was not who she
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claimed to be. >> the intents of these hearings was to find mistakes. the assumption, the immigrant is lying. >> reporter: park ranger saying fanny kwan could have been sent back because she was illegally in the u.s. fanny passed that test, but would not speak of her secret for decades. >> she sat on her bed in her bedroom and she finally told me the story about how she came through angel island. >> reporter: katie's father only learned of the illegal story in his 20s, the only time she mentioned what she endured on angel island. >> the experience was probably pretty similar to being in jail. the frustration, the anger. >> reporter: the executive director for the angel island immigration foundation station telling us 200 people would be forced into rooms designed for only 50. >> the majority of individuals were held in detention here never talked about it with their children, their grandchildren. many of them took with them to the day they died.
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>> reporter: lying to the government, hidden detainment practices, and family secrets. why the silence? it goes back to a race-based 1882 law. it banned chinese laborers from entering the u.s., saying they endangered the good order. it was the first ever major law to ban a specific racial or national group. but then an earthquake in 1906 turning san francisco into rubble. >> earthquake and fire led to the destruction of the building where records were kept, including birth records. >> reporter: a loophole opening up where chinese could enter illegally. here show it worked. chinese in san francisco claimed they were citizens but the earthquake destroyed their papers. many filed then filed names of their children, then sold them in china which allowed the buyer's entry into the u.s. this paper son and daughter
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system was one of the only ways around the chinese exclusion act. one in three chinese in america today estimated as part of or descended from this system. that's why fanny kwan became a paper daughter, and why she kept secrets. >> when i was 14 years old, she was told that she had one year to live. and so i would visit her once a week and got to learn a little bit more about her. >> reporter: this drove katie to illustrate her grandmother's story. >> her looking out a barred window is a really strong image. >> a little surprise here which are some of the records for your family, richard. and these are for your grandfather, who was also a paper son. >> reporter: today is the first time i've ever seen this picture. >> for a lot of families, this is the only photograph they may have of their ancestor. >> reporter: my grandfather never told us until we saw his tombstone. we had a false name, lui.
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and for the first time, our real last name was publicly displayed, wong. how does this story fit in to the national discussion on immigration? >> this immigration station serves as a living landmark for experiences of detention, of racism, of exclusion, but also of hope and determination. >> reporter: are you glad she broke the law? >> i am very proud and very glad that she did. >> reporter: that's a strange thing to say. >> yes. >> reporter: and a strange life to live inside the barracks walls. many carving poems of despair and hope into the wood. one reading -- >> there are tens of thousands of poems on these walls. the day i'm rid of this prison and become successful, i must remember that this chapter once existed. >> reporter: richard wong, nbc news, angel island.
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♪ ♪ knowing how the situation changes ♪ ♪ maybe you want me when you had me ♪ ♪ love is crazy, now i can smile and say, ain't that funny ♪ >> nothing funny for fans, and even j. lo herself, who were hoping to see her tour this summer. live nation announced on friday that j. lo's "this is me live" summer tour has been canceled and that the singer was taking time off to be with her family and close friends. in a statement, lopez said she was completely heart sick and devastated for letting fans down, and wouldn't do this unless it was absolutely
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necessary. where do we start with all of this, right? with the tour. it was rebrand and then canceled some cities. and now full-on pulling the plug. >> i really feel for the fans. i was able to go to the it's my party tour, the one she did a couple years ago, phenomenal. but she also has a reputation of being one of the hardest working people in the business. so you know that was probably a very, very hard decision for her. >> let's also talk about this. the main gossipy headlines, what's going on with jennifer lopez and ben affleck. they're seen together maybe once in the last few weeks? we'll hope the best. >> absolutely. >> are the topic of a film adaptation of suits came up when the cast and the crew got together at the atx tv festival this sunday. patrick jay adams who plays mike ross said that creator aaron korsh would be interesting in reuniting the cast for a movie version of the show.
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millennials and gen z's taking time off and traveling without telling their bosses. and while they're technically on the clock. joining meetings from places like hotels, beaches, cruises, you name it. why don't they just take their paid time off? workplace culture expert jessica kriegel says it's because of fear. >> people are afraid they're going to be viewed as weak by their employers. >> reporter: and so the grind never really stops. a report from the u.s. travel association highlighting the millennials are a generation of, quote, work martyrs. they came into a workforce at a time when u.s. vacation usage went down while the use of mobile technology went up, enabling this constant attachment to your job, an attachment that was amplified during the covid pandemic as people got used to working from home and letting their jobs creep into their personal lives. >> the perception that these people are lazy, that they're entiled, not loyal to their employers. >> reporter: american culture cultivating an obsession with productivity at the workplace. the united states still the only
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country among its economic peers that doesn't guarantee paid vacation, sick leave or paid holidays for all employees. >> we need to realize that we have to find balance. otherwise, we are going to burn out. >> reporter: and unlimited pto isn't the solution either. many workers feeling a sense of confusion and guilt when trying to decide an appropriate amount of time to take off. it's why some are creating a solution of their own, packing up and heading out in secret, to try to find some sort of awkward balance between vacation and work. with nearly 40% of millennials saying they have taken time off without ever even telling their manager. some even making it a popular trend on tiktok. >> we're just working remotely. it doesn't really matter where you are. >> reporter: and their company is feeling burned. the society for human resource management says going on quiet vacations can cause compliance and liability problems for employers with things like tax, security and employment laws focusing pretty heavily on where you're working from. not to mention health concerns as well as general problems with
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work efficiency because of things like wifi issues and holiday actions. >> it sounds great to be able to work anywhere you want to. but the law isn't there. and your company is not being mean and horrible and terrible when they tell you that you can't. >> reporter: communication a key factor. so employees can get a balanced experience from work without actually having to get away. >> ironically, the very things that you think affect productivity negatively are the things you need to be doing to increase it. >> and our thanks to christine romans for it. and thanks to you fo
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just days after former president trump's felony conviction in new york, president biden's son prepares to face a judge. we're live with what to expect as hunter biden goes on trial for gun charges today. a manhunt under way in akron, ohio after a mass shooting killed one person and

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