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snow is off nbc news daily starts right now. today, tuesday, june 25th, 2020 for national emergency. america's top doctor declares gun violence a public health crisis for the first time ever. why now and what the announcement actually means? raging waters, deadly flooding wrecks havoc for millions across the midwest. one dam even pushed to the brink of collapse. why? it could be days before things calm down. no relief yet. the biden administration temporarily blocked from canceling more student loans. why? and what millions of borrowers nationwide need to know, and panda express, these big bears are about to take a big trip from china to sunny san diego. how both countries are getting ready for their arrival. oh, i cannot wait to see the pandas. it never gets old. yes, but we are going to begin this hour with a first of

its kind warning about guns. that's right. the u.s. surgeon general is declaring gun violence a public health crisis. nearly 50,000 people died from guns in 2022. that's according to the centers for disease control. and that number includes suicides, homicides and accidents. gun violence is also the leading cause of death for children and adolescents ages 1 to 19. the surgeon general says the nation needs to do something right now. firearm violence is a public health crisis. our failure to address it is a moral crisis to protect the health and well-being of americans, especially our children. we must now act with the clarity, courage and urgency that this moment demands. nbc news capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles is following this from capitol hill. ryan gun violence. it has been a problem in the u.s. for decades. we have seen marches on washington, d.c, particularly in the last decade, from students saying, do something. why make

this declaration now? and what is the surgeon general recommending? well, what the surgeon general is doing here, ellison, is he's trying to frame what has really become a political argument into this country and turn it into a health issue, saying that the statistics show that gun violence is a health problem that goes beyond politics. and as a result, lawmakers need to act as soon as possible to try and prevent this health crisis from getting worse. so what is he doing? he is asking congress to take a number of steps that they have seen reluctant to do up until this point, and that includes banning assault weapons, creating universal background checks, putting new laws in place for safe storage. laws also funding gun violence research, something that congress has been unwilling to do, and also creating community violence intervention programs. now, the surgeon general doesn't have a lot of power to manifest this all on his own, but he does have a very powerful bully pulpit. people listen when he talks because it's his responsibility to steward the nation's health. he's framing

this argument in a way that we haven't heard that much from lawmakers really pleading with lawmakers and telling them that if this crisis doesn't change the health of americans, particularly americans under the age of 19, will only continue to be at risk. allison and ryan, you said it yourself. the surgeon general himself does not have a lot of power. right? his recommendations cannot actually occur without action from congress. and we know that just last week, senate republicans blocked a bill to ban bump stocks. those are attachments that can attach to semiautomatic weapons. and that was after the supreme court struck down a previous ban. so practically, how much will this declaration actually change things? zena kiley i don't think it's going to change anything at all. there have been very little movement when it comes to gun laws in this country. the bump stock ban, which you just mentioned, that was actually an executive order that was put in place during the trump administration during a republican administration. now that the supreme court has rejected it, you'd think that there would be enough support on capitol hill to push through a law. but we've

already seen that effort stymied. so the surgeon general, while people respect his opinion , they listen to him in many respects. it's not going to really move the needle all that much on capitol hill. gun the battle over gun rights, gun control. however you want to frame it continues to be one of the most hot, hottest political issues in this country. and just one declaration by the surgeon general doesn't appear to change that very much at all. yeah, and it's an issue we'll continue to cover. ryan nobles, thank you. major developments today in the legal saga of julian assange and a surprise move, the wikileaks founder agreed to a plea deal with the united states that will secure his freedom in exchange for pleading guilty to an espionage charge. assange is now out of a british prison where he spent the last five years. he's now heading to a remote pacific island controlled by the united states. to enter his plea. in 2010, wikileaks, with assange as its leader, published a trove of nearly half a million pieces of classified documents and materials. nbc news international correspondent josh

letterman joins us now with more. so, josh. assange had been in this british prison, belmarsh, which is kind of like the rikers of london, if you will, a massive prison since april of 2019, fighting extradition. before that, he'd spent all this time holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london . talk to us about what is in this deal and how we expect it to play out. yeah, this is a pretty surprising turn of events for julian assange, who only a few months ago, i remember standing outside the high court here in london and appeared he was going to be extradited fairly imminently to the u.s. having exhausted most of the legal process here. but then he was granted this full appeal of his case before being extradited to the u.s, and that may have played into the decision of the justice department to agree to a plea deal rather than continue to drag out these proceedings, which, as you pointed out, have been going on for years now. and so, under the terms of this plea deal, according to what's been filed in court, instead of facing a potentially 18 counts

in the u.s, he will face one count under the espionage charge act. and instead of facing up to 175 years in prison, he will likely be sentenced to 62 months, which is the same amount of time that he has already served here in the uk, meaning he should be able to walk away with this with time served and once he sets foot in australia, never have to face any additional prison time. so josh, do we know why the united states and assange agreed to this plea deal right now? well, we don't. the justice department, like in most cases, is not sharing a lot about their thinking process behind the scenes. but we know that there are several reasons that both sides may have been eager to resolve this. for the u.s. government, this has been a long running drama that has created a lot of political backlash. it was going to continue to drag out, and they have been facing a lot of pressure from the australian government, especially to allow him to go back to australia to drop this case. and there's also the prospect that even if they

had charged him successfully in the u.s, he might not have been found guilty. they might have had to disclose additional security information as a result of the discovery process in the u.s. and from assange's point of view, we know he has had serious health issues while in detention that prevented him, in some cases, from attending his case, court hearings in person and his wife, stella assange, was asked about the difficulty in agreeing to essentially plead guilty, admitting some guilt here in court, and said, look at the end of the day, what matters is he's getting time served. he is going to be a free man, and that means that they are going to be able to start their lives together as as free individuals for the first time since they've been married. he has two young children who also are going to be able to be reunited with their father for the first time. and so really reasons on both sides to put this saga behind them. that has been so much at the center of a real debate throughout the united states and around the world about freedom of speech as opposed to protecting really important

classified information. all right. josh letterman in london, thank you. well, israel's top court has unanimously ruled that israel must begin drafting ultra-orthodox jewish men into the country's military. they'd previously been exempt from the country's mandatory military service. and this ruling, it is a major blow to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, and it could lead to the collapse of his increasingly fragile governing coalition. here's nbc news international correspondent matt bradley. well, israel's assault on the gaza strip was continuing yesterday. some 27 people were killed in various attacks throughout the gaza strip, including on two schools now. of those, 27 people killed, ten were members of the family of ismail haniyeh. he's considered the political leader of hamas, and one of those was his sister and we've also heard from the israeli defense forces chief of staff. he said that the operations in rafah in the southern part of the gaza strip, were winding up and that the idf had managed to destroy many of

the main fighting bodies of hamas that had been resisting israeli attacks there. and so this is something that we've heard from benjamin netanyahu himself just a couple of days ago, that the more intensive phase of the operations were winding up and so israel might be able to concentrate more of its forces on the continued and more intense fighting that has ramped up over the border between israel and lebanon, specifically with that other iran backed group, hezbollah, which has been trading fire with the israelis ever since october seventh. now, as we're hearing that there's been discord between washington and jerusalem, prime minister benjamin netanyahu, we heard from him once again yesterday. this time, he was talking to the full israeli parliament, the knesset. he walked back some comments that he had made on sunday in which he said that he'd be willing to make a partial deal with hamas. this time, he specified that he would not end the fighting in the gaza strip until all of the remaining dozens of hostages were finally released. now we've also been seeing yoav galant. he's the

israeli minister of defense making the rounds in washington. he spoke with the secretary of state. he spoke with bill burns, the head of the cia. but his main topic amidst all of these other subjects that he's been discussing, including the action on the northern front and what's going on in gaza strip, plans for a day after hamas is finally defeated, he's trying to shore up and repair this frayed relationship between washington and jerusalem that benjamin netanyahu's comments over the past week have really damaged. now, whether or not we see this finally repaired, we've been hearing about this for months, that the biden administration and netanyahu are falling out. that might not be up to yoav galant, and it might not be up to washington. we still have to wait to hear more from benjamin netanyahu, the prime minister himself, on whether or not he's going to continue to assail and scold washington, or whether or not he's going to try to make amends. matt bradley, thank you. it is time now for today's cnbc money minute. tesla recalling its cybertruck again. and how would you like to work for six

days a week? contessa brewer joins us now. hey, contessa. hi, there. hi ellison. tesla has issued two more recalls for its cybertruck in the u.s. unlike many tesla recalls, which just require a remote software update, these issues require an in-person service visit to address issues around trim pieces around the trunk and faulty motor controllers on the front. windshield wipers. that recall affects more than 11,000 vehicles, which represents all of the cybertrucks sold so far. in other recall news, the fda is recalling almost 300 types of canned coffee because they could potentially cause botulism. the recall covers all of the products made by green bay, wisconsin based snap chill because they could lead to the presence of a deadly toxin. and just in time for summer, some workers in greece will start working a six day workweek starting july 1st. some workers in the private sector could be affected by the new rules, which were approved last september

after productivity issues in the country meant many workers were putting in extra hours but without extra pay. if th wk, the extra eight hours, workers will be compensated 40% more than their normal salary. so, you know, overtime. but if you have to pay more in taxes, kind of is a wash. i'm getting overtime. that's just getting paid for the hours that we might already be working. maybe we should think about it here. i don't know right. contessa brewer, thank you, thank you. well, coming up, sure. the dates for its annual prime day, when and how you can save big plus a clash of biblical proportions. why a group of parents in louisiana is suing the state over a new law involving the ten commandments. you're watching nbc news daily. my dry eyes made me a burning, stinging five times a day makeup smearing drops. user i want another option that's not another drop. tervala. it's not another drop. it's the first and only nasal spray for dry eye tervala treats

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wave. those numbers kind of shocking to see on screen altogether like that. is it ever going to get better let up, get cooler? a breeze. it's just going to move around i think, you know, it's just maybe a break here or there, but that'll be about it. and we're just kind of scattered across the country. obviously the heat advisories and warnings are most plentiful in the southern plains all the way into the gulf coast states. but, you know, outside of palm springs, salt lake city, excessive heat warnings there, just north of dallas, too. and it's really that debate. would you rather have, like the dry heat that feels like 110, like in the deserts? or would you rather have that hot, humid feels like temperature of 110. so that's what we're doing at corpus christi right now. and that is oppressive all through, like little rock still at 109 two. and now throughout much of the west, the actual temperatures themselves are really starting to get warm, and the dew points are so low, the humidity, it actually actually makes the air feel a little cooler than the actual temperature. so today, about 109 in vegas will actually feel like 107 salt lake city. you're going to be right aund 100 degrees today. but again, the humidity

is kind of down. same for you in boise. and as we look towards late in the week, no relief. phoenix you're kind of like stuck in the rut now a bunch of 110 days in a row. denver staying pretty warm too. and bill, it's not just heat. what about this record breakain in the midwest? when is the next round of storms? it's already going now, but thankfully it's not hitting the same areas of iowa, nebraska and southern minnesota that we've had the record flooding and where the rivers are still in major flood stage. now we're watching storms in the ohio valley later on this afternoon. we do expect another round of storms and some of these will be the southern half of iowa into nebraska. most of the rivers were now concerned with are in the northern half of the state and southern minnesota. so it does look like we're going to avoid a lot of the rain in those areas. and then tomorrow we'll continue to track these severe storms into the hot, humid air in the east. a lot of airport problems across the country tomorrow, because we're going to include new york, d.c, philadelphia in the severe storms. and then finally, as far as rainfall goes, the good news no significant rainfall over the areas that are still waiting for their rivers to crest and where that dam, you know, possibly is,

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fireghters with san francisco fire out here, some participating, many observing, and there's also dozensf pg&e workers out heralso observing, again, trying to see how they would respond together if this were to really occur. we always want to have these conversations and do this before the actual emergency. so we hav good onships, we know how each other works. and sot's what we're doing today. it does is it allows us to learn to speak the same language so that we can communicate more effectively during these drills and actually also practice the active response, the coordinated response that would be required to make an area safe in the event of an earthquake. pg&e llus that since decemr of 2021, they've held or participated in roughly 64 of these kind of drills in their rvice areas with the respective fe pant and first responding agencies. so here, of course, you've got an

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daily. part of kenya's parliament building was set on fire today as police fired live ammunition at thousands of protesters, reportedly killing several. protesters entered parliament after legislators passed a controversial bill imposing new taxes on the country. lawmakers stripped some of the most controversial items out, such as a tax on bread, but defended the bill as necessary to fund spending programs and lower the debt. in a speech to this afternoon, the country's president called the protest treasonous. the tsa says it screened nearly 3 million people on sunday. that is an all time record. keep in mind, this was just a random sunday, not even a holiday weekend. the previous record was set the friday before memorial day, and the agency expects the next record this weekend. as people get a head start on travel plans for the 4th of july. and for the first time ever, the stanley cup is headed to miami. the florida panthers beat the edmonton oilers 2 to 1 last night to clinch the series after nearly

blowing a30 series lead, while the oilers fell short of a comeback, star connor mcdavid still took home the conn smythe trophy as the most valuable player in the playoffs, only the sixth player ever to do so in a losing effort. the panthers will host a victory parade in fort lauderdale this sunday. parents in louisiana are suing the state's education department over a controversial new law. it requires public school classrooms to display the ten commandments. nine families from across the ideological spectrum joined with civil rights groups to file the suit. they claim the law violates their first amendment rights against government imposed religion, and say it promotes religious favoritism. republican governor jeff landry signed the bill just last week, making louisiana the first state in the country to mandate the display. nbc news correspondent guad venegas is following this closely for us and joins us now with more guad. talk to us about the group of people behind this lawsuit. what are they arguing, ellison well, they're filing this lawsuit, as

you mentioned, just a few days after the governor signed the law in the state of louisiana. so they are arguing that this is a violation of their first amendment right to choose whatever religion they'd like to raise their children in. we should also mention that the plaintiffs include rabbis, reverends and pastors, all of them together, also arguing that the new law would pressure students into religious observance, veneration and adoption of the scripture chosen by the state. in this case, it would be the christian scripture from which these ten commandments come from. these families are being represented by a group of different organizations, including the aclu. let's hear from a representative from the aclu speaking about the lawsuit. hb 71 is contradictory to our founding principles and to the strident articulation of freedom within the first amendment's free exercise clause. we have united people of various faiths, those who proudly do not practice a religion, all united

under the idea that this law strikes at the core of religious freedom. now, the lawsuit also states that this new law is a violation of a decision already made by the supreme court more than 40 years ago, when kentucky approved a similar law and the supreme court justices decided it was unconstitutional to post the ten commandments in kentucky. back then. guad venegas, thank you. debt relief for millions of student loan borrowers is in jeopardy after a pair of federal judges temporarily halted key parts of the biden administration's student loan relief plan, the ruling's impact millions of americans enrolled in what's called the save plan, some of whom were less than a week away from seeing their monthly bills slashed in half or more. joining us now is caleb silver. he is editor in chief of investopedia. all right, caleb, so what is the save plan and what exactly did the judges take issue with? yes,

save stands for save unavailable education. this was the biden administration's plan after the supreme court actually did away with its plan to wipe out more than $64 billion in student debt. this is what it came back with. this is an income based debt reduction plan. so it caps your payments at 5% of your discretionary income, down from 10. that's a very big deal for some people. and if you make less than $32,800, wipes out your debt completely. if you've been out of school for over 20 plus years, wipes out your debt, makes it a lot easier for people that have been out of school a long time to get a much lower debt payment, plus helps out with a lot of those interest payments that accrue over time. and caleb, it's no secret a lot of people in this country have student debt, so what exactly does this ruling mean for those with debt, whether or not they were in the safe plan? yeah, those about 8 million people did apply for this. it was to go into effect july first. so just next week and they were going to have a significant debt reduction. but for those that aren't, you're going to have to find other ways to bring down your debt while this is being

negotiated. it will wind up back in court. this is a preliminary injunction. we're going to see a lot more court battles here. you can count on it. but if you do have debt, then you should think about consolidating. if you have multiple payments, multiple places you're borrowing from consolidate to one payment. look for some scholarships in your university or outside of it. you can get a work study program potentially some employers actually helping out as well. if you have the employee assistance program for paying down debt. so there are ways to do it. but this is a big block here. the biden administration has been very, very fixated on lowering student debt and eliminating it. this is a big block to that. you make a good point. there are a lot of other options out there. there's options. caleb silver, thank you. thanks caleb. mcdonald's is serving up what they call a summer of value. it's part of an ongoing effort from the fast food chain to combat inflation. nbc news correspondent sam brock has the details. you deserve a break. today at mcdonald's. this morning, mcdonald's is unveiling a new break for your wallet with their value meal to combat rising prices and lower consumers back through the

golden arches. starting today for just $5, the fast food chain will offer your choice of a mcdouble or mcchicken sandwich. small fries, a four piece chicken nuggets, and a small ink at participating locations across the cntry. the $5 meal deal is expected to run nationwide for four weeks, w some franchises committing to extend the offer. my restaurants plan to be at the forefront of trying to bring some relief to a inflation impacted customer. the price of food away from home 4% just over the last year, according to the bureau of labor statistics, with a rent svey finding nearly 1 in 2 consumers an to cut back on eating away from home in order to save moy. can we talk abou how ridiculous a fast food prices are, as frustrated customers feel the bite? almost $9 for a big mac of prices at the drive through. and it's not just

mcdonald's, not levin. the impact of customers pulling back. eat like a king who's on a budget. places like burger king go big and wendy's are already offering the own $5 rival deals in terms of price, pretty good. now with mcdonald's entering the battle of the buns with its summer of value, its president serving up a direct message. we heard our fans loud and clear, adding vue has always been part of our dna. we're focused on living up to that legacy and offering delicious, affordable options. sam brocknbc news sam brock, thanks so much. a housing development in new york city is focusing on creating a safe space for older lgbtq+ americans. it does not only offer a place to slealso programs for members of the lgbtq community who do not live there. nbc newsnchor joe fryer ske wh folks who say the development is making a huge impact, stretching 17 stories above brooklyn, stonewall house is like the end of the rainbow,

a treasure for lgbtq plus elders including howard grossman and bradford smith, who've been a couple for more than 40 years. it's sunol house has been a nice, comforting place for us to finally settle down. we're basically we're all in the same boat, you know, we're getting older, we're aging, we have our health issues. it's like a family. it's one big family. they moved here four years ago after entering a lottery 2000 signed up for just 145 apartments. you won lottery to get into here. do you feel like you just won the lottery in life? definitely. yeah, right. definitely. the friends of ours that are that are gay are in that case, being seniors. they don't know where they're going to go. a report finds nearly half of older same sex couples applying for elder housing were subjected to discrimination. stonewall house is a response to that overseen by sage, a group that offers support for lgbtq plus elders. michael adams is

sage's ceo. many older people who are lgbtq do not feel welcome and accepted. where they live. in fact, often sage constituents will tell us that the place that they feel least safe and least welcome is where they live. and we're going to see someone bring one, two, three. so it's not just