lysol. what it takes to protect.™ severe weather for parts of the south as overnight storms produce flash flooding and dangerous conditions. bill is straight ahead with the latest. north korea's kim jong-un meeting face-to-face with russia's vladimir putin. should president trump be concerned? after days of protests, police release body cam individual yes of two officers opening fire on a car near yale university with two unarmed people inside. speaking out. a new message from britney spears on the rumors and death threats against her family. plus, we'll hear fight. "early today" starts right now. happen here in this street >> good morning. i'm marlie hall. >> and i'm phillip mena. we are monitoring reports of severe weather hitting the south this morning. the national weather service is urging people in the fort worth,

texas area to stay off the roads where reports of heavy rain, flash flooding and wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour. several water rescues have also already been reported. let's get straight to nbc management bill karins for the latest on this. good morning. >> good morning. we are watching the areas north of dallas. 5 inches of rain was reported overnight. that's where they were doing the water rescues. and it's still pouring throughout the region. but thankfully, the flash flood warning has been dropped. that doesn't mean the threats over with. we can see the bright reds. a lot of additional areas of thunderstorms and torrential rain. they're going to head through the dallas/fort worth area over the next couple of hours. we have 10 million people under the flash flood watch. we have two counties under a flash flood warning. areas south of abilene, around coleman, texas. we'll wait and see. the ground is saturated. weave had three days of rain. we have isolated severe storms too. a line heading between dallas and waco shortly. and late this afternoon we're going to do it all over again, including areasro corpus livch

right in all those areas. thanks, bill. now we turn to developments in russia where north korean leader kim jong-un is expected to meet with president vladimir putin very soon. a kremlin adviser telling russian media that today's summit will focus on north korea's nuclear program. for more on this, we're joined by nbc's chapman bell. chapman, what do we know about this upcoming meeting? >> marlie, we know it's going to happen. kim jong-un has arrived in russia to a traditional and what looks like a very warm welcome in a city just over the boarder from north korea. his train pull going the station before meeting with russian officials, and then visiting the russia-korea friendship house built for a visit by his late grandfather, kim il sung in the late '80s. no doubt a bit of friendship is what he will be looking for in first visit with vladimir putin. the kremlin saying the focus will be on north korea's nuclear

program, looking to consolidate from donald trump's meeting with the north korean leader, the last viewed as a failure and finishing early in vietnam. also on the table according to reports, russia and china a road map to ending this nuclear standoff. another key part of the visit could be focusing on trade between the two country, trying to ease sanction. russia came keen to access north korea's natural resources. this is a first visit since his late fatherited i 2011, this could potentially benefit both leaders. marlie? >> chapman, thank you. breaking news. fear back in streets of sri lanka this morning after a new explosion sets off in the capital. a resident taking this video here from their balcony. you see the ground shaking. this was near theoy cinema. a bomb squad found a scooter rigged with explosives and carried out a controlled

explosion. this comes as the death toll there soars to 359 and a president vowing to clean house with the country's defense department. joining us from colombo is janis mackey frayer. the country is understandably on high alert. how are officials handling these explosions? >> well, there are more clues that are emerging about the bombings here, who was behind them, and why it was that warnings about potential attacks were ignored. the islamic state has claimed responsibility, calling the suicide bombers their fighters. while it's islamic state to associate itself with attacks anywhere in the world, people who study the group say that there may be more than ideology at play here, that these attackers, part of local groups, knew exactly where to send videos and statements to islamic state's media agency for them to be released. the defense minister today described the bombers as well educa educated.

one of them studied in the uk and australia. he says they came from middle and upper middle class families with money. why and how these local groups were able to carry out such a sophisticated attack remains unclear. the government is also trying to deflect criticism about why it ignored credible warnings and intelligence about the group and its recruitment efforts. the u.s. ambassador here says that the u.s. had no prior notice that an take would happen, that it passed on no intelligence to sri lanka, but that the fbi is here and part of the investigation with other foreign intelligence agencies. phillip? >> a lot of questions still need to be answered. janis, thank you. the white housewar on the m before congress, especially former white house counsel don the po"the post" that the administration is planning to fight a subpoena from the white house judiciary committee, calling on mcgahn to testify. nbc's tracie potts joins us with the latest from d.c. tracie, good morning. >> marlie, good morning.

the thinking here from the white house is that the mueller investigation is over. the report has largely been turned over, and they don't want to continue to investigate this. so now the big picture is that the white house is going to be fighting the subpoenas from congre congress, including this one for former white house lawyer don mcgahn. remember, mcgahn spent hours talking to robert mueller's team what he knew. he was on the inside of decisions like the firing of jared kushner and michael flynns administration, he knows a lot, and now democrats want to know more what he told the special counsel. but they may not hear it any time soon, because as you said, the post is reporting that the 's part of age push back democr investigations. we saw this yesterday with the former white house personnel director held in contempt after the white house toldshow up for.

marlie? >> tracie, thank you. a surefire 20 twen20 front-r is finally done biding his time. joe biden is ready to make it official. he is expected to kick off his presidential campaign tomorrow. nbc's halle jackson has more on what we can expect. >> reporter: after months of flirting with a run, joe biden will finally announce it, set to enter the 2020 race as the fron >> reporter: nbc news has learned after a roll-out video thursday, the former vice president will hold a rally in pittsburgh next week followed by trips to the four key early voting states. >> today yet another democrat joins the race for president. this time it's senator joseph biden of delaware. >> reporter: hoping the third run is the charm after two unsuccessful presidential campaigns.den already leads in polls, but he faces some challenges. after several women recently described unwelcome physical contact with him, he promised to do better. >> i will be more mindful, respectful of people's personal space. >> reporter: and while his

decades long record includes support of the violence against women act and same-sex marriage, he'll probably field questions about his vote to authorize the iraq war, and justice clarence contrast with some progressive competitors in a field of democrats divided on whether to proceed with impeachment after the release of the redacted mueller report. it found no criminal conspiracy between the trump campaign and russia. >> i believe congress should take the steps towards impeachment. >> reporter: but some candidates warn slow down or argue a focus on the president rather than kitchen table issues could backfire. >> what i worry about is that works to trump's advantage. >> all of this of course on the heels of house speaker nancy pelosi after a conference call this week with democrats, coming to the conclusion that democrats will aggressively investigate the president, but stopping short of committing to impeachment just yet. phillip, back to you. >> a lot of people still on the fence about that. hallie, thank you. president trump will tackle the on

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