decision day for johnson & johnson coronavirus vaccine as the u.s. surpasses a staggering 32 million covid cases and trials of young kids are getting ever more crucial. shades of a cold war heating up between the u.s. and russia with the close encounter of a russian military plane and american boats near alaska. 20-year-old daunte wright is laid to rest days and miles away in the george floyd trial. we're taken to one of the

fastest shrinking reservoirs in the world. lake maed. will toilet water save the problem. spacex mans up a busy friday ahead as "early today" starts right now. >> good morning, i'm phillip mena. >> glad you're with us on a friday, i'm frances rivera the united states is getting closer to vaccinating 90 million people the johnson & johnson vaccine may be reinstated after being investigated over a rare blood clot ic advisory committee meets to discuss the vaccine's future. two of the nation's largest university systems say they will require students and staff to be fully vaccinated this fall california state university. stanford also announced a similar mandate. texas became the third state to record 50,000 deaths from the virus. in michigan the number of children hospitalized due to

covid reached a record high of 70 this week that's double the number during the last week in november. for the latest on the effort to get kids vaccinated here's nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: at duke medd work the ld twins were the first in the country to receive the pfizer vaccine part of a nationwide trial testing vaccine safety and efficacy on children between 6 months and 12 years. 12 to 16-year-olds are in a separate trial while severe covid-related illness and death are low in children, kids still account for 13.6% of all cases 3.6 million so far 6 million cases alone. vaccinating kids, say experts, is critical to building herd immuty to volunteer their daughters for

the trial. >> for us, specifically for this vaccine, where tens of thousands of adults have already been dosed and we felt quite confident in the safety profile. >> reporter: in kansas city michael and joanna kelly enrolled 2-year-old nora. >> because we trust science. we had the opportunity to sign up for this and we talked it over and we believe that this is an opportunity to keep our child safe. >> reporter: like similar trials involving the moderna vaccine, doctors start low, then slowly increase the children's vaccine dose. >> basically the goldilockss effect, finding the right dose that produces a robust immune response with the least amount of side effects. >> reporter: for the gerardo girls, it's all about getting back to normal. >> i want to have sleepovers again. >> reporter: doctors generally tolerate the vaccine well with few side effects the ultimate goal to vaccinate every elementary school child by

this time next year. >> thanks to tom costello. india has broken a grim world record reporting 314,000 new covid cases in a single day. thursday was also the country's deadliest day so far with more than 2,000 deaths reported that raises the death toll to over 184,000 rapid spread has prompted canada to ban flights from india and pakistan for 30 days after more than half of the people arriving by plane that tested positive came from india. now to minneapolis in mourning as friends and family pay their last respects for daunte write who was shot and killed by police in a traffic stop. >> you thought he was just some kid with air freshener he was a prince and all of minneapolis is stopped today to honor the prince of brooklyn

center. >> our ali velshi has the latest from wright's memorial in minneapolis. good morning. >> reporter: this has been a tumultuous week. the funeral for daunte wright was held in minneapolis. this is brooklyn center where he died he was pulled over a couple of blocks behind herer he had been shot by kim potter, police training officer, who claims that she was intending to hit him with her taser but instead shot him and he died so this is a make shift memorial, but the funeral was attended by a lot of people, including a lot of prominent people reverend al sharpton attended the eulogy the family of george floyd was there. there were a number of elected officials who attended the funeral. on tuesday they felt some degree of relief with the conviction of derek chauvin but there was grief about george floyd's death and many others that occurred

before this. this brought that grief into sharp relief it reminded people while there was some degree of accountability on tuesday, there was still a lot of work to be done people continue to gather around the makeshift memorial to pay their respects, to think about the struggle that continues to go on and the degree to which people and particularly black people when they come into contact with police say they still have things to fear. frances. >> work still needs to be done ali, thank you. now to our nbc news exclusive. video capturing a very close encounter between a russian military patrol plane and american boats happened near alaska in u.s. territory. what were the russians doing our kevin tibbles traveled there and he joins us with more. kevin? >> reporter: phillip, with the ice melting and the arctic opening up, everyone wants to start exploring and it's made for some quite scary interactions between the u.s. fishing fleet and the russian

military buzzed from above. u.s. fishing boats in the bering sea harassed repeatedly by a low flying russian military aircraft video obtained by nrk news barking at then broken english crackling over vhs radio. >> you are in danger. >> i was frightened because i was being bullied by the russians they're flexing their muscles. >> reporter: the captain, david anderson, was not alone. >> eventually it got so low that i could probably throw a rock at it. >> reporter: others reported russian naval ships, even a russian rocket launch like this well within u.s. thumel whose company is part of the multi-billion dollar fishing industry. >> seeing russia isn't anything new but seeing russian military,

that was it. one of the vessels saw a submarine. that gets your attention. >> with a depletion of arctic ice, natural resources become more accessible and everyone wants in. >> this is the first interaction they've had with u.s. fishermen. >> matt bell stresses the need for u.s. vigilance. >> their navy was operating in our water. that's unheard of. that's unprecedented. >> reporter: the dilemma facing the umpt s. coast guard is that it takes days to reach fishermen endangered. >> here in alaska the coast guard is always here to rescue the hare muchest conditions. people say this is brought on by a foreign powe russia. russian military exercises wil will we be ready >> if you give them an inch, what happens next here >> my plan would not be to give

them an inch. >> in this fast, new rugged frontier, an inch can be everything >> reporter: as a result of these altercations, alaska senator dan sullivan is now calling on the united states to beef up its presence in the arctic phillip? >> our thanks to kevin for that exclusive report turn now to nbc meteorologist janessa webb with your friday weather. what have you got? good morning >> good morning. still cold we're going to see a change happen slowly but surely this morning we're waking up to below average temperatures once again for the mid-atlantic to sections of the east coast new york city, 41 for overnight lows it's going to be gradual but even kentucky in the upper 20ed. it's going to collide with warmer air out and about, going to be dealing with slick spots due to this rain. the bigger weather story is the severe weather we are going to have this afternoon into your evening into the deep south,

louisiana into central texas afternoon. people under some 83 for miami sunshine across the carolinas. ac weather, it's returning i'll show you where coming up. >> janessa, thank you. straight ahead, the white house goes big on climate change. still ahead, officials clearing out a messy situation turning toilet water into tap water. n a medal. that's amazing! ♪ with endless summer nights ♪ he's walking! ♪ comes alive ♪

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pledge or the most surprising one came from brazil's president who until very recently appeared to be a climate change denier. he said yesterday during the summit that he will make deep restoration of the amazon forest illegal by 2030. it's unclear whether he or other world lead ers like president biden or pope francis. god forgives all the time, man sometimes, nature no longer does. >> phillip, frances. >> well put there. europe's on it claudio, thank you. still to come, flushing out a major drought infficials are e away the problem. still ahead, preparing for liftoff. the countdown to spacex's latest launch

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just over five years ago for "all in" i visited lake meade. where we're standing now just five years ago this area would have been underwater >> absolutely. >> reporter: from there we followed the water along the colorado river in yuma, arizona. there wasn't a drop of water left it's bone dry. today things are even worse with projections showing lake meade headed to a record low level by july the megadrought has shown los angeles to think outside the box what to do if the city's share of imported water dries up you're lucky this is not smelivision. what comes from our showers and toilets. michael ruiz ones the water reclamation plant which treats 409 olympic sized swimming pools of the stuff every day mike, what is it exactly

>> in a scientific term it's called mixed liquor suspended solids >> reporter: sounds pretty gross but mike and the city are able to treat all of the sewage so it's clean enough to release into the los angeles river and the ocean. we're on our way out five miles into the pacific ocean to see where the city of los angeles is currently discharging hundreds of millions of gallons of treated wastewater every single day. whoa 225 million gallons of treated wastewater to be exact all discharged through this pipe now l.a. engineers and scientists are working on an ambitious plan to by 2035 turn l.a.'s wastewater into l.a.'s drinking water >> there it is the smell. >> reporter: eric garcetti couldn't be more confident in the city's plan to go from toilet to ta showers to flowers as he like pumping 250

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. spacex and nasa are partnering up to send another group of astronauts to the space station. what's really notable about this launch is the crew will be using the same rocket that launched the last group back in november. nbc's jay gray joins us from the kennedy space center jay, good morning. are you ready for a liftoff this morning? >> reporter: i think they are, phillip. it's launch, land and repeat the weather's perfect. mission managers say technically as well as mechanically the ship is ready to go and this crew,

they're definitely ready for flight >> checks and preparation to begin ingress activities. >> reporter: it's an early wake-up call for crew 2. getting dressed. >> spacex, seats are in the launch position. >> reporter: then buckling up for the commute to work. >> great news. >> reporter: they'll take the fast lane to get to the office, the international space station. one of spacex falcon 9 rocket and capsule that have made the trip before. >> this is the same one that bob benkhen and bob hurley flew on demo one of the international space station. >> reporter: on this mission, his wife will sit in the same seat he was in during the demo trip and she says he's shared some insight into the ride. >> there's not one specific thing, it's really just been a series of tidbits along the way. >> reporter: the trip to the i.s.s. is expected to take about 24 hours, and when they dock this international crew will get straight to work. single activ

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ingenuity has three more tests coming up over the next two weeks that are even more complicated. all of these milestones are so huge it's hard to keep track. >> i think we are on the dawn of a new day in space exploration it hasn't been this exciting

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