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what is the school going to do about it amazon to buy mgm studio cnbc's steve sedgwick has the details. and you're looking at the most watched video in the history of the world for the first 24 hours of its release. details tuesday, may 25th. "early today" starts right now good morning, i'm phillip mena >> i'm frances rivera. today marks the one year anniversary since the death of george floyd sparking emotional protest and police reform and justice. today in minneapolis floyd will be remembered through many events his family is making a visit to the white house. capitol hill correspondent tracie potts joins us for the latest tell us more about what the floyd family hopes to achieve they're hoping to do is push the

approval of the george floyd in justice policing act visiting capitol hill, talking to lawmakers of both parties and a visit to the white house several members of the floyd family will be there mother, sister, a few brothers, his young daughter gianna who you've heard the president talk about before he has spoken with his family before and the focus today is to try to create some momentum for getting this legislation passed the president had hoped it would happen by today, by the first anniversary, it has not. negotiations are still happening between the white house and senators of both parties the white house saying the president is hopeful >> as it relates to the george floyd act, he is encourage that there is ongoing progress and that there is a sense from the negotiators that there is a path forward. he believeshe it continue to press on that.

>> reporter: in a statement lawmakers said that they're still working through differences on key issues but they're making progress towards compromise this is the legislation that would ban choke holds and no knock warrants and to end qualified immunity senator tim scott said a deal seems near and they've made good progress. >> we'll watch that progress continue that is a hope tracie, thank you. with the unofficial start of summer kicking off in just a few days, nearly half of americans have gotten at least one dose of the covid vaccine. with new cases on the decline, the country is on a steady road to recovery. our tom costello has the latest. >> reporter: a week until memorial day but america is already on the pandemic rebound. festivals, parades, sporting events, graduations and promise. >> what do we do last year we lose summer this yea

summer. >> reporter: the closely watched cdc numbers point to the right direction. hospitalizations and deaths down dramatically with nearly 50% of americans having received at least one vaccine dose, nearly 40% fully vaccinated. >> i feel more like myself, like back to normal kind of. >> it's not just about you it's about your obligation. >> reporter: president biden and dr. fauci appeared in youtube videos. >> the science behind the safety and efficacy is truly extraordinary. >> reporter: new jersey is keeping the mask mandate in place for all schools and summer camps while both l.a. and all schools say kids will be back in school this fall. >> i think a lot of school districts will be starting the school year masked out of a sense of uncertainty. >> reporter: there are a few

dozen cases of young teens who developed myocarditis. though the symptoms were mild and it's not clear the vaccine caused the condition. >> this is unfortunately a condition you can see in children and adults. so far they're saying, no, there aren't more cases than we would expect. >> reporter: there's a real split between those states that have vaccinated large percentage of the population and those that haven't. 9 states have vaccinated 70% of their adults in the southeast states have generally vaccinated 40% of their adults phillip? >> tom, thank you. a manhunt is underway in california with investigators shutting down the freeway after a road rage incident led to the death of a 6-year-old boy. here's nbc's jay gray with more. >> reporter: it all seems so out of place teddy bears, balloons and flowers along an overpass in orange county just above the

freeway. >> shots fired northbound 5 from chapman. >> reporter: where little aiden leo was gunned down days after his sixth birthday. ise and i heard my son say ou, he had been shot. >> reporter: the shot came from behind cutting from the trunk of her car piercing aiden's back. >> i tried to save him, calling 911, but he was losing a lot of blood. >> investigators suspect road rage may have been the cause the california highway patrol now asking the public for help. >> if you were driving by, you saw something that was not right, call it in. >> reporter: as their manhunt continues, so does the search for answers for aiden's grieving family. >> we all loved him so much. >> reporter: struggling with overwhelming pain and loss jay gray, nbc news

there is growing international outrage this morning after officials say the belarus government faked a bomb threat to force a passenger jet plane to land. nbc's sarah harman has more on the incident that's being described as a brazen hijacking. >> reporter: it's being called a state sponsored hijacking. this commercial ryan dlgs air flight from greece to lithuania forced to land sniffer dogs on the tarmac they claimed there was a bomb. >> we changed the direction of flight and we go down and to the left. >> reporter: but there wasn't a bomb instead, it appears to be a brazen operation by the president of belarus, alexander lukashenko branded europe's last dictator by protesters. his target, one of his sharpest

critics, 26-year-old journalist roman protosevich. eye witnesses say he panicked. >> like computer, gave it to his girlfriend >> reporter: the plane continued to lithuania without the journalist or his girlfriend on board. now opposition leaders are fearful. >> i'm sure he is being tortured because he knows a lot of information. >> reporter: the u.s. is now calling for an international investigation and the e.u. has agreed on sanctions banning bella russian airlines and telling them to stop flying over belarus. >> sarah, thank you. ballots from the 2020 presidential election are still being counted in arizona a controversial republican led hand recount has now resumed nbc's vonn hilliard joins us with the latest. frr frances, the so-called audit of maricopa county's 2.1 million

balance lolts proceeded unless there were an injunction that would hold up the process. on friday the marry could he pa board of supervisors threatened to file a lawsuit against the arizona state senate and the contractors who are actually conducting this so-called audit. there are serious questions about who is financing it and who is conducting it the folks that are running this audit, they have called into question possible improprieties on which the county conducted this election, but every step of the way the allegations have been debunked. on friday the county attorney threatened the litigation calling on the audit to stop and the suggestions of the improprieties come to an end frances? >> vaughn, thank you.

breaking overnight after years' long legal battle between house democrats and the trump administration, former white house trump council don mcga mcgahn has agreed to testify next week. democrats who run the committee have sought mcgahn's testimony for two years as part of their obstruction investigation into former president donald trump. the questioning will be confined to what's in the muller report and about any comments made by trump about mcgahn's role in the investigation. the transcript of the hearing will be made public a week later. after a stunning 17 nights in the oregon wilderness, one man is back with his family. 69-year-old man was reported missing. they left packages of food along. on the 16th they found a tackle box and make-shift shelter but no harry

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