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justice. and some saying this happened to lebron james that hasn't happened in his previous 15 playoff seasons "early today" starts right now good to be with you on a friday morning i'm frances rivera. >> i'm lindsey reiser. the justice department is elevating ransomware cases to the same level as terrorism. the u.s. could launch offensive cyber attacks of its own against hackers in russia. the aim is to protect the economy. some estimates expect it costs trillions of dollars what are hackers looking for when they choose their target? here's jacob ward. >> reporter: experts are calling it a hidden crisis across america. cities and towns facing the threat of ransomware attacks here in san francisco the public

transportation was hit this whole news ram was hit. here's the asian art museum. they had to bring in city officials to come online a top hospital was attacked. in 2020 ucfs had to pay $20 million to get back research information. they are listing potential targets they can strike for affordable prices. if anything, they chose smaller targets for smaller pay days to avoid attention. >> they're starting to realize on the criminal side that we need to be much more careful about who we go after because we don't want to raise that -- we don't want to get international governments cooperating with each other to try to take us down. >> from groceries to gas to getting on a bus, ransomware is now part of the american landscape. the insurance industry that covers cyber attacks is

estimated to be worth several billion. it gives you a sense of how big this problem is becoming. >> our thanks to jake ward for that report. america has reached another grim milestone in its fight against coronavirus. counter rey nbc news, covid has claimed more than 600,000 lives in the u.s. a grim reminder that the pandemic is not over the latest data comes as the president has announced a plan to donate a surplus of vaccine overseas to boost global vaccination efforts. nbc's kelly o'donnell has more >> reporter: the president out biking in rehoboth beach, delaware, rolled out his plan to share american made covid vaccine. moderna, pfizer and j&j are around the globe after growing pressure to act. 80 million doses exported by the end of this month. >> we need to help fight the disease around the world thome. >> reporter: as more americans roll up their sleeves, covid

cases here have fallen to the lowest level since march of 2020 a sign, officials say, the u.s. can turn outward with destinations announced for the first 25 million doses 6 million for south and central america. 7 million to asia. africa, 5 million. another 6 million reserved for allies in need the white house will rely on the united nations covax program to distribute most of the vaccine republican senator ben sass criticized u.n. involvement suggesting the u.s. should get more credit. this is a squandered opportunity to demonstrate u.s. leadership. >> united states will not use its vaccines to secure favors from other countries. >> reporter: this vaccine diplomacy is in high demand and it's carefully timed the u.s. is providing more doses than any other nation by far and the announcement comes just days be overseas next week.

frances? >> kelly, thank you. as the pandemic ends, the battle between landlords an tenants heats up a group of realtors is asking the supreme court to block a federal order from the cdc that bars them from evicting people not paying rent. the group says the pandemic is winding down and the need for an eviction ban is fading the federal judge ruled the cdc has no authority to issue the eviction moratorium but a federal appeals court refused to lift the stay. california is planning to fully reopen this month. governor gavin newsom plans to help restaurants and bars bounce back on thursday he announced a restaurant plan to help them benefit from the relief. the plan includes letting restaurants and bars expand outdoor dining and continue the

coholic beverages and food deliveries among othe now an nbc news exclusive. big announcement from united airlines the company is buying more than a dozen supersonic jets that promise to cut travel times in half nbc's tom costello has details >> reporter: it's a big bet that the future of aviation is retroback to the concord united airlines buying 15 supersonic jets from a small up start aviation company in denver called boom. it was 2003 when the concord last flew new york to london in three hours, but the plane was loud, outdated and expensive concord's only crash put an end to the program 18 years later boom is rolling out the next generation of supersonic ceo blake shcholl gave us a look >> reporter: as a passenger,

what will it be like >> every seat you will have a large window >> reporter: flying at 60,000 o madrid in 3 1/2 hours. half. seattle to tokyoin 4 1/2 the first test flight coming later this year, then the passenger version coming later with united airlines hoping passengers will be on board by 2029 tickets 5 to $7,000. >> particularly we see strong demand between london heathrow and new york. >> lots of people want to go. >> lots of people want to go. >> reporter: even travel across the u.s.a. could go supersonic back to the future tom costello, nbc news, denver. florida congressman matt gaetz is potentially facing new legal trouble this morning a law enforcement source tells nbc news the justice department is looking into whether he obstructed a sex trafficking investigation. pete williams has more

>> reporter: at issue according to a law enforcement official familiar with the case is it a phone call that an ex-girlfriend is having with another young woman. thd conferenced in gaetz an investigation of whether gaetz was illegally involved in relations with underaged women, federal investigators are looking at whether the phone call could amount to obstruction of justice, an attempt to influence a potential witness. >> if someone tries to keep a witness talking from law enforcement or tries to get them to change their story, that's the kind of conduct that can be obstruction of justice. >> reporter: a spokesman for the congressman said he pursues justice, he doesn't obstruct it. after two months the statement says there is still not a single on the record accusation of misconduct and now the story is chinging again a gaetz friend, joel greenberg, pleaded guilty last month to sex trafficking of a minor and has pledged to cooperate fully with

officials looking into whether gaetz has had similar conduct. for the first time in lebron james career he's out in the first round of the playoffs. the lakers quest for a repeat is over after six games against the phoenix suns a dominant devin booker led the suns with 47 points. phoenix took down l.a. 113 to 100. they'll face the denver nuggets in the next round. wicked weather including rain and some flash flood concerns for your friday nbc meteorologist janessa webb joins us now she's watching it closely. hi, janessa. good morning >> hi. good morning good morning, everyone flash flood concerns and the heat starting to build across the east coast going to be a different taste as we go into the weekend compared to what we saw earlier this week with the cooler weather. right start to

die down across the carolinas. we're going to see that pick it's the damaging winds that we will see as the cold front makes its way across the mid-atlantic to the northeast flash flood concerns throughout the morning across rally durham into coastal areas damaging wind gusts, isolated tornadoes possible this could be upgraded to a slight ris upper 70s with dew points increasing from the northeast to the mid-atlantic the heat is starting to expand we'll talk about that coming up. ladies. >> janessa, we'll see you sooni.

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for the american people over the last four years. >> former republican speaker of the house john boehner weighed in pinning some of the blame on the former president. >> donald trump does, in fact, bear some of the blame for what happened on january the 6th. i think that the american people absolutely need to know what happened >> comments come just days after senate republicans blocked a bill for an independent commission to investigate the attack. vanessa bryant, the widow of the late nba legend kobe bryant is calling out nike for a tribute shoe to honor gianna bryant the 30-year-old held up someone showing one of the shoes she asked why they were released without her permission they were not approved to be made vanessa said neither she nor her

daughters had received pairs bryant had been working with nike on a deal to sell the shoes but the partnership fell through when she didn't re-sign her husband's contract with the giant. nike didn't return the call. today's lgbtq ground breaker is jason collins he publicly came out eight years ago becoming the first active male athlete in one of the four major u.s. sports to do so during a recent pride month panel collins says it surprises me there aren't more out male ath athletes that does surprise me. the 42-year-old praised female athletes saying look no further than the wnba. so many super stars speaking their truth. tiffany haddish is channelling flo-jo she will star as florence griffith joyner in an upcoming biopick. she passed away in 1998.

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