upper hand the surprising announcement from the justice department millions in ransom recovered how the feds were able to get colonial pipeline's bitcoin payment back from the russian hackers. of a a two week manhunt, the arrest in the road rage shooting that killed a 6-year-old boy. medical break through. the fda approves the first alzheimer's drug but it also comes with great controversy. our lester holt reports on an idea that could make housing in one of america's most expensive cities more

affordable. making way for progress as we kick off a busy tuesday "early today" starts right now. >> good morning, i'm phillip mena. >> i'm frances rivera. the department of justice is turning the page on the hackers. the doj announced it recovered most of the ransom payment made to the russian hacker group. nbc's pete williams has more. >> what thousands of americans didn't know as it waited in line is that the fbi was already investigating dark side, the group in russia blamed for carrying it out. colonial told the fbi about the attack and the fbi figured out the password and took nearly all the money back out says the deputy attorney general lisa monaco. >> today we turned the table on

dark side. >> colonial paid $4.4 million. >> the extorsionists will never see this money. >> reporter: justice department officials say it's a potent way to take the profit out of ransomware. >> pete, thank you for that report cyber attacks like that one are at the top of president biden's agenda when he sets off for his first overseas trip tomorrow in the span of eight days he will meet with several world leaders including queen elizabeth and russian president vladimir putin nbc's tracie potts has the latest >> reporter: there certainly is, phillip. it will be a busy week in addition to the one-on-one meetings that you mentioned. he is meeting for several days with the group of g7 to set a new tone for a new

administration with america's allies he's got a nato briefing and then of course the high stakes meeting with russia's president vladimir putin next week this comes on the heels of vice president harris wrapping her trip to mexico and central america today. she's meeting with mexican leaders today. she was in guatemala yesterday delivering a stern message to migrants who are considering coming to the united states. >> the goal of our work is to help guatemalans find help at home at the same time i want to be clear to folks in this region who are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the united states/mexico border. do not come. do not come. if you come to our border, you will be turned back. >> reporter: vice president harris has been tasked with

dealing with immigration at the border the crisis at the border especially with migrant children the biden administration believes that the key to doing so is improving life south of the border and targeting corruption >> trying to get at the root cause of all of that thank you. there is a new drug for alzheimer's patients the fda has given a green light to the drug called ajukunimas. it's the first new drug to treat the disease in 20 years. the agency is getting some push back after mixed clinical results. here's nbc's stephanie gosk. >> reporter: hope for 6 million people suffering from alzheimer's. the fda approving the amyloid protein that builds up in the brain of alzheimer's patients. they're calling the approval

victory. that's what phil is calling it, too. he took part in the clinical trial and has been taking it for five years. >> my head feels clearer definitely i'm not cured in any way, shape or form but i feel like i have more capacity, more mental capacity than i did four years ago. >> reporter: but the fda decision is controversial. the drug is going on the market even though they say there are uncertainties and is requiring biogen to do more trials phil's physician worries about possible side effects including bleeding in the brain. >> reporter: where does it leave doctors from prescribing it? first i need to read the drug's label and i want to learn about the clinical trial. >> reporter: they say it will

cost nearly $56,000 a year, a steep price tag for a drug that still has to prove itself. stephanie gosk, nbc news. criminal charges will be filed today for the two suspects arrested in connection with the road rage shooting that killed a 6-year-old boy marcus sarag and winnie li >> reporter: investigators arrested 26-year-old marcus araz and 23-year-old winnie li. arez was the passenger when the shot was fired from their car striking this vehicle in the trunk and taking the life of 6-year-old aiden deos who was strapped to his booster seat. >> we have recovered the weapons and the automobile used in the crime. >> we will get justice for him. >> reporter: investigators have

confirmed arez's instagram profile but have not said if any weapons were used in the freeway shooting in orange the pair was arrested more than two weeks away from the shooting a half million reward generating a flurry of trips. >> joanna kloonan buried her son after a service saturday. >> you took his life and my heart along with it. >> reporter: heart break and now the promise of justice miguel almaguer, nbc news. jeff bezos announced monday he will ride into orbit and they will be on the 11 minute flight. a minnesota construction site was swarmed environmental and indigenous activists argue that the $4

billion project will threaten climate change actress and activist jane fonda was on the front lines of her resistance police arrested at least 100 people who chained themselves to construction equipment. two dangerous wildfires are burning out of control near phoenix. more than 100,000 acres have been destroyed and more communities are being forced to evacuate the larger of the two fires is still 0% contained. in colorado overnight a tornado was caught on camera it appears to be a land spout tornado which forms from the ground up. it touched down north of denver. it grew in size as it tore across farms and pastures. one house was damaged after a downed power line started a fire officials say there were no reports of anybody hurt but at least two cats were killed. let's turn to nbc meteorologist janessa webb

good morning >> hi. good morning you know, we do have an atmosphere that's very unstable with the heat building also, the very humid conditions that's sparking up the severe weather. no risk across colorado for today of severe weather but it increases for the high plains and then we're really focusing on the dangerous heat starting to expand into the northeast, mid-atlantic it has settled down and now is going to stay in place through thursday the problem is overnight lows, they're only dropping 10 to 15 degrees not giving your body enough time to cool down today we're going to be back into the lower 90s across philadelphia when you factor in the humidity levels, you're in the 90s. 95 for the boston area for the high plains, it really starts to settle in until thursday, even potentially friday afternoon across the dakotas where we're seeing

feel-like temperatures near 100 degrees. going to continue to watch the severe friday watching that for sections of the mid-atlantic mid 90s for wyoming. then dry conditions for the west rapid fire danger. we'll talk about that. >> another thing to watch. janessa, we'll talk to you in a bit. thank you. caught on video, a massive sinkhole opened up in jerusalem. crews lowered into the hole, scanned it with a camera to make sure nobody was trapped. nobody was hurt and the cause of that sinkhole is still not clear. still ahead, with uncupping

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