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primed for use right now. why this graduating senior chose to have her photos taken in the field with her parents. >> i'm frances rivera. >> i'm phillip mena. we begin with the latest on america's relationship and commitment to the nato alliance, something president biden has hit the reset button on. on monday mr. biden reaffirmed the country's support for the 72-year-old treaty while attending his first nato summit as commander in chief, chinese and russian relations were much of the focus of the meeting which does come one day before his highly anticipated face to face with russian president vladimir putin we turn live to mike memoli in brussels. >> reporter: the finish line is almost in sight as he wraps up two days of meetings with european allies. on monday his focus was all on underscoring the sacred obligation to the nato alliance.

>> i want to make it clear, nato is critically important for u.s. interests in and of itself it allows america to conduct its business around the world in a way that would never have occurred if it were not for nato >> it was a marathon day of meetings, one of the longest not just the largest group setting but a number of one-on-one meetings including with the president of turkey, erdogan. the u.s. is increasingly worried about the authoritarian arms deal signed with russia. today the president will sit down with leaders of the european union he'll have a sitdown with another royal visit, the king of belgium. then it's on to geneva for the much awaited, much anticipated

c conference with vladimir putin. the meeting witht a day away what did he think of putin laughing off his criticism that he was a killer? care simmons was pressing the leader whether he targeted his top critic. >> president biden with his own response with president putin who laughed off the american's suggestion that he was a killer. >> when president biden was asked if he believes you are a killer he said, i do mr. president, are you a killer? >> translator: look, over my tenure i've gotten used to attacks from all kinds of angles. >> reporter: president biden was asked about that response?

>> i'm laughing, too >> reporter: in our interviewee pressed the leader on accusations that he tried to have his leading opponent alexey navalny killed navalny accuses russia of poisoning him. this is the first time the direct question has been put to putin. >> did you order alexey navalny's assassination? >> translator: of course not we don't have this habit of assassinating anybody. that's true. number two, i want to ask you did you order the assassination of the woman who was walked into congress and shot by policemen do you know 450 individuals were arrested 450 people. >> reporter: you're talking about the capitol riot in our interview president putig

america. russia and china are increasingly close it's just a question of whether you are prepared to criticize china. >> translator: can i be completely honest? we can see attempts at destroying the relationship between russia and china. >> reporter: both russia and china's leaders have extended their term in office putin could be president until 2036 do you worry the longer you are in power and without any sign of someone to replace you, the more instability there may be when you finally do choose to leave office >> translator: of course somebody will come and replace me at some point if i can see that this is an individual who has constructive views, that he or she is committed to this country and is

prepared to sacrifice his entire life to this country, i will do everything to ensure such peopl >> reporter: president putin preparing to meet with his fifth president. he'll negotiate on cyber hacking but denying russia is to blame the russian leader who president biden called bright and tough is also complex this week's summit high stakes for both sides phillip, frances. >> kyr, thank you. as more restrictions are lifted, violence is on the rise in america a man shot and killed a supermarket cash sheer over a dispute over mask wearing. a sheriff's deputy was also wounded as that suspect was taken in custody this attack in new york city occurred in broad daylight he was stabbed in the back the victim is expected to survive. police are trying to find the suspect. violent crimes surged over

the weekend. 55 wounded and 10 people killed over the weekend law enforcement experts are warning of a deadly summer. nine years after the creation of the deferred action for childhood arrivals program, they're working to keep it in action. >> let's be clear, this is not amnesty, this is not immunity, this is not a path to citizenship, it's not a permanent fix, this is a temporary stop-gap measure that lets us focus our resources wisely while giving a degree of relief to talented, driven patriotic young people. >> let's bring in nbc's tracie potts. a year after daca, that stop-gap measure still hangs in place. >> reporter: right this larger measure of immigration reform has languished in congress for years. now the biden administration wants to pick up where former

president obama and his administration left off. they want to grant legal status to thesepeople, many of them now adults, who were brought into the united states undocumented as children the senate's holding a hearing on that today looking at a bill that passed the house that would provide a path to citizenship for dreamers and millions of other undocumented immigrants. this afternoon vice president kamala harris getting involved she marked the daca anniversary holding a roundtable with immigrant women who worked in the care industry, but in the middle of this renewed push for immigration reform, daca and its recipients remain in jeopardy. the supreme court has spoken blocking an attempt by former president trump to end the daca program last year, but in 2018 there was a lawsuit in texas federal courts that could shutter the program entirely and don't forget politics. all of this still up in the air with the fight in congress over

immig immigration very much affected by the 2022 mid-term elections >> with the crisis at the border we see it every day. tracie, thank you. a massive fire is still burning at a chemical plant in northern illinois after a petroleum plant in rockton exp exploded all of the employees made it out safely and mandatory residents f within 1 mile. using water could put dangerous runoff into the river. talk about the record-setting high temperatures, dry conditions, elevated fire risk and a growing tropical storm in the atlantic how is that for starting your tuesday? let's bring in nbc meteorologist janessa webb who has us all under your control as far as what you see whether mother nature has a whole other plan, that's to be

determined, right? >> right yeah i mean, a ton going on, different elements the first element is the dome of high pressure that is causing the expansion of heat across the west it stays in place through saturday so you see all these advisories, warnings, watches. they will continue and they will continue to spread even to sections of upper midwest. so hundreds of record highs going to be broken for the higher elevations, even for the lower elevations for today look at phoenix. we're talking about 118 going to be matching records in that area some areas near 120 degrees. that's look at ae rockies.

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>> they're the most glaring examples of under funded structure. kelly navaro blew two tires in texas. >> we shouldn't have to drive on highways like this, roads or anything it's ridiculous. >> reporter: it's widespread civil engineers give an overall grade of c much lower to dams, mass transit, water systems and yes, roads and bridges. it's up to individual states to prioritize which bridges to fix when here in rhode island, 16 to 20% of the bridges are structurally deficient. this one is held up by wooden cribbing because the concrete above is crumbling, the rebar is rusting. this state gets a d minus. rhode island has embarked on a massive repair list which makes the federal infrastructure money critical. >> the longer you wait to do it, the less safe it becomes

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important for people we have the story. >> facing our fears on the shores of lake samamish. hard to believe the number one fear is still public speaking, more so than death itself. not far behind still on the podium is the very real fear called tripanaphobia one in five are deathly afraid of needles perhaps it is the syringes that keep people from wanting to consider the vaccine it's the vaccine here. our fear of needles can't compete with our love of dogs. >> well, wrigley's 4 years old i got him when he was a pup. he's an awesome dog. >> so awesome. i can't describe it but it was just awesome to see a dog sit in front of a young man that was having trouble and they both got on the same page and they comforted each other and were

able to get that shot. >> my first maskless kiss in a year. >> we've had 15,000 people come through the site there is some vaccine hesitancy of some folks. sometimes it's a very strong reaction, anxiety. we had an individual that came through, they were highly nervous, very anxious about getting the shot i remember lieutenant dave jones had one of his dogs here, wrigley. it was a brilliant idea for andrew we started petting the dog together and within 30 seconds we were able to quickly administer the shot. individual barely even noticed. >> i have a dog that helps me through a lifelong instinct actual fear. it probably took two seconds after i was in contact with wrigley. >> i've seen this a lot. i'm a military veteran myself. i have friends who are alive because of service animals there. >> having that dog was impossibly perfect for where i

was. >> thanks to chris cashman for that report. they are on to something with wrigley. we can see that going on in a whole lot of communities sure happy to help. >> add that to the list of why dogs areo s

i'm very excited about this and i think this is a good thing for our recovery. >> this return to a lot that had been put on pause for the last year and a half. >> i'll still be careful because of the people that won't get vaxed. >> ready, set, reopen. covid-19 restrictions are ending today across california after more than a year of shutdowns, from long lines at stores, school shutdowns and the constant zoom meetings. the struggle has been real. now vaccines, there's hope on the horizon, and a chance to rebuild. >> finally, be able to bring

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