. tracking claudette the power full storm swept across the southeast this weekend killing at least a dozen people now it's gaining steam as it heads towards the east coast. paving the way to an infrastructure deal worldwide with a biptisan proposal that could give president biden his best shot yet at fulfilling a key campaign promise. calling it quits over covid. why the pandemic is spurring an historic wave of resignations and what it could mean for the future of the workplace. adding summer sizzle to

cyber monday the hottest deals for amazon prime day. it's monday, june 21st "early today" starts now. good morning, everybody. i'm lindsey reiser. >> i'm phillip mena. we begin with tropical depression claudette which is expected to gain strength over north carolina this morning. the storm already brought destructive winds and flooding to the gulf coast. a woman in georgia was trapped in this car after a tree and power lines came crashing down heavy rain led to tragedy on an alabama interstate according to the butler county coroner, 10 people including 9 children were killed in a massive fileup the victims include a father and 9-month-old child in an suv and eight girls were killed in a bus from a ranch that works with needy, abused school aged children the high school held a day of remembrance and prayer service on sunday.

let's find out where the weather is nbc meteorologist janessa webb tracking the path for us good morning >> hi, good morning. racing across north carolina right now. the national hurricane center gives updates around 5 a.m i do think this will transition back into a tropical storm it's making its way across the outer banks into the wilmington area and it's starting to gain more steam it's moving fairly quickly east northeast at 20 miles per hour 55 miles out of the raleigh durham area. we're watching the severe weather threat as it makes its way off shore, that's when it's going to start to gain some steam and come together more. it will cause some high surf and storm surge conditions across the northeast before it makes its way into nova scotia going into your tuesday. it's the flood threat, severe weather threat that we're really going to be watching still there's another front behind it and that will combine with that tropical moisture that

will allow for at least two to three more inches and then the severe weather, it starts to pick up later on this afternoon into your evening. we'll talk more about that coming up. >> a lot to talk about there, janessa. we'll talk to you in a bit. president biden returns to d.c. with infrastructure talks at a crossroads. he's expected to give a bipartisan proposal later today. some from his own party say it doesn't go far enough. nbc's tracie potts joins us with the latest tracie, could this break the stalemate in the senate? >> reporter: hi, lindsey it's getting there it's gaining traction on both sides of the aisle this is a plan pitched by 11 republicans, 9 democrats and 1 independent. it is a trillion dollar proposal spread out over eight years. that's a lot less ambitious than what president biden initially pitched. he wanted to include money to fight climate change and revamp the nation's broadband network the bipartisan map would focus

instead on traditional infrastructure rebuilding roads and bridges republican backers say this is the best path to 60 votes. progressives are arguing for a bigger package >> there's a lot of interest in having a bipartisan proposal this helps president biden keep that pledge of having an infrastructure package but also to keep his pledge of doing things across the aisle and getting things done. >> what is in the bipartisan bill in terms of spending is from what i can see mostly good. it is roads and bridges and we need to do that. that is what we are proposing in our legislation but in much greater numbers. >> reporter: now the senate also takes up voting rights this week they'll vote on advancing the for the people act right now it doesn't appear to have enough votes to break a filibuster there was a compromise out there sponsored by moderate democrat joe manchin. republicans so far have not bought into that. >> tracie, thanks for catching

us up to speed we appreciate it. the white house is ramping up efforts to meet president biden's july 4th vaccination goal the administration celebrated a milestone of 300 million covid-19 doses in the president's first 150 days in office the u.s. appears unlikely to reach the president's vaccination goal of 70% of adults with one shot as the more contagious delta variant continues to spread. as of today at least 65% of adults are partially vaccinated. more than 143 million are fully vaccinated cases of the delta variant are rising in some parts of the country like in the rural parts of missouri and kansas they're seeing an outbreak of that variant which originally emerged in india it accounted for 10% of new cases in the united states. as the country returns to some sense of normalcy, companies are bracing for what economists are calling the great resignation. the new economic variant could

send waves in the american work force. nbc's earn mclaughlin has more on what this means for our economy. >> reporter: they're calling it the great resignation and the numbers tell the story in april some 3.9 million americans resigned from their jobs that is a 20-year high experts say it's happening for a number of reasons. you have those workers, front line essential workers burned out looking for a change others enjoy remote working. they don't want to have to go back into the workplace so they're looking for jobs that will accommodate that. you have those that simply re-evaluated their lives and want to shift gears. all of that contributing to the tidal wave that has employers looking at their incentive packages. >> a lot of employers will have to make those accommodations thanks to you. diplomatic drama in the middle east. iran elects a new president as world powers meet to negotiate a

deal on the country's nuclear stockpile. the clock is ticking with just six weeksto go until the new iranian government takes office. joining us from tel aviv is nbc's raf sanchez. who is this new president and how do you think his election will impact the negotiations >> phillip, good morning ibrahim raisi is a 60-year-old cleric and hard liner. he is under u.s. sanctions for human rights abuses and he won friday's election on a low turnout and only after more of his moderate rivals were barred from standing. the u.s. is still hoping to revive the iran nuclear dial, the agreement struck by president obama and torn up. jake sullivan saying over the weekend diplomacy is still the tough way. take a listen to what he has to say. >> i think what we need to do in

the united states is keep our eye on the ball and that is our paramount priority right now, prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon we believe diplomacy is the best way to achieve that rather than military conflict. >> reporter: now knows nuclear talks in vienna paused yesterday while everyone takes stock of raisi's election some analysts say the best window for getting this window done may be the next six weeks before raisi is inaugurated as president. back in the u.s. many cities saw a weekend of more deadly gun violence in chicago authorities say at least five people were killed and 44 others injured in more than 20 shootings throughout the city this weekend. in california one victim has died after seven people were shot at oakland's lake merit 5,000 people have been shot and they arrested two men seen running away with firearms. a truck accidentally drove

through a crowd at a florida pride parade one man killed and another injured. it happened in will ton manners. that's near ft. lauderdale the victims and members are part of ft. lauderdale's gay chorus the driver accelerated unexpectedly the 77-year-old suffers from a walking ailment and was chosen to drive the lead vehicle in the parade this year officials say it was unintentional. no charges have been filed the final day at the u.s. open was tougher for some golfers than others. mcken zie hughes tee shot on the 11th hole took a detour. it bounced up off a pathway and got lodged in tree branches. hughes took a one shot penalty and double bogeyed the hole. the success story at torey pines was john rahm capping off a huge comeback he won his first major

championship and regaining the number one world ranking he became the first spanish-born gover to win the u.s. open torrey pines one of the most famous to take on. janessa webb is back with us hello, janessa >> hi, good morning. good morning, everyone besides our tropical system we are really watching severe weather. right now making its way into the toledo area, ohio valley, greater cleveland. you're going to be dealing with a squaw line potential of tornadoes. just out of chicago right now of tornado damage across the area that same system will continue its transition to the north and east and that's why severe weather risk is in place for 26 million people all across northern new england into sections of the mid-atlantic this afternoon into your eveninphoenix 109.

mid 90ed for central texas we'll take a look at your week ahead coming up. >> sounds good, janessa. thank you so much. the brightest rising stars in the nba, this is their time they're taking center stage. sixers and hawks went back and forth but with ben simmons only putting up five points for philly, it was on trey young to take over things for atlanta they win and they take the series win they play the milwaukee bucks. earlier in the day devin booker led the suns in their first conference final in 11 years. phoenix takes game one from the clippers, 120-114.

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in today's quick hits, several people hurt in two separate hot air balloon incidents in colorado. according to officials, three people taken to the hospital after a balloon crash landed outside of denver. thankfully they are expected to survive. the second balloon also had a rough landing and one rider there had some minor injuries. nasa is looking for a name for the mannequin they'll send on a mission this year you can vote for the moonequin's

name there are eight names in the running. no phillip though. >> they're going for real, that's why one of the days, the iconic "star wars" x-wing fighter is arriving at the smithsonian. it will head to the national air and space museum you can catch that next year. fewer american airlines flights will be taking off as a staffing shortage continues. let's check on the markets cnbc's karen tso is with us this morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. witnessing a little bit of cautious behavior on futures down initially and now popping back up. suggesting investors are somewhat nervous after what transpired last week the dow pulling back by 3.5% bringing a little bit of red ink to the market. more hawkish than they had

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