look what dropped from the sky! don't do it dennis. that's the way you execute a midnight snack run. stand up to cancer and rally want you to reduce your risk for cancer, go to takeahealthystand.org. this morning, health officials are concerned about the fast-spreading delta variant of the coronavirus plus, new information about the heart-related issue experienced by some vaccine recipients pop star britney spears asked the court to end her father's conservatorship pleading, i just want my life back you did an incredibly stupid -- i just don't, like, with all the things we have

going on in this country, for you to do that in front of ten cops and multiple kids, you almost forced me and many others to take your life. >> a man pulling out a gun at the scene of a fight and if it was not for that quick-thinking police officer, that situation could've been deadly we'll show you how it all played out. and the beautiful reason spider-man was able to have an audience with pope francis "early today" starts right now glad you're with us this thursday i'm frances rivera >> and i'm phillip mena. breaking news at this hour, a massive building collapse has just happened in northern miami. details are unfolding as we come onto the air but this is what is left, a pile of rubble after a condo partially collapsed near 88th street and collins avenue. residents were wokenr doors. dozens of people have been

evacuated. over 80 emergency units are on the scene right now. we don't know how many people have been in the building. there's no word on how many people could've been injured emergency officials are going through the rubble stay with your nbc stations, your local affiliates for the latest details on this breaking story. now to the highly aggressive delta variant on the rise. vaccinations are more critical than ever. the cdc director says the shots are nearly 100% effective against severe disease >> nearly every death due to covid-19 is particularly tragic because nearly every death, especially among adults due to covid-19, is at this point entirely preventible >> the cdc is also shedding new light on a rare heart issue linked to vaccines nbc's morgan chesky has those details. >> reporter: a cdc panel now saying there's a likely association between a rare heart condition and vaccinated young adults more than 1,200 cases of

myocarditis and perocardites are being investigated the condition primarily coming after the second dose seen mostly in young men. for both vaccines the cdc reports fewer than 13 heart information cases per million doses. the majority of cases appear to be mild. >> it's an extremely care side effect and likely that the level of myocarditis in the vaccine is far lower than the level of myocarditis if you get covid-19. so, the bottom line is that the benefits of vaccination far outweigh the risks >> reporter: medical experts focusing on vaccine benefits as covid's delta variant spreads worldwide, with u.s. cases of the strain doubling in just the last two weeks >> you would expect just the doubling time, you know, in several weeks to a month or so it's going to be kwquite dominat >> this comes as vaccination rates plateau with many states

lagging when it comes to doses administered per capita. in mesa county, colorado, officials report 88% of those hospitalized for covid had no vaccination record >> of our probably last hundred admissions we've had, i think only two were vaccinated for covid. >> reporter: meanwhile in texas, a mandatory vaccine policy led to more than 150 nurses and staff either resigning or being terminated at houston methodist. this nurse filed a religious and medical exemption, but she said both were denied >> i would never force my own belief onto somebody else saying you should do this, you should do this. >> reporter: a hospital standing behind their policy. their ceo recently telling me this comes down to safety. adding more than 24,000 employees chose to follow that policy and get vaccinated. phillip? >> morgan, thanks. president biden will double down today on two top priorities, getting more americans vaccinated against covid and striking a deal on

infrastructure nbc's tracie potts joins us for the latest vaccinations have slowed to a trickle in some states >> right and part of the reason is because young people under 30 aren't getting the vaccination in higher rates as some of the older adults are the president will be in north carolina today talking about that, encouraging people not only to get the vaccine, but emphasizing that it's a lot easier now the white house has acknowledged that, in part, because of these young adults they will not meet his july 4th deadline to have 70% of adults at least partially vaccinated before the president hits the road to north carolina today, he's getting a briefing on infrastructure democrats and republicans small groups have been negotiating think they've come up with a solution >> republicans and democrats have come together along with the white house. we've agreed on a framework, and we're going to be heading to the white house tomorrow

>> are you going to allow -- >> let them announce it first, but we support the concepts that we have heard about. >> the big issue has been disagreement on how to pay for that infrastructure plan we don't know the details, but, frances, the last compromise on the table was almost a trillion dollars in transportation projects >> okay, tracie, thank you we turn now to breaking news where a day of fun in the sun turned tragic after a teenager was shot and killed. the shooting happened at the entrance of hurricane harbor water park in arlington, texas it began when an off-duty officer who was in the parking lot noticed a half a dozen people fist-fighting >> the off-duty officer as he goes to try to break it up, he hears what he thought was one gunshot. at that point he noticed that there was a teenager that was

struck >> authorities say the teenager who was shot died at the hospital several people have been detained for questioning, but police say they are denying any involvement in the incident. britney spears dropped a bombshell in court, breaking her silence during a hearing on her conservatorship. spears says she's been traumatized and claimed her father had total control, alleging she was put on lithium and forced to go on birth control. her emotional plea ignoring a fire storm of support. >> justin timberlake said we should all be supporting britney. >> nbc's guad venegas is outside the courtroom where fans protested the hearing. >> reporter: frances, an emotional day for britney spears speaking publicly for the first time over the phone at this hearing, britney sharing lots of details of what it's been like for her for the past 13 years that she's been under this conservatorship, saying she doesn't have the privacy she would like to have

also not agreeing with a medical treatment that she's received so she had a lot of complaints almost sounding defiant for a moment after this attorney that was appointed by a judge years ago also said he is willing to consider allowing britney to have another attorney represent her. also the judge saying that jody montgomery, who at the moment is one of her conservators and overlooks her treatment, asking her to look into the treatment that britney spears is receiving. so lots of details shared today. britney's attorney also sharing that moving forward she's agreed to seal the documents and to not have these hearings be public like today so we'll have to wait and see what decisions get made. but a lot that we learned from britney sharing all of these details over the phone in this hear high-stakes. do the nation's public schools have the power to punish students for what they say off

campus the supreme court says no. on wednesday the justices ruled in favor of a pennsylvania high school cheer leader who was suspended from her cheer leading squad for using vulgar language on social media. a reporter from wbre has the story. >> the school stepped out of their boundaries, and i'm glad that the supreme court also noticed that, too. >> reporter: 18-year-old brandi levy never thought she would be part of a u.s. supreme court case but eight of the nine justices ruled in her favor >> i was getting a bunch of text messages, and then i went on twitter and i seen someone tweeted it so that's how i found out, and i got really excited >> reporter: in 2017, levy turned to snapchat, a social media platform while off school property to express her frustration for not making the varsity cheer leading team using several curse words. the area school district suspended her from the jv squad for one year for her actions

that have now been deemed free speech however, the justices are not stopping schools from disciplining students from what they say off school grounds. >> it wasn't right for the school to do that because i feel like i should've been able to express myself and so should everybody else >> as a parent that's my due process to issue a punishment if one is deemed necessary, and i didn't feel the school had the authority to do so >> reporter: larry levy tried to resolve the issue with the district and school board. when that failed the family joined with the american civil liberties union to bring the attack on free speech to district court the aclu said on the ruling, quote, when we received the levy's complaints we thought the would acceptuld be resolve schoo but obviously that didn't happen the school district brought the case to the u.s. supreme court after appealing each step of the way. >> that was four years of my

life i thought it would've been done and over with. >> our thanks to wbre's cody butler for that report the u.s. is battling at least 50 wildfires spreading through seven states the mesa fire burned 350 acres in southern california the blaze prompted evacuation warnings in the area, and firefighters warned drivers to be careful as crews worked through the night to contain it. the northwest is about to bake with a dangerous and potentially historic heat wave nbc meteorologist janessa webb is tracking all of it for us janessa, good morning. >> good morning. yes, dangerous conditions and that fire danger really going to start to pick up again this weekend into next week i'll talk about that later in the forecast but i also have a big-time flood of severe storms, damaging winds and a little bit of hail this afternoon into your evinen starr

saturday we're in the lower 80s today for seattle. that heat wave's going to come in pretty quickly. we'll talk about timing coming up this week disney plus is celebrating pride month with a concert called "this is me." it'll feature musical performances by artists including glee's alex new, todrick. and kermit disney plus sunday ag

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we turn to nbc's raf sanchez >> good morning. john mcafee, best known for the antivirus software that bore his name but he also sold shares in that company in the '90s. he made a lot of money and then he lost a lot of money in the 2008 financial crash and after that his life took a very strange turn. he spent years on the run from u.s. authorities part of that time he was living on a yacht in the caribbean. he tried to run for president twice in 2016 and 2020, didn't get very far either time he was wanted back in the u.s., as you said, on tax evasion and cryptocurrency fraud charges and he was finally arrested bottom spanish authorities in barcelona in october just hours before his death, spain's high court ruled he could be extradited back to the u.s. to face charges in one of his last tweets, he said, i have nothing, yet i regret nothing.

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conduct and says he regrets his actions. the national guard is coming after congress saying it is time to pay up the more than half a billion dollar bill for protecting the capitol after the insurrection th to deploy their troops in the days after, but now they want their money, and they are threatening to cancel training and exercises if congress doesn't act the agency says it's critical that they get this money to help them complete their drills on friday vice president kamala harris will make her first visit to the u.s./mexico border since taking office this comes after republicans crit criticized her for not taking the trip sooner. the vice president is expected to travel to el paso, texas, and it is unclear if she will make additional stops a customer gave some good service back to a restaurant in new hampshire in the form of a $16,000 tip on a $37 tab

look at that the patron told the owner that he wanted to do something nice for the staff. talk about nice, right they all divvied it up, eight servers and the cooks who also got a cut of that money. >> just some chili dogs and drinks and then that extra tip it's not every day pope francis gets a friendly visit from spider-man. he has spent the past three years visiting sick kids in hospitals so he dressed up he was invited to sit in the vip section at the pope's weekly audience and of course he did it in a full superhero attire. he even got to meet the 84-year-old pontiff and gifted him with his very own spider-man mask >> he's like, you can call me the pope but you got to keep on the suit a panda has given birth to twin cubs at the tokyo zoo this panda delivered her first cub around 1:00 a.m. the second

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