when less clean energy is available. because that's power down time. we begin day six in florida with hope against hope as rescuers search ever so carefully through the debris for signs of life with 150 people still unaccounted for. from the west coast to the east, tens of millions of americans are dealing with record-setting dangerous heat. our janessa webb is straight ahead with your forecast even with growing fears over the spread of the delta variant, america is re-opening as quickly as possible. today our miguel al megger on

how americans are dealing. plus, what caused facebook stock to surge helping push the company past the trillion dollar mark it's tuesday, june 29th. "early today" starts right now good morning, i'm phillip mena >> i'm frances rivera. we begin with that record-shattering heat wave scorching the northwest. temperatures soared to 30 to 40 degrees above normal in washington and oregon. in portland it reached 116 degrees. people there are not used to relying on air-conditioning and are needing to seek out cooling centers to stay safe. seattle where it reached a record 108 degrees monday, amazon opened up its headquarters to the public >> the extreme heat is also causing infrastructure to break down multiple roads were closed after the expanding asphalt caused them to buckle and crack and portland is hoping to get its light-rail services running again today after the heat made the equipment unsafe so let's find out if there is

any relief on the way. nbc meteorologist janessa webb joining us on the late just. janessa, good morning. >> hi, good morning. i wish hifd better news for the pacific northwest. things are not backing off with this second heat wave of the summer and we're just getting started with summer so this is very concerning we do have heat warnings that are currently in place across seattle, oregon, all the way into areas of california the problem is today that these heat warnings and advisories, they're going to start to spread into the rockies this is an amplified ridge that we're seeing, which means high pressure is pretty much stuck in this area. across the coast we're still talking about temperatures in the lower 90s. but the farther inland you go you can still we're at 110 degrees for spoken guys >> crazy numbers there janessa, thank you as families of the surfside collapse victims desperately wait for news, they are flooded

with acts of love and kindness the fund has raised over $1.2 million for families and victims. the florida jewish community got over $1 million in donations thanks to a synagogue. and gift cards and necessity kits were distributed. and the tragedy hit home for surfside mayor charles burkett after a heartbreaking encounter with an 11-year-old girl >> when i came across her, she was sitting in a chair by herself with nobody around her looking at her phone and i knelt down and i asked her, i said, so what are you doing, are you okay? she said yes she was reading a jewish prayer to herself sitting at the site by where one of her parents presumably is. >> mayor burkett says he does plan to look after her and offer her support. for the latest on the search efforts, here's dan scheneman.

>> reporter: at the scene of last eek's building collapse, the painstaking search goes on >> as we come across a crevice, as we come across a small void, we continue to focus and continue moving, continue digging through deeper to see if we find anything further >> reporter: crews working 12-hour shifts battling mother nature and shifting rubble >> if the rubble shifts we stop because you can't take a chance of the rubble shifting and harming somebody's life below. >> reporter: while the search continues, so does the wait and the worry. >> i wish i hugged her harder. >> reporter: near the scene a memorial is growing. condolences, flowers, and photos of the missing a community clinging to hope and already dealing with grief dan scheneman, nbc news. >> president biden is hitting the road today to sell the bipartisan infrastructure deal to the american people he's heading to wisconsin to tout the benefits of the $1.2 trillion plan nbc's tracie potts joins us now

with the latest. tracie, if this passes, it would be the largest transportation investment in almost a century >> it would. and that's part of what we will hear from president biden today. his game plan with washington still not quite settled on this is to try to sell it to the public we'll see that when he heads to la crosse, wisconsin, today to visit a transit center and give a speech that will follow what he said in the yahoo news op-ed that was released late yesterday that this is the largest long-term investment that our country is seeing and that it will create good jobs and dramatically strengthen the economy. that's the infrastructure plan, separate but happening at the same time is what lawmakers call a reconciliation plan to deal with some of the president's and democrats' social priorities that they think is a big part of dealing with infrastructure. but republicans are concerned about the president initially linking the two.

>> none of the republicans during the negotiations and the democrats that were in the group talked about it being linked to anything else. >> the president looks forward to and expects to sign each piece of legislation into law. he is going to work his heart out getting both of them across the finish line. we'll be working closely with leaders in congress to move both of these pieces of legislation forward. >> the white house put out a pretty detailed memo on the infrastructure plan overnight. and one of the things that they talked about were the 45,000 bridges across america in need of repair, 40% of them over 50 years old, including the i-40 bridge that links arkansas and tennessee. it's been shut down for two months because of a crack. that is a bridge that's a major source of transit in that area and really for trucks and others across the country phillip? >> a lot of fixes needed out

there. tracie, thank you. there is new data about the effectiveness of covid-19 vaccines a new oxford study shows that mixing coronavirus vaccinations can boost immune response. researchers found a shot of pfizer's vaccine four weeks after an astrazeneca shot produced a better immune response than another dose of astrazeneca. the new data comes as the wnba says 99% of the league has been vaccinated the wnba beating out the mlb, which has 85% of their players vaxxed in a statement the league said all 12 clubs have met the threshold for being considered a fully vaccinated team. this as the u.s. is continuing to help in the global vaccination effort the white house says it is shipping 2 million doses of the pfizer vaccine to peru and more than 1 million doses of the moderna vaccine to pakistan. meanwhile the cruise industry continues to push for its re-opening nbc's kerry sanders has more

good morning, kerry. >> reporter: good morning, frances. this is a very important day for this cruise because this is the first time since leaving on saturday that these first passengers leaving from a u.s. port are actually going to make port in another country. this is going to be in costa maya in mexico some passengers will be given the opportunity to get off so, that would be the first opening for potential contact with somebody who has coronavirus. because so far everybody on board, 99% of the people have been tested and tested negative. or they actually had the actual vaccines and so this day is important because those getting off on excursions will be, they say, inside a bubble because they've vetted the actual tour operators who will take them on their visits then when they bring them back, they'll come back. if somebody decides to go on that tour, especially the 24 kids on board who are under the age of 12 and not vaccinated,

they'll have to be tested before they come back on. but this is the first real opening there would be if there's going to be the possibility of being exposed to coronavirus. frances? >> all right, hoping for smooth sailing now. kerry, thanks. and the white house had hoped that the fourth of july would mark the beginning of our independence from covid. new polling shows how willing americans are to get back to celebrations compared to 2019, 15% fewer people plan to attend a barbecue, and the number going to a professional fireworks show is down 25%. when it comes to how much the pandemic has impacted vacation plans, 10% say it was the most important factor, while 42% said it did not factor in at all. let's check back in with nbc meteorologist janessa webb on the day ahead and the heat that's not letting up. janessa, good morning. >> good morning. you remember we're under a mega drought across the pacific northwest and areas of the desert southwest also the heat wave that's building and now we're about to

really get into the thick of fire danger. that's starting to spread as well across the west coast we have red flag warnings now across southern california and northern california as well. thunderstorm activity really going to be picking up this afternoon, and that could spark the red flag warningthat we're going s to way into the midwest today temperatures in the upper 80s. flash flood watches across the central tier we'll talk about that coming up. >> okay, janessa, thank you. we'll check in with you then ahead of what would have been princess diana's 60th birthday on thursday, people have already begun laying flowers, cards, balloons, remembrances at the gates of

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of all the people who have helped us out of this. a decades-old wish was fulfilled for a yankees fan. she wrote a letter to the team 60 years ago asking to be a bat girl the general manager at the time wrote her back and said that a young lady would be out of place in the dugout. that all changed last night in the bronx. >> your own locker >> i'm going to put on the pinstripes, yes? oh >> doesn't matter how old you are, right if you're a yankee fan it feels good to throw on the pinstripes. goldman's daughter reached out to the yankees, and the current manager surprised the 70-year-old with a new letter. invited her to be the honorary bat girl for the game against the angels in addition to her duties as bat girl, she also got to throw out

the first pitch before the game. the yankees invited her as part of the team's annual hope week which stands for helping others persevere and excel. >> when you have to wait 60 years to do it, going all out. now to a reunion of a lifetime for a family in kentucky first sergeant michael c. miller was able to surprise his wife and kids as they were invited to throw out the ceremonial first pitches at sunday's game he's been serving overseas in 2017 and little did the family know michael was undercover as the catcher with his face completely hidden by a helmet and a mask. once the pitches were thrown, he revealed his face. i always love these kinds of reunion stories especially there on video now families are getting more and more creative in doing it. and this is so great it's like everybody can understand they're going to have to wait for the game to start and let this reunion happen.

>> a couple of first pitches and n "early today." >> check out this algae taking over an oklahoma city lake it might look like a work of art, but it can bearmful t ho .

right now at 4:30, cuts coming to some water customers as we dive deep near a worsening drought situation across the state. why the entire bay area is closely watching what happens today in santa rosa. plus -- >> to get hit by the great white. >> surviving a shark attack and living to tell the tale. a san francisco man now opens up for first time about his terrifying encounter along our coast. and -- >>