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historian civil activist cyril black. "early today" starts right now good morning, i'm frances rivera. >> i'm phillip mena. >> if you have been shopping, you may have noticed prices are higher there sa push to untangle the supply chain, getting them off the cargo ships bottlenecked off the coast of florida chris, good morning, the president unveiled new plans to hopefully get supplies moving again. >> that's right. there was a boom of online shopping as covid started and at that time many manufacturers overseas were shutting down, that's what caused this traffic jam of cargo ships off our coast. the plan to unload them worked 24 hours a day, seven days a week president biden announced the ports of los angeles and long beach have committed to clear

the backlog. the president says the plan won't work if other parts of the chain don't do it, too >> i want to be clear, this th across the board commitment to going to 24/7. this is a big first step in speeding up the movement of materials and goods through our supply chain but now we need the rest of the private sector cane to step up as well. this is not called a spy chain for nothing. >> the white house says walmart, fed-ex and ups have agreed to move more goods during the overnight hours. the backlog isn't just frustrating. it's much more expensive beef, bacon, cars, gas, furniture up double digits over last year, one port director did say that the ports are prioritizing goods that need to be on the shelves before the holidays, so, hopefully, holiday shoppers will find the things that they need >> the holiday shopping season is virtually upon us chris, thank you

captain kirk finally beamed into space william shatner tapped other blue origin paying passengers completed their flight to the final frontier he was at a loss of words after returning from space nbc news' tom costello has more. >> 3, 2, 1 >> reporter: against a cloudless sky, swagger and confidence on bold display, as jeff bes so blue origin carried a beloved star icon star trek captain william shatner, captain kirk. he was weightless with three fellow passengers. blue origins audra powers and they each paid an estimated $250,000 to fly. >> no description could equal this. >> reporter: it was a quick trip soon the booster rock was

landing back on the pad. while shatner and team paradoubted to a soft landing. >> and the capsule touched down. >> reporter: one of the world's richest men opening the hatch. jeff bezos drew up a star trek and captain kirk fan and invited him to fly for shatner, this was much more than a ten-minute joyride. >> what you have given me is the most profound experience i can ever have. i am so filled with emotion about what just happened i hope that i can maintain what i fell if you. i don't want to lose it. >> reporter: son after, we caught up with him on the landing pad. bill, you seemed emotional when you came down. >> i still am. i am overwhelm by what i saw i saw death in the blackness of

space. i saw life in the beauty and the warmth of earth. i am 90-close-to-death did i see death? i don't know i am moved by the enormous experience i just had. >> reporter: a deep appreciation for how fragile the earth truly is and for blue origin, mission accomplished yeah, make no mistake about it, this was a stroeblke of marketi genius to put captain kirk, thereby, ensuring you will get the world's media to pay attention and to come back here to remote texas. as for the rest of the year, we expect one more flight and several next year. we don't know exactly how many we don't know who might be slow showing up and how much they're paying frances, back to you. >> all that pro fund reaction. thanks, tom a bizarre and deadly

attack in norway, a man armed with arrows near oslo. keir simmons has the details. >> reporter: these shadow images, the aftermath of an attack that killed multiple people police on the streets of a norwegian town reporting an assailant armed with a bow and arrow who appears to have acted alone. the local police chief says there were several reports of a man moving around with a weapon, with bow and arrows. there were injuries and fatalities the bizarre a tack kopd in -- attack happened near os lot. the police say they have the situation under control. police are fought searching for more suspects. the motive for the attack is still unclear. the method, a bow and arrow,

stunning norwegians. reports say the police believe the assailant tended to be walking around shooting people keir simmons, nbc news today the advisory committee will start two days to discuss moderna and j&j boosters. >> they will discuss the second timing, the best timing for the single dose j&j. >> reporter: phil lip, good morning. what could yet be another sign we could potentially be fearing the end of the pandemic. the biden administration is lifting more restricts on border crossings. this all comes as later today an fda advisory panel is set to meet to discuss the moderna booster shots and tomorrow johnson&johnson shots. the fda is questioning the evidence johnson&johnson provided in its application for

booster shots. scientists say there may be a benefit two months after the initial dose the agency noted the data is limited, saying a ke fda didn'te enough time to independently review much of the raw data from the trial. ahead of an advisory panel this friday it's not clear whether these concerns would be enough to delay emergency use authorization. >> we have the vaccine supply and we'll be ready to hit the ground rung as soon as any additional boosters are authorized. >> reporter: and now, a new highly anticipated study by the nih shows mixing and matching v vaccine boosters, and j&j are better off than the moderna boosters meanwhile, the white house is also telling governors to start preparing to vaccinate children as young as five in anticipation

of the clearance for that age group in the coming weeks. >> by vaccinating fewer break through cases, fewer cases in school and less transition at home. >> new data shows last week covid cases dropped 12% from the previous week. still. >> despite the recent cases, most communities across the country are still experiencing substantial-to-high levels of community transmission and we're certainly fought in a place where cases are in a control area. >> reporter: but there may be some light at the end of the tunnel, starting in november, the biden administration will lift restrictions at the u.s. borders with canada and mexico for fully vaccinated travelers for 19 months, all non-essential travelers, including family members and tourists could not cross, hurting gloria's gift shop in detroit across from windsor, canada. what has that done to your business >> it's been a little of a roller coaster

first it was devastating with the shutdown for everybody. >> reporter: the changes will be different than air travel. unlike traveling by air, visitors by land will not need to show a negative covid test, but they will be required to show proof of vaccination. philip >> gabe, thanks. california fires quickly burned out of control in three days the blaze forced evacuation orders and closed portions of highway 101. more than 1,000 fire personnel are working to combat the fire, which has grown to over 15,000 acres in size. according to forecasters, smoke is expected to drift into the los angeles and venturia counties prompting air quality warnings. >> nbc's janessa webb joins us. >> hi, good morning. you know our friends in the pacific northwest. colder air is coming if. it's not going to help the fire danger it needs moisture.

that is heading across texas and most of the east coast will you dry out as we go into your friday and saturday so right now i am watching rain across central texas it continues we have been watching this all week long, 14 million people dealing with flash flood watches and warnings i do expect this to expand into the mississippi valley this afternoon and also still watching that severe weather threat across this area. 9 million people are going to be dealing with severe conditions it's going into this afternoon and then later this evening. as we are dealing with warmer temperatures they continue to really make its way across the east coast today, where day time highs are well above average. the primary threat will be damaging wind gusts, hail and a few rnadtoo

virginia 83 degrees chilly for the coat. colorado 37, colorado springs mid-40 so we're over that winter storm. but still freeze warnings in place. we'll look at that coming up. >> all right talk to you in just a bit, janessa, thank you when it comes to lady ga da, she has unique fashion choice, on a private flight, she was wrapped in a boa of entire $100 bills and said back to vegas, baby, with house of gaga and back to gucci is unfolding, it's $22,000. >> my goodness, girls have similar, they're singleles the biggest boost to social security in four decades. >> hall of famer joe montana may

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