♪ the city in mourning after ten people were shot and killed in buffalo today we are learning who those victims were. plus, details on the gunman behind the supermarket rampage. a deadly weekend as several other shootings wreaked havoc across the country why the mayor of chicago banned teen afs 6:00 p.m. and divine intervention congregants of one church took down a gunman in kra ya. the nationwide baby formula shortage is driving parents to desperate attempts to feed their children how the biden administration plans to help low income

families in the crisis. all i saw when i came up to the front was water out the right window i knew it was coming in quickly, very, very quickly. nbc exclusive on the miraculous save. we'll hear from the passenger who flew a plane to safety after the pilot passed out. and seeing red inside the stunning lunar eclipse that gave the moon a scarlett color "early today" starts right now good morning and thanks for waking up with us. >> i'm frances rivera. we begin with the latest round of devastating gun violence in america. overnight, buffalo police releasing the names of the ten people who lost their lives while grocery shopping on a saturday afternoon ten people gunned down in what is being investigated as a hate crime. the victims are remembered as a dad trying to buy a birthday cake, the deacon of a church a community leader who ran a food bank for decades. people have been gathering outside the supermarket to mourn

and comfort each other nbc's kate snow is in buffalo. >> reporter: authorities say the alleged shooter planned it all >> body armor. we have him about 40 feet out. >> reporter: it started around 2:30 saturday afternoon in the parking lot of this market store in a predominantly black neighborhood in buffalo. the alleged shooter wearing full body armor and tactical gear targeting people of color. this gentleman worked at tops and helping an older woman with her groceries in the parking lot. he was shot in the neck. >> i've protected him his whole life from the ills of world. here we have a man, a terrorist, who came into my community, into our neighborhood

yeah yeah that's um -- that's hard that's hard. >> reporter: the woman he was helping was killed right in front of him neighbors watched it all in horror >> it was just rapid just one after -- just kept going. >> next thing you know, we came outside and it was just packed full of people we saw dead bodies they were covered up >> reporter: in all, 13 people were shot, 4 were store employees, 10 died aaron soldier was a father of three and buffalo police officer for 30 years he's being hailed as a hero. the last four years he worked as a security guard at the tops he tried to stop the gunman. >> fired multiple shots. struck the suspect but because he had heavily armored plaiting on that bull let had no round the suspect engaged our retired officer and he was ultimately shot and deceased at the scene. >> he worked over 20 something years as a buffalo police officer, lost his life at tops disgusting to me

>> reporter: another who died 86-year-old ruth whitfield, stopped at the store after caring for her husband at the nursing home the alleged shooter threatened to take his own life but then dropped his gun and surrendered to police. saturday he was charged with first degree murder and pleaded not guilty >> the lone gunman armed with weapons of war and hate-filled soul, shot and killed 10 innocent people in cold blood. >> reporter: raw emotion pouring on to the streets. >> people just wake up and come kill us when ever they feel like it that's not okay. >> we cannot allow this to destroy us we cannot allow this -- we can't allow those people that are upset and mad about what happened to try to take their own vengeance either. >> reporter: a community united in grief >> our thanks to kate snow for that coming up, our chris pollone a live update from buffalo. in texas, two people are dead and three are in the hospital with critical injuries after gunfire erupted at a busy

flee market in the houston area. authorities say at least two men involved in a fight pulled guns and started shooting one suspect is hospitalized another was arrested at the scene. no bystanders were hurt in the shooting police are investigating if anyone else was involved in the altercation. another shooting happened at a california church where congregants tackle and hog tied a gunman until police arrived. the suspect opened fire killing one person and injuring five others >> we believe a group of church goers detained him and hog tied his legs with an extension cord and confiscated at least two weapons from him he was detained when the deputies arrived >> most of the victims are of taiwanese decent the shooter was an asian man in his 60s. police believe he lived in the area. in chicago, mayor lori lightfoot has banned unaccompanied minors from millennium park after 6:00 p.m this after a teen was shot and killed during an altercation on

saturday night police arrested a 17-year-old suspect and a 16-year-old who was found carrying a ghost gun >> too many guns are making their way into the hands of those who have too little respect for sanctity of life. >> police recovered eight guns from saturday's altercation. at least 26 juveniles and 5 adults were arrested. parents across the countries are grappling with a baby formula shortage there's an alarming new warning about just how long it could last >> reporter: panicked parents across the country, counting cans and rationing powder. >> we go to buy formula, everything is gone >> the shelves are bare. >> reporter: now as shelves meant for baby formula remain empty, parents remain alarmed. this shortage could rest the last of the year two plants are running at 115%

capacity. >> how alarming is this shortage to you >> it's extremely alarming >> reporter: as apartments become desperate, pediatricians warn against watering formula down >> this isn't like taking a lemonade and putting water in it, unfortunately. it's not safe for babies bauds of nutritional and protein levels >> this is a process we're working on it very, very hard. >> reporter: president biden vowing to increase availability of formula to low income families and import formula from abroad, this as milk banks see need skyrocket. >> have you ever had a surge in demand like this >> right now, this is the most surge in demand that i have ever seen we have a need for donors to step up. babies need to be fed. >> reporter: babies and older kids with special medical conditions like prince green. >> i think it's good that i have

pediasure. >> liz cruz is trying to keep her 11-year-old out of the hospital he's already been twice this year his body has trouble absorbing nutrient cruz has five days left of the formula her son needs. is it wild to you to see something so critical like baby formula run so low >> yes this is major. i believe that it's worse now than what it was during the pandemic. >> reporter: a life-saving resource in critically low supply. thousands of abortion right supporters turned out for the bans off our bodies demonstrations that were held in several cities, including in washington, d.c. over the weekend. the protests come as a new nbc news poll has found 60% of americans say abortion should be legal. nbc's susan mcginnis has more. >> good morning, los angeles >> reporter: abortion rights activists taking to the streets by the thousands

>> when we fight -- >> we win. >> when we fight -- >> we win. >> reporter: in the nation's capital, in cities and towns nationwide, pro-choice demonstrators making their voices heard. >> very simple for me. it's my body, my choice. >> reporter: the so-called bans off our bodies rallies sparked by the leaked supreme court draft opinion indicating a majority of justices will vote to overturn landmark abortion rights legislation roe versus wade justice clarence thomas speaking out on the leak this weekend >> i do think that what happened at the court is tremendously bad. >> reporter: abortion rights leaders blaming supreme court justices for the nationwide outrage. >> they don't care about precedent. they don't care about the constitution. >> looking to energize voters to elect pro choice officials in midterm and gubernatorial elections. >> we'll see you in the streets and see you at the ballot box. >> reporter: reversal of roe v.

wade would leave the issues up to state more than a dozen have laws automatically banning once roe is reversed. >> they will come for gay rights, transrights. this fight is about all of us. >> hands off. >> my body. >> reporter: marching to the supreme court to preserve a right held for nearly 50 years supporters for overturning roe v. wade also rallying in counterdemonstrations across the country. >> i'm so happy your mom didn't abort you. >> reporter: hoping the high court follows through on reversing roe. for now the fight goes on. 62 million americans are in the path of severe weather as we kick off your monday nbc meteorologist michelle grossman with more on that hi, michelle good morning. >> good morning to you both. we're seeing showers and storms early this morning through parts of the ohio valley and also the mid atlantic and it's the northeast and the mid atlantic that will be the

bullseye for these storms later on today over 60 million americans at risk for these severe storms stretching from parts of new england down into the mid atlantic and the carolinas widespread damaging winds over f 0 miles per hour could see hail as well and few tornadoes are possible looking at some localized flash flooding as well to see rainfall rates one inch per 102 in san anglo guys, we'll talk more about that record heat today and where it's headed over the next few days. back to you. >> thank you, michelle up next, the nordic nightmare for russia as its war in ukraine rages on. savannah guthrie's exclusive interview with the passenger who ane teinto action and landed a plafr the pilot was incapacitated.

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ukrainians are pushing back against russian forces in some areas, but the kremlin continues its assault on eastern ukraine renewed attacks were launched on the last ukrainian holdout in mariupol nbc's cal perry has the details. >> reporter: in mariupol, the russian onslaught continues. according to ukrainian officials, russia attacking from the ground and air for the families of those still inside, a worry this could be the end. do you think you'll see him again? >> yes, i hope in my mind i think that there is no chance, but in my heart, i feel that we can save them >> reporter: in the north, ukrainian army is on the move. pushing russian forces back. this weekend, inducing a russian retreat in the country's second largest city of kharkiv. russian casualties and

implements of war littering the road that leads back to the border in finland, a decades' long policy of neutrality came to an end. the prime minister announcing the country will apply for nato membership. >> everything changed when russia attacked ukraine. >> reporter: here in the capital of kyiv, victories both on and off the battlefield. soldiers back from the front taking time to check in on europe's singing spectacle ukraine takes home the top prize. [ cheers and applause ]. >> please help ukraine, mariupol help us right now! >> reporter: a nation connected by war hours later, from the bunker undermariupol, a tribute to on victory, while the sounds of war rage above cal perry, nbc news, kyiv. and now to an nbc "today show" exclusive.

we're hearing for the very first time from that airplane passenger who landed the small aircraft in florida last week after the pilot passed out "today show" savannah guthrie spoke about how he did it. sam brock has more. >> reporter: staring death in the face -- >> by the time i had moved forward to the front of the airplane, i realized that we had now gone into a dive at a very fast rate. >> reporter: darren harrison speaking for the first time exclusively to "today's" savannah guthrie about performing an emergency landing with no experience ever flying and a pilot passed out at the controls. >> all i saw when i came up to the front was water out the right window and i knew it was coming quick, very, very quickly. >> the plane is in a nose dive. >> yes correct. and at that point, i knew if i didn't react, that we would die. and so, i reached over his body because he's at this point unresponsive i kind of put my arm over to where hi elbow is sitting here

i grab the controls of the airplane and slowly started to pull back on the stick and turn the airplane. >> reporter: the crisis cropping up mid flight when harrison says the pilot reported not feeling well >> i've got a serious situation here my pilot has gone incoherent >> about the time i stopped the plane, my -- that's when it hit me y yeah i was pretty calm and collected. it was a life or death situation. you do what you need to do to control the situation or you're going to die that's what i did. >> reporter: harrison who is from lakeland, florida, expecting his first child with his wife britney this summer says his strong center of faith and will to live carried him to the ground even when the plane went off the radar right before landing >> did you say the passenger landed the airplane? >> that's correct. >> oh my gosh. great job. >> reporter: a miracle in every sense of the word. sam brock, nbc news, palm beach county, florida.

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morning. we're learning so much more about the ten victims of this massacre among them there were parents. there was a church deacon a woman who ran a food bank. and investigators say they believe it was quite intentional that this attack happened here in the predominantly black neighborhood while the investigation of this grocery store massacre is still in its early stages, the buffalo police commissioner says one thing is clear -- >> this is an absolute racist, hate crime it will be prosecuted as a hate crime. this is someone who has hate in their heart, soul and mind. >> reporter: saturday afternoon, a lone gunman opened fire at tops friendly market >> it was rapid. just kept going. >> reporter: in all, 13 people shot, 10 killed. 11 of the victims were african-american. >> this individual came here with the express purpose of taking as many black lives as he possibly could

>> yes, sir. i understand my charges. >> reporter: 18-year-old payton is charged with first degree murder he drove 200 miles to buffalo the day before the attack to look for a target. >> shots firing. >> reporter: among those killed, retired buffalo police officer aaron salter, the store's security guard who died trying to stop the shooter. >> he worked over 20 something years as a buffalo police officer, lost his life at tops disgusting to me >> reporter: people who live in the area have been gathering outside the market to comfort each other and pray. >> this was an act of evil >> yes >> evil. >> reporter: president biden coming to buffalo tomorrow condemned the attack. >> we must work together to address the hate that remains a stain on the soul of america >> reporter: police investigated the accused gunman last year for making a threat but say he was released after a brief mental health evaluation.

today investigators are pouring through the accused gunman's social media and also taking a look at a document they believe he posted online that outlined his alleged plot and motives frances? >> just so tragic. chris, thank you and thank you for starting your monda

right now at 4:30, anger, shock and sadness. in new york community is mourning the 10 victims of what investigators are calling a racist murder rampage at a grocery store. also, more heart rake in orange county after a mass shooting at a church. incredible stories now emerging of people who put themselves in harms way to stop the gunmen. how supporting the victims of the war in ukraine. one local woman is stepping up and helping those affected by the ongoing, one shoe at a