this morning, the residents of uvalde, texas are preparing for the first of at least 21 funerals, while washington faces increased pressure on gun legislation. european leaders agree to ban up to 90% of russian oil by year's end and thieves took an artifact

and the surveillance tape, too preparing for a celebration. fit for a queen. the historic jubilee of queen elizabeth. "early today" starts right now good morning i'm frances rivera >> i'm phillip mena some wore lilac and shades of purple for the funeral of amerie garza. the girl scouts honored her with the rare bronze cross award. and visitations were held for maitre rodriguez meanwhile, there is more fallout for the school district

police chief who made the call to wait before taking down the shooter. the mayor stays he is not aware of any investigation into the chief and there's nothing prohibiting him from being sworn in to the council. he says uvalde is focussed on the fun ralgerals right now. >> authorities say officers waited inside robb elementary for 47 minutes before killing the gunman >> many americans continue to speak out about gun violence, including at a sported by tsupported

by the naacp they find words without any action troubling brie jackson joins us from d.c good morning could there be gun reforms on capitol hill >> reporter: that's the question there is growing pressure on congress to act quickly. talks between a bipartisan group of senators are under way. they are weighing a range of different proposals, mindful that they would need to get 60 votes. under consideration, red flag rules to bar weapons from those dem deemed a danger and increasing mental health resources. democrats are hopeful a plan will come together by early next week but some republicans say reforms would be unfair and ineffective. >> the sky doesn't fall for republicans if they support some

of these common sense measures >> pa la lot of these policies o two things one, they infringe on the rights of millions and millions of gun owners, and two, they probably wouldn't have the outcome you're hoping for >> reporter: president biden stressed he will use his influence but only congress can pass real reforms like outlawing weapons or changing broubd checks he did tsay gun violence has gotten so bad. meanwhile, justin trudeau is proposing a national freeze on all sales, imports and transfers of handguns. his office expects the regular rations to go into effect bit fall >> we see things like this happen after every shooting. breaking news out of nebraska where more than 50

crews are battling a massive chemical fire near downtown omaha. this is video of the flames, and a giant plume of black smoke across the sky the fire was initially cra classified as two-alarm fire but was upgrade after firefighters staid was larger than expected firefighters scrambled to save a building at the historic boston racetrack drones with thermal imaging cameras were deployed to determine hotspots, pockets of fire inside the building the blaze is under control and there are no reports of injuries the cause of the fire is not yet clear. turning now russia's war in

ukraine now entering its 97th day. after a sixth round of sanctions were announced on russia on may 4th, the european union has finally agreed to a partial ban on russian oil they will pban 75% and expand t 90% by the end of the year good morning >> reporter: this is a big moment we've been asking for weeks. could the europeans get together and agree on a deal to cut off russian oil, and the answer this morning is yes eu leaders sayf more than two-t russian oil immediately, and they hope to get that figure up to about 90% bit ey the end of e year even at europeans have been sending weapons to ukraine, they've been sending some $20 billion a month to russia to pay for oil supplies, money that president zelenskyy says is

funding the russian war machine, which is devastating his country, but this is also going to hurt the europeans. energy prices are likely to go up as a result of this and the eu is suffering the same type of inflationary pressures that the u.s. is but the eu says that is a price worth paying to punishrussia the russians continue to make grinding progress in the east of the country. they are fighting street by street by street in donetsk. the mayor of the city say it is has been basically completely destroyed in the fighting. this all comes as president biden says he will not send the ukrainians the kind of long-range, american-made rocket systems that they say they need for the fight in the east. phillip? >> thank you for your reporting. with the start of the summer season comes an important reminder about swimming pool safety anne thompson has a cautionary

tale from lawrence, kansas and a warning the footage is graphic >> reporter: this heart-stopping video is a stark reminder of the dangers of a child alone in a pool but this story has a happy ending the surveillance video shown by fire officials is tough to watch. 4 yield xavier gets inside the locked, gated pool at his apartment complex. and jumps in instantly, he's in trouble >> i went oh, no and ran >> reporter: some three minutes later, tom jumped the fence and administered cpr drowning is the number one cause of unintentional deaths for children between the ages of 1 and 4.

>> hi there. >> reporter: xavier is back to his energetic ways his mom alexis, who was caring for her 4 month old when xavier slippe slipped out is forever grateful. >> reporter: anne thompson, nbc news over the holiday weekend, a pair of unbeaten teams staking their claim as college lacrosse's best. maryland got out to an early lead the terrapins led for most of the game and withstood a cornell comeback to win the game and the title, 9-7 the terms completed an undefeated 18-0 season >> the tar heels knocked off boston college to win the women's national title let's turn to extreme weather in different parts of

the country. >> we have it all today. heavy snow in the rockies. summer-like weather and cool conditions in the inner mountain west we have an upper area of low pressure we have embedded thunderstorms on the backside of this system is where we're seeing this snow falling we're going to watch severe weather all day long 32 million people at risk. damaging winds, hail the size of golf balls also a couple tornados stretching from the great lakes all the way to parts of texas. anywhere you she see this shadi here is where you need have your safety plan. we could see up to 3 inches. th

cool in the 50s and 60s. speaking of temperatures, we're going to look ahead. it's going to be warm and then we'll h we'll look ahead toward june it's going to stay warm. >> the last day of may tampa bay thought they had a home run eli white had other plans. like ken griffey jr. out there eli white extending well over that center field wall to rob the home run texas beat tampa 9-5 "early today" is back in a minute with an urgent warning about strawberries an

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out and ripped from its home marble anjegel the on either sie decapitated and destroyed. >> no one, no one can take away a holy place >> reporter: father frank breaking the news parishioners at mass. >> it's such an act of evil. >> reporter: he left the church at 7:00 p.m. sunday night. the church is closed and locked on fridays he noticed the front door were cracked open he came in and found damage in the prooeiest's room. the camera recording system gone when he walked in here, the tabernacle worth $2 million was gone >> it seems that they had been really well prepared and working on cutting the steel cabinet that covered it. >> reporter: the father says

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at a crossroads for the british monarchy >> reporter: this week, queen elizabeth and her country will journey sentimentally through the pages of history and begin a new chapter, celebrating 70 years. few of us remember a time before her. how would you describe the queen in. >> she's amazing >> unique. once in a lifetime >> she's a symbol for those across the uk. >> reporter: prince william joining rehearsals for three days of pageantry. but the prince of wales will take center stage. prince charles stood beside her during her coronation. now he will stand beside her again. this is her first jubilee without her husband. and at age 96, she may even cancel some appearances. her eldest son took her place in a crucial constitutional role

this year. thele parliamentary speech and the queen is an impossible act to follow. her seven decades captured in these previously unseen images published by the bbc while charles has faced criticism and has not shied away from expressing opinion, like about climate change >> the idea that somehow i'm going to go on exactly the same one if very to succeed is complete nonsense, because the two, the two situations are completely different >> reporter: another expected change this week, fewer royals on the buckingham palace balcony, signaling a new era to come the stage is sert, but you won't see prince andrew, and harry and meghan may have a relatively low profile.

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