breaking overnight, a shooting at a washington, d.c. music festival during a juneteenth celebration has left at least four shot and several others injured details are still coming in. a massive number of flights canceled, weather and crew shortages to blame over the holiday weekend. new details on covid vaccines for the very youngest including the timing and other details parents need to know. a special juneteenth celebration that took place in buffalo in the wake of the tops grocery store shooting.

a whole new way of approaching education. getting kids into their studies again. "early today" starts right now >> good monday morning, i'm francis riff serra. >> i'm philip mena. breaking news on this juneteenth holiday, a 15-year-old boy is dead and three injured after a shooting in washington, d.c according to authorities among those injured is a police officer who was shot in the leg. the shooting happened at what police described as an unpermitted music gathering. police shut down the event after the fight and an apparent stampede left people injured shortly after, gunfire erupted, sending more people fleeing. the name of the teenager who is deceased has not been released police are looking for one suspect who is still on the run. law enforcement has recovered several firearms at the scene, none belonging to the speck. the summer travel season is beginning to look a bit chaotic. millions who traveled over the weekend to celebrate juneteenth

and father's day found themselves sfruls traded as thousands of flights were canceled or delayed. the travel nightmare started friday which the tsa said was the busiest air travel day of the year so far. over 2.4 million people traveled through tsa checkpoints on friday airlines canceled more than 1,100 flights. saturday was even worse. according tonight aware, more than 6,300 flights were delayed and 859 flights were canceled. the travel frustrations didn't stop there flight aware reported more than 5,000 delayed flights and more than 900 cancelations on sunday. today, check with your airline before heading to the airport with canceled or delayed flights already adding up. drivers got a little relief at the pump over the weekend the national average for a gallon dipped below $5 according to aaa 17 states are still paying over $5 with california holding the highest price at the pump at nearly $6.50 a gallon. more relief is on the way. treasury secretary janet yellen

said in an interview that the biden administration is considering a federal gas tax holiday which could save drivers just over 18 cents a gallon. starting this week, covid vaccines will be available for young children over the weekend a cdc advisory committee voted to unanimously recommend vaccines to children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years old. roughly 18 million children in the united states will be eligible nbc's jesse kirsch has more. >> reporter: after a wait lasting more than a year, this morning children in the u.s. as young as 6 months old are eligible for covid-19 vaccines saturday the cdc signed off on pfizer's three-dose regimen and moderna's two-dose regimen. >> vaccinating children is a critical opportunity to protect them against hospitalization and death from covid-19. >> reporter: the cd. c says 20 million more kids are eligible in the u.s. with doses shipping

across the country. >> i think tuesday if monday were not a federal holiday, i would have said monday. >> reporter: granting emergency use authorization, the fda said the known and potential benefits outweigh the known and potential risks. even before the green light, dr. andrew young's family was ready. >> this would help ease our minds. it will help our kids to really get thesocial interactions they've been needing for a long time. >> reporter: a recent kaiser family foundation survey found only 18% of parents with kids under 5 are eager to get them vaccinated. >> i think they're too young it hasn't been enough tests ran. >> i don't think there's any harm in waiting a little bit and seeing what kind of impacts there might be other kids. >> reporter: another mom saying her kids, the oldest vaccinated and the unvaccinated ones, all got covid this winter. >> it's not super urgent. >> reporter: still, a cdc advisory committee says among kids 1 to 4, covid is the fifth

leading cause of death. >> i'm considering encouraging families getting vaccinated as soon as possible we're in a summer season, people are traveling, not wearing masks, not taking precautions. for a lot of parents it will give them peace of mind that this will protect their children. turning to the world of competitive swimming, the international swimming federation has new policies that restricts transgender women from competing in women's events and they go into effect today. nbc's janis mackey frayer joins us live from beijing with more on all of this >> reporter: philip, good morning. this is a big decision from fina, the governing organization of swimming. the vote 71.5% in favor of this new gender inclusion policy which only permits transgender athletes who made the transition before age 12 to compete in women's events the vote came about after months of consultations it takes effect today.

and it means that most transgender athletes won't be able to compete in women's aquatics events. it means that they have to transition before age 12 or before they reach stage 2 on the cubety tanner scale. fina oversees competition for swimming, water polo, diving, high diving, as well as artistic and open swimming events fina's president says they welcome all swimmers, that they have to protect the rights of all athletes, but also protect competitive fairness he's talking of creating an open category for elite swimmers who don't meet the criteria for either the women's or men's categories now much of this came into the spotlight with lia thomas who made history as the first transgender woman to win an ncaa swimming title and did so with a lot of backlash, in particular from their own teammates, who said they had an unfair advantage. this new policy now means that

thomas won't be able to compete at the paris olympics. this new policy is getting a lot of backlash from critics who say that in order to enforce it, it will mean having to seriously violate the privacy and human rights of athletes who just want to compete philip >> that's big news, surely not the last we've heard about this. ja janice, thank you so much. the january 6th hearings resume this week the first hearing on tuesday will focus on accusations that former president trump leaned on state officials in an attempt to alter election tall hes. among the witnesses who will testify is brad raffensperger, the georgia secretary of state he was on the january 2nd telephone call with the then-president asking him to, quote, find nearly 12,000 trump votes to overturn president-elect biden's win. it is unclear if the committee will ultimately make a criminal referral to the justice department, but there are new tensions between the committee and doj. officials say the panel has not

handed over witness transcripts from their investigation committee chair bennie thompson says they intend to share all interviews but stressed that the current hearings take priority three people and their two dogs are safe this morning after leaping from a burning yacht the over 70-foot boat caught fire in new hampshire, forcing passengers overboard authorities report the passengers were rescued by a good samaritan and are doing okay after being released from the hospital state police, the coast guard, and multiple fire departments tended to this fire before the boat sank off the coast of maine. no information on the cause has been released. seven staffers from "the late show with stephen colbert" on cbs were arrested thursday night for allegedly trespassing in a capitol hill building officers arrested a group of unauthorized people in a congressional office building and charged them with unlawful entry. the building was closed to visitors following the third public hearing by the house

panel investigating the january 6th capitol insurrection. after a week of major flooding, yellowstone national park south loop will reopen to the public this upcoming wednesday. all entrances into the park have been closed due to record rainfall that hit the area and spanned parts of montana, idaho, and wyoming. vehicles with license plates ending in odd numbers can visit on odd days of the month, those ending in even numbers can visit on even days of the month. your holiday weather, and likely more 100-degree temps ahead. meteorologist michelle grossman is tracking it all. >> we are tracking dangerous heat once again today throughout most of the week we are tracking triple-digit heat it's going to feel like 110 in spots. so that heat does continue throughout the northern plains into the central and southern plains, also the midwest into thutheast. 9 million americans stay under some sort of heat alert because we're going to watch that heat and humidity combine feel like

110 in spots we'll look at temperatures around 100 in minneapolis. it will feel like 106 there. 100 this houston it's going to feel like 105. 90s in dallas, new orleans, dodge city into nashville. we're going to continue that tomorrow too temperatures in the 90s and triple digits. it's going to be 99 in st. louis. so close to the 100-degree mark, but feeling like over 100 there. same in chicago, the heat index of 101 that heat does continue. look at florida, at least for tallahassee. by thursday, 104 you combine the humidity in there, it will feel a lowarmert

we'll talk across the country, severe weather, and monsoonal moisture. beneficial but could cause flash flooding in spots. >> that's important. all right, thank you, michelle. celebrities, some of your favorite ones, paying tribute to dads in their life yesterday queen elizabeth honored her late father king george vi on instagram with this photo of them smiling in 1946 despite a public divorce, kim kardashian celebrated ex-husband kanye west, sharing a photo. the reality star thanked him for being the, quote, best dad actor neil patrick harris posted a sweet family photo to social media, calling his husband a superstar father i was blessed enough to have my first father's day yesterday we got her a bib and fed her some food for the first time over the weekend i believe some sort of apple-mango mashup it filled my heart. >> i was going to say, the first of many milestones with that hair, loving the hair.

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starts with this man, justin price. >> we had a parade, called it a festival. >> reporter: a festival like no other that began here 47 years ago. >> we had state troopers, we had police, firemen, everything. >> reporter: as the nation prepared to celebrate the bicentennial on july 4th, 1976, price and other community leaders started to wonder -- >> say, what can we celebrate, something dealing with our freedom? >> reporter: that's because back in 1776, when the american colonies declared their independence from great britain, blacks were not included it wasn't until june 19th, 1865, two years after the emancipation proclamation, that slaves in texas were told they were free since then, many black people have celebrated juneteenth to mark the end of slavery. but it wasn't common did you study this in school >> no. no, no

in fact, the organization that started this in buffalo did not know anything about it. >> reporter: price and his cofounders learned about juneteenth from the library. buffalo's juneteenth festival president emeritus marcus brown. you smile. >> because it's paying tribute to my ancestors. contributions that we've done as african americans. not only in the city of buffalo in the country >> i was about 15 at the first festival. >> reporter: general jennifer earl jones is clear-eyed about her mission. >> talking about how we gained our freedom and how we must consistently remind others about our freedom today. >> reporter: this year's celebration dedicated to the ten lives taken from this tight-knit community only a month ago in a mass shooting by a man authorities say was driven by

racial hatred. >> they put a hole in our heart. it really did. it's not just me it's the whole community >> reporter: grieving but determined the festival must go on >> if we don't do what we have been doing, they would have won. whoever's causing the trouble would have done what they want to do. but i think it's only brought us together more. >> reporter: signed into law as a national holiday just last year, 2022 marks the first year juneteenth will be widely celece, it's only the beginning. how do you feel being one of the original organizers of this? >> i just say, i feel blessed by having juneteenth. they realize that we have come a long ways here, and of course we've got a long ways to go. >> reporter: rehema ellis, buffalo.

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aveeno®. it was a weekend filled with pride and juneteenth celebrations across the nation pride festivities are back in portland, oregon, as in-person events return to the area for the first time since the pandemic portland's pride parade and waterfront festival also celebrated the juneteenth holiday. in nebraska, members the lgbtq+ community and allies kath g gathered at the capitol. in south florida, thousands attended the wilton manor's stonewall pride parade.

now to texas high school's unique approach to p-clause, making the outdoors more accessible to a generation rooted in technology from kxas, wayne carter has the story. >> reporter: way in the back of potee high school, freshman allison terry is taking the first p.e. class she's ever really loved >> this class is, like, so much fun, 10 of 10, would recommend. >> we don't do anything involving a ball everything is outdoors >> slowly spread it out. perfect. >> reporter: it's called "outdoors interest" for kids who seem buried in their phones and don't get outdoors much this class was a game changer. >> perfect, let it cook. let it cook. >> we went fishing one time. i loved learning how to fish, it was very fun we cooked a lot in this class. i love food. >> reporter: hard not to love the smells and the smiles. i mean, check out how a dutch

oven works. >> the heat circulates bottom to top. so you want more coals on top so the heat circulates and you don't burn what's on the bottom of the pan. >> reporter: april jones has camped before, and she loves p.e., but she found this class invaluable. >> teaches us a on the to survive in a situation, because you never know what situation we could be in. >> reporter: they cover everything from what to do in a plane crash, to the right way to handle all that bacon grease >> at least three or four students in each of my classes have never gotten on a bike. i teach them that. then the other groups, once we get a little bit more experienced work i go on the trails behind the school. >> reporter: while some may have come to get out of running laps, they walked away with a new appreciation for north may have. >> now you're here, and what do you think? >> i love this class >> are you doing things you've never done before? >> yes >> like what >> everything in this class.

>> our thanks to wayne for that report i really do believe those are real life skills for so many people, it's glued to the ipad. >> right usually you learn those things when it comes to adulting, not in high school great lessons learned. >> very helpl. thfuan

travel troubles from coast to coast from record-high gas prices to airlines canceling thousands of flights over the holiday weekend, americans are getting pinched in every direction breaking overnight, deadly shootings in multiple cities, including the death of a 15-year-old. the governing body that oversees world swimming has banned transgendered athletes from competing in women's events as part of a new gender inclusion policy on this 117th day of war in ukraine,