it's called the inflation reduction act, which allocates $300 billion in spending to tackle climate change and boost clean energy it increases taxes on large corporations and puts hundreds of billions of dollars toward deficit reduction. but that is not all. a tentative cease-fire is in place at the moment after days of attacks between palestinian militants and israel new york city's mayor firing back after migrants from texas were bused to the big apple at

the behest of governor greg abbott we will take you inside one of the most innovative new technologies being used to teach medical students and why it is such a game changer. and hanging ten in california at the world dog surfing championships. a busy summer monday ahead "early today" starts right now good morning i'm erin o'hearn >> and i'm phillip mena. we begin with a major win for the white house. vice president kamala harris helping senate democrats pass the inflation reduction act. >> the senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative and the bill as amended is passed. [ cheers and applause >> this sweeping package includes provisions on climate change, health care, and taxes on corporations. nbc's chris pollone joins us now from d.c chris, good morning. what does this $430 billion bill promise to do? >> reporter: yeah, phillip, good morning to you democrats are celebrating this bill as the biggest investment

ever made in climate and energy. the bulk of that spending, more than $300 billion goes toward tackling climate change and boosting clean energy. but the bill also allows medicare to directly negotiate with drug companies, which could lower the cost of prescription drugs for seniors, and it would raise the corporate minimum tax to 15% for companies worth over $1 billion there's a $35 co-pay cap on insulin for seniors on medicare. but republicans blocked a provision that would have extended that insulin price cap to private insurers. and private equity companies got an exemption from the new 15% minimum corporate tax. democrats are elated but republicans call this reckless spending >> we've really -- we've changed the world. i am really confident that the inflation reduction act will endure as one of the defining feats of the 21st century. >> yet another, yet another

reckless taxing and spending spree. democrats have already robbed american families once through inflation, and now their solution is to rob american families yet a second time >> reporter: in a statement president biden celebrated the passage and said, "i ran for president promising to make government work for working families again, and that is what this bill does period." now the house of representatives will return from its recess this friday to pass this bill before sending it on to president biden's desk phillip? >> chris pollone starting us off on this monday chris, thank you a cease-fire between israel and palestinian militants is still holding this morning after three days of intense fighting officials say at least 44 people were killed in gaza and hundreds more injured fighting broke out friday when israel launched missiles to stop what it said was an imminent palestinian attack there's new video this morning of the moment a fuel storage tank exploded in cuba.

you can see a massive blast followed by fire and smoke engulfing the facility two silos caught fire there. the first one struck by lightning has since been extinguished the other is still burning new photos also show the intense fight to put the flames out up close. one fireman died 16 others are still missing. thousands of undocumented migrants have arrived in new york city this year, sent by bus from texas as a part of a standoff over immigration. new york mayor eric adams now firing back at the texas governor nbc's maggie vespa has the details. >> reporter: driven by bus and fueled by politics, another wave of migrants arrived in new york city more than 4,000 have come since may, a metaphorical message from texas governor greg abbott new york's mayor is furious, saying shelters are already overrun. >> placed them on the bus with

no direction to come here. >> reporter: but abbott is adamant, border states are done shouldering america's immigration crisis after may saw a record 239,000 illegal crossings. the governor slammed president biden friday for refusing to do his job and called new york a sanctuary city the ideal destination for migrants, adding he also sent 5,500 to washington, d.c. that city's mayor pleading for federal aid. >> we need our national guard. if we were a state, i would have already done it. >> reporter: the feds denied that request adding to the chaos, faulty paperwork. according to our new york station wnbc, one migrant claiming an immigration and customs enforcement officer in texas gave him government documents showing a made-up address, phone number and a smiley face instead of a signature. i.c.e. vowing to investigate, adding it takes allegations of inappropriate behavior very seriously. >> what kind of impact is that

having >> well, that's going to have a very devastating impact because they may miss notices to appear in court to check in with immigration officials. >> reporter: meanwhile, families are caught in the fray ruben, his wife, and four kids fled colombia and nearly drowned crossing the border. thousands seeking asylum met with divisive politics and loaded bus tickets maggie vespa, nbc news police in albuquerque, new mexico fear that a serial killer may be targeting the city's muslims. since november four men have been hotshot and killed. they were all muslims of south asian descent. after the most recent murder on friday the police are now saying the cases may be related state and city officials have denounced the kill killings and expressed support for the muslim community >> to the albuquerque islamic community and frankly that community statewide, i am

incredibly angry about this situation. >> we are truly one albuquerque and this is yet another test where we're going to demonstrate that that's the case >> reporter: authorities are asking the public to help find a dark-colored four-door volkswagen jetta sedan seen near one of the crime scenes. president biden tweeted about the killings, saying "these hateful acts have no place in america." we now turn to ohio, where i amass shooting left nine people injured. cincinnati police said eight men and one woman were shot early sunday morning the university of cincinnati medical center said in a statement that the nine victims have been released from the hospital police say one officer fired a shot, though it is unknown whether it hit the shooter officials believe there were two shooters at the scene but so far no arrests have been made. president biden has ended his covid isolation after two consecutive negative tests he suffered a rebound case after

taking paxlovid when he tested positive more than two weeks ago. today mr. biden and first lady dr. jill biden are heading to eastern kentucky to tour the destruction from last month's devastating floods they will join kentucky governor beshear and his wife brittany to meet with those affected beshear has been working with the families who lost their homes to secure federal aid. sidney darden from our nbc affiliate wlex has the story >> lost your home? >> yeah. >> reporter: flood victims emotional as governor beshear and first lady brittany beshear meet with over 100 evacuees at jenny wily's state resort park >> thank you so much for everything you're doing. i appreciate it. >> reporter: after taking time to meet with other volunteers and thank resort staff -- >> we're going to take care of them as long as we have to, right? >> reporter: -- he listened to victims who were denied federal aid after their homes were flooded. >> they're going to help me through the process of having that investigated. if anybody is going to help us, i believe governor beshear will

do it. >> reporter: beshear announced leslie mcgoff, whitney and martin are the latest counties to be approved for individuals to apply for fema. the governor also says there's a plan to help victims that have already been denied aid. >> fema's call center's going to call through anybody who is rejected or denied and talk to their claim with them about how they can get through the process. >> reporter: while the death toll hasn't changed, two people are still missing as recovery efforts continue >> every single day that goes by we're making progress. >> reporter: but evacuees say the visit gives them more hope for the future >> i'm very pleased that he's come out to recognize us as human beings. because there are so many people that would not have. >> you're thanks to sidney for that report. and as the president heads to eastern kentucky, nbc meteorologist michelle grossman is tracking more potential flooding in the midwest. good morning, michelle not sure how much more that area can take >> i know. good morning to you bethe.

we're going to see the chance for showers and thunderstorms in that area not only today but tomorrow and really throughout most of the workweek the potential for one to two inches of rain on top of what they've already seen not good news there. we have numerous spots where we're tracking the chance for some lieflth flash flooding. let's take a look at radar right now because we're looking at some really heavy downpours. the atmosphere is so rich with moisture, any storm can unleash some really heavy downpours. where you see the darker colors, the yellows, the reds, the oranges, that's where we're seeing the heavier rainfalls and that's where we're looking at a flash flooding rescue lots of areas across the country in the southwest to the midwest. that's going to move to the east as we go through the day also portions of the northeast i am looking at a chance for some flash flooding taking a look at the areas we were just talking about those flood-ravaged areas ofastern e

we're going to be hot once again. temperatures into the 90s feeling like 100 all right. we're going to talk more about the danger of heat because we're looking at heat in the northeast once again and also the pacific northwest starting a heat wave today. back to you. see you in a few minutes, michelle, thank you. it was a very special day for louisville city. the city soccer team signed an 8-year-old named drew esposito to a one-day contract. drew who is also a cancer survivor, battled a brain tumor in 2018. but now the young fellow can add his goalkeeper position to his list of many accomplishments as he continues to be an inspiration to other children who are battling the disease >> good for him. "early today" is back in a minute with the very real impact of virtual reality on the health aing n geriow 'sd hoit trni aewenatn of doctors. r way. only dial provides a hard-working clean but is gentle to skin with its skin smart complex and 3 moisturizers to leave your skin feeling fresh and healthy.

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>> reporter: this is the virtual room griswold is in. and those three blue heads around him, they are avatars for world-class surgeons >> i'm in north carolina right now. >> i'm in western mass on vacation >> and i'm in dublin, ireland at a meeting. >> they're thousands of miles apart. but together they're working to revolutionize health care. as they gather around a 3-d rendering of a brain to map out a complex surgery. this kind of consultation used to take days of video calls. now using technology from microsoft it takes perhaps an hour >> tight ten a little in the back >> reporter: they even had time to let me join in. >> here's our cervical planning team and what you're seeing in front of us is -- >> oh, hi. >> -- a brain. >> my unwashed untrained hand can go into this brain that's unbelievable. >> yeah. >> wow >> reporter: and it's not just a whole new virtual world for surgery. >> what you can see now is we've got a skeleton with us in the room here. >> to see the nerves and how they bundle together inside the spine. >> reporter: here's what i'm

seeing from my headset >> they can look at the chest. they can look at the face. >> it's a new way to teach anatomy that doesn't involve costly cadavers. at case western reserve school of medicine researchers have found these virtual models help medical students learn twice as fast and keep the knowledge longer >> it's awesome. i think it's like one of the things about studying anatomy is really seeing exactly how it lays in space. and i don't know that i ever would have gotten that without a like virtual reality experience. >> reporter: and as this technology becomes more widely available so will this knowledge, even beyond medical school >> you'll have high school students arriving with a medical student's command of anatomy if they want it >> exactly and that's the power of this kind of technology they can do this in any high school in america as long as they've got a wi-fi signal >> here we're just looking at the muscular system. >> reporter: for developing nations community colleges, even nursing programs where this sort of training may have been off limits, now virtual learning is democratizing what has been an elite understanding of the human

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for more information you can contact dewalt for a free repair kit. in today's top stories it was another weekend of waiting and frustration at airports across the country nothing new there. more than 1,300 domestic flights were canceled, with delays numbering in the thousands that's according to the aviation tracking site flight aware the airports with the most cancellations and delays were newark liberty, chicago midway, and chicago o'hare for today more than 120 flights have already been canceled and more than 500 delayed. >> my family got stuck right in the middle of that along with so many other people. a high school reunion took a turn after a tree came crashing down in philadelphia's fairmount park according to nbc 10, six people were injured when the tree fell onto their tent. one person had to be pulled out from under the tree after the rescue crews had arrived the victims who were taken to area hospitals are in stable

condition. they range in age from 66 to 67 years old. >> hope they're okay well, four men stole more than $2 million worth of jewelry from a bronx store during a brazen smash and grab, and that was in broad daylight. nypd crimestoppers video shows a man getting buzzed into the shop and then holding the door for three masked thieves the trio then used a hammer to break open display cases before making off with a massive haul the nypd is offering $3,500 to anyone with information on those men you see right there. "bullet train" earned the top carriage at the box office this weekend the action film starring brad pitt pulled in $30.1 million during its weekend debut and soaring in as runner-up, "d.c. league superpets" scoring just over $11 million in its second week. jordan peele's thriller "nope" brought home bronze 8.5 million.

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a possible serial killer on the loose in the southwest four muslim men have been killed, and police are now asking for the public 's help as they work to connect the dots. >> 755 pages cost $430 billion and claims to combat climate change and extended health care coverage, but does it actually fulfill its title, inflation reduction act. after multiple negative covid