one last homecoming for queen. thousands gather as her coffin arrives back at buckingham palace we're live with the plans for her final farewell stubborn inflation sparks a massive sell-off on wall street. the dow plummeting nearly 1300 points americans feeling the impact just about everywhere. and a looming strike could make it worse ukraine strikes back details on the lightning-fast

counteroffensive driving russian forces out of the east is your twitter account compromised? the shocking new testimony on the security lapses from a company whistle-blower while ryan reynolds' new campaign to lead from behind how the superstar is raising awareness for colon cancer this morning. it's september 14th. "early today" starts right now >> good morning. i'm phillip mena. >> and i'm frances rivera. london mourns their monarch as she comes home one last time hundreds of people lined up along the route to buckingham palace for a final glimpse after the queen's coffin for the next few days, she will be lying in state. for more on what we can expect, let's bring in chapman bell. chapman, good morning. good morning what do we expect for today? >> good morning, frances as you pointed out, the queen's coffin arriving from last night on her final journey from

scotland to england, where thousands laned the street in the rain to pay their respects and have one more glimpse of their monarch. she was accompanied by her daught princess anne, o said it was an honor ana privilege to accompany the queen on this final journey ba here. her coffin has been lying rest in buckingham palace where members of the royal houhold have been able to pay their last respects later today, that coffin will travel from buckingham palace to westminster hall behind me in a procession it wiltravel on a gun carriage of the king's troop royal horse artillery to westminster hall behind me where it will lie in state until the morning the funeral. now people will be able too and get a glimpse anpay their last respects in wtminster hall along the river here, there is already many people lined from around the world, really. not just london, but who are waiting to wait in line and being able to good and pay one last respect to the queen. now then the coffin will travel

from westminster hall across to welcomback for the funeral on monday now the capacity of the abbey is 2,200 people, and we expect it to be a full hse for this state funeral. 500 heads of state and foreign dignitaries are expected in attendance, including the president, the first lady jill biden. we're also expecting members across the commonwealth, and of course members of the royal family here and members of other royal families around europe, all invited to come and for this funeral for this monarch who has been t head here and the queen here for more than 70 years. it will be one final sendoff for the queen that has been held in very high regards om people not just here, but around the world. france >> of course watching th and king charles and his two sons william and harry there walking behind her coffin. all eyes on that as well chapman, thank you

stock futures are inching higher this morning after nose-diving in the wake of a key inflation report that came in hotter than expected stocks suffered their worst day since june 2020. the dow tanking more than 1200 points the s&p dropped 4%, and the nasdaq falling over 5% nbc's emilie ikeda has more. >> reporter: from the price tags in the checkout aisle and the cost of the lights on and the rent check, new data shows what so many americans are feeling. the price of nearly everything is stubbornly high up 8.3% compared to a year ago, putting more pressure on the federal reserve to continue aggressively raising interest rates when it meets next week. >> we have more to do. but we're getting there. >> reporter: the higher than expected inflation numbers unwelcome news for president biden, who celebrated the passage of the inflation reduction act. >> we had a vision, a plan, and we stuck too it. and the result is we're getting a job done for the american people >> reporter: republicans

slamming the white house ceremony as out of touch >> democrats' policies are sucker punching american families every time they set foot in the checkout line. >> reporter: while the national average for a gallon of gas is now down $1.30 from the all-time high in june, it's still up 16% compared to a year ago also soaring, electricity, up 15.8%. rent, 6.7% and groceries surging 13.5%. the biggest yearly spike in more than four decades. those rising prices are pushing more people to food banks like this one in burlington, new jersey, where glenda wimberley volunteers. >> this is a blessing for the community, and it's a big blessing for me. >> reporter: the 70-year-old isn't just a volunteer she also relies on the food bank to feed the three grandchildren she's raising. >> you go in and spend $50 and you got five things in the cart. what happened to my money? where is the food? >> reporter: average hourly wages are up 5.2%, inflation more than wipes out the begins, and is no help to people on a fixed income, like glenda.

>> it's like a red neon sign flashing, oh, can't spend, that can't go there, can't do that. it's very difficult. >> reporter: nearly 60,000 railroad workers could go on strike if an agreement over pay and scheduling isn't reached by friday such a move would further snarl supply chains and could cause a travel nightmare already amtrak has preemptively canceled several long distance routes that operate on freight lines. that could be just the beginning. back to you. >> all right, emily, thank you now to seattle, where students are just kicking off classes. a teacher strike delayed the school year by a week. 57% of the seattle education association voted to end the walkout after coming to a tentative agreement with seattle public schools and in minnesota, 15,000 nurses are on their third day of picketing for better pay they're asking for a 30% wage increase over the next three years before negotiations fell

apart, hospitals offered 10 to 12% wage increases and say they can't afford what the union is demanding. this as the nationwide nursing shortage made worse by the covid pandemic has many nurses at their breaking point overnight, three states held the last round of primaries before the november midterm elections, the most closely watched race is the republican battle to represent new hampshire in the evenly divided senate retired army brigadier don bolduc is leading the more moderate chuck morse in a contest that is too close to call former president trump has not made an endorsement in this race, but bolduc has embraced the lie that the 2020 election was stolen chuck morse, who is the state senate president, has the backing of governor chris sununu president biden and the first lady flew to delaware last minute to cast votes in the state auditor race the president was asked why he didn't vote absentee, but he did not answer ukraine's lightning

counter-offensive has forced russian troops to retreat. a member of ukraine's parliament is praising the gains as a possible turning point in the r. meagan fitzgerald is in kyiv >> reporter: ukraine saying its swift and fast-moving counterattack is taking back even more russian-held territory. ukraine releasing this video showing its soldiers sweeping through a force after rushing this russian military vehicle. ukraine says they've captured hundreds of russian soldiers during their sweep past the front line ukraine's president zelenskyy says his troops have reclaimed more than 2300 square miles of territory, including the south and the northeast, liberating some 150,000 ukrainians. a top ukrainian lawmaker telling us this is just a sign of things to come. >> this is a turning point, a no return point, because russian army is demotivated. this is point number one point number two, russian people are starting finally asking questions. >> reporter: in recently

liberated towns, there is relief, but there is also anger. this ukrainian man destroying the russian flag and as villages are taken back, just like we saw in bucha on the outskirts of kyiv, allegations of horrific war crimes are surfacing again, this time on the outskirts of kharkiv "i was scared," she said "i can't get the images of puddles of blood out of my eye." investigators finding bodies, people shot in the head and evidence of torture. is kharkiv worse than bucha? >> the region might be worse than bucha. >> reporter: while the russians might have retreated, that i still hold significant portions of southern and eastern ukraine, and they're still on the attack. in kharkiv, the aftermath of a russian missile strike >> our thanks to meagan for that report the nba announced a massive fine and suspension for phoenix suns and mercury owner robert sarver after a league investigation found his conduct clearly violated workplace standards. in report, the league detailed

repeated use of racial slurs and instances of sexually inappropriate remarks to employees. he was fined $10 million and will be banned for one year. in a statement through the team, sarver said he disagreed with the particulars of the report, but takes full responsibility for his actions. california firefighters are battling two infernos threatening areas northeast of sacramento burning now for nearly a week, the mosquito fire has forced thousands to leave their homes in el dorado and placer counties cal fire reports that over 57,000 acres were torched with a quarter of the blaze contained nearby, officials have reopened parts of i-80 and lifted evacuation orders caused by yesterday's dutch flat fire, which is now over 30% contained. okay time to get those umbrellas ready. nbc meteorologist michelle grossman is tracking more of the rain hi, michelle. >> hi there, guys. yeah, we're looking at flooding rain in portions of the west, namely nevada, also utah, northern portions of arizona to the great basin, the rockies as well. we could see some rain also in

florida. let's start in the west. a flood watch. that's where you see the green here flash flood warnings this morning. that's where you see the red that's because we're looking at really heavy rain falling in spots. the orange and red, those are the torrential downpours also seeing lightning, hearing that thunder woo goering to continue to see rounds of showers and storms as we head throughout the day that could lead to flash flooding lly 3ocales temperatures in the 60s. 69 in green bay. and 70s in chicago it was a hot summer in the west, that heatwave. we'll look at the numbers in just a bit >> thank you, michelle police in new york had a spectacular view while patrolling at sea. special ops officers patrolling

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