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fatally choking a homeless man defends his actions. >> implement they're living lavish, expensive fabrics and their latest expansion a malibu mega mansion. and lester holt's inspiring message to the class of 2023 it's monday, may 22nd. "early today" starts right now good morning i'm frances rivera >> and i'm phillip mena. president biden returned to washington late sunday night and will jump right back into negotiations with republicans as the june 1st deadline the avoid default rapidly approaches for more on this, we go to nbc's brie jackson in washington brie, good morning what has happened in the lead-up to this latest meeting >> good morning, phillip on sunday morning house speaker kevin mccarthy announced he would have his next meeting on raising the debt court of appealing with president biden on monday. now this comes after a call between the two leaders that president biden was returning

from the g7 in return. mccarthy told nbc news that the call was productive and that he believes that they can solve some of the problems that they face the most recent meeting between the white house and congressional leaders on this issue was last tuesday the parties expressed confidence over a deal getting done before the june 1 deadline for the u.s. to default on its debt obligations. negotiators from both president biden and speaker mccarthy's teams have been meeting while the president was overseas and while he was still in japan on sunday, president biden voiced criticisms of the gop positioned in this ongoing battle, saying that the party needs to accept that they -- that there won't be a bipartisan deal made solely on their terms. now these negotiations have them hamstrung over disagreements on cuts on spending and exchange for raising the debt ceiling. >> brie, what kind of consequences are we talking about here if this does not get done by june 1

>> so treasury secretary janet yellen appeared on "meet the press" on sunday and once again reinforced the hard deadline of june 1 for raising the debt ceiling. here's what she had to say about the potential effects. >> my assumption is that if the debt ceiling isn't raised, there will be hard choices to make about what bills go unpaid >> and yellen did not specify which bills would good unpaid or that she'd be referring to, but added that there can be no acceptable outcomes if the debt ceiling is not raised. phillip? >> all right the clock is ticking brie jackson for us in washington brie, thank you. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy made an unexpected and dangerous trip from ukraine to japan for the g7 summit this weekend. president biden and other world leaders rallied around the war-torn nation sunday, vowing to continue supporting ukraine in its fight against russia.

>> together with the entire g7, we have ukraine's back, and i promise we're not going anywhere >> president biden announced another $375 million in artillery, ammunition and armored vehicles this comes after the president announced at the summit friday that the united states would help in a joint international effort to train ukrainian pilots on f-16 fighter aircraft let's turn now to the latest act of gown violence to devastate an american community. three people were killed after a shots rang out at a kansas city nightclub in the early morning hours on sunday. the club is located in the middle of a residential area and what one witness told our kansas city affiliate, that one of the victims was working at the lounge as a security guard >> police have not said whether anyone has been arrested detectives are asking anyone with information to come forward. an arizona high school student was arrested on friday after police say he brought an assault rifle and ammunition to

his campus according to the phoenix police department, officials at boston high school alerted authorities after others on campus told them that the 15-year-old student may have a gun the school went into lockdown once fishes were notified, and the student was later arrested in the main office officials discovered that the report was accurate, allegedly finding more ammunition in the student's backpack and lunch box. the student, who has not been publicly identified remains in custody and is fact serious felony charges represent 5tives for the police and the school district did not respond when asked who reported the student or how he obtained the weapon well, ukraine's president was shoring up international support at the g7 summit it appears that ukraine's last stronghold along the eastern front, the city of back mutt may have fallen to russian control nbc's claudio lavanga joins us now. claudio, good morning. this city has become symbolic for both sides what do we know about where the fighting stands?

>> good morning, francis well, the leader of the wagner group on saturday said after months of intense fighting, its troops finally conquered the city and fully occupied it, a claim that was backed by the defense ministry in russia as well as vladimir putin, who in a statement congratulated the troops for liberating the city but that claim was denied by president zelenskyy who was in hiroshima during the weekend to attend a g7 meeting. and there are still ukrainian troops inside the city, even though he admitted the city is so devastated and so destroyed that it reminds him of the aftermath of hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped on the city in 1945, frances. >> ukraine is expected to launch a big counter-offensive. did zelenskyy give any clues than at the g7 >> well, he said he couldn't really share any tactical views from ukraine military. but at the same time announcement by the u.s. that it

will allow western allies to provide american-made f-16s to ukraine was a major boost to ukraine, a decision that president zelenskyy said was historic because he said -- because ukraine since the start of the war has been asking for these fighter jets so far the u.s. and western allies were holding back because they were afraid ukraine would use them to attack russia in its own territory. but during a press conference, president biden said he got flat assurances by president zelenskyy that they will only use to it fight back russian forces in ukraine's territory. of course it will take months to train ukrainiao fly f-16s. when they will finally be delivered, they will give a major boost to the counter-offensive. >> claudio lavanga, thank you. with new york city scrambling to make space for asylum seeker, mayor adams must

decide if he will allow new yorker s the right to sleep outside. the city council has approved a homeless bill of rights that would make new york the first big city in the nation to establish a right to sleep in some public spaces new york city is required by law to guarantee space in the shelter system, but over 80,000 people were housed last week with entire hotels being converted into emergency shelters u.s. immigration officials say an 8-year-old girl who died in border patrol custody last week was seen by medical person at least three times before she was taken to a hospital on the day of her death the mother of the panamanian born girl had previously said that authorities ignored their employees for care and didn't act until it was too late. the child suffers from heart problems and sickle cell anemia and died last wednesday after suffering a medical emergency. it marked the second death of a might grant child in government custody in just two weeks. in a statement, cbp said it knew about the girl's medical history

when they began treatment. acting commissioner troy miller says he's ordered new steps to ensure appropriate care for all medically fragile people in custody. the former marine accused of killing man by choking him on the new york city city stubway is speaking out for the tourist time detailing what he did emilie ikeda has the details. >> reporter: nearly throw weeks since the subway encounter the man seen holding jordan neely in the deadly chokehold said he would take action again under similar circumstances, i would if there was a threat and danger in the present, he told "the new york post." in an interview, the 24-year-old marine college student said this had nothing to do with race. adding i judge a person based on their character. i'm not a white supremacist. he wouldn't go into what led up to the altercation but added it

wasn't like anything i've experienced before after he long hemless and aggressively threatened him and others on board. >> hey hey, ho ho, daniel pen agot to go slaem. >> penny wasn't initially arrested quickly spawning subway protests and dividing nations nationwide over crime, vigilanteism and the response to record levels of homelessness on friday, hundreds gathered to remember the 30-year-old street performer. >> we keep criminalizing people with mental illness. they don't need abuse. they need help >> when asked what penny would say to neely's family, he said i'm deeply saddened by the loss of life. it's tragic what happened to him. hopefully we can change a system that so desperately failed us. penny faces up to 15 years in

jail if convicted of manslaughter, a charge lawyers for neely's family say doesn't go far enough. and the neely family attorney reacting to the interview, calling it an advertisement to soften the public's view of penny. they're demanding -- they want to know why he didn't let go of the chokehold sooner back to you. >> all right, emilie, thank you. some are waking up to a wet monday morning let's check with michelle grossman who is tracking tomorrows in pars of the country. >> good morning. we're looking at a few spots that are looking at wet weather today. we're going to stay stuck in this pattern we're going to see some wet weather tomorrow the places would be in portion of the southern plains, parts of oklahoma into texas. could see some strong storms with gusty winds, hail, even a threat for a tornado or two. but really the biggest threat would be some gusty winds. to the southeast a coastal low is going to bring the chance for heavy rain not only today but into wednesday we have two systems that are moving through first the persistent rain in the

southeast. then strong storms possible that will the same story throughout tomorrow tomorrow as well. rainfall in the southeast where. you see the darker colors, that's where we're looking at the heaviest rain. locally 4 inches the panhandle in oklahoma and texas looking at quite a bit of rain too 'll windwemid 80s in some spots. a few chance for showers and storm in amarillo and lubbock. all right, we have rain today in spots. we're going look at the forecast ahead. many of us are going to see rain this week. >> all right we'll see you in a few, michelle, thank you. before we head to break, hear from the first woman to hear from saudi arabia to enter

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