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>> today, tuesday, june 6th, 2023. massive disaster. a devastating attack on a major dam in ukraine. the imminent threat this now poses to homes and the water supply. >> what went wrong. new details emerging about that plane incident over d.c. that prompted a sonic boom. what we're learning about the passengers who were killed when the plane went down. royal testimony. prince harry taking the stand in a high-profile trial. the harsh words he had for british tabloids. medical breakthrough. how a new vaccine could provide hope to melanoma patients across the country. we do begin, though, in southern ukraine where the destruction of a strategic dam is triggering an unfolding disaster. the united nations says at least 16,000 people have left their homes as flooding concerns rise. take a look at these before and after satellite images of

the dam. ukraine and russia, they're blaming each other for blowing up the facility. nbc news has not verified either side's claims. according to two u.s. officials, the u.s. has intelligence leaning toward russia being behind this attack but the state department says it cannot reach a conclusion just yet. president biden responding to a question about the dam attack earlier today ahead of a cabinet meeting. >> we are not leaving. we're going toelp ukraine. >> the dam itself and its location are critical to the ongoing war. it's under russian control. but as you can seen 0 the map it sitsen 0 the front lines. molly hunter is about 350 miles away from that dam. east's in kyiv in the capital. molly, there are concerns about a nearby power plant potentially being impacted. the water supply. what's the latest? >> reporter: yeah, kate and ellison, good evening from kyiv. i'll run you through the top three concerns and you just listed two of them, so fresh

water, that is going to be a huge issue and one energy analyst i spoke with earlier estimates that 300,000 people, so not just the tens of thousands who live in the low-lying villages that are getting affected but 300,000 will be without drinkable water by tonight, an additional 500,000 will be affected by power outages and flooding and we are watching that zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant very, very closely, of course, the fear is it's under russian occupation. the fear is is that it used to get previously as a couple of days ago get all of its water and its power from the reservoir attached to this dam. well, that's no longer possible. i sat down with the head of ukraine's state nuclear energy company to ask about this and he said actually on the upside, well, if there is a relative upside he said the panic is not in the initial 24 hours. because of all the reactors are offline, the water levels in the key cooling pools are actually stable and will remain stable for at least another couple of weeks. >> you and a have talked about

how since you've been there this time and many times in the last few weeks how quickly things on the ground have changed. there was a lull at the beginning of the year where cities like kyiv weren't experiencing these missile attacks. that has changed dramatically. all of this happening now. are we at a different phase of the war? are we nearing closer to the start of that counteroffensive? >> reporter: yeah, ellison, i think we've been seeing hints of that kind of every day for the last couple of days and last weeks. we've seen this increased aerial bombardment on ukrainian cities specifically, the capital, that did not seem to dissuade kind of counteroffensive planning and hints from officials that the counteroffensive was still under way and this massive attack and the big question today, of course, was this and if this was russia, does this kind of dissuade or have to force kyiv's hand in changing their plans? were they initially planet fitnessing one in the south or will they have to focus on the

east where moscow has more logistical ability to fight on that eastern front but that is one of the big questions and actually president zelenskyy, excuse me, addressed that just in his last statement a half hour ago and said the dam's detonation does not hinder ukraine's ability to deoccupy its territories, guys. >> molly, thank you. a trump ally turned critic is set to elbow his way into the crowded republican presidential primary. former new jersey governor chris christie plans to officially announce his run tonight in new hampshire. christie has been a vocal critic of trump following the 2020 election but that strategy may be difficult to win over gop voters. a recent poll found trump's favorable among republican voters is 77%. christie's favorability, however, is just 21%, again, that's among gop voters. nbc news correspondent shaquille brewster is in manchester, new hampshire. shaq, what is christie saying about why he decided to run for

president again? >> well, he's saying he wants to change the direction not just of the country but of the republican party. we've already heard and he's been open about going after fellow republicans for what he calls grievance politics saying he wants to get away from culture wars and see a campaign more positive and one that looks like a more traditional campaign, at least before former president trump entered the race in 2016 and one thing that is abundantly clear when listening to what we heard in the past a lot of this campaign will be based on former president trump and providing somewhat of a counterpunch to that. you mentioned some of that relationship we've seen between the two, christie supporting trump after he dropped out after his 2016 presidential campaign ended, throwing his support behind former president trump. that support lasting into the 2020 election. chris christie now saying that he doesn't trust the former president, he doesn't stand by the former president any longer and he plans to be an attack dog

against donald trump in his style of politics if he makes it to that debate stage. >> shaq, another high-profile name, former vice president mike pence expected to publicly join this race tomorrow. is polling giving us any indication of how voters are viewing both pence and christie? >> yeah, i think the nicest way to put it, there is a lot of room for improvement for those two candidates. when you look at national polling, the average polling you see christie is polling at about 1% nationally. you look at vice president pence, former vice president pence, he's polling at about 5% nationally but that's what this is all about. that's why candidates come to places like new hampshire, come to iowa, come to these early states because they'll be able to directly engage with voters. we know today's event, today's announcement will be a to you hall meeting where voters can ask christie questions directly, press him on whatever issues are top of mind to them. they're hoping those interactions will change how

voters view them right now, because right now as i mentioned there's some room to grow. >> all right, there is still time so we know you will be watching it. shaquille brewster in ma chester, thank i. there are new signs the federal investigation into former president donald trump's handling of classiied documents could be nearing an end. nbc news confirms lawyers for the former president sat down with the special counsel, jack smith and other justice department officials on monday. that meeting comes as a grand jury is expected to convene in florida this week to hear evidence in this case. that's in addition to a separate grand jury in washington who have also been hearing evidence on the same case. nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian joins us now. we almost need like a guide to all these different investigations but now we know there is a grand jury meeting in florida. we already knew there was one in washington on the same subject. what does all that mean? >> it's hard to know, kate, exactly. there are a range of possibilities, starting with

they could end up bringing the entire case if they decide to charge donald trump in the classified documents matter, they could end up charging him in florida in the southern district of florida. there is certainly what the lawyers call venue, after all the classified documents were taken to his compound at mar-a-lago down there, that's one possibility. on the other end of it, it could just be a matter of convenience and logistics. there happens to be a witness in florida that couldn't make it up to washington and need to get that witness in front of a grand jury and doing it with the florida grand jury. there's also a possibility that they want to charge somebody would works at mar-a-lago with making a false statement to investigators and they have to charge that person in florida because the conduct took place there. we don't know which of these options or some other option this is, but what we do know, based on the meeting you described that we reported on yesterday, this really does feel like it's coming to an end. it was the kind of meeting where trump's lawyers are many coming in appealing to senior doj officials, special counsel jack smith as you said was in the room for them to not indict their client and complaining

about the unfairness of behavior of prosecutor, those kind of meetings rarely work but are generally customary done as an indictment is imminent. >> yeah, and just to say it once again, a charging decision has not been made publicly that we know of, but there are these signs that things are wrapping up. how is former president trump responding to all this? >> you know, actually his response is another sign because he tends to be -- to engage in extreme rhetoric on social media when he feels cornered. we saw that pattern in the new york state investigation so he is saying it would be -- i'm paraphrasing, how could they charge me with a crime, i did nothing wrong. what president biden did was worse in all caps on his truth social platform which to a lot of people suggests he is feeling cornered at the moment. >> ken dilanian, thank you. another crypto exchange is under fire and mcdonald's celebrating the birthday of a beloved character. >> pippa stevens joins us with

today's cnbc "money minute." >> starting with coinbase plunging after the secures and exchange commission sued the crypto company alleging it was acting as an unregistered broker and exchange. this comes of athe regulatory body sued crypto exchange binance yesterday. in an interview on cnbc, s.e.c. chair gary gentler spoke about the suit and says it needs to come into compliance. microsoft has agreed to pay the ftc a $20 million fine in a privacy settlement involving kids. the agency accuses the tech giant of illegally collecting and retaining the data of children who signed up to use the xbox gaming console without getting consent from parents or guardians. a federal court still needs to approve the settlement. and mcdonald's releasing a new menu item to celebrate mcdonald's land grimace's birthday. grimace's birthday meal would include the fast food chain's first ever purple shake and will

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there are more questions than answers right now after that deadly plane crash near washington, d.c. on sunday. right now ntsb investigators are scouring the site in a wooded area in virginia vying to figure out why a pilot was unresponsive for hours even after military fighter jets were scrambled and intercepted that small passenger plane after it flew over washington. nbc news pentagon correspondent courtney kube joins me now. courtney, the plane stopped responding to air traffic control. you told us this yesterday, about 15 minutes after takeoff. the flight was headed to long island from tennessee. it made a u-turn as you see on our graphic here and headed south again. what are the theories now about how all that happened? >> right, so we've learned

something pretty fascinating. one of the theories that seems plausible at this point, kate, is that the pilot before taking off from tennessee programmed or preprogrammed that plane to fly up to long island and then there was already something programmed into its controls to fly back so when it started to make its approach into lyle where it was supposed to land but the pilot did not engage to descend the plane down to land it. well, it seems it may have just turned around there and was heading back towards tennessee. that's something we didn't know at this point yesterday and still waiting for ntsb to tell us exactly what happened but another thing that we've learned is that the pilot was unresponsive as we said yesterday. it was about 15 minutes into the flight when the air traffic control tried to get ahold of that pilot and he was unresponsive very early on, kate. >> presumably the passengers might have been unresponsive too, because otherwise you would think they might have tried to do something.

do we know anything more about the passengers? >> yeah, that's right. we have learned their identities. it was a mother, 49-year-old and her 2-year-old daughter, a nanny who has not been identified and then, of course, the pilot who has been described as being very experienced as a pilot, but we don't really know what happened. now, it seems, look, for all of us, you know, who have been watching this unfold, it seems like one of the passengers, if there was something wrong with the pilot, some sort of a medical emergency occurred, you would think that one of the passengers would have come forward, which lends to the possibility that maybe there was some kind of a pressure cabin pressurization problem that occurred. we did learn a little bit more from the ntsb. they've made it to the crash site, but it's pretty badly destroyed. they're hoping they'll be able to gather some sort of information, though, from that site, kate. >> courtney kube for us, thanks, courtney. there's a bit of a back and forth brewing in mississippi after a veterans hospital put up

a rainbow flag to commemorate pride month and now some are demanding it be taken down. nbc news reporter maya eaglin has been following this story for us. maya. >> reporter: on friday, republican congressman mike asell said he wrote to denis mcdonough and the center asking for it to be taken down. the congressman says he doesn't think it's appropriate to fly flags that have a political or social agenda. as of michael it was still flying at the v.a. and protesters were demonstrating right in front of the medical center. ? we are also very concerned about our flags being taken down and another flag being replaced and that flagpole, so that's why we're out here. we're standing for our nation, for our flag and for those who died. >> reporter: representatives for the hospital say flying the

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played for first time hearing from some of the migrants. one woman saying she's thankful. she's hoping to have a good life here. she wants to work and serve. just when you thought it was gone for good, rain is back throughout the bay area. kari hall has more on how much we can expect. >> spotty showers and thunderstorms in the bay area for today as we see this unusual setup with low pressure bringing in moisture into the bay area. as we go through the time line, it shows a couple of waves of rain with some breaks. that possibility that be could see spotty showers and maybe even some thunderstorms. temperaturewise, mostly looking at mid 70s for the east bay, parts of the trivalley and mountain view reaching 73. about the same in san jose with upper 60s in san francisco. for, it's also going to be in

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bottom of the hour now, here are some of the stories making headlines on "nbc news daily."

the mother of a 6-year-old boy who took a gun to his virginia school and shot his teacher was charged monday with federal gun crimes. the boy's mother was charged with illegally using drugs while owning a firearm and making a false statement when she purchased the gun. her lawyer says she plans to plead guilty in a deal with prosecutors. her son is not facing any charges. the teacher was shot in the hand and chest but survived. oscar winning actor cuba gooding jr. avoided a rape trial just as jury selection was set to begin today. court records revealed that the "jerry maguire" star made a settlement accused of raping a woman in new york city in a hotel a decade ago. gooding's lawyers says his encounter was consensual. gloria allred declined to comment. millions of people in the eastern united states are facing unhealthy air quality conditions today, because of smoke from wildfires in eastern canada. air monitoring stations in parts of new york city showed measures

considered unhealthy for anyone. canada is experiencing one of the worst starts to its wildfire season ever recorded. federal officials say more than 6 million acres have burned so far this year. actors represented by the screen actors guild voted to approve a strike if contract negotiations between the studios and the union break down. nbc news correspondent dana griffin joins us now on this one. negotiations set to begin tomorrow. what is the actors guild asking for? >> reporter: so, s.a.g.-aftra which represents more than 160,000 entertainers are concerned about a few things, one, wages, compensation, they want to increase those wages because they've been hit hard by inflation and also the pandemic and also the shift towards streaming. they're also looking to bolster their pension plans and the other is they're concerned about the lack of regulations for artificial intelligence and concerned about how the way their voices and images will be

used. right now we're taking a look at video today from the strike that is currently going on. this is the writers strike that is in its fifth week. this is happening outside of warner brothers studios here in burbank. we can also hear some of those participants outside of our own studios here at universal studios. so, get this, the last time that the actors went on strike was 23 years ago this month, now, the alliance of motion picture and television producers or amptt put out a statement and said we are approaching these negotiations with the goal of achieving a new agreement that is beneficial to s.a.g.-aftra members and industry overall. the vote doesn't necessarily mean they will strike but it just gives the board the option to do it if something falls through as you mentioned, these negotiation, kate, start on wednesday. >> it sort of begs the question are these two things related? the writers have been on strike and now this other union is talking about a strike.

are these two things connected? >> reporter: they're technically separate but it all kind of connects when it comes to just hollywood in general so the writers strike has been going on again for five weeks. you've also got the dga, the directors guild of america, they actually reached an agreement with the alliance, a tentative labor agreement over the weekend that kind of prevents three groups kind of simultaneously being on strike if all of these negotiations continue to stall like we've seen with the writers guild, again, five weeks in, it's unclear if they're going to reach an agreement any time soon but i want to point out that the los angeles county board of supervisors put out a statement saying they stand in solidarity with wga and they believe their negotiation position to be reasonable and necessary, kate, so it all remains to be seen what happens as we have two groups now negotiating and we

could see another strike here in hollywood if those negotiations fall through. >> all right, dana griffin for us, thank you, dana. prince harry says british tabloids have blood on their hands. the prince making that accusation during a historic day of testimony in a london courtroom. harry is suing the publishers of a british tabloid claiming it hacked his phone and ellison lie gathered information about him. he is the first high ranking member of the british royal family in more than a century to testify in court and will be back on the stand again tomorrow. nbc news correspondent josh lederman joins us now from london with more on what we heard today, josh, take us through everything that prince harry talked about while he was on the stand. there are a lot of tough questions from the publisher's lawyer. >> reporter: very tough questions that prince harry had to answer under cross-examination as he laid out in deeply personal terms, ellison, how he experienced what he called acute paranoia, an inability to trust anybody

because of this alleged hacking of his voice mails starting, he says, when he was a teenager. but the lawyers for the tabloid really pushed back saying that prince harry cannot prove that any of this reporting was obtained through illegal means pointing out a few specific instances where things that harry says were obtained illegally actually were already known publicly or printed in other newspapers and early on in the cross-examination he was asked by the tabloid's lawyer whether he had read every single one of the nearly 150 articles that he says included reporting obtained illegally, prince harry says he can't remember if he read every single one of them and for the rest of the hearing, the lawyers really seizing on that. at one point asking him is it realistic to attribute specific distress to a particular article from 20 years ago which you may have not even seen at the time. prince harry responding under cross-examination it isn't a specific article. it is all of the articles, every

single article has caused me distress and prince harry also said, look, it's not just about the distress from me reading them, the fact that prince harry knew that everyone around him, his friends, his family, his acquaintances were reading these salacious details about him in the media, that had a distressing effect on him as well and frankly he says has made it hard to trust people in life. >> harry back on the stand tomorrow. josh, thank you. a new wave of nationwide protests spreading across france today over the country's new retirement law. some protesters were seen scuffling with police, setting fires in the streets of paris. emmanuel macron signed a law raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 years old. the measure was forced through parliament without any vote. nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley is with us in paris. matt, for awhile, i don't know if you can hear me, matt. can you hear me?

looks like maybe matt is not with us. [ sirens ] >> yeah, unfortunately, we lost our connection with matt and we'll move on and see if we can go back to him in a moment. there is a major announcement in the world of golf. the pga announing it has agreed to merge withes saudi arabia funded liv golf tour leaving many players and fans confused and angry. nbc news correspondent miguel almaguer joins us now. miguel, walk us through this, particularly those of us who don't follow golf very closely. why would these two groups agree to merge and why is it such a big deal? >> reporter: well, it's a good question and one many are asking. many players have expressed frustration over this deal and others are relieved. the pga commissioner did release a statement today saying in part that the new tour is committed to securing and driving the game's future striking a deal that shocked pro golf. the deal between saudi backed

liv and the pga is ended the ending their bitter rivalry which pitted top players against one another and waded into geopolitical tensions and brought a slew of lawsuits. here's what the pga commissioner said earlier on cnbc. >> what we're talking about today is coming together to unify the game of golf and to do so under one umbrella. we're going to move forward and we're going to take efforts to grow and expand this great game and to take it to new heights. we've recognized that together we could have a far greater impact on this game than we can working apart. >> so there's your explanation from the pyongyang commissioner but still a lot of questions about why this is all happening and why it's happening now, ellison. >> what are we hearing from players and fans. we mentioned the strong reaction. what are they saying? >> reporter: well, liv comes with controversy. it's backed and funded as

mentioned by saudi arabia. the country's been accused of trying to sports wash its reputation clean, of course, saudi arabia has been accused of human rights violations and today 9/11 families said they were outraged that they were partnering with a storied u.s. organization, sports organization, i should say. those 9/11 families are calling for an inquiry from the federal government saying this deal, this merger should not move forward. >> so, miguel, liv and the pga had legal battle, lawsuits between the two of them. will those still continue after this merger, or is that done? >> reporter: they should be done. that should all come to an end. that was one of the reasons why this agreement was made to kind of end all of these lawsuits, players were suing the pga and others suing liv so there was a lot of litigation going over the last year and a half and should end all of this meant to unify the sport, all of these different leagues under one umbrella coming together so the

lawsuit should end, the question now is are all the players willing to accept this and they may not have a choice in this, ellison. >> thank you for that. you can see more of miguel's reporting tonight on "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. a dramatic rescue off the coast of new jersey caught on camera. four people were floating in the atlantic after their fishing boat capsized and then they were saved by a nearby charter boat that just happened to be in the right place at the right time. here's nbc news correspondent steven romo. >> hey, he's in the water. >> reporter: off the new jersey coast, an urgent call for help. >> yeah, he's got to hold on or he'll go down. >> reporter: a small fishing vessel capsizing sunday morning and the crew left struggling in the water. >> i mean that boat went down in a blink of an eye.

all the life jackets were down in the cabin where they couldn't get them. >> reporter: a packed fishing charter boat was anchored nearby. anybody else? just four? >> just us four. >> okay. >> reporter: but with the coast guard more than an hour away, captain bobby quinn and his crew jumps into action. >> we put the overboard ladder in the best spot to gab him, and one by one we started getting each guy back into the boat right away. >> take your time. >> it was a race to get them as fast as we could out of that water and into the big boat here. [ applause ] >> yes! >> reporter: once all four men were safely on board, captain quinn had a recovery plan all his own. >> the coast guard goes, well, seems like you got everything under control. what are you going to do? i said, well, i'll dry them off and give them something to eat and drink and give him and the group fishing rods and let him fish the rest of the day. they're like, you're kidding. i said, absolutely not.

>> reporter: what could have been a tragedy luckily ending as a fishing trip with some new friends. >> i'm just glad nobody got hurt because if it was another -- they were in that water for another five or ten minutes, it could have turned a lot differently. >> reporter: steven romo, nbc news. >> that's a happy ending. why doctors are hopeful about a new vaccine they say could be a game changer in the fight against melanoma.

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a tumor that is fully resected from someone who has a stage 3 or stage 4 melanoma and they identify and isolate a bunch of different genetic mutations unique to that person's tumor and then via this mrna technology they can introduce a little snippet of that code to you. you make antibodies against it, the antibodies can go around the body and look for any cells that have those mutations and attack those cells as opposed to attacking healthy cells essentially stopping any cancer that pretty much dead in its tracks and, again, the difference here, this is unique to the person, this is not a one size fits all like we got the same pfizer vaccine but a personal one. >> what does mrna mean? >> the mrna stands for messenger rna or rieb bow knew clayic acid. it's thought of as the vehicle in which it gets introduced to you and goes to your protein

making machinery and antibodies form. >> kate and i have been talking about this. i found out i had melanoma when i was 26. i was lucky it was caught early but it blindsided me. didn't think i was at risk. for people who are watching, tell us how common is melanoma and who is most at risk? >> yeah, unfortunately, it's not uncommon, you know, the american cancer society anticipates or predicts that close to 100,000 new cases of melanoma will happen in the year 2023. some of the most common risk factors we talk about are exposure to uv light in the form of sun exposure, but the bigger risk is tanning beds, they were popular when i was a teenager and in my 20s but people still do it and really shouldn't. having a lot of mole, having irregular mows and large moles is a risk factor, being fair skinned, having freckles, light hair. a family history or personal history of it increases the risk

or a weakened immune system can increase the risk. >> this vaccine we're talking about is sort of personalized vaccine, could that help in other cancers too or right now is it just melanoma we're talking about? >> no, it's actually being tested in other cancers, kate, i think like an analogy that you can make is similar to immunotherapy, this mrna vaccine was used in combination with keytruda which is not specific to a cancer, it's specific to a mutation that can be seen in a variety of different cancers, this mrna technology for cancer vaccines can be applied to other cancers that have a lot of mutations, for example, lung or pancreatic and is being studied in those as well. what should people at home remember if they remember one thing? >> you know what i would say, it

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