disaster declaration pennsylvania in disarray after i-95 crumbled under cars the gop on defense ahead of former president trump's arraignment. not every republican is shielding the most powerful man

in the party mold on the rocknrolls down the philippine's most active volcano, and already newses are preparing to flee. it's the american dream. a mother and daughter escape a war, and now earning their college degrees side by side it's monday, june 12th "early today" starts right now good morning i'm frances rivera. >> and a very good morning to you. i'm jessica layton the republican party spent the weekend defending former president donald trump as he heads to miami this morning, ahead of his expected arraignment on tuesday for more on this, we go to nbc's brie jackson in washington so brie, i know that we've about a supported those really shocking photos from friday, what's everyone in d.c. saying >> good morning, jessica former president trump is expected to travel from new jersey to florida this morning on tuesday, trump will be arraigned at federal court in miami after he was indicted last week on 37 felony counts over hiss handling of classified

documents. trump, who is expected to plead not guilty to the charges spent the weekend at events where he declared his innocence and claimed that the justice department is using him to get to his supporters. many of trump's fellow republicans rushed to his defense over the weekend two of trump's allies in congress, jim jordan and lindsey graham attempted to downplay this indictment with graham saying that trump is not guilty of espionage as the charges claim he is. meanwhile, trump's rivals in the republican primary mainly focused their criticism on what they called a weaponization -- a weaponized justice department rather than trump himself. and one candidate entrepreneur even doubled down on his stance of pardoning trump if elected. jessica? >> and brie, while we have you, have any prominent republicans made any attempts at criticizing former president trump for these actions? >> so jessica, one republican who is speaking out against trump is his former attorney

general bill barr. barr appeared on fox on sunday and provided one of the most overt criticisms of the one-time commander in chief take a listen. >> i was shocked by the degree of sensitivity of these document s and how many there were, frankly. defense department documents about our capabilities are in know universe donald j. trump's personal documents they're the government's documents. >> and the former president did not take that kindly, take kindly to those comments trump took to social media on truth social on sunday calling his former ag weak and totally ineffective as well as a gutless pig. so we'll see what more the former president has to say about his second indictment as the week continues >> that's right. more to. could. all right, brie, thank you so much pennsylvania's governor will make a disaster declaration --

today, excuse me, after an explosion brought one of the busiest roadways in america tumbling down. a tanker truck caught on fire below an elevated section of i-95 causing it to collapse. there have been no reports of injuries, but it's unclear if the tanker truck's driver was trapped during the collapse. the freeway carries about 160,000 vehicles a day travel and commerce could be disrupted for months while the freeway is rebuilt we're learning more details about the death of the man known as the youunabomber. according to the ap, kaczynski was suffering from late stage cancer the 81-year-old was found unresponsive in his cell saturday afternoon he was serving a life sentence for a 17-year bombing spree that killed three people and injured 23 others. the city of new haven, connecticut has agreed to a $45 million settlement with randy cox. he was left paralyzed from the

waist down while being transported in the back of a police van last june he was handcuff and without a seat belt and went head-first into a metal partition when the van had to break hard. the agreement was reached on friday, two days after the city fired two police officers who authorities say treated cox recklessly and without compassion according to body cam footage, officers mocked him. accusing him of being drunk and faking his injuries while dragging him by his feet and placing him in a holding cell. five police officer, including those who were fired face criminal charges all have plead not guilty. now to an incredible story of survival. four small children surviving 40 days alone in the amazon jungle after walking away from a plane crash. our marissa parra has new details about how they made it out alive.

>> reporter: it's the dramatic rescue that has captured the world. four small children found deep in the amazon jungle their survival after 40 days nothing short of a miracle tonight new details on how they stayed alive the children members of an indigenous tribe had been living off the forest their grandmother explains the eldest child just 13 years old had always taken care of her siblings, including the youngest with them, just 11 months old. she found cassava flour from the wreckage to eat, along with fruits and seeds her grandmother says the young girl knew which ones were safe to eat photos taken by the search team show fruit half eaten which along with foot prints, a baby bottle, and tiny shoes left behind helped lead them to the survivors. their father calling it a miracle of god the children had been missing since may 1st when their plane crashed killing three adults on board including their mother together members of the tribe joined the colombian military, searching over 1600 miles, through thick rain forest and jungle rivers, never giving up until the children were found alive.

the race to find them is now a race to get them healthy the hospital's general director gives signs of hope, saying they speak little and are weak but some of the children were playing today and we know that when a child plays it feels good let's give them some time. those tiny foot prints they left in the amazon have now left a big impression on hearts around the world. marissa parra, nbc news. a new york firefighter sacrificed his life when he tried to save his daughter officials say 39-year-old mark batista drowned after jumping into the water at the jersey shore to save his daughter rescue teams responded to two reports of swimmers in distress friday morning about ten minutes later, they were able to pull a 15-year-old girl out of the water. her father's body was found about 50 yards from the shoreline. batista served for 15 years as a firefighter and an emt the biden administration has done a 180 on a story they

initially denied, admitting now that china has been spying on the u.s. from cuba for years now the initial reports from "the wall street journal" of a chinese electronic eavesdropping facility in cuba were first called inaccurate by the government but now the white house says through an anonymous official that china has operated the outpost since at least 2019. now china still denies the report, saying they oppose any foreign military presence in latin america and the caribbean. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has confirm that his army has begun a counteroffensive against russia. speaking at a press conference with canadian prime minister justin trudeau, zelenskyy confirmed that ukraine is on the attack tell putin that ukrainian generals are feeling good about the ongoing action for more we go to cloud owe lavanga. good morning what we know about the fighting? >> good morning, francis

zelenskyy confirmed the counteroffensive has now started. the ukrainian army says they already conquered three villages in the southeast of the country that were previously occupied by russian force. even though these are small villages, and the russian army has not confirmed the taking, there is a video on social media that shows ukrainian troops raising a ukrainian flag on one of the destroyed buildings in one of the village another shows glory to ukraine in another of the videos now as i mentioned, the villages are small, but they are considered to be strategic because they paved the way for the ukrainian army to bigger targets like mariupol of the crimean peninsula or bakhmut, which has been the scene of the longest and bloodiest battle of ukraine since the start of the war. what is really boosting the ukrainian army right now is the western weapons and equipment that have been supplied to the army, including for the first time it looks like the use of

american-made brad di live vehicles even though russia has so far said they already destroyed five of them throughout the weekend, frances. >> claudio, i want to ask the latest on the flooding after that dam in kherson was destroyed last week. >> well, in video message posted on social media by volodymyr zelenskyy, he accused russia not only of blowing up the dam, but also of shelling the areas where residents were being evacuated, saying that even beasts have more morals than russia. now the water started to recede slowly from friday but revealing what probably is going to be a long-term catastrophic environmental disaster now the tens of thousands of acres have been under water, are still under water killing crops and animals and destroying homes and farms. and now experts say this leads to an environmental disaster they're will last for

generations. frances? >> long-term aftereffects from that claudio, thank you there are some severe weather storms developing in parts of the country nbc's meteorologist michelle grossman is tracking this wacky weather. michelle, where are we looking to see it be the worst >> the worst are the southern plains, pars of the gulf coast we'll look at heavy rain also from the great lakes into the northeast. really heavy rain. much needed, though. we could see some storms as well this is what radar looks like this morning, already starting out very active. we can see in the southern storms we have storms moving through. parts of the southeast this stretches from the great lakes to the southeast this morning. and that's all due to a cold front that's going to be moving through over the next couple of days it stretches from texas to the northeast. we're going to see some large tennis-ball sized hail and chance of some really damaging winds. even a few toorngsds especially on the southern plains are possible 19 million at risk the winds gusting over 60 miles per hour where you see the darker orange, strongest stormsnce for the

into delaware. it's a hot one in texas. 99 in san antonio. and we could see some storms in dallas all right, guys. a soggy start for many on the monday we'll see what the rest of the week holds for us. >> thank you, michelle for the first time since 2018, the most active volcano in the philippines is making some noise. thousands of people are prepared to evacuate after lava began spewing from the mayan volcano sunday night so far nearly 13,000 people have left a small farming community four miles away from the crater. the capital city is under a state of emergency in the event the eruption escalates we are back in 60 seconds with more on the legislation that's threatening same-sex marriage in iowa during june fefebreze!

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the debate over same-sex marriage is heating up in iowa as pride month celebrations are under way. well, a series of proposed state bills are threatening the legality of same-sex unions. our steven romo has more >> reporter: earlier this year, iowa legislators put forward a pair of bills that would ban same-sex marriage and allow residents to deny the unions on religious grounds. despite the 2015 landmark supreme court decision that legalized gay marriage nationwide a ruling that would take press citizens even if these bills passed it was in 2009 when iowa was ahead of the curve at the time, becoming the third state in the country to legalize same-sex marriage, allowing couples like kate and trish to

tie the knot >> we knew that we had the support of our family. we knew we had the support of our friends. we didn't have the support of government >> reporter: it was their love story that ultimately became the buys baste sis of the lawsuit. barnham faces brian. but more than a decade later, the conversation has shifted >> we'd like to think that we live in a place where we are accepted and that our government isn't going to try and take away rights that had already been granted to us. >> it seems to have ramped up. and i'm not sure what the impetus was. >> do you feel like the legal status of your marriage is safe? >> i would hope that our legal status is safe but with the laws that are coming, i don't know it's not just the status of our marriage, but it's the status of just being able to be yourself. >> reporter: but iowa's same-sex marriage ban is not an outlier in 2023 alone, more than 520 anti-lgbtq bills have been

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for. >> i am honored to have been chosen to speak on behalf of class 2023 >> reporter: that is her giving a speech at her recent graduation from william patterson university in new jersey >> i was actually feeling proud, representing my university, speaking in front of tons of people, knowing my story and what i go through. >> reporter: what she went through was this in 2014 she and her family were trapped in syria as war raged around them. her mother stani remembers when she knew they had to leave >> we had the very scary night when the -- start hearing the explosion sounds at 2:00 a.m i say, no, no, no. i can't stay anymore >> reporter: racha and her mom applied for asylum here in the u.s. but the family had to leave behind racha's father so he could take care of his own dad >> if i left him, i left my house, i left all my memories there.

so -- i miss my house. sorry. >> reporter: but they made a life in the u.s. and racha worked full-time to put herself through college. >> i am living testimony that if given just an ounce of opportunity, you can do anything >> reporter: but this isn't just a story about racha's american dream. her mother was there that day, too. not as a spectator but as a fellow graduate. >> she helped me a lot i am so thankful god gave me this girl. >> i love you so much. i'm so proud i have mother like you, strong. >> reporter: a powerful achievement made all the more meaningful because of this that's racha's father there at the ceremony, the first time they had seen him in eight years. >> my father is here i'm not going to be worrying about nothing anymore.

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