from the campaign trail to the courtroom, former president donald trump heads to miami ahead of his arraignment. the city of new haven delivers nearly $50 million worth of justice to a man paralyzed in police custody. the cops who mobbed him now

facing criminal charges. and anticipation is high ahead of a meeting of federal reserve officials. is a pause in interest rate hikes around the corn. >> reporter: we're joined by cn c cnbc's air beal legume day. good morning, i'm jessica layton. >> i'm frances rivera. the republican party spent the weekend defending former president trump as he heads to miami this morning ahead of his expected arraignment on tuesday. for more we go to nbc's brie jackson in washington. good morning now that we've observed all those shocking photos from friday, what's everyone saying in d.c.? >> reporter: good morning, frances. former president trump is expected to travel from new jersey to florida this morning on tuesday trump will be arraigned at a federal court in miami after he was indicted last week on 37 felony counts over his 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 down play the 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 weaponized justice department rather than trump himself. one candidate vivek ramaswamy is doubling down on his stance of pardoning trump if he is elected. >> brie, i want to ask you have any prominent republicans made an attempt at criticizing trump for his actions? >> reporter: frances, there is 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 documents and how many there were, frankly. defense department documents about our capabilities are in no universe donald j. trump's personnel documents. they are the government's documents. >> reporter: and the former president did not take kindly to those comments he took to truth social calling his former ag weak and totally uneffective as well as a gutless pig. we will see what more of the former president has to said about his second indictment as this week continues. >> certainly eventful in the next few days to come. thank you. pennsylvania's governor will make a disaster declaration today after an explosion brought one of the busiest roadways in america crumbling down, a tanker

truck caught on fire beneath an elevated section of i-95 in northeast philadelphia causing it to collapse there have been no reports of injuries but it's unclear if the tanker truck's driver was trapped during that collapse officials say this section of freeway carries about 160,000 vehicles a day so travel and commerce could be disrupted for months while the freeway is rebuilt. the city of new haven, conne 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 handcuffed and without a seat belt and went head first into the metal partition when the van had to brake 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 officers including those who were fired face

criminal charges, all have pleaded not guilty. the nation saw yet another weekend of deadly gun violence from coast to coast. three people were killed and three others hurt in a shootingover night in annapolis, maryland police believe the shooting began with a fight at a home and there is no threat to the public a person of interest is in custody. meanwhile, police in houston, texas, are searching for at least one suspect after shots were fired into a crowd outside a nightclub. six people were shot, one of them was seriously hurt. and san francisco police are investigating a drive-by shooting that injured nine people officials believe the shooting was a targeted attack. the victims are all expected to survive. moving now to russia where a moscow court says another american citizen has been detained, the u.s. state department tells nbc news they are aware of the arrest of michael travis leake he is accused of drug-related charges according to a russian court statement via telegram we go now to josh lederman for

details. >> reporter: american michael travis leake is facing up to a dozen years or more in russian prison, seen on state television locked in a cage in court in moscow russian state media saying he is accused of large scale drug dealing but giving few details releasing this video they say shows leake after his arrest. >> i am not admit to go any guilt and i do not believe i am done what i've been accused because i don't know what i've been accused of. >> reporter: nbc news cannot verify w when the vivideo was me or if leake was under distress he has lived in russia for years. he has been the front man for one band and the producer for three others in 2014 leake was being interviewed for anthony bourdain's parts unknown about russia's rock scene when a mic malfunctions. >> the kgb, they're blocking your signal.

i'm quite sure you have had someone on your tail the entire time you've been here. >> reporter: new fears of whether russia may be detaining americans to use as leverage amid sky high tensions over the war in ukraine evan gershkovich in custody since march on espionage charges that he strongly denies and wnba star brittney griner sentenced to nine years on drug charges before being released in a prisoner swap in december. the u.s. saying she was wrongfully detained. >> thanks to josh for that report ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has confirmed his army has begun a new counteroffensive against russia speaking at a press conference with canadian prime minister justice department zelenskyy confirmed vladimir putin's comments that ukraine is on the attack zelenskyy told reporters to, quote, tell putin that ukrainian generals are feeling good about the ongoing action for the latest on this we go to nbc foreign correspondent claudio lavanga.

what do we know about the latest on the fighting there? >> reporter: good morning, jessica. since zelenskyy confirmed the counteroffensive has now started the ukrainian army claims they already conquered three villages previously under russian occupation in the southeast of the country. russia has yet to comment or confirm this, but there is a video on social media showing ukrainian troops raising a ukrainian flag, on a destroyed building on one of those villages and another video shows another ukrainian brigade saying or chanting or shouting glory to ukraine in another of those villages the three villages are small in size and population but are considered to be strategic because they paved the way for the ukrainian military to bigger targets like the city of mariupol or the crimean peninsula or the city of bakhmut which was the scene of one of the longest and bloodiest battles since the start of the war. what is boosting the ukrainian army is the use of military

weapons and equipment, supplies by western allies including apparently the first time they used bradley vehicles made in the united states, even though russia says that throughout the weekend they already destroyed five of them, jessica. >> claudio, what's the latest with the flooding after the dam was blown up last week >> reporter: well, there is video posted on sunday by president zelenskyy which not only he access russia of blowing up the dam, but also of shelling the areas where residents were being evaluated from the water started slowly receding from last friday showing signs of what is going to be a catastrophic cataclysmic in a way environmental disaster because there were tens of thousands of acres that land that have been under water, are still under water with crops and animals, killing crops and animals, destroying homes and farms and affecting essentially the water supply, the food supply and drinking water, food

supplies and the ecosystem in that vast area for generations to come, jessica. >> claudio, thank you. now to prts of the country kicking off the week with storms michelle grossman is tracking the potential for some severe weather there. hi, michelle. >> great to see you. yes, soggy for many of us, we start this workweek looking at storms in portions of the southern plains, even early this morning seeing strong thormgs, storms along the gulf coast into the southeast, also rain and showers in the intermountain west, parts of the rockies into the northeast. we really need the rain, it's been really dry so far this year we will see rain great lakes into the northeast also the southeast as we go throughout the day. a really long cold front stretching from the northeast to parts of texas and we're going to see strong storms wyoming to texas, we could see large hail, tennis ball size hail, gusty winds, winds gusting up to 60 miles per hour, can't rule out of chance for a tornado or two tomorrow the target will b04 ino

storms in amarillo, dallas and also shreveport. all right. feeling like summer in texas, it's stormy in many spots. we will talk more about that with the week forecast coming up. >> michelle, thank you. is another rate increase in the forecast after the federal reserve? we're back in 60 seconds with that prediction. and it was a weekend of history and tragedy athe t belmont stakes big moments from the world of horse racicing anand i use ththis. febreze has a mimicrochip to digigitally conontrol how much scent is released so it doesn't fade. ooh. does mine have a microchip? ...oh.h. fefebreze smelells first-d-y fresesh for 50 d days. thatat is a shocockingly long time.e. febrbreze also h has a refill remiminder lightht... it even reminds you to refill it? so i n never miss s a day of freshneness.

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as we always do, kicking off the week with some hope and inspiration. nbc's josé diaz-balart shares a

recent good news from across the country. >> reporter: when fifth grade teacher kalyn entered her classroom she had no clue why all her students present and past were there. but then she saw at the end her boyfriend, adam powers >> i saw adam and all of my students from the last year and this year, it was just cute. >> reporter: who then asked her to marry him she said yes >> the plan had taken so long to complete just seeing it all come to fruition, it was very exciting >> reporter: there were cheers, too, in this florida classroom

as 5-year-old casen johns who moved away in february surprising his former classmate at his elementary school >> this is so cute >> reporter: it took deandre thomas nearly ten years to grow out his dreadlocks, but here he is shaving them off. the reason, his daughter is battling cancer. this is the moment he surprised her. and then he says, you're beautiful. on this pennsylvania football

field -- >> he is right here. >> reporter: an grove wide receiver gavin pick card had no idea why his doctor was on the phone for him. we introduced you to him in november, the 17-year-old had just been diagnosed with hodgkin's lymphoma when the team he was playing against found out about it, they did this. that's gavin, number 6 in the red hoodie his rivals embracing him and high-fiving him, cheering him on for his fight ahead. >> i felt like they were my team and my team i've been playing with for years. >> that night was just really special for everybody. >> hey, doc. >> reporter: and now here is gavin this week surrounded by his teammates, his doctor on the phone. >> i wanted to call and give you some really good news. >> okay. >> your scans look great, your

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dreaming of for the past two months her pet cat named cinnamon escaped from their rv during their stay at the twin lakes campground back in april >> i was really sad and i didn't really have any hope but i started praying to god and then it just happened. >> reporter: residents in the community rallied together over the past two months and located the furry feline this week campground resident sandy green said she devised the perfect plan to get cinnamon back where he belongs. >> i filled that trap full of prayer, filled it with food, that cinnamon liked and the next morning he was in the trap >> reporter: jacobson's mom says she is thankful to the campground residents and says her family now feels complete. >> this past month and a half has been really hard with the whole family, but the kids especially

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trove trove for the performance in "some like it hot" and alex newell won for the role shocked. these two are the first out nonbinary performers to ever win a tony award we talked about this earlier with how with the writers strike this almost didn't happen but they pulled it off, it was live, it was unscripted, it was history making. >> if anybody can pull off live tv when it comes to an award show they certainly can do t they're used to being on stage, they are performers, they are pros, great to be able to have it. >> absolutely. thanks for watching "early today," i'm jessica layton. >> and i'm frances riva. er

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