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country aren't in the clear. we'll let you know where that severe weather is heading this weekend ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy sits down for an exclusive interview with nbc news why he says russia can't afford to fall to ukraine's ongoing counter offensive. an american couple went to sleep in their mexico luxury resort and never woke up. hear what their families say happened in the days leading up to the couple's death. one of the biggest athletes in the world is facing new sexual assault charges. amazon opens the doors on its massive h headquarters it's friday, june 16 "early today" starts right now. hi there, i'm frances rivera >> i'm phillip mena. residents in perryton,

texas are reeling. three have been killed and dozens hurt. two people are also reported missing according to a hospital spokesperson, injuries range from cuts and bruises to several in critical condition who were transported to other hospitals. a trailer park took a direct hit with mobile homes and businesses suffering serious damage and the dangerous weather didn't stop there. nbc's sam brock has the latest on the severe weather plaguing the central plains and southeast >> reporter: on the heels of a tornado outbreak another round of severe weather relentlessly rocking the country again from the central plains to the southeast. new storms breaking out in nord and oklahoma where residents felt the force of high winds and hail, in the last 24 hours. doled out a jaw-dropping output. hail coming down in buckets on this person's boat west of little rock, arkansas, putting a basketball-sized dent in the hood of his

car, thrashing the windshields of other vehicles the stormy strikes keeping 20 million in the severe weather zone that's already reported ten twisters across three states, including texas where this building in cass county had its side sheered off. and in alabama, uprooting these massive trees. the weather picture as a whole going from wind and hail to heat hell in texas. the city's emergency operation center is keeping a close eye on conditions and taking a rare step of demying a heat emergency plan mid june, not july or august >> we're looking at approximately ten days of over 100 degrees. >> reporter: that spawn add quick rush to get some 350 air conditioning units to houston-area seniors like 70-year-old air force veteran david diaz who was relying on a single fan to stay cool. this heat wave also reigniting concerns about texas' aging electrical grid, ercot, which has november failed during a heat wave but has

experienced mass fatal disruptions during snowstorms how much faith do you have in ercot's electrical grid? >> shall we pay now or pay later? i don't have a great deal of faith. i'm just being very direct i hope for the best. but the system hasn't been fixed yet >> our thanks to sam for that report. and michelle grossman will join us in a few minutes to show us where the storms are sticking around today. a federal grand jury has indicted international guardsman of leaking classified documents, teixeira is facing six counts and was arrested two months ago after authorities say he posted the sensitive documents in a social media chat room the attorney general said the leak could are have caused grave damage to national security the manhattan district attorney has confirmed the indictment of marine veteran daniel penny pen lee b

penny will be arraigned on june 28 in the death of jordan neely. neely was a 30-year-old street performer and his family says had a history of mental illness. his death has been ruled a homicide by a medical examiner a grand jury indicted penny on second degree manslaughter penny said neely was threatening passengers on the train the supreme court deliver add major win to m for native american families the stream cosupreme court ruled that the case was dismissed because it did not have legal standing. for now tribes are relieved multiple u.s. agencies, including the energy department have been hacked as part of a cyber attack the cyber security and

infrastructure security agency says it believes a quote, well-known ransomware group is behind the breach the watchdog along with the fbi did warn last week of a vulnerability in a widely-used file transferring program a private cyber threat analyst tells nbc news that the number of hacking victims is likely in the hundreds hough, a cisa official said no military or intelligence agencies appear to have been breached now to a nbc news exclusive. a one on one sit down with volodymyr zelenskyy. our chief for be correspondent, richard engel met the ukrainian president in kyiv for a wide-ranging interview that touched on the ongoing counter offensive and zelenskyy's concern that the russians might sabotage the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. here as richard's report >> reporter: ukraine is in a full-scale fight to take back russian-occupied land. >> hi, richard >> reporter: good to see you again.

a pivotal moment for our interview with volodymyr zelenskyy at the presidential compound in kyiv this must and very critical time for you. >> very busy >> reporter: >> reporter: for over a year, ukraine has been fighting successfully to defend itself we are now in the easterly days of this long anticipated counter offensive. how is it going? >> i cannot give you all the details. things look not bad. i would say it's generally positive but it's difficult our heroic people, our troops who are now at the front of the frontline are facing very tough resistance. we understand why. because for russia, to lose this campaign to

ukraine, i would say actually means losing the war. >> reporter: president zelenskyy also had a dire warning he blamed russia for blowing up a tg up a tam which rudam, which russia denies. and he says the next target is the zaporizhzhia power plant. >> translator: russia does want to blow up the station. >> reporter: why would they want to do that in. >> translator: because they are not interested in ukraine's security they always need instability here and want the world to pressure ukraine to stop the conflict. >> reporter: he says russia is getting desperate, as more western military aid is coming. the u.s. and other allies agreed to train ukrainian pilots to operate f-16s. but it's still unclear when they'll arrive and how many you've been talking

about planes since day one. i remember seeing you, the very early days of the war in this building, in the basement now they're somewhere in the pipeline. what has been the effect of having weapons rolled out like this, given slice by slice over time >> translator: it's prolonged the war. if we are supplied with the machinery that is currently held by our partners, we will move faster >> reporter: we also asked about comments from former president trump and governor desantis, questioning american support for ukraine. president zelenskyy invited both to come here and said, unless vladimir putin is stopped in this country, there'll be a wider war with nato. >> richard, thank you. in manitoba, cananada, at leaeast 15 people are dead d after a fiery highwaway crash between a semimi truckck and a bus. police say the bus was traveling on highway 5, 130 miles west of

the provincial capital of winnipeg when it was struck by a semi investigators are working to establish who had the right-of-way there or whether a crime was committed. weather and road conditions were clear when the accident hand police say both drivers survived witnesses describe a scene of horror, with rescue workers trying to pull passengers out of a bus engulfed in flames canadian prime minister justin trudeau offered his condolences. >> also in canada, dozens of wildfires continue to burn in ontario, once again sending dense plumes of smoke south of the border this time the haze and smoke and poor air quality is blanketing the upper midwest. these pictures are from milwaukee an air quality alert in minnesota has been extended through friday morning smoke from canada was also detected over parts of kentucky, illinois, indiana, michigan and ohio and north dakota >> severe weather is still impacting large parts of the country

nbc meteorologist michelle grossmann is here tracking more storms in the forecast good morning, michelle >> we will a busy day yesterday afternoon into the evening, overnight hours. this morning still watching really wicked weather, looking at really strong storms, a tornado warning, a reported tornado in taylor county, the big bend of florida. we're watching that, also storms moving through the southern plains lots of lickity with th electric it /* /* electricity with these storms once he get the day you get the daytime heating. in pensacola over a foot of rain has fallen there we have that nearly-parked front over the gulf coast states and we're going to see that as we go throughout the day, stalled throughout the south, bringing heavy rain we're concerned about flash flooding and more storms. 9 million at risk. weould see damagin cer on this

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at this exclusive upscale resort in cabobo san lucas. abby a and h her boyoyfriend whwho lived in california found unresponsive in their room by hotel staff. mexican police in the seaside community suspect the cause of death is inhalation of gas. >> she got really sick, and they thought it was food poisoning. >> reporter: the couple started feeling ill after they arrived at ran clowcho pesca darrow >> they spent the night getting ivs and felt better. when they went to bed, i guess they didn't wake up. >> reporter: on gofundme, the family writes, we have been told it was due to improper venting of the resort and could be carbon monoxide poisoning. th >> that's the hardest part, going to a resort you think you're going to be taken care of at >> reporter: the rooms can cost up to $1,000 a night. the hotel owned by

hyatt, out of abundance of caution and respect for the family and all those affected weigh are refrains from speculation about the cause. the deaths the latest in a string of similar incidents in mexico. last october after renting an upscale apartment, three americans appeared to have died from carbon monoxide poisoning in mexico city. in 2018, a couple and their two children alalso lost ththeir r lives in talum >> we love her >> reporter: the hallmarks of another preventible tragedy for a young couple on vacation miguel almaguer, nbc news a massachusetts man walked out of prison a free man after seven years. yesterday the state's highest court decided his lawyer violated his constitutional rights anthony dew, who is black and muslim filed for a retrial in 2021 after learning that his court-appointed attorney richard doyle had a history of

posting racist and anti-muslim content online the court ruled that the now-deceased lawyer had a conflict of interest during the trial and that he demanded his client remove the prayer cap during a meeting the man was sentenced to prison on sex trafficking charms the district attorney's office now must decide whether to retry the case, dismiss the charges or negotiate another plea deal more controversy for conor mcgregor who now denies sexual assault allegations made against him after the game four of the nba finals in a letter reviewed by nbc news, the woman's attorney says she was attacked by mcgregor after security forced her into a bathroom. she is seeking a settlement from mcgregor, the nba and miami heat it allegedly happened the same night he knocked the heat's mascot unconscious during a stunt mcgregor's lawyer says the claims are false, while the miami heat

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it and have peruvian brothers and amazon in the amazon website, it was mind-blowing >> reporter: while amazon shows off the completion of phase one, questions linger about the future of phase two. construction on the penn place campus was paused, fencing around areas where they said it would host the jobs promised they were asked about penn place are we sure penn place is going to happen >> we're soourp committed to arlington and this neighborhood. and certainly, we will do what we need to we own the land over there. so when the time comes for us to be able to develop it, we'll start. >> reporter: part of the penn place development was new arli arlington community high school paid for by amazon. the delay has caused the school to extend the lease on the current building and the county considers the new high

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