deadly mass shootings over the weekend. dozens injured as gunfire erupts m several states

the secretary of state visits china on a high-stakes diplomatic mission to try to cool exploding u.s.-china tensions the crucial step is patching fractured ties that could go better than expected ukraine rolling on with this progress in the offensive leading to several russian casualties u.s. open winner by a single stroke first-time u.s. open champion wyndham clark. and a texas community speeds to offer a life-changing gift. it is monday, june 19, juneteenth "early today" starts right now >> good morning, i'm frances rivera >> and i'm jessica layton. the south is still hoping for relief from extreme and dangerous weather this morning as of midnight, nearly half a million customers were still without power from texas to tennessee. some of the worth worst outages

were in oklahoma with over 200,000 in the dark. the recent severe weather has been linked to five deaths across the south governor abbott toured the damage in perryton, texas where three lives were lost to a tornado. he said he'd never seen a level of decimation to a town like this >> the people in this area have gone through over the past couple of days, it's nothing short of horrific. >> today parts of texas and louisiana remain under excessive heat warnings. cooling centers have opened up in houston and new orleans the heat index in some of those areas could reach as high as 116 degrees. another holiday weekend has been disrupted by gun violence across the country just west of chicago, one person was killed and at least 20 people were shot in the suburb of willowbrook shots were fired into a crowd that had gathered for a juneteenth celebration no suspects have been identified one person of interest is in

custody in st. louis where teenagers were having a party in an office building, and a 17-year-old boy was shot and killed nine others were hurt. they range in age from 15 to 19. >> ten of our babies shot downtown and a young life lost it's every parent's worst nightmare. ten fold >> meanwhile, two people were killed and three injured at a music festival in washington state saturday police say a suspect shot randomly into the crowd at a camp ground before being take noon custody as republicans are forced to reckon with the mounting legal troubles of former president trump, president biden took to the stage over the weekend for his first campaign rally we go to brie jackson in washington what is the latest from the gop? >> reporter: the contenders for the republican nomination for president continue to navigate the fallout from last week's second arraignment of the party's frontrunner, former

president donald trump donald trump's one-time running mate, mike pence, sat down with chuck todd over the weekend where he criticized his former ally as having abandoned the principles they ran on together. >> look, in 2016, donald trump promised to govern as a conservative and i'm proud to say that we did for four years under the trump-pence administration but he makes no such promise today. >> meanwhile, there's been a renewed emphasis on the question of other candidates' support for the former president, as his legal troubles continue to mount. while multiple gop contenders have already promised to pardon trump if he were to retake the white house, former arkansas governor asa hutchinson on sunday warned of the possibility that trump could pardon himself. notably, in 2018, trump even claimed he had the absolute right to pardon himself. vocal trump critic chris

christie criticized the republican national committee and the requirement for candidates to pledge the support for the eventual nominee, calling it a useless idea. he made his own pledge to never support donald trump again >> we know it's been two months since president biden announced his campaign for reelection, what can you tell us about his early campaigning this weekend >> reporter: so president biden held one first events for his 2024 campaign over the weekend. after touring the collapsed section of i-95 in philadelphia on saturday, the president headed to the pennsylvania convention center for a campaign rally, populated by union members. biden, who often touts his presidency as the most pro-labor administration in history took the stage to reaffirm his support for america's unions just a day after he received the endorsement of the aflcio. the country's largest union.

later today the president will travel to california where he will take part in several campaign receptions and push his administration's actions on combating climate change jessica? >> brie, thank you the emancipation proclamation will now be a permanent fixture in the national archives' rotunda it is currently on a temporary display to celebrate juneteenth. the decision to give it a permanent place a historic day for americans. it will be displayed alongside the declaration of independence, the constitution and bill of rights the u.s. celebrates juneteenth today, two years after it was recognized as a federal holiday. over the weekend, the country held coast-to-coast events in honor of the holiday that commemorates the freedom of enslaved african-americans despite the adminiscelebrations

wilj. barber said it should and day of inquiry and activism north vaekorea has commente publicly on their failed spy satellite launch three weeks ago. officials at a workers party summit harshly criticized those involved with the launch preparations the regime promised to try again but it's not clear when that will happen. it was launched may 31st and quickly fell into the sea and south korea even salvaged parts of that debris ukraine has score d a victory, recapturing a village in the south, that's a note from a telegram post. josh, what do we know about this village? >> reporter: well, frances, just in the last few minutes, we have gotten confirmation from the ukrainian side that this villag

in the zaporizhzhia region is now under their control. that comes to us via the deputy defense secretary for the nation of ukraine who said that it is one of eight settlements ha ukraine has been able to liberate from russian control over the two weeks or so of their counter offensive so far now eight villages may sound like a lot, but these are very small villages in fact, we have yet to see the really full-scale momentum that the ukrainians had really hoped for so far in their counter offensive. the defense ministry of ukraine estimating it's about 43 square miles so far that ukraine has been able to seize back in the counter offensive, as president zelenskyy describes this as something that's really going to be methodical, step by step, inch by inch, mile by mile, frances. >> we understand there are new theories about how the kau khova

dam was destroyed. >> reporter: that's right. the associated press has received photos which show a car laden with explosives above the dam in the days and weeks before it actually was destroyed. the car itself would not have been enough to fully destroy the dam, but it certainly suggests that the russians would have had the means to place explosives there to potentially bring that dam down as additional evidence shows that the russian claims that a ukrainian missile might have hit this would not have been enough to actually destroy this dam, frances. >> it would be a devastating aftermath to follow. thank you, josh letterman, thanks and in ukraine, that could be one of the topics that antony blinken discusses with chinese officials as a second day of meetings gets under way in beijing this morning we want to show him with china's top diplomat yesterday he met with the chinese foreign minister for

nearly eight hours the state department called those talks candid and substantive but did not announce any breakthroughs. the secretary has no scheduled meetings with president xi jinping. blinken is set to leave for london later this morning. and in india, a scorching heat wave quilkilled at least 96 people over the weekend. the highest temperature was 113 degrees in one city on saturday. most of the dead with over 60 and had health ailments from before eld a elderly and sick residents were warned to stay indoors the extreme temperatures are expected to stay in effect through today at least the hot summer months have been lethal at times. in april, 13 people died during a heat wave in mumbai. >> the south is expecting record heat this week michelle grossmann is tracking those temperatures for us. >> we're looking at dangerous heat once again. temperatures soaring into the

triple digits. you factor in the humidity it's going to feel like 110 to 120. alerts are in place into portions of the south. heat advisories in the orange. the heat warnings are in the hot pink dallas, austin, houston, are you und you, you are under a heat warning. 104 in san antonio, that's probably enough to break a record 101 in houston we'll continue the heat, once again tomorrow, triple digits. 112 in del rio the record is 105. the heat is adng to stormsdi 8 88 in richmond temperatures in the triple digits in houston.

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>> i thought i was in trouble. i thought oh, man, maybe i forgot to do something, or maybe i shouldn't have eaten that piece of bread on camera she said no, you're not in trouble. we got ahcar i'm like, what just basically, i didn't know what to think. >> reporter: a car what sampson is calling a true blessing his three-hour bike ride to work now just a 30-minute drive joelle says this car is helping his future and his family's too. >> thank you very much, paducah. come and see me at texas roadhouse. my name is sampson, i will be the best server i can be >> no doubt about that our thanks to our blain mcdonald for that report. after a weekend that featured some of its best-ever played rounds, the u.s. open crow crowned a new champion sunday. [cheers and applause american wyndham clark took home

the trophy in his first major title after four days of play at the los angeles country club he shot even par and finished at 10 under for the tournament fending off rory mcilroy by one stroke mlb teams have been honoring juneteenth across the country. before the red sox secured a win against the yankees, ben hake threw out the first ceremonial pitch. meanwhile, "lift every voice and sing" rang out at stadiums later today, a special matinee start will commemorate the holiday as the wasngton nahiti

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