hi, everyone. thanks so much for joining us. nbc news daily starts right now. today's monday, june 26th. 2023. breaking news, chaos in russia, the russian mercenary chief speaking out for the first time since abandoning the mutiny that shook putin's government. the growing tension and what this means for the war in ukraine.

>> extreme threat, tense of millions along the east coast in the path of dangerous storms. this as an oppress heat wave is gripping the south. meteorologist bill karins is timing it all out. underwater mystery the highest level of investigation is now under way in that sub disaster near the titanic. what the mother and wife of two of the victims is now saying about the tragedy. family planning, one year since the supreme court overturned roe how adoption has changed in america. we start today with the uncertainty spreading across russia after an armed military rebellion rapidly advanced on moscow over the weekend. >> that attempt was a private army of mercenaries, the wagner group, ultimately ended abruptly in a dramatic turnaround after an agreement was met between the kremlin and the wagner group. russia's leader putin hasn't been seen publicly since this

weekend's chaos. but he'll address the situation tonight. >> meanwhile, at the white house today, president biden said he's receiving hourly updates on the situation and has been in constant contact with u.s. allies among them ukraine's president zelensky. >> we had to make sure that we gave putin no excuse, let me emphasize, we gave putin no excuse to blame this on the west or nato. we made clear that we were not involved. we had nothing to do with it. it was a part of struggle within russia. >> we have full team coverage of this developing story from across the region. kelly cobiella is in kyiv, ukraine. but here's keir simmons. >> reporter: the leader of the wagner group militia, prigozhin putting out an audio statement in which he insist his men, his

soldiers don't want to sign up to join the russian mainstream military. in which he says that he didn't intend to overthrow president putin, but in fact is trying to help raise questions, though, about president putin's special military operation in ukraine in which he said the deal was done with the leader of belarus, lukashe in, ko, inlewded lukashenko to offer to find ways for wagner group -- while putin was seen today, in a video talking to young russian engineers, not mentioning the rebellion, in a video that was possibly recorded before this weekend's events. at the same time, prigozhin making a statement insisting that he's holding the line on a position that he already held and making it from another country, from exile. it does set up some real

challenges for president putin, he has some very difficult decisions to make, so far today we haven't really heard from him. >> keir simmons in moscow, thank you so much. let's bring in kelly cobiella in kyiv, ukraine. any indication that this is impacting the way the ukraine's military is on the battlefield. >> reporter: it's soon to tell, i think, they haven't said they've made any adjustments based on the turmoil that we saw unfold in russia over the weekend. they have told us they're making gains, small gains, but they're gains, a village recaptured from the russians the ukrainian military says just yesterday releasing video of that of a flag raising today. but it's also important to understand i think that this is a very difficult task, the counteroffensive for the ukrainians, the russians have been digging over the winter,

they've had many, many months to dig in to create trenches, minefields, tank traps, to really strong defenses and it's going the take time the ukrainian leadership has said to get through that and they have been trying to manage expectations for some time. it could be that at some point down the road this does have an impact. surely because of morale and we talked to a spokesperson for the eastern forces who said he believes that will happen, that this will have an effect on morale of russian forces that may help them in the end on the battlefield. >> kelly in kyiv, thank you. right now, tens of millions of people up and down the east coast are at risk of experiencing severe storms. this system moving east from the midwest is bringing the threat of damaging hail and high winds. just take a look at these tornadoes in indiana on sunday the national weather service said there were three in total across the state.

meanwhile in south, particularly in the lone star state, brutal heat continues to bring high temperatures in the triple digits. bill karins is tracking the forecast but we begin in sweltering holt texas with priscilla thompson. >> reporter: we all remember that winter freeze where the power grid completely went out and it was miserable for so many people here and this week the texas power operator have issued a watch, they are prepared to handle it. but of course for folks who lived through that freeze they're a little nervous. i asked one woman about that and i want to play what she had to say. are you at all nervous about the grid in zmrooim a little bit scared that we wouldn't be able

to use our air conditioner. keeping the temperature at 76 as much as we can stand it. just so that we don't have to be victims of that this year. >> reporter: and the city of houston has opened cooling centers and fol rx coming out here, they've got their sunscreen on, water bottles to stay hydrated. we're waiting for the triple-digit temperatures to set in here in the afternoon, it's going to get even more hot than it already is. >> oh, boy, i already see the little ones behind you playing if water. i want to bring in meteorologist bill karins, when will we get the break from this severe weather and the heat in. >> severe weather soon. but heat, not so soon. the severe weather, we have severe thunderstorm watches that go from western new york to pennsylvania to the philadelphia

area now including washington. d.c. the strongest storms out there, one of our first tornado warnings, right along the delaware river separating pennsylvania and new jersey. just north of interstate 78 there. we'll continue to track that. other severe storms in this region as well as a lot of lightning. that area from raleigh, to charlotte, that orange area where we have the greatest risk of seeing the strongest storms. how about the heat? this heat dome has been sitting here two, three weeks, barely moving, it won't move that much this week. all of the red dots on here show you areas expected to break record highs from tucson all the way to new orleans. who's the hottest right now? look at san angelo.

not far behind is del rio. get the water, the ac and wait for that sun to set. >> thank you both. republican presidential nominee ron desantis said if he were president he would change the citizenship rule for some people born on american soil. the first formal policy plan of his presidential campaign, nbc news national correspondent gabe gutierrez is with the desantis campaign along the border in texas. you just spoke with desantis. tell us what did you hear from him about this immigration plan? >> reporter: the governor is taking an aggressive stance on immigration, even more so he said than former president trump. what's significant here, as he tries to make some noise in the

gop primary race where he has fallen quite a bit since his campaign launch last month according to new nbc news polling, governor desantis has seen several proposals, different changes for immigrants here in the united states but also saying that he will use the u.s. military, the navy the coast guard to block potential drugs and chemicals used to make fentanyl from entering mexican sports and saying that the mexican government has at times not been the best partner when it comes to that. i spoke to several issues related to immigration and his standing in the gop primary. take a listen. >> you're already on u.s. soil once you're cutting through the wall. you have hostile intent because you're running drugs, you absolutely can use deadly force. i mean, think about it, if you were trying to do it, go to some texas rancher's property, break

into their house, they're going to respond. we can respond. >> reporter: again that's governor desantis telling me that he would instruct his authorities, law enforcement authorities to use deadly force to combat drug smugglers, for its part the trump campaign said that governor desantis' platform for the large part appears to be much of a copy of what he put forward during his administration, but governor desantis now facing a very uphill battle, he's nearly 30 points behind former president trump in that national nbc news polling. >> all right, gabe gutierrez, thank you so much. we hope there's some ac near you. we appreciate you and your team being out there despite the heat. turning now to some financial headlines the biden administration is spending billions on expanding high-speed internet. we have today's cnbc money

minute. the president outlining a sweeping $42 billion to outfit all america's homes and businesses with reliable high-speed internet today. texas and california, the most populous state are set to receive the most funds. ryan reynolds and rob mcel henne are setting their sights on formula 1. secured $218 million investment from a group of investors that includes the actors, renault group, the group has acquired a 24% stake in the team. and pizza hut, made quite the impression on some new york city subway riders by delivering pies underground. it was part of a promotion for the new teenage turtles.

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welcome back. on the west coast a mysterious bloom of toxic algae is wreaking havoc in southern california, killing hundreds of dolphins, seals and other wildlife off the coast and experts worry it could have an impact on the seafood we eat. steve, what do we know? >> reporter: rescue workers, volunteers, working around the clock because it seems like every hour there's new call for an animal washed up or dying and every single call makes it even more dangerous for humans. here's why. take a look. the beauty of a california beach day. broken by the startling sights of sickness and death. >> quite awful. at least two or three of them wash up every evening. >> reporter: a micro scopic menace. poisoning the california coast. >> toxins can lead to all sort

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ship, hit by a freak storm while departing from a port in florida as high winds turned furniture into projectiles. you can see here a lounge chair falling from a top deck smash spoog a stroller below, the woman running away the child in her arms. a sudden gust of wind slammed it during departure on june 16th. a passenger was in the middle of the chaos. >> chairs started flying, towels started flying. people started scrambling. it happened so quick. >> those chairs are flying. >> reporter: royal caribbean said no one was seriously injured. >> i'm still going to cruise. i still love it. >> reporter: a freak storm putting passengers in danger and casting a shadow over a sunny summer vacation. nbc news, miami. coming up, what the coast

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bill in the next half hour, which would create that toll increase. it could bring in nearly a billion for the citizens over the next five years, cutting the deficit for the transit system into half. it would include this bridge, san mateo, antioch and others as well. all of them would have that same $8.50 toll. we should hear from those two state lawmakers in the next half hour in sacramento. for now, we're live in oakland. thom jensen, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, thom. a microscopic menace is in the ocean off the coast of california. toxic algae blooms in southern california have been killed dolphins, sea lions, and seals by the hundred. more animals are sick because of the toxins in their system.

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investigation. >> the most serious and most in depth investigation the coast guard can launch where a situation where lives have been lost and what the invest guys finds could lead to civil or criminal actions as well. separate from that, we shouldn't forget the canadian transportation safety board has launched its own independent investigation. so all of this together means there's a multipronged front on this investigation and part of what they'll focus on, did the ceo of this company, oceangate, did the ceo ignore warnings that the carbon fiber shell of that submarine implode and that appears to be exactly what happened. >> tom, for the first time, since this tragedy, we started to hear from some of the families directly on camera, of the victims here, specifically

the wife and mother of two people who were onboard, her son is 19 years old what is she saying about her son and about her husband. >> that's her son right there, 19 years old, university student and apparently a whiz at the rubik's cube, the mom said that contrary to what the aunt said last week that he did want to go on this voyage down to the bot tom the sea and she gave up her spot for him to go. take a listen. >> i was really happy for them because both of them, they really, really wanted to do that for a long time. it was supposed to me going down but i stepped back and gave it to him because he really wanted to go. i miss them. i really, really miss them. >> so the investigation

continues now into why this submarine -- submersible was ever allowed to dive down toward the titanic when it's not overseen and not regulated and not certified for that deep of a dive. >> tom, thank you. the family of a texas woman who was shot and killed by police while having a mental health crisis is planning to sue the police department. three officers have been charged with murder in the death of melissa perez, killed inside her san antonio apartment on friday. nbc news correspondent dana griffin join us now. we want to warn our viewers that many will probably consider this disturbing, can you talk us through what we know and what we learned from this video. >> reporter: absolutely, this started after midnight on friday, officers responding to this apartment complex for a report of vandalism, they ride to stop 46-year-old melissa

perez because they suspected of her cutting wires to the fire alarm system. she goes inside her apartment, locked herself inside. you can see the afrs trying to lift the screen to an open window and that's when police said she threw a glass candle at the officer. and this is what unfolded next. >> 911. >> reporter: so according to police chief perez was shot at least twice and those officers were iediately suspended without pay and later charged with murder. >> dana, i understand you've also spoke within the family of the victim here, the daughter of melissa perez, what did she say about these charges in. >> reporter: she's heartbroken,

she felt that the officers could have done to more deescalate the situation. >> she could be here right now. she didn't have to die. you know, there's so many other things that could have been done. and now my brothers and me don't have our mom for the rest of our lives. like, she's gone. they took that from us. >> now perez was a mother of four, we're told that the family is planning to file a lawsuit some time this week, we have reached out to those officers for comment and we haven't yet to hear back. >> dana thank you. today we're getting a first look at a possible defense for the man charged with killing four university of idaho college students, the attorneys for bryan kohberger saying the state is hiding its entire case about how the investigators led to

kohberger. clearly it looks like kohberger's team is honing in on this knife sheathe. why is the defense so keen on dna evidence right now. >> the defense wants disclosure of what's called forensic jeanology evidence. it's relatively new in dna evidence. this is not your o. jich simpson trial dna everyday. it's been around for a long time. but it has much more limitations and its use is confined to law enforcement. igg's something that law enforcement laboratories don't have the capability to run through their systems. what they do instead is create a profile using private laboratories and searching through these public disclosure

companies to create a profile and what the defense is saying that, hey, the state used this to create a profile that led them, essentially gave them a dna tip to find kohberger, the state said we used that but we're not planning to introducing any of that. we're using the str evidence the old version of dna evidence that we found on the knife sheathe and that we compared to kohberger that's it. we're not going to deal -- the jury is not going to hear about this family tree geneaology evidence. >> all right, danny with that latest analysis, thank you so much. the suspect this deadly mass shooting at a gay nightclub in colorado has pleaded guilty to murder and hate crimes charges. five people were killed at club q in november of 2022. their killer is set to serve

five consecutive life sentences in prison. nbc news correspondent steve patterson has been following this shooting from the very beginning. wayn't to start with the victims here, the families, had to be notified that there was going to be plea deal, right, what did they think. >> reporter: colorado law that you notify the families that a plea deal is coming. ready with impact statements, ready to possibly hear what may be the sentencing guidelines and that's exactly what happened. as we understand it, maybe a month in the making, discussions between the prosecutors and those families and of course the defense team which culminated in this and i think the deal was about avoiding a lengthy trial, avoiding what would have been a lengthy buildup to lengthy trial and avoided the details that would have come out in a trial. this was speedy. i think the defense realized that, they took this plea deal,

the entire trial process, there's no right to an appeal process, there's no right of parole, that doesn't have any impact on a coinciding federal investigation we know that the fbi has been investigating this as well for several months, federal hate crime charges, could lead to federal execution, we don't anything more about whether or not this state hearing will influence the federal investigation, but that's part of it as well. for now families feeling a can that are tis of the speediness of how this happened. right to the sentencing and right to aldridge who's serving multiple life sentences behind bar. turn now to breaking news out of russia where president putin just addressed the armed military rebellion over the weekend. >> keir simmons is in moscow and joins us now.

putin delivered these remarks through state media just a few moments ago, what did he have to say? >> reporter: well, it's pretty stunning, honestly, he didn't make any announcements, any changes, he doubled down on what he said on saturday, condemning basically that rebellion that rocked russia, describing it as a mutiny, a tragic mistake, calling on the members of that independent, that private army to join the russian military saying it would have ended in big bloodshed, that's what he was trying to avoid. most stunning, though, because it comes just hours, this was a five-minute speech, just hours after an 11-minute kind of die tribe by the leader of that independent army, the wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin, in which he backed away from conceding that his soldiers

would joined the russian military. he defended what happened on saturday, even suggesting that the march by his soldiers towards to moscow has exposed security failures in russia and kind of a good thing, denied that he was trying to topple president putin. what you have now in a sense is war of words between president putin and this leader of a renegade group of mutinyeers as president putin would describe them and where it goes from now, it's impossible to know. >> interesting looking at all of the photos. how close they've been over the years. a lot to watch. keir simmons in moscow, thank you so much. we appreciate your reporting. up next, we'll talk health,

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as injection. >> reporter: now drugmakers are working on an alternative with pills, just as effective, that includes an oral version of ozempic. joining us is dr. john torres. how would these weight loss pills work in. >> good afternoon. these weight loss pills would work exactly the way the injections work. so the big differences here, doing the injectables it's a once-weekly injection it doesn't have to do anything with food as your stomach doesn't have to be empty. some require an empty stomach we do think they're going to be cheaper. the effects are almost identical. so effects the same. the convenience much more

improved. >> what do we know about safety, how safe would this pill be and would they have the same side effects as the injections? >> it looked like the side effects were the same. part of it could be you're taking it on a daily basis. the side effects right there, 6% of participants in the trials did end up not -- stop taking it due to the side effects. seem to be more so, people taken the oral pills and again probably you're taking it every day. >> any sense of how soon these pills might be available to customers and any indication of what the price tag would be? >> so as far as the price we aren't sure what it's going to be. as far as availability there are three manufacturers right now looking at this, the one is elite is novo nordisk.

looking for approval this year. pfizer is behind in phase two and maybe next year. today more than a half of all u.s. states have laws restricting abortion access. >> one year after the controversial dobbs ruling i spoke to adoption agencies about the state of adoption in the u.s. and one woman in texas about her journey. >> reporter: this is moment madeline said she made the toughest decision of her life. the moment she chose to place her newborn son up for adoption. >> so beautiful. >> reporter: she says restrictive abortion laws in texas where she lives played a major part in her decision to carry her baby to term. then 20-year-old was already a single mother of one son.

>> i didn't have a job. i didn't think i could do it at all. >> reporter: she considered terminating the pregnancy but texas banned abortion at six weeks even before dobbs. >> i was already so stressed out and how am supposed to make that decision in two weeks? >> reporter: she made the final decision to sign the adoption papers 48 hours after delivery. >> it's traumatizing. it can be traumatizing for mama and baby. >> reporter: opponents of abortion rights have argued that overturning roe v. wade would result in more adoptions. there's some evidence that may be happening in some agencies. >> yeah, we've seen an increase. >> reporter: the gladney center for adoption, one of the largest adoption agencies in texas, saw spikes of 30%. phone calls inquiing about

adoption are up. >> part of it is probably from the dobbs ruling, we have seen in conversations with our expectant mothers have indicated that had they had the ability to get an abortion -- >> also citing the pandemic as a potential cause. but there's not enough data to know if this will become a national trend. >> we don't know yet. numbers are relatively unchanged and others are seeing an increase either in inquiries or in placements. so i think we have more work to do to really get to a clear answer on that. >> reporter: she says restrictive abortion laws rob women of the ability to think through seismic life decision and it makes me angry for the other women who are going through the exact same thing now. >> reporter: but today she says she's come to terms with her

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