much of the country under a hazy maze of smokey air and excessive heat warnings. where the dangerous wave of weather heads to next and how people have been been dealing wt the wreckage of the titan returns to shore as officials look to find out what went wrong. the queen of pop rushed to

the hospital what we know about madonna's medical scare and road to recovery writing your name in the stars has never been this easy and pinstripe perfection the yankees make history on the pitcher's mound. it's thursday, june 29 "early today" starts right now and good morning i'm jessica layton >> glad you're with us, i'm frances rivera between the toxic air and oppressive heat, it is hard for many americans to get a breath of fresh air more than a third of the country is engulfed by the slowly-moving wildfire smoke p cafrom canada. the haze had grow worse after lingering over the midwest >> typically, you can see downtown cleveland right there this is all happening so quickly. i can't evensee everything lik five feet past me. go meanwhile, the heat dome

baking texas has made it one of the hottest places on the planet some cities have surpassed 110 degrees, rivaling places like the za sahara desert at least 11 deaths have been confirmed in texas and louisiana. one week after the submersible titan was declared lost, the crews in charge of recovering the vessel have brought part of the wreckage to shore. the debris was retrieved by a remote-operated vehicle diving more than 12,000 feet below the water. five people were on board the titan when it was said to are suffered a catastrophic implosion on its way to view the wreckage of the "titanic." donald trump has file add coufiled a counter suit against e. jean carroll. a day after the decision,

carroll was asked on cnn how she felt about the jury not finding trump guilty for a rape. >> i just say in my head, oh, yes he d yes, yes he did. carroll's attorney called it an attempt by trump to delie accountability hunter biden's alleged interactions with foreign business partners are back under scrutiny all thanks to an irs whistle-blower nbc's gabe gutierrez has more. >> reporter: president biden is emphatically emphatically denying he was present when his son text add chinese business partner in 2017 demanding payment. >> were you involved >> no! >> reporter: gary shapley says

hunter biden used his father as leverage to pressure a chinese businessman into paying him, quote, i'm sitting here with my father, and we'd like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled, adding, you will regret not following my direction >> if this was any other person they'd likely have already served their sentence. >> reporter: shapley saysthey provided preferential treatment and prosecutors prevented him from looking into the messages he also alleges the federal prosecutor overseeing the case, trump-appointed david weiss said a biden-appointed u.s. attorney has rejected his request to file additional charges hunter biden recently reached a plea deal for misdemeanor tax charges resulting in no prison time merrick garland has denied interfering with weiss' investigation.

>> he would be given full authority to decide the matter as he decided was appropriate, and that's what he's done. >> our thanks to gabe for that report just before new laws were set to go into effect, federal judges if kentucky and tennessee have blocked bans on transgender youth health care. it suspends laws that would have blocked they are by while lawsuits play out in court several bans have been struck down or paused in arkansas larksla and indiana. ukraine has long accused russia of kidnapping its children and they accuse putin of trying to erase their identity by bringing them up as russians, not ukrainians our molly hunter takeses us inse one mother's fight to get her son back >> reporter: in a video posteded by pro-russian media, a ukrainian mother is seen getting off the train in southwestern

russia the russian reporter narrates. oksana's son was taken from the ukrainian village to a safe place by the russian military. he says, now he's being handed back to his mother but what the reporter doesn't say is 12-year-old nikita was kept for eight months at a school luhansk without his mother's knowledge oksana says she had no idea if her son was alive. [speaking non-english] they took our children, she told us, just days after that reunion many they reunion. they have no right to keep them there. they depict the russians as savior the face of the operation is the

commissioner the international court accused her and putin of war crimes, of the unlawful deportation and transfer of ukrainian children more than 200,000 kids have said to are been deported to russia and russian-occupied territory the ukrainian government says at least 370 have been brought back, including nikita the ngos organized the daring trip, 3,000 miles all the way into russia to bring home her son. >> they are not giving them back, we taking them back. >> reporter: since the icc arrest warrant, russia is making it harder. >> russians understand now that each case is valued for icc, for ukrainian, for future court. >> reporter: each case could be evidence in each case is evidence of war crimes >> reporter: on september 8, nikita says russian troops took

him and 12 classmates from their boarding school outside of kharkiv, just two days before ukrainian troops liberated the area they were sent to a special correctional school in hugh hafx nbc news found this picture of nikita on the school's website he says they sing the russian national anthem, his classmates in uniforms with russian zs. they're ukrainian kids no, he says, they're not ukrainian anymore, because they were grabbed ukrainian officials describing what they say is putin's plan to erase ukrainian identity >> you neff ver were ukrainians, because ukrainian nation never exist like nations you are russians >> reporter: were you scared to go into russia okay s oksana says it was terrifying. i was shaking at avenue border

crossing, but it wasn't even a question, she says, unless you're a mother, you can't understand in a statement to nbc news, baloera says russia has always helped families be united. but oksana is clear, no russian official or no one from the school ever got if touch i cried avenue night i had no idea how to get him back molly hunter, nbc news, kharkiv, ukraine. at least 77 people have been arrested in france in a second night of mass protests after police in paris shot a 17-year-old boy who later died the teenager was a french algerian, identified and shot at point blank during a traffic stop this video appears to undercut police's initial claims that the officers' lives were at risk the officer who killed the boy is being held on potential

manslaughter charges, fwhabut tt has done little to quell the demonstrations scientists say they haven't been able to measure low-frequency sounds by black holes. they published the findings in letters saying they were able to pick up gravitational waves made by black holes when they're gently stretching. the researchers based the work on 15 years of data from telescopes trained on 67 dead stars, catching flashes of radio waves. that's findings could offer a break through in mapping out the cosmos and its history switching now from messages to space to messages into space. nasa and the library of congress' neglimessage in a bot collab is giving people a chance to have your name etched into a microchip that had board a spacecraft headed to jupiter's moon europa in 2024.

it will travel 1.8 billion miles over six years to determine whether europa has an ocean or could sustain life some states facing heat warnings, others facing air quality issues michelle grossmann joins us with the latest on all of this. a lot to talk about this morning. >> a lot to talk about hi there, guys we could see that heat wave going on and on. we're looking at temperatures into the triple digits you factor in the humidity, it will feel like 110 to 120 in many spots from oregon to california, even as far north as indiana and portions of missouri so we do have excessive heat warnings that is in the hot pink in portions of nashville, memphis, birmingham and new orleans we're looking at the summer sizzle continuing. temperatures into the 100s it's going to feel like 114 in

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right now at 5:00, a san francisco neighborhood on edge after several women are attacked and robbed. hear from one of the victims on the disturbing incident. plus a deadly shooting in the east bay. the reason the bomb squad was called out to the home after police shot and killed a suspect. what we learned this morning. get ready for a business travel day. the