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today, as turkey clears the way to add sweden to the alliance. plus the president's new meeting with the leader of ukraine the shocking development in the u.s. gymnastics abuse scandal. disgraced larry nassar stabbed nearly a dozen times in a florida prison where he is serving life for sexually assaulting young athletes. hchblts california authorities capture an escaped inmate. but across the country in pennsylvania, the search for another escaped suspect is still heating up and fireworks expected at today's hearing on capitol hill over liv golf. call it prime time for savings. prime day gets under way this tuesday morning. "early today" starts right now good morning i'm jessica layton >> i'm frances rivera.

president biden is currently meeting with the president of lithuania, after arriving in the european nation monday evening while there, he will take the world stage at the nato summit we go to alice barr in washington the president has a packed agenda laid out for him. what's he looking to accomplish here >> reporter: good morning. we're kicking off the two-day nato summit. president biden has already greeted the president of lithuania. that comes after yesterday he spent the day in the uk meeting with king charles and the uk prime minister rishi sunak you see that there and then last night he arrived in the capital of lithuania. so, for the next two days, president biden and other world leaders will be taking part in the nato summit. they'll be talking about a variety of key issues that affect that trans atlantic security alliance, a critical moment, because one major topic that's going to take up most of the oxygen is russia's war in ukraine. that ongoing conflict is enter

agne entering a new, unprecedented phase after marking 500 days on monday they are struggling to make the kind of gains they were hoping to, to regain territory russia has seized russia at the same time is reeling from a failed mutiny last month the white house says president biden will be giving a speech tomorrow, highlighting how the u.s. and allies are supporting ukraine. and part mission really is speaking to americans at home to try to continue to make the case for why it's important to keep supporting ukraine >> and alice, there was speculation about whether president zelenskyy will appear at the summit. has that been sorted o been sor. >> reout? >> reporter: yes, he will be attending. key will be president zelenskyy's urgent request, really, to have ukraine enter the nato alliance. that's something that he has long hoped for and he's really looking for some kind of a detailed sort of on

ramp, a timeline for when it might be possible to join that nato alliance, because at this point, it's not looking likely righnow. but ukraine insists it's necessary to join nato to secure its own defense, and to deter russia from taking action against other european nations on cnn on sunday, president biden really poured cold water on the immediate possibility of ukraine joining nato take a listen. >> i don't think it's ready for membership in nato i don't think there is unanimity in nato about whether or not to bring ukraine in to the nato family now at this moment in the middle of a war >> reporter: and despite that opposition, the alliance is still likely to be growing coming up very soon, on monday we learned that turkey's president erdogan was dropping long-held opposition to allow sweden to join nato.

and this really a reversal, a bit of a surprise, but something that could potentially really strengthen the nato alliance just recently, finland joined as well and sweden is a very strong partner to join the group, something that russian president putin is not going to like >> the u.s. is certainly consequential in this summit, even more so with that meeting with zelenskyy alice, thank you there is a bizarre new twist in the story of the aborted rebellion in russia to tell you about. the kremlin revealing that russian president vladimir putin personally met with wagner leader yevgeny prigozhin less than a week after he accused him of treason for marching on moscow putin oeven offered for them to return to the frontline in ukraine. they were initially offered exile in neighboring belarus this is sure to fuel speculation

that putin is not in control the u.s. has destroyed the final munitions in the chemical weapons stockpile. it preside the les welast weapon to be destroyed was a sarin gas rocket two grand juries will be seated in fulton county, georgia over election interference it is expected at least one of the grand juries will have to sign off on indictments. each grand jury will consist of 23 people, along with three alternates they will serve for two months and the d.a.'s office has signaled a decision will come in the first three weeks of august. heightened security measures will be in place to protect jurors' identities the escaped inmate in placer county california has been captured the police had help from a

neighbor's dog >> aalert homeowner who was taking his dog out, the dog started barking, he saw someone moving in that greenbelt area, and in fact it was abril he was safely taken into custody. >> police say abril who has been charged with murder and other counts is back at the medical center from where he escaped and is being watched by six s.w.a.t. team members once medically cleared, he will be sent to south placer jail five days after escaping a pennsylvania prison, michael burham is still on the run authorities are expanding their alreadymassive search, combing a national forest, half a million acres deep he is considered armed and extremely dangerous. they are describing him as a survivalist with military training, and they say they have found supplies and campsites that he has likely used.

many area residents are on edge and warned to secure homes, businesses and properties that burham may find useful this is the second time in recent months that burham has led police on a manhunt. he was accused of kidnapping an elderly couple and holding them hostage while police were investigating the murder of a woman he's accused of raping convicted sex offender doctor larry nassar was stabbed multiple times in federal prison nasser was convicted of sexually abusing young athletes stephanie gosk has the details >> reporter: former usa gymnastics doctor and confessed child sex abuser layer' rry nasr was stabbed nearly a dozen times, including twice in the neck in this florida prison. nassar has a collapsed lung and is in stable condition

the one-time head doctor for usa gymnastics is serving what amounts to a life sentence for sexually abusing minors and possessing child pornography a group of olympic medal winners, including the entire 2019 team accuse him >> we were perfectly satisfied with the lawful and painful sentence of life in prison that nassar was given in a proper court of law >> reporter: in 2018, hundreds of victims told their stories in michigan state court >> he betrayed my trust, took advantage of advantage of my youth and sexually abused me hundreds of times. >> reporter: the olympifbi ffbi

lawsuit after a dodge j report highlighted their failures aly raisman and simone biles testified on capitol hill. >> i don't want any individual to experience the horror that i and hundreds of others are endured. >> our thanks to stephanie for that report. let's turn to the deadly flash flooding sweeping throughout the northeast overfli overnight, president biden declared an emergency declaration for vermont. this system has left extensive damage in its wake our emilie ikeda has this update >> reporter: a brutal bout of storms inches north. washing out roads and kicking swift water rescue teams into high gear. states of emergency declared in parts of new york, connecticut

and are haven't /* vermont dozens of roads are closed and now some rivers are approaching major flood stage. almost the entire state still on high alert watch as floodwaters pour over this dam the governor there comparing the relentless rain to tropical sdorm irene in 2011. >> this is an all hands on deck response we're coordinating with federal partners >> reporter: it comes as residents in new york's hudson valley are digging out >> everything's destroyed. >> reporter: a summer's worth of rain in just a day, collapsing rad ways and stranding cars in dangerous flash flooding >> i've been here 16 years, i'vf seen flooding like this at all >> reporter: troopers used ropes sunday to rescue drivers, and authorities had to save 700 passengers stuck aboard amtrak

in cutputnam county. pamela nugent died while trying to evacuate her home that had been overtaken about i water >> it looked like a raging ocean with a hurricane >> reporter: nearby, savannah pitcher waded through treacherous floodwaters to reach her grandmother and help guide her to higher ground if you had not gotten to your grandmother,ing what do you think would have happened in happened >> i don't think everybody would be okay. >> reporter: in pennsylvania, residents are facing the aftermath of reading's wettest day in three years in vermont, first responders are bracing for a potentially long night. >> devastating pictures there. thanks to emilie for that report >> the latest on this storm slamming the east coast, angie lassman is tracking severe wlf weather across the country >> we still have flood alerts at this hour because we've got

those swollen waterways and those showers that we could deal with today the flood alerts will remain for parts of vermont and new hampshire and maine. we could add on another quarter of an inch to half inch to the already torrential amounts that we have. we'll see localized apartments up to four inch as our next system works its way through the country. this is where we'll see stronger storms developing like think this afternoon into the evening hours in places like omaha large hail, including baseball-sized hail as we go through the dan philadelphia,

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