cheney said nsa snooping could have prevented attacks on america, and that's not all. the government is using your driver's license photo for more than you want. a rose at the open. jay-z is getting his cuts for free. a major recall and we have a new miss usa. "early today" starts right now. >> announcer: this is "early today" for monday, june 17th. very good morning, nice to see you again, i'm veronica de la cruz. the leaders of a summit begin a two-day summit in northern ireland. discussions of civil war in syria are expected to dominate the agenda as well as economic issues as well as tax and trade. nbc' chuck todd is in belfast where the president has just landed, chuck, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, veronica. he sure did. the entire first family is here,

actually. the president's first piece of business, actually, is going to be in belfast. he's giving a speech to northern ireland students to talk about sort of the progresses or frankly what has been very slow progress for northern ireland's economy here in the last decade ever since the peace process between ireland and northern ireland. it just -- the country -- the province has gotten off to a slow start. but then after he does that speech that is directed to locals, it's beginning to the g-8 summit. and the issues here are going to be interesting in this respect when it comes to syria. you essentially have the old g-7 plus russia. russia, of course, was added to the g-8 a few years ago, and they're sort of isolated when it comes to syria. president putin is on the side of bashar al assad. he's been helping shar al assad with arms. putin had a one-on-one with

british prime minister david cameron. that didn't go so well, he seemed to lecture the allies and what they planned to do with syria. syria is going to be a hot you topic. and what the consensus is. and is there consensus between the u.s., the brits and the french on what to do next with syrian opposition. >> nbc's chuck todd there in belfast. chuck, thank you. and one topic sure to come up at the g-8 summit are the newly sclofd nsa programs. the man at the center of the leak edward snowden still hiding as officials believe he may be revealing more top secret documents. former vice president dick cheney is joining to call for snowden's prosecution. he said the 29-year-old is a criminal and a traitor. mr. cheney presented the program saying it prevented numerous terrorist attacks and could have stopped 9/11. >> i think it's one of the worst occasions in my memory with

somebody with access to classified information doing enormous damage to the national security interest of the united states. over the weekend, white house chief of staff denis mcdonough said officials are still looking for edward snowden. he was last known to be in hong kong. the white house has repeatedly said snowden has exaggerated his access to sensitive information. and what what could be another blow to your privacy? your face could be among 120 million that state officials are troving through. reporting that the white house is using data basis to prevent driver as license fraud, instead to identify accomplices and incident bystanders in criminal investigations. the only legal environment is for searches to be conducted for law enforcement. it's to help identify murderers but the post reports it's to lure between criminal and noncriminal databases.

and it depends where you live. 26 states have the technology and allow the search. 11 states in the capital also have it but don't allow the search. and 13 states don't have the technology at all. well a demographic death file is how one top gop senator describes the republican party. lindsey graham helped write the bipartisan immigration bill. he said passing that bill is the only way for his party to reclaim the house in 2016. >> only way we can get back with-n good graces with the hispanic community in my view is reform. if you don't do that, it doesn't matter who will run if in my view. >> marco rube bow said it's about 95% ready to go but still needs improvement as far as the border security plan. >> vast majority of conservative republicans are prepared to support immigration reform but only if we can ensure that we're not going to have another wave of illegal immigration in the

future. >> senate voted to on the proposal. in part it would give 11 million undocumented residents in the u.s. citizenship. the worst ever fire, the black forest fire now 67% contained, a far cry from nearly zero percent last week. firefighters worked to put out hot spots aided by the rain. the concern the possibility of winds spreading the flames. the fire destroyed nearly 500 homes and forced 38,000 people to evacuate. crews hope to have it fully under control by thursday. an historic 113th u.s. open golf tournament to tell you about. on the 10th hole phil mickelson hit from 76 yards out in the rough and an eagle two on his birthday. but he finished tied for second, extending his runner-up record at the open to six. justin rose made some clutch

shots for a two-stroke victory. the first englishman to win the open in 43 years. and sean stephanie also made history, his tee shot landed on a hill. it bounced on to the green. it rolled. it rolled. as the crowd record, the ball headed straight for the cup. he celebrated first ever ace at the merion course and only the 43rd hole in one. in open history. but look at them celebrate. nbc's bill karins with today's forecast. >> a great moment. >> it is great to see. >> and great to see you back, too. you've been sis, too, huh? >> a little. >> at the beach the whole time? >> no, you know in front of the tv eating bonbons. motherhood is -- >> good morning to you verronic. as far as the weekend, you'll see a little relief in colorado so that is great.

this is the weather pattern, it's kind of looking more and more like summer every day. we've got the onshore flow in the west coast. it's typical there, keeping you cool there. we do have a few areas of thompls as ute expected. one of those is over the top of oklahoma at this point. lots of lightning strike, 16,000 in a half-hour period. as far as oklahoma city, the worst is now beginning to pass here, south of it and eastward. we did have wind damage overnight. be careful if you're heading out this morning. some of the rainfall in colorado has exited so now we're drying. later this afternoon, looks like 20% chance of storms. remember last week, it was 90 and 100. now it's cool. the weather is helping the firefighters over the weekend and it will continue to do so on your monday. as far as the east coast, lots of rain due. have the umbrella handy. we'll have that all the way from dallas and ft. weather. that's a look at your national

forecast. here's a look outside your window. hitting the storms raleigh today, even cincinnati, ohio, has a chance of that. should be already in boston. boston and new york city has a much better chance of showers as you go into tuesday. intermountain, 91. i don't think we're going to have have anything too bad this week. while you were gone, we had tornadoes. but now a nice quiet week. >> i brought the sunshine. >> of course. jay-z's million giveaway. martha stewart focusing on the bottom line. and meet the man who will close gitmo. teaching robots to be human. today air hockey, tomorrow, who knows. "early today" is back in two.

"early today." nice to see you. here's some stories making news this morning. a man described as a moderate conservative claimed victory over the weethd in iran's presidential election.

hassan rouhani took over half a vote to succeed mahmoud ahmadinejad. the 64-year-old campaigning on personal rights, gender equality and artistic freedom. the obama administration is expected to put a washington lawyer in charge ofenvoy. is a defense jury for george zimmerman could be seated as early as this week. zichlman has pleaded not guilty citing self-defense. a former top irs official admitted early involvement with as many as 30 applications for tax exempt status. past provided no evidence that senior evidence officials ordered agents to target certain groups. and the chinese zas sent who fled to beijing last year said new york university is kicking him out.

chang said he's being forced out over concerns that his activism is harming the university's relationship with china. jay-z is teaming one with samsung. it's a deal that will give away 1 million copies of his 12th and latest album magna carta holy grail. it announced it during a three-minute commercial that aired last night during the game five of the nba finals but it's good for only owners of galaxy mobile phones. focusing on the bottom line, martha stewart's company is in the midst of a metatomorrow sis of sorts. working on all of her company's designs including releasing a redesign of the martha stewart living issue. don't park that suv inside. general motors is expanding a recall to 480,000 midsize suvs. the reason, a circuit board in the driver's door can short and spark a fire. the models including 2006-2007

chevy traill blazers, gmc enjoys, buick ranneers. check out cnbc for all the details. and harley davidson has celebrated the 110th anniversary at the vatican. pope francis was there to bless the estimated half million harley owners who descended on st. pirate's square. finally, check this out. the unbeatable air hockey robot. they've invented a robot that use it was high-speed cameras to track the puck and its opponent and get this at 500 frames percent second. good luck beating that bot, i guess you could say. coming up next, it russian president putin steal bob kraft's super bowl ring? and a life changer.

in sports now, game five in the nba finals. the spurs' danny green owns a new record for three-point shots with 25 in the finals so far. green finished with 24 points as san antonio beat miami 114-104 and take the three games to a two-game lead in the series. and the russian president

denies that putin stole a super bowl ring from robert kraft. kraft said he was pressured by the white house to say he gave the ring as a gift to the russian people. the russian spokesman called kraft's comments weird. check this out, at the college world series, the big sign at the top of the dugout is misspelled. the world "college" had an extra letter kwment l." david wright sailed over first baseman and the two cubs runners score but new york's kirk newenheim scores. and after inserting a pacemaker lifted an amazing 187 1/2 pound. and a tweet about kim

kardashian and kanye west's baby girl using one of his famous catchphrases for a player. diaper dandy. saying this little one will be able to afford college. >> announcer: "early today" sports is brought to you by touch of gray, get rid of some gray, never all. just ahead, man of steel sets records. and "curb your enthusiasm at's jess garrin has a run-in with the law. we'll have the details next.

well, good monday morning. hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. in oklahoma a lot of people woken up in the middle of the night. strong line of thunderstorms going through the middle of the state to the other end. just wednesday through oklahoma city, tulsa, damaging winds and a lot of lightning with the storms. eventually, later today we will see the storms on the dallas-ft. worth area. all the way back through arkansas, the southeast and then lent that. tuesday, a lot of that heavy weather to the east coast. nothing horrible, no tornadoes or anything like that, but enough to cause you a slow commute. the latest superman movie leaps over box office expectations in a single bound. "man of steel" earned $117 million in its opening weekend, plus an additional $12 million from thursday screenings. and the impressive side debut of $32.8 million. and in case you missed it, kim

kardashian and kanye west welcomed a baby girl on saturday. surprisingly -- >> it's been quiet. >> it has. this is why, kardashian being hush-hush about this baby. and this might be why. howard bragman vice chairman of reputation.com estimates the first photos are going to fetch, quote, $7 million to $8 million figures. l.a. police say "curb your enthusiasm" actor jeff garlin was arrested for vandalism thursday after allegedly smashing in the windows a person's car during a zpurt. a former girlfriend of mick jagger is auction gz off, get this, a lock of his hair. what would you pay for that? $3,000. bill. the woman's grandmother somehow procured it without her knowledge in the '60s. that also is very strange. >> it's hard to know -- oh, that's creepy. >> totally creepy.

last night, the best drama at the daytime emmys since 1975, and who was watching last night? 25-year-old aar 25-year-old can erin brady won the title in los angeles. but it was during this moment during the q & a that will be best remembered. take a listen. >> i think we can relate this back to education and how we are continuing to try to strive to figure out how to create jobs right now. that is the biggest problem. and i think especially the men are seen as the leaders of this so we need to try to figure out create education better so that we can solve this problem. thank you. >> thank you, utah. >> hmm. >> poor girl. >> wah, wah, wah.

i'm veronica de la cruz. this is "early today" we hope it's just your first stop of the day on nbc.

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