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oper in dramatichion. and this isun tuesday, je 19th, 2018. >> from nbc news, this is "today" withan savh guthrie and hoda kotb, live from sdio 1a in rockefeller plaza. thank you for joining us on this tuesday morning. savannah, you and i were listening to the extended video of the kids on the border. >> yeah, if you are a mother, no matter where youtand on this policy, this is what is happening and the audio really brings it home in a real way. washington is paying attention. it's where we start this morning. this growingbattle, and the trump administration digging in saying the law must be enforced.

>> it's happening to more than 2,000 of them since wapril,h that number increasing by nearly 20 children each day. >> how do americans feel about all this? according to a national poll overall 66% of voters oppose lithis , but the president does find support among his ba. 55% sayin they support the policy. >> and republicans are preparing to vote on two key immigration bills. nbc'sesr holt and craig melvin have spread out along the mexico border in texas. we will begin with lester.ep >>ter: good morning to you both. this is where the zero tolerance policy is put ntoaction, and this is where the family separation actuallyegan. in washington we are hearing a lot of conflicting explanations

for all of this, in the meantime migrants continue to pour over the border, about two miles from whe i am standing and many end up here. >> clling new audio from inside a detention center is painking a heartbr picture. in the audio, which has not been verified by nbc news, children are heard desperately asklyg to see faembers. one little girl asked, ateast can i go with my aunt? i want her toom ce. it was given to this woman by a client that remains anonymous, and a growing number of critics are speaking out against the zero tolerance polic that separates families that cross the border illegally, including the president's wife, melania

trump and all the living first ladies. overnight attorney general jeff sessions defending the policy arguing it will act as a deterrent. >> hopefully people will get the message and come through the border at the port of entry and not break across the border unlawfully. >> some say it's like a concentration camp? >> in nazi germany. >> the rational isdifferent, that congress created the problem. >> we are trying to protect the children.ee congress to fix it. >> the president himself is blaming democrats f family separation. >> i say it's very strongly the democrat'sault. >> but members of congress and

the president's own party are inting fingers at him. >> the fact is the administration has the authority to fix thised itely without legislation. >> the president has the ability to stop this i he would like. >> john mccain calling it an affront to the decency of the american people, adding the administration has the powero rescind this policy and should do so now. >> the border patrol chief. >> do you feel like the bad guye in this to som extent?u yoe the instrument to a policy -- >> i feel like the option of not doingilnything worsen the situation, so we have to work with what we have and hopefully get the immigration laws redone. >> christina and her children are fleeing gang violence in

elvalel salvador. now she must wearn ankle bracelet so i.c.e. can track her movements, just one family with seemingly few options. >> youpent time with border agents there and have had the chance to talk with them. what is it like for them to separa families. >> he talked about a lot of layers to all of this that people have to understand a lot of emotions, but they see a lot of folks victimized and a lot of folks that lose their lives in that process. >> yeah,etard to that audio f those young kids out of your head. >> there are a lot of misconceptions and misinformation from both sides over the zero tolerance policy,

so we sent craig there. good morning. >> reporter: savannah, hoda, good morning to you. we are standing in front of what used to be a walmart in ownsville. 1500 boys between the age of 10 and 17 have beense h here for a number of weeks now. nbc news learned 500 more children over the past two weeks have been going into shelters like ts. st night to try and clear up some of the information you just talked about there, i spent time with a civil rights the attorney that released that audiotape, and i spent time with a none th a nun that rs a charity who says it's as much a moral o as

a legal issue. >> who are the c oldrenained at the border. the trump administration says every border that crosses the border illegally is subject to prosution. >> whe you heard the tapes for the first time, you thought what? >> well the first reaction was horror. i want tond run find that child on the tape and comfort him and take care of him and find his mother for him? what ise happening to th? chil nearly 2,000 of them have been separated from families, some kept behind metal wire like the type you see in a dog kennel,

and one center spends just two hours outside each day peufplt you can't send m asage to say, look at this child is hurting so you should not come because this is going to happen to you. i don't think this is who we are, are we? >> why is this happening now? in april attorney general jeff sessions announced that zero tolerance policy, prompting swift backlash. esident trump said again monday that democrats are to blame for the family separation policy without offering concrete evidence even as som republicans urge him to reverse course. >> we could he an immigration bill. we could have child operations, and we are stuck with the horribles. l >> congress and the course created this problem, and congress alone can fix it.

>> immigration experts say there's no law that requires families to be sepated at the border, john kelley said last year it was on the table. >> our dartment of homeland security personnel is going to separate the children from mom and dads? >> yes, i am considering that in ordero detour movement among this terribl dangerous network. >> what are you seeing there? you could b get close can't get inside presumably. what are you hearingbout the conditions of the c and how the kids are being treated? >> reporter: that's t thing, defenders of the zero tolerance policy, they will tell you the children are being fed and given medical attentionnd being allowed to watch television as well, and that's what denders of the policy will tell you. and after talking to folks last night, there's areat deal of confusion. parents and children don't know

if ol when they w be allowed to see each other, and this noti this wil detour people from come into this country, that was the question i pos to everybody i talked to last night, and they all said it's not, it's not going to actually stop people from trying to come into the united states of america, and so as the debate raises on in washington folks here on the ground continue to be quite confused. >> absolutely, craig. i an, i guess that's the issue is of course one would t hopet the children that are being detained by authorities inhis country are being treated humanely, but the qstion is can you be separated from parents, and you would have to wonder where they are, if they are safe and okay and being harmed? >> that's theueion. it's up to washington to fix it. another disturbing item out of texas thisrning, a sheriff's

deputy innt sanio has been charged with sexually a 4-year-old girl and threatening the mother of deportation if sht re her. the mother took her crying daughter to a fire station, and it's not clear if her daughter is a u.s. citizen. the aayse m have gone on for months and even years. there could be other victims we hav full coverage of the immigration battle, more on children being separated from their families on today.com. kim jong-un, o week after the historic face-to-face meeting with donald trump, keir simmons has details. >>im jong-un's trip cloaked in secrecy, but pictures show him

stepping off a plane in china with his wife, and it's a sign of changing times. this morning the north korean leader in china for t days of talks, the visit announced live on chinese tv. >>ight here, right now in b beijing. >> just a week after the presiden declared he has a special bond with kim jong-un, high skes diplomacy. >> i don't want to see a nuclear weapon destroy you and your, famid i want to have a good relationship with north korea. >> since the smit, confirmation the joint military exercises with allies, including south korea are suspended, and the debate, complete denuclearization of the peninsula. trump determined to defend his

deal. >> i met, we had great chemistry and he gave us a lot. you have not had a missile test in seven months. >> some fear the chinese alreadn lo to lift sanctions on north korea just as tension trade between china and american escalate this. >> president tmp is playing chess with north korea and china where the those threats for a trade war and even russia all at the same time. hoda andah sava it's tough and complex. >> lots more to get to this morning, including the fbi working over time to do damage control and contain the fallout from the scathg inspector general's report, the fbiacing a grilling on capitol hill. kristin welker with details on that. >> reporter: good morning to you. the fbi director and justice department's inspector general

facing tueghions about the 500-page report that blasted james comey and the inspector general m cinglear his work is not finishedet. fbi director christopher ray. >> the report makes clear that we higeficant work to do, and as i said, we are going to learn from the report and better as a result. >> testifying before the senate judiciary committee on monday, michael horowitz said there was no political biainsidehe fbi to tilt the election to hillary clinton or donald trump, still rae cticized james comey for

breaking protocol. >> horowitz acknowledging the conduct of one agent wcould hav cast a shadow. >> we found the implication to beeeply troubling. >> despite president trump's claim the report exonerates him in the russia investigation. >> there was collusion. report to show that. >> reporter: the inspector solution. report did not address that. we d not look into collusion questions. >> reporter: as the president continues tol rai against the tionial counsel's investi as a witch hunt, the fbi

direct repeatedly expressing his confidence about robert mueller. >> i believe that speal counsel mueller is conducting at valid ination. >> reporter: where does this go from here? the inspector general is revieying how the c memos were more fallout is still possible, and the inspector general's say the search under way for who leaked information to the press. >> thanks kristin. >> we are going to get a check of the weather now from mr. roker. >> a lot going on and thank you for getting your weather from us. we are looking at heavy rain. this is rockford, illinois. whatever you do, don't drive in this kind of weather. turn around and don'tro. we have two areas of precipitation, but we are really looking at what is going on down south through texas. we have low pressure and it

could become a tropical system, and it's tapping into the moisture bringing an increasing rain threats. southeast and south central texas could get six to 11 inches of rain that could lead t flooding. we are also watching the stationary front making its way through the midwest. it will bng more rain tomorrow. finally bringing drier air into the northeast butook at the rainfall rates from nebraska s intothern ohio, looking from tw to fournches of rain. we'll get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds.

good morning, everybody. i am chuck bell. it's a cloudy start across the area and a lot of humidity outside as well. the early rain chance is going to be missing us, b we will have a chance for thunderstorms later in the afternoon and evening. keep that inin and generally dry between now and noontime but increasing chances for thunderstorms after 2:00, and your chance of getting rained on today stands at 50%, and even higher chances for rai tomorrow. >> will the heat wave break? we will have the answer coming up. >> thank you,l. >> scumming coming up, a woman g her story for the very first time.

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commute with melissa mollet. >>ilver spring the oer loop before university boulevard, left lane blocked by a crash there. northwest washington,r neach drive, a downed tree so that is closed this morning. delays on metro this morning, the blue, orange and silver. >> we willake a break and then take a look at your forecast next.

steamy and a little sultryt e this morning. temperatures in the 70s and 8 it's a humid start to the day, and we will have thunderstorm chances later today. we a will haigher chance for rain tomorrow, and there will be a slightly cooler day, highs in

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w back at 7:30 on tuesday morning. what a scary ride, the superman ride got stuck near the peak, and workers had to help people down. >> that was not the case when an amusement park derailed in florida last week, and weill hear from a woman badly hurt just ahead. but o now headlines, immigration fallout. >> the president has the ability to stop this if he would like. >> t growing uproar over the thousands of migrant children now separated from their parents, as childreniling audio

inside the detention center is released. this has president trump heads to capitol hill to meet with lawmakers. >> the administration has the ability to fix this immediately without legislation. >> a dozen crimes including key government hacking leaks. >> and rushed to the hospital after an incident at a food distribution center. all are expected to survive. >> we had a number of peopleen expering, nausea, headache, dizziness. >> jeff bezos. >> a star-studded show. >> the best hear yo is -- >> blockbuster hit "black

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>> melissa collins describing a rrifying scene. >> my car totally derailed, and i was hanging up in the air, and other one of my coworkers, i watched her fall to the ground. >> i couldn't breathe, i was in so much pain and hurting. >> the terrifying tragedy playing out on the boardwalk. >> we need an ambulance please. >> thean blaster coaster which collins was riding with erworkers, flying off the rails. two r plummeting three stories down, including collins' friend, amanda. >> i could see herlunge to the ground. >> melissa collins injuries --

>> all my ribs are crushed. >> hours earlier, the coaster passed the state inspection. > we believe a lawsuit is imminent. >> we believe that the failure occurred as a result of improper maintenance with this particular coaster. >> the ride' operator's boardwalk amusement ride,g tellbc news in part the safety and well-being of our customers have always been our top priority. we continue to fully with all state agencies and their investigation, and will do so until their investigation is complete. meanwhile, melissa collins said all she wants to do is get back home to her family in kentucky.

>> oi have a 8-year-old and 10-year-old back at home. >> the ride is closed as the investigatio continues. >> that's awful to hear what she went through. >> let's switch gears and get a check of the weather from al. >> today's weather is broug to you by liberty mutual insurance. only pay forou what need. i will tell you it has been hot throughout the easternhe ha of country. do we continue that? not as hot from the great lakes to the northeast, but stillot as you get down into north carolina, 95 degrees, wilmington, 97. providence, still warm. tomorrow we are looking at cooler weather making its way in the northeast. still in the southeast weave most of the heat, atlanta 93, jacksonville, 93, and indianapolis, a little warmer but not too bad.

and later this week, the temperatures start to round back to norl nicely. charleston with a hig saturday of 92. that's what's going on around the country. here's what' happening in your neck of the woods. >> good morning, a mostly cloudy start to your tuesday. 78 degrees right now, so it's warm andut humidde and will stay hot and humid as we go through the day it's 82 degrees in leesburg and annapolis. 90 degrees, and then a chance for thunderstorms to roll through, and i don't think we will see but tomorrow we have a better chance in the afternoon, and then drier thursday and then showers as we go into the start of the weekend. >> and that's your latest weather. hoda? >> al, thanks. coming up, an exclusive look at a new hotel perk, putting alexa right into your hotel

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grand theft auto 5, a futurisic reality in over watch. overwatch. survival of thest fitte in fortnight. for all of the warnings, gaming n have the same addictive quality as substance abuse. karen porter had to seeelp for >> he ultimately was willing to sae everything he cared about. his relationship with his family, his academic performance, his esselfct, his self-esteem. >> the world health organizatn says most gamers are not addicts, but 3% are with increasing priority given to gaming over other activities to the extent gaming takes precedent overactive tease. really, what we get addicted to is not the game, but the

elevation of dopamine. >> reporter: the gaming industry disagrees, saying there's no objective evidence to define and diagnosis this disorder. and the research supporting inclusion is highly contested and inconclusive. >> i wasn't going to school. i was lying to my friends and at the clinic in washington state, brian said he was spending nine hours a day in online games. >> i was just using them to not think about uff, and not -- like, just escape. >> patience must give up electronics for 7 to 12 weeks and focus on mental andhysical heal and then a slow re-entry. >> it's hard to live a without technology, but they don't have to play video games and they don't have tose social media. >> i am so proud of him.

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7:56 is your time on this tuesday, june 19th,go 2018. morning to you. i am eun yang. right now we want to check on your morning commute with melissa mollet and your traffic. how is it going outthere? >> on silver spring before university, that's now on th shoulder. taking a look at 270, clarksburg at the weigh station, a crash ,here and you can see delays there. manassas, two lanes available there. >> we will get a check of your weather when we come back. whoooo.

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good tuesday morning. it'snoer warm start and a little warmer than yesterday right now. 83 ind washington, the area 80s.e mid to low today we will have 90 for a high. tomorrow there's a better chance of widespread storms andn a r chance into the start of the ekend. >> thank you. now back to the "today" show.

it's 8:00 on today, coming up, border battle cry. new audio puts a spotlight on the thousands of migrant children being separated fro their parents as the president heads to capitol hill holdi his position amid a heated back and forth. craig is along tor plus, a room? a look at how alexa may already >> checked into your next hotel room. alexa, what can i do around here? >> what that means for your travel plans and personal privacy. >> and felicity flashbk.

20 years after its premiere we catch up with the cast to diss on everything from the infamous hair cut, to the emotional finale. a little '90s nostalgia. -pound hrou we're celebrating be a first-time mom and a first-time grandma. >> we arem fro providence, rhode island! >> instead of a graduation party, i chose a trip to the "tay" show. >> i'm here for my mom and dad's

anniversary. >> love all the celebration. we love you are here with us toy. when i rolled , it was already like 82 degrees. >> yeah, the windows are steamy on our buildings. we will get out there, and in moment we will start with your news at 8:00, and the national debate over the forced immigration. now the voices of crying children in custody are raising the emotions to a new level. this is craig melvin outside the detentionenter. good morning to you. >> savannah, good morning to you. no matter where you fall over the debat on how we handle illegal immigration, it's hard to listen to the tape. i talked to wean that released that tape, as the outcry in theountry grows over the no tolerance policy here, just minutes from the mexico

border, the heartbreak is real and personal. this morning government processing centers like this one are overflowing with thousds of migrants fleeing gang violence in central america. youan hear the desperation of children separated from their parents. we talked with the attorney who released the tape, which nbc news could not independently verify. >> the reaction has been a pr e scream from everybody, this cannot be happening. >> and the trump administration started what it calls the zerot rance policy, migrants put in detention facilities, their children sent to separate

facilities. overnight attorne general jeff sessions defended the policy arguing it will act as a deterrent. >> hopefully people will get the message and come to the border at the port of entry and not break across the border unlawfully. >> sessions also trying to down play comparisons to world war ii concentration camps. >> it's a real exagg in nazi germany, they were keeping the jews from leaving the country. >> nearly 2,000 children have beenheeparated from parents. >> what is happening at the border, the border is being b overru those who have no right to cross it. >> t democrats -- >> trump blaming the democrats in congress. >> the united states will not be a migrant camp, and it willot a refugee holding facility.

>> those helping migrants say the policy will not stop those fleeing for their. liv >> punishing a 5-year-old byng taer mom away who isin fl violence, that's a human rights violation. >> congress is trying to pass emergency legislation to keep children with their parents. that meetingo expected happen around 5:30. savann v? >> thank yy much. the travel nightmare is not over at charlotte douglas international airport. hundreds of american airlines w passengee stranded again on monday due to a technical glitch. the airlines was fced to cancel another 70 flights today n. all more than 350 flights

have been canceled thursday. a hardware issue affected its computer systend scheduled flights and staffing. >> the president saidn monday he was ordering the creation of a new branch of the u.s. military to focus on space. he said it's not enough to merely have americans in space, but we must have american dominance in space. the sce force would be separate from the air force.. the u is also member of an international treaty that bars weapons of mass destruction in space. there's an adorable little girl in alabama and didn't want to leave a department store she was in, not because of the toys or clothes, but because she made a new friend. >> your boyfriend? >> yes. >> i thought -- >> he's my boyfriend, husbans

>> d he like you? >> yeah. >> what did he tell you? >> he teld me he was going to mary me. >> he looks a little too old for you. hebo looks five. i think he's too old for you. >> i'm five. >> you want me to see if we can buy him, too? >> yeah. >> tell him bye. >> bye. >> that is amazing. >> the little girl could mhie from side to side to prove to her mom he was real boy. >> and then carson and the woman behind a ground-breaking new book shares a conversation about a struggle shared by millions of americans. >> but first, the new perk coming to hotel rooms about privacy coming up right after this.

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we're back with "today's we are back, andook who is here, jenna joins us and we like that. alexa in your hotel room, but as you probably heard that smart speaker has come under fire for privacy concerns. jolen kent is seattle for that story. good morning. >> good morning to you. are getting a lk at alexa in a hotel room, and this comes

with growiva p concerns continuing to rise. do you really want to take alexa on t road with you? smart speakers like google home and the amazon echo are everywhere from the living room to the kitchen, the fastestow gring device on the market right now. this morning amazon's alexa is ready to go on vacation with >> alexa, order me a tuna salad. >> the shopping giant revealing it will soon put smart speakers in thousands of hotel rooms next toour bed. amazon is partnering with hotels which together hav mor than 1 itllion hotel rooms around the world. called alexa for hospitality. >> they can ask the smart speaker to call housekeeping and

make restaurant reservations without picking up the phone. >> you have somebody listening and watching and it a can be little concerning. >> amazon says hotel guest will choose whether they will share a room with alexa. uest can ask for the echo to be taken out of theroom, and hotels cannot access your voice recording and no personal information needs to be shared with the echo in order to use it, but their move into another private space into your life comes as the company is under fire from alexa randoming laughing to collecting your personal informat fn, to complaintsm a user in portland, oregon, who her alexa recorded a private conversation at home and w shar ith a random contact. the security questions prompting two senators to write an open

letter to jeff bezos demanding more information saying this incide makes itlear we don't fully understand the privacy risks we are taking. amazon owes it to the american people to be carer about what's happening with the technology. >> what should families know to take precautionsorotect their privacy? >> they don't want the device t listen tthem, there's a button to silence it and make sure it's not listening to you. this is the new order. >> joe, a lot of us have one of these in ours. hou is it kind of keeping a record for the things we ask for? >> the echo does record your qcommands andstions even in a hotel room, but amazon is u telling it will delete those at the end of every single day even if y staying multiple nights. i want to show you a little bit of what she can do.

alexa, when does the pool open? >> the swimming pool is open from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m >> sohere you have it. one can answer a whole bunch of different ques and this is coming to a different marriotts and hotel chains later. >> can you order room service? >> yes, i can. >>. thank y we move to a different subject. anxiety, 40 millionmecans suffer from some kind of anxiety. >> carson has this. i >> could mean a lot of things, it can lead to pic attacks, things i have dealt with most of my life. and a woman writes about this in her book irst we make the

pwaegs beautiful." we sat down and talked about what we both learned from our experiences. >> it sort of heavy and dark and it's always there, it's always there in my head. it's been as long as i can remember. >> y refer to it as a superpow superpower. >> we have become business people, because they have anxiety in check, and in fact it's the anxiety that brought them to that place. >> i needed to be closer to music, because it's my therapy. it puts my brain in a comfort zone my brain needs to find every day. >> sarah says her comfort zone is writing. she's a best-selling author a

popular wellness blogger, an accomplishment she says was not always easy. p wrote this book because i ha tnto will want anxietyth by time we are done here. >> can it happen when you are in conversation -- can your brain takeover. >> oh, yeah. >> in social situations it can be difficult at parties, and you think where we're aware of what on.oing >> what is your youngest memory of it? >> when i was about seven going to school, and i missed two bus stops because a woman next to me was wearing perfume, and part of the experience is being superiv sens to sounds and smells, an sher perfume distressed m much i had to put my head down

and missed two bus stops. >> she also credits the disorder for her desire to connect. >> they seem to be paradoxical. look at you, you converse with millions of people every day, and i write, and we need to do both. >> sure, i have tools that i have achieved to help me get through those anxious spirals. when i accomplishsomething, i get the chills. my success and victories are enormous. >> you very much embrace the excitement that comes with it. >> i think the anxious have the expressive quirks. >> every single one of my books i hand write on napkins at restaurants, on the back of receipts or a plane i ticket,s all there. i bring it together.

>> the beauty, sarah says,ths in process of trying to pull it altogether, even when it may seem impossible. >> this conversation is about sort of saying it's okay,ot you are alone. >> there's a reason why you fret. thermps somethingtant that you are fretting about, you care, and that's something that anxious people i believe have in common, and one of the most beautiful things about the beast we have to live with. >> yeah. i agree. >> you >> the anxiety exists i animals, and the outliers that also see the hunters cing and run down to warn the pack, so there's a great sense of power, but is really how you look at it, and she does a great job of that inoo this it's the reframing in the way we

talk about it and view ourselves. >> yeah, if y str it of its power, this is a part of me, i have blue eyes and i'm this tall and it's okay. >> yeah, and also that you care. you care so much. >> yeah, we have to start talking about it, bring it up. >> yeah, and you can find out more about sarah and tips about living withnxiety. let's get a check of the weather. we're goingo get maybe a couple more inches of rain through the upper midwest, but we are kping our eye on the texas gulf coast as the low pressure system comes in, it will dump three inches of rain.1 6 to inches of rain, right off thet, not bad because

they have severe drought going on, anywhere from 11 to 12 where they in below should be, so the ground can use some of that rain, and that's good news. that's what's going on around the country. >> storm team 4 radar shows no rain out there just yet but be ready for thunderstorms this afternoon. we have a few chaes of rain before lunch, and highes cha for thunderstorms across virginia about 2:00 this afternoo it will be up near 90 today. upper 80s tomorrow with a higher likelihood of rainwers tomorrow, and another chance for rain coming up on friday and saturday. >> and that is your latest weather. >> guys? >> thank you. carson is over to the orange room about a story about servich dogs that c our attention. >> yeah, this story was posted on twitter.

the post tells a story about how a woman tripped and fell, and th moral of the post is here. a serviceog without a person approaches you, that means that person is down somewhere. ivia, good morning. let's go through some of the questions. t do you know how a service dog would to get somebody's attention? >> the will take their nose, something like that. but in general, bottom line is, if you see the dog invest without a person attached to it, follow them. >> and then if d service approaches me, is there any way i ady r to help, show me the way. >> the verbalwa will not be secret, just start, movi

follow them where they go. >> is there a way to train a dog if a person is approaching is not reacting well? >> yeah, it's would have to train and work on it. >> thank you so much. >> how is he doing? >> amazing >> in that original post, she did write she's updating her dog's training, if a person she goes to doesn't respond, that dog will learn how to find somebody ee. >> i never in a million years would have thought to follow. >> tryingd to f out whether or not rihanna hew music in the works. >> i have got to ask you, any chance of a new aum or anything, or you just walked away from that? >> who sent you? i know onef my fans got to

you -- >> my twittereed has been f al sk her about newusic. >> i have been in the studio working on new m nic. ton pressed her for more details asking about when it will come out, and she you will just have to wait and see. and james cordon and mccartney carpool karaoke. >> yes, i need somebody. not just anybody. can you please, please help me? ♪ ♪ baby, you can drive my car ♪ >> on thursday, paul mccartney wi be in the driver's seat. that's pretty awesome. >> pretty cool. >> strght ahead, when it comes

to millennials and seniors, the gap in technology. >> keri ssell, the cast of "felicity" after your local news. >> announcer: this is a news4 today news break. >> good morning, everybody. 8:26 on this tuesday, june 19th. wam aaron gilchrist. let's starth a check on the roads. melissa mollet has your first 4 tr >> taking a look at the beltway, oxon hill, the inner loop local lanee the right l is blocked by a crash. we are seeing real delays there morning. that's a real slowdown. as we zoom in, southbound parkway, a left lane blocked by a crash. and clarksburg, the left side blocked.e it sounds lik it will clear soon but it's slow. >> we will have a check on the weather when we come back. stay with us.

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a little sunshine now and it's elready steamy and hot outside. temperatures in pper 70s to low and mid-80s now at only 8:3g in the mor into the upper 80s and low 90s.

a higher chance t ofnderstorms tomorrow. >> chuck, thank you. get the latest news and weather anytime in the nbc washington app.

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appearance on our show. >> why? >> we don't know. >> carson is going to investigate. don't worry, we will sll party on the plaza. coming up, we are talking about teens helping older people get connected. >> first, al, you have got the crowd moment covered. what do you got? >> today's crowd moment is created with our sister company, universal orlando resort. >> we' going to team up with our sister company, universal orlando resort to send luckyn fans on a eiting vacation. where is the dotroya family.

>> this is michael, i am john, cassie and gabriella. we are sending you on a orlando vacation. you will get tickets to the theme parks and enjoy the city walk. the trip includes round trip airfare and accommodations at the ventura hotel that opens up this august. congratulations. cancer survivor, and i love your glasses, pal. congratulation. enjoy the trip. thank youo much for being here. we appreciate it. >> awesome, al. >> we couldn't resist this, al. we saw this sign -- >> who is a great hugger? >> it says i am a great hugger. >> are you read one, two, three, we're coming in. very good hugger. ie of the best. al, know you have to go to

the local, right? >> that's what's going on around the country -- no? what -- i can doer weath? no. that's what's going on around the country. here's what he's happening in your neck of the woods. >> good morning. temperaturesre a little warmer this morning than yesterday. in some areas, 8 degrees and mostly cloudy. the sunshine is helping to warm us up quite a bit. even in quantico, 86 already in leesburg. some areasould getnto the low 90s as we go through the day, but otherwise hot and humid.ld we c see afternoon thunderstorms roll in, tomorrow same thing,at in the day thunderstorms around. so far we will put rain inr y saturday forecast. >> and that's your latest weather. y it'sr 16th birthday. what is your name? >> olivia. >> where are you from? >> south carolina. >> what is your name? >> arza.

>> nice. let's head back inside. >> thank you very much. >> you were too busy >> we have more of our special series, senior versus senior to bridge the generation gap. >> you checked out how seniors are helping senior citizens get tech support. among the timeless traditions, grads today now have a new glow. but in a generation that can be sometimes selfie obsessed -- >> hi, everyone. i am taylor. >> hey,t's hanna. >> these three friends spent time theirr senio year with senior citizens using tech to connect. >> you can see how much space theyre taking u >> we had a woman who had thrown

her ente laptop away in a trash can because s had a pop-up ad and tho hht they a virus. >> the three students started out to he, starting their own non-profit, gtg tech, tech speed forgot to go. we are givinghe gift of technology. >> a gift they share with seniors at libraries and retirement communities like engel side at rock creek in washington, d.c. >> what aboutemojis. >> yeah, they gravi immediately to the kissing emojis and smiley faces. >> should we post?

>> let's get a selfie? >> i like it. pretty cute. >> you helped somebody recover their wedding photos? >> yes, a guy helped me to set up a facebook account. >> he had noteen his own wedding photos in a long type, and via you -- almost half of all grandparents have a grand kid living more than 500 miles away, and 97% of seniors in a new study say connecting with a younger generation inhis type of setting help them to feel happy, loved, interested and even younger. >> a lotf returners will come back and give us hugs, so good to see you again. >> it's to fill the gap and spend time with you. >> loneliness. >> though they admit,hey learn as much as they teach. >> it has taught me to be morep ent with things, and got advice of making a long distance

boyfriend for aenr citizen. >> you lost your grand parents, and now do you feel like you have dozens? >> yeah. oh, they are connecting. >> hello. >> you are on the "today" show. >> what do you think about facetime for the first te. you will start face timing more

often. there are all these studies about how this generation can be vely, and that couple was 100 years old, and they can facetime with family across the cntry. >> yeah. >> and they are learning from all of these people. >> pretty great. by the way you went from senior to shall we say junior. >> the toddlers of "today" got together, a let's say it was very messy. we brought a bunch -- >> oh, all of our kids ate ice cream -- >> yeah, the museum of ice cream. we will have this on thursday. in that cherry pit, all i have to says veil came over later, and we found a cherry in our

house. >> ice cream, thet great day ever. >> the reals toddl of "today" got together, and they got together hard. >> loved it. 20 years later we will reunitru keri ssell and her "felicity" they are saying to us about the chance o areboot. >> oh, say it's . >> i know.

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fansuned in to the college drama, from the hair cut, and fans wanto ow if there is a "felicity" college reunion. >> where are you going to college? >> new york. how about you? >> that's pretty unclear. >> it was a t showt defined college in the lat 1990s. >> what are you doing here? >> hi. >> a love story that gained millions of fans as it followed the ups and downs of felicity's life. >> it was such a swe story. keri russell played felicity, and her high school crush then who she followed to college to new york city. their story becoming a love triangle. >> this is noel, this is ben. >> i still get people that come up and say, oh, my god, i love "felicity." i was team ben. >> do they come up and say tha to you? there is it.

>> for the first time in0 years, many of the cast back together,bo reminiscing the roles they played on the show. >> i played julie, and i was felicity's best friend. >> what is the deal with you you and ben, are you datio.? >> n >> i played megan, and i was this, like, very snarky roommate of felicity's. >> i didn't listen to your tape, but if that's the way you are going to be, whip itut. >> i played tyler, and i think she was a smart character. >> can't study in here with you and your snide attitude. >> everybody was really sweet. >> i played stn -- >> whare you doing? >> ioved being the comic relief and breaking crazy -- >> there's milk baked into ever

oat. >> when i walked into the hair cutting place, and then onalof the mostd about story lines, felicity's controversial hair cut. it's the last scene in the final episode that touched the casts. >> greg is giving a coast at noel's wedding, but in real life we knew obviously it was the last time we were all going to be together, the last scene we shot, and greg was standing up there and telling all of us what a wonderful experience, what a wonderful four years we had. it's still my favorite memory of the entire show. to thell get right question everybody wants to know. any chance of a reboot? >> absolutely, yeah. >> really? >> absolutely. >> can we do a variety special? >> song and - dan >> yeah, like the brady's.

>> let's go a "felicity" episode ooere we go to hawaii. that would be g >> and it was time to say farewell, but "felicity" is still special to the cast. a>> iays like talking about it. >> the whole experience for me was life changing, it was something that i am forever gratefulor. >> it's just such a sweet kind of rantic idea for a story. i think that's what's still -- to this day, it's one of my favorite stories. >> for so many of them it was their big btak. sc foley was the lone hold out on the reboot, and he seyd could never re-create that magical time, and if you watch the show they couldn't, they had tape-recorders, and now it would be kids texting each other. >> where would they be now? >> they would be broke, in debt, struggling to find happiness. >> it's so bizarrein s them.

>> yeah, we are od'ing on nostalgia here. >> it was 20 years ago. >> i loved it so much. >> carson and i are going to watch it. >> yeah, we are going to get start e that. >> by way, you can catch the full interview on today.com for "felicity" is available for al and i are hulu. up next, team ben -- >>es. >> what would it like to be born into the trumpamily? this reporter that has covered therump family for years shares her insight, but first this is "today" on nbc.

welcome welcome back, the trump name was already big here in new york, and for five years the real estate business has grown

into a global brand, and now the president of the united states, ranging in age from 4 12 to years old, the president's children are center stage inside and outside the white house, and nbc and msnbc contributor, emily jane fox is out with a new look at the trump children, and called "born trump." >> you have been covering the trump kids foryears. >> yes. >> were they cooperative? >> i have been covering the campaign and into thehite house for three years. at first i said theyn have b in the public eye for their rntire life, and what more was there to l about them? everything had been written, i thought, and once i start thein repo process, i interviewed about 150 people for the book, and there was so much more to learn about them. >> what is your t overarchinge away about how the children were

raised and what their childhood was like? >> in some ways their child -- mostly, it was incredibly privileged. these are children that bent to tht schools and had two nannies living with them, and in other ways their childhood was quite different, and their parents got divorced at a young age, a one of the most public divorces, and they were chased to school by paparazzi, and it cky very privileged and t childhood. >> the three older children were just at thatey age, 8, 10 and 2 when all of this was unfolding. how did they handle it? i think you reported in the book about don junior having trouble with his father for aew years, they had somewhat of a tense relationship? >> yeah, he was old enough to

understand, and the press around this didn't let him forge it and the children at school were talking about it, and he had a speak anger and did not to his father for quite a bit of time and their relationship took a while to heal, and his elationship with ivanka was interesting, and she was concerned that perhaps she would be replaced, and she asked her mother, am i still going to be a trump, is that still going to be my last name, so she would call her father more often and go and visit him in his office, andas eric so young when it was pp ing, and they were moved to palm beach to get them out ft public eye a >> what about donald trump has the father.m they s to idolize him, and was he a hands on father? >> would not call him hands

on. this is someone who was very self focused, and his children worked around it. ey had two full-time nannies. ivana's parents were very involved. night, soere out every it was not a traditional donald trump changing apers, it was very much he is the father, the patriarch of the family w and not going and hitting balls in the park. >> you have reporting in there people that feel like this is the perfect match, they really belong together? >> it's fascinating. they are twoes dtined to be together. their professional ambitions are aligned, and the damage from their fathers are similar, and

they serve a purpose for one another and they try to build ileir own f in an image that was very dissimilar to e family they grew up in. >> five children and lots to cover sere. thank yo much and congratulations on the book. it's called "born trump." >> we're back in a moment. this is "today" on nbc. day.com/. we're bac

we have a lot coming up in our fourth hour. jenna will host with me, and sha one minute and she spilled her entire cup of coffee. >> we will ambush one of our producers, gavin, and donna adorable hit the red carpet. >> megyn kelley "today" is up ext, and she has dennis rodman

on. >> buckle up. >> after checking your local news and weather. have a great day. a announcer: this "news4 today" news break. this 6 is your time on tuesday, june 19th, 2018. good morning to you. i am eun yang. right n it's timeo check on your commute with melissa mollet and your first 4 traffic. ho is it going? >> good morning, gallows road a right lane blocked by a crash. cheverly southbound bw parkway,

a crash there. and blue and original and silver still have>> delays. melissa, thank you. we will take a break and check your forecast next. vo: "ludicrous."

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[ applause ] ood morning,everyone. welcome to the program. i'm megyn kelly. dennis rodman will be here in a moment. but we begin, today, with the escalating situation down at our southern border. and the trump administration's zero tolerance policy causing a firestorm, to put it mildly. at issue is the forced separation of thousands of migrant children from their parents, who entered the united states illegally. nbc's crai melvin has more. >> reporter: this morning, government processing centers like this one are overflowing with thousands of migrants, many