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northeast after days of recordr . new evacuations being ordered, a state of disaster declared. >> i canno believe this now. >> al has got the all-important forecast. protest in pittsburgh. an unarmed 17-year-old shot after fleeing a traffic violation. >> racecar rescue. the hero father that pulled his son from the wreckage of a fiery crash. >> s scree pill warning. smash andh. das >> helping the unwanted

passenger inside bearly escape. welcome to "today." thank youor joinings on this thursday morning. if you don't know, it's the first official day of summertime. >> and the longest day of the year. >> w story. >> a late-night rally, but the battle over immigration is far from ove we have complete coverage from washington to the border. >> president trump out overnight defending the decisiono halt his family separation policy, a policy only a few days earlier

his ownty homeland secu secretary claimed did not existe hite house forced to react in real time, the national outrage of the president and his administration's making. >> we will keep families together, but the bder will be just as tough as it s been. >> on wednesday signing anrd executiver that allows newly detained families to stay together in federal custody, while adults wait prosecution, their case is moved to the front of the line. so what happens to more than the 2,300 children alreadypa ted. those children may not be immediately reunited with parents who are awaiting court hearings. a senior official clarifying, it is still very earlyre and we awaiting guidance on the matter.

theresident trying to blame democrat. >> democrats put illegal aliens before american citizens. what is going on? why the turn around? >> i didn't like the sight or the feeling of families being separated. d>> but fors the president and his aides repeatedly wrongly tied.ed their hands were >> congress and the courts created this problem and congress alone can fix it. >> beyond those images of jail-like settings, what changed thed? president's m it may have been concerns privately shared b ivanka trump and the first lady. >> ivanka feels strongly about strongly wife feels about it. we don't like to see families nd

separated, at the same time we don't want people come into our country illegally. >> american and united demandiov thenment stop using their carriers to transport separated children to the other parts of the country, and overnight dozens of demonstrators showed up at laguardia airport protesting, and t howhey roll back that picy a reunite those families still remains unclear. >> that's where we go next. detainees anxious awaiting what comes next. >> reporter: good morning o

this is this country's largest immigrationeh processingd me, and this is where a lot of the family separations have been taking place, and detained families would come here despite the president's reversal, his about-face on family sepa, there's still a lot of confusion, a lot of concern among folks here along the border. >> as they move in srch of a better life -- >>n texas supporters of migrant families coming out in full force. >> we're family. family should remain together. >> holding an evening vigil to stand in solidarity with children still in custody. >> i am veryrn con about those reuniting the families who have been separated from their children, and now there has been thousands of children, just like my little guy. >> the gathering coming after trumpned an executive order halting the separation of migrant families who cross

the country illegally, but his reversal won't change anything. boys and girls were shown at two facilities, the children transported there after being separated from their parents at the border, and these are some of the first images we have of so-called tender age facilities, shelters housing babies anddd rs, and an associated press describes as some of the shelters being filled with crying children in crisis, but as the adminisation is changing course many say the damage has been done. elsa ortiz was deported to guatemala earliers t month

without her son. the changes should be quick but the flow ofs desperate migra trying to come into the u.s. is not likely to end anytime soon. >> what would be the practical impact on your operations here? >> i think you would continue to see a heavy influx,ry folksing to crosshe river. >> whi some living along the border see family separation as necessary. >> i think it's fantastic. >>thers remain dedicated to finding it. >> it's not about really itything pal. it's really about what's doing wh. is rig >> craig, you have been on the ground. since the preside signed that order yesterday, you have physically seen any changes right there? >> not physically any changes, but in terms of the attitude

among young people, at the vigil, talking to a lot of the folks, they were unaware the president signed this executive order, but it h gone fro confusion to xiety, and a paramount concern, what is going to happen to the children, and plthat's what p were asking us, an answer we don't have. >> let's bring in pete williams who has read up on is,nd for a long time the president was saying this had to fixed by congress and now he issued an executive irder. do fix the problem? what does it do? >> it stops the children from being taken away from their parents, so anybody caught ying to enter the country

illelly, if they ask for asylum, they will still be prosecuted, and then the parents will remain in immigrant custody and no longer turned over to federal marshals and that means their children should not have to be taken away at that point. >> there must be legal challenges? >> yeah, the administration's goal is to hold families in detention until they have asylum hearings and that could take months, and there's a long-standincourt order saying children cannot be detained for ore than 20 days usually, and the president asked the justice department to relax that so children can stay with their parent more than 20 days, but

if the court won't budge, and congress doesn't act, then c childrld start being taken aw away from p theirents again. >> now, this is probably in the hundreds, they have not yet been turned over to hhs are now beind reunith their parents, but for the 2,500 already turned over, they will be reunited, and with a relative in the u.s., reunification is theat ult goal. >> pete williams, as always, thank you for youror ition. appreciate it. breaking overnight, flash flood emergencies from here in the northeast to the south after days of record rain. the scene in parts of texas now being declared a disaster.

that's where we find gabe gutierrez. hey, gabe, good morning. >> more than a foot of rain fell in this area, and crews in chest high water had to rescue people from their homes. overnight new ecuations in pennsylvania, while here in texas a cleanup is under w. this morning no let up after the torrential downpour. 85-year-old francis ramirez was saved from her home. >> s'mcared. >> this woman was pulled by the floodwaters by a state trooper on his way to work. despite warnings not to drive on the flooded streets, some gamble they could make it through. this man did. in the most devastated areas, ole neighborhoods were cut

off. helicopters hado be used to rescue stranded residents, the day luge. for months this part of texas has seen conditions, but it hasehanged. >> w have been praying forin , but not all at o time. >> and rain sparking a state of emergency in pennsylvania,oo. police and firefighters and rescue crews responding to numerous reports of mudslides and trapped vehicles and flooded roads throughout the region. >> this was the trolly stop. >> oh, my god, dude, i cannot even believe this right now. >> reporter: overnight carbs shing away while the patrons

inside were walked out one by one.tu drivers wereed to see their cars submerged underwater. >> lots of people. thank you. let's go to al who is tracking the tflooding, rain, and what is coming next. >> it doesn'tmuake , six inches of water will knock you off your feet, and a foot and a galf will move a car. we have str storms from minneapolis to brownsville. we have rainfall rates still and will probably pick up another one to three inches of rain before it's all over, fatsh flood wesnd is, this will start to move through. we may pick upone t two more inches, and a lower risk of flash flooding. nthat's goods. as you saw that frontal system that passed through, that caused

the rain in parts of pennsylvania, and this storm system is making w its across the country, and will continue today, and it slowly moves east and flash flooding likely to continue, and this will move friday a saturday into the northeast looking for wet weather. chicago, you cou see u to four inches of rain, heavy rain stretching all thent way down virginia. >> thank you so much. there's more to get to this morning including protest breaking out near pittsburgh over the deadly police shooting of an unarmed 17-year-old. ron mott has more on this story. good morning. >> reporter: a key question early in the investigation is what were then factors play at the time that led this officer to open fire as twoeople are seen running away from him, killing a high school student. outrage spilling on to the streets of east pittsburgh late wednesday. dozens gathering outside the police station to protestnhe

death of unarmed 17-year-old who was trying to flee a traic stop for a car suspect in a nearby drive-by shooting. >> why arehey shooting? all they did was run and they are shooting at them? >> the officer firing two shots taking down rose. that officer has been placed on leave by the department. >> two guys, one in the front and one in the back, ran out of the car and he shot him, boom, outside my right house. >> reporter: the officer pul td ovhe car because it matched the description of a car involved in a drive-by shooting earlier. po arrested the driver who

was later released. he later told them he was a jitney. police are asking the male that got away turn himself in. and the families attorney releasing a statement that reads the facts of the case leaves little rm to justify the use of deadly force by this officer. a prote demonstration has been scheduled today at noon outside the county courthouse. officials meantime asking for patience as this investigation unfolds. >>hank you. let's turn to al once >> let's show you what is going on quickly around the country. we will finely see sunshine in the northeast and look for owers through the western

plains. tacessive heat warnings in the west, and we will ke a look at that coming up in the next hal. in the meantime, we will get to your local forecast coming up in just 30 seconds. good morning. i am storm team 4 meteorologist, chuck bell. the rains of yesterday are now gone and most of us will be dry for your thursday, and a quick livedhower or two but not a big impact from rain today.

right now in the 60s and low s, and rain likely tomorrow and stormy on saturday, too. >> and that's your latest weather. >> thank you so much. coming up, the fatr hailed as a hero for pulling his son from the wreckage of a burning racecar. how olymplln, ber says he is finding a way forward after his family tragedy, but first this is "today" on nbc.

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now let's check on your morning commute with melissa mollet and ur first 4 traffic. how is it going out there. >> aouple problems out there, southbound gw parkway, the crash on the right shoulder, and still seeing delays. no major complaints on the woodrow wilson bridge, and major delays were through late last night, the inner loop and outer liloop there r along just fine now. >> we will take a quick break. your forecast is up next.

cloudy skies for now with the overnight rains coming to a quick end. it will be a mix of clouds and sunshine today. warmndhumid, a high of 85 degrees. it's the longest day of the year, 14 hours and tpwhr daylight today and tomorrow as well. rain likely for much of e day

morrow, and you can always use our nbc washington app to staye away of weather and look at the weekend forecast. >> another local update in 25 minutes. >> for now back to the "today" show after this short break.

♪ i'm gonna soak up the sun 7:30. thursday morning, 21st of june, 2018. that's the first day of summer. the longest day of the ar. that's how they did it at stonehenge earlier this morning. thousands celebrati the summer solstice. >> it's little rainy outside. >> the top stor is,luding the president's reversal in the border battle. immigration crackdown backdown. >> we are going to keep families together but the border is going to be just as tough as it has been. >> president trump sounding off on immration hours after signing an executive order ending child operation, an attempt to silence the uproar

over his administration's controversial policy. >> my wife feels very strongly out it. i feel very strongly about it. >> forcedth out. world is in crisis. >> a former head of the archdiocese of washington removed from his duties. >> this case raised more questionshan answers. how long has the church h known was involved in sexual misconduct. >> kate spade, the kate spade fodation pledges $ million for suiciprosrepbtion. al straw. seattle bans all pla straws at restaurants. bear trap. a deputy breaks a car window

allowing a bear to leap outru a free. >> something you don't see. >> how did t bear get in? >> apparently he opened the door. how far would you go to protect your children? we are hearing from one father thcu r his son in a fiery crash. >> yeah, that video is pretty incredible. the racecar bursting into flames on the track after hitting another car, and the driver's father immediately jumping into action putting his own life in danger. >> it was just another race, but then things quily spun out of control after colliding with another car both going nearly 10 miles per hour, and he smasd into a car and his car

quickly bursts into flames. >> i did everything i could do to not have a head on impact and once i saw the flames, t get out. >> his dad jumped the pit wall and ran to the burning car. >> i had a single focus on get my son out of the burning car, and nothing else matters. >> he managed to pull him out of the wreckage before crews arrived to put out the inferno. he'sean is not mike's dad, also his crew chief. after his son was safe, he had anotherob to do. he went back to e car to cut off the flow ofol ge fueling the fire. >> it's a drivers worst nightmare for sure. >>r the fathe and son work together off and on the track, and they are hoping losing their car won't mean the end of their

racingsays. >> i a financial hit. we're just trying to get a feel for what it would take if and when we would be able to race again. >> what i think people don't know is getting in and out of the cars on a normal day is n simple. >> exactly. the son said it felt like forever. he had to unbuckle the seat belt, and move all of the communication wires, and then you just hit a wall going 100 miles per hour, so just an incredible story. right 's parenthood there, i don't care how old your kid s. dad of the year. >> yes. let's go over to mr. roker and get a check of the weather. >> feels like it's hot out there and i is. we have heat watches and warnings stretching from california to arizona and parts nevada as well. 119 million people are affected by a heat0 index above

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7:56 is your time on this thursday, june 21st, 2018. good morning to you. i am eun yang. right now we will take a look at your morning commute with melissa mollet and your first 4 traffic. >> taking a look at the roads. you can see the outer loop a the top of the beltway, typical as you head across the woodrow wilson bridge. one hundred, slowing do there. 66 wbound s from manassas all the way in through fairfax. we will take a quick break and check your forecast next. at children's national, stronger is caring

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still rather a cloudy start to the day but storm tea 4 radar shows not much in the way of a rain threat for the day, a stray shower possible later on. he high will be up near 85 degrees and no more than stray shower or two today, and tomorrow there could be an inch or more on friday. >> another local update for you in 25 minutes, but for now back day" show after this break.

it's 8:00 on "today." coming up, change of course. >> we're going to keep in fg to iebeust as tough as it has been. >> president trump touts his new immigration plan hours after bowing to politicalpressure. what happens to the thousands o migrant children still separated from their parents? we are live at the white house and the border. plus, tough pill to. swallow >> can pills protect you from a sunburn? >> dohey work. >> peoplelssing these pil may have a false sense of security. >> jeff rosse with a warning you need to s. and i scream, you scream.

>> i have a cheer for y'all, ready. >> ice cream >> we all scream at the real ay toddlers of "t give us the scoop on the museum of ice cream. >> how wou you describe it? >> yummy. >> we're from charlotte, north carolina. >> hi, nana. >> good morning, savannah and hoda, i a wearingy bacon t-shirt for alaba, and that's what's happening in my neck of the woods. >> came from california, to celebrate my mom's birtay. >> celebrating her 50th

birthday happy birthday. welcome back to "today" osd thi ay morning. it's a littledeoggy out on the first day of summer, but i have to tell you the crowd is ovcking. >> i the crowd on the plaza and at home. >> i like the bacon sht. president trump held a rally last night hrs after a dramatic about-face signing an exec tive order stop migrant families from being separated. hey, peter, good morning. n> president trump defending that decis to halt his family separation policy, a policy you willmbre, that just last week he insisted an executive order could not fix. it snning retreat following days of fierce criticism, but how theyeunite those families still remains unclear. overnight president trump

rallying his base in minnesota hours after abruptly reversing the immigrant children policy. >> we are going to keep families together, but the border is going to be just as tough as it has been. >> the president's dramatic 180 inhe wake of crushing political pressure on both sides of the aisle,igning an executive order that allows newly detained famies to stay together, while adults await prosution, their case is moved to the front of the .li what happens to the more than 2,300 children already separated. a health and human serviide tells us they may not be immediatel reunited, and further sing we are waiting for guidance on the matter. so why the turn around?

>> i didn't like the sight or the feeling of families being separated. >> for days the president and his aides repeatedly insisted their hands were tied. >> congress and the courts t creates problem and congress alone can fix it. >> beyond the image of jail-like settings, what changed the president's mind? it may have been concerns privately shared by his dauger, ivanka trump and the first lady. >> i think anybody wit aeart would feel very strongly about it. >> reporter: ivanka's public silence, she tweetedhe after fact writing thank you for taking critical action ending family separation at ourorder and calling on congress to find a lasting solution that is

consistent wit our shared values. we now have l our firk at the newest edition of "time" magazine, and there it is, welcome to america, and you cani see the pnt staring down at a young undocumented immigrant child, and president trump is very image oriented, it will be interesting to see how he responds today. >> craig melvin in texas with more. good morning. >> reporter: savannah, good morning. we should note the other big story here in south texas continues to be the torrential rain and flooding as well. we are standing in front of the largest immigration processing center, and this is where the separations will happen, andve een a number of buses pull in this morning. at a vigil last night here, i

can tell you after having conversations with numerous people there, what was anxiety and confuon as really given way now to suspicion and skepticism. there are still a lot of people along the border here in texas who are very concerned about the next step. a lot of folks not really sure that president trumpnd this administration are going to follow-through on precisely wha was signed yesterday. of course a lot of questions surrounding the mor than 2,300 children who have already been separated from their families. meanwhile we are also getting our first look at those so-called tender-age shelters. word yesterday, thr of them were here in texas, and a fourth is beingwe constructed. have not been inside one of those facilities, but associate press tells us they have seen childrenrying in crisis. that's a quote.

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mike thomas: (laughing) good shot big j! this morning on "rossen reports" a timely new warning about the so-called sun screen pills, and of course this is the first d of summer. >> jeff rossen is look into this. before you buy them, wha should people know? >> i am a skin cancerurvivor myself, so i am all read up on the dosonnd of sun screens. when i saw the ads for un screen pills, alarm bells went off. now the fda alert, it says the companies, and im quoting,re putting peoples' health at risk. it's too good to be true, sun

screen pills, making claims online. oneay company the spill has broad spectrum protection from uva raise, and now the fd they are illegally marketing pills that make unproven drugho claims w meeting the fda's standards, misleading cdsumers utting people at risk. >> medically spking, can pills protect you from a sunburn. >> no. ou frompills protect skin damage? >> no, these pills cannot protect you from skin damage. >> can they protect you from skin cancer? >> no, they certainly cannot y protect from skin cancer. a determimrmatologist concerned because people could have a sense of false security. >> people could p take tls instead of using sun screen, making them more vulnerable to

getting skin cancer. website, n walmart's where it went out of stock. >> another one of the companies the fad issued a warning on, it's still up and running so i went on the website and clicked buy now and they sent it to us. >> the fda demanding the hempanies correct it. >> ifare saying these pills are ineffective, why don't they just not let them b on the market? >> after multiple calls and e-mails, the maker o solara care did not comment.

the maker of sunsafe rx, the pills are made with ingredients to protect skin from sun damage, and one or more of the ingredients protects skin from uv rays, but ingredient testing has not been done and they have not been proven to be effective. >> what should you be doing? wear sun screen, spf 30 or above, and the rule i to apply it every two hours or immediately after swimming or sweating. and how much should you use? ltcool way to remember, an average a needs about a shot glass worth of lotion, don't drink it, put it on your dy a shot glass worth of sun screen

every two hours. >> now we have our summer safety. everybody is here for this one for good reason. ice cream ison sous with summer, isn't it? now there's a entirem mus dedicated to ice cream. jenna took us to thi dream. >> was pb n't it great. it was the night before summer and all through the house not a creature was veirring, not a -- >> hi, guys! i got a cheer for you all. ready? ice cream! ice cream! >> the museum of ice cream i not much a museum as it is the pint shop, and aomplete sensory overload experience,

especially if you are nine or five or 36. while waiting for your tasting room appointment, which can amount t torture for a toddler, you can cheer in a cherry, or even see a savannah in a punch of bananas. and any museum would not be complete without a gift shop. with baskets bigger than the kids, a just when we had been whipped up into a frozen frenzy, it was time for the main event, the tasting room. >> there we go, veil. you are looking good in pink. >> guest are supposed to learn about the ice making process, and all five sdoses. >> what you smell?

>> sheust said she smells waffles. >> we quickly learned our little rascals were not soh mnto watching, as they were into tasting. >> how would you describe it? >> yummy. >> or in our case, licking, lots of licking. >> do you tnk pink is for broccoli? is it f avocado? for cucumber? >> is for strawberries. >> what is it, mila? >> strawberries. >> and then making, mess or trying whimsical avors, like pinata. with our fgers extra sticky and our tummies unfull, we proved once and for all everybody does scream for ice cream.

summertime! >> how m fun was that? >> so much fun. >> my soname home with cherries in h pocket. >> our child came home with them in her underwear. the museum of ice cream is open from august -- just until august, rather, and there's one in san francisco and there's a full museum experience coming to new york. >> that was like a blast. >> and now here some of the ice cream, y'all, and i brings out the hager in me. >> >> jack daley, he took care of all the little kids. adorable. >> he said, poppy, i have been looking for you. >> haley and charlie had to miss it because they were a little sick. >> yeah, ae lit under the weather. >> take our kids all summer?

>> yeah $20 an hour per child. >> a check of the weather? >> my kids are b too old they would come for the ice cream. therre looking at wet w stretching from texas all the way upnto the great lakes and parts of minnesota. we are going to see song stor firing up, locally up to four ihes of rain from chicago into virginia as that pushes throug a as far temperatures are concerned, it's going to be scorching hot as you make your t ways from southwest into texas, and 90s into floridath i southeast with high humidity levels, heat indexes above 100. outside here in the waington metro area now, it's a mostly cloudy morning. we will get more sunshinean tod e had the last couple of days. rain chances are relatively low, only maybe a 20 to 30% a shower today, primarily down

across parts of central rginia. current temperatures are in the low to mid-70s. it will be a warm one. tod high temperatures expected to reach 85 degrees. cooler with more rain likely for tomorrow, and then showery with thunderstorms late in the day on saturday, and then 90 again by sunday. >> oh, oh, and -- you didn't te me. hey, okay, that's it. thank you, am i on? okay. good-bye. >> al, you were like -- you were so cute. >> that's the new rokering. >> a we ready for "pop start." >> you're on. >> grande sporting wha looked like a large engagement ring, and the couple has been out and about together.

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telemundo straight ahead, everything you nee t to know toake the hassle out of flying with your family this summer. plus, natalie's jurassic rld movie. all that coming up after your local news.

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8:30 now on the 30 on the 21st of june, 2018. happy first day of summer. it's a wet one out on our plaza. it's pretty warm. we are very excit to have everybody joining us. i think we can hear 5 seconds of summer, which will be our live concert. the first second of summer starts right n becauset's the first day. >> it is. we have an entire half hourne up to celebrate the season we have all been waiting for, so we will make sure you get your summern vacatets off to a

great start. block busters that will have you running to the box office. >> and natalie heads to hawaii with a one-kind of fishingdi exon. >> al is still spreading the joy with a crowd moment.er >> annou today's crowd moment is created with our sister company, universal orra orlando resort. family is the baker from georgia. over here! wow. you dropped your phone. are you part of the baker family? >> no! sorry about that. we will get your phone back. you are theaker family? >> yes! >> where is that near? >> aanta. get very excited, because guess what?

you are on youway to florida! three theme parks including the tropical paradise at universe annual volcano bay, and it includes round trip airfare and hotel hoping in august. there you go. speaking osummer, megyn, what do you have coming up? >> we areoing to have an interesting discussion on how much instruction should be given to one's parents or in-laws -- >> a lot. >> how detled should you get? >> i remember when i gave courtney over to my mom a started to give me instructions,

and she said i had six of you and last time i checked, you were still alive. >> baby powder, no longer appropriate. >> is that true? i will bri a note pad and pencil. >> anyway, we will havhat at the top of the hour. mr. sunny here, we are calling it sunny summer kickoff, because our puppy with a purpose is going to help. sunny, bring on the forecast. he's ready to do it. put uphe map. there you go. >> well done. >> and it's sunny in new england and sunny in the southwest, and sunny in west texas, and heavy rain throu the upperidwest and showers in the western plains. the rest of your forecastin lo ahead toward the weekend outlook. we have excessive heat warnings r the southwest, and rain in thekies. on saturday, severe storms in the central mississippi river

valley, and stays hot in the southwest and more wet weather in the ndnortheast,unday heavy rain in the central plains and warming up out west and showers in the northeast. sunny, you did a fantastic job. yes, you did. what a good boy. we should mention he's doing a great job training with the guide dog foundation. that's what's going on around the country. here's what's happening in your neck of the woods? >> we are getting sunshine in the washington area finally. still a lot of clouds outside but at least it is dry, rain has come to an end for most of the area. still a few sprinkles down across parts of virginia, and most of the day will be dry a an isolated shower can't be completely ruled out but mostly dry today. temperatures in thmid-70s now, and looking for a high near 85 degrees today. anor then tomorrow, highs in the 70s with an inch of rain oy friday. >> that's your latest weather. olivia is here. he did a good job doinghe

forecast. >> excellent. his backup career. how is he doing so far? >> such a good puppy. brilliant and brings so much joy, and living up to his name. >> what is the next milestone? >> he is learning all his foundational obedience, but soon he will go into a harness, which is what they use for guiding people arountr thets. >> thank you, sunny, for such a good forecast. all right, guys, back to>> you. thank you. we are talking fun in the sun, and natalie got a taste of it d a recent trip to hawaii. >> yeah, she got to travel there ahead of tomorrow's release of "jurassic world" with two of the movie's stars. take a look. >> welcome toas jc world. this is going to be awesome. >> the cast and crew of "jurassic world:fallen kingdom.

but they headed here. >> hi, natalie. >> whereid you come from? natalie, what is all this? >> how are you doing? >> i hear you have a special place here whereou like to fish? >> yeah, this is a special spot. it's the ranch and pond, and i making here all while the movie, and we will go and barracuda. >> the barracuda? >> yeah. w >> what could ng? you know that song, sit wn, sit down, you're rocking the boat? >> i'm rocking the boat? >> no, but i love that song. >> creates dinosaurs, god creates man, man destroyed god, and man creates dinosaurs.

>> get him hooked up. >> this is fantastic. >> filming in hawaii brings pratt full circle, he was first discovered in nearby maui when he was just 20 years old. >> it's surrealhe being, right? >> doesn't matter who you are or where you have been or what you have done, look at the view and io's like the great equalizer, and cre like this just humbles you. >> changes like that, you don't know what it looks like until you are standing at the gates. >> having dr. ian malcolm back, how great is that, chri >> so great. obviously i was, like the entire world, swept up in the jurassic

mania -- >> do you remember the first time you watched it? >> yeah, i was there opening weekend. so was bryce on the other side of the country, and neither of us realizing we would be part of the great franchise -- oh, oh, get it! >> yes! yes! i'm reeling. i'm reeling. help me out. >> i caught a -- oh, wait, holy cow. >> i am telling you right now you have a really good fish. >> holy cow. chris, you have to help me! what is this? we caught a fish! >> this is not a small fish. >> come on. come on. >> it's like jaws. >> we are going to need a bigger boat. >> oh, my god in heaven, look at that.

i got my fish! the thrill of the catch, and then we send him back in the swan to swim again. >> caught a fish. >> natalie can do it all. >> natalie is good at everything. now add fishing. >> "jurassic world" does open tomorrow. >> in the meantime, does the thoughtthf flyin your kids break you break out in hives? coming up, clever travel hacks to make yourrt air experience less stressful thissummer, but first this is "today" on nbc. right? i do. it's a busy, busy place. whenever you're ready. it happens every time. i've got it. and every time, she wins. you always do this. no, no. i insist.

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back now, 7:41 with more of our special series. >> nothing beats relaxing with your faly, and i can be a big hassle getting there especially if you are flying, so how can you make your trip to the

airpt less stressf. atrry sanders, he has g tips. save us. >> reporter: good morning, guys. let's faceit, summer travel can be a challenge when you make the right cision, everything goes great. when you make the wrong decision, well, it gums up the works for yound everybody else. this morning we will play our own version of the oldame "truth or reconsequences," w the wrong decision can add up to misery. you are about toh go thro airport security. what is the o y thingou need to do? >> make sure your phone is charged? >> treporter: truth is, you shld have your ticket in your hand and id, and the consequence of not doing that, anger. a don't be the one in line digging through your stuff. >> why should you ner pack a block of cheese or chocolate in

your carry on? >> because it will melt? >> reporter: the kids kind of know the answer. the truth is it can clutter bags and obstruct clear images on the x-ray machine. the consequence, your hand gets a hand inspection, slowing your trip to the gate. d howyou confirm which gate to go to? >>inng your flight. st truth is, the problem is you can't always the monitors. the atlanta flight shows on time, but when you put it in the internet, cancelled. > put the flight number into google and it confirms your gate. you walk all the way to 4 to learn your fligh has been moved. >> the truth is you are waiting

board now. what do you do? >> wait your tn. >> the truth is,ng get the t out of your bag. >> consequence, if you do it onboard, you slow everybody behind you as you fumbl befor putting your bag in the overhead or incur the rather of your seat mate. we will be landing soon, and when we do, what is the first thing you should do when you touch down? >> i don't know. >> reporter: truth, stay seated. on average when a plane lands it takes 14 minutes to taxi to the gate and then another six minutes for them to open the door, and it takes 13 minutes

before you are off the plane. it can mean the difference between a great trip and really long trip. why shoe travel with two clothes pins? >> hang it on the line in the room? >> truth, the clothes opinions help to keep earlyorning light out. consequence, if you forget, you willun rise with the and that can make for a miserable day. you guys are a lot more truth than what are your favorite travel hacks? >> don't bring them. >> i have to say, ipad, ipad -- e u h let them watch things, your toddler, and at thn begi of parent hood i felt bad about doing that, and now, no. >> it's like you you canatch e ipad all day and eat snacks. >> yeah, so they don't bother

everybody on the plane, you check your rules at homet the airport door. >> how do you handle a meltdown? >> you go out on the wing. >> no. people care if you make an effort to control your child, and sometimes you will not be able to,ut make an effort. we talked about the new jurassic world earlier, but what other block busters should you race to see. first, this is "to y" on nbc. (sound of car door opening) (car door closes) (sound of engine startg) ♪ ♪ yeah, i feel like i'm inside a pinball machine. our td bank small business bankers go above and beyond and visit your business.

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>> it's really good. itctually gets really great in the last hourt where i turns kind of dark, and i have hearda chris prt describe it like a horror movie,nd at the same time he and bryce, super fun to watch and great action. angry dinosaurs, it's excellent. >> what is next? >> "antman," getting into early july. i loved the first ndone, it's a different marvel movie and better for families. this is "antman and the wasp," and you have michelle pfeiffer. >> one of your s,favorite whitney? >> you will love it, carson. it's a fascinating look at whitney houston's life. it's a documentary. th f is theootage of her life, and it ao goes deep into her troubled life, drug use, family

issues, sexuality, and a lot of things a lot of people wondered about. there are interviews with a lot of her family members, bobby brown included. >> wow.t' >> t also coming out fourth of july weekend. >> everybody is talking about this next one, too. ma "mama mia." >> this one is kind of like a pr uell and a sequel at the same time, and we see a lot of the main characters as young people, and we have cher joinith cast. g ancia plays hernando. >> tom does a stunt in the filming of it, and the stunt machine --pr >> yeah, they know what they are

doing. he broke his ankle. they usedak that t right there. that is actually in the movie. i am also excited to see this, because tom cruise learned how to fly a helicopter for this movie, because he's tom cruise and that's what he doesas he to out do every other actio movie. >> and then "christopher robin." >> mcgregor plays an adult christopher robin, and they help him discover the joy of life again. i think it's goingo have a great kind of beautiful tone to it. >> what about "searching "? >> he plays a dad whose teenage daughter missing and he has

to find her along with the help of aice detectivetive played by debra messing. he has to breaknto his daughter's laptop and facebook and that's how he tracks her down. it's fascinating and good for parents. >> to round out the top eight, ryan eggle in this next o >> yeah, "black klansman." a african-american man infiltrated the an andpl it's ed by denzel washington's son.th e's a lot of performances. it's a really interesting movie.

he has done a tv show "ballers," but this is a big breakout for him. >> again, we're back in a moment, but first this is "today" on nbc.

big fourth hour. christian slater is going to co-host with me. lester holt and his band,he rough cuts, which are "dateline" people, are going to be perf >> how did you get that oking? >>t was tough but we just went up the elevator andsked him. >> and carson over with megyn kelley, but first your local news. have a good day, everybody.

this is a "news4 today" news break. >> 8:56 is your time on this thursday, june 21st. let's get to melissa mollet with a check on your commute with your first 4 traffic. y, melissa.bo sorry that. we could not hear melissa's

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simply smarter shopping. good morning, everyone. welcome to the show. megyn kelly. we begin this morning with president trump now reversing course on his controversial policy of separating migrant families that cross the border ilgally. however, there are still thousands of children being held in facilities across this countrpart from their parents. when will they be reited? the answer is unclear. nbc's craig melvin has more. >> as they move in search of better life. >> reporter: in mcallen, texas, supporters of migrant families cong out in full force. >> we're families. families should remain together. >> reporter: holding an evening vigil to stand in solidarity with children still in cu