can't say that about a lot of things. thank you. >> thank you. >> how many of you? >> 13. >> 13? >> yeah, 13. >> brilliant. >> missing for ten days, military special forces and rescuers located the 12 soccer plers and their coachalive. but getting them out of those caves is a huge oeal that could take months. the wicked summer heat is showing few signs of letting up as we head into the fourth of ay july h with weather warnings across the nation. ildfires in multiple states are spreading, causing hundreds of evacuations today. plus we' got your world cup thrillers and also a diversion for those whoak maye the global match a little too seriously. and have you heardbout the margarita loving, hottubbing, backyard bear? "early today" starts right now.

good tuesday morning to you. i'm frances rivera. >> and i'm richard lui. h hope you'reing a great day. after ten days trapped in darkness, alloy2 missing and their soccer coach have been found alive. but rescuers canno declare mission accomplished, not as of yet. following a marathon search operation stretching over a week andve involving 1,000 people, more challenges still ahead. >> risin waters and mud are still blocking access to exits, and now the issue isng get all 13 out safely. the thai army says the group may have toait in the cave up to four months for floods to recede. another option is to have the boys learn how to di, butt's taken even highly trained divers several hours to get to the trapped group. more from london with this latest hurdle. >> good morning, frances. really incredible news that they located them. it was a race against time to find them. now it could be a longreime be rescuers are even able to get them out of that cave safely.

the governor of the province saying if it's not 100%, they will not bring the kids out, and they can't at this point confi i how many day may take. but as you said, estimates range from days to even months. u.s. air force captain jessica tate, a spokeswoman for the 353rd special operations group on the ground there, says all option are being explored, and they are there to support the thai-led rescue effort in a multinational partnership operation. these include alternate extractipoints. the long game is said to be waiting it out for the oodwaters to recede, which some reports say could last until the rainy season ends, which is normally around october. there's also ideas to teach those trapped how to breathe with scuba but experts say that comes with risk. it's taken professional divers days to navigate the extremely murky water through narrowss paes. to teach the kids that could prove dangerous to them and the rescuers. one priorit is to provide

medical assistance and food and water for these trapped. th provincial governor saying using a three tiered system, they a seem to b in the green zone. no one in the danger zone. it seems at this point they're safe and ready to find a way to be extracted from that cave. >> at least c they get food and water to them. as americans make their holiday plans, thebi says i has foiled a chilling terror plot. this to attack the july 4th celebration in cleveland. the suspect has been charged with attempting to provide support to a terrorist group. he faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. nbc justice correspondent pete williams tells us how the feds caught him. >> reporter: richard, this man icme to the attention of the fbi and cleveland p because of his social media postings. they say he repeatedlyxpressed a desire to see terror attacks in the u.s. that would kill large numbers of people. his target federal investigators say wasan clevs july 4th parade and fireworks show.

prosecutors say a tip about pro-jihadist social media postings by 48-year-old demetrius pitts got their attention. two weeks ago he began meetieo with s he thought was an al qaeda operative, who turned out to be an fbi agent working undercover. court documents say pitts told the agent a week ago, what would hit them in their core? have a bomb to blow up the fourth of july parade. agents say he used his phone to photograossible sites to attack with a car bomb, including the fireworks park. >> justy, yester he discussed giving remote control cars packed with explosives and shrapnel to the cldren of our military uniform members. >> reporter: but it was all lk. the fbi says pitts never had any explosives and said he just wanted to scout locations, not carry out the attacks. and was so unprepared, the undercover agent gave him a bus pass to conduct his scouting but law enforcement officials say he was determined to be a terrorist. >> law enforcement officer cannot sit back nick and wait

for mr. pitts to commit a violent act. >> reporter: the fbi says agents trested him over weekend after he talked about trying to plan another attack for later this year in philadelphia, his hometown. they also say he used his cell phone to record two videos, pledging support for al qaeda. richard? >> pete, thank you for that. the dangerous heat wavgr ping the northeast continues this morning. tens of millions remain under heat aisories or warnings. se national weathervice says today's heat index values could be as high as 104 degrees. that's enough to cause heat related illnesses. nbc's stephanie gosk has more on th threat. >> reporter: when it's hot, there's really only one fun thing to do outside. >> basically just got to stay in water. kids are just too hot otherwise. >> reporter: the dangerous heat spans from m nne toorth carolina with 60 million people under warnings oradvisories. burlington, vermont, broke a record, hitting 97 degrees just 50 miles from canada. ind.c., the city set upai a firt

tent on the national ll. 50 people had to be evacuated from a new jersey nursing home afte a air conditioner malfunctioned. and in massachusetts, camps are limiting outdoor time. >> it does get mor the days go on until you get acclimated which usually takes a couple weeks. >> reporter: with temperatures hitting 90 degrees three days in a row, it's officially a heat wave inil new york, elphia, and hartford. in burlington, it could be in the 90s until thursday. the advice is stay indoors but obviously some people aren't going to listen to that, especially tourists in nework city whe right here in times square, it feels like it's about a mile from the sun. have you ever been to new york before? >> never. first time. >> and you came onhe hottest day of the year. >> with a sweater on. >> reporter: usinghatever they can find to stay cool. >> we're loving every moment. >> oh,good. so you'll come back. >> yes.se >> reporter: t kids in hudson river park definitely have the right idea. the trouble with big cities like new york, ad.c., philadelp is

that they aren't getting much relief at night either. temperatures inhe 70s just aren't enough, and it's going to be another hot one. frances, back to you. >> we know that all too well. stephanie, thanks. we're just week from the president's announcement, his pick to replace jtice anthony kennedy on the supreme court. this m nning a snapshot on where americans stand on that issue. 87% sa the nomination of a new justice is very or somewhat importantccording to a new nbc news/survey monkey poll. 44% of respondents say they want the next justice to be moderate. another 32%ant conservative. but it's one stat in particular that could help the president sell lawmaken a speedy confi confirmation vote. les go to nshs's chris pollone for more. >> reporter: some senate democrats have argued they should wait unt after the election to vote for the president's nominee but it turns out that might not be a winning strategy. near two-thirds o those

surveyed, 62%, say the senate should vote to confirmej ort trump's nominee before the midterm election, while 33%, say just the opposite. the new snapshot coming as we learn the commander in chief is already interviewing those on his short list with two or three more interviews set to take place in the coming days. still when asked, the president wouldn divulge just w he has met with. >> in the morning, during the morning, i interviewed and met of four potential justices our great supreme court. they are outstanding people. they are really incredible people in so man different ways, academically and every other way. and i had a ry, very interesting morning. >> reporter: of course a lot of this battle will be waged over roe v. wade, the nation's abortion law. the white house is declining to say where the preside falls on that issue today. >> would the president like to see roe v. wade 'merturned? >>ot going to get into any

specifics that we would be looking at. >> does he jhimself, ast a matter of how he feels, hi own policy, does he want to see roe overturned? >> i'm not going to weigho i anything specific that front at this point. >> reporter: the president plans to announce his pick nmot ay. >> thanks so much for that. this morning, the mayor of annapolis i sharing his disappointment with the white house. the trump administration denied his request to lower national flags at half staff in honor of the five employees killed during thursday's targeted attac on the "capital gazette" newspaper. the mayor tells the "baltimore sun," quote,his was an attack on the press, an attack on freedom of speech. it's just as important as any other tragedy. the state's was lowered from friday until sunset monday with the region and much of the country still mourning. last night, hundreds of people gathered to remember one of those five lives losuring thursday's shooting. rob hiaasen, an assistant h editor just celebrated his 33rd wedding anniversary shortly before the attack. hollywood mogul harvey

weinstein's criminal case in new york now expanding. manhattan district attorney cyrus vance jr. announced three new sex crime charges. they include an additional count of criminal sexual act in the first degree for aci fore sexual act against a third woman back in 2006. also including two counts of predatory sexual assault,ch w carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. these three new charges are ina tion to earlier charges against him of rape and criminal sexual acts. e 61-year-old's attorney says weinstein will plead not guilty and maintains all these allegationslsre high heat and dry conditions are fueling wildfires across the west. the wildfire raging in california's yolo and napa ow counties has grown to 60,000 acres with just 5% containmenke the s is so heavy it's causing an orange haze over san francisco and a leading to quality advisories. m colorado, the spring creek fire has dtroyed at least 104

homes. state patrol released this time-lapse video yesterday afternoon. and in utah, te ridge f has grown to 30,000 acres in just a day. officials say up to 300 homes have been evacuated. and as of last ght, that fire was still zero percent contained. but then the northeast. let's talk to bill karins. millions at risk, huh? >> the numbereepsgrowing. we just added a huge chunk ofuc ke and indiana to the heat advisory. the bottom line is the heat is just as bad todays it w yesterday in many areas. the hot and humid conditions are actually spreading and getting worse as we go throughout areas of the ohio valleynd through the central plains. today it wille 101 around that hi dallas. same for wton, d.c., heat index at 103. it's much more humid in the east than it ien in theal plains. kansas city could be the exception. you could feel like 106. as we go towards the fourth of july, not likee're cooling off any.

philadelphia will drop you down a coupl degrees wit clouds and chance of storms. that's a much needed day of relief on theth. here's a closer look at your day ahead. we could see a stray shower or thunderstorm. consider yourself lucky if you get o in areas of the northeast or ohio valley. no such luc from d.c. to richmond. talk about hot, near 100 today in wichita. fourth of july forecast coming up, including the 'smaourth of july forecast. >> bill, thank you. one officer in washington, d.c. is taking fun seriously. after a neighborhood kid showed off some impressive gymnastics skills, police officer arthur brown jr. unleashed his own inner child. there he is running into a full cartwheelgust before twistin into a back flip. holy hannah. officer brown says it's all about bridging the gap between law enforcement and kids in the community. with a uniform on. >> yeah, right? coming up, not so proud to

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