thumbs up. >> he deserves it. >> nobody got hurt.bye, everyon. breaking news.gi br bluster to brussels. president trump kicks off what's said to be a contentious nato summit this mornreg. weive as the president hits ally countries on both trade and defensein spendg. >> and in the cave and on e erad to recovery. rescue ds say the last of the youth soccer team trapped in a thailand cave for two weeks. >> a miracle in montana. search teams find a 5onth old alive after being buried in debris for hours. now the attention turns to the man accused of leaving that baby behind. >> plus he's not upset any more. drake breaks the beatles historic billboard record with nonstop hits from his new album. "early today" starts right now. good morning.

i'm phillip mena. >> and i'm melissa rehberger in s.r france we begin with breaking news out ofss brus where president trump is meeting with natoad leers at this year's summit. the president meeting with the e.u. secretary-general this morning ahead of a working breakfast arriving in bres ulz last night as he's set to huddl with his european downtowner parts today before heading off to london and then helsinki for his one on one sit down with vladimir putin. >> despite the handshakes and photo ops we'll see today, it's the bubbling conflict between the allia pe andsident trump that will take center stage as he continues to bash his counterparts forcing the head of the european council to issue r this raruke. >> dear america, appreciate your allies. after all, you don't have tt many. >> but tusk wasn't the only one taking a swipe at thepresident. the senate also landing a punch, taking awi diplomatic at mr. trump, overwhelmingly approving a motion in support ot nato j hours before this

morning's summer kickoff. let's go to nbc's kristen welker with more of what we can expect out ofse br. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. president trump kicks off his first official day here at the nato summit with a breakfasthe with t nato secretary-general. they will be chewing over not onut breakfast some diplomacy as well, and then he has a series of meet and greets, some meet wgz hings wh his counterparts. but the heighten tensions after president trump yesterday criticized yet again some nato members for failing to pay their fa share on defens now, the reality is five out of 29 nato members have met their commitments for 2024, but that still gives the rest of the countries a numberf years to live up to their goals. but there are deep concerns hate resident trump is becoming increasingly alienated from his allies andhat he may take steps even to, for example, pull out u.s. troops fro key bases in germany, for example. and, of course, all eyere on

that high stakes meeting with russian president vladimir putin. that will take place next week. a number of nato members concerned that president trump isn't being tough enough against russia. senior administration officials insist the president will press puti key issues from meddling in the u.s. election to invadi crimea, but will that be enough to calm legitimateerse remember, pre trump is coming off of that g-7 summit in which he clashed with allies there. so, a lot of tensions here at the backdrop. democrats and replicans warning president trump that having negative meetings here at nato, but positive meetings with president putin would be disastrous. phillip? >> kristen welker, thank you. >> 12 soccer players who beat the odds aren't quite out of the woods yet. officials say all of the players and their coach have been quarantined while they are testing fored infection and will likely remain in the hospi several days. family members have been able to see the boys through a window and abl t to talk tom by

phone. psychologists say the boys' mental health must be monitored as closely as their physical health after surviving this ordeal. t experts war boys are prone to emotional damage such asages it and depression. matt bradley has more on their good morning. >> reporter: good morning. what we're talking about is the quarantine the boys are going through in the hospital, it is important as far as t are concerned. it comes against the fact they have really not had any really serious problems with health. and that's remarkable considering the ordeal that they went through in these past, more than two weeks. the latest atch who cameout, they were in that cave for more than 17 days. so, the reason for thequ antine is twofold. it's both to protect theoys because doctors believe their own immune systems have probably been diminished by the ordeal, butt's also to protect the rest of us out here because doctors are suspicious that they might hde contracte diseases

while they were in that cave. especially if they came into contact with any bats or rats. now, the boys in interviews with doctors said they didn't come into contact with any animals. that's what we're understanding. but they are still talking all the precautions they possibly can. as you mention, the families are having to go through this wrenching jurassic park a on top of what ty've already been through of being in sight and almost touching distance of their sons, but unable to touch them phillip, frances? ts thank you. >> senate democ can block the president's supreme court pick. brett kavanagh, at least that's according to senate minority leader chuck schumer. it will take some convincing of the american people confirming kavanagh would be disastrous to obamacare.ights and ask republicans and they'll tell you it's soth sailing ahead for kavanagh despite some agreeing with his nomination in the first place. nbc's pete williams has more from thet. supreme cour >> reporter: the ritual of sealte courtesy cls began with an easy one.bl

ican leader mitch mcconnell. >> i think the president made an outstanding nomination. >> reporter: mcconnell urged prively against his nomination, arguing his 25 year record in government would bog down the confirmation. now considered most in play republican senators collins and murkowski and donley high camp and mansion. vanagh seemed like an unlikely choice, an aid to george bush nominated by someone who t criticiz bushes. >> judge kavanagh has gotten rave reviews, rave reviews, actually from th sides >> reporter: some lobbied against him citing a court battle invving a teenage arrest of the for illegally entering the u.s. who wanted to be released from detention to have an abortion.ai kavanagh she had no right to an abortion on demand and could wait until she was released to a sponsor. his critics say he should have ruled she had no right to an abortion because she's not a u.s. citizen and is here

illegally. in 2011 when the court upheld obamacare, kavanagh dissentyi a federal law prevented the court from deciding the case. his critics say he should have gone further and declared toe bama care was unconstitutional. but more strateg conservatives hope by floating his name as a possible nominee, justice kennedy woulde more comfortable retiring if he thought he'd be succeeded by a formerclerk. some in congress say the president believes he'll get yet another supreme court nomination anyway and decided to choose judge thi time who seemed to be more moderate. kavanagh's past suggests he wouldn't be on the extreme right. >> based on judge kavanagh's long record, i think we can safely say he's going to end up somewhere in the middle of the conservatives, not the farthest to the right. >> reporter: here's a picture 25 years ago taken near where i anding outside the supreme court. that's justice kennedy and his law clerks in 1993, with brechl kavanagh next to him and kneel correspond gich on the other end. if kavanagh gets confirmed that

would make history, two former clerks of the same justice serving on the courthe tog >> pete williams, thank you for that report. >> this morning dozens o migrant children separated from their parents at the border have yet to be returned to their families as the federal government missed a court order deadline for reunification. the order applied to more than 0 children under age 5, but a court filing by the federal government revealed only four migrant children were back with their parents ahead of th deed line. department of human servises said it working to verify once united. nbc's gabe gutierrez has more on the agonizing wait. >> reporter: a guatemala father is in agony in los angeles waiting to be reunited with his son in new york. > the last time i tried to speak to him, he, sa he was crying. he asked, don't you love me in i more? the government now expects just 38 of 102 migrant children under 5 years old will be reunited

with their families by the end of the d despite a court order. the remaining 64 children not reunited for reasons including parents with criminal records or incompleteerication. >> well, i have a solution. tell people not to come to our countr illegally. that's the solution. >> reporter: this mother from el salvador asks in frustration, why was it so easy for them to take our children but so hard to give them back? e breaks dow when she describes the gut wrenching dmoment she s good-bye to her son and daughter more than a month ago. i hugged them and gave a kiss and i said, don't worry, i'll be back for you. >> if the laws are broken, there's a process for that. >> reporter: we rode along with a border patrol a more migrants inuding mothers with children turned themselves in seeking asylum. still the government says arsts at the border were down 18% last month. zero-tolerance been a odeterrence? course it has. of course it has. >> reporter: mario from honduras

was able to see h0-year-old daughter at an el paso shelter for the first time in more than a month. what's been the hardest part? not knowing how she is, he says. while a few have had emotional publicun ns, thousands more children remain in limbo. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you. >> let's take a turn for our weather. g.bill karins, good morn >> yeah, the heat is the story across the lower 48. we have to show the impressiv hurricane chris. remember the tropical storm we were waiting for to tur into a hurricane? it jumped to a 2 in 18 hours. it's 250 miles off the coast. we have the waves, the rip currents. we have the problems at the beaches, thaitwill be about it will continue to accelerate over the next two days up into the northatlantic. we have what's level of b, ryl in south puerto rico the at one point it was a hurricane. it has a 50% chance of redeveloping. it's safely edhere. tun off the southeast coast kind of the same areas

chris was in. we'r not worried about any direct impacts from that. that's good news. the heat is the story of the day. we have heat advisories in many areas from oklahoma to arkansas, missouri, eastern kansas, iowa and eastern nebraska. it's hot and humid in the middle of july. that's a look at the big weather story of the day. now here's a closer look at your day ahead. omaha 96. kansas city 97 deges. we didn't get up to 94 in fargo. high 95 in dallas. may get cooled off by a thundendtorm in louisiana mississippi. >> check out the instagram sensation who was photographed while getting attacked by a shark in the bahamas? the 19-year-old model was vacationing with family and says she was only trying to take the perfect picture when she got bitten. she ripped her armth away fro shark before it was too late. luckily for her, according to the resort owner, the teen's

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out of daylight andng run out of time, deputies near missoula montana said they arrested a man who buried a 5 month old somewhere in the mountains. >> we had law enforcement officers from almost every jurisdiction converge to the t ar help find this child. 911eporter: responding to calls from lo lo hot springs, sheriff's deputy say francis crowley was acting erratic when he told officers he dumped the baby boy he was caring for i the wilderness. search teams scoured for two hours. then faint cry beneath a pile of debris. posting this photo of the baby gripping the finger of a first responder, authorities say the 5 month old was cold and wearing wet onesy. >> when i heard that baby murmur, i was so happy. it was -- i was me happy than hearing my own daughter's cry for the first time. >> reporter: crowley was in

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how it happened and why neighbors say the accident has been -- for other teens. chuck? after a 96 degrees alert yesterday, finally little cooler weather. how about weekend rain chance

good wednesday morning i'm eun yang. i'm karelaaron gihrist. we'll get to melissa mollet in a

moment. first we'll check in with meteorologists chuck b l and sheena parveen. it was a hot day yesterday. what about today? ble fan rday was a d day. >> i had a dog leash. >> we'll get you a hat next time. >> a brim hat. >> okay. it works, though. you need to be in the shade. today you nd to be in the shade. >> i'll try anything. >> can you do the weather? >> bye, chuck. see you in a littlebit. >> another hot one. look at the temperatures. 81 degrees. it's 81 in annapolis. yesterday morning we were in the 60s in the suburbs. now 70s. quit a bit warmer. here is your wake-up weather. might noticelouds around by 8:00.