breaking news, one-on-one win helsinki president trump and vladimir putin preparing to meet face-to-face amid escalating tension between the u.s. and russia. t're live with w to expect from this morning's summit. the light at the end of the tunnelhe when will t boys rescued from the flooded thai cave last weeke finally leave hospital? king of the grill. where you can find the best burger in america according to the experts at trip advisor. and the best deals of amazon prime day. "early today" starts right now. good morning. i'm philip mena. >> i'm frances rivera. we begin this morning with news

out of helsinki. mr. trump and first lady melania arrivi earlier for the breakfast ahead of that highly anticipated meeting as we await the helsinki arrival of president putin. >> and with still no agenda for the meeting it is anyone's guess what each president will walk away with. his repeated attacks on the media and his inability to take in response to robert mueller's latest round of against 12 russian hackers and president trump saying this of putin just ahead of their ione-on-one. hink we could probably get along very well. somebody said are you friends or enemies. ii said well,s too early to say but right now i'd say we're competitors. but for russia and the united states and frankly the u.k. and other places to gh along, w russia and china and all these other places it's a. good thi it's not a bad thing. it's a really good thing. >> theummit just about to get under way.

it's the 2016 election that's on the president's mind. here's the commander in chief tweeted moments ago without ever mentioning putin. quote, president obama thought that crooked hillary was going to win then. elect so when he was informed by the fbi about russian metling h said it couldn't happen and was no big deal and did nothing about it. when i won it became a big deal in the rigged witch hunt headed by struck. morning.od >> reporter: good morning, philip andrances. we all know what hangs over this meeting. russia's attack on the heacr of u.s. dey. it's why you have lawmakersth o parties pressing president trump to hold president putin to account. ou can see how his instinct is to blame president obama first while not really condemning

russia at all. while the other issue of these 12 indictments of these 12 russian agents that now stand credib accused, president trump was asked whether he might ask president putin to hand over ose agents, to exextradite them. check out his response. >> the russians who were indicted, would you ask putin to nd them here? >> well, i might. it hadought of that, but i'll certainly be asking about it. but again this was during the obama administration. >> reporter: in some ways it's a moot point because there is no extradition treaty between the u.s. and russia. but you certainly get aense of the president's thinking heading into this meetingri certainly crimea, maybe even a nuclear arms control deal. now, we expect the president and vladimir putin to speak for about 90 minutes in privateonith their interpreters in the

room. following that they'll have what's known as an expanded bilateral meeting. we expect the secretary of n state, theional security advisor to be there in the room. and following that we'll have that joint press conference, the thing we're all waiting to se here. philip and frances. >> and then after tha how will his day wrap up? will the president be thenk headed b home after this whirl wind of a trip? >> reporter: thas right. wraps up his whirl wind spin on the world stage here. he heads backer in the afternoon helsinki time after this press conference the russian president. >> jeff, thank you. well, after the indictments n 12 russia military intelligence officers. concerns are rising whether russian hackers will influence upcoming elections. russian president putin for that highly anticipated one-on-one, and the threat of electionin ha is becoming a top

concern here at home. nbc's tracie potts joining usor with on that. >> reporter: will the president ask putin about russian meddling, will he ask for those who have been indicted to be extradited here to the united states? besides of all of that, th concern here in washington and around the country is the u.s. ready? there has been a lot of concern in the intelligence community that russia's not done, they're at it agaist that they arl trying to influence the upcoming mid-rm elections in novembe and with those russians who were indicted last week now the focus is turninger into wher not our election systems, the ballot bo is being protected. the homeland security secretary said over the weekend that there's hard evidence that any interference by russia would be as expensive as what we saw in 2016, but they do see russia

trying to have influence on social media, putting fake spokespersons out there. and even though it may not be expensi expensiveternallyhe effort is still there. essentially protect the ballot box in just few months. >> all that waiting for the president when he mes home. tracie, thanks. two police involved shootings on sunday have left one officer dead in massacsetts and three others injured in missouri. >> reporter: the thin blue line bleeding red as separate shooltings in two states cost one officer his life and sent three others to the hospital. outside boston police are mourning theeath of 42-year-old officer mike chesna. he was responding to a call when he spotted a suspect vandalizing

oma when he approached police say the suspecteportedly got ahold of the officer's gun and shot and killed him. the suspect fired three more timestriking and killing a woman in a nearbypo home. ce arrested the man who now faces two counts of almost. meanwhile in kansas city more violence after police say a person of interest in a previous murder fired at least 50 shots at twoffers during an undercover operation. >> come back and take me to the hospital. >> reporter: the suspect fled and shot a third officer before barricading himself in the house. >> we once again engaged in another fire fight with that the suspect is now deceased. >> reporter: the three officers shot all expected to survive. out of the cave nndrly in the clear. the 12 boys and their soccer

coach rescuedrom a flooded cave in northern thailand are expected to be discharged from the hospital thursday. over the weekend the team paid tribute to the former navy s.e.a.l. who lost his life during the and meanwhile elon musk who planed help for the rescu is under fire this morning after lashing out at one of the rescuers. in a now deleted tweet musk made an unfounded claim referring to him as a pedo file. earlier he responded to musk's comments saying quote, he hasn't action.t taking legal four teams in 11 seasons including two with t chicago black hawks. his friends called emergency services when he failed to surface after diving off at. boa in a dy was later found

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"news 4 today" begins with breaking news. >> that's president trump hours away from his one-on-one meeting with vladimir putin.

this after 12 russian nationals were indicted by the department of justice for meddling in the 2016 election. i'm aar gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. we have first coverage with preseent trump. ca tracking your commute and your forest. >> we will look at the roads in a second. first, a look at the forecast. >> it's not that bad out there. you can feel the humidity. >> a little bit of tag. it will be a hot day today. the croloud cover made it look even a couple of thunderstorms this afternoon. it is 77 degrees in washington. many suburbs are in the mid to upper 60s. it will be sticky when you step outside.