ann thompson has the very latest. >> overnight cnn's chris cuomo defending the advice that he gave hisblem for cnn. it will not happen again. it was a mistake. >> the younger cuomo conceding that when it comes to his brother, he is biassed. >> i can be objective about just about any topic but not about my family. >> less than two month's ago he promised his viewers he would be straight with them. i cannot cover it because he is my brother. >> off camera he was involved. this morning the governor's office confirming what the washington post first reported. that chris cuomo joined strategy calls with the governor's aids about how to respond to the scandal. >> did he do more than just listen on these calls? >> yes, he gave a lot of advice. he told his brother not to resign, to push back against the allegations, do not give into "cancel culture." >> when asked about the reports, they scribe chris cuomo's role as a few phone conversations with friends and advisors. that influence from his brother, according to the washington post, apparent in the governor's defiant response. >> governor cuo

nbc anne thompson has a look at the extraordinary artist whose work educated, inspired, and entertainedillar. >> reporter: eric carle's creation, just some 220 words cataloging a caterpillar's ravenous appetite delighting children for more than half a century. >> the caterpillar ate through one nice, green leaf, and after that he felt much better >> reporter: it became a favorite read of celebrities >> -- pushed his way out and, he was a beautiful butterfly. >> reporter: in classrooms and on our plaza >> for picture book had very few words, each word has to be perfect. >> reporter: the simple colorful tale of its metaphor sis to a butterfly sold more than 50 million copies in 60 different languages succeeding because it gave people hope >> you, insignificant caterpillar can grow up into a beautiful butterfly and fly into the world with your talent >> reporter: carle's talent as an illustrator and writer produced 70 children's books, mostly about small living things a tribute, he said, to his german immigrant father who taught him about nature. this morning the tributes are for carle. th

. >> all right, anne thompson for us this morning, thank you hoda. >>> time for our first check of the weather. al, look who's here, who's this guy? >> good to see you. >> our church is not too far from each other. >> we'll see you there >> talking about first communion, congratulations to your son, very nice. >> thank you, thank you. >>> we are watching right now our first tropical disturbance, invest 91l it's there in the gulf the basic problem this is going to cause is more heavy rain, a rain threat for texas and louisiana. look what's fallen already in may, almost ten inches corpus christi, 8 in lufkin, 12 in new orleans, and this rainfall is just crazy amounts we're talking in victoria, texas, 40 inches of rain they've gotten 40% of their annual rainfall, wettest may on record you go over to lake charles, louisiana, almost 60 inches of rain, that's their annual. they've picked up almost 19. third wettest may on record, and we're going to be watching this system now bringing feeder bands of rain that will continue today into tomorrow. a renewed risk of flooding, more downpours for

anne. there appears to be, i don't know, sometimes motion does equal movement and sometimes motion is just motion. but that nancy pelosi deputized bennie thompson of homeland security, and one of the republicans that impeached, are they going to be able to come up with a january 6th compromise where we might actually get an investigation of what happened? >> that's the question. democrats are pretty confident, they're feeling good about it, even going on to say they hope there's a deal as early of this week, perhaps a vote on the floor next week. i want to caution i've also heard this before on the january 6th commission. but pelosi has made concessions on a couple issues. he said now they're going to be an equal amount of democrats and republicans. he said they both can have subpoena powers and the democrats. but the question remains on republican leader mccarthy and senate leader mcconnell both want to expand the scope beyond january 6th to the justice strike last summer. and as you said, someone who voted to impeach the former president and second impeachment can come to some sort of an agreement on that scope, because that is the final stic