for more we turn to nbc's bill neely in manchester. bill, how is the british government responding to this attack. >> reporter: good morning, frances. as manchester continues to mourn after this massacre without mercy, the british government has taken action. it has raised the threat level in this country to its highest level, to critical which actually means an attack is imminent. it will mean that thousands of troops will be on the streets of britain guarding key installations and key buildings, freeing up the police to continue their job of protecting the public. meanwhile, a fuller picture is emerging of the bomber, salman abedi. it's become clear that not only was he on the radar of intelligence services here, but he was known to the french, the interior minister there, saying he had proven links to isis. the british home secretary saying it seems likely that he was not acting alone. let's be clear, frances, this is a manhunt. it's not clear that he was, in fact, the bomb maker. he was certainly the bomber, but if he wasn't the bom

here is nbc's bill neely. >> reporter: she's 7 years old and anu has something to show off. is that your new pink leg one friend asks? after the wows, the hugs. anu had her right leg amputated after birth, and she's worn a prosthetic leg ever since but this one is something else, not just pink, it's a specialized sports blade. and boy, can she run. and march. and also she says makes me do my street dancing faster. her father is thrilled. >> we actually broke into tears. it was such an emotional moment. when you see your kid is being well-accepted by her friends, what else you can expect for? >> the video has gone viral. we adults can learn from these kids. love this, what a snazzy leg. she's one of 500 british children given blades free to enjoy sports. it's working red. bill neely, nbc news, london. >>> a moment to feel really good about as we sign off here tonight. that is going to do it for us on a thursday. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. by evil trt:05 jess/contvo right now at six: an ex-girlfriend,a restraining order,

bill neely joins us from manchester. investigations still on going. bring us up to date. >> reporter: good morning, frances. the counterterrorism operation is very active in manchester this morning. police and troops have been called to a college here in the city. among the troops are army bomb disposal experts. meanwhile, police are still questioning eight men in connection with this attack. two more men were arrested here in manchester this morning. but there is a glitch in the police operation. they have suspended cooperation with the united states. this follows the leaking of information. it's thought by u.s. intelligence officials to "the new york times," because that newspaper has published photographs of the debris found at the bomb site, and it's quite detailed. police are furious. so that intelligence cooperation has ceased, and it will not resume, we are told, until the british police get an assurance from the americans that this will not happen again. indeed, prime minister theresa may is seeing president trump at the nato meeting in brusse

bill neely in manchester, thank you. >>> another legal defeat tonight for the trump white house. a federal appeals court today upheld a ban on enforcement of the president's executive order limiting travel from six muslim majority countries. our justice correspondent pete williams is in our washington newsroom. pete, what can you tell us about this? >> lester, this comes from the fourth circuit court of appeals. the president's executive order is likely unconstitutional because it's based on religious discrimination. statements made during the campaign make it clear the executive order stems from quote president trump's desire to exclude muslims from the united states. today's decision keeps a lower court ruling in place that blocked nationwide enforcement of the president's executive order. that means no matter what happens in another appeal's court also considering this issue, the ban on enforcement could continue for at least several more months. tonight, attorney general jeff sessions says the justice department strongly disagrees with the ruling and will appeal to the suprem

nbc's bill neely is in manchester with details. bill, what can you tell us? morning, melissa. downgrading the terror threat level to its second highest, it's actually quite significant because it would suggest that the police are confident that another attack is not imminent. meanwhile, also within the last hour, more raids and police in south manchester have cordoned off an area and army bomb disposal experts are at the scene there. just as in the u.s., this is a holiday weekend in the uk. but, of course, it has a cloud hanging over it, not just the sadness that you can see written in flowers here, but also people's very real worry that there could be another attack. .all of that despite more arrests overnight and a police chief who is confident that he's got the terror network. >> early this morning, police used explosives to storm a house and arrest two men. police now questioning 11 men, most in their 20s about the bombing. >> we've got to understand everything around the terrorist, the network and how they manufactured the explosive device. >> just loose

>> bill neely outside a growing memorial in manchester. thank you. >>> and now to security at home two days before the memorial day weekend, the tsa says it is starting to test new screening procedures for carry-on bags. at a handful of airports nationwide. the procedures will require passengers to remove certain electronics from carry-ons for separate screening and perhaps food and paper. nbc's tom costello explains why. >> reporter: just in time for the busy summer travel season, the tsa's new screening pilot program will affect passengers at ten airports. boise, colorado springs, detroit, fort lauderdale, boston, los angeles, lubbock san juan, puerto rico, las vegas and phoenix. while passengers are already required to remove laptop computers for separate screenings, the new procedures will require separate screenings for any device larger than a cell phone, including tablets and e readers. the reason? people are cramming so much into carry-ons, tsa says passengers may be asked to ensure electronics and other items in a bin are not stac

nbc's bill neely reports from jordan on the border with syria. >> reporter: in a wind swept corner ofyria, a so-called safe zone and 80,000 people, surviving in tattered tents, a desert of human misery. victims of syria's seven-year war. a safe zone or at least it is meant to be, but the jordanian military pilot who took us in wouldn't fly over it. no government controls it. aid agencies can't get to it. the isis fighters these people fled from are inside it. 4,000 of them, according to the jordanian army. >> they have almost a whole weapon system, you can't imagine. we consider it as an imminent threat. >> reporter: an imminent threat? >> imminent threat in this part of the borders. >> reporter: isis uses the camp to attack jordanian troops with suicide bombs, killing seven here. president trump has discussed safe zones with jordan's king and with vladimir putin. he'd like more of them in syria. to be truly safe, a zone like this needs to be protected not just by troops on the ground but by planes in the air. and neither jordan nor the u.s. is willing to commit to that. president tru

nbc's bill neely is live in london with the details. hilip stepping down from his royal duty, bill, good morning. >> feverish speculation about what this might mean, concerns about prince philip's health. one newspaper briefly reported online prince philip is dead. he's not. very much alive. at st. james' palace working at the chapel royal. buckingham palace announced he will give up his royal duties later this year. he will continue until about the end of august and he will step back from public life, age 95. 96 not month, so not unreasonable indeed that he should step back from public life. he's very active. he had 110 days of engagements last year to give you some idea of what that means, that is more than prince william or prince harry carried out last year. he, alongside the queen, has been very active. in fairly robust health. he was out yesterday opening a new stand at a cricket ground, a sports ground in london. he looked terrific and he was joking at one point that he was the world's most experienced plaque unveiler as he opened

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back to you. >> bill neely, thank you. now to a developing story. time's square back opened after a chaotic and a deadly krash this morning. we are learning what charges the man police say is responsible for the crash. he is facing one count of murder and 20 counts of attempted murder. this is what that scene looked like when police say rojas' car jumped the curb and went hurling down t for three blocks. an 18-year-old woman in michigan was killed. look at that car, witnesses say have been terrorism. >> the first feeling is that it might be something like an attack when a car plows into a pedestrian area. >> police say there is no link into international terrorism they are looking into whether this was deliberate t. suspect tested positive for drugs. and negative for alcohol. >>> there is still so much raw emotion this morning after the death of a 6-year-old boy. it's lard to make sense of a child die tag young. it's even harder to cope with when you learn that he was hit and killed walking home from his own birthday party. ♪ happy birthday to you >

joining me live is kelly o'donnell from jerusalem and bill neely. bill, let's start with you. this is a pretty historic moment for the president to make jerusalem one of the first places he goes to on his foreign trip. in your estimation, having covered this city and state for as long as you have, how did it go? >> well, i think it's gone pretty well so far. there's certainly a very warm welcome here. he's got very ambitious plans, of course, for that ultimate deal. but everything has been highly scripted until, katy, that moment. no one knows why he decided to do that, but if everything is all right, why did he feel it necessary to make that comment, and why did benjamin netanyahu, the prime minister, feel it necessary to back him up if, indeed, everything is fine with israeli intelligence relationship with the united states? if you listen to his remarks closely, katy, he really wanted to say that. he said four times "just so you understand, i never mentioned -- i never mentioned the word or the name israel during that conversation." nobody claims that he didn't mention the w

nbc's chief global correspondent b bill neely is in london. l, usually a pilot gets warning from a pilot who's already been through turbulence to let them know where it is. this seemed to hit them out of nowhere. >> not in this case. if you fly, you've probably felt turbulence but this was something else. 40 minutes before the flight was due to land in bangkok, suddenly without warning, the boeing 777 began to shake violently. passengers were hurled up onto the roof of the plane. back down again. some of them took those videos and the stills immediately afterwards. as you can see, they showed passengers in the aisles, debris scattered everywhere. 27 people in all were hurt. some of them had fractured or broken bones in their hands, their legs and their ribs. one passenger said it felt like the shaking just wouldn't stop, that we would crash. absolutely terrifying. well as you say, the violent shaking came from nowhere. the russian airline aeroflot said the plane hit something called clear air turbulence. now, that's a well-known problem. hundre

nbc news chief global correspondent bill neely is in manchester. bill, number one, have they i.d. bomber and know if he was acting alone? >> well that's the key question, katie, and there has been an early and very significant break-through in this investigation in that the police have now identified the man responsible for this. now the reason that's significant is 12 years ago, 2005 the last big mass casualty attack as a result of a bombing, the 77 bombing that killed 52 people in london, it took days for the police to identify the four bombers. this is a very, very early breakthrough, explained just a short time ago, by the police chief in manchester. let's take a listen. >> i can confirm that the man suspected of carrying out last night's atrocity is 22-year-old salman abedi. however, he has not yet been formally named by the coroner and i wouldn't wish to, therefore, comment further about him at this stage. our priority, along with the police counterterrorist network and our security partners, is to continue to establish whether he was acting alone or working as part of a wid

>> nbc's bill neely. for the update from manchester. >>> former fbi director james comey to testify before the senate intel committee sometime after memorial day. what to expect when he takes the hot seat. >>> right now, hillary clinton moments away from giving a commencement address at her alma mater. we'll have that for you live. ready or not, here i come. ♪ anyone can dream. making it a reality is the hard part. northrop grumman command and control systems always let you see the complete picture. and we're looking for a few dreamers to join us. i hafor my belly painking overand constipation.ucts i've had it up to here! it's been month after month of fiber. weeks taking probiotics! days and nights of laxatives, only to have my symptoms return. (vo) if you've had enough, tell your doctor what you've tried and how long you've been at it. linzess works differently from laxatives. linzess treats adults with ibs with constipation or chronic constipation. it can help relieve your belly pain, and lets you have

. >> joining us is nbc's bill neely.ikely to come up. >> reporter: yes, ayman, just one more unwelcome headache for mahmoud abbas. the interesting thing is this is taking place at all, not because donald trump is president but because abbas still is. he's under tremendous pressure, he's in office but not really in power. he's aging, 82. under huge pressure for not having delivered for palestinians, hasn't faced an election since 2005, 12 years in power. he's facing the most pro israeli president in decades in donald trump, a man who very warmly met benjamin netanyahu in february. for mahmoud abbas he's getting his meeting, his face time. he's not likely to persuade donald trump of anything. remember he said he wasn't even committed to a two-state solution after meeting netanyahu. i think expectations for these meetings are often very low. i think dennis ross, a former u.s. point man in the middle east has said expectations for any kind of ground deal or ground bargain as a result of this meeting are probably at their low

joining us from london, nbc news chief global correspondent bill neely.o much going on at the white house. what are you hearing. >> reporter: they're hoping it will reboot the presidency. there's always a danger in any president trying to solve domestic problems by some kind of foreign solution, either a foreign war or a foreign trip, not least one like this to the world's most volatile region to try to solve its most intractable problem, that between israelis and palestinians. i hate to use the analogy, but richard nixon in 1974 tried to reboot his presidency just two months before he resigned with the first ever trip by an american president to israel. he also went to egypt and to syria and that didn't work out too well. let's leave nixon aside for a moment. this trip is full of risks in every respect. let's go to israel, the second stop on the trip and look at some of the criticism president trump is facing on scheduling. for example, he's due to visit the holocaust memorial at yad vash shem but only scheduled 15 minutes for that visit. that is an obli

bill neely joining us from there now. what's the latest? >> reporter: yes, good afternoon.here has been an early breakthrough by the police, they have named the man they believe carried this attack out as salman abedi, a 22-year-old, his family of libyan origin. he has siblings police will want to question those siblings. he went to a mosque here in manchester. police have also been quiing officials there. and a 23-year-old man has been arrested here in manchester already police now questioning him. they also reportedly have cctv footage of him arriving at the arena with a bag. they will now be looking at other cctv images trying to walk back his journey to find out where it began, was he dropped off at the arena, does he have c co-conspirators. they have raided his phone looking for phone, computer, anything that will give him information as to whether he acted alone. and also they are looking at the bomb itself. how it was made up. they have actually been to hospitals in greater manchester and have taken away bags of evidence, essentially the nuts, bolts, the debris that

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nbc's bill neely tonight with the latest. >> reporter: tonight a new arrest and more searches. immense progress says police, confident they have captured a terror cell. >> we're very happy we've got our hands around some of the key players that we're concerned about. >> just loose ends to chase down he says. police tell nbc news they know how salman abedi's powerful bomb was built and the phone call he made minutes before the attack to tell his mother and brother good-bye and forgive me. they have tracked his path from libya through turkey and germany unhindered on three flights to manchester, where he bought the backpack to carry his bomb and finish the deadly plot months in the making. tonight, manchester's first big event since the bombing. athletics protected by dozens of armed police. all across britain police have reviewed and in some cases increased security, at more than 1,000 sports events this weekend. secretary of state rex tillerson is in britain and apologized for the u.s. leaking of british intelligence about the bomb. >> we take full responsibility for that, and

. >> we have chief legal correspondent bill neely. tell me about the optics of this here. >> the optics are important. . as -- plus there is that huge arms deal to be signed of a million dollars or more. the muslims are aimed at harming the israeli world, but remember, it's from a president that has used anti-islam rhetoric in his campaign and he tried to slap a travel ban from muslims traveling from other countries. there is a danger to be seen here, a western christian leader and maybe not the perfect christian electric to lecturing. they do need to be perfect. then it's off to try to solve the world's most intractable dispute. every gesture he makes will be scrutiniz scrutinized? did he spend more time with netanyahu? is he being properly respectful? what about his demeanor at the western wall, so on and so on. these are culturally highly sensitive moments. you remember, katy, with trump refused to shake the hand of angela merkel. that was seen as a huge offense, even in germany. even the croptix. they're trying to bring israelis a

among the world class athletes are american stars, all of them are well defebd after. >> bill neely,maritans are dead, another is recovering this morning. they were attacked while trying to stop a man from spewing hate speech. when passengers stepped in to calm the man down, he turned on them, faith ally splashing two in the neck. the suspect was rained by ft he influenced without decisions on the juans who is stn his death was announced by his daughter, our colleague at nbc, mika brzezinski. our kol dolenss go out to actor brad pitt, james franco halling. >> it was a into the of highlight and low light if and she made a nice running catch in the second inning last night but in the seventh, he was off the mark. the right fielder goes for the solar looking layout dive but comes up a good 40 feet from where the ball landed. he apparently lost it in the lights. the whole team had a good laugh about it. souza redeemed himself with a massive home run to help the rays beat the twins 5-2. >> dylan dreyer would have made that kauch. she would have put her catch out there beenweatherwise for

96 years old, physically he looks great. >> i'm with bill neely. >> in and out of the hospital a lot ars. as bill pointed out, keeping up a couple hundred engagements a year with his plaques and ribbons. >> you've done charts on this, right? >> he also, as joe says, occasionally says things -- >> i don't get the obsession. everybody calm down. plaques, flowers, events. >> shh. it matters. >> no reason for the position except they were born into it. i don't get it. >> it matters to the people of britain so it matters to us here on "morning joe." steve rattner will be in charge prince philip and the importance of the monarchy to the british people coming up. >>> also, the white house, next, middle east peace? donald trump is nothing if not ambitious. >> yes, he is. >> will he solve one of the world's most intractable issues. he said yesterday it's not really as tough as people would think. kind of like health care and the presidency, and you fill in the blanks. when i first started working with capital one, my dad called them up and asked for "the jennifer garner card" which is such a d

. >>> thank you so much, bill kne neely. this is the president and benjamin netanyahu. let's listen. >> something very historical took place over the last two days, but i can see a much deeper path of friendship with israel than a lot of it is spurred on by whatever it takes. >> i think the fact that you have taken a very strong position on -- not only on security, but it also helps with the possibility of reconciliati reconciliation. i do look forward to our discussions. >> with iran, iraq should be very grateful to the united states, because iran negotiated a fantastic deal with the previous administration. a deal that is unbelievable from this standpoint. some people don't understand it. and instead of being thankful and saying thank you, because there was serious stuff, it would have failed in six months. we gave them a lifeline. not only did we give them a lifeline, but we gave them wealth and prosperity and the ability to continue in tehran and continue with what they are doing. no matter where we go, we see signs of iran in the middle east, no matter where we go,

. >> our nbc's bill neely reports from london. >> reporter: kate and jerry mccann lost their daughter and a decade. ten years of pain since madeline disappeared. they call it stolen time. >> i mean, it's time we should have had with her. should have been a family of five for all that time. >> reporter: madeline vanished on a family vacation in portugal and left in an apartment discovered missing by her mother who went to check on her while eating with friends. she found the window open and her daughter gone. for ten years madeline has been the focus of a global search and every birthday, every christmas, her parents search for a present for their missing daughter. >> how could you not. she will always be our daughter. >> reporter: for all the searching, what tortures them, the total lack of evidence. it's also what comforts them. >> there's no evidence that madeline is dead. >> reporter: they cling to hope that their daughter is still alive. >> that hope is still there. >> no parent is going to give up on their child until they know for certain their child is dead and we just don't ha

joining us liver from londlive london, bill neely. what more can you can tell us about this trip?srael, they are already calling this the tolerance tour visiting three of the world's great relidge i don't understand religions. one of the holiest sites for christians and then the center of catholicism. but this is a deeply political tour and trump is breaking ground, calling the trip historic and he's not wrong. every president since reagan has made canada or mexico his first stop oversees. trump is starting in saudi arabia and they had a terrible relationship with president obama who made a nuclear deal of course with iran, saudis regional rival. so he will meet mostly sunni arab leaders and their sights will be on iran, on containing it, stopping its growing influence. he talks about building a coalition of partners to combat terrorism. yes, he's talking about isis and also talk about iran. then on to the heart ever tof t region. in israel, he will meet benjamin netanyahu, mahmoud abbas, similar themes there, terrorism, iran and above on how to restart the dead peace process. and

i want to bring in nbc news bill neely. he is the former israeli consul general based in new york. thank you for being here. trump has much to the delight of the sunni arab leaders and benjamin netanyahu effectively conflatd islamic terrorism in iran in a way that is a common enemy against whom the u.s., israel and the arabs can unite. it might be effective but a gross oversimplification of what's going on in the middle east and it gives sunni arab gulf states a pass in the role that they've played in the growth of terrorism. >> yes. i think his comments will have delighted benjamin netanyahu and made those remarks on iran. i'm surprised by the vociferousness of the roorks ir, on the remarks of iran. it started in saudi arabia. ironically, saudi arabia, a country with no history of elections, president trump criticized iran the day after iran held a presidential election in which you know, tens of millions of people, including women, voted. i was struck. i was inside arabia yesterday and i was instruction that the united states president was in the city talking about terrorist comb

been in step at the operational level, but there was a furious argument reported by my colleague bill neely and others in the print press as well based on his conversations with current and former leader myself when i arrived here in jerusalem who said they get over it because there have been breaches before. yesterday ambassador michael orr and former israeli ambassador to the u.s. said, look, there have been breaches before where israel was harmed. he was thinking back to, i believe, in 2007, when -- 2007 or 2008, when israel intercepted some illegal arms shipments in syria, iranian arms shipments, and it was widely reported in the u.s. and clearly a leak from american intelligence. >> we'll check back in with you later in the hour. >>> former national security adviser michael flynn invokes the fifth amendment as a senate russian investigation continues. >>> we have more of our extended coverage from manchester this morning. boost. it's about moving forward, not back. it's looking up, not down. it's being in motion. in body, in spirit, in the now. boost® high protein it's intelligent nutr

. >> and this is an interesting point bill neely makes.ent task force that investigated the 2005 terror attacks in london where we were trying to figure out whether someone else made the bomb or not. what do you make of what you've seen so far? >> first of all, as somebody who lives in manchester, my thoughts and prayers go with all the people affected by this. i actually left manchester last night at 8:00 pmt and came down to london. my son is just around the corner from where the woman went off. there is no such thing as a lone wolf. an individual doesn't go online and buy something and become a sdwree h jihadist. this person had contact be it online or in real life. the second thing is that yes there is a lot of investigation going on, a lot of things that are still yet to come out. but the thing is isis currently claim the attack. there is no actual evidence at this moment to suggest that there is a control and command is then scenario. is will claim someone falling on the streets as an attack. this is an ideologically inspired global

bill neely with the latest now. bill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. another week, another launch from the north koreans but this one was different. for a start it didn't fail and it appears to be a new type of rocket with a longer range, one that north korea says can carry a nuclear warhead. it was north korea's seventh test this year of a missile it says can reach u.s. military bases in the pacific. it flew high and long. the pride of leader kim jong-un who was pictured with it and applauding its launch, according to north korea. it's boasting this rocket can carry a large and heavy nuclear warhead it was different because it flew hi than 400 miles out close to russia suggesting that north korea's missile range is growing and sparking condemnation of the launch and the leader who ordered it. >> i think you have to get in kim jong-un's head. he's in a state of paranoia, i think it was a message to south korea after the election and so we'll continue to tighten the screws. he feels it. >> north korea is banned from any rocket launch by the u.n. but it

we're joined by bill neely and former ambassador to nato and greece, nicholas burns, who served underush administration. jonathan and shelby are here, as well. bill, first stop, saudi arabia. i guess the president will get a royal welcome there. >> for the saudis and the president, this trip is a chance for a reboot for trump, a foreign reset after all the domestic chaos and for the saudis, a new start after the bad relations they had with president obama. and for both, the sweetener of a huge arms deal to be signed. $100 billion, maybe more. look, there are huge risks, too, for the president. for example, he's due to give a keynote speech in riyadh. mcmaster said this week it would be an inspiring speech, intended to unite the broader muslim world. but this, remember, is a president who used anti-muslim rhetoric in his campaign. he tried to slap a travel ban on people from muslim-dominated countries. there is a danger in this speech that trump is seen to be a western christian leader, and maybe not the perfect christian lecturing muslim leaders. it needs nuance and, frankly, hard pol

bill neely has more from manchester. bill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, matt. one more arrest here this morning. the police are calling them all significant. and the police have resumed intelligence cooperation with u.s. intelligence agencies after that row over leaked photographs. the emotions here, still very raw. and the fears here, still very real. it's an unrelenting manhunt. a race to stop another attack. more raids this morning. one more arrest. and for the first time in britain, armed police patrolling trains ahead of a holiday weekend. the threat level at its highest. hospitals warned to prepare for another attack. the bomber, salman abedi is dead. this is the first video of the killer, filmed by neighbors outside his home. but he had accomplices, and enough chemicals to make more bombs. his victims have been identified. so many, so young, so many dreams that died in an instant. 15-year-old megan hurley the last to be named. and this was a biker's memorial, for their hometown girl who never made it home. 15-year-old olivia campbell's mother, overcome b

nbc's chief global correspondent bill neely in london with the latest on this. bill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. it's been a seven-year standoff between sweden and julian assange. five of the years he spent resisting extradition. holed up in an embassy in london. but now the case has crumbled. sweden's prosecutor saying he's dropping the case against the wikileaks founder, who was wanted in sweden over rape allegations that he has always denied. she's said he's not been proven innocent or guilty, but his evasion of the law had been a factor in her decision to drop the case. assange tweeted a picture of himself after the news looking pretty happy. his swedish lawyer says this is a total victory for him. we've won. he's happy and relieved. so was he free now? well no, not quite. he is in ecuador's embassy in london. but british police say they're still duty-bound to arrest him on a lesser charge of jumping bail. now behind all of this, of course, is assange's fear of extradition to the u.s., where he could face trial over the leaking in 2010

bill neely has more on that part of the story. bill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. at the center of this heartbreaking story are the missing and the lost. parents and children. a mom and dad confirmed dead this morning. they had been waiting to collect their daughter, a 14-year-old girl who was so desperate to go to the concert, she went on crutches. she is missing the and dozens of teens in the hospital. victims, all of them, of a massacre without mercy. this attack was deliberately targeted. at thousands of teenagers and children, attending an ariana grande concert. the distraught artist, back home in florida. and among the many faces of the dead and the missing, one stands out, the youngest victim. saffie rose, just 8 years old. described by her teacher as simply beautiful, loved by everyone. her mother and sister were injured. georgina calendar was 18. she tweeted her excitement at seeing her idol, ariana grande, who she met two years ago. her mother, leslie, struggled to lay a flower for the daughter she h

nbc's chief global correspondent bill neel bill neely has the latest for us, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. every few days the relations between the u.s. and north korea seem to nose dave. well, here we go again, with a second american citizen now arrested in as many months and the suspicion growing that the regime of kim jong-un is holding americans as pawns in a nuclear crisis. the latest american detained worked at pyongyang's university of science and technology which was founded by christianed. name as kim hack-son, he was arrested for what the state fuse agency called "hostile acts against the republic." the government, it said, is conducting a detailed investigation of his crimes. he joins three other americans held in north korea, professor tony kim, arrested last month, kim dong-chu, serving ten years for alleged spying and virginia student otto warmbier serving 15 years hard labor for removing a political sign. >> there could be, of course, politics to it as well that north korea's looking for some breakthrough in the relationship and they'd be willing to release th

bill neely in london with the latest on this. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. it's been a seven-year standoff between sweden and julian assange. five of the years he spent resisting extradition. sweden's prosecutor saying he's dropping the case against the wikileaks founder, who was wanted over rape allegations he has denied. she's said he's not been proven guilt or innocent. but the evasion of the law had been a factor in her decision to drop the case. assange tweeted a picture of himself after the news looking happy. his lawyer saying, this is a victory for him. we've won. he's happy and relieved. is he free? he is in ecuador's embassy in london. but police are butduty-bound to arrest him for jumping bail. on this is a's sang possible extradition to the u.s., where he could be found guilty of leaking military and diplomatic documents. jeff sessions said previously that arresting mr. assange would be a priority. and many in the u.s. want him punished harshly. but it's not clear the british can extradite him to the u.s., certainly not on a minor charge. or that

bill neely with the latest now. good morning. >> good morning, savannah. another week, another launch from the north koreans, but this one was different. from a start, it didn't fail and it appears to be a new type of rocket with a longer range. one that north korea says can carry a nuclear warhead. it was north korea's seventh test this year of a missile it says can reach u.s. military bases in the pacific. it flew high and long. the pride of leader kim jong-un who was pictured with it and applauding its launch, according to north korea. this rocket can carry a large and heavy nuclear warhead. it was different because it flew high. more than 1,200 miles up and more than 400 miles out. close to russia. suggesting, say experts, that north korea's missile range is growing and sparking condemination of the launch and of the leader who ordered it. >> i think get into kim jong-un's head. which is he is in a state of paranoia and concerned about anything and everything around him. i think this was a message to south korea after the election and what we're going

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nbc's chief global correspondent bill neely is in london. orning to you. >> reporter: good morning, craig, good morning, savannah. it's the beginning of a week the mccann family has been dreading -- ten long years since three-year-old madeleine disappeared. no trace of her has ever been found. now in an interview mccann's parn is alive. kate and gerry mccann lost their daughter and a decade, ten years of pain since madeleine disappeared. they call it stolen time. >> it's time that we should have had with madeleine. we should have been a family of five for all that time. and, yeah, it does feel stolen. >> i think before madelyn weine taken we had a perfect nuclear family of five and now we're a family of four. >> reporter: madeleine vanished on a farmly vacation in portugal, left in an apartment, discovered missing by her mother who went to check on her while eating with friends. she found the window open, her daughter gone. for ten years, madeleine's been the focus of a global search and every birthday, every christmas her parents search for

bill neely is in london. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, craig.ng, savannah. it's a beginning of a week the mccann family has been bredding. ten years since madeleine has disappeared. now, in a new interview, mcca mccann's parents say they still believe madeleine is alive and they still buy her presents. kate and gerry mccann lost their daughter in a decade. ten years of pain since madeleine disappeared. they call it stolen time. >> it's time we should have had with madeleine. we should have been a family of five all that time. and, yeah, it just feels stolen. >> i think before madeleine was taken, we felt we had managed to achieve a little perfect nuclear family of five. and unfortunately for us, normality at the minute is a family of four. >> reporter: madeleine vanished on a family vacation in portugal, left in an apartment. discovered missing by her mother, who went to check on her while eating with friends. she found the window open, her daughter gone. for ten years, madeleine's been the focus of a global search. and every birthday, every chr

bill neely is live with more. >> reporter: good morning.he british prime minister teresheresa may the threat level has been reduced. suggesting the police are confident another attack is not imminent. also this morning, more arrests, more searches in the manchester area. and police are confident they have got the terror network. >> earlier this morning the police used explosives to storm a house and arrest two men. police now questioning 11 men, most in their 20s, about the bombing. >> we've got to understand everything around the terrorism network and how they manufactured the explosive device. >> reporter: police know how the bomb was made. and they know about the phone call made before the attack telling his mother good-bye and forgive me. last night manchester's first big event since the bombing. protected by lots of police. >> we are continuing life as normal. but they will not defeat us. >> reporter: increased security to and from london where 80,000 people will fill a soccer stadium today for a big final. the american pop star ariana

bill neely in london with the latest. bill, good morning. >> good morning. it's been a 7-year stand off between sweden and julian now the case has crumbled. they are dropping the case against the wikileaks founder wanted for rape allegations he's denied. she said he's not being proven innocent or guilty but his evasion of the law had been a factor in her decision to drop the case. he tweeted a picture of himself after the news looking pretty happy. his sweetish lawyer says this is a victory for him. we've won. he's happy and relieved. was he free now? not quite. he's in ecuador's embassy. behind all of this is his fear of attracti of extradition where he could face charges over leaking information. jeff sessions said arresting many want him punished harshly. it's not clear the british can extradite him to the u.s. or even that u.s. officials are, in fact, seeking his arrest because of a possible sealed indictment. his sweetish lawyer said he would fly to ecuador if he could to enjoy his political asylum and ironically, earlier this week, chelsea manning, the