tom llamas is in louisiana. >> reporter: tonight parts of the gulf coast bracing for more flash flooding and the threat of tornadoes. this after a powerful overnight storm took many by surprise killing up to four people and leading to hundreds of rescues including this baby rescued in the rain. >> it was so fast. i couldn't believe it. you know, it just started raining and the next thing you know it was pouring. >> reporter: in baton rouge rescuers worked around the clock residents trapped in homes and apartment buildings, reachable only by boat >> this is the worst you've ever seen >> this is the worst i've ever seen here. it's crazy >> reporter: a driver drowning under this overpass lake charles, louisiana, also slammed with rain. a 100-year rain event for a city still recovering from back-to-back hurricanes last year and lester, it is far from over for folks like this. nearly 30 million americans at risk of flooding this week and more relentless rain expected lester >> all right, tom llamas, thank you. >>> we want to tell you about a major change for cancer screenings the u.s. prevent

lester >> tom llamas, great to have you joining us, thanks >>> deadly violence in the mideast appears to be getting worse tonight. matt bradley with that >> reporter: tonight in the holy land -- >> wow >> reporter: -- one of the most dangerous escalations in years after israeli missiles killed at least 20 people in the gaza strip, including nine children according to gazan health officials. israel's attack retaliation for these rockets. as many as 150 of them launched at jerusalem by the palestinian militant group hamas sparking alerts that sent jerusalem residents scrambling this city has been boiling for weeks. violent protests against israeli threats to evict palestinian families in east jerusalem. >> deeply concerned about the rocket attacks that we are seeing now that need to stop and need to stop immediately >> reporter: but some palestinian officials are demanding u.s. president joe biden take a side. >> let him look at our system and see how palestinians live under this brutal occupation we want to be free people >> reporter: america's new president hasn't said much about the

plus, the all-important local pool, dylan is standing by with your forecast >> to get started, tom llamas has made his way to indianapolis where fans are already arriving ahead of this weekend's indy 500. tom, how is it looking out there? how are folks feeling? >> reporter: hey, craig and sheinelle, good morning. they're feeling great, craig i've spoken with so many fans who have flown across the country to be here at the indianapolis motor speedway. they want to be here in the stands, kiss the bricks. that's where the race starts they're going to have 135,000 fans in these stands it is going to be the largest sporting event since the onset of the pandemic. you know what they say here, craig. they say, "start your engines. that's exactly what so many americans want to do from coast to coast, america is ready to relax and reopen. kicking off summer with events, vacations, and a surge of fun. with nearly half of the country receiving at least one dose of a vaccine, fewer restrictions are making way for more of a traditional memorial day. >> we're looking forward to the crowds and being out

surprise to cyber security experts who have been warning of such vulnerabilities let's begin with tom llamas >> reporter: good evening. you can see hundreds of cars, this is one gas station. drivers say they're waiting up to an hour that's where the line starts we can't see where it ends drivers are telling me they're seeing gas stations run out and taking no chances tonight. tonight, lines for gas getting longer from the carolinas to florida. overwhelming gas stations. >> you have to do what you have to do, load up on gas, not try to go too far away from home. >> reporter: after a long wait at this gas station in south carolina. >> i have been waiting 45 minutes just to get gas. >> reporter: frustration. >> we are out of gas all out. >> reporter: across the southeast, demand is up 40% prices are inching up, too. nationwide, six cents higher than last week. >> i'll spend an extra few bucks. that's the way it is. >> heard there would be a run on gas. figured i better get it now. >> reporter: the 5500 mile colonial pipeline is mostly shutdown tonight, american airlines is adding refueling stop

tom llamas has more on how bad the shortage has gotten. >> reporter: tonight, the gas is flowing anding the truck over here, and i said, thank you, god. >> reporter: this as nbc news learned colonial pipeline paid nearly $5 million in ransom to hackers who infiltrated their system which led to the shutdown. that sparking panic bying and massive outages. in central florida, this hummer went up in flames. the driver just filled containers loaded in the back. now the pipeline is serving all its areas. but president biden warning -- >> we'll not feel the effect at the pump immediately. this is not like flicking on a light switch. >> reporter: we were there as a truck pulled up to fill up a gas staying that ran dry. >> i had people follow me to gas stations. >> reporter: president biden established a order for any software sold to the u.s. government and calling for a team to be formed to analyze these types of attacks. reporting from charlotte, tom llamas, nbc news. >>> coming up, let's mark the passing of a notable american life forever associated with one of the most successful mistake

reporter: and at the nation's premier weekend auto race spectators will be back in the stands nbc's tom llamas is in indianapolis >> here at the indy 500 they're expecting more than 130,000 fans on race day, which is sunday it's going to be the largest sporting event anywhere on the planet since the onset of the pandemic organizers feel they can keep the event safe, but they want to make sure fans follow the rules. >> reporter: but with most international travel still off limits the summer's hottest ticket may be the great outdoors the national parks already seeing record-breaking numbers. >> we know that many of the most popular national parks both campgrounds and lodging in and around parks are fully booked or nearly fully booked through labor day weekend. >> reporter: at colorado's cherry creek state park campers and rvs have been showing up all day. >> it's going to be a brand new world i think. i think it's a new start. and might as well just get out and have fun >> feels good to get out and feel regular again. >> reporter: tonight from coast to coast the great american relax is under way

nbc's tom llamas is in charlotte, north carolina >> reporter: the gas is flowing and the fear is fading. >> i'm like super happy. >> seeing the truck over here. i said, thank you, god. >> reporter: this as nbc news has learned colonial pipeline paid nearly $5 million in ransom to hackers who infiltrated the system which led to the shutdown that sparking pani buying and massive outages.in flames, the driver now the colonial pipeline is servicing all of its markets but president biden warning -- >> we'll not feel the effects at the pump immediately. this is not like flicking on a light switch. >> reporter: we were there as a fue truck pulled up to fill up a gas station that had run dry. >> i had people follow me from gas stations where i'm going to another gas station. >> reporter: because of that cyber attack president biden signed an executive order that will lay out stricter standards for any software sold to the u.s. government and an incident response team to look at the major cyber attacks. lester >> all right tom, thank you >>> the trial of three former minneapolis police officers

operations just yet, leaving continued uncertainty for drivers fearful of running on empty our tom llamas is in charlotte with late details. >> reporter: tonight, the colonial pipeline is back on line, but fear is still fueling the frenzy at gas stations outages in major cities making finding gas a guessing game. and in some cases, leading to violence. >> some of the other employees here had to go out and break up fights we had customers hitting the machines >> reporter: in pensacola, florida, 73% of gas stations are out of fuel. in raleigh and charlotte, north carolina, at least 70%. and in metro atlanta, 65%. the gas shortage is affecting all types of drivers, including commercial truck drivers. they tell me they need to get their gas now because if they don't, their deliveries are going to be delayed. >> how bad is it >> it's bad. >> reporter: north carolina, virginia, georgia, and florida declaring states of emergency, pleading with drivers to be sensible >> look, if you need gas, get it. but you don't need to be hoarding it right now. that's going to make it worse >> reporter: the av

cnbc's don chu watching the markets and tom llamas and let's go to you first.aking out over the cpi number, what have we learned? right now at this moment stuff costs more. so what? people are spending it in droves. >> that's the big conversation happening right now, stephanie. the markets are taking it relative leigh well and the dow is down less than 100 points at this point here and there is an expectation that we would get harder reds on price inflation and whether it's more structural, longer lasting and we'll be dealing with those higher prices generally for months, possibly years to come. some of the notable drivers of that report were energy prices. you mentioned gasoline price e right? no surprise there, this time last year we weren't that far removed from seeing negative oil prices and that wasn't a huge shock, that was aier ago. used car prices were up 21% due to supply issues around new cars because why? the global computer chip shortage. you can't get a new car. you have to get a used car and the used car prices are going up. also to your point, st

reporting live, tom llamas, nbc news. >> aaa says more than 37 million people will travel for the holiday weekend, and that's a 6 a 0% increase from last year. here's a look the gas prices across the bay area. aaa says in san jose the average price for a gallon of gas is $4.is a and in oakland it's 4.17. no surprise you'll pay the most up in san francisco at $4.22 a gallon. . >>> and we welcome this cooldown after the last couple of days. a live look at walnut creek looking nice and beautiful and sunny and meteorologist kari hall has been tracking cooler temperatures for us. there's little relief that we're getting. >> yes, nice natural air conditioning that we're getting right new as we can take a live look outside over san francisco and see the fog. that's in the distance there, but it's also providing some cooling today for some spots. not all of us have gotten a major cooldown but we at time will have breezy winds picking up, and this weekend we're even watching out for a chance that we could see a little bit of rain, possibly some thunderstorms. we are going to see how this pans out

al is standing by with the forecast first, nbc's senior national correspondent tom llamas joins us from baton rouge. tom, good morning. >> reporter: craig, good morning to you there are hundreds of homes flooded out in louisiana, and this is just one of them we wanted to bring you in so you could see some of the damage the water came in through the front door as you look at the floor, you can see the type of damage that was done here. everything was turned upside down the family says the water came everything went floating, almost out of nowhere. before they flew it, there was three feet of water in this newly renovated home everything went floating, including the refrigerator this as rescues continued over night. this time, in arkansas overnight, parts of the gulf coast on high alert, from texas which saw an outbreak of powerful twisters to southern louisiana, where flash flooding devastated homes and killed up to five people baton rouge resident hela smith came back from her nursing shift to find her home filled with knee-deep water. you have to move now >> yeah, i'll have to move i'm

so happy to have you. >> happy to have this guy, tom llamas filling in.everyone is welcoming. you guys are great. roker, i don't know, but you guys are great. >> watch him closely. >>> let's get right to your news at 8:00. president biden says the cease-fire agreed to by israel and hamas overnight offers an opportunity to work toward a more lasting peace in the region. nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel is in gaza city, where the 11 days of fighting claimed more than 200 lives. >> reporter: good morning, savannah, for now the cease fire has been holding. since it was announced there have been no more rockets from gaza and no more israeli strikes on gaza. this is what is left of gaza city. this was one of the tallest buildings in gaza city, a combination of apartments and offices completely flattened by an israeli air strike. israel didn't just flatten buildings. there were also more precision strikes. you can see one of those just across the street where israel just targeted those apartments, but everywhere you look, there is damage here and

nbc's tom llamas is in indianapolis. >> reporter: here at the indy 500, they're expecting more than 130,000ans on race day, which is sunday. it's going to be the largest sporting event anywhere on the planet since the onset of the pandemic. organizers feel they can keep the event safe, but they want to make sure fans follow the rules. >> reporter: but with most international travel still offlimits, the summer's hottest ticket may be the great outdoors. the national parks already seeing record-breaking numbers. >> we know that many of the most popular national parks, both campgrounds and lodging in and around parks are fully booked, nearly fully booked through labor day weekend. >> reporter: at colorado's cherry creek state park, campers and rvs have been showing up all day. >> it's going to be a brand-new role, i think. i think it's a new start and might as well just get out and have fun. >> it feels good to get out and feel regular again. >> reporter: tonight, from coast-to-coast, the great american relapse is underway. >> that was tom costello reporting for us. according to the latest aaa

. >>> we have a lot more to get to as we welcome in tom llamas. good morning. >> good morning to you ceremonies and events are being held throughout the holiday weekend, marking the 100th anniversary of one of the worst acts of racial violence in u.s. history. the 1921 tulsa, oklahoma, massacre a white mob attacking residents' homes and businesses in a black neighborhood, killing hundreds, and destroying a thriving community. a full century later, many are still grappling with the violent and largely hidden history antonia hylton is in tulsa for us good morning. >> reporter: good morning, tom there have been events here all through the weekend, part of the black wall street legacy festival while people here are hoping that renewed attention brings change, there are tensions throughout the city that is still come lg -- still coming to terms with what happened here. this morning, a solemn anniversary for the city of tulsa, where a new memorial now commemorates the 1921 race massacre residents and supporters marking the moment with a march this weeke

tom llamas is going to be there to set the stage. it is going to be a fun, fast paced morning.pening. a victim from yesterday's mass shooting in san jose died last night raising the number of innocent people killed to nine. nbc national correspondent miguel almaguer joins was the -- joins us with the very latest on the investigation. hey, miguel, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the crime scene behind me is still being sifted through by investigators looking for new clues and new evidence in this case. what they simply don't have is a motive, why did the suspect open fire on so many of his colleagues. today nine of them are dead, the families grieving the loss of the people who are in their late 20s to mid-60s. this all began wednesday morning when the suspect arrived at work around 6:34 a.m. and began to open fire. he did that first in one room, then moved to a second room gunning down as many victims as he could. again, investigators simply don't have a motive. they also say he likely started a house fire, his own house just a few minutes before he left for work. he w

. >> tom llamas for us there in north carolina, thank you. >>> new numbers released overnight reveal signs that it could be leveling off, even as heartbreaking new mimages emerg of migrant children left alone by smugglers here's nbc's gabe gutierrez. >> reporter: all alone along the texas border, five undocumented girls from honduras and guatemala discovered by a texas farmer who gave them water and food in the sweltering heat. >> just driving along, and all of a sudden i see them there by the side of the bank here on the river, five little baby girls. >> reporter: the youngest just 11 months old. the oldest 7 years this morning the border patrol says the children who did not require medical attention are in government custody >> they were out there in the dark all night totally alone, no food, no water >> reporter: it's the latest heartbreaking reminder of the high stakes in this border surge. last month, this 10-year-old nicaraguan boy was found alone and crying another video showed smugglers dropping two toddlers from ecuador over a 14-foot high border fence overnight, customs and

in many cases we've seen hackers seem to always be one step ahead of governments >> all right, tom llamasth carolina, thank you. >>> when we come back on this thursday morning, savannah's one on one exclusive with ellen degeneres on the same day she revealed that the next season of her talk show will be her last season. >> we chatted exclusively about that decision, why she's making it now, and whether during her trouble last summer she felt like she was being canceled. looking forward to sharing that conversation and a look back at 18 years of her show >> wow. >> right after this. with the 5g coverage you need. broader spectrum for faster 5g speeds. next-generation servers with superior network reliability. because the more you do with 5g, the more your network matters. it's us...pushing us. it's verizon...vs verizon. and who wins? you. you have to put your health and wellness first. or you can't do anything else. i am living proof that ww works. i've lost 91 pounds. i've lost 54 pounds on ww. ww. weight loss that works. wellness that works. get ready for summer with 3 months free! welln