WE WILL SEE YOU BACK HERE EARLY ON THURSDAY MORNING. >>> RIGHT NOW ON MORNING NEWS NOW, A HISTORIC CONVICTION. HUNTER BIDEN, THE PRESIDENT'S SON FOUND GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS. THE JURY REACHING THEIR VERDICT AFTER SEVERAL DAYS OF TESTIMONY IN JUST OVER THREE HOURS OF DELIBERATION P OR >> FOR US, IT IS NOT POLITICALLY MOTIVATED. >> WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE OF THE VERDICT PLUS REACTION FROM PRESIDENT BIDEN AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. >>> SIGNS OF PROGRESS TOWARD THE CEASE-FIRE AS WE MARK 250 DAYS OF THE WAR IN GAZA. THE RESPONSE TO A UNITED STATES- BASED PLAN THAT WOULD FREE THE REMAINING HOSTAGES. >>> IT IS A LESSON OFTEN LEARNED OUTSIDE OF THE CLASSROOM. LGBTQ+ FRESHMAN WORRIED ABOUT HITTING AND AT THEIR NEW SCHOOLS . MORE ON THE STRUGGLE, THE POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS AND HOW YOU CAN OFFER SUPPORT. >>> A DIFFERENT KIND OF HEARTBURN. THE RESEARCH LINKING HEAT EXPOSURE TO HEART HEALTH AND WHAT YOU CAN DO THIS SUMMER TO PROTECT YOURSELF. >>> MANY COMMENTS, WE WILL ADDRESS IN THE MEDICAL CHECKUP. GOOD TO HAVE YOU WITH US. I AM JOE FRYER. >> I AM SAVANNAH SELLERS. >>> WE BEGIN WITH THE CONVICTION OF HUNTER BIDEN. >> HE WAS FOUND GUILTY YESTERDAY OF THREE FEDERAL CHARGES OF USING DRUGS WHILE BUYING A GUN. THE CASE WAS FULL OF DIFFICULT -- IT ONLY TOOK THE JURY ABOUT THREE HOURS TO COME TO A VERDICT. HE FACES THE POTENTIAL OF YEARS BEHIND BARS. NO SENTENCING DATE HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED, JUST YET. >> NO ONE IN THIS COUNTRY IS ABOVE THE LAW. EVERYONE MUST BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS, EVEN THIS DEFENDANT. HOWEVER, HUNTER BIDEN SHOULD BE NO MORE ACCOUNTABLE THAN ANY OTHER CITIZEN CONVICTED OF THIS SAME CONDUCT. >> LATER IN THE DAY, HUNTER BIDEN GREETED THE PRESIDENT AFTER HE ARRIVED IN WILMINGTON, DELAWARE. THE PRESIDENT SAYING HE ACCEPTS THE OUTCOME AND WILL RESPECT THE JUDICIAL PROCESS. HE HAS PREVIOUSLY SAID HE WOULD NOT PARDON HIS SON. >> JOINING US, KENDAL AND DANNY CELLAVOS. THE FIRST LADY WAS NOT ABLE TO GET PAST SECURITY BEFORE THE VERDICT WAS READ. WALK US THROUGH. >> THE RAPIDITY OF THE VERDICT TOOK A LOT OF PEOPLE BY SURPRISE AND FOR THAT REASON, JILL BIDEN DID NOT GET INSIDE BUT HUNTER BIDEN REACTED IMPASSIVELY. HE STAYED AND STARED STRAIGHT AHEAD AND LOOKED AT THE JURORS A FEW TIMES. HE ENDED UP EMERGING WITH HIS MOTHER AND WIFE AND WE HEARD FROM HIM LATER WHERE HE EXPRESS THE GRATITUDE HE GOT -- SUGGESTING THAT THEY MIGHT APPEAL THIS CONVICTION AND WE HEARD FROM DAVID WEISS, THE MAN WHO BROUGHT THIS CASE, A FORMER TRUMP-APPOINTED UNITED STATES ATTORNEY. HERE IS MORE FROM DAVID WEISS. >> THIS CASE WAS ABOUT THE ILLEGAL CHOICES THE DEFENDANT MADE WHILE IN THE THROES OF ADDICTION. HIS CHOICE TO LIE ON A GOVERNMENT FORM WHEN HE BOUGHT A GUN AND THE CHOICE TO THEN POSSESS THAT GUN. IT WAS THESE CHOICES AND THE COMBINATION OF GUNS AND DRUGS THAT MADE HIS CONDUCT DANGEROUS. >> THESE ARE THREE FELONY CONVICTIONS MR. BIDEN DOES PHASE PRISON TIME ALTHOUGH THE SENTENCE IS UNKNOWN AT THIS POINT. THAT WILL HAPPEN A FEW MONTHS FROM NOW AND HE FACES ANOTHER TRIAL ON FELONY TAX CHARGES IN NOVEMBER, GUYS. >> WHAT ABOUT THE TIME THE JURY NEEDED TO COME TO THIS DECISION? >> IT APPARENTLY WASN'T A VERY DIFFICULT DECISION. IT WAS EARLY ON, SIX-SIX. THAT SURPRISES ME. I THOUGHT THERE MIGHT BE A COUPLE OF HOLDOUTS FOR AN ACQUITTAL, MAYBE PEOPLE STRUGGLING WITH ADDICTION OR WHETHER OR NOT HE HAD BEEN ON THE PARTICULAR DAY. BUT HE WAS PROVEN TO BE AN ADDICT AT A PRECISE TIME. I AM NOT SURPRISED AT THE SHORT DELIBERATIONS PERIOD. THIS IS NOT A COMPLEX WHITE- COLLAR HEAVY CASE. IT IS GUNS, DRUGS. PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT. >> THE JURORS ARE NOW FREE TO TALK. WHAT IS THE REACTION TO THE VERDICT? >> SOME OF THEM DID NOT THINK MUCH OF THE CASE. THEY HAD A LOT OF SYMPATHY FOR HUNTER BIDEN. ONE OF THEM EVEN CALLED IT A WASTE OF TAXPAYER MONEY. WITH AT THE END OF THE DAY, AS THEY WENT THROUGH THE EVIDENCE, ALL OF THE JURORS DECIDED THEY HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO CONVICT. MANY OF THEM DON'T THINK HUNTER BIDEN DESERVES JAIL TIME. TAKE A LISTEN. >> FOR US, IT IS NOT POLITICALLY MOTIVATED. POLITICS NEVER PLAYED INTO ANYTHING WE SAID IN THE JURY ROOM. WE JUST HAD TO FIND OUT WHETHER HE PURCHASED A GUN ILLEGALLY OR NOT. THAT WAS THE WHOLE CASE. >> IN AN ATMOSPHERE WHERE THE LEGAL SYSTEM HAS BECOME SO POLITICIZED AND ATTACKED BY BOTH SIDES, THE AMERICAN JURY SYSTEM, 12 MEMBERS GOT TOGETHER OF ALL POLITICAL PERSUASIONS AND DEMOGRAPHIC PERSUASIONS AND WENT TO THE EVIDENCE AND DECIDED THEY HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO CONVICT EVEN THOUGH SOME OF THEM DID NOT THINK MUCH OF THE CASE. >> THIS IS NOT THE END OF HIS LEGAL CHALLENGES AND HE IS EXPECTED TO GO TO COURT IN NOVEMBER ON TAX CHARGES. COULD THIS CASE HAVE ANY IMPACT ON THAT ONE? >> IT WILL AND THE SENSE OF HUNTER BIDEN IS SENTENCED THE SECOND CASE STARTS, THE REALITY IS THAT HE WILL HAVE A CRIMINAL HISTORY BY THE TIME HE ROLLS INTO THE SECOND CASE AND IF HE IS CONVICTED, THAT PUTS HIM IN AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT CATEGORY FOR SENTENCING. AND IN THIS CASE, YOU MAY HEAR A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THIS GUN CASE SAY THAT HUNTER BIDEN IS A CANDIDATE FOR A STRAIGHT PROBATION SENTENCE. FOR THE LAST 18 HOURS OR SO, I HAVE BEEN REALLY THINKING ABOUT IT AND I THINK HE IS LIKELY TO GET SOME TIME, MAYBE A SPLIT SENTENCE BUT HE IS LIKELY TO GET A SENTENCE OF INCARCERATION, 15 TO 21 MONTHS. AND DON'T FORGET, HE IS GOING TO BE BEFORE A JUDGE AND A PART OF THE COUNTRY WHERE A LOT OF DRUG CASES ARE CONVICTED. >> THANK YOU BOTH VERY MUCH. >>> THIS MORNING IS THE 250th DAY OF THE CONFLICT IN GAZA AND THERE IS A NEW PUSH FOR A CEASE- FIRE IS ANTONY BLINKEN HEADS TO QATAR . >> THE SECRETARY ALSO SET TO MEET WITH AMERICAN FAMILIES WITH HOSTAGES BEING HELD BY HAMAS. >> Reporter: IT HAS BEEN NEARLY 2 WEEKS SINCE PRESIDENT BIDEN LAID OUT THAT CEASE-FIRE PLAN TO END THE WAR IN GAZA AND BRING ALL OF THE HOSTAGES HOME. FINALLY, THERE IS A RESPONSE FROM HAMAS BUT THAT IS NOT CLEAR AND IT IS NOT A CLEAR NO. THE POLITICAL LEADER ALONG WITH ISLAMIC JIHAD SAYS THEY ARE READY TO MAKE A DEAL TO AND MESS THIS WAR ND THAT THEY ARE SEEKING AMENDMENTS TO THE CEASE- FIRE PROPOSAL THAT IS ON THE TABLE ACCORDING TO A SOURCE FAMILIAR WITH THE SITUATION WHO TELLS US HAMAS WANTS A TIMELINE FOR WHEN ISRAELI FORCES WILL FULLY WITHDRAW FROM GAZA. IT IS NOT CLEAR WHETHER THAT IS A COMMITMENT THAT ISRAEL IS PREPARED TO MAKE. AT THIS STAGE, A DEAL IS STILL POSSIBLE BUT IT MAY ALSO BE THAT THE TWO SIDES REMAIN QUITE SOME DISTANCE APART. ANTONY BLINKEN WHO HAS BEEN TRAVELING THE MIDDLE EAST IS HEADING TO QATAR TODAY TO TRY TO CLOSE THE GAPS BETWEEN THOSE TWO SIDES TO MEET WITH MEDIATORS AND HERE IN ISRAEL, THE MILITARY IS SAYING THAT IRANIAN-BACKED HEZBOLLAH MILITANTS IN SOUTHERN LEBANON HAVE FIRED 160 ROCKETS OVER THE COURSE OF THE DAY INTO NORTHERN ISRAEL AND THAT IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST BOMBARDMENTS OF THE ENTIRE WAR. HEZBOLLAH RESPONDING TO AN ISRAELI STRIKE THAT KILLED ONE OF ITS SENIOR COMMANDERS. RIGHT NOW, THE RACE IS ON TO TRY TO END ONE MORE AND STOP ANOTHER ONE FROM FLARING UP. BACK TO YOU. >>> BACK IN THE UNITED STATES, AT LEAST ONE PERSON IS DEAD AFTER A GUNMAN HIJACKED A CITY BUS FULL OF PASSENGERS. SINCE IT WAS A HOSTAGE SITUATION, MORE THAN TWO DOZEN POLICE CARS CHASED THE BUS AND THE WHOLE THING WAS CAUGHT ON CAMERA. HE HELD A GUN TO THE BUS DRIVERS HEAD WHILE FORCING HIM TO DRIVE NEARLY 20 MILES BEFORE DISABLING THE VEHICLE. A 49-YEAR-OLD MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED BUT IT IS UNCLEAR WHY HE HIJACKED THE BUS. >>> A HIGH-PROFILE STING OPERATION THAT LED TO THE ARREST OF EIGHT MEN SUSPECTED LEE TIED TO ICES HERE IN THE UNITED STATES. >> THE MEN WERE DETAINED OVER THE WEEKEND IN NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA AND LOS ANGELES. WE SHOULD KNOW HAT WHILE THEY HAVE NOT BEEN CHARGED WITH A TERRORIST CONNECTION OR PLOT, THEY ARE RACING REMOVAL PROCEEDINGS BEFORE AN IMMIGRATION JUDGE. >> JULIA AINSLIE, GOOD MORNING. WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THESE THREE MEN AND HOW THEY GOT HERE? >> ACTUALLY, THERE WERE EIGHT ARRESTS AND ALL OF THOSE ARE EXPECTED TO HAVE THE NICEST HIGH. THEY HAVE NOT YET BEEN CHARGED. THEY SIMPLY PICKED UP ON IMMIGRATION AND THEY CROSSED OVER THE BORDER. TWO OF THE EIGHT DID COME THROUGH IN MARCH OF 2023 AND AT LEAST ONE OF THOSE CAME THROUGH ON THE ACT WHICH MEANS THEY DID NOT COME ILLEGALLY. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION STARTED IT TO HELP ASYLUM IMMIGRANTS. THIS YEAR, IT HAS REALLY BEEN MARKED BY A CHANGE OF MIGRANTS COMING FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD AND NOW WE ARE SEEING MORE , RUSSIAN NATIONALS, SOME OF THESE PLACES TO HAVE TIES TO ICES WHICH IS STARTING TO POSE MORE OF A THREAT, GLOBALLY. >> HOW ARE INVESTIGATORS ABLE TO TRACK THEM DOWN AND DO WE KNOW WHAT COMES NEXT? >> WE KNOW THAT WHEN THEY CROSS THE BORDER, THEY HAD NO DEROGATORY INFORMATION, THEY WERE NOT ON A TERRORIST WATCH LIST AND THERE WAS NO CRIMINAL HISTORY. BORDER AGENTS CHECKED THEIR BACKGROUND BUT LATER BECAUSE OF THE FBI AND POSSIBLY BECAUSE OF A TIP, THEY WERE ABLE TO START MONITORING AND KEEPING TABS ON THESE MEN AND THERE WAS ENOUGH INFORMATION THAT THEY THOUGHT ICES SHOULD KNOW. THIS IS SORT OF THE WAY TO GO FOR THE LOWEST HANGING FRUIT. THEY KNEW THEY HAD SOME IMMIGRATION VIOLATIONS AND THEY WERE WAITING TO GO BEFORE AN IMMIGRATION JUDGE SO THEY COULD ARREST THEM AND DETAIN THEM WHILE WAITING FOR THAT HEARING. THAT IS WHY I >> MOVED IN AND PROBABLY WHILE THE FBI WILL CONTINUE THEIR INVESTIGATION, I WOULD GUESS THAT THE FBI WOULD WANT TO TALK TO THESE MEN. >> WE KNOW BORDER SECURITY IS A TOP ISSUE IN THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE. LAST WEEK, PRESIDENT BIDEN SIGNED THAT ACTION TIGHTENING BORDER SECURITY. DO OFFICIALS THINK THAT WILL BE ENOUGH TO CLAMPDOWN ON POTENTIAL SAFETY CONCERNS LIKE THIS? >> Reporter: THE ONE THING THE EXECUTIVE ACTION IS SUPPOSED TO DO IS BRING DOWN THE NUMBERS AT THE BORDER. THAT WAY, YES, IT IS EASIER TO STRETCH THIN SO THEY CAN DO MORE CHECKS BUT I THINK WITH THIS CASE SHOWS AND THE CASE OF THE VENEZUELAN GANG THAT WE HIGHLIGHTED EARLIER THIS WEEK, VENEZUELA IS ANOTHER COUNTRY THAT DOESN'T SHARE A LOT OF INFORMATION WITH THE UNITED STATES BUT ALL OF THAT SHOWS THERE ARE PEOPLE CROSSING THE BORDER THAT THE UNITED STATES DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT. IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW MUCH TIME YOU HAVE TO COLLECT INFORMATION, IT IS COMING FROM COUNTRIES THAT DO NOT SHARE INFORMATION AND IT IS NOT READILY AVAILABLE TO A BORDER AGENT WITHIN THE FIRST 72 HOURS OF THEIR CROSSING AND IT IS LIKELY THOSE PEOPLE WILL BE RELEASED BECAUSE THEY WON'T BE DEEMED A THREAT. SO THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS WORKING ON WAYS TO IMPROVE THIS AND ANOTHER EXECUTIVE ACTION THE PRESIDENT TOOK LAST MONTH IS TO GET MORE CLASSIFIED INFORMATION TO IMMIGRATION JUDGES WHERE THEY ARE DECIDING WHO CAN BE RELEASED BUT IN SHORT, THIS IS A TOP CONCERN AND IT IS NOT CLEAR IF EXECUTIVE ACTION WILL COMPLETELY TAKE AWAY THOSE FEARS. >>> TURNING TO SOME GOOD NEWS ABOUT VIOLENT CRIMES IN THE UNITED STATES. NEWLY RELEASED STATISTICS SHOW THAT HISTORIC DROP IN CRIME BUT THAT NEWS COMES AS MULTIPLE PEOPLE WERE SHOT AT A POPULAR SHOPPING AREA. SENIOR CORRESPONDENT, TOM CASTILLO, HAS THE DETAILS. >> Reporter: PEOPLE SHOT AT A DOWNTOWN FOOD COURT. >> PEOPLE WERE SCREAMING, THERE IS A SHOOTER, RUN! >> Reporter: VIOLENT CRIME ACTUALLY DROPPED DRAMATICALLY DURING THE FIRST THREE MONTHS OF THE YEAR AFTER SURGING DURING THE PANDEMIC. AMONG THE 72% OF POLICE AGENCIES REPORTING TO THE FBI, MURDER IS DOWN 26% COMPARED TO A YEAR AGO AND WRITE DOWN 25%, ROBBERY DOWN 17%. MURDER IS DOWN 16% IN CHICAGO. DC, DOWN 40%. PHILADELPHIA DOWN 41%. PHILADELPHIA'S COMMITTEES DOSE POLICE COMMISSIONER. >> WE ARE REALLY BEING VERY STRATEGIC. >> Reporter: MURDERS ARE UP DOUBLE DIGITS IN L.A.. IN POMPANO BEACH, POLICE AND FEDERAL AGENTS JUST WRAPPED UP A SIX-WEEK SWEEP TARGETING GUNS AND DRUGS ARRESTING 132 SUSPECTS AND CONFISCATING DOZENS OF WEAPONS. >> WE COME OUT AND WE RISK OUR LIVES AND WE CHASED DOWN THE BAD PEOPLE. >> Reporter: EVEN AS HIS OWN SON WAS CONVICTED OF ILLEGALLY BUYING A FIREARM. POLICE SAY REDUCING VIOLENCE OFTEN COMES DOWN TO MORE COPS ON THE STREET, ADDICTION HELP AND JOBS. >>> NOW, IT IS TIME FOR YOUR MORNING NEWS. IN SOUTH FLORIDA, MILLIONS ARE BRACING FOR A SOGGY DAY AHEAD. >>> NO CHANGE IN THIS FORECAST FOR THE SUNSHINE STATE. WE WILL CONTINUE TO SEE UNSETTLED WEATHER AND FLOOD MARCHES -- WATCHES REMAIN IN EFFECT INCLUDING SOME OF THOSE HARD-HIT AREAS, YESTERDAY. THE KEYS ARE STILL INCLUDED. HERE IS WHAT PLAYS OUT. MORE HEAVY DOWNPOURS, THE TORRENTIAL RAIN THAT WE SAW MUCH OF YESTERDAY BECAUSE WE HAVE THIS STATIONARY FRONT HANGING OUT ACROSS CENTRAL FLORIDA LEAVING US WITH PLENTY OF MOISTURE. THIS IS THE SAME KIND OF SCENARIO WE SEE NOT JUST TODAY BUT TOMORROW. MORE HEAVY RAIN ON TAP AND WE WILL LIKELY SEE SATURATED WATERWAYS, GROUNDS CAUSING MORE FLASH FLOODING MUCH LIKE WHAT WE SAW YESTERDAY. HERE IS A LOOK AT YOUR FRIDAY AND THIS FRONT WILL STILL BE STICKING AROUND. HERE IS THE RAINFALL FORECAST AS WE GET THROUGH SATURDAY. YESTERDAY, WE SAW IMPRESSIVE RAINFALL RATES IN PLACES LIKE SARASOTA. THEY PICKED UP EIGHT INCHES OF RAIN SETTING RECORDS. TODAY, ANOTHER ROUND SPECIFICALLY ACROSS SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WHERE WE COULD SEE OVER A FOOT OF RAIN BY THE TIME WE GET INTO THE WEEKEND BUT I THINK IF YOU LOOK FURTHER TO THE EAST ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE EAST COAST, THEY REALLY ONLY NEED TO PICK UP AN INCH TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN TO SEE THAT FLASH FLOODING. AND WE ARE NOT EVEN TWO WEEKS INTO HURRICANE SEASON BUT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT AN AREA OF POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT. IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE ANYTHING MUCH OF INTEREST BUT OVER THE NEXT WEEK OR SO, WE WILL KEEP AN EYE ON IT. IT WILL GET OUT OVER THE ATLANTIC OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS AND CROSSED THE STATE OF FLORIDA LATER, TODAY. THE BIG PICTURE, LOOK FOR YOUR WEEKEND. WE HAVE RECORD HIGHS ON TAP ACROSS NOT JUST THE SOUTHWEST, THEY WILL KEEP THAT GOING ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST INTO TOMORROW AND FRIDAY BUT ALSO THE MIDWEST AND PARTS OF THE EAST WILL GET IN N THE RECORD HIGH POTENTIAL WITH 90s ON TAP FOR A LOT OF FOLKS. WE HAVE:FLOOD THREAT FOR FRIDAY ACROSS THE STATE OF FLORIDA BUT YOUR SATURDAY LOOKS A LOT BETTER. MORE SUNSHINE ON TAP FOR THE NORTHEAST. WE HAVE LOTS OF SUNSHINE ON TAP FOR FOLKS ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST. IT WILL STAY HOT AND DRY AND FATHER'S DAY IS COMING UP. THAT ONE IS FOR YOU AND ALSO, SUPER SOGGY. TRIPLE DIGITS FOR A LOT OF FOLKS FOR SUNDAY. MAYBE SOME INDOOR PLANTS, THE AC? >> A BETTER FATHER'S DAY GIFT. >>> GRADUATION SEASON IS AN EMOTIONAL TIME FOR STUDENTS AND FAMILIES BUT FOR ONE GROUP OF SENIORS, IT IS A ESPECIALLY BITTERSWEET. THE CLASS OF 2024, THE SURVIVORS OF THE SANDY HOOK SHOOTING. >> THE VICTIMS WILL BE HONORED DURING THE GRADUATION CEREMONY. THE STUDENTS SAY THEY HOPE MOVING ONTO THE NEXT CHAPTER OF THEIR LIVES WILL GIVE THEM AN OPPORTUNITY FOR A FRESH START. I LIKE TO THINK THAT THEY WILL BE THERE WITH US AND WALKING ACROSS THE STAGE WITH US. >>> MUCH MORE TO COME ON MORNING NEWS NOW. >>> LATER ON THIS HOUR, A HEALTH SCARE FOR JONAS. HIS MESSAGE TO FANS AND WHAT DOCTORS ARE SAYING ABOUT HIS DIAGNOSIS. >>> A KILL SWITC >>> THIS IS MY FAVORITE TIP OF THE DAY. >> YOU DON'T WANT TO DO WHAT SOMEONE ELSE IS DOING. >> THAT IS A GOOD IDEA. >>> WE ARE BACK WITH A LOOK AT A STATEWIDE OPERATION IN TEXAS TARGETING SMALL HOMEMADE MacHINE-GUN CONVERSION DEVICES KNOWN AS KILL SWITCHES AND THE 3-D PRINTED PLASTIC DEVICES THAT CAN BE ADDED TO HANDGUNS TO MAKE THEM CAPABLE OF FIRING FASTER THAN MILITARY GRADE WEAPONS. >> Reporter: 30 ROUNDS IN LESS THAN THREE SECONDS. >> THESE THINGS ARE THE MOST DANGEROUS, THE THINGS WE SEE ON STREETS, TODAY. >> Reporter: FEDERAL AUTHORITIES ARE CRACKING DOWN ON THESE SMALL PIECES OF PLASTIC THAT THEY CALL KILL SWITCHES. >> IT LOOKS INNOCUOUS ENOUGH LIKE A LEGO BUT IF A ONE INCH PIECE OF PLASTIC IS KILLING PEOPLE DOSE >> Reporter: RAISING AWARENESS ON A SMALL 3-D PRINTED PART THAT FITS INTO THE BACK PLATE OF A GUN. >> THEY ARE VERY SMALL AND VERY EASY TO MISS AND THIS IS THE SEMI AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION AND ALL THAT WE DO IS TURN IT AND IT IS IN THE FULLY AUTOMATIC POSITION. >> Reporter: GIVING POWER POWER TO LEGAL MACHINE GUNS. THE KILL SWITCH IS ALREADY RESPONSIBLE FOR DEATHS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. INCLUDING THAT OF THE HOUSTON POLICE OFFICER, BILL JEFFREY, AND 2021, KILLED IN A BURST OF AUTOMATIC FIRE TRIGGERED BY THIS DEVICE. >> HOUSTON PROPER. BY FAR, WE ARE SEEING THE MOST INCIDENCES IN HOUSTON. >> Reporter: SINCE THEN, THE NUMBER OF KILL SWITCHES HAS SKYROCKETED. ATF HAS SEIZED NEARLY 1000 SWITCHES SINCE 2017 WITH NEARLY HALF OF THOSE CAPTURED OVER THE LAST YEAR. >> IT IS COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE 3-D PRINTER. >> Reporter: THE PART COSTING AS LITTLE AS EIGHT CENTS TO PRODUCE BUT SELLING UNDERCOVER FOR UP TO $400. AT TIMES, SELLERS ARE EVEN TURNING TO SOCIAL MEDIA TO SELL THESE PRODUCTS. >> JUST THIS DEVICE IS CONSIDERED A MacHINE-GUN. >> Reporter: THE POSSESSION OF ONE CARRIES UP TO 10 YEARS IN PRISON. >> THESE GUNS FIRE FASTER THAN MILITARY GRADE IMPORTS. WE CANNOT HAVE OUR STREETS TURNED INTO WAR ZONES. >> Reporter: A BATTLE TO KEEP HUMANITY'S SAFE FROM THESE ILLEGAL DEVICES THAT CAN TURN LETHAL. >>> OVERSEES, FOUR U.S. COLLEGE INSTRUCTORS ARE RECOVERING FROM A KNIFE ATTACK IN CHINA. IT HAPPENED WHILE THEY WERE VISITING A PUBLIC PARK IN EASTERN CHINA. TAKING PART OF AN EXCHANGE PROGRAM, JANIS MACKEY FRAYER HAS MORE ON THE ATTACK AND THE SUSPECT IN CUSTODY. >> Reporter: AN ARREST IN THE STABBING ATTACK OF FOUR UNITED STATES COLLEGE INSTRUCTORS AT A BUSY CHINESE PARK. THE AFTERMATH CAPTURED IN CELL PHONE VIDEO. BYSTANDERS SAYING FOREIGNERS ARE INJURED. THE VICTIMS ARE TEACHERS ON AN EXCHANGE WITH THE UNIVERSITY. THREE OF THEM ARE AMERICANS. ONE OF THEM IS DAVID SADLER, THE BROTHER OF ADAM SADLER WHO SAYS HIS BROTHER WAS STABBED IN THE ARM BUT IS OKAY AND IN GOOD SPIRITS. MARIONETTE SAID TWO OTHER AMERICANS HAD TO UNDERGO SURGERY. >> THEY ARE IN INTENSIVE CARE BUT STABLE AND TALKING WITH HER FAMILY MEMBERS. >> Reporter: THE CHINESE NATIONAL WAS ALSO STABBED WHEN THEY TRIED TO INTERVENE. POLICE ARRESTED A 55-YEAR-OLD MAN THEY SAY WAS ANGRY THAT ONE OF THE TEACHERS PROMPTED TO HIM. CHINA'S MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TOLD NBC NEWS THAT IT WAS AN ISOLATED INCIDENT ADDING CHINA IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S SAFEST COUNTRIES. VIOLENCE AND EAST BORDERS IS RARE BUT COMES AT AN INTENSE TIME WITH UNITED STATES-CHINA RELATIONS WITH BOTH SIDES TRYING TO REVIVE STUDENT AND TEACHER EXCHANGES. BOTH ATTACKS HAVE BEEN CONTROLLED BY MEDIA. A MAN WAS ARRESTED AND A CHINESE NATIONAL WAS STABBED WHEN THEY TRIED TO INTERVENE. THE AMERICANS ARE SAID TO BE NOT IN LIFE-THREATENING CONDITION AND THERE IS NO INFORMATION ON WHEN THEY MIGHT BE HEADING HOME. JANIS MACKEY FRAYER, NBC NEWS. >>> HAITI HAS FORMED A NEW GOVERNMENT AS GANG VIOLENCE SURGES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. >> DANIELLE HAS THE LATEST ON THAT AND OTHER WORLD NEWS. GOOD MORNING. >> Reporter: GOOD MORNING. A NEW GOVERNMENT IN HAITI, A NEW CABINET AND NOW HOPE FOR SOME POLITICAL STABILITY IN THE POOREST COUNTRY IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. ALL THE PREVIOUS MINISTERS HAD SERVED UNDER THE PRIME MINISTER FORCED TO STEP DOWN BY GANGS WHO HAVE EXTENDED THEIR CONTROL OVER HAITI. THE NEW PRIME MINISTER TAKES ON THE ROLE OF INTERIOR MINISTER. HE WAS MOST RECENTLY A TOP OFFICIAL WITH UNICEF. >>> AND LONDON, A PORTRAIT OF KING CHARLES WAS VANDALIZED BY ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS AT A GALLERY ON TUESDAY. THIS WAS THE FIRST OFFICIAL PAINTING OF THE CORONATION. ACCORDING TO POLICE, THERE WAS NO DAMAGE TO THE PAINTING OR THE GLASS COVERING IT. >>> FINALLY TO SOUTH KOREA FOR YOUR LATEST. THE OLDEST MEMBER OF THE WILDLY POPULAR BOY BAND WAS DISCHARGED FROM THE ARMY AFTER 18 MONTHS OF DUTY. HE IS THE FIRST MEMBER OF THE GROUP TO COMPLETE THE NATIONAL SERVICE. FANS HAD HOPED FOR MILITARY EXEMPTION. THAT WASN'T THE CASE AND THEY HAVE TO WAIT FOR 2025 WHEN THE REST OF THE GROUP WILL HAVE GIVEN THEIR STATUS. >>> COMING UP, LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TAKING ON A GLOBAL CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE. HOW OFFICERS IN TENNESSEE ARE WORKING TO GET SEVERAL TONS OF ILLEGAL MARIJUANA OFF THE STREETS. >>> OUR LATEST INSTALLMENT ON THE SILENT STRUGGLE FOR LGBTQ+IS HOUR ABOUT YOUR MONEY. >> MENTAL HEALTH, BIG PICTURE, WHY IS IT SO TOUGH RIGHT NOW? >> NEWS FOR THE GENERATION OF NOW IS NBC NEWS NOW. >>> SCHOOL IS OUT FOR SUMMER WHICH MEANS MANY HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS AND RECENT GRADUATES ARE PREPARING FOR THE NEXT STAGE OF THEIR LIFE BUT FOR LGBTQ+ YOUNG PEOPLE, THAT CAN BRING SOME UNCERTAINTY AND EVEN FEAR. MANY ARE WORRIED ABOUT THEIR IDENTITY BEING ACCEPTED IN THEIR NEW SURROUNDINGS. >> MORE THAN HALF OF THE LGBTQ+ YOUNG PEOPLE SAY THEY HAVE BEEN DISCRIMINATED AGAINST OVER THE LAST YEAR BECAUSE OF THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER IDENTITY. >> JOINING US, GOOD TO HAVE YOU WITH US. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT CONVERSATION FOR YOUNG STUDENTS AND PARENTS WHO WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS. THE PROJECT FOUND THE MAJORITY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS A THERE COLLEGE HAS SOME SPECIFIC SERVICES FOR THE COMMUNITY ON CAMPUS SO WHAT CAN STUDENTS DO TO PREPARE FOR THAT TRANSITION AND WHAT ABOUT STUDENTS WHO FEEL THEY DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO THOSE SERVICES WHERE THEY ARE GOING? >> TRANSITION CAN BE TOUGH SO WHEN STUDENTS GET TO COLLEGE, THEY CAN CHECK OUT THE RESOURCE CENTER, AND IF THERE IS NOT ONE, CONSIDER STARTING ONE, YOUR SELF. >>> CLOSE TO HALF OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE LOWER ODDS OF ATTEMPTING SUICIDE IF THEY FEEL ACCEPTED BY THE PARENT OR CAREGIVER. WHAT CAN PARENTS DO? WHAT CAN TRUSTED ADULTS DO TO TRY TO HELP THEIR CHILDREN THROUGH THESE MOMENTS OF TRANSITION? >> PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS CAN MAKE A REALLY BIG IMPACT ON THE LIVES OF LGBTQ+ YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR MENTAL HEALTH. SUPPORT GOES A LONG WAY. I WOULD SUGGEST IF YOU ARE LOOKING TO SEND SIGNALS TO LGBTQ+ YOUNG PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE, SHOW THEM THAT YOU ARE WATCHING MOVIES, TV, READING BOOKS INCLUDING LGBTQ+ VOICES, PROBABLY MARCH, PRIDE MONTH AND I WOULD TELL THEM ANYTHING WE TELL OUR COUNSELORS WHICH IS NO JUDGMENT, EMPTY DOPE EMPATHY AND ACTIVE LISTENING. >> ONE SUPPORTIVE PERSON IN YOUR LIFE CAN MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE. WE KNOW THE MAJORITY WANT SOME FORM OF MENTAL HEALTH CARE BUT HALF REPORT NOT BEING ABLE TO GET THE CARE THEY NEED IN THE LAST YEAR. WHAT ARE SOME RESOURCES? WHAT CAN PEOPLE DO IF THEY ARE STRUGGLING? >> THE TREVOR PROJECT IS ALWAYS AVAILABLE AND WE ALSO RECOMMEND DOING SOME RESEARCH ON COUNSELING IN YOUR LOCAL AREA. >> WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT GOING OFF TO COLLEGE, THERE IS THIS HUGE MOMENT OF CHANGE AND THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS TO THINK ABOUT. I REMEMBER THINKING, I AM ALLOWED TO EAT WHENEVER I WANT AND DO WHATEVER I WANT BECAUSE YOU ARE OFF ON YOUR OWN. HOW DOES THIS LAYER IMPACT A MOMENT LIKE THAT? >> IT IS A BIG LIFE TRANSITION AND YOUR WONDERING IF PEOPLE LOVE YOU AND ACCEPT YOU. IF YOU ARE GOING OFF ON THIS SOCIAL PART OF YOUR LIFE, IT IS A BIG OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU AND ONE OF THE THINGS YOU CAN DO IS FIND A LOCAL RESOURCE CENTER AND WE ARE A NONPROFIT NATIONAL AND THERE ARE LOCAL CENTERS WHO HAVE ACTIVITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES. >> WHAT IS YOUR ADVICE FOR PARENTS AND THEY WANT TO JUST HELP IN SOME WAY? WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO DO THAT? >> I WOULD START A CONVERSATION AND SEND THOSE SIGNALS THAT YOU ARE LGBTQ SUPPORTIVE. >> IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS STRUGGLING WITH YOUR MENTAL HEALTH, CALL THE NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION LIFELINE AT 988 OR VISIT 988LIFELINE.ORG. >>> OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS, WE HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THE TRAIL OF BLACK MARKET MARIJUANA IN THE UNITED STATES BY CHINESE ORGANIZED CRIME GANGS. THIS MORNING, WE HAVE A LOOK AT HOW THESE DRUGS ARE BEING TRANSPORTED AND THE WORK BEING DONE TO STOP IT. WE HAVE THE DETAILS AND THE LATEST IN OUR SERIES. CAPTIVES OF CANNABIS. >> Reporter: A LATE NIGHT STOP ALONG A DESOLATE TENNESSEE HIGHWAY. IN THE BACK OF THE TRUCK, AGENTS DISCOVERED NEARLY $1 MILLION IN ILLEGAL MARIJUANA THEY SAY IS TIED TO CHINESE ORGANIZED CRIME. ACROSS OUR NATION'S, CONSTELLATIONS OF INTERSTATES AND HIGHWAYS. >> THIS GOES FROM CALIFORNIA ALL THE WAY TO NORTH CAROLINA AND IT IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR ROUTES FOR SMUGGLING DRUGS AND MONEY INTO THE UNITED STATES. >> Reporter: LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT NOW FACING DOWN THE GLOBAL CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE. OVER THE COURSE, WE WATCHED OFFICERS STOP VEHICLES COMMITTING TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS AND THEY ALSO SUSPECT TRANSPORTING ILLEGAL CONTRABAND INCLUDING THIS SUV. >> Reporter: MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THEY GAVE DIFFERENT STORIES WHICH IS REASON ENOUGH TO START SEARCHING THE CAR AND THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE DOING, RIGHT NOW. >> Reporter: AFTER A THOROUGH SEARCH, NO DRUGS WERE FOUND IN THESE DRIVERS ARE SENT ON THEIR WAY. THAT IS NOT ALWAYS THE CASE. THIS IS WHAT WOULD MILLION DOLLARS IN WEEK LOOKS LIKE? >> Reporter: JOHN CARTER SAYS THEY ARE SEEING MORE LOADS LIKE THIS AND SUSPECT ONE INTERNATIONAL CRIME ROUTE TO BE IN CHARGE OF IT. >> Reporter: IS THAT A COMMON SITE FOR YOU, THESE DAYS? >> IT IS. >> Reporter: WHAT DOES THAT SAY TO YOU? >> WE SUSPECTED RIGHT OFF IT WAS COMING FROM OKLAHOMA. >> Reporter: WE HAVE SEEN FIRSTHAND HOW CHINESE GROUPS ARE OPERATING. NOW THE DEA SAYS IT IS AN EXPANDING PHENOMENON. >> WE HAVE FOUND 23 STATES WHERE CHINESE ORGANIZATIONS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE CULTIVATION OF MARIJUANA. >> Reporter: THE DEA ALSO ACKNOWLEDGING FOR THE FIRST TIME , A NOTABLE UPTICK IN THE NUMBER OF CULTIVATION SITES LEADING TO ORGANIZED CRIME WITH PROCEEDS USED TO FIND CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES. >> Reporter: THE PERSON OR PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT YOU HERE, DID THEY TELL YOU THE TRUTH? >> NO, THEY DID NOT TELL HER THAT. >> Reporter: THIS YEAR, TWO CHINESE NATIONALS WERE CONVICTED OF ILLEGALLY TRAFFICKING 27 TONS OF MARIJUANA AND MORE THAN $100 MILLION IN DRUG PROCEEDS FROM MEXICO CARTELS AND THOSE PROSECUTIONS HAVE NOT STOPPED DRUGS, MONEY OR HUMAN SMUGGLING ON START 40. >> THEY ARE OPERATING IN AMERICA AND FROM OUR POINT OF VIEW AND OUR POINT OF VIEW ONLY, IT IS SEEMINGLY ALMOST UNCHECKED. >> Reporter: TRANSNATIONAL CRIME ON LOCAL ROADS STILL SPEEDING AHEAD. NBC NEWS, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. >>> ANOTHER REASON TO EAT YOUR GREENS. WHEN WE COME BACK, THE NEW RESEARCH THAT SHOWS THE BEST I HAVE FOR YOU IS ALSO GOOD FOR THE PLANET. >>> IT IS THE STUFF NIGHTMARES ARE MADE OF. CASUAL STROLL AT THE BEACH TURNS INTO A HARROWING RESCUE FOR ONE >>> ARE YOU COMFORTABLE WITH THE ROLE OF THE SUPREME COURT IS PLAYING IN THE 2024 ELECTION? >>> DO YOU BEAR RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT IS HAPPENING AT THE BORDER? >>> IF IT IS SUNDAY, IT IS "MEET THE PRESS." >>> IT IS TIME FOR OUR WEEKLY MEDICAL CHECKUP AND WE ARE TAKING A LOOK AT THE HEAT HAS MANY STATES ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE EXPRESSING RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES. THE HOT WEATHER CAN BE BAD FOR YOUR HEART. >>> WE WILL TELL YOU WHY EATING A HEALTHY DIET MIGHT BE GOOD FOR NOT JUST YOU BUT THE PLANET. WE HAVE THE MEDICAL CONTRIBUTOR IN STUDIO WITH US. YOU ARE HERE IN THE FLESH AND IT IS GREAT TO SEE YOU. LET'S START WITH THIS NEW STUDY OUT OF HARVARD FINDING THE BEST DIET MIGHT BE THE BEST FOR THE PLANET. >> THIS WAS A STUDY THAT LOOKED AT DECADES OF RESEARCH TRIED TO SEE WHAT LOW RESOURCED FOODS, FOODS, NUTS, GRAINS, THINGS THAT DON'T NEED A LOT OF WATER OR TAKING UP THE PLANETS RESOURCES IN ORDER TO GROW AND PEOPLE IN THE TOP 10% OF THESE LOW RESOURCED DIETS WERE ACTUALLY LESS LIKELY TO DIE FROM HEART DISEASE AND CHRONIC DISEASES AND, OVERALL, HAD A TYPE THAT RESULTED IN ABOUT 29% GREENHOUSE EMISSIONS MEETING IF YOU HAVE A DIET THAT IS NUTS, FRUITS, VEGETABLES ORIENTED AND WHAT WE SAY IS A NATURAL LOW RESOURCED DIET, YOU ARE NOT ONLY HEALTHIER AS AN INDIVIDUAL BUT YOU ARE HELPING THE PLANET. THE DOCTOR'S ORDERS HERE ARE THAT YOU CAN TRY TO STAY GREEN BY USING THESE AND THIS IS SOMETHING YOU CAN DO IN SMALL INCREMENTS. YOU DON'T HAVE TO TURN YOUR DIET OVERNIGHT BUT PUTTING SOME NOTES AND NATURAL OILS IN PLACES THAT MIGHT BE MORE PROCESSED, IT CAN HELP YOU AND IT CAN HELP THE PLANET. >>> THIS WAS PUBLISHED IN THE JOURNAL OF OBESITY. IF YOU ARE TRYING TO LOWER YOUR BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS, SPECIFICALLY, EXERCISING IN THE EVENING MIGHT BE THE WAY TO GO? >> THIS HAS BEEN A LITTLE BIT OF THE HOLY GRAIL OF RESEARCH TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHEN IS THE RIGHT TIME TO DIET AND WHEN IS THE RIGHT TIME TO EXERCISE AND RESEARCHERS TOOK ABOUT 186 INDIVIDUALS WITH THE AVERAGE AGE AT 46 AND THE AVERAGE BODY MASS INDEX WAS PRETTY OBESE, ABOUT 32 MEANING THIS IS NOT FOR SOMEONE LOSING FIVE OR 10 POUNDS BUT THOSE BY DEFINITION THAT ARE OBESE AND 32 BMI SO BODY MASS INDEX WHICH TRANSLATES TO THE DEFINITION OF OBESITY. THE REASON I MENTIONED THAT IS BECAUSE I DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO OVER INTERPRET THAT YOU CAN ONLY EXERCISE AT NIGHT BUT FOR THESE INDIVIDUALS, THEY PUT FITNESS METERS ON THEIR WRIST AND CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE MONITOR AND FOUND THAT WHEN YOU CONCENTRATE 50% OF THE HIGH INTENSITY EXERCISE IN THE EVENING, OVERALL SUGAR LEVELS WERE LOWER. I THINK PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THEIR OWN DATA. I THINK THE TAKE AWAY FROM THIS IS THAT YOU ARE DIFFERENT IN THE WAY YOU PROCESS SUGAR MIGHT BE DIFFERENT DEPENDING ON YOUR BODY AND IT IS HELPFUL TO HAVE THE GLUCOSE MONITORS TO KNOW WHEN EXERCISE AND DIET AFFECTS YOUR SUGAR. >> VERY INTERESTING. I THINK MOST OF US ARE LIKE GET UP AND GET IT DONE AND GET IT OUT OF THE WAY. >> TRY TO BE CONSCIOUS OF THIS BUT DON'T STRESS ABOUT THE TIME. BUT BE AWARE AND I THINK HAVING THAT DATA GIVES YOU THE AWARENESS AND THAT IS WHAT THE STUDY IS ABOUT. >>> LET'S TALK ABOUT THE HEAT. ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY, WE ARE SEEING RECORDS BROKEN LEFT AND RIGHT BUT WE ARE UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS COULD INCREASE STRESS ON THE HEART WHICH POSES MAYBE NOT A SURPRISE BUT WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT THIS WHEN IT SEEMS LIKE THIS TREND IS CONTINUING? >> IT CANNOT BE NATURAL TO BE IN THIS KIND OF HEAT SO THIS WAS A CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT, THREE SETS OF ADULTS WHERE THEY BASICALLY RAISE THE CORE BODY TEMPERATURE BY 0.5 DEGREES CELSIUS. WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT DRAMATIC SWINGS BUT FOR THE BODY, THAT CAN BE IMPORTANT ENOUGH AND FOR INDIVIDUALS, WHEN THEY RAISED THE CORE BODY TEMPERATURE 1.5 DEGREES, ABOUT SEVEN OF THESE INDIVIDUALS ACTUALLY HAD A SYMPTOMATIC HEART ATTACK AND WHAT THAT IS FROM, WHEN YOU AND I ARE HOT, OUR BODY WANTS TO RUSH THE BLOOD TO GET OUR SKIN TO BE ABLE TO COOL DOWN AND THAT PUTS STRESS ON THE HEART AND THAT CAN RE CREATE THE STRESS SO THE DOCTOR'S ORDERS ARE TO JUST STAY COOL, DRINK, HYDRATE, THINK ABOUT HEAT WHEN YOU'RE GOING OUTSIDE. >>> KEVIN JONAS COMING OUT ABOUT HIS SKIN CANCER DIAGNOSIS. WHAT IS THE TAKE AWAY? >> I HAVE NOT ACTUALLY SEEN THIS. I KNOW THAT KEVIN SHARED SOME OF IT ON SOCIAL AND I THINK IT WAS FROM A BIOPSY. I DID NOT SEE WHAT THE FINAL DIAGNOSIS WAS AND I DID TELL YOU THAT THIS IS A REMINDER FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES ABOUT SUN EXPOSURE AND STAYING SAFE AS WELL AS IF YOU SEE ANYTHING, ANY CHANGES IN SKIN PATTERNS, YOU SHOULD GET IT CHECKED OUT AND THE MOST IMPORTANT AREAS ARE THE ONES THAT YOU MAY NOT SEE LIKE ON THE BACK OF THE NECK. EARLY DETECTION AND HEADING TO THE DOCTOR. AND PEOPLE OFTEN CONFUSE IT WITH, I DON'T GO OUTSIDE THAT MUCH AND YOU CAN HAVE ALL KINDS OF RESULTS FROM THAT. I WOULD GUESS THAT KEVIN'S DIAGNOSIS WILL LEAD TO MORE PEOPLE GETTING SCREENED. >> I AM ACTUALLY MAKING AN APPOINTMENT, TODAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. >>> LET'S GET TO SOME MONEY NEWS. ELON MUSK IS STEPPING OUT OF THE RING, SO TO SPEAK, IN HIS LAWSUIT AGAINST OPENAI. SILVANA HENAO . >> Reporter: ELON MUSK DROPPED HIS LAWSUIT AGAINST OPENAI. FOR PUTTING PROFIT ABOVE DEVELOPMENT AND TOOLS TO HELP ADVANCE HUMANKIND. ELON MUSK IS A FORMER BOARD MEMBER AND TOO FOCUSED ON THEIR MAJOR INVESTOR, MICROSOFT. >>> APPLE IS CLOSING IN ON RECLAIMING THE TITLE AS THE WORLD'S MOST VALUABLE COMPANY AFTER THE STOCK ADDED $250 BILLION IN MARKET CAPITOL, YESTERDAY, JUMPING MORE THAN 7% AND THAT IS THE BEST PERCENTAGE GAIN SINCE 2022. APPLE IS JUST A LITTLE LESS THAN $40 BILLION AWAY FROM HAVING MICROSOFT'S 40 NUMBER ONE SPOT. >>> THE APPLE WATCH IS GETTING A NEW FEATURE. MANY USERS HAVE REQUESTED IT FOR YEARS AND I HAVE ALSO HOPED FOR IT, YOU WILL NOW BE ABLE TO PAUSE YOUR ACTIVITY RINGS WHICH CAN BE HELPFUL IF YOU ARE SICK OR TRAVELING AND CANNOT EXERCISE. YOU CAN PAUSE PROGRESS FOR A DAY OR EVEN MONTHS AT A TIME. THE SYSTEM WILL COLLECT YOUR METRICS BUT IF YOU FAIL TO REACH THE NUMBER THAT NORMALLY CLOSES YOUR RING, YOU WON'T LOSE YOUR STREAK. I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS FEATURE. I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR IT. >> I AM NOT INTO THE RING THING. I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT IT BUT I KNOW IT IS SERIOUS >> Reporter: IT IS! IT IS VERY SERIOUS! >>> I NEXT STORY IS SOMEONE YOU MIGHT SEE ON THE BIG SCREEN AND A WOMAN IN MAINE WAS ENJOYING A CASUAL WALK ON THE BEACH WITH HER HUSBAND AND THEN SHE GOT CAUGHT IN QUICKSAND. >> DON'T WORRY, THERE IS NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT UNLESS THERE IS -- >> I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT QUICKSAND WOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER PROBLEM THAN IT TURNED OUT TO BE BECAUSE IF YOU WATCH CARTOONS, QUICKSAND IS THE THIRD WEAKEST THING YOU HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IN ADULT LIFE. >> ALL OF A SUDDEN, I JUST WENT IN. MY FEET COULD NOT FEEL THE BOTTOM. >> Reporter: SHE SAYS SHE WAS WALKING ALONG THE WATER WITH HER HUSBAND AT POMPANO STATE PARK WHEN SHE WAS SUDDENLY WAIST DEEP AND SINKING IN SAND. THE SPOKESPERSON TELLING NBC THAT THE PARK STAFF HAD PLACED WARNING SIGNS IN THE AREA BECAUSE THE NEARBY RIVER SHIP DID DIRECTION. >> SAND IS SATURATED WITH WATER. IT IS EVEN MORE UNSTABLE AND VERY EASY TO FIND YOURSELF THINKING. >> Reporter: AND THAT IS WHAT QUICKSAND IS, SAND WITH HIGH WATER CONTENT. TYPICALLY DO TO SOME KIND OF SOURCE OF WATER UNDERNEATH. HE SAYS, IT IS DIFFERENT FROM SOMETHING LIKE A SINKHOLE WHICH IS MORE OF A CAVITY UNDERGROUND THAT COULD POTENTIALLY TAKE OUT A WHOLE HOUSE OR A TRUCK. DESPITE WHAT WE SEE ON THE BIG SCREEN, PETER SAYS IF YOU FIND YOURSELF STUCK IN THIS STICKY SITUATION, YOU SHOULD BE JUST FINE. >> TYPICALLY, YOU WILL NOT SINK MORE THAN OVER YOUR KNEES OR YOUR HIPS. >> Reporter: STAY CALM, LEAN BACK AND FIND YOUR WAY OUT. >> WE ALL USED TO GO TO THAT BEACH AS KIDS AND WE WOULD PRETEND LIKE WE WERE IN QUICKSAND BUT IT WAS NEVER LIKE THIS. THIS DID NOT WORK OUT THE WAY WE INTENDED. >> DESPITE THAT HARROWING SCENE THAN WHAT WE JUST HEARD, QUICKSAND DEATHS ARE ACTUALLY PRETTY WHERE -- WHERE. DON'T PANIC. GENTLY KICK YOUR LEGS BACK AND FORTH. >>> SOMETIMES, SMALL WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE. >>> BRING YOUR BEST GIRL CONFIDENCE. BRING YOUR BEST GIRL MAGIC. >>> HOW A PHONE MESSAGE MADE THREE YEARS AGO, THE NERVES OF ONE WOMAN BEFORE AN IMPORTANT TEST. STAY WITH US. YOU'RE WATCHING MORNING NEWS NOW . >>> STILL TO COME ON THE CHANNEL 2 NEWS >> THE WATERS ARE CERTAINLY RECEDING NOW. >> STILL TOO CLOSE TO CALL. >> I'M LESTER HOLT, REPORTING FROM GROUND ZERO AS IT IS BEING REFERRED TO. >> THE HAITIAN PEOPLE KNOW A LITTLE SOMETHING ABOUT RESILIENCY. >> WHAT'S THE BIGGEST RISK RIGHT NOW? >> WE WANT TO WELCOME YOU TO THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. >> WE HAVE BEEN TOLD WE CAN'T GO ANY FARTHER. >> THESE ARE SOME RESILIENT FOLKS. >> LET ME GET IN. >>> WELCOME BACK. WHAT WAS ONCE A SMALL STEP FOR MAN MAY TURN OUT TO BE A GIANT LEAP FOR WOMEN. A MAJOR STUDY SUGGESTS WOMEN ARE MORE RESILIENT TO THE STRESSES OF SPACE THAN MEN. THE FINDINGS ARE PRELIMINARY BUT AFTER EXAMINING THE NEW SYSTEM'S REACTION OF TWO MEN AND TWO WOMEN FROM SPACEX'S INSPIRATION FOR MISSION AND COMPARING THE DATA TO 64 OTHER ASTRONAUTS, ACTIVITY IN THE MAN WAS MORE DISRUPTIVE AND IT TOOK LONGER TO RETURN TO NORMAL. THE REASON FOR DISPARITY IS UNCLEAR. AND THIS WILL PROVIDE CRITICAL INTEL. >>> MANY KNOW THE FEELING OF FEELING ANXIOUS BEFORE AN INTERVIEW OR IMPORTANT TEST. ONE WOMAN HELPED TO EASE THOSE NERVES FOR A STRANGER WITH A SMALL DOSE OF ENCOURAGEMENT. >> IT STARTED AS A TYPICAL CALL FOUND IN THREE YEARS AGO BY A TESTING CENTER EMPLOYEE. TODAY, THAT VOICEMAIL IS MAKING THE ROUNDS ONLINE. >> I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN IMPACTED BY THIS WOMAN. >> Reporter: EPSTEIN LISTENED TO A VOICEMAIL HER SISTER RECEIVED FROM HER TO SEND HER BACK IN 2021. >> THIS IS WHAT SHE STUDIES FOR AND THIS IS WHAT YOU WORKED HARD FOR. BRING YOUR BEST GIRL CONFIDENCE! BRING YOUR BEST GIRL MAGIC! >> Reporter: MOVING OVER 1 MILLION VIEWERS TO TEARS, COMMENTS PRAISING THIS WOMAN FOR BRINGING SO MUCH COMPASSION TO A SIMPLE TASK, CALLING HER AN ANGEL ON EARTH. BUT ALSO SETTING OUT TO FIND THE MYSTERY MOTIVATOR ONLY KNOWN AS TAMIKA. >> SOMEONE DROVE TO A TESTING CENTER. >> Reporter: FLOODING WITH MESSAGES BUT THEN IT REALLY HAPPENED. >> WE HAVE FOUND HER! >> THE PAIR SPOKE ON THE PHONE. WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE NICE FOR THEM TO SEE EACH OTHER. >> WHAT WENT THROUGH YOUR MIND? WHAT IS IT LIKE SEEING EACH OTHER NOW. >> SHE'S GOT NO CHOICE BUT TO BE MY FRIEND. WE TALK ALMOST EVERY DAY. >> REALLY? >> YES, WE CHAT IN THE MORNING AND TALK ABOUT THE COMMENTS THAT PEOPLE ARE LEAVING. >> Reporter: WHAT DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND? >> I DON'T HAVE TO KNOW YOU TO HELP YOU A SMILE BECAUSE I'M READY. HAVE A GREAT EVENING >> THANK YOU FOR THAT AMAZIN STORY. >> THAT IS SO COOL THE INTERNET DOING GOOD. THAT WILL DO IT FOR THIS HOUR OF MORNING NEWS NOW >> BUT STAY WITH US. THE NEWS CONTINUES RIGHT NOW >>> GOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING THANK YOU FOR JOINING US I'M SAVANNAH SELLERS >> AND I'M JOE FRYER >>> RIGHT NOW ON MORNING NEW NOW, HUNTER BIDEN GUILTY ON AL COUNTS IN THE CRIMINAL GUN TRIAL. THE PRESIDENT'S ONLY SURVIVING SON NOW FACING A MAXIMUM OF 25 YEARS IN PRISON. WHAT WILL WE SEE WHEN TH DISTRICT COURT JUDGE HANDS DOW THE SENTENCE WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE IN A MOMENT >>> ALSO THIS MORNING, A TERRIFYING BUS HIJACKING CAUGH ON CAMERA IN ATLANTA, THE WILD RUSH HOUR CHASE ENDING WITH ON PASSENGER DEAD AND A 39-YEAR-OLD SUSPECT IN POLICE CUSTODY. THE FRIGHTENING STORY FROM RIDERS ON BOARD AND HOW POLICE EVENTUALLY STOPPED THE CHAOS >>> AND A POTENTIAL TREATMEN FOR ALZHEIMER'S THIS MORNING THE DRUG THAT IS AIMED A SLOWING THE DISEASE' PROGRESSION AND WHEN WE COUL SEE IT HIT THE MARKET. >>> A LOT OF ILLINOIS SHAKING UP BROADWAY WE WILL BRING TWO OF THE DAZZLING ARTISTS BEHIND THE NE MUSICAL. THEY ARE BRINGING A CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED MASTER PIECE T VIBRANT LIFE IN OUR CURTAIN CALL LATER ON IN THE HOUR YOU WILL BRING US TH CONVERSATION IT IS PRONOUNCEDILSE, WITH AN AT THE END >>> WE BEGIN WITH HUNTER BIDEN BEING CONVICTED ON THROW FELON COUNTS THE WEEK LONG TRIAL WAS FILLED WITH PERSONAL TESTIMONY ON HIS STRUGGLES WITH DRUG ADDICTION. RYAN NOBLES HAS MORE ON TH VERDICT AND REACTION TO TH HISTORIC CONVICTION. >> Reporter: HUNTER BIDEN AN HIS LEGAL TEAM PROMISED TO APPEAL THE CONVICTION. THE CONVICTION MEANS THE PRESIDENT'S SON IS FACING TH POSSIBILITY OF JAIL TIME IT COMES AS HIS FATHER'S REELECTION CAMPAIGN IS GEARING UP A WITHIN MINUTES OF THE JURY HANDING DOWN THE VURTH, HUNTER BIDEN WAS LEAVING TH COURTHOUSE, HAND IN HAND WIT FIRST LADY JILL BIDEN. AND THEN LAST NIGHT, HIS FATHE WAS ARRIVING IN WILMINGTON, AN HUNTER WAS THERE TO MEET HIM THE PRESIDENT HAS SAID HE WILL NOT OFFER HIS SON A PARDON ISSUING A STATEMENT OFFERING SUPPORT WITHOUT ATTACKING TH SYSTEM THAT COULD SEND HIS SON TO JAIL. JILL AND I LOVE OUR SON AND WE ARE PROUD OF THE MAN HE IS TODAY. WE WILL CONTINUE TO RESPECT TH JUDICIAL PROCESS AS HUNTER CONSIDERS AN APPEAL. THE DECISION DRAWING A MUTED RESPONSE FROM REPUBLICAN POSSIBLY REMOVING A GOP TALKIN POINT ABOUT A DOUBLE STANDARD OF JUSTICE FOR THE PRESIDENT' FAMILY FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS CONVICTED OF 34 FELONY COUNTS OF HIS OWN AND HAS OFTEN CLAIME THAT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HA BEEN WEAPONIZED AGAINST HIM. >> I JUST WENT THROUGH A RIGGE TRIAL IN NEW YORK. >> Reporter: THE SPECIAL COUNSEL IN CHARGE OF THE HUNTER BIDE INVESTIGATION ARGUING THAT HIS TEAM PROSECUTED THE CASE WITHOUT ANY POLITICAL PRESSURE NO ONE IN THIS COUNTRY IS ABOV THE LAW. EVERYONE MUST BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS, EVEN THIS DEFENDANT. >> Reporter: INSIDE THE JURY ROOM, IT DID NOT TAKE LONG T COME TO THE CONCLUSION THA HUNTER WAS GUILTY OF THE CHARGES RELATED TO POSSESSION OF A FIREARM WHILE USING NARCOTICS. A FEMALE JUROR TELLING USA TODAY SHE DID NOT WANT TO FIND HIM GUILTY BECAUSE HE NEEDED HELP, ADDING IN MY OPINION, THIS WAS A WASTE OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS BU SAYING THE EVIDENCE LED TO A CONVICTION A DIFFERENT MEMBER OF THE JURY TELLING NBC THAT AN INITIAL POLL SHOWED A SIX-SIX SPLIT BUT THE THE NEXT DAY THEY QUICKLY MOVE TO A CONVICTION. ONE JUROR SAYING THAT TH POWERFUL FAMILY PLAYED NO ROLE IN THE PROCESS HE ASKED US TO CONCEAL HIS IDENTITY >> POLITICS NEVER PLAYED INT ANYTHING WE SAID IN THE JURY ROOM >> Reporter: FIRST LADY JILL BIDEN DID NOT MAKE IT BACK INT THE CROM TO HEAR THE VERDICT READ BUT WAS IN THE COURTROO SHORTLY AFTER. SHE CRIED WHEN SHOW MET HUNTER AS HE LEFT THE COURTROOM >> THANK YOU >>> WE ARE LURPING MORE DETAIL ABOUT THE ARREST OF EIGHT MEN IN THE UNITED STATES WITH POTENTIAL TIES TO ISIS >> THEY WERE ARRESTED BY FEDERAL AGENTS IN NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA, AND LOS ANGELES, ACCORDING TO THREE PEOPL FAMILIAR WITH THE MATTER THE SUSPECTS HAD BEEN ON THE FBI'S RADAR. PETER ALEXANDER IS JOINING U FOR MORE HERE. GOOD MORNING, WHAT CAN YOU TEL US ABOUT THE ARRESTS AND THE INVESTIGATION? >> Reporter: SO THOSE EIGHT ME WERE ALL FROM TAJIKISTAN ARRESTED BY ICE OVER THE PAS WEEKEND IN PHILADELPHIA, LOS ANGELES, AND NEW YORK FO POTENTIAL TIES TO ISIS I CENTRAL ASIA THREE PEOPLE FAMILIAR WITH THE MATTER TELL NBC NEWS THAT TH MEN CROSSED THROUGH THE SOUTHERN BORDER AS RECENTLY AS LAST YEAR. AT THAT TIME, AUTHORITIES FOUN NO EVIDENCE OF TERROR TIES O CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS BUT THE FBI HAS BEEN INVESTIGATING A POTENTIAL THREAT OUT OF CENTRAL EUROPE THAT INCLUDED MONITORING THE MEN FO SEVERAL MONTHS NOTABLY A SERIES OF TERROR SUSPECTS HAVE ORIGINATED B TAJIKISTAN WHICH IS BETWEE AFGHANISTAN AND CHINA. IT INCLUDES THE GUNMEN IN TH ATTACK THAT TOOK PLACE A FEW MONTHS AGO WHERE ISIS CLAIME RESPONSIBILITY >> WE KNOW THAT BORDER SECURIT IS A HOT BUTTON ISSUE IN THI ELECTION TELL US ABOUT THE POLITICS O THIS AS WE ARE LESS THAN FIV MONTHS FROM ELECTION DAY >> YOU HAVE ECONOMY, BORDE SECURITY, HIGH ON THE LIST FOR AMERICANS. REPUBLICANS HAVE BLAMED BIDE FOR A RECORD NUMBER OF MIGRANT ILLEGALLY CROSSING INTO TH U.S. DEMOCRATS NOTE THAT REPUBLICAN RECENTLY TANKED A BIPARTISAN BORDER DEAL AT THE URGING OF TRUMP, A DEAL THAT THE BORDE PATROL UNION ENDORSED. BIDEN ENACTED ACTION THA RESTRICTS ASYLUM REQUESTS WHEN BORDER CROSSINGS EACH 2500 A DAY. AND WE REMAIN IN A HIGH THREAT ENVIRONMENT RIGHT NOW. FBI DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER WRA WARNING CONGRESS THAT SOME DANGEROUS INDIVIDUALS HAVE CROSSED INTO THE U.S. AND HE REMAINS CONCERNED ABOUT PARTICULAR NETWORK WITH ISIS TIES >> WHILE WE HAVE YOU, PRESIDEN BIDEN WILL TRAVEL TO EUROPE FO THE G7 SUMMIT. WHAT IS ON THE PRESIDENT'S SCHEDULE WHEN HE ARRIVES I ITALY? >> Reporter: HE WILL BE MEETIN WITH SOME OF THE BIGGEST ALLIE OF UNITED STATES ON A COUPLE O TOPICS THERE IS NEW REPORTING O UKRAIN, THAT THE U.S. HAS AGREED TO SEND MORE PATRIOT MISSILES TO UKRAINE. RIGHT NOW THE AIR DEFENSES ARE AMONG THOSE THAT PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY HAS BEEN ASKING FOR TO TRY TO DEAL WITH THE AWFUL INCOMING, THE BARRAGE THAT HAS BEEN RELENTLESS FOR MUCH OF TH LAST SEVERAL YEARS FROM RUSSIA SEPARATELY, THE TOPIC OF ISRAEL, THE WAR BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HAMAS WILL BE A HIGH PRIORITY AS WELL. THE U.S. IS PUSHING FOR A CEAS FIRE THERE ARE A LOT OF PRESSURE FROM AMERICA'S ALLIES EXPECTED TO B IN ATTENDANCE THERE. ALL OF IT IS ON THE PRESIDENT' PLATE AS HE RETURNS TO EUROP FOR THE SECOND TIME IN TWO WEEKS. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH >>> CAMPAIGN BALLOTS ARE TAKIN SHAPE IN MAJOR RACES >> FROM KEY BATTLE STATES TO BITTLE FEUDS, WE HAVE A LOT TO BREAK DOWN >> LET'S BRING IN ALI VITALI GOOD MORNING LET'S START IN NOVEMBER. NBC NEWS IS PROJECTING SAM BROWN HAS WON THE GOP SENATE PRIMARY A KEY RACE AGAINST SENATOR JACKIE ROSEN WE WILL WATCH THIS CLOSELY WHAT SHOULD WE KNOW ABOUT BROW AND ABOUT THE RACE >> THE ARMY VETERAN WAS ABLE T CLINCH THE NOMINATION YESTERDA MERE DAYS BEFORE AT A RALLY THAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT POSTED IN NEVADA HE GAVE SAM BROWN HI ENDORSEMENT. THAT IS NOTABLE AND IMPORTANT AS WE TRACK THE CONTINUED POWER O A TRUMP ENDORSEMENT IN THE PRIMARY BATTLE THIS KEYS UP A REALLY IMPORTAN GENERAL ELECTION BATTLE. NEVADA IS ONE OF THOSE STATE THAT REPUBLICANS ARE LOOKING A THINKING IT COULD BE A PICKU OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM WHEN YOU LOOK ACROSS THE MAP DEMOCRATS HAVE A LOT OF PLACES THAT THEY COULD PLAY DEFENSE NEVADA IS ONE THAT IS KEY TO KEEPING THE MUJRT. SO REPUBLICANS THINK IT COULD BE A PICKUP OPPORTUNITY AND A CHANCE TO TAKE CONTROL OF TH SENATE >> LET'S LOOK AT NORTH DAKOTA. WE SAA FLIP BETWEEN FORMER PRESIDENT TRUM FOR HIM >> ALL RIGHT, ALI VITALI RUNNING ON ADRENALIN AND COFFEE. >> AND CAMPAIGN MAGIC. >> THANK YOU >>> THERE ARE NEW DEVELOPMENTS FOR A PUSH FOR A CEASE FIRE IN GAZA ANTONY BLINKEN IS IN THE REGIO AND URGING HAMAS AND ISRAEL TO ACCEPT A PROPOSAL BACKED BY U.S. >> Reporter: TWO WEEKS AFTER PRESIDENT BIDEN LAID OUT THE CEASE FIRE PROPOSAL TO END THE WAR IN GAZA AND FREE HOSTAGES, THERE IS FINALLY A RESPONSE FROM HAMAS BUT IT IS NOT A CLEAR YE AND NOT A CLEAR NO INSTEAD, THE GROUP IS SEEKIN CHANGES TO THE OFFER THAT IS O THE TABLE. THIS MORNING AS SECRETAR BLIPGEN HEADS TO QATAR TO MEET HOSTAGE NEGOTIATORS, THE U.S SAYS IT IS STUDYING THE RESPONSE TO THE CEASE FIRE DEAL LAID OU BY PRESIDENT BIDEN >> WE ARE IN RECEIPT OF TH REPLY THAT HAMAS DELIVERED T QATAR. AND WE ARE EVALUATING IT NOW >> Reporter: THEY SAY THEY ARE READY TO REACH AN AGREEMENT THAT ENDS THE WAR BUT A SOURCE FAMILIAR WITH SITUATION TELLS NBC NEWS THA HAMAS IS ASKING FOR AMENDMENTS TO THE PROPOSAL, INCLUDING A TIMELINE FOR WHEN ISRAELI FORCES WOULD FULLY WITHDRAW FROM GAZA THE RESPONSE MEANS A DEAL MA STILL BE POSSIBLE BUT THE TW SIDES MAY ALSO STILL BE FA APART. HAMAS'S LEADER SINWAR SAYING H BELIEVES MORE PALESTINIAN DEATHS WORK IN HIS ADVANTAGE, CALLING THEM NECESSARY SACRIFICES. THE U.S. RESPONDED >> IT SHOULD SURPRISE AND SHOC NO ONE THAT A BEAST LIKE MR. SINWAR WOULD TAKE GLEE IN IT >> Reporter: THIS IS THE MOMEN AT IRANIAN BACKED MILITANT FIRED ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL, ONE OF THE BIGGEST BUM BARDMENTS O THE ENTIRE WAR THE ATTACK WAS IN RESPONSE TO AN ISRAELI ATTACK THAT KILLED A SENIOR HEZBOLLAH COMMANDER NOW A RAISE AGAINST TIME TO EN ONE WAR AND KEEP ANOTHER FRO STARTING THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS THE BES WAY TO AVOID A WAR IN LEBANON IS TO GET TO A CEASE FIRE IN GAZA THEY HOPE THAT COULD PAVE TH WAY FOR A HISTORIC PEACE TREAT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND SAUDI ARABIA. THE INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT FIRST HURDLE IS TO GET THROUGH ISRAE AND HAMAS. BACK TO YOU. >> THANK YOU >>> AT LEAST ONE PERSON IS DEA AFTER A GUNMAN HIJACKED A CITY BUS IN ATLANTA MORE THAN A DOZEN PASSENGERS WERE ON BOARD. THE SUSPECT IS IN CUSTODY AND NO ONE ELSE WAS INJURED IN TH INCIDENT PRIYA SRIDHAR HAS MORE ON TH SUSPECT AND WHAT HAPPENED. >> Reporter: IT WAS LIKE A SCENE OUT OF AN ACTION MOVIE BUT THI TERROR WAS REAL. THE MAN CREATED A TERRIFYING SCENE NOT JUST FOR THE PASSENGERS ON BOARD BUT EVERYONE WHO WAS WATCHING ON LIVE TV. A HIGH SPEED CHASE THROUGH RUS HOUR CAUGHT ON CAMERA, A MAN HIJACKING A PUBLIC TRANSIT BUS FORCING THE DRIVER TO DRIVE AT GUNPOINT LEADING POLICE IN PURSUI THROUGH RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC. ONE PASSENGER LATER DIED IT STARTED WHEN POLICE RESPONDED TO A REPORT OF GUNFIRE ON A BU AND A POSSIBLE HOSTAGE SITUATION. >> SHOTS FIRED, PERSON SHOTTINGING ON THE BUS >> Reporter: THE BUS FLED TH LOCATION WITH TWO DOZEN POLICE VEHICLES CHASING THE PAERMGS ON BOARD TERRIFIED JOHNNY GILBERT SAYS HIS WIFE CALLED HIM AT WORK >> SHE SAID THAT ONE GUEYE SHO ANOTHER GUY ON THE BUS >> Reporter: AFTER WAITING I AGONY, GILBERT FINALLY CONFIRMED HIS WIFE WAS SAFE. DURING THE HAS, THE BUS SEEN HITTING MULTIPLE CARS BEFORE POLICE USED A BEARKAT VEHICLE TO STOP IT. MULTIPLE PASSENGERS SEEN GETTING OFF THE BUS WITH HANDS IN THEI AIR. UPON CLEARING THE BUS, OFFICER FOUND AN ADULT VICTIM WITH A GUNSHOT WOUND WHO WAS RUSHED T THE HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION, LATER DYING POLICE SAY THE SUSPECT 39-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH GREER WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY WITHOUT FURTHER INCIDENT >> IT IS LIKE THE MOVIES THIS DAY IS NOT INDICATIVE O ALL OF THE DAYS OF THE CITY OF ATLANTA BUT THIS IS A DAY WE WILL NEVER FORGET. >> Reporter: THIS ALL HAPPENED HOURS AFTER FOUR PEOPL INCLUDING A SUSPECT WERE SHOT IN A DOWNTOWN ATLANTA FOOD COURT. ALL ARE EXPECTED TO SURVIVE. AUTHORITIES DO NOT BELIEVE THA THE TWO INCIDENTS WERE CONNECTED. >> THANK YOU >>> THE TRIPLE DIGIT HEAT WAVE SCORCHING PARTS OF THE SOUTHWESTERN U.S. IS NOT LETTING UP MILLIONS FROM CALIFORNIA T TEXAS ARE STILL UNDER EXCESSIV HEAT WARNINGS. >> THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVIC SAYS LAS VEGAS COULD REACH TEMPERATURES OF 112 DEGREE TODAY AND TOMORROW THAT WOULD SET A NEW RECORD. >> THAT IS WHERE CORRESPONDENT LIZ KREUTZ IS JOINING US FROM, GOOD MORNING WE KNOW IT IS URLETHERE BUT EVEN RIGHT NOW, IS IT ALREADY WAR OUT? >> HEY SAVANNAH AND JOE. IT IS NOT TOO BAD WHEN YOU TAL ABOUT 112 BUT IT IS ALREADY 85 AT 5:00 A.M. AND IT COULD GET A HIGH AS 112 AT THE HOTTEST TIM OF THE DAY WHAT IS SIGNIFICANT IS WE AR GOING ON 14 DAYS STRAIGHT OF TRIPLE DIGIT TEMPERATURES IN VEGAS IN THE SOUTHWEST AREA. IT IS THE HOTTEST START TO JUN IN LAS VEGAS ON RECORD IT HAS BEEN 100 DEGREES OR HIGHER EVERY DAY SINCE MAY 30th. IT IS HOT HERE IT IS EARLIER THAN USUAL WE WERE INTERVIEWING AN AC REPERRIMAN WHO SAID HE IS SO MUCH BUSIER RIGHT NOW THAN THE SAME TIME LAST YEAR. WE ARE SO GRATEFULIA ARE REPORTING FOR US WE KNOW YOU FOUND WAYS TO STAY SAFE AND COOL. WHAT ARE THE WAYS OFFICIALS AR URMGING PEOPLE TO STAY SAFE AN COOL >> Reporter: WE ARE LAS VEGA AND WE INTERVIEWED OFFICIALS WHO ARE SAYING THAT WE GET A LOT O VISITORS WHO ARE DRINKING AN THAT CAN DEHYDRATE YOU SO REALLY DRINK LOTS OF FLUID, STAY IN THE AC, OUT OF THE SUN ALWAYS AN IMPORTANT REMINDER, DO NOT LEAVE CHILDREN OR PETS UNATTENDED IN VEHICLES WEAR LIGHT WEIGHT, LOOSE FITTING CLOTHING AND LIMIT STRENUOUS ACTIVITIES SOME PEOPLE ARE MOVING EXERCIS ROUTINES TO A 5:00 A.M STARTTIME GET ABEARLIER START TO EVERYTHING >> THAT IS A LOT EARLIER START >> I WOULD BE LIKE, NAH, SKIP IT TODAY. >> IF SOMEONE'S JUB REQUIRES THEM TO BE OUTSIDE, WHAT CAN THEY DO TO PROTECT THEMSELVE DURING THE EXCESSIVE HEA WARNINGS AND WHAT ARE THE HEAT RELATE SYMPTOMS THAT PEOPLE SHOUL WATCH OUT FOR? >> Reporter: DEFINITELY HEAT STROKE IS A BIG CONCERN. THERE HAVE BEEN MANY CALLS FOR HEAT RELATED ILLNESSES YOU START TO FEEL DIZZY OR LIGHT HEADED, YOU HAVE A HEADACHE, LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS, ALL OF THOSE ARE SYMPTOMS OF POTENTIAL HEAT STROKE OR ILLNESS. IF YOU ARE WORKING OUTSIDE THERE IS A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW. YOU NEED TO SCHEDULE FREQUEN BREAKS, FIND AIR CONDITIONING. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO LAKE MEAD WHICH IS NEARBY OR RIVERS TO KIND OF BEAT THE HEA AND JUMP IN THE COLD WATER BUT YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL BECAUSE SOMETIMES THE HEAT OUTSIDE AND THEN YOUR BODY B SHOCKED WHEN YOU JUMP IN THE COLD WATER SO KEEP THAT IN MIND >> STAY SAFE AND STAY COOL I YOU CAN. FOR MORE ON THE HEAT WAVE, LET'S BRING IN METEOROLOGIST ANGIE LASSMAN. >> THE HEAT IS GETTING A LOT O FOLKS' ATTENTION YOU HEARD LIZ TALK ABOUT IT. WE ARE NOT GETTING IMPROVEMENT WHEN IT COMES TO HEAT ALERTS IT IS STILL IN EFFECT FOR 18 MILLION PEOPLE AT THE FOUR CORNERS. THOSE ARE THE SPOTS TO WATCH FOR RECORDS TODAY. TRIPLE DIGITS ONCE AGAIN EXPECTED FOR THE FOLKS IN TH REGION AS YOU HEARD LIZ SAY, WEEKS AN WEEKS. 90 DEGREES IN SALT LAKE CITY NOR NEARLY 20 DEGREES ABOV NORMAL ALBUQUERQUE IS NEARLY MISSIN THE TRIPLE DIGITS. AND AS FAR NORTH AS CHICAGO, EXPECTED TO HIT 90 DEGREES TODAY. WE HAVE OMAHA EXPECTED TO HIT 95 TODAY. A HANDFUL OF RECORDS FOR THE WEST I THINK THAT IT WILL B IMPRESSIVE WHEN IT COMES T TEMPERATURES WHEN WE GET INT TOMORROW, CROSSING THE GREAT LAKES AND INTO THE NORTHEAST WE HAVE 85 FOR NEW YORK. NOT RECORD BREAKING BUT STIL WARM FOR WHERE WE SHOULD BE THIS TIME OF YEAR THIS IS SOMETHING THAT LASTS WITH US FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD AS FAR AHEAD AS NEXT WEEK, W COULD TALK ABOUT TEMPERATURE WARMER THAN THIS SO SUMMER IN FULL SWING. FOR FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, WE HAVE 90 ON TAP FOR ROANOKE UPPER 80s FOR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY MEMPHIS IS HEADED TO 90 FO SATURDAY AND WAMMER BY SUNDA FOR THE SECOND HALF OF THE WEEKEND. AND WILMINGTON WILL GO FROM 90 ON SATURDAY TO UPPER 80s O SUNDAY HEAT AND HUMIDITY FOR A LOT OF FOLKS FOR THE WEEKEND. OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS THE STATE OF FLORIDA IS AL RAIN WE WILL SEE THE FLOODING CONCERNS REMAIN. WE HAVE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS THAT WE DEALT WITH YESTERDAY THEY CAUSED FLASH FLOO WARNINGS A LOT OF THAT WILL REOCCUR TODAY. 7 MILLION PEOPLE UNDER FLOOD WATCHES NOW WILL LIKELY SE THOSE STICK WITH US. THIS IS A PESKY FRONT THAT HANGS OUT IN THE SAME REGION IT STALLS OUT AND LEAVES US WITH PLENTY OF TROPICAL MOISTURE TO TAP INTO OVER THE PAST 24 HOURS WE SA SOME IMPRESSIVE RAINFALL RATES WE HAD A ONE IN 1,000 YEAR RAINFALL EVENT YESTERDAY PICKING UP IMPRESSIVE AMOUNTS IN ONE HOUR, OVER THREE INCHES, SETTING AN HOURLY RAINFALL RECORD RATE. I WONT SURPRISED IF IT HAPPENS AGAIN. IT IS NOT LETTING UP 3 TO 6 INCHES FELL YESTERDAY I PARTS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA THAT'S WHERE WE SAW THE HIGHES AMOUNTS OF RAINFALL. BY THE TIME WE GET TO SATURDAY AND THIS STARTS TO WIND DOWN, IT MAY BE OVER A FOOT PLACES LIKE MIAMI AND FORT LAUDERDALE, IT DOESN'T TAKE LOT FOR FLOODING TO OCCUR. SO A FEW INCHES IN AN HOUR REALLY CAUSES PROBLEMS SO WE ARE WATCHING FOR MOR FLASH FLOODING TODAY IF YOU LOOK AHEAD TO FRIDAY, WARM TEMPERATURES AS I MENTIONED IN THE MID-ATLANTIC AN NORTHEAST. SUNSHINE FOR THE MID SECTION O THE COUNTRY. THE JUNE HEAT STICKS WITH US O SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. IT WILL BE WARM AND NICE AS WE GET TO FATHER'S DAY ON SUNDAY. >> PERFECT FOR DAD >> THANK YOU >>> MUCH MORE TO COME ON THI HOUR OF MORNING NEWS NOW INCLUDING A POTENTIA ALZHEIMER'S BREAK THROUGH THAT COULD BE APPROVED BY THE FDA >>> BUT FIRST, THE MURDERS O NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON AND RON GOLDMAN 30 YEARS L >>> TODAY MARKS 30 YEARS SINCE THE MURDERS OF NICOLE BROW SIMPSON AND RON GOLDMAN. O.J. SIMPSON WAS ARRESTED AND LATER ACQUITTED IN THE TRIAL O THE CENTURY. >> MILLIONS TUNED IN TO WATC THE NOT GUILTY VERDICT IT IS SHINING A LIGHT ON THE RACIAL DIVIDE IN THE COUNTRY IN THE WAKE OF SIMPSON'S DEATH QUESTIONS REMAIN ABOUT WHA HAPPENED ALL THOSE YEARS AGO KATE SNOW IS JOINING US NOW FO MORE >> FOR ALL OF US ALIVE THEN, JUNE 12th BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF WHERE WE WERE THE EVIDENCE LIVES ON IN OUR MEMORY FORKING EIGHT MONTHS IN 1995 THE COUNTRY WAS OBSESSED WIT THE TRIAL. VERDICT WAS DIVISIVE AND IT LEFT TWO FAMILIES REELING >> 30 YEARS AFTER HER MURDER NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON'S FAMILY IS TRYING TO HAVE HER REMEMBERE DIFFERENTLY. IN A DOCUMENTARY, HER SISTER SHARE HER NICOLE >> MY NICOLE WAS PRIVATE FOR S LONG >> Reporter: RON GOLDMAN'S FATHER AND SISTER SAYING IN 2013 THAT THE GRIEF IS ALWAYS THERE >> IT DOESN'T LEAVE YOU. IT MOVES THROUGH YOUR DAY AT DIFFERENT TIMES. >> Reporter: THE VERDICT IN TH O.J. SIMPSON MURDER TRIAL WAS THE END OF A NATIONAL SPECTACL BUT THREE DECADES LATER, QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MURDER, TH TRIAL AND THE VERDICT REMAIN >> ALL OF THE EVIDENCE WENT IN ONE DIRECTION. >> Reporter: TOM LAMB WAS TH LEAD INVESTIGATOR ON THE MURDE CASE IN HIS BOOK, EVIDENCE DISMISSED, HE ARGUES THAT 20 PIECES O EVIDENCE AGAINST SIMPSON WER NEVER MENTIONED IN COURT AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN >> THE BLOOD ON THE GATE DRINKING GLASSES IN CHICAGO. >> Reporter: HE BELIEVES THERE WAS MORE TO SAY ABOUT TH POSSIBLE WHERE ABOUTS OF THE MURDER WEAPON AND THE BLOODY FOODPRINTS MADE BY BRUNO MOLLY'S SHOES. >> I DON'T THINK THERE WAS ANY DOUBT IN ANYONE'S MIND THA WHOEVER LEFT THE FOOTPRINTS WA THE KILLER >> Reporter: LAST WEEK, THE FB RELEASED 45 PAGES OF DOCUMENTS DETAILING HOW AMGS WENT TO ETALLY TO VISIT THE SHOE DESIGNER AND DETERMINED ONLY 299 PAIRS OF SIZE 12 SHOES THA MATCH THE FOOTPRINTS WERE EVER DISTRIBUTED. >> DO YOU THINK IF THE JUR HEARD MORE ABOUT THE SHOES, IT WOULD HAVE MADE THE JURY CONVICT SIMPSON? >> NO, I DON'T THINK THAT WOUL HAVE CHANGED EVERYTHING. THAT'S NOT THE POINT THE POINT IS YOU PUT ON AL EVIDENCE OF THE CASE >> Reporter: HE SAYS THE TRIAL WASN'T ABOUT O.J >> THERE WAS MISTRUST OF THE L.A.P.D. THIS WAS PUSHED BY THE DEFENSE WHICH ESSENTIALLY PU THE L.A.P.D. ON TRIAL >> Reporter: SO MANY WHA IFSPLIED OUT AND NOW NICOLE' FAMILY IS ATTEMPTING TO RECLAI THEIR NARRATIVE. >> WHY NOW >> I ASKED MY SISTERS IF THE WANTED TO LET THE WORLD KNOW WHO NICOLE REALLY WAS. AND WE ALL AGREED THIS WAS THE RIGHT TIME >> WHAT DO YOU HOPE PEOPLE WIL GLEAN FROM THIS? >> I REALLY WANT PEOPLE TO GET TO KNOW WHO NICOLE WAS AND YOU WANT TO HUMANIZE HER YOU WANT TO HEAR HER VOICE >> AFTER 30 YEARS, DETECTIVE LANG STRESSED TO ME THAT THI STORY WAS NOT ABOUT CELEBRITY. IT WAS ABOUT TWO YOUNG PEOPL WHO WERE BRUTALLY MURDERED AND ON THIS DAY, THAT'S WHAT W NEED TO REMEMBER >> INTERESTINGLY, HE SAYS EVEN IF THE SHOES WOULD HAVE BEEN A BIGGER DEAL, HE STILL DOESN' THINK THE JURY WOULD B DIFFERENT. >> HE THINKS THEY WERE ON TH SIDE OF THE DEFENSE. >>> INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES NOW, STARTING IN UKRAINE, AND WHE THE U.S. DECIDES TO SEND ANOTHER MISSILE SYSTEM WITH A DESPERAT PLEA FROM KYIV >> GOOD MORNING. ANOTHER AMERICAN PATRIOT MISSILE SYSTEM IS HEADED TO UKRAIN COR ACCORDING TO TWO SOURCES THIS IS THE SECOND SYSTEM THAT THE U.S. HAS GIVEN UKRAIN. THIS FOLLOWS DESPERATE CALLS FOR MORE AIR DEFENSES AS THEY BATTLE AN INTENSE ASSAULT ON TH NORTHEASTERN REGION. PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY SAYS THE NEED ANOTHER SEVEN OF TH SYSTEMS TO FEND OFF RUSSIA STRIKES IN CIVILIAN AREAS. >>> NOW TO THE VATICAN WHERE THE POPE HAS USED A DEROGATORY TER AGAINST GAY PEOPLE ACCORDING T AN ITALIAN NEWS AGENCY THIS IS THE SAME WORD HE APOLOGIZED FOR LAST MONTH. HE USED IT IN A CLOSED DOO MEETING WITH ITALIAN BISHOPS THIS TIME IT WAS REPORTEDLY WITH ROMAN PRIESTS SAYING THAT IT WAS BETTER IF YOUNG MEN WITH HOMOSEXUAL TENDENCIES NOT ENTE A CONVENT. >>> FINALLY TO ARGENTINA, A MA TRIED TO REACH THE TOP OF BUILDING IN BUENOS ARYEN WITHOUT SAFETY EQUIPMENT. THEY WERE ABLE TO REACH HIM AN GET HIM DOWN THE MAN IS NOW IN CUSTODY. AUTHORITIES WILL BE ASKING THE COURTS TO ORDER HIM TO PAY FOR THE ENTIRE RESCUE OPERATION WITH ONE OFFICIAL SAYING LOCALS SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BEAR THE COST OF HIS RECKLESSNESS. >> WOW THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >>> COMING UP, A POTENTIAL BREAK THROUGH IN TREATING ALZHEIMER'S. >> MORE ON THE DRUG THAT COULD BE HEADED TO FDA APPROVAL AN HOW IT COULD CHANGE THE LIVES OF >>> WELCOME BAG. A NEW ALZHEIMER'S TREATMEN COULD HIT THE MARKET BY THE EN OF THE YOUR AFTER AN FDA ADVISORY COMMITTEE VOTED T RECOMMEND IT >> IF APPROVED, THE ELI LILL DRUG WOULD BE THE SECOND ON TH MARKET TO SLIGHTLY SLOW DOWN THE PROGRESSION OF THE DISEASE >> MEDICAL CONTRIBUTOR, DR NATALIE AZAR IS HERE WITH US T BREAK DOWN THE DECISION. IT SOUNDS LIKE GOOD NEWS, RIGHT? TELL US HOW MUCH THIS COULD HELP AND HOW IT WORKS >> THIS IS THE SECOND DRUG ACTUALLY THE THIRD BUT REALL THE SECOND DRUG IN A CLASS O DRUGS CALLED MONOCLONA ANTIBODIES THIS ATTACKS AND REMOVES THE AMYLOID PLAQUES THAT START I THE BRAINS OF PATIENTS WIT ALZHEIMER'S AND ARE THOUGHT TO BE IN PART RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SYMPTOMS OF THE DISEASE. A SIMILAR DRUG WAS APPROVE ABOUT A YEAR AGO SO THIS IS THE SECOND ONE IF FINALLY APPROVED BY THE FDA. WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER IS THAT NUMBER ONE, IT IS NOT A CURE IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY TREAT THE SYMPTOMS ALTHOUGH SHOWING THAT IT CAN SLOW COGNITIVE DECLINE IS HOW THE MEDICINE GETS APPROVED THE MEDICINES WE HAVE FO ALZHEIMER'S JUST DEAL WITH SYMPTOMS LIKE DEPRESSION THIS MEDICATION IS THOUGHT TO BE SOMETHING THAT IS MODIFYING, REMOVING PLAQUE URLEIN THE DISEASE TO PREVENT MOR DEVELOPMENT DOWN THE LINE. >> I KNOW THERE ARE WORRIE ABOUT POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECT INCLOUDING BRAIN SWELLING AN BLOEDING HOW ARE EXPERTS ADDRESSING THIS? AND WITH THAT IN MIND, DOES IT SEEM LIKE THE FDA WILL APPROVE IT >> I THINK THE FDA WILL APPROV IT ALTHOUGH THEY DON'T ALWAYS FOLLOW THE ADVICE OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE BUT I DON'T SEE ANYONE HAVING AN ISSUE WIT THIS BRAIN SWELLING AND BRAIN HEMORRHAGE ARE KNOWN SID EFFECTS OF THE MEDICATIONS EVERYONE WHO HAS WEIGHED IN ON THIS INCLUDING COMMITTEE MEMBERS SAY IF YOU DO NOT TREAT PATIENT WITH ALZHEIMER'S, THEY ARE 100% DOOMED TO HAV PROGRESSIVE DISEASE AND DIE. IF WE TALK ABOUT A COUPLE OF CASES, ABOUT THREE DEATHS THAT WERE ATTRIBUTED TO THE MEDICATIONS TO THE TREATMENT ITSELF BECAUSE OF THE BRAI HEMORRHAGE AND EDEMA, THAT IS RISK THAT IS WORTH TAKING IN MOST EXPERTS OPINIONS. ANOTHER THING ABOUT THIS DRUG, YOU CAN START THE DRUG AND THE STOP IT. THAT GIVESIA FINANCIAL FREEDOM BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEA MEDICALLY? >> THIS MEDICINE IS NOT GIVE TWICE A MONTH. IT IS GIVEN ONCE A MONTH WHICH IS NICE. AFTER THE AMYLOID PLAQUE SEEME TO RESOLVE, THEY DISCONTINUE THE MEDICATION WHAT I THINK IS GOING TO B INTERESTED IS IT WILL BE CONTINUED TO BE FOLLOWED IT WOULD TAKE ABOUT THREE OR FOUR YEARS FOR THE AMYLOID PLAQUE TO REASSEMBLE AND THE THEY COULD BE TREATED AGAIN. RIGHT NOW, THE MEDICINE IS MEANT TO BE TAKEN CONTINUALLY WHICH IS A LOT. SO IF THIS IS THE CASE WHERE PATIENTS COULD HOLD TH TREATMENT UNTIL THE PLAQUE REACCUMULATES, THAT WOULD BE A ADVAPTAGE OVER THE PREDECESSOR >> THERE ARE DOZENS OF DRUGS CURRENTLY BEING TESTED IS THERE ANYTHING THAT RESEARCHERS ARE EXCITED ABOUT? >> A LOT ARE TRYING TO ESTABLISH OR CONVERT, CREATE I MEDICATIONS THAT WE ARE TALKIN ABOUT THAT IS UNDER THE SKIN INJECTIONS AS OPPOSED TO IV. THAT SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE GAME CHANGING IF YOU COULD ADMINISTER THESE AT HOME RATHE THAN BE TIED TO AN INFUSIO CENTER STUFF TAKES ALONG TIME TO GE APPROVAL >> BUT THERE IS HOPE FOR PATIENTS AND FAMILIES. GREAT TO HAVE YOU HERE >>> COMING UP, KEY NEW INFLATION NUMBERS OUT JUST THIS MORNING. >> AFTER THE BREAK, WE ARE BREAKING DOWN WHERE AMERICAN STANDARD ON THE PESKY PRIC HIKES AS A DECISION ON INTERES RATES IS EXPECTED TO COME FROM THE FEDERAL RESERVE TODAY. THAT MEANS ONLY ONE THING, THE ECONOMIC TEAM IS IN THE HOUSE,>O NOW IS NBC NEWS NOW. NOIL WE ARE BACK WIT BREAKING ECONOMIC NEWS THE MAY INFLATION REPORT IS OUT. AND IT IS GIVING US A PICTURE OF THE ECONOMY. >> THE INFLATION RATE IS UNCHANGED FROM THE MONTH O APRIL AND UP 3.3% YEAR OVE YEAR THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS EXPECTE TO ANNOUNCE ITS DECISION THI AFTERNOON ON INTEREST RATES. >> JOINING US TO BREAK DOWN TH ECONOMIC DATA IS OUR DREAM TEA BRIAN CHEUNG AND CALEB SILVE FROM INVESTOPEDIA. GOOD MORNING BRIAN, LET'S START WITH YOU AN BREAK DOWN THE INFLATION NUMBERS. ANY SURPRISES? HOW ARE THEY SHAPING UP BY CATEGORY >> LET'S ADD SOME CONTEXT. THE YOURLY PRICE CHANGE IS 3.3%. THAT'S HOW MUCH PRICES CHANGED BETWEEN MAY OF THIS YOUR AND MAY OFALIST YOUR THAT IS SLOWER THAN 3.4% WE SA IN APRIL TO APRIL PERIOD THIS IS WHAT ECONOMIST PROJECTED, THEY EXPECTED IT TO GO SIDEWAYS. SO WHAT IS INSIDE THE NUMBER WE LOOK AT THE MONTHLY CHANGE, APRIL TO MAY THIS YEAR, FOOD PRICES WENT SIDEWAYS THEY WENT UP BY ONE TENTH OF A PERCENT IN MAY ENERGY PRICES, THIS IS WHA HELPED IN THE REPORT IT WENT DOWN BY 2% BUT SHELTER, THE BIGGEST COST, IT WENT UP 0.4% BETWEEN APRI AND MAY. THIS WILL BE A BIG STICKIN POINT FOR ECONOMISTS THAT STIL WANT TO SEE THE NUMBER CLESER TO 2% >> CALEB, WHAT STOOD OUT IN TH REPORT >> IT IS THE HOUSING UNAFFORDABILITY THAT IS GETTIN TOPEOPLE INFLATION WE ARE STUCK WITH FO SEVERAL YEARS AND IT I MODERATING BUT SHELTER PRICES, WE CAN'T GET AWAY FROM IT. AND FOOD AWAY FROM HOME, RESTAURANT PRICES UP 4%. THAT IS DRIVING MONTH AFTE MONTH. AND IT WILL BE A LOT MOR EXPENSIVE THIS SUMMER THAN LAS SUMMER OVERALL, THE COOLER, WE HAVE BEEN IN THE RANGE FOR A WHILE. THIS IS THE LOWER END OF THE RANGE AND THAT'S A GOOD SIGN >> SO THE BATTLE OF INFLATION, WHERE DO THINGS STAND AND HO COULD THIS IMPACT THE FED' DECISION >> THE 3.3% DECISION WAS ABOUT 9% IN SUMMER OF 2022 SO THIS IS PROGRESS. I WANT TO POINT OUT ONE OTHE THING THAT THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS POINTING TO THEY WANT TO SEE THE CLOSER TO 3% THIS LINE IS INCOME AND WAGE GROWTH WAGE GROWTH IS OUT PACIN INFLIGZ. YOUR INCOME IS GROWING AT FASTER RACE. THAT CHANGE HAP PED ABOUT ON YEAR AGO IT HAS BEEN 12 MONTHS OF WAG GROWTH OUTPACING INFLATION THE FED IS LOOKING AT THIS SAYING THE ECONOMY IS NO TANKING BUT THEY WANT TO SEE INFLATION TO 2%. >> CALEB, HOW LONG >> NOTHING WILL HAPPEN THI AFTERNOON EXCEPT THE DOT PLOT, THE MOST BORING AND IMPORTAN CHART IN ECONOMICS THAT'S WHERE THE VOTING MEMBER OF THE FED THINK INTEREST RATE SHOULD BE AT THE END OF THIS YEAR AND NEXT YEAR CONSUMERS NEED TO SEE THE FUTURE AND WHEN PRICES AND INTEREST RATES WILL COME DOWN WE WILL GET A SIGN OF THAT TODAY BUT THEY ARE NOT COMING TOWN TODAY. >> HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS FOR THE SECOND HALF OF THE YOUR AND HO IT WILL SHAPE UP >> WE HAVE HIGHER RATES UNTI WHENEVER BUT IF IT LOOKS LIKE THE FED MAY EASE TOWARDS THE END OF TH YOUR , THAT'S A GOOD SIGN FO THE END OF THE YEAR FOR PEOPLE LOOKING TO BUY A HOME OR BUY A CAR. AND EVEN BETTER FOR NEXT YEAR. STRONG LABOR ECONOMY, CONSUMER SPENDING IS KEEPING UP PRICES MODERATING. THIS IS RELATIVELY GOOD NEWS >> CALEB SILVER, BREAKING DOWN THE GOOD NEWS. >> I LIKE THAT >>> THIS MORNING WE ARE GETTIN AN EXCLUSIVE LOOK AT THE EXCAVATION OF THE ANCIENT ROMA CITY OF POMPEI ARCHEOLOGISTS ARE MAKING AMAZING DISCOVERIES. KELLY COBIELLA IS THERE, GOO MORNING. >> Reporter: GOOD MORNING. THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES IN THE WORLD. ARCHEOLOGISTS HAVE BEEN HERE DIGGING FOR MORE THAN 200 YEARS. A THIRD OF THIS CITY HAS REMAINED HIDDEN FOR ALL THAT TIME UNTIL NOW IN THE SHADOW OF MOUNT VISUVIOUS, THE CITY OF POMPE WAS PRESERVED IN VOLCANIC AS CENTURIES. NOW THE BIGGEST DIG IN CENTURIES HAS UNCOVERED A BREATH TAKIN SCENE FROM THE PAST. >> THIS IS THE BLUE ROOM >> IT IS VERY SPECIAL. >> IT IS SO VIBRANT. STUNNING >> Reporter: NBC NEWS GOT A LOOK AT THE ORNATE SHRINE AS IT WAS NEARLY 2,000 YEARS AGO FEMALE FEGURES REPRESENTING TH FOUR SEASONS AND RARE EGYPTIAN BLUE PAINT ON THE WALLS. >> BLUE WAS THE MOST EXPENSIVE COLORING >> Reporter: ON THE FLOOR, A ROW OF JUGS AND OYSTER SHELLS USED FOR PLASTER LEFT EXACTLY THE WAE THEY WERE THAT DAY >> YOU COULD HEAR A BIG BANG AND IT STARTS RAINING STONES >> Reporter: THE ENTIRE CITY WAS BURIED IN VOLCANIC ASH AND FROZEN IN TIME >> BAKERS AND ARTISTS, MERCHANTS, MORE THAN 20,00 PEOPLE LIVED HERE. THIS WAS A BIG, WEALTHY THRIVING CITY TODAY TEAMS ARE FINDING NE CLUES ON HOW THE PEOPLE LIVES, CAREFULLY PUTTING THE PIECES BAG TOGETHER >> SEEING SOMETHING FOR TH FIRST TIME IN ALMOST 2,000 YEARS. >> Reporter: EXPOSING ENTIRE ROOMS LIKE THIS BANQUET HALL DECORATED WITH MYTHICAL FIGURE LIKE THE BEAUTIFUL HELEN O TROY, SHOWING THE FISTICATIO AND ELEGANCE OF POMPEI SOME OF THE NEW FINDS OPEN T THE PUBLIC THIS MONTH. WE WERE GIVEN AN UP CLOSE LOOK >> YOU HAVE NO IDEA OF WHAT WE WERE GOING TO COME DOWN ONTO >> Reporter: FRESCOES FROM THE CEILING TO THE FLOOR AND THI INKREEGING IMMG OF A BOY AND HIS DOG. A THIS IS UNIQUE >> Reporter: AROUND THE CORNER CHARCOAL DRAWINGS OF CHILDREN P, A BOXING MATCH >> IT IS LIKE A HAND REACHIN OUT FROM THE PAST. >> Reporter: NOT EVERY PICTURE IS CLEAR THIS UNFINISHED FRESCO REIGNITING AN AGE OLD DEBATE ABOUT PIZZA. >> IT'S NOT THE WORLD'S FIRS DEPICTION OF A PIZZA >> IT IS A NOT PIZZA >> BUT IT LOOKS VERY MUCH LIKE A PIZZA. >> Reporter: IT IS INCREDIBLE TO THINK THAT WHERE I'M STANDIN NOW, UNDERNEATH MY FEET ARE MORE RUINS OF POMPEI. THE ARKOLOGISTS ARE JUST SCRATCHING THE SURFACE THERE IS SO MUCH LEFT TO DISCOVER HERE. >> KELLY, THAT WAS INCREDIBLE. WHAT IMAGES. SO NEAT TO SEE THANK YOU SO MUCH. >>> COMING UP, CAN YOU FEEL TH ILLINOISE? >> MY CONVERSATION WITH TWO OF THE ARTISTS BEHIND THE BLOCK BUSTER MUSICAL THAT IS BRINGIN A LANDMARK 2005 ALBUM TO VIBRAN. >>> WE ARE BACK WITH SOME MAJO BEEF BETWEEN SOME OF THE WORLD'S MOST SUCCESSFUL EATERS AND ORGANIZERS OF THE MOST POPULAR EATING COMPETITION JOEY CHESTNUT WILL NOT B PARTICIPATING IN THIS YEAR'S NATHAN'S JULY FOURTH HOT DOG EATING CONTEST HE IS A 16 TIME CHAMPION OF TH CONTEST BUT HE RECENTLY SIGNED A DEAL WITH IMPOSSIBLE FOODS WHO LAUNCHED A PLANT BASED HOT DOG EARLIER THIS YEAR. MAJOR LEAGUE EATING WHIC ORGANIZED THE EVENT SAID THE RULES OF THE CONTEST STIPULATE NO PARTICIPANT CAN BE ENDORSED BY A COMPETING HOT DOG BRAND THEY ARE DEVASTATED THAT THE AMERICAN HERO WILL NOT B COMPETING. CHESTNUT WROTE ONLOIN THAT HE IS GUTTED BUT HE WILL NOT BE AWAY FOR LONG BUT SOME OF THE COMPETITORS AR RELISHING THE CHANCE TO KETCHU WITH THE RECORD. IS THAT REALLY A HOT DOG THOUGH? >> BUT THINK OF ALL OF THE NEW EATERS WE WILL BE INTRODUCED NOW. THEY ARE WAITING IN THE CHICKE WINGS. >>> LET'S END THIS HOUR WITH A CURTAIN CALL WE ARE TAKING YOU TO ILLINOISE I DID NOT PRONOUNCE THAT WRONG THAT IS THE NAME OF A NE MUSICAL, ILLINOISE WITH AN E A THE END. IT IS UNLIKE ANYTHING ON BROADWAY THERE IS NO DIALOGUE THE STORY IS TOLD THROUGH SINGER SONG WRITERS AND DANCE 90 MINUTES OF POETRY IN MOTION IT SCORED TWO TONY NOMINATIONS INCLUDING BEST MUSICAL WE ARE JOINED BY DANCER RICK UH-UH BETA AND JUSTIN PECK WHO WON A TONY FOR CHOREOGRAPHY WITH CAROUSEL GOOD TO HAVE YOU BOTH WITH US. CONGRATULATIONS ON ALL OF TH ACCOLADES THIS YEAR. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH >> HOW DO YOU SUM THIS ONE U FOR PEOPLE WHO ASK WHAT IS THI ABOUT? >> OKAY, IT IS ABOUT A GROUP O HIKERS WHO GATHER IN THE WOODS TO TELL THEIR STORIES. IT CENTERS ON ONE CHARACTER THAT I PLAY, HENRY. HE IS SORT OF A LOST SOUL. THROUGH TELLING HIS STORY AND COMMUNITY AROUND HIM, HE BEGIN TO HEAL. >> HE IS DEALING WITH A LOT OF GRIEF AND HE OVERCOMES THA THROUGH HELP WITH OTHER PEOPLE >> YES >> IT IS BEAUTIFUL TO TELL THI THROUGH DANCE AND NO DIALOGUE. I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE MAY BE LIKE, HOW DO YOU TELL A STOR LIKE THIS WITHOUT DIALOGUE EXPLAIN HOW YOU ARE ABLE TO DO THAT >> I THINK A GOOD WAY TO THINK OF THE SHOW IS HOW SOMEONE TAKES IN A SILENT FILM IF YOU WATCH A SILENT FILM, YO GET A LOT JUST FROM IMAGERY AN MOVEMENT OF BODIES AND HOW BOD LANGUAGE COMES INTO PLAY I THINK VERY MUCH WITH THI SHOW, IT FEELS LIKE THEY ARE WATCHING THIS WHOLE MOVING PAINTING THAT IS BEING UNDERSCORED BY AN INCREDIBLE ALBUM. >> IT IS A BEAUTIFUL WAY T DESCRIBE IT AS A PAINTING. YOU SEE ALL OF THE LOTYSZ USED THERE AND THE EMOTION OF IT IS UNBELIEVABLE RICKY, YOU ARE ON STAGE WITH VERY FEW BREAKS FOR 90 MINUTES I HAVE TO IMAGINE IT I PHYSICALLY EXHAUSTING AN EMOTIONALLY EXHAUSTING WHAT PUSHES THROUGH THROUG THAT >> HONEST LE, THE PEOPLE THA I'M ON STAGE WITH. THERE ARE PEOPLE I HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH FOR OVER TEN YOUR NOW, FRIENDS I HAVE HAD SINC MIAMI. SO THE CAST THEMSELVES, WHEN W SEE EACH OTHER ON STAGE, W HARDLY HAVE TO DO MUCH WORK TO GET TO THAT EMOTIONAL PLAC BECAUSE WE HAVE SO MUCH CARE FOR EACH OTHER IT IS A LOT OF WORK BUT IT MAKES IT IT EASIER TO HAVE THE PEOPL WITH US. >> IT IS IMPORTANT TO POINT OU ON THIS PRIDE MONTH THAT THIS IS A STORY ABOUT LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN MEN JUSTIN YOU SAID YOU ARE NOT GAY MAN YOURSELF BUT MANY OF YOUR CLOSE FRIENDS ARE IT IS IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO GET THIS RIGHT, ISN'T IT >> ABSOLUTELY. I TAKE A LOT OF RESPONSIBILITY WITH THAT AND THERE IS A GREAT DEAL OF ALLISHIP IN THIS WOR AND ALSO THE WORK THAT I HAV DONE WITH THE PLAY RIGHT WHO HELPED CRACK THE CODE OF THE MUSICAL. AND IT IS A VERY DIVERSE CAS AND A DIVERSE GROUP OF CHARACTERS WE ARE REALLY PROUD TO TELL TH STORY. >> RICKY, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE RESPONSES YOU HEAR FROM PEOPLE RECOLLECT ESPECIALLY PEOPLE IN THE QUEER COMMUNITY WHO SE SOMETHING THEY DON'T USUALLY SEE ON STAGE >> TWO THINGS. WHEN WE GET AUDIENCES WHO DO NOT SEE MUCH DANCE, I THINK THEY ARE SO INCREDIBLY MOVED BY HOW EAS IT WAS TO FOLLOW THE STORY AND HOW MOVED THEY WERE. AND ALSO AS FAR AS THE QUEER COMMUNITY, GETTING TO SEE A VERY REAL, BEAUTIFUL AND FLAWED QUEER RELATIONSHIP OBTHE STAGE AND GET TO SEE HUMANS EXISTING IN STORY AND SEEING THEMSELVES ON STAGE MEANING A LOT TO PEOPLE. >> WHAT ARE SOME OF TH REACTIONS YOU HAVE HEARD >> THE BEST THING ABOUT THIS SHOW IS THE LETTERS WE RECEIVE THE MESSAGES WE GET, BOTH FROM COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS AND ALS A LOT OF STRANGERS WHO REACH OUT AND SHARE. IT IS THE KIND OF SHOW THAT YO CAN'T CALCULATE HOW TO CREAT THAT SORT OF REACTION FROM PEOPLE BUT IT HAS IT IN IT IT HAS LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE WE ARE JUST SAVORING THE FAC THAT IT IS HAVING THAT EFFECT ON PEOPLE NOW >> YOU CHOREOGRAPHED EVERYTHIN FROM WEST SIDE STORY TO THE NE YORK CITY BALLET HOW DOES BROADWAY COMPARE, TRYING TO CHOREOGRAPH ON A BROADWAY STAGE >> BROADWAY FEELS THE MOST PERSONAL TONEE IT WAS MY ENTRY INTO DANCE AND STORY TELLING AS A YOUNG PERSON. I WOULD COME TOSEE BROADWA SHOWS WITH MY FAMILY AND IT IT OPENED UP MY WHOLE WORLD IT FEELS IN A WAY THAT IT IS A FULL CIRCLE MOMENT THAT IS COMING HOME, TO GET TO CREATE SHOW FROM THE SEED OF AN IDEA TO FULLY REALIZE THE PRODUCTION O BROADWAY >> RICKY, SOME FOLKS MAY RECOGNIZE YOU FROM SO YOU THIN YOU CAN DANCE. >> YES >> YOU WERE A WINNER A FEW YEARS AGO. I HEAR THAT YOU WANT TO DO MOR CHOREOGRAPHY NOW >> YEAH, IT HAS BEEN REALL INSPIRING BEING A PART OF THIS PROCESS. SO I'M EXCITED TOSEE WHAT TH FUTURE HOLDS AS FAR AS BEING O THE CREATIVE SIDE AS WELL. >> I THINK HE WILL DO A GOOD JOB. THANK YOU BOTH WE APPRECIATE YOUR TIME. ILLINOISE IS PLAYING NOW THROUGH AUGUST 10th AT THE ST. JAMES THEATER IN MANHA
