You from the nbc news center here in los angeles. Welcome everyone to alex witt reports. We begin with the Breaking News, Tropical Storm hilary has begun lashing the pacific coast. Live pictures from san diego in the direct path of the storm we are heavy rain is beginning to fall in parts of california, and now under a State Of Emergency. Moving to las vegas, preparations for the orders are underway there. Storm drains are being tested, and potential for historic flooding there. Heavy rain could reach up to ten inches in some areas hit by the storms. So the impact could be catastrophic. The next two days will be crucial. Will hilary move north through california today and then into Northern Nevada by monday morning. A short time ago, the category one hurricane was downgraded to a Tropical Storm. But it is the first to hit california since 1939. Officials are warning, take this seriously. There would be Power Outages, make no mistake. There will be Power Outages across Southern Californ
of course i would tell the attorney general to prosecute him, he caused a lot of injury. todd: dr. fauci could find himself in hot water if r.f.k. finds his way to the white house. and guerrero jr. follow his da s footsteps? guerrero will win the t-mobile home run derby. carol carley: you are watching fox and friends first. i m carley shimkus. it has been a while. todd: i m todd, by the way. wrapping up a meeting with the president and the president of lithuania. he heads to the summit with a deal in place, to welcome sweden to the alliance. carley: alexandria hoff. alexandria: here is president biden during his bilateral with lithuania s president a short time ago. just listen. president biden: we take, nato takes, we all take article five literally, all work together against whomever is violating that space. thank you, mr. president, for hosting this summit. first time nato leaders will meet, 31 together and looking forward to 32 members. alexandria: i
war. i think the president is right not to go that far. but i think what ukraine is getting is very significant and very much more than most of the new allies have gotten. that is to take away the two condition requirement and make it one condition. the reason for that, neil, is that they are giving some much now in interoperability right now that it will be a smoother entrance for nato when the war is over. neil: that is the view from the former nato ambassador. what about the former united nations ambassador? nikki haley is here. welcome. i m neil cavuto. i want to thank my colleagues edward lawrence and charles payne and sandra smith filling in while i was out. i don t really rush back but i m back. glad to be back. let s go to the nato summit right now and jacqui heinrich in lithuania with more. jacqui? hi, neil. ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky is not hiding his fury that he s going to end this visit without a conditional invitation to join the alliance. he cal
plus that is the road, but check this out, it is washed out just over here. more destruction as relentless rain pounds parts of the northeast. and for the first time today, u.s. senators get a classified briefing on artificial intelligence. what they could learn about bots and national security. good morning. i m rahel solomon in for christine romans. we begin with president biden preparing to address fellow alliance leaders as the two day that nato summit gets under way. biden s major win overnight. melissa bell is live at the summit with the latest. and this win coming at the 11th hour here for president biden. what do we expect him to say? reporter: he was wrangling until the very last minute that brought to an end the deadlock that had for a year prevented sweden from becoming the member of nato as it wished to do. and what it means is that essentially securities architecture of europe is transformed with now not just finland with the huge border it shares with
york. you get up to 8 inches in some of these communities. that s a summer s worth of rain that they got in a single day, no surprise we are talking about major flooding when you look at some of those issues. now, all of that rain has now settled up in the vermont area where folks as we speak so far today have seen anywhere from 4 inches to 6 inches of rain. those are the areas where the rain is continuing to fall. hardest hit areas yesterday now clearing off and that rain has lifted further to the north. upstate new york seeing very heavy rain. northern vermont, new hampshire. areas where this rain is still falling as we speak. flooding likely still going to be an issue as we watch this entire system drift off further to the north. we are still under an extreme flood threat across the entire state of vermont. all the way through today. taking you into tomorrow morning. and that s how long it s going to take for this big rain system to eventually move its way out of this regi