the verge of collapse. bergdahl's return, the army ser get held captive by the taliban for five years now back on u.s. soil, tonight an update on his transition to american life and what he knows about what's been said about him. the serg on the southern boarder with mexico and dear dad, a new father on our team. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc "nightly news" with brian williams. good evening, their name is isis, they are ruthless fighters, they carried out daytime crucifixions to make their point and swept from syria to the east and are rolling across iraq, and on their way, they have taken over major cities, some oil facilities, u.s. weapons and vehicles. make no mistake, what is happening in iraq now is a direct out growth of the u.s. decision to invade the country over a decade ago. the question of what the u.s. should do now, what it can do, the president talked about that today. >> we're not going to allow ourselves to be dragged back into a situation in which while we're there we're keeping a lid on things and after enormous sacrifices by us, as soon as we're not there, suddenly people end up acting in ways that are not conducive to the long term effects of the country. >> what we've come to know as iraq could fall, it appears iraq is headed for partitioning, if indeed, that hasn't happened already. we want to begin coverage with richard engel back in iraq after living there for much of the decade. richard, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. today the president talked about days to consider options but many iraqis aren't sure they have days before this fight reaches baghdad. militants from isis are 40 miles from baghdad and they are growing in number joining forces with other sunnis who opposed u.s. backed shiite government and former military officials from saddam hussein's regime looking for any chance to get back into power. isis also now has the money to buy allies. it stole $450 million from the mosul central bank. the governor told nbc news today making it the richest terrorist group in the world. and after robbing mosul, today isis imposed islamic sharia law there ordering women to wear vails or stay at home. out lawing freedom of religion and barring all other armed groups from entering the city. and the men the united states trained to fight the isis assault, they are still surrenderi surrendering. some told us they were ordered to by commanders. without the army's protection, hundreds of thousands of civilians are leaving mosul. they are building tents as fast as they can. that there is a massive wave of people fleeing homes. the fear here is that this is just the beginning. this family, all 12 of them walked 20 miles to escape mosul. now at a refugee camp, a mother of five calls iraqi troops cowards, says she would be better fighting than them. in the holy city where islam was surged in battle 14 centuries ago, volunteers signed up for a new war. clergies called the faithfully to arms and promised those who die fighting isis, a place in paradise. the war is closing in on baghdad where it is tonight. >> the people are worried that when you speak to them, you sense there is fear about perhaps the unknown would come. >> reporter: tension in the capitol, the u.s. freed from a dictator but fears it is once again in the cross hairs. and brian, as we talked about last night, there are still several thousand american contractors and u.s. diplomats in this country. many of them at the embassy in baghdad. the state department won't say if extra security procedures have been put in place but i can tell you in some of the streets not very far from the embassy, the locals are barricading homes. brian? >> richard engel in the north of iraq for us tonight. thanks. you heard the president say he's considering options, none of them are good. while the u.s. is making it clear, the iraqi government needs to step up, chuck todd there with more, chuck, good evening. >> reporter: the president chose his words carefully. he also had a clear message for iraq's political leaders, any american help comes with conditions. in a hastily arranged press conference, the president outlined his options quickly eliminating one of them. >> we will not be sending u.s. troops back into combat in iraq, but i have asked my national security team to prepare a range of other options that could help support iraq security forces. >> reporter: but even as he hinted at some military action, targeted drone strikes the most likely, the president made it clear help won't come if the prime minister doesn't stop shutting out his sunni adversaries. >> the u.s. is not going to involve itself in military action in the absence of a political plan by iraqis that gives us assurance they are prepared to work together. >> reporter: the president didn't stop there. he went on to blame the government for the performance of the security forces. >> the fact that they are not willing to stand and fight and defend their posts indicates that there is a problem with moral ultimately that's rooted in the political problems that plagued the country. >> reporter: and illustrating how this crisis created strange international problems, the president called iran to help but never mentioned the name. >> iraq's neighbors have responsibilities to support this process. nobody has an interest in seeing terrorists gain a foothold inside of iraq. >> reporter: iran's president took to the airways yesterday promising iran would quote not tolerate the terrorism in neighboring iraq. the president who is keeping his weekend schedule, which includes down time in palm springs, said a decision whether to get involved military is not imminent and it's that delay that spurred criticism by republicans on capitol hill. >> this request is made to take action with drone strikes. it is far past time for us to take a decisive move here. >> reporter: brian, two reasons the president is hesitant, first, pentagon officials say their intelligence is not good enough right now to launch strikes and they certainly don't trust information from the maliki government. they said he won by promising and delivering american withdrawal from iraq so the last thing he wants to do is go back in. >> chuck, thanks. >> we're joined by david gregory, moderator of "meet the press." he's in our washington newsroom. david, how does the president sell any action at all to the component of the american people who feel to coin a phrase, it's not our dance after the blood and treasure spilled there even though to coin another, we broke it? >> right, that pottery barn rule you broke that you own it, you got to somehow fix it. this is a terrorism problem, brian. that's what the president made clear today. this is not about the civil war in iraq or a neighboring syria. those are certainly involved in a really the foundation of this. the reality is you've got terrorists who are much greater in numbers going to the number of foreign fighters perhaps even at 10,000 between syria and iraq. this could be a real threat to the united states. the american public may not want to get involved again but the president has to outline the fact it's a core belief of his that he cannot allow a failed state to emerge while saying politics is at the root of it. he's not going to help unless the iraqis demonstrate they will help themselves. there will be a debate about that. >> david, i saw at least one news organization fond of branding isis as the group too extreme for al qaeda. what about al qaeda in all of this? >> well, this is really a fight for what al qaeda is going to be, post osama bin laden in the middle east. you're right, there is branded an organization that's too extreme for al qaeda. that tells you how awful it is. i spoke to one source who said this is worse than afghanistan before the 9/11 attack. so that might draw in iran that doesn't have a good relationship with al qaeda, either. >> david gregory, in our newsroom. the situation in iraq will be among the major top picks covered on "meet the press." among david's guest, mitt rom y romney. he will sit down for an exclusive interview. for this nation's military men and women, those who served in iraq the pictures are confusing and tough to watch. it was a big top pick at the home of the unit known at the time as the tip of the spear. fort steward, georgia where the third infantry is based, nbc's stephanie gosk is there for us tonight. >> reporter: in the spring of 2003 the u.s. military's third infantry division from fort steward was among its first to fight its way to baghdad. there were four deployments in total, more than 400 soldiers killed. >> you don't know what the outcome is going to be. >> reporter: he served three tours as a combat engineer, the guys at the front of the front line. do you ever think we should never have been in there in the first place? >> no, i don't ever have that opinion we never should have been there. we was called on to go, and we went there. we done our part. they got to do it on their own. it's their fight. >> reporter: each person we spoke with here has strong opinions about iraq, whether they fought or not because in a military town, everyone feels like they have been at war. ellen mark's husband fought in korea. she thinks the u.s. military did pull out of iraq too fast. >> they should have left some back and brought them back in smaller quantities at a time. >> reporter: at the opening of a brand-new va clinic, there was a sense of relief that years of combat are finally ending and there is not a lot of appetite to go back in. kerry harvey was a tank commander in the first gulf war. >> we can't keep putting soldiers in harm's way over and over and over again. you know, somewhere it has to stop. >> reporter: no one we spoke with here wants boots back on the ground. does the u.s. have a role now? >> we have a supporting role, yes. but we don't have a role in fund. we should assist them from the back. >> reporter: for the war weary, the battle to secure iraq now feels like somebody else's fight. stephanie gosk, nbc news, georgia. the uncertainty over the crisis is having, as you might have guessed, immediate economic impact at home. iraq is the number two oil producer in opec. gas line prices will go up five to ten cents a gallon in coming days following an increase in crude oil prices for a second day today. their highest levels now in ten months. while the attention on much of the world is on iraq, russia is moving tanks and heavy weapons into ukraine the to aid russia and back separatists there is. the tanks and multiple rocket launchers were moved into ukraine yesterday and are now being spread out across multiple cities in the eastern portion of the country that has been the center of so many of those violent clashes of late. tonight, u.s. army sergeant bowe bergdahl back on american soil after more than a week in a u.s. military hospital in germany and five years held captive by the taliban, nbc's katy tur is out brooke army medical center tonight, katy, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. he did the first two stages of his reintegration in germany and will continue onto the third here in san antonio. he arrived around 1:40 a.m. last night on a military plane and was immediately taken to the medical center. here, they will start the process of helping the now 28-year-old make decisions for himself one. one of those is seeing his parents. they are not here now and so far he hasn't had contact with them. doctors say it is up to him to decide when he is ready to reach out. now when asked if sergeant bergdahl is aware of the controversy surrounding him, no, he is not. they wouldn't go into many details about his state of mind, whether he's happy, sad, excited or nervous but they did mention one of the things that he is starting to request is peanut butter. in the coming days, he'll undergo more comprehensive testing, including conversations about just what happened during the five years in captivity. brian, there is no word on exactly how long he'll be here. >> katy tur in san antonio for us tonight. thanks. still ahead for us this evening, crisis on the boarder this friday night, a sudden surge in children all alone making their way into the u.s. illegally and later, that luxury home teetering on the edge of a cliff in texas, we'll show you what happened to it today. two medium cappuccinos! let's show 'em what a breakfast with whole grain fiber can do. one coffee with room, one large mocha latte, medium macchiato, a light hot chocolate hold the whip, two espressos. make one a double. she's full and focused. 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[ male announcer ] ask your doctor about lyrica today. it's specific treatment for diabetic nerve pain. back with more on this growing crisis involving children along our boarder with mexico. the number of unaccompanied children trying to cross into the u.s. has increased 92% in the last year. the reason being blamed for this huge surge, more smugglers are selling a safe passage to escape increasing violence in central america. tonight the situation is overwhelming local and federal officials. we get our reporting tonight from nbc's mark potter on the boarder in mission, texas. >> reporter: in a field near mission, texas, boarder patrol agents gets four young men and teens from central america. but the agent in the chopper spots something else and it's a startling sight. a young man who had been hiding in the mud after entering the country illegally slowly crawls out of the field to join others. he's part of the wave of more than 47,000 unaccompanied children, mostly central americans picked up at the u.s. boarder. >> in the last 90 days, it's gone through the roof. >> reporter: the surge puts a big strain on his department. >> the river is shallower, as you can see. >> reporter: along the rio grand, he shows us where the water is so low, the immigrants simply walk into the united states keeping his and other officers so busy, they have little time for other boarder police work. >> it takes a group of officers leaving other areas unattended where something else can come across. >> this is the neighborhood where i was raised. >> reporter: dutch piper says it's so bad immigrants have been hiding in his yard. >> by the time i got in my vehicle and made the call, they were gone. >> reporter: undercover video shows seriously overcrowded conditions facing newly arrived immigrants at the u.s. boarder patrol station in mcallen. advocate groups allege young arrivals are being mistreated. federal officials say they are scrambling to improve conditions and praise the over worked agents. >> i've been watching them do absolutely heroic efforts. not only rescuing children but taking care of them way beyond some of the skill sets. >> reporter: skills constantly tested as more desperate kids cross the u.s. boarder every day. mark potter, nbc news, mission, texas. another break, we're back in a moment with the end of an era tonight in the tv business. 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[speaking foreign language]. >> happy father's day, daddy. >> happy father's day. there you go. wishing a happy father's day to all. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams, we of course hope to see you right back here on monday night. have a good weekend. we'll leave you tonight with pictures of a darken and stormy friday the 13th >> new photos. clint eastwood going public with his secret new girlfriend. now, on extra. ♪ >> clint eastwood dating again? months after his wife dina filed for divorce, clint's new woman revealed. plus miley's new mystery makeout. >> oscar winner susan sarandon milked out of millions. the shocking scandal that may have cost her half her fortune. leo dicaprio. who lent leo his superyacht? we're with j.lo to shakira. robert pattinson on extra rumor control. >> is that true? >> no. >> where was his rumored new girlfriend at the premiere of his hyped movie. secrets from sunday's game of thrones finale. peter dinglage and kit hairington dropping clues today. >> which major character is getting kicked off. >> plus who just tweeted the sexy selfies from her honeymoon? nowm

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