president biden. plus kim jung-un s north korea launching what is thought to be another intercontinental ballistic missile. and homes become islands as devastating floods put some neighborhoods in the northeast under water. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i m rahel solomon. up first this morning, president biden and ukrainian president zelenskyy preparing to have a face-to-face on the sidelines of the nato summit in lithuania, this is in the wake of russian airstrikes on kyiv for a second consecutive night. and zelenskyy s frustration over nato s decision to provide guidance but not provide a specific time line on when the alliance will be ready to grant ukraine membership. melissa bell with the latest. what are some ofof the expectations heading into this meeting? reporter: if yesterday was about the frustrations of president zelenskyy on one side and limits of what nato allies can do on the other, today is more about the deliverables, what t
now, we do have new reporting on where yevgeny prigozhin was shortly after. the story keeps getting weirder. the only sort of bright spot for vladimir putin is ukraine s counter offensive has been slow. will cluster munitions change that, and how much blow back will president biden get for that. one nation against it is the uk, we have the latest on the president s stop in london this morning. there s a lot to get to. let us start with the reporting. joining me now, nbc news correspondent ali arouzi, and from kyiv, nbc news foreign correspondent kelly cobiella. let s get to lithuania, the president has just gotten there. what s the agenda for tomorrow? what s on the table? reporter: well, the summit really kicks off in earnest tomorrow, and president biden will be meeting other leaders of nato countries. he ll be very various bilaterals. there will be a nato family photo, and then a dinner at the presidential palace, where they will be able to discuss various issues that th
also meeting with british prime minister rishi sunak. the bbc has been speaking to twitter s owner, elon musk. the last minute, unexpected interview came about after the bbc objected to a new tag describing it as government funded media on its main twitter account. in the interview the billionaire agreed to change this to publicy funded. he also defended the site s policing of hate speech and the mass sackings of staff and described taking over the social media firm as painful. do you have any regrets about buying twitter? i think it was something that needed to be done. it s been quite difficult. i would say, the pain level of twitter has been extremely high. this hasn t been some sort of party, so, it s been really quite a stressful situation in the last several months, not an easy one. so it s been quite painful, but i think at the end of the day, it should have been done and were there many mistakes made along the way? of course. and james clayton explained how the in
missing in mexico after crossing the border more than two weeks ago. what we know about the case. plus, former vice president mike pence not mincing words. his harshest statements yet about president trump s role on january 6th and the republicans now trying to downplay the capitol attack. i ve been doing this a long time and have to say donie o sullivan is probably best in the business. incredible. very kind of him to say that. should be honored, really. but anderson didn t say that sthe online could be almost anyone s voice and real concerns its raising, coming up on cnn this morning. we begin with a break in the storm center battering california moved out of the northern and central parts of the state for now but leaving in its wake flooded towns washed out roads and thousands out of their homes. in monterey county the river is surging after relentless rain and the levee couldn t keep up. it probably early saturday morning sending floodwaters into the small
the historically high inflation and crushing rate of soaring interest rates all robbing people of any chance to realize the american dream any time soon. and the cost of food is sky high. the white house finally now trying to convince voters that they care about the economy, the democrats. and it s actually the republicans who are the enemy. that will be their battle plan. they are trying to take away the gains we ve made. the plans that they have put forth is not a plan to fix inflation, it is actually a plan to increase inflation, not lower it. harris: however, right now democrats are still in power across capitol hill and the white house, of course. with the new gdp numbers out this morning not much for them to work with still. the gross domestic product showed some improvement. remember, this is the most common measurement of a recession. well-known moody s chief economist saying we re treading water at this point. we had two quarters of negative growth. now this slig