right now in beijing facing a tough challenge during her two days of meetings with chinese officials. she s there of course to try to stabilize a tense relationship strained even further just this week when china retaliated against the u.s. anna coren is live for us. what is yellen saying so far? reporter: as you say she is currently meeting with the chinese premier leader in the great hall of the people. she was with him at the paris finance summit last month where she said the world expects china and us to work together. you may have seen both of them smiling at each other. the premier spoke first just a few moments ago and said that there was a rainbow when yellen landed yesterday. and it was symbolic of the u.s./china relationship. so who knows, perhaps there is hope on the horizon. but the u.s. treasury secretary said that the biden administration seeks healthy economic competition that is not winner take all but can benefit both countries. she says the u.s. will in ce
before that catastrophic implosion. a light fast repair just days after a fiery collapse. the major highway that millions rely on back open for business in philadelphia. and attorney general merrick garland commenting just a short time ago on those charges against president biden s son hunter. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with nbc news s ryan reilly on what we just heard from attorney general merrick garland. unexpected for the attorney general to talk about it. he doesn t answer a lot of questions. but what did he have to say this time? i think based on the allegations that had come out through the whistleblower, he felt responsibility to lay it out here. essentially what he said is he has not taken any action in regards to this hunter biden investigation. take a listen. mr. weiss, was appointed by president trump as the u.s. attorney in delaware and assigned this matter during the previous administration would be permit
ginger zee tracking it all. new reports of letters, containing white powder, targeting lawmakers in kansas. now more than 100 letters found. federal law enforcement sources tell abc news postal inspectors intercepted letters addressed to former president trump and supreme court justice clarence thomas. the high stakes meeting in beijing, u.s. secretary of state antony blinken face to face with chinese president xi. the meeting was confirmed only one hour before it began. matt rivers in beijing. the war in ukraine, new images of grueling trench warfare between ukrainian and russian fighters. ukraine now claims to have driven russian forces out of eight villages since the start of its latest counter offensive. ian pannell in ukraine. here at home, images of dare rescues, the houseboat going under with several people trapped inside. other boaters jumping to the rescue. the popular musician, bebe rexha injured in stage in new york. hit in the face by a cell phone thrown b
collapsing and moving et cetera, et cetera, we had an incident that caused some confusion you might say, but the secretary blinken had a great trip to china. i expect to be meeting with president xi sometime in the future in the near term, and i don t think it s had any real consequence. what was your second question. as you raise broader issues of human rights and democracy, what s your message, including members of your own party who thinks your administration is overlooking a crack down on dissent in india. the prime minister and i had a good discussion about democratic values, and there s a that s the nature of our relationship. we re straightforward with each other, and we respect each other. one of the fundamental reasons that i believe the u.s./china relationship is not in the space it is, in the u.s. indian relationship is that there s an overwhelming respect for each other because we re both democracies, and it s a common democratic character of both of our cou
the juneteenth celebration turn deadly overnight shooting breaking out in a shopping lots in willowbrook, illinois 20 miles west of chicago. one person was killed. twenty others were wounded. police as of this hour have yet to announce any arrests and that shooting or even a motive for that reit. arthel: senior correspondent claudia s life. what more can you tell us? what s arthel what an event. bless crime scene tape mercury were the shooting happened around 12:30 a.m. this morning in the parking lot of a strip mall in willowbrook. you count about 9000 people roughly 23 miles south of chicago. what witness said she and her friends were just about to leave the juneteenth celebration when they heard the sound of shots being fired and everyone ducked for cover. a terrifying ordeal for the hundreds of people who were there for a chair s deputies area also heard the gunshots and raced to that strip mall with a mass shooting triggered a huge emergency response. thirty spoke to rep