Come to light. The question is what will the president do about it . Its way too early for this. Good morning. And welcome to way too early, the show that always turns on twostep verification, you should, too. Im Kasie Hunt on this wednesday, july 7th. Lets get to the news. Tropical Storm Elsa is lashing florida. Its been downgraded as a category 1 hurricane as it nears landfall near tampa. 10 Million people are in the Storms Path as strong winds and Heavy Rain Pummel the gulf coast. Lets get to nbcs Janessa Webb for the Storms Path. Janessa, good morning. Good morning, kasie. I do have better news this morning. We do have a lopsided Storm System so things are starting to crumble apart. You can see the western side of The Storm nonexistent. Its the eastern part that is lashing across central florida, and right now that is causing a severe weather threat. We have tornado wants expanding every from from ft. Myers to orlando. Well be watching that. The latest update from the national Weat
Exclusive interview with President Putin ahead of wednesdays meeting. And Andrea Mitchell at nato. Andrea, walk us through what well see today. I think these people will be reading transcripts if they dont have american television of Keirs Interview with vladimir putin. So much money is spent on allied intelligence of what was in putins brain, what is he thichk thinking, and it is laid out there. Thats the Challenge President biden will face when they Sit Down in Geneva Tomorrow or wednesday, rather, thinking of how to get around vladimir putin and his whataboutism when they confront these issues. Theyre talking about putins impact. Nato was originally, of course, created as a Countersoviet Alliance of the western nations. Now it is more than that. But also the fact that nato has once, in its existence in 73 years, taken an article 5 vote to support one of its members against a foreign attack, and that was after 9 11 when the united states was attacked by al qaeda, and that resulted in
Something only four other u. S. President s have enjoyed. A private visit with the queen at Windsor Castle for afternoon tea. Overall biden is the 13th u. S. President to meet with the now 95yearold monarch, this moment also marking the queens first major engagement since the passing of Prince Philip in april, her husband of 73 years as biden moves into the Nato Summit in brussels, again Air Force one there which starts tomorrow, all attention will be focused on his upcoming Face To Face Meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin. Thats on wednesday. Biden agreeing this morning with putins earlier remarks that the u. S. Relationship with russia is as bad as its ever been. Let me make it clear, i think hes right its a low point, and it depends on how he responds to acting consistent with international norms. Which in many cases he has not. Cnns Jeff Zeleny is in brussels for us. So jeff, the president expressing some optimism. However, ahead of his putin meeting. What more did biden
and what you re hearing there is people fleeing from pepper balls being fired into the crowd. the mayor calling the situation overnight overwhelming for a local police and the neighboring police departments brought in to help. at least a dozen people were arrested last night after multiple attempts to disburse the crowd. city officials are holding an emergency meeting this hour. an increase in travel to florida and across the u.s., in fact, has health officials concerned that tsa is saying more than a million people pass through u.s. airports for the tenth straight day on saturday, and it comes at a time when the cdc is still recommending americans avoid travel. let s go to the situation in south florida, and miami beach, randi kaye is there, so they are meeting, officials are meeting this hour, and are they also trying to, you know, figure out how to get a handle of things, or how to keep people from coming? yeah, they re certainly trying to get a handle on what s happenin
the united states and around the world. this is early starts. it s march 22nd. it s 5:00 a.m. exactly in new york. and in miami beach the party is over. officials there extending an 8:00 p.m. curfew and state of emergency until mid april now after the city dealt with a rowdy army of spring breakers. police fired a chemicaler substantiate into that kroutd to disperse it. authorities struggled here to disperse partiers who fought in the streets, zroed restaurant property, and refuse to wear masks or socially distance. the problem this is particular time and i think it s because of the pandemic, almost no other destinations are open. so we have been besides ourselves. we re having issues not just on weekends but week they day events. we don t want to wait until a horrible tragedy happens and decide we re going to act. we hope we can do it for enough time to get us through this, you know, this very challenging moment. florida s governor has not a imposed restrictions or l