Overnight that grounded flights and triggered delays nationwide. Good morning to our viewers here in the United States and around the world, its tuesday, june 15th. On the eve of this historic summit with Vladimir Putin, President Biden stands on The World Stage this morning with americas closest eu allies. He started out this morning by meeting with the president and Prime Minister of belgium. This gathering with eu nations follows nato talks and for the first time china is a big focus. The 30 nato members singling out beijings rising Military Power as a top challenge. Later today, the president Travels To Geneva for his highly anticipated meeting face to face meeting with Vladimir Putin. President biden said the United States snot looking for a confrontation. Jeff zeleny traveling with the president. Jeff joins us now live from brussels. Another big day before i think the most anticipated moment of this trip, jeff. Reporter good morning, john. President biden is holding that final se
Overnight that grounded flights and triggered delays nationwide. Good morning to our viewers here in the United States and around the world, its tuesday, june 15th. On the eve of this historic summit with Vladimir Putin, President Biden stands on The World Stage this morning with americas closest eu allies. He started out this morning by meeting with the president and Prime Minister of belgium. This gathering with eu nations follows nato talks and for the first time china is a big focus. The 30 nato members singling out beijings rising Military Power as a top challenge. Later today, the president Travels To Geneva for his highly anticipated meeting face to face meeting with Vladimir Putin. President biden said the United States snot looking for a confrontation. Jeff zeleny traveling with the president. Jeff joins us now live from brussels. Another big day before i think the most anticipated moment of this trip, jeff. Reporter good morning, john. President biden is holding that final se
Good morning. We are 13 miles away from the town of lahaina. Next to a road block. Seeing heart breaking scenes of folks come out. Pleading with officers, wanting to be let in because they lost their friends and Family Members residents arent going to be let in for some time now. This is still an active Search And Rescue scene. They are still trying to get people out, busing people out of the Evacuation Zone this as the death toll unfortunately continues to climb. 55 people at least confirmed dead at this time. Several fires burning on the island of maui since tuesday. None of them yet fully contained by officials here. Yet unknown how they started. Most destructive on mauis west side ripped through the community of lahaina driven by fierce winds High Pressure to the north and Hurricane Dora as it passed hundreds of miles to the south. According to hawaiis governor the fire destroyed more than 1,000 buildings in lahaina and destroyed the towns ban i dont know tree the peaceful Island P
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katy tur. here we are again, another fed meeting and another expected rate hike. we re going to get to the number in just a second. it is expected to be a quarter of a point. we re going to see how the markets react to that because they have been on a relative upswing and we re wondering does that trend continue? we are also watching as you well know, memphis. the funeral for 29-year-old tyre nichols is today. and supposed to begin right about now. weather has been delaying it, so we ll go there as soon as it does start. but again, there is breaking news from the fed. just confirmed, they are raising it, interest rates, by a quarter point. joining me now is nbc news business and data reporter, brian cheung. a quarter point, what can you tell us? the nation s central bank, the steward of the u.s. economy raised interest rates by .25 percentage points in their meeting today, after some encouraging news we had gotten in previous weeks that inflation was coming down. was at 6.5