russia claims victory in the ukrainian city of bakhmut as zelenskyy rams up a counter

offensive. florida policies under growing scrutiny why organizations are issuing travel advisories for the sunshine state. looking to book a permanent vacation we have the list of the best places to retire. and calling all kyles, the texas city trying to break a guinness world record by gathering everybody named kyle it's monday, may 22nd. "early today" starts right now good morning, i'm phillip mena. >> and i'm frances rivera. we begin this morning with another act of gun violence devastating an american community. three people were killed after shots rang out at a kansas city nightclub in the early morning hours sunday the club is located in the middle of a residential area one witness told our kansas city affiliate that one of the victims was working at the lounge as a security guard police have not said whether anyone has been arrested detectives are asking anyone with information to come forward. president biden returned to washington late sunday night and will jump right back into

negotiations with republicans as the june 1st deadline to avoidts for more on this we go to nbc's brie jackson in washington good morning what has happened in the leadup to this latest meeting >> reporter: good morning, phillip. on sunday house speaker kevin mccarthy announced that he would have his next meeting with president biden on the debt ceiling on monday. now, this comes after a call between the two leaders as president biden was returning from the g7 in japan mccarthy told nbc news that the call was productive and that he believes they can solve some of the problems that they face. the most recent meeting between the white house and congressional leaders on this issue was last tuesday the parties expressed confidence over a deal getting done before the june 1st deadline for the u.s. to default on its debt obligations and negotiators from both president biden and speaker mccarthy's teams have been meeting while the president was overseas while he was still in japan on sunday president biden voiced criticisms of the gop's position

in this ongoing battle, saying that the party needs to accept that there won't be a bipartisan deal made solely on their terms. these negotiations have been hamstrung over disagreements on cuts to spending in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. >> brie, what consequences are we talking about if this doesn't get done by june 1st >> reporter: treasury secretary janet yellen appeared on "meet the press" on nbc on sunday and reinforced the hard deadline of june 1st for raising the debt ceiling. here is what she had to say about the potential effects. >> my assumption is that if the debt ceiling isn't raised, there will be hard choices to make about what bills go unpaid. >> reporter: now, yellen did not specify what bills that she might have to -- or she might have been referring to, but added that there can be no acceptable outcomes if the debt ceiling is not raised. >> all right

brie jackson reporting from washington this morning. thank you. the naacp has issued a warning and travel advisory for e state of florida in the advisory released saturday the civil rights grou said that the state is hostile toward black americans this warning for people of color comes as a response to what the organization describes as, quote, aggressive attempts to erase black history. from governor ron desantis, in january his administration blocked an ap african american studies course being offered in high schools saying that its content is contrary to florida law. desantis also signed a bill last week that dee funds diversity, equity and inclusion programs at florida colleges other civil rights groups including the league of united latin american citizen and equality florida have issued travel advisories for the state in response to recently signed laws. we have a shocking story from indiana where a 3-year-old

shot two people. according to lafayette police the child got ahold of a gun shooting his 21-year-old mother inside of their apartment. he fired another shot that hit her friend 23-year-old smith who was later arrested on a murder warrant from cook county, illinois the two were treated at the hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries police are investigating after an indiana father was killed following a grenade detonation on saturday authorities a 47-year-old brian needert and his family found a hand grenade while searching through the grandfather's belongings it detonated when someone pulled the pilling, culling him and his two children the sheriff's department said in a statement that injuries, cause and manner of death were all pending. ukrainn president volodymyr zelenskyy shored up more support from world leaders athe g7 summit, including another $375 million in military aid from the united states the u.s. is also joining an

international effort to train ukrainian pilots on f-16 fighter aircraft but back in the war zone it appears that ukraine's last stronghold along the eastern front the city of bakhmut may have fallen to russian control claudio, good morning. the city has become symbolic for both sides, what do we know about where the fighting stands? >> reporter: good morning, phillip. the leader of the wagner group on saturday said that its troops finally after months of intense fighting conquered and fully occupied the city of bakhmut it claimed it was backed by the defense ministry in russia as well as vladimir putin who in a statement congratulated the troops for liberating the city, but that claim was then denied in japan over the weekend by the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy saying that there are still ukrainian troops in the city, even though he admitted that the city, that bakhmut is so devastated and so destroyed

that he it reminded him of hiroshima where he was during the weekend when pictures of hiroshima in the aftermath of the atomic bomb in 1945, phillip. >> we've been hearing a lot about this expected counteroffensive from ukraine. did zelenskyy give any clues about that at the g7 summit? >> reporter: zelenskyy said that he could not really share any tactical news from ukraine's military but he said that that announcement as you mentioned by the u.s. that the u.s. will allow its western allies to provide f-16 fighter jets to ukraine was a historic decision because ukraine has been asking for those modern fighter jets for -- since the start of the war to its western allies, but the u.s. always held back saying that it was afraid that ukraine will use the fighter jets to attack russia in its own territory but during the weekend president biden said that he got

a flat assurance by president zelenskyy that they will only use those f-16s to attack and defend themselves and attack russian forces only on youk's territory. of course t will take months to train ukrainian pilots to fly f-16s but once they will be trained and once the planes will be delivered they will give a major boost to the counteroffensive, phillip. >> all right claudio lavanga, thank you in el salvador at least 12 people were killed in a stampede at a soccer stadium. fans rushed through the gate now officials have trying to investigate if a wifi malfunction may have been part of the problem nbc's george solis has the latest. >> reporter: joy devolving into despair in el salvador as a soccer match turned deadly as fans stormed an access gate. government officials denouncing the violence, including reports some spectators i'm speeded rescue efforts sporting celebration turned into a disgrace, said one official.

authorities are still investigating what sparked the stampede that claimed at least 12 lives and injured close to 90 there was an avalanche and the gate was pushed down many fans say they were sold fake tickets, others saying there was an overselling of tickets on the black market said another official the stadium one of the largest in central america turning into a triage center. this man attended the match with his 14-year-old son. my son was crushed by 20, i thought he was leaving he said some fans carrying the wounded to safety as loved ones were left to face the horrors el salvador's president promising an exhaustive investigation. the country's soccer federation declaring a nationwide suspension of games. a country left lamenting a loss of sport and lives george solis, nbc news

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same name. as of late sunday afternoon they had close to 2,000 people. the record is currently held by bosnia for ivans with over 2,300 of them in attendance back in 2017 so funny that that's like our joe or john, right, in bosnia, the ivans. so while this is the fourth year the kyle gathering has happened it was the city's biggest attempt yet. they still need a ways to go, either they need to recruit a bunch of kyles to move to that part -- or start naming their kids kyle. >> how do they get somebody's attention in that crowd? >> yeah. >> kyle. >> you have to be more specific than yellingut kyl oe.

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