Your survival depends on you. Before making an emergency landing. This morning, rattled passengers speaking out. All that plus a frightening Amusement Park fall. Well catch you, go ahead john mcenroe courts a new controversy. Jordan spieth with a great day at the beach. And hes done it again as he shows the world why hes a champion, today, monday, june 26, 2017. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Thanks for joining us. Hoda is here. Well, hello to you. Savannah has a week off. How was your weekend . It was great. It could be a busy week in washington. Senate republicans are beginning the final push toward a likely vote on their new Health Care Bill, coming up this week. But some gop lawmakers are now pushing for that vote to be delayed. At the u. S. Supreme court its the last day of the term. We could see a decision on the travel ban and theres speculation that judge kennedy may announce his retirement. And theres a new twist tied to russias medali delling in t president election. He is accusing president obama of failing to do more to stop it. We begin with peter alexander, and good morning to you. Reporter hey, matt, good morning. The Senates Health care overhaul needs majorprescriptio i want to see a bill with heart. Health care is complicated from the stand point that you move it this way, and you move it over here, the very narrow path. Reporter the challenge balances the reluctant republicans on the right worried the bill doesnt go far enough and those closer to the center. With a vote expected this week, the gop can only afford to lose two senators or the bill fails. Five opposed its current version and both sides are voicing reservations. No way we should be voting on this next week. I have a hard time believing wisconsin constituents or even myself will have enough time to properly evaluate this. Its hard for me to see the bill passing this week, but thats up to the majority leader. Right now, i am undecided. Reporter for the senates Top RepublicanMitch Mcconnell and the trump white house, the tight timetable is part of the plan. The strategy limiting time for debate. Compelling republicans within days to finally deliver on a seven year old promise to repeal obamacare. Among the topics to be discussed, additional funding to come bait the opoid epidemic and help for rural hospitals. Still democrats arent budging. We are doing everything we can to fight this bill because its so devastating for the middle class. Reporter President Trump now not just attacking democrats as obstructionists, but criticized president obama of stealing his words when he criticized the meanness of the bill. He actually used my term, mean, that was my term because i want to see i want to see and i speak from the heart. Thats what i want to see. I want to see a bill with heart. Reporter but by confirming that he called the bill mean it certainly doesnt make it any easier for republicans to vote for this bill. Imagine the democrats attack ads if they do. Its notable that a critical review from the Nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is expected as early as today and this battle may not end right away, matt and hoda. The Number Two Senate republican john cornyn said this weekend the real final deadline isnt until the beginning of august. Back to you. Peter alexander, thanks. I appreciate it. Also, there are new developments tied to russias m meddling in the russia investigation. Nbcs Kristen Welker has more. Good morning. Reporter hi, good morning to you. Despite the fact that the Intelligence Community agrees that russia meddled in the u. S. Election, President Trump has been reluctant to admit that but now he is. The reason that president obama did nothing about russia after being notified by the cea of meddling is because he expected clinton would win. Lashing out against former president obama, President Trump accusing his predecessor of not responding to the russian hacking during the election. I heard for the first time that obama knew about russia a long time before the election and he did nothing about it. Reporter the president may have been referencing a Washington Post article about Vladimir Putin directly influencing that countrys Cyber Attacks of the dna. The report described how the Obama Administration struggled to respond without making it seem political. One top obama official telling the Washington Post i feel like we sort of choked. If he had the information, why didnt he do something about it . He should have done something about it. You dont read that. Its quite sad. Reporter the president also unloaded on twitter slamming the former president over the russian matter, despite the fact that the Previous Administration announced sanctions against russia back in december. With mr. Obama saying he discussed the issue of russian hacking with president putin himself. Our goal continues to be to send a clear message to russia or others not to do this to us. Because we can do stuff to you. Reporter even some democrats are questioning the Obama Administrations handling of the issue, with the top democrat on the House Intelligence Committee now saying president obama did not go far enough. I think the Obama Administration should have done a lot more when it came clear when not were they intervening but at the top levels of the kremlin. Reporter and mr. Trump on sunday current term. Theres two important unanswered question ps whats going to happen with President Trumps controversial travel ban . And will Justice Anthony kennedy pete, good morning. Reporter good morning to you. The usual drama on the last day when the remaining decisions are announced. This year, it doesnt involve the rulings, its all about the travel ban and whether Justice Kennedy is staying. President trump is asking the are Supreme Court to take up his appeal of the two Lower Court Rulings which have blocked administration from carrying out President Trumps plan to issue visas for 90 days from six muslim countries. Its a matter of National Security, says the white house. A 90day pause to look at the visa background in those countries associated with terrorism. Lower courts cited candidate trumps own words. Donald j. Trump is calling donald j. Trump quiere que they cited candidate trumps own words. For a shutdown o donald j. Trump is calling f entering the united stat for a total and complete es. Reporter the justice shutdown of muslims entering the United States. Reporter the Justice Department wants a hold on the department wants a hold on the ruling Lower Court Rulings so the he g en government can start enforcing its an appeal. And the courts last day comes wi the travel ban while its on appeal. Lation about a reti and the courts last day comes. This year, friends of justice with speculation about a retirement. Anthony kennedy says he has been thinking about it. He turns 81 in a month after 29 years on the Supreme Court. With four mostly conservative justices and four mostly liberal ones, kennedy is often the decider, the man in the middle and then kennedy plus the conservatives loosened the reins on corporate money campaigns. And strengthened gun rights. Kennedy upheld abortion rights and use of the death penalty. Candidates like ted cruz have dreamed about when he would step down. The next vacancy we have the ability to get back and restore our constitutional protections. Reporter groups that helped with the neil Gorsuch Nomination say they doubt kennedy will retire. Some white house aides say they have not heard anything about it. The coming hours may provide the answer. Pete williams for us. We have a little bit to chew on with Nicolle Wallace and josh earnest. Good morning to both of you. Lets start with health care. How is Mitch Mcconnells strategy playing out . And with the tugofwar going on between moderates and conservatives, who has the upper hand . I think peters piece lays it to bear. Its the game of jenga. If you make it feel like a repeal of obamacare, it tumbles because of the moderates. Not just the moderates, they worry about the medicate dollars. They fall off. You if you put things back on top, it falls over from the weight. Who has the most power right now . I would say theres more moderates. And people like ted cruz and rand paul are looking ahead to 2020. And its almost like a staring match. I dont know if theyre gettable. The president used the word mean in an interview to talk hes branded the Health Care Bill. He used that for the house bill. The senate bills not that far off that. How does this undercut his efforts to push this through using that word mean . It totally undercuts the efforts. Primarily when we worked to pass the Affordable Care act in 2009, we pinned our hopes to the idea that as the bill got implemented in 2009, the bill would become more popular as people understood what was in it. The republicans have the opposite dynamic now. Theyre trying to ram through this bill before people know whats in it because as people understand whats in the bill and how theyre affected by it, it will be less popular than it already is. You get the cbo score before the vote takes place. There will be more information for them to chew on. Mcconnells strategy is clear. Hes trying to rush this before the fourth of july recess because it will take on more water. Let me stay with you. For a very long time, President Trump does not even admit that the russians meddled in the election. Now, hes willing to say, they meddled and if they did, its your former boss fault, president obama. Looking back and according to this Washington Post story, president obama was aware that Vladimir Putin himself was directing some of that meddling. Did president obama do enough . Well, matt, what is what makes it hard to take President Trumps critique seriously is that we know what response was mobilized by the Obama Administration is something President Trump was trying to undermine before he took office. Even democrats are saying not enough happened. You have a top official quoted in the Washington Post story saying we choked on this. Matt, the thing that people need to understand about this is its totally unprecedented. Its not unusual for russias russians to engage in trying to destabilize our democracy or mess around in cyberspace. It is unprecedented for them to hack the emails and release them with a clear political motive. Whats important is that we learn the lessons of what happened in 2016. What we did in the Obama Administration is succeed in the voting systems and allow people to cast ballots and cast without interference. But we need to go back and take a look at this hack and leak strategy that the russians used that did have an impact on the 2016 election. They cant do it again. Anything else . Real quick. This year, some friends we have time to talk about real quick. All right, there are rumors that the Supreme Court judge may retire. Announce it today. What kind of battle will there be to replace him . Describe what will happen. There were even democrats who thought that the fight over neil gorsuch was a wasted one. Kennedy is a swing voter. Which is a democrat sometimes, so its really important if youre on the left or in the middle. Im hearing all the same rumors that Pete Williams is hearing. The thing that gives kennedy backers some confidence that a resignation will be sound under the president is the comfort that all sort of conservatives feel about the caliber and the quality of the man that trump picked. It had the potential to swing the court in a different direction. We are still reading tea leaves on this. Theres all weve got. Thank you both very much. A lot more to get to including a deadly ferry disaster. It began to take on water and then it sank. Gadi schwartz has that story. Reporter good morning, matt. It was supposed to be a day of fun in colombia and the popular weekend destination was especially crowded as colombians celebrated a long Holiday Weekend. But things took a deadly turn when that ferry started to take on water and went under in a matter of minutes. This dramatic video posted on social media shows a four deck ferry with at least 150 passengers on board rocking from side to side. As it started taking on water. We were with our family when we started to hear screams and noise and then people started to tell us about a boat four levels high that had gone out with a lot of people. Reporter lower level passengers quickly scrambling to the top deck as the boat started to sink. Everyone should be rushing out there, one witness says. This video speeds up as motorboats, jet skis and fishing boats race to try to help. Then chaos as the ferrys bottom decks collapse. Translator people began to climb on to other people to be able to get out so there were a lot of injured people. Reporter 99 people were rescued. Dozens remain unaccounted for this morning. Translator it was incredible to see all of the survivors start arriving. Everyone pulled together and started to help. Reporter divers spent the afternoon searching for missing passengers. Survivors say the ferry was overcrowded and there were not enough life jackets for everyone on board. Divers are expected back in the water today to search for the missing. Officials in colombia say they are investigating the cause of the accident. Hoda, matt, back to you. All right, gadi, thank you. Now to the nervous moments on a flight we showed you at the top of the show. The plane was shaking so violently the pilot told passengers to start praying. Travelers aboard the airasia flight said they heard a loud bang before the shaking started. The bone rattling vibration, it went on for nearly two hours before the plane turned back and made a safe emergency landing. It was shattering, shattering. Then we kind of go down. A lot of crying, people were pulling out their life jackets and stuff. Pretty much preparing. Like we thought there was a good chance wed go down. Airasia said theyre examining the plane for what they called a technical issues and the passengers were transferred to the next available flight. Can you even imagine something happens like that, two minutes is a long time. Can you imagine sitting there for two hours . No. Thank god they landed safely though. Lets get a first check of the weather. Dylan is here for al today. Yeah. We have a lot of heat out west. Up to 900 acres this is north of l. A. , santa clarita, it was a car crash that ignited the brush and it continued to spread with that dry brush and the temperatures very much above average. Without a lot of rain, it just remains very, very dry. So very unfortunate conditions. But its 50 contained at this point. Now, in the southwest, we do have 16 Million People under a heat advisory or warning for the heat thats going to continue for one more day. With High Pressure in control, temperatures are still coming across the land. So it keeps things very, very hot. Palm springs 117 degrees today. Las vegas, 108. Five degrees above average. Phoenix should make it up to 113. Temperatures though will start to cool off to closer to average. Well drop by five degrees or so by the middle of the week. Thats a look at the weather across the country. Your local forecast in 30 seconds. Have you seen it . You need to watch that show, suits. Watch stranger things. Next. Watch hannibal. My favorite. Good monday morning. Im meteorologist kari hall. Were starting out with some clouds across the bay area and mild temperatures starting out in the low 60s. Upper 50s for the north bay and San Francisco. As we go into this afternoon San Francisco will see the high up to 64 degrees and some lower 60s over the next few days. Well see the morning clouds and afternoon sunshine each day. And for the inland valley, 77 degrees. Well also get under a warming trend but our high temperatures by the end of the week will be in the upper 80s. Theres your latest forecast. Thank you. A man learns his son is actually alive. What he says about that mixup. What did you do that was special on sunday . Well, Jordan Spieth did this to win a Golf Tournament. But first, this is today on nbc. Tournament. 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