June 8, 2025

In this week's Sunday Sitdown, Oscar winner Benicio del Toro joins Willie Geist to chat about returning to the world of Wes Anderson to lead the famed director's new movie, "The Phoenician Scheme," and how his Academy Award changed his life. More than 40 million Americans are in the path of severe weather after heavy rain and strong winds battered communities across the Eastern half of the U.S. in states like Alabama and Oklahoma. NBC's Ryan Chandler reports for Sunday TODAY. Sean "Diddy" Combs' lawyers sent a letter to the judge asking again for a mistrial in the music mogul's sex trafficking case. Combs' defense team alleged "prosecutorial misconduct," claiming prosecutors knew one witness' testimony was false. The August Egg Company is recalling nearly two million eggs in stores like Safeway and Walmart due to a salmonella outbreak. The CDC reports at least 79 people from New Jersey to California have got sick from the eggs. American tennis star Coco Gauff won her first French Open singles title beating the world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus in a comeback three-set victory. Ukraine's "Operation Spider Web," a covert drone operation which destroyed more than 40 Russian aircraft at four different bases, may be remembered as the moment that changed the world of war forever. Baykar, the Turkish manufacturer behind the drones say they are equipping the aircraft with AI, a move that will "turn warfare into three-dimensional chess." NBC's Keir Simmons reports in this week's Sunday Focus.