The roads and skies will be packed on Sunday as millions travel home after the long Fourth of July holiday weekend. NBC's Shaquille Brewster reports for Sunday TODAY with the best and worst times to travel. Tropical Storm Chantal came ashore along the coast of South Carolina, and it is expected to bring up to six inches of rain along with rip currents and rough surf at the beaches. Chantal is the first named storm of the hurricane season to hit the United States. President Donald Trump is scheduled to welcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House Monday as Israel and Hamas appear to make progress on ceasefire negotiations. The two leaders are also expected to discuss the recent strikes by both the U.S. and Israel against Iran and its nuclear facilities. The rift between President Donald Trump and his one-time ally Elon Musk is growing with the richest person in the world saying he will create a new political party in response to the passing of Trump's massive tax and spending bill. Musk says the new political party, called the America Party, could target just a handful of seats in Congress and then act as a the deciding votes on key laws. NBC's Yamiche Alcindor reports for Sunday TODAY. With the movie industry facing numerous challenges, theater owners and Hollywood are betting big on summer blockbusters like "F1: The Movie" and "Jurassic World Rebirth" to encourage audiences to return to the big screen. NBC's Camila Bernal reports in this week's Sunday Focus. The Museum of BBQ in Kansas City, Missouri, a mecca for beloved meats, is honoring America's long, spicy history of barbecue. NBC's Stephanie Gosk shares an inside look in this week's Sunday Spotlight. Sunday TODAY's Willie Geist runs through our Highs and Lows of the week, including Joey "Jaws" Chestnut's triumphant return to the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on Coney Island, a wild turkey ambush and more.

In this week's Sunday Sitdown, Tony winner Nicole Scherzinger grabs pizza with Willie Geist to talk about her dazzling run in "Sunset Boulevard," her music with the Pussycat Dolls and working with the late Liam Payne on his last major TV appearance before his tragic death. An American Airlines pilot quickly aborted takeoff after a tire fell off and rolled away as the jet was speeding down the runway in Denver on Saturday. Passengers and crew evacuated using the emergency slide and one passenger went to the hospital with a minor injury. Dangerously hot weather is gripping much of the country, with more than 125 million people from the Plains to the Northeast under heat advisories between Sunday and Monday. Meanwhile, air quality alerts are in place from New Jersey up to Maine because of smoke coming down from Canadian wildfires. Just days after Stephen Colbert, one of Trump's loudest critics, announced his popular late-night show has been cancelled by CBS, the FCC approved Skydance's $8 billion acquisition of Paramount Global, CBS' parent company, in a deal that includes conditions for the network's news division. NBC's Erin McLaughlin reports in this week's Sunday Focus. A photographer in Altadena, California, who lost her lost her home in the devastating Eaton Fire, is documenting her neighbourhood's efforts to rebuild using a centuries-old craft called tintype. NBC's Steve Patterson reports in this week's Sunday Spotlight. Sunday TODAY's Willie Geist runs through the Highs and Lows of the week including Pope Leo being gifted a custom 'Da Pope' T-shirt, Astronomer, the company at the center of the Coldplay Kiss Cam frenzy, hiring Gwyneth Paltrow as their "temporary spokesperson," and more.