it is good to be back with you on this second hour of "chris jansing reports." at this hour, the largest crane on the eastern sea board arriving at the sight of the baltimore bridge collapse. the long cleanup ahead to clear twisted metal and debris with four victims trapped underneath. survival story, one family crediting their son and their dog with saving their lives during a man's deadly stabbing spree. the wild struggle that had them fighting him off with their bare hands and a syrup bottle. sean diddy combs, our first look at the after math of federal raids on his home,

overturn drawers, wires left dangling from the halls. new details from joe biden's $26 million fundraiser with bill clinton and barack obama, including one moment when donald trump came up. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with nbc's gary grumbach who is in baltimore where that massive crane is on the scene. what's the latest, gary? >> reporter: hey, there, chris. governor wes moore has said he has four main priorities moving forward in this as we get to the effort of the salvage portion of all of this. he wants to first of all get the four bodies that we believe are underneath the bridge out of there. he wants to support the workers, not only the poor workers, but the construction workers that were both on the bridge, their families and the other construction workers that were part of the team, support them emotionally, mentally, and financially as well. and he also wants to start this rebuilding process. this is something that's not

going to happen in a few months, not even perhaps in a few years. the bridge could take upwards of five years to rebuild. and our tom costello spoke to the army corps of engineers and here's what they had to say about this process. we don't have that sound, but what they said is that perhaps it is the most dangerous process they have ever undertook. they were going under the water. they're going to have to go under the water and start cutting the bridge into pieces. this crane that arrived is a thousand ton crane, but the bridge is a 3 or 4,000 ton bridge. they're going to have to have cut the bridge into pieces and make sure not one single piece of that bridge is remaining. because they're going to want to make sure to get the channel back open, nothing is there that could impact any other ships, chris. >> gary grumbach, thank you for that. i want to let you know that president biden who is here in new york city and back on jba on

route to the white house, joint base andrews, he did shout to reporters that he's going to be going to baltimore. he will be there with governor wes moore, who by the way, we're waiting for a press conference with him to start. he will be visiting baltimore at some point next week. joe biden going to the scene of that disaster. again, thank you so much, gary grumbach. now to illinois and a family's dramatic retelling of how they survived a man on a deadly stabbing spree. shaquille brewster is reporting from chicago. what are we learning about that is this. >> it was yesterday during your hour that we talked through the horrifying details from officials as they explain the investigation into this rampage that left four people killed, seven others injured in attacks across five different locations. today i want you to hear from one of those families that came face-to-face with the suspect as they shared the story with our colleague, maggie vespa.

>> i heard, hey, and then the guy was just standing there and just stabbed me right in the face. i fell to the floor, and i literally just crawled through the house. my dog came running and jumped on the guy. >> brandy is just sitting here barking, i turned my head, and he's standing right there, and he literally looks at me and says come here. we were fighting for a couple of minutes, and then she came upstairs, and he shifted focus on to her. went and clocked her a good one. and then he was getting ready to do it again, and then i grabbed a syrup bottle and started beating him with it, and then after a couple of minutes, he just ran out the back. >> police then say the suspect left that house, went into another house where there were three teenage girls, picked up a bat, and attacked them with that bat, killing one of them. the suspect is apprehended. he's facing some 13 charges

ranging from first-degree murder to home invasion. the judge yesterday denied his release, chris. >> shaquille brewster, what a horrifying story, thank you. we're now getting a new look inside the home of sean diddy combs after federal agents raided it. nbc's stephanie gosk is following that story for us. what more can you tell us, stephanie? >> this video comes from tmz, and it shows an upturned home, bedrooms, furniture, kids bedrooms, wires hanging off the walls. it is allegedly of diddy's house in l.a. following that search that we have been covering for the last few days. they also searched his home in miami. up until now, there are no charges. this is part of a federal investigation, we are told. there are no charges against combs, but they certainly are looming. we are told by one source familiar with the investigation that investigators are looking into allegations of statutory rape. we are also told that a number

of guns were recovered in both this home in l.a. and the home in miami. above and beyond that, you have more problems for combs because one of his associates was arrested at the airport in miami on the same day that his homes were searched. one of his associates, brendan pete, you see him here in this body cam footage, he was arrested on drug possession. he's 25 years old, and why he matters is because he's actually mentioned in a civil lawsuit by a music producer, rodney jones who is suing combs and in that lawsuit, he says pete was a drug runner and a gun runner for combs. the attorney for combs says that's meritless and said the searches were a witch hunt and a gross overuse of military level force, he called it, chris.

>> stephanie gosk, thank you. president biden following up his massive fundraiser in new york city last night by meeting privately with campaign donors today. nbc's aaron gilchrist joins me. it was not open to the press yesterday, the main part of the fundraiser, though little bits here and there are trickling out. tell us more about the trip by the president. >> there were lots of phones in the audience, taking video of the big event that happened at radio city music hall in new york last night. president biden is on his way to camp david in maryland. he has made his way back to the d.c. region, and this comes on the heels of a campaign finance meeting this morning, where he talked to his finance team and some donors after last night's big gathering. you see some of the video here. you were looking at some of the images of president biden seated with former president barack obama, and former president bill clinton. this was toward the end of the gathering, where they put on aviator sunglasses, just like

president biden wears often when he's out in the sun and the president made a joke about liking aviator sunglasses and ice cream. this was a light hearted gathering. we saw lots of entertainment before the conversation with the three presidents where they were able to sort of make some jokes. i want you to hear one exchange that happened with the host there, stephen colbert. >> raleigh, saginaw, milwaukee, phoenix, vegas, hot-lanta, the philly suburbs, houston, donald trump has been trying to win a third championship at his own golf course, my question to you, sir, can voters trust a presidential candidate who has not won a single trump international golf club trophy at long last, sir, have you no chip shot? >> well, look, i told him this before, when he came into the oval when he was being -- before he got sworn in, i said i'll give you three strokes if you carry your own bag.

>> and so we heard these and saw these light hearted moments from the gathering last night but this was a serious event. you heard him list the cities president biden has visited in the month of march to drum up support for his reelection campaign, to make the speeches he has made in the last several weeks, really, that targeted former president trump in a much more serious way. again, as the president did say last night, calling the former president a threat to democracy. this time, though, he had former president obama and former president clinton backing him up in the assessment of the risk and what's at stake in another trump administration and we would also have to mention, chris, that this event raised more than $26 million to add to the biden/harris and the democratic party's campaign war chest. now we knew at the end of february, he had $155 million cash on hand to continue to mount this effort to prove that as they would say, president biden is a better candidate, a

better person to elect than donald trump. chris. >> as we reported yesterday, they're going to continue to use some of the stuff they taped of the three of them together, and things like ads. and can we just show joe biden tweeted this out or his campaign tweeted this out that's the image of the four guys in joe biden's classic aviators. i love the look of bill clinton kind of looking over his glasses, moving them down on his nose. they're going to make good use of everything they got last night. aaron gilchrist, thank you so much. in 60 seconds, he's the georgia official that called voter fraud after the 2020 election, and now the judge says he voted illegally. more on that story just ahead. you won't believe how many times they said he voted illegally. egy [dog whimpers] [thinking] why always the couch? does he need to go to puppy school? get his little puppy diploma?

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about 2020 voter fraud has now been reprimanded by a judge for voting illegally himself. not once, not twice, but nine times. nbc's blayne alexander is reporting from atlanta. also with us, former republican governor of ohio john kasich and msnbc political analyst. blayne, what more can you tell us about this official, what exactly happened here? >> reporter: chris, this is an official here in georgia, a republican official who was found by a judge to have voted illegally nine times. his name is brian pritchard. he was in violation for a pair of felony convictions that date back 30 years. what a judge found and the board found and upheld is he registered while serving his sentence for a felony. he has been find some $5,000, he has to repay the board's investigative costs and he also faces public reprimand for his conduct in all of this.

this is somebody who has cast doubt on the results of the 2020 election, the 2020 presidential election. certainly notable, previous remarks in light of what he has been found to have done this week. we reached out to his attorney, the state republican party and not gotten a response. >> so governor, marjorie taylor greene tweeted he must resign immediately. she tweeted it is the party of integrity, and went on to say this. >> when president trump got on the phone with secretary of state brad raffensperger, can you find the votes, where are they? he was looking for ballots, and these ballots have been lost in the mail, and so there was nothing wrong with what president trump said. as a matter of fact, i think he'll be vindicated easily by a lot of the work i'm doing and the proof i'll be showing soon. >> is it clear to you what the message from some on the far right is on election integrity,

governor? >> chris, i mean, i can tell you about election integrity in ohio. i mean, when you go in to vote, you've got a republican and a democrat, they sit together. they check your i.d. they do all of these things. if there's a question, they go in the back room, they talk together. i mean, people take this very seriously, chris. and you voted in ohio. you know what it's like. it's like this all across the country. people take this duty to monitor the elections as seriously as anything. and so this whole business about we can't figure out who won elections, we're just talking about, you know, joe biden and donald trump playing golf. you know, it's like i beat you in golf, but you don't want to recognize it. you lost the election but i don't want to agree that you lost or that i lost and you won. but chris, this is not something that we have only paid attention to with the election in 2020. there were questions in 2000

about whether george bush was honestly legitimately elected. there was a question down in georgia, a lady who was the democrat said, well, she didn't lose the election, and she said, this was not correct. you know, look, you've got both parties engaging, if they don't win, well, it never happened. that undermines democracy. it undermines the basic thoughts about election and election integrity. >> i do remember voting in ohio was my first year in college, in the town where you live. i remember how straightforward it was. i registered. i went, i voted. nothing untoward, and now, blayne, it's so confusing in a lot of places because there are so many changes. georgia lawmakers approved new rules for qualifying for the state's presidential ballot and for challenging voter eligibility. and i wonder what the conversations are about how that could impact the 2024 presidential race in that battle

ground state. >> reporter: absolutely, chris, that's something people are already talking about. groups like the aclu are saying they are concerned about what impact this could possibly have in this election that's just a few months ago. there are a couple of things, what passed through the state legislature yesterday is kind of a piling together of several different measures. the key points are this. one, if you are a candidate, rather if you're a political party or political body and you have access to the ballot in at least 20 other states or territories, then you're able to get on the ballot here in georgia. yes, that could certainly have implications and help candidates like robert kennedy jr. or other independent candidates trying to gain access to the ballot from state to state. there are also changes when it comes to voter registration. for instance, if you're a person experiencing homelessness here in georgia, you have to register with the county registrar's office in the county that you're residing. that's the change from what it

had previously been, if you're experiencing homelessness, you can use the address of a shelter or government building. that's something voting rights advocates are pushing back against, as well as the fact that there's a provision some say could make it easier to challenge ballots, and they say that's something that could also strip away the rights from some people here in georgia, chris. >> when i have been on the campaign trail, i heard from a lot of people from all walks of life, that it can be very confusing for them. there was a case, a woman who was actually sentenced to five years in jail after testifying she did not know she was ineligible to vote, but then she was convicted of voting when she shouldn't have. she had a tax fraud conviction. it's been overturned. an appeals court said, no, she didn't do this to be fraudulent. she went, legitimately thinking she had the right to vote. >> sure. >> but when this stuff happens and it makes headlines, does it

have the effect of discouraging people? >> well, look, we shouldn't make it difficult for people to be able. you know, you're homeless, we shouldn't make it so difficult that you got to go find some registrar in order to do that. look, the fact is we should make sure that our elections are easy to participate in but that, you know, if you cast a ballot, that it's legitimate. i think it happens 99% of the time. even in my own neighborhood, chris, any wife went to vote and forgot her i.d., and our neighbor, who lives right down the street from us, told us you can't vote until you bring your i.d. that's the way it works in most of america. there's exceptions to everything, but the exceptions are tiny. we start questioning the outcome of elections, we start undermining democracy, and i happen to believe in those good people who sit at the polls for many many hours, they find out who's there, and mistakes can be

made. but i can tell you that republican and democrat electors at those places work together to make sure there's integrity. i do want to say i don't think either party ought to engage in making it more difficult to vote. sometimes i worry a little bit about republicans moving in that direction. we should make it easy. we should also make sure that it's accurate. >> my parents were two folks who were election workers. they were proud to do it. and now there are too many people who are afraid to do it. governor kasich, always good to see you. blayne alexander, thank you as always for your reporting. critics are crying foul after a michigan lawmaker posted that he had photo evidence of illegal invaders at the detroit airport. here's the problem. the buses that he posted pictures of were actually carrying ncaa basketball teams. nbc's julie tsirkin is following this from capitol hill. how did this happen, what did we

know? >> reporter: it happened unfortunately how a lot of false information is propelled through infamy through social media. this is a post from michigan state representative, a republican who says he's proudly endorsed by former president trump. he posted what you see on the screen, two pictures, three buses loaded up with illegal invaders at detroit metro. any idea where they're headed with their police escort. you see the airplane on one side, the three buses on the other. as you said, this was actually a plane carrying basketball players from gonzaga university from the sweet 16 march madness tournament they're playing tonight in detroit. i have to tell you since he posted this since wednesday night, getting corrected not only with the context note added on x, readers, but many news outlets statements refuting what he had posted there, despite that, this has 14 million views when i last opened this post. the lawmaker you see them there on your screen hasn't apologized

for this. he has down played anybody suggesting otherwise that of course this was not buses and planes full of migrants, these were, in fact, basketball players, and this is how this kind of misinformation is spread with no elected officials, people with platforms taking responsibility, especially on hot button issues like immigration. i can tell you from my perch on capitol hill. we have talked about this often. there are bipartisan efforts to solve very real issues. bussing migrants to democratic-run cities up north, certainly michigan is experiencing that as well. months before the november election, we expect that to continue, including unfortunately information like this. >> making stuff up. thank you for your reporting. i appreciate it. still to come on "chris

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traffic stop ordinance that was put in place after the death of tyre nichols, the black man beaten by five memphis police officers during a traffic stop last year. he died three days later from his injuries. despite pleas from the family, the governor's signature wipes out reforms related to stops for minor traffic violations or things like broken taillights. i want to bring in nbc news senior law enforcement analyst and a former member of president obama's task force on 21st century policing, cedric alexander. it's always good to have you here. these are called pretextual symptoms. they believe they unfairly target black drivers, and they expose them potentially to violence. they say history shows us that, so i wonder what you make of the governor's decision? >> well, certainly all the science and data point to exactly what you're talking about there, chris.

i think it's important to consider this, when you think about the work that has been done the last number of years around reform, memphis following the death of tyre nichols, along with that community, the leadership and others, came up with a plan, with reforms that they thought were very relevant to their community in terms of building relationships, continuing with the police department, and doing away with these unnecessary contextual stops that usually lead often times to some uneventful engagement that resulted in -- i think the best thing the governor could have done is repeal the ordinances in the city. people in memphis still feel are very important to them. i understand the governor of course when he states that there needs to be more police accountability. i get it, but we need to talk

about what is accountability. and part of being accountable is also adhering to, listening to and being sensitive to what people in the city of memphis is going to be necessary in order for them to have good public safety and to continue to build relationships. so i think that the governor's decision to repeal those ordinances, i'm not sure if he took into consideration or sat and talked with people in the community who live in those communities that need police or anything else. but need good police. that needs to be revisited and i hope at some point it is because at the end of the day, it's about building relationships and, this is going backwards, not forward. >> and if you hurt those relationships it's arguable and common sense, it makes it more difficult to do the jobs if they're not trusted.

and there are a lot of activists that work hard to get changes after breonna taylor, george floyd, tyre nichols, but there are also people in the policing community who worked for change, who made the negotiations, who trained, did additional training for officers because they don't want to besmirch every police officer who's out there on the job. what's the net effect when those kinds of negotiations, working together, community police officers get overturned, not just the impact on the community side, which is significant, but also within the policing community? >> well, certainly, police. in this case, the chief there, chief c.j. davis, and many chiefs across the country have been working for years to build those bridges and those relationships, to look at reform, to look at police and

see what it is we could do well and what it is we could do better. precontextual stops are one of those issues that have been in the media, have been a major concern. and there's ways in which we can take police away from being involved in these types of stops, and being more involved in the prevention of crime, particularly violent crime in our communities across the country. and also taken into account, chris, that we have sneaking work forces within police. we've got to be able to utilize our personnel a lot smarter than what we have in the past. so being able to have public safety in which the police and community feel good about each other and are working together and have set goals is clearly very important, and those in the police community, thousands of police officers and executives across this country there tell you, it's all about those relationships, building those relationships, looking at

reform, understanding how reforms have been important over the last number of years in keeping our community safe. because the safety of the community is not solely upon that of the police. it's also the citizens and police that are working together. and a lot of police across this country, of course, who want to see things better than these reforms. >> cedric alexander, it's always good to have you on the program, thank you. absurd and outrageous, that's senator bernie sanders take on the cost of the popular diabetes and weight loss drug ozempic. senator sanders is demanding a meeting, after the drug cost at least $960 more a month than it actually costs to manufacture every month. with me, dr. vin gupta, msnbc medical contributor. good to see you. this research found a monthly supply of ozempic can be

produced from somewhere between $0.89 and a dollar. customers are paying $960, even factoring in development costs, and i'm not being dismissive of the money that goes into research and development on the part of pharmaceutical companies. what's the real world impact on your patient when is a drug costs that much? >> well, chris, great to see you. good afternoon. the real impact here is that people don't have access to medications like insulin or this weight loss drug. this study that was just published, funded by doctors without borders. it highlights something you stated, the same drug that sells for $155 in canada or $60 in germany, costs $1,000 a month in the united states. we allow for it. our health care system allows for pharmaceutical companies to price gouge patients. we permit something for the same drug and pricing that isn't

permitted elsewhere. what does that mean in terms of real term impacts, globally, this is the global situation, less than half of people who need insulin for type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetics who are insulin dependent, have access to it. a recent study that was published that gets seen for obesity related care, 2.3% of those patients were on a weight loss drug. the implication is clear, people don't have access. >> if the price could go down, i wonder how big a difference it could make. senator sanders says he is considering holding hearings, and could public pressure and political pressure force some changes here? >> absolutely. it's the only way. we saw this with insulin. with insulin, there's a $35 cap for patients on medicare part d, how much they're going to spend

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maryland governor wes moore updating the situation with the francis scott key bridge. let's listen. >> we'll go back in the water. second, on clearing the federal channel and opening vessel traffic to the port. as of this morning, i've been briefed by the maryland department of transportation on clearing wreckage and moving forward. our team went out with the coast guard just a few hours ago, including the coast guard

commandant to survey the damage, to see the wreckage up close, to see a freight that is nearly the size of the eiffel tower and to see that same freight with the key bridge resting on top of it. to see shipping containers that were ripped in half as if they were paper mache. to know that out there you have to navigate high winds and electric wires, to go out there and to see it up close, you realize just how daunting a task this is, you realize how difficult the work is ahead of us. with a salvage operation this complex, and frankly with a salvage operation this unprecedented, you need to plan for every single moment, and every time you take action to move a piece of wreckage, you understand that that requires you to reassess the situation. so when i led soldiers in

combat, i knew that preparation was everything. you do not go into the field of battle without getting the intelligence that you need first. so as the mission continues, you need to say frosty, you need to reassess, and you need to adapt. that's the mindset the army corps is applying with their partners in unified command. we have the best inspectors, the best surveyors and the best engineers in the world working and setting up and executing a plan of action right here in maryland. and i've been informed by the u.s. navy that they are supplying us with four heavy lift cranes, two have already arrived. one arrives tonight, and the fourth is arriving on monday. one of the cranes is called the chesapeake 1,000. and it can lift about 1,000 tons. but the big part and one of the

challenges is that the key bridge which sits on top of the vessel right now that that weight is somewhere between three and 4,000 tons. our team needs to cut that truss in a safe, responsible and in an efficient way before it can lift those pieces out of the water. this crane that we're looking at is massive. the thing we also know is this. so is the challenge ahead of us. so in the coming weeks, we expect to have the following entities inside of the water. seven floating cranes, ten tugs, nine barges, eight salvage vessels and five coast guard boats. i've said it before, i will say it again, and i will keep on saying it. this is not just about maryland.

this mission is not just about maryland. and what we're talking about today is not just about maryland's economy. this is about the nation's economy. the port handles more cars and more farm equipment than any other port in this country. at least 8,000 workers on the docks have jobs that have been directly impacted by this collapse. our economy depends on the port of baltimore, and the port of baltimore depends on vessel traffic. maryland's economy and maryland's workers rely on us to move quickly. but that's not just maryland. the nation's economy and the nation's workers are requiring us to move quickly. third, on taking care of our people. i want to talk a little bit about the work that we're doing

with the maryland legislature. i want to thank speaker adrienne jones, senate president bill ferguson, and minority leader steve hershey. they have been in touch with our team since day one. i also want to thank delegate lou clippenger and district 6 and district 14 teams, and all of the maryland legislators who have reached out and offered their support, legislators, frankly, on both sides of the aisle. and i want to thank our federal delegation, too, to include jamie raskin who was here earlier but unfortunately cannot be here now, but to the members of the maryland general assembly, we know this. we are ten days away from the conclusion of this legislative session, and there is a lot of work to do. the top priority in that work is

going to be finalizing our budget. my administration proposed a responsible budget that makes important investments in housing, in child care, in environmental protection and transportation. so now, it is vital that the house and the senate find compromise as soon as possible, pass the budget and provide certainty at this challenging and uncertain time. we also need to ensure that we pass legislation to support the families and the victims of the bridge collapse and everyone else who has been affected by this emergency. i'll be proposing the creation of a permanent state scholarship for the children of surviving spouses, of transportation workers who lost their lives on this job. we will continue to push for legislation that seeks to protect workers, like the six victims of the key bridge

collapse. i've also asked the general assembly to ensure that any legislation we work on provides the flexibility our administration needs to support port workers, businesses, and our transportation network. we cannot possibly find every answer to every problem in the next few days before session ends, but we can give the state the ability to respond over the coming months. fourth, on rebuilding, as i said yesterday, we cannot rebuild the bridge until we have cleared the wreckage. i've always believed that you never learn anything about anybody when times are easy. if you really want to understand someone's medal watch them when it's hard. watch them when it's difficult. watch them when the stakes are high. that time is now, and we are going to rise to meet this

moment. because we are maryland tough and because we are baltimore strong. so in this moment, i'm going to hand it off to the u.s. coast guard, over to admiral gilwreath, and then after that, we'll be briefed by the colonel from the army corps of engineers, maryland state police, maryland department of transportation, epa administrator ortiz, congressman, and coin executive johnny oshefski. >> thank you, governor. i'm rare admiral shannon gilwreath, speaking on behalf of the unified command. our number one priority of the unified command is to reopen the port of baltimore, and to do

that we have broken that into three phases, the number one phase is reopen the shipping channel. number two is remove the ship. number three is remove the debris from the bridge from the rest of the waterway. we are beginning to make progress on those phases. in the phase 1 we talked about that we need to do the assessments of the bridge, both above the water line and beneath the water. those assessments continue. as the governor said, we were out there today, and we could see the engineers and the divers and the survey boats out there on the water, in these difficult wind conditions. doing their job, doing their work, to assess that bridge, to figure out how we can cut it up into the pieces we need to be able to lift, and back at the unified command, the governor, the commandant, all the elected officials, they could see those engineers working on those very

plans. engineers from the army corps of engineers, navy supervise of salvage. we had state engineers, private engineers helping us, coast guard engineers working there, and they'll working diligently to figure out the right plan to break the bridge up into the right size pieces that we can lift, and the second part of that is we need to get the heavy lift equipment here, and we have been telling you the cranes are on the way and the equipment is on the way. behind us, you can see the first of those things that are arriving. they're arriving, and they're going to continue to arrive for the next several days. and we're going to continue that planning so that we will be ready, so you'll take advantage of that as soon as possible, and do it safely. i'll turn it over to colonel

pinchasin. >> we have lost audio, obviously, but you can hear, all the folks working in baltimore to get things back up and running. as governor wes moore said, this is a complex and unprecedented operation laying out four priorities, the coast guard. the rear admiral say they have three things they're working to do, clear that shipping channel, get that ship out of there, and then work on the debris. let me bring in nbc's gary grumbach who's in baltimore for us. all hands on deck, clearly when you just listen to what's coming in from seven cranes and ten tugs and nine barges, your take away from this press conference, gary? >> reporter: i think there's a few headlines here.

first, the water is not safe for the divers to get in yet. the winds are 30 miles per hour gusts, that impacts the water too. underneath the water, there are things moving quickly, they cannot send divers to be around the precarious metal, and vehicles that are down there. another thing that should be noted is the leadership of governor wes moore. he served in the 82nd airborne in afghanistan. you can tell that he served in the 82nd airborne in afghanistan when he's talking about these combat terms, military terms of creating a team and creating a process to go about getting this project done. he talked about some of his priorities. he said he was going to be putting up a permanent state scholarship for the children of those who lost their lives in this accident, something that i'm sure the families would be incredibly grateful for. of course these are families of immigrants that have come to this country. their children will now be able

to go to school, paid for by the state of maryland. and the coast guard saying they are still continuing their assessments here. the assessments happened above the water, as it relates to the ship itself, whether the ship is still worthy because by the way, the members of the ship are still on the ship. they have not been removed from that ship. they are still there. a number of updates we have gotten from the press conference, chris. >> gary grumbach, thank you for that. let's go abroad. there's been a bit of a collective sigh of relief for the vatican. for a second day, pope francis presided over holy week services. he seemed stronger than days ago when he skipped doing the sermon at palm sunday mass. joining us now, christopher white, msnbc contributor, and vatican correspondent for the national reporter. what exactly is the pope doing today, and how is he doing? >> reporter: this is the busiest

time of the year for the pope, and today is especially busy. on friday he has the good friday lit you are ji -- liturgy, and back-to-back events. he'll be outside for the way of the cross ceremony. temperatures are dropping. this is of course going to test him. this is also a sign of a pope that's determined to show he's in charge. >> christopher white, it's good to see you. sorry we have to cut this short because the press conference with wes moore, but thank you so much. we appreciate it. happy easter to you, and that is going to do it for us this hour. make sure to join us for "chris jansing reports" every weekday, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. our coverage continues with "katy tur reports" right after this short break. this short break neutrogena. hydro boost.

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