welcome back. it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm ryan nobles in for jose diaz-balart. we begin with new developments in the intensifying debate over the future of president joe biden's candidacy. today, the white house is ramping up its damage control efforts after a debate in which biden has acknowledged to donors he performed poorly. happening in the next hour, a source tells nbc news that the white house chief of staff jeff zients will hold a call to tell the full white house staff to, quote, keep their heads down and weather the political storm. and moments ago, we learned the biden campaign sent an all staff memo this morning saying they expect new polling today, which, quote, is likely to show a slightly larger swing in the race. president biden also spoke with house minority leader hakeem jeffries last night, after

congressman lloyd doggett of texas became the first sitting democrat to call on biden to drop from the 2024 race. and a new poll by reuters and ipsos out this morning conducted after the debate found that one in three democrats now say president biden should end his campaign and 60% of the independents say the same. joining us now, nbc news senior national politics reporter jonathan alan, leigh ann caldwell, anchor at "the washington post." and basil smikle, former executive director of the new york state democratic party, professor at columbia university and msnbc political analyst, and stewart stevens, former chief strategist for mitt romney's 2012 campaign and a senior adviser to the lincoln project. a lot to talk about, i'm glad to have you all here. jonathan, let's start with you, you have new reporting about how the dnc could respond to these questions surrounding biden's candidacy. what are you learning?

>> we got our hands on a talking points document that the dnc is circulating which basically says that only joe biden could be the nominee of the democratic party. talks about how the delegates were elected to nominate him and how they will go through that process to do so. but what it doesn't talk about is a rule in the democratic convention rules for how a candidate is replaced once they are nominated. and in that process, and we reported on this a little bit before at nbc, but i think it is becoming more important at the moment, if joe biden were to receive the nomination and then step aside, this rule is in place that says the chairman of the dnc in consultation with congressional leaders and the head of the dga, so hakeem jeffries, chuck schumer and tim walls, the minnesota governor, would make a recommendation to the full membership of the democratic national committee which i should point out is different, it is a smaller more

elite set of democratic leaders than the full convention delegates, but would make a recommendation on who will a replacement should be. one source said that the biden team at the white house and on the campaign and at the dnc are trying to suggest that, quote, unquote, chaos would rain if biden were to step aside. this rule is in place despite the fact that the dnc and the campaign don't want to point to it. all of which i should point out leads to the conclusion that it would be almost impossible for anyone other than kamala harris to replace joe biden on a ballot, if he were to step aside, and, of course, he has said he's not going to do that. >> okay, leeann, let's talk about your reporting from "the washington post" that president obama is now privately telling allies that biden's tough re-election campaign is growing more challenging. so, this is your paper's reporting. how significant is this? >> well, it is significant in

the sense that there seems to be more and more people who are going a little bit further than they were over the weekend about president biden. you had nancy pelosi on your airwaves yesterday, going a little bit further, saying there are questions that should be asked. you had jim clyburn also say yesterday that -- who evoked praise for kamala harris. now, what this means, and then you also had other people like former congressman tim ryan who came out and said that biden needs to step aside. i'm told by a couple sources that the reason that people are doing this publicly and more in the media and inching closer to being a little bit more critical of president biden and questioning the legitimacy of if he can run again is because there is fears that they are unable to pierce the biden bubble. there is fears that he is not hearing what he needs to hear because his staff and his family are keeping such a tight circle

around him. and so they're taking some of their concerns public, ryan. >> so it is interesting, stewart, when we talk about piercing the biden bubble. he has a big meeting today, with democratic governors. some of them are going to be actually here in washington, d.c., so they'll see him face to face. others will be joining virtually. if you were one of these governors, what would you be advising president biden to do? >> i would be advising president biden to get out and campaign. do town halls, do interviews, do 72-hour blips of swing states, midnight tarmac rallies at airports. you can't talk your way out of these kind of situations. you can only prove that you are capable of doing the job and you're the best candidate. i don't really think a lot of people watched this debate, going in saying they were going to vote for joe biden and left the debate they were going to vote for donald trump. donald trump had an abysmal debate. he said crazy stuff, like most

americans were against roe v. wade. he said there were states out there where it was legal to kill babies. this is just nuts as a bunny stuff and they should be out there hammering trump with this. and use the supreme court ruling that gives them more power to raise the stakes in the election. >> but, stuart, isn't that part of the problem, if president biden isn't able to offer up that counterpoint, if he doesn't have the ability to draw that comparison, isn't that part of the reason there seems to be some anxiety in democratic circles? >> yeah. but, i mean, look, at a certain level, isn't this kind of odd? we're questioning whether or not joe biden is capable beefing president. he is president. so then you are fair to ask, is he doing a good job? and he arguably had the most successful first term since anybody since world war ii. so, it seems a little specious to say, okay, 90 minutes we'll throw out all this other information that we have.

of a wildly successful presidency, under very difficult circumstances, given where the republican party is, and question whether or not he's capable of being president. i just don't understand it. i get that everybody likes the idea that somebody new would be good. that's always the case. we don't sell cars in america by saying just as good as last year. something always has to be better. but this isn't fantasy football. it is deadly serious to the future of democracy, and i think that democrats should rally around joe biden and get about the business of winning the race. >> so, basil, to stuart's point that joe biden has this record of accomplishment, nothing has changed in terms of that from before the debate, but there are new questions raised about his lapses. during the period of time even from before the debate. "the new york times" writing, quote, asked if one could imagine putting mr. biden in the

same room with president vladimir putin of russia, today a former u.s. official who helped prepare for the trip went silent for a while and then said, i just don't know. a former senior european official asked -- answered the same question by flatly saying no. so, to stuart's point, is he still up for the job? that's part of the conversation, along with whether or not he's up for the campaign, basil. >> well, to stuart's point, he's been doing the job. let him do the job. i'm a former state party ed, i may get in trouble for the things i'm about to say, but the reality is i hate this open casting call. it's angering. i can understand acknowledging that the president didn't have a good debate. but democrats should be out there saying that on joe biden's worst day, he's orders of magnitude better than donald trump on his best day. why is that not the sort of prevailing narrative that is

coming out of that debate? and to jonathan's point, look, you know, the committee to fill vacancies which exist, you know, from if you're a city council member to president of the united states, there are rules in place to find ways to replace individuals who decided they can't run or don't run for whatever reason, but that in and of itself does create a certain level of consternation, i dare say chaos, but the reality is if you're even going to have a conversation about who's next, if kamala harris, the sitting vice president, is not the first and last name out of your mouth, then tell me how you're going to get black voters to engage when you change the rules to accommodate someone other than her? so all of this conversation to me just stokes more chaos, more concern, more uncertainty among voters and gives donald trump and his campaign an opening to stay, look at what democrats are doing, they don't have it together, come support me

instead. strategically, i just don't understand it. >> stuart, i want to tell you what democrats are saying. last hour i spoke with congressman mike quigley from illinois, a strong biden supporter, this is what he told me. >> this is more than just a single night's problem. the fact is you have to accept the voters where they are, not where you want them to be. there is not going to be another debate. candidate trump's people are smart enough to -- what was the latin phrase we learned in law school, it speaks for itself. there will be very few opportunities for president biden to convince the voters that it was a single night's issue. >> so that is interesting, stuart. this is a supporter of president biden. his point is you have to accept the voters where they are, not where you want them to be. how would you respond to that? >> he's just absolutely wrong that there is not going to be

other opportunities. for heaven's sakes, it is july 3rd, the election is in november. there is going to be hundreds of opportunities to show americans he's up to this job and to take donald trump's head off. i just don't get this. in the history of america, no presidential race has been decided at this time in the cycle. it just doesn't happen. you have candidates like bill clinton, he was running third this time in 1992. i think the fundamentals of this race are the same. and, to me, to go to basil's point, so trump is a candidate of chaos, unpredictability, of frightening possibilities, contrast that, the democratic party needs to be stable, predictable, reliable, safe. that's the contrast that wins this race. and this is a kind of aaron sorkin "west wing" fantasy, that you can come in and pick some

different candidates after millions of people voted for one candidate, but not, you know, had a bad night, so we'll go with another person. i don't know. i just think it is kind of looney. >> so, leeann, back to you, you have new reporting about senator joe manchin. he initially planned to break from the president after last week's debate. important to point out he's not a democrat anymore. what prompted him to make this bold statement? >> senator manchin as you well know covering the hill has been very critical of the president for quite some time. he's even contemplated launching a third party bid against the president. and so after the debate we're told he just kind of had enough, that he didn't think that president biden should be the nominee. and so he was going to go out on a sunday show on sunday and break with the president in some way and be critical of him, but he received a full court press,

word got out that he was going to do that, and he got lots of calls to walk him off that ledge. he also got a call from senate majority leader chuck schumer who manchin had decided by that time not to be critical and not to go on the sunday show, but he still did receive a call from schumer and some other, we're told, prominent democrats. and so that goes to show how hard the biden campaign and the white house and their allies are working to tamp down and to keep the party from coming out and breaking with the president at this time. we're told democratic chiefs of staffs, daily memos from the white house and the administration with talking points and how to stay on team biden, ryan. >> and we do have some breaking news i want to share with everyone. from "the new york times." they're reporting that, quote, president biden has told a key

ally that he knows he may not be able to salvage his candidacy if he cannot convince the public in the coming days that he is up for the job after a disastrous debate performance last week. he knows if he has two more events like that, we're in a different place. this ally is quoted saying. by the end of the weekend, referring to biden's halting and unfocused performance in the debate. this person did speak on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive situation. we must clarify this is a report based on a single anonymous source and nbc has not confirmed this conversation. the white house is also pushing back saying that this claim is absolutely false, and if we had been given more than seven minutes we could have communicated this before it was publicized. so, alan, to you on this, what is your reaction that president biden may have actually conceded that he has a problem here to a key ally? >> well, it would be deeply out of touch for him to not talk about at least privately talk

about weighing whether or not to continue the race. and the reason i say that it would be deeply out of touch, there are so many democrats, prominent democrats talking about whether or not he should continue the race. i've spoken to lawmakers and others who, you know, who have, you know, questioned whether or not he should do that. we have seen some people actually come out publicly. he would have to be completely unaware of the conversation going around him, not to at least to consider it. and, by the way, as we know, he huddled with his family at camp david this weekend, they discussed it and the reporting coming out of that was that it was full speed ahead, that he was going to continue in the race. so, you know, i would just pause, i would take a deep breath for a minute, you know, considering whether or not he can continue is something that makes a lot of sense, given thursday's performance. knowing that it is problematic for him if he continues to have episodes like the one he had on thursday and right now there is

discussion of whether it is an episode or a condition as former speaker pelosi put it on msnbc yesterday. so, it makes sense for him to have those private concerns. now, that coming out into public is not good for him. politically, strategically that's not great for him. >> do you agree, is this not good for the president that an ally shared this with the new york times? >> it is not good at all. these are the kind of conversations that, look, let me go back to something, i always enjoy the split screen of mccarthy trying to be speaker and hakeem jeffries holding the entire democratic conference together and creating consensus. that split screen is consistently important throughout this cycle, even when it comes to running for president of the united states. so, when you have a lot of these conversations, and these leaks, you know, it -- all it does is it continues this sort of soak the spearhead and exacerbate the

real concerns. months ago, i had been complaining that vice president kamala harris was being diminished consistently in the media. and i questioned why would you do that because all that does is it drags down the entire ticket for a situation exactly like this. so that people don't -- voters don't have the confidence. that's a problem. so when you start having these conversations out loud, in the media, all it does is it makes your ticket look vulnerable. >> stuart, i'll let you have the last word. >> look, i agree. when i was a republican, we won a lot of races because the democratic party that we shouldn't have won because the democratic party had self-doubts in timidity. i would say let's walk with a little confidence here, let's walk with some swagger. there is more of us than there are of them. we're right, they're wrong. this isn't supposed to be easy. what are the stakes when it

comes to defending democracy what is being asked of us is a low bar compared to what has been given before. i would say suck it up and get about the business of beating donald trump and saving the country. >> all right, we'll leave it there. great conversation. i appreciate you all being here. in just 90 seconds, we're back with new reporting about how the white house is weighing its response to the supreme court's presidential immunity ruling. plus, we'll tell you about a new drug just approved to help the millions of americans suffering with alzheimer's disease. and then later we're tracking a dire situation in the caribbean as jamaica prepares for what could be a catastrophic hit from hurricane beryl. a catac hit from hurricane beryl it's an outlet-free air freshener that fights odors for 45 days. so even after every flush... you know your bathroom smells amazing. ♪ lalalalala ♪

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the house january 6th committee. so, vaughn, the judge in the hush money case is delaying their sentencing until september 18th, saying in his letter if necessary. how is the trump team responding to all this? >> largely quietly. this is the moment here for donald trump that he was looking to ever avoid, having to appear in lower manhattan for a sentencing and at least for now it is delayed until september 18th. the bigger question is that first week of september judge merchan has indicated he will make a decision after the briefs are filed from each side, the district attorney and trump's attorneys on whether to potentially throw out the guilty verdict for donald trump in its entirety based on the question of whether the immunity decision by the supreme court applies to some of the evidence that was entered in and found to be admissible at the time by judge merchan. and so the question here is over the following weeks could potentially the entire seven-week trial that donald

trump sat through, through that prosecutor's presented and ultimately were able to find -- get a guilty verdict on, could that supreme court decision have severe ramifications? and right now it is only his legal team speaking on that front, donald trump himself even on social media as well as his campaign team have remained quiet now that this has been delayed. >> and sahil, democrats aren't just concerned about how this directly impacts donald trump. they're also concerned about the long-term impacts of this immunity decision. what have you learned about how the white house and congressional democrats, what they're considering to do now in light of this ruling? >> it is very much a fluid situation, ryan. they're discussing a variety of options, they have not made final decisions, but here's what white house spokesman ian sams told me, we're reviewing the decision and will be exploring what can be done to address it to better safeguard democracy and the rule layoff in the future given this dangerous precedent. whether that's legal memos calling for court reforms to push for ethics legislation, new policy ideas, that's all still

tbd. here on capitol hill, democratic leaders have reacted with out rage, without lining a specific plan of action, senator chuck schumer, majority leader, calling this a disgraceful decision by the maga supreme court. his words. senator dick durbin, the chair of the judiciary committee says it strips the justice department of its long-standing independence. hakeem jeffries, the minority leader in the house, promises aggressive oversight and legislative activity with respect to the supreme court. that would be presuming he becomes speaker and then there is some other scattered responses. senator tina smith tweeting today, expand the court, referring to legislation that is popular on the left that would add four seats to the supreme court and rebalance the conservative tilt. congressman aoc tweeting the supreme court is embroiled in a corruption crisis, said she intends to file articles of impeachment upon her return. we reached out to her team and she has not yet said who those articles of impeachment would be about. they're not going anywhere in the near term. this is all about trying to find

some message to channel the anger that democratic base voters feel about this ruling. >> so, marcus, from your perspective, what options does the biden administration have? >> this is a clear separation of powers issue here as we heard. you heard congressional members talk about some of the oversight options they may have. normally we see oversight, especially on the january 6th committee or the judiciary committee you see with oversight of the white house or key agencies and now we're starting to see more talk about oversight of the judiciary. the problem is you have to have a majority in the house as well as white house coordination. and those options could be adding numbers to the court as we saw the senator say or creating term limits or age limits on the supreme court. there is a lot of different rules of the constitution grants congress the ability to impose on the supreme court. but the key problem is, you have to have a majority and the white house all on the same page to make those come to fruition. >> also a precedent issue as well? the congress is used to oversight of the executive branch. there hasn't been that much

oversight of the judicial branch, right? >> not in recent history. if you go back and look at historical history, there is the creation of district courts, adding numbers to the supreme court, so there has been oversight that comes directly from congress over the judiciary the no really in recent history. you can even do oversight over the jurisdiction of the types of cases that the supreme court can hear. congress has that power as well. now it would be litigated if they went that route, but and it hasn't been done in recent history, but congress does have that power. >> marcus, i want to ask you also about this report from "the washington post" that the justice department plans to pursue the criminal cases against donald trump past election day, even if he wins, they believe that the department rules against charging or prosecuting a sitting president wouldn't really kick in until he's inaugurated in january. >> i agree, you're not a sitting president until january 20th of 2025. that's when former president trump were to win this election, that's when his presidency would take effect. he can't make any decisions over doj or any other agencies until that day. so i do disagree with that

notion that, you know, the special counsel can continue through january of 2025. it feels like the same issue we had on the january 6 committee, we kind of a feeling the house was going to flip, you knew the time was going to run up and we continued our investigation through the next congress as well. if you recall we had a hearing in december of 2022, so you run up until the end of the clock, when there is a change in administration or change in the house leadership, and you investigate as if, you know, you're still in power because you technically are. >> that would be chaotic, though, would it not? >> i don't see how it would be chaotic. you're a department of justice, you're continuing as is, your boss is still president biden and the department of justice and so you're continuing to litigate until you have a new person in charge who is then telling you that they don't want to continue the investigation. so, look, it can create, i'm sure a media spectacle of some sort. but when it comes to the legal premise of what they're doing, it is not bizarre in any kind of way. >> all right. thank you, all. i appreciate it. up next, a new option to

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alzheimer's disease. the fda approved a new drug that has shown encouraging signs of modestly slowing in decline in memory and thinking abilities in people with early stages of the disease, according to the drugmaker eli lilly. there were an estimated 6.7 million people, 65 and older, living with alzheimers in the u.s. last year. that according to the the alzheimer's association. and that number is projected to double by the year 2060. joining us is dr. natalie azar. this certainly sounds significant. why is this drug so important and what makes it so promising? >> yeah, well, it definitely is exciting news, ryan. and it is the second medicine in this class of medicines that are called monoclonal antibodies and i mentioned that simply because these antibodies are in -- used in a variety of different diseases, not just alzheimer's disease, but specifically targeting these amyloid protein

collections in the brain, which are thought to be at least in part responsible for the mechanism and symptoms of disease. and so, you know, as you mentioned, in the intro, this is a medicine that had some modest benefit in terms of slowing down cognitive decline. but it is what we refer to as a disease modifying drug, which means that we're hoping that in the right population it will slow down progression of disease, it is not a cure, but delaying the inevitable decline that can happen in alzheimer's disease is invaluable for patients and family members who live with this disease. >> at this point, are there any major side effects or risks that they found? >> yes. and they are expected with this class of medicine very similar to sort of the parent drug or the ancestor drug approved last year. there can be an associated brain swelling and bleeding associated with this treatment and the

patients are monitored very, very closely for that. most people who weighed in, experts and otherwise, have said that that small risk is worth taking, given the potential benefit. and the lack of any other definitive treatments out there like this. >> and how soon could this be available for the public? >> well, now that it has been fda approved, the expectation is that it would be available in the next couple of weeks. it is an infusion that would be given once a month, and the plan for this drug as opposed to likembe, they could stop the medicine for a period of time. the cost like all of these medicines is definitely expensive. it would probably be around $32,000 a year per patient. and every expectation at this point is that medicare would cover the drug in the right patient population which is early, early alzheimer's disease. >> so many people impacted by this, have got to be welcoming this news.

dr. natalie azar, thank you so much for joining us, we appreciate it. up next, as democrats try to flip the north carolina blue this election year, we'll tell you about the new concerns over a group of voters critical to making that happen. voters crit making that happen when my doctor gave me breztri for my copd, >> i don't think people are particularly excited in this moment about this election. ly es moment about this election breztri won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. it is not for asthma. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking it. don't take breztri more than prescribed. breztri may increase your risk of thrush, pneumonia, and osteoporosis. call your doctor if worsened breathing, chest pain, mouth or tongue swelling, problems urinating, vision changes, or eye pain occur. ask your doctor about breztri.

we are back with more on the breaking news reporting that we mentioned at the top of the "th

reporting that he is weighing whether to continue in the race. "the new york times" reports, quote, president biden told a key ally that he knows he may not be able to salvage his candidacy if he cannot convince the public in the coming days that he's up for the job after a disastrous debate performance last week. now, this report is baseded on a single anonymous source and nbc has not confirmed this conversation. and the white house is pushing back saying, quote, this claim is absolutely false and if we had been given more than seven minutes, we could have communicated this before it was publicized. meanwhile, we have new reporting about how latino voters in north carolina who could be essential on whether the state goes red or blue this year. joining us now is nbc's morgan radford who spoke with latino voters in north carolina. what did they tell you? >> it was really interesting because we spoke to voters, nobb voters, organizers from both sides of the political spectrum

in wake county, north carolina, home to the second largest latino population across the state. and actually i thought the best summary came from the leader of one latino outreach group, and she told us there are three choices this election. joe biden, donald trump, and the couch. and right now, she said that couch is looking pretty good to a whole lot of voters. here in wake county, north carolina, the temperature is rising. but interest in the election among these latino voters -- >> i just don't know who to even lean for. >> reporter: -- is anything but hot. >> i don't think people are particularly excited in this moment about this election. >> reporter: mickey leads a voter outreach group, whose goal is to reach 5,000 latino voters this election year, mainly in support of progressive causes and candidates. a feat they say is harder than it has been before.

>> in 2020, the last presidential election, i think it was so much clearer to people kind of what we were up against and what the choice was and how the two candidates were different. i think all of that felt sharper. >> reporter: north carolina's latino population has increased by 40% in the last decade. but latino voter turnout here has actually decreased. lagging nonhispanic turnout in the midterms and the 2024 primaries. it is a trend maria says is due in part to a misunderstanding of what latino voters here want from either candidate. >> i think if either one of them had a coherent plan, and talked about that to latino voters, i think this would be a different conversation. >> reporter: another issue resonating here, a series of i.c.e. raids under the trump administration, that saw hundreds of people detained across the united states. >> i saw it happen over and over

again where people got taken who weren't even the person that i.c.e. was looking for and so i think that that had a really big impact on our community in creating a lot of fear and causing a lot of chaos. >> reporter: an issue that ultimately played a role in sheriffs from the state's three most populous counties losing re-election in 2018. it is one reason this 19-year-old said she's leading toward biden. >> it has been impactful to how my family lives. >> reporter: you say you're still undecided. are you excited about voting for either candidate? >> not necessarily. >> reporter: it sounds like you're almost choosing reluctantly, between two options you don't love. am i hearing that correctly? >> yeah. >> reporter: a sentiment the state's republican party is hoping to capitalize on. when you're out here talking to latino voters, what is the number one issue you talk about to recruit them? >> the economy is definitely the in unone issue. >> reporter: why? >> we talk about were grocery

prices this high when president trump was president, or gas prices, were they this high when president trump was president? the american dream is to own a home. are you able to put a down payment down with the interest rates so high and they say, no, we're having a big problem. the rent market is booming but the home market is not. >> reporter: voters here say there is still a long road ahead. >> honestly, i don't know who to vote for, it is like no matter what side you go to, there is something iffy about it. what do you think of biden and trump? you agree with your daughter, you think both candidates are too old, you want to seeing some new? >> exactly, yes. yes. >> we reached out to the democratic party and it said they're investing earlier than ever in the state's latino community, adding in part while

trump oversaw 47% spike in unemployment among latinos and is pushing to raise our healthcare costs, president biden has delivered for our latino communities, creating more than 400,000 good paying jobs across our state. they also pointed to seven figure ad buy for a tv ad specifically targeting toward latinos watching the copa america tournament which will air across several battleground states including north carolina in time for a wednesday match in charlotte on july 10th. >> morgan, my family lives in wake county. my parents and my sisters. it might be one of the most important counies for the election. >> all eyes are on us this year. >> thank you, morgan. appreciate it. up next, as the holiday week gets into full swing, millions are under the threat of severe weather. what you need to know. violent storms could create a traffic jam on the roads and in the skies. we're live at the nation's busiest airports with how things are looking. e nation's busiest airports with how things are looking. have you ever considered getting a walk-in tub?

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this morning, hurricane beryl is racingjamaica. reaching winds of 165 miles an hour, making it the strongest july hurricane ever according to the national hurricane center. jamaica bracing for up to a foot of rain and a life-threatening storm surge.

joining us is bill karins. what does the track look like? >> over the next eight hours is when the worst of the damage will occur in jamaica. the capital is kingston. let's show you pictures. you can see, the camera is zooming around. they are up on a hill. you can see the trees not blowing around that much yet. the rain has started. just because it's a category 4, it doesn't tell you about how much rain is coming. maybe a food of rain. mudslides, debris flows. the waves and storm surge is coming. we don't know if the core winds, that 145 mile per hour winds are going to hit the island directly or stay to the south. it's going to be a close call. i'm confident the eye will miss kingston. it could brush the southern portion of the coast. from cancun down to belize, we

are under a hurricane warning. here is the latest from the hurricane center. still a category 4. it peaked at 165. it weakened by 20 miles an hour. it's getting sheered. you can no longer see where the eye is. it's moving at a fast clip. it will be done with jamaica tonight. overnight to tomorrow morning, closest to the cayman islands. then, everybody wants to know, how is this going to impact south texas? that's through sunday night into monday morning. our computer models are divided if this is more for mexico or into texas. we will fine tune as we get closer. >> bill karins, thank you. we appreciate it. happening now, people across the country are on the move in what is expected to be record-breaking travel for the

4th of july. 60 million people are expected to hit the highways and over 5 million are expected to travel by air. for those hitting the road, gas prices are at their lowest since 2021. joining us now, preya shreether. >> reporter: this is the world's busiest airport. if you are planning on traveling, or going to an airport, you are not going to be alone. about 2.7 million people will pass through. that will continue for the next few days, averaging around 3 million people per day. they say the busiest airports over the july 4th holiday travel period will be right here in atlanta, denver and dallas-ft. worth. if you are traveling to one of those, it's really important to leave early and leave enough time before your departure. the busiest times to catch a slight are between 5:00 and 7:00

a.m. and 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. one bright spot is we are not seeing a lot of flight cancellations except to jamaica. because of hurricane beryl. they closed down a lot of the airports there. right now, the faa is saying that we are at a decade low as far as flight cancellations with only 1.4% of flights being canceled. a lot of travel today. right now, things aren't looking too bad. if you are heading to the airport, make sure you leave enough time. another thing that the tsa says is to really inspect your luggage, especially if you are planning on checking on a bag. make sure if you do use that bag for other activities like going to a shooting range or the beach that you thoroughly inspect it and take everything out of it so you are not holding up people in line with items you are not allowed to bring. >> thank you so much. we appreciate it. before we go, final preparations are underway for a beloved 4th of july tradition.

earlier this hour, the official weigh-in took place for tomorrow's annual nathan's famous international hot dog eating contest. the competitors will face off tomorrow afternoon on new york's coney island to see who will eat the most hot dogs in a span of ten minutes. this year's contest not without controversy. the 16-time champion joey chestnut is barred from competition after signing a contract with a plant-based hot dog brand. it's a hard pass for me. that's it for me this hour. andrea mitchell will be in to pick things up after this break. have a wonderful 4th of july. with powerful, easy-to-use tools,

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right now on "andrea mitchell reports," fear and frustration. democrats growing increasingly concerned that president biden could lose to donald trump in november amid reports like the one from "the new york times" today warning that his mental lapses are becoming more frequent, more pronounced. after thursday's debate, more worrisome. my conversation with the co-author of that story. i will speak to congresswoman debbie dingell about her warning to the biden campaign. justice delayed. former president trump's sentencing in the hush money case put off until mid september. that as the other three criminal cases against him face