it is good to be back with you on this second hour of "chris jansing reports." at this hour, bracing for retaliation. the idf announcing in just the last 20 minutes that the israeli military is at its highest alert for a possible direct attack from iran. as the u.s. rushes in new fire power, including a missile-guided submarine we'll get a live report from the region. taking no vote for granted, with the presidential race neck

in neck, where democrats are spending money far beyond the battleground states, and surrogate in chief, president joe biden's plans to hit the campaign trail, what he said in his first interview since leaving the race. and an olympic-sized controversy, how team usa is fighting back after a ruling, taking gymnast jordan chiles medal away from her our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments we begin with the volatile situation in the middle east israel bracing for a retaliatory strike from iran nbc's matt bradley is reporting from beirut. what more do we know about the preparations underway right now? >> reporter: well, chris, we have been hearing from the israeli military they're saying they're on their highest level of alert, just as you said, and there's reports from washington, from israel, that they are girding for war as soon as this evening it's worth noting there have been warnings about this war for the past two weeks it's almost two weeks ago since

twin assassinations really sent the entire region on a war footing, and raised hacks as far away from washington that's why we're seeing from the pentagon, all the way to the middle east. they even made the rare acknowledgment that they're sending a submarine. that's something they normally would keep under wraps the uss abraham lincoln is hastening from asia to the middle east. all of these shifts, joining another aircraft carrier all of them stocked with f 35s and f 22s. the stealth aircraft, all of it, waiting for a wider war. maybe not just one between iran and israel, but one that could take over the entire middle east that is the real risk here, and that is why diplomats are scurrying as well. trying to tamp down tensions, trying to get the iranians and proxy groups, particularly hezbollah based here in lebanon, to walk back from the brink.

there have been warnings that if there is an attack that hezbollah could strike first it silts right on the border of lebanon and israel they have many many weapons. they have, you know, about 150,000 projectiles, mostly missiles of the kind that could be directed, that could really be targeted, and that is the real risk here the real risk is this could branch out into a wider war. the united states has said and we heard from the white house just today that they will do everything they can in order to protect israel's safety. this has also been creating divisions within israeli official dom we saw divisions between the defense minister and the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, break out into the open. now, we have seen these two men fighting before, even before october 7th. actually, benjamin netanyahu fired galant, and later reinstated him over a political dispute. now we're seeing these divisions play out in realtime we just saw yoav gallant, this

is in a closed session of the can i nece-- -- benjamin netani that was an anti-israel position we're seeing drama in officialdom as well. in a presidential race too close to call, democrats are spending to convince americans living abroad to vote this election season. i want to bring in nbc news white house correspondent monica alba so how many voters are there potentially out there, outside the u.s. . >> well, there are more than 9 million americans living outside of the u.s. right now, chris, and so the democratic national committee is hoping to reach a percentage of them and ideally, a large one. right now, only 8% of those voters are actually registered to vote in this election

and we're talking about people who might be living abroad because of their work, but who are u.s. citizens. we're talking about students who might be studying abroad or military members who are posted overseas as well so the dnc is making this new record investment a six-figure buy to reach those people, to up that registration number so that it's more than the about 8% that it's at right now and they're pointing out that desanti -- statistically, if you look at how close the election is, it came down to tens of thousands of voters. in a couple of key states. they really crunched the numbers. and when you look at the different battle ground states and citizens who are living abroad at this time, that they could reach. there are some really big numbers in states like wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania voters that are currently living outside the u.s. right now so they're really trying to

frame this as a strategy to leave no stone unturned, and remember, chris, we're just about a month away from some early voting in certain states, and those deadlines starting, and then those are really going to be rolling throughout september and october. so they want to be sure to reach people in time that if they are able to register to vote, they can do so from abroad, and they can participate in this election no matter where they live, but especially if they are some of those coveted voters in those really potentially key swing states, chris. >> monica alba, thank you. president biden says he intends to be out campaigning for kamala harris sometime soon. let me bring in senior white house correspondent, gabe gutierrez, so the president gave his first interview since dropping out of the race tell us what he had to say >> hi there, chris, he was in a reflective mood, for the first time in this interview, the first one given since he decided to announce that he was leaving the presidential race. he talked about why he exited the race, and he said that it

was largely due to -- he was convinced that he could become a distraction to some of these down ballot races. now, he also said he was not confident there would be a peaceful transfer of power in january if donald trump wins, and he was also asked whether he planned to campaign with the harris ticket as well as whether he could finish out his term take a listen. >> look, i had a really really bad day in that debate because i was sick but i have no serious problem. i was talking to governor shapiro who's a friend pennsylvania, my original home state, he and i are putting together a campaign tour in pennsylvania i'm going to be campaigning in other states as well, and i'm going to do whatever kamala thinks i can do to help the most >> so there you hear the president talking about putting together a campaign swing in pennsylvania, of course. his home state he also said that governor tim

walz was, quote, my kind of guy. chris, i should point out on thursday, governor harris should make a joint appearance. this is an official event. they'll focus on the economy, thursday in maryland. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you. usa gymnastics, now pointing to new video evidence as they fight to help jordan chiles keep her bronze medal emilie ikeda is following this for us for people who haven't kept on it, explain the controversy and what's happening now. >> talk about emotional whiplash for both america's and romania's athletes in the last week, jordan chiles has gone from scoring fifth place in her floor routine, bumped up to third, and now olympic officials have reinstated her fifth place score, and she was bumped back down to fifth place because of an appeal that took issue with the deadline

this international entity says the coach filed the appeal four seconds after the deadline usa gymnastics saying they have time stamped video evidence that shows the coach not only made an inquiry but a second statement within the one minute deadline the u.s. olympic and parlympic medal. th there were issues that need to be addressed given the circumstances, we are committed to pursuing an appeal to help jordan chiles receive the recognition she deserves in romania's appeal, they say they would rather have chiles keeping her bronze me dadal. unfortunately both romania's athlete, and jordan chiles have been the victims of harsh

rhetoric this is a chaotic controversy not of their own making. >> that's terrible they have to put up with that, addition to the emotional roller coaster that's part of this. thank you for that. crowd size and conspiracy theories donald trump trying out a new talking point against kamala harris i'm from phoenix, ariz. i'm a flight nurse on a helicopter that specializes in trauma. i've been doing flight nursing for 24 years. i had a fear that i wouldn't be able to keep up. i wanted all the boost i could get! i heard about prevagen from a friend. i read the clinical study on it and it had good reviews. i've been taking prevagen now for five years and it's really helped me stay sharp and present. it's really worked for me. prevagen. at stores everywhere without a prescription. here's to getting better with age. here's to beating these two every thursday. help fuel today with boost high protein, complete nutrition you need, and the flavor you love. so, here's to now...

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calling her a cheater, promoting a baseless conspiracy about the size of her campaign crowds. on truth social, he claimed her crowd in michigan was conjured by artificial intelligence and that a massive crowd of so-called followers didn't exist even though it was shown on live television the harris campaign's response was a taunt writing, this is an actual photo of a 15,000 person crowd for harris/walz in michigan, and trump has not campaigned in a swing state in over a week. low energy joining us now, susan del percio, republican strategist, and msnbc political analyst. basil smikle is former head of the new york state democratic party and an msnbc political analyst. good to have both of you here. so, susan, history tells us that trump will always lean on numbers, right, and if the numbers don't favor him, then he'll come up with something else we saw it on the first day of his presidency, right? is this, though, also about potentially setting the stage

for claims of fraud, if he doesn't win? >> it absolutely is. there's no question about it in my mind. he wants to use the word cheat as much as possible. the idea that the crowds weren't the crowds, you know, that it came through ai. it's a way of him creating an environment saying the democrats are doing whatever they can to make things look different, and like 2016 and 2020, he will come down with these lies that the election was stolen. >> somehow -- i haven't seen anything quite like this, basil, the harris campaign is having a blast about this they're not getting up inarms. they posted a video on truth social with their crowd writing, warning, the content of this video may upset donald trump and tim walz brought up crowd size at a rally in arizona saying this. >> on wednesday, the largest

crowd of the campaign showed up in detroit, michigan but arizona just couldn't leave it alone, could you. wow. it's not as if anybody cares about crowd sizes or anything, so >> so their tone, i think, says this is silly, right they're not taking this seriously. but also i wonder if it's to get him to keep focusing on things that in the end won't make a difference to voeters you don't vote for donald trump and kamala harris because one had a 15,000 person crowd in michigan >> that's absolutely right every time that he does this, according to former speaker mccarthy, he takes attention away from the issues that voters really care about, and he's trying to get donald trump to focus attention, money, language, on issues because as

former speakerer mccarthy has said, and republicans have said, we have to help the rest of the ticket trump's not doing that because he is going to sort of lay the ground work for graound work, i you hear his rhetoric. she's on the ticket because of democratic fraud, that joe biden somehow pushed her in this position, she shouldn't be there. all of this fits that same sort of narrative at the base of it, too, he can't stand not being the center of attention. he can not the fact that these are energized large crowds has got to be gnawing at him day-to-day. what's next for me, what do i got? to the point, we haven't seen him campaigning. >> you know, susan, he has drawn some big crowds, although he also says i have 80,000 people, and he was talking about when he went to a football game. so you could argue about who actually was there to see him. but is he drawing like he used to, do you think

are his crowds as enthusiastic to your mind >> oh, his crowds are there for him. that's his base. these are people that are not turning away% t it's not that they're going for him because they like the policies they are trump worshippers they're going to go. they will travel hours and hours. they will wait in line overnight it just to go see him. that's not going to change but what's interesting, too, i think with all of the pushing back on fraud, and everything, it's also because he hasn't found a way to hit the vice president yet. he hasn't figured out how to have something stick to her. so that's all he's got so he makes up stuff like ai crowds. >> is that -- let me bring in chuck todd, our nbc chief political analyst. it's good to have you. do you think this is about him not being able to figure out any other way to do it is it that he can't take that she's getting big crowds

there are people who look at what he has posted and we're not reading all of his truth social stuff, but they say it seems more and more like he can't get his act together politically >> well, chris, this is where we get into this dangerous territory of putting him on the couch, right, and i'm always reluctant to do this there's really no other explanation. i had someone close to him explain why it's one of their theories, why trump is struggling with this his entire mind set has been about avenging the biden defeat and part of that is defeating biden. and suddenly he's not there. and ultimately, if he can not avenge his 2020 loss by saying it was an aberration, but saying, see, i beat them the second time, which is proof it didn't really happen the first time that has been taken away from him.

and while all of us are acting in a very logical world that assumes that this is somebody that has -- that has the behavioral traits of a mitt romney or a kamala harris or a joe biden or a hillary clinton or a john mccain, my point being where they are sort of strategic minded, he's not strategic minded and this is why i, again, but i always say this about presidential campaigns, and i think both susan and basil will back me up on this it's never a staff driven idea, it's a candidate driven idea there's a lot of smart people in politics most campaigns have a lot of smart people on them the question is whether how smart or dumb of a strategist is the actual head of the ticket, and we're seeing that donald trump has his own personal

vendettas, demons, whatever you want to call them, that dominate his mind and i think ultimately he has not been able to handle losing his ability to defeat biden and biden won because he was everything trump wasn't. he didn't campaign he wasn't in your face he wasn't any of these things, and it's driven him crazier than it would a normal political candidate. >> well, i want to play for you something that he actually said, chuck, about joe biden, and we will deconstruct on the other side take a listen. >> i hear he's going to make a comeback at the democrat convention he's going to walk into the room, and he's going to say i want my presidency back, i want another chance to debate trump i want another chance. >> i have been for better or worse sitting at home at night watching a lot of these campaign appearances on both sides. i get why kamala harris and tim walz are saying what they say. then i hear him say that, i hear

him talk about tim walz waist size and going off as he does, and i do wonder, what does he think he accomplishes with that? is it just that no matter what he says, and he does have that base, they love him, and everything he says when you look at the people behind him, they are agreeing with him. is it just that he gets that immediate feedback that says this is what my people love? >> look, i think that explanation his awful acceptance speech in milwaukee. which the teleprompter was a good acceptance speech, but he wasn't getting the feedback he was used to getting at those rallies. what did he do all of a sudden a very low energy rally version of trump showed up. so, look, i buy that >> can he pivot, chuck can he pivot >> i don't think he can. and he's never had -- look at why was covid a disaster for him as president

right? his fourth year of his presidency was a complete and utter disaster why? because he couldn't pivot. this is not who he is. and i think this is -- it's as simple of an explanation as anything, but it gets at -- this is not about political strategy anymore. this is just about how his brain functions. >> chuck todd, thank you susan and basil, stick around. we have a lot more to talk about. we want to show you video from the california, nevada border where crews are trying to contain the gold ranch wildfire. cars driving right by, in some cases, even right through the scene. officials say the flames have spread across 500 ache e destr -- acres, destroyed a home, as crews contend with a red flag weather warning. the war in ukraine takes a dramatic turn as kyiv's surprise incursion keeps the kremlin

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. new york city police have charged a 22-year-old man with a hate crime saying he slashed a jewish man at brooklyn synagogue after yelling free palestine and do you want to die the attack happened around 2:00 in the morning saturday. the 30-year-old victim was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive according to "the new york times," this is one of several incidents targeting jewish people in brooklyn recently.

in the last hour, the white house put out a statement about the attack nbc's monica alba is here. what is the white house saying, monica >> reporter: chris, we have sadly seen a pattern of some of these incidents recently where the white house has had to come out and condemn this very disturbing incident and condemn anti-semitism, and violence overall. we do have a new statement from white house spokesperson andrew bates who's saying while the facts of this incident are still being investigated by law enforcement, as you referenced, the reports are appalling and our prayers are with the victim. anti-semitism and violence have no place in this country whatsoever, as americans we must come together and speak with one voice, against the horrifying rise of anti-semitism that is an affront to our most deeply held values this comes from an administration that long before the attacks on october 7th and israel had been working on

crafting a national anti-semitism strategy that of course took on new urgency and significance and meaning after those terrorist attacks in israel and we have seen in recently months, they have tried to deploy more of those resources to raise more awareness about that, and so this is an example of the white house trying to come out and quickly condemn this, and say that this is horrifying behavior, and while there are more facts to be learned about it, they wanted to be sure not to let it go by without them weighing in on it. and we should point out also, chris that the white house has also developed a strategy to counter islam phobic attacks, and islamophobia more generally, and that's something they have called out and will continue to do so as well when that parents, chris. >> monica alba, thank you. russian president vladimir putin is vowing to quote, squeeze out the enemy as ukraine pushes deeper into the ksurprise cross border assault

it's advanced by 20 miles an embarrassing result for the kremlin, and forced them to evacuate another border region nbc's josh lederman is following this story for us. what else did putin say in his remarks today, josh? >> chris, president putin is saying that a time for reckoning will be coming for the fact that ukraine has been able to take over russian territory but that right now, the immediate goal is to liberate these territories for russia that have been occupied by ukrainian troops for several days now we just got an update from the ukrainian military, which is now claiming that they control some 1,000 square kilometers of russian territory. that's about 385 square miles. nbc news can't independently verify exactly the geography or what territory has been taken over, but any way that you look at it, this has been a real stunning move by the ukrainians to take over a large swath,

dozens of settlements within russia proper. it's coming as the tensions are surging on both sides of the border we heard from president zelenskyy saying that the russians have set afire at the zaporizhzhia power plant, which has been in russian control for most of the war. i spent a lot of time in zaporizhzhia, the people there are terrified, stockpiling iodine tablets fearing there could be a major disaster there. there are some signs that at least the main fire there may now have been extinguished the russians in the meantime, they are blaming the ukraine ukr - ukrainians for starting the fire it's difficult to know exactly what is taking place at any time there are major reasons for additional fears for the people living in the zaporizhzhia plant in ukraine, coming under attack

for two years now. >> josh lederman, thank you. let's go to brazil now, where the families of 62 plane crash victims have gathered, waiting for answers, as experts analyze the black boxes from that doomed flight nbc's guad venegas is following this story for us, any working theories as to what caused that plane to drop 17,000 feet in just a minute. >> chris, let's go over the official information as you mentioned, they have now recovered the black box, which includes the flight data recorder, as well as the voice recorder this will be looked at by investigators. air force officials also informed that the pilots did not report an emergency or any type of adverse weather conditions before the crash now, there was a warning in the area about the potential for severe icing where the plane was flying when it crashed because of that, there have been experts that have discussed the possibility of icing on the plane. again, this is experts that are

external to that investigation investigators will have to look at the mechanisms on the plane that exist to help with icing when icing does take place atr has told nbc news they are cooperating with brazilian authorities, and they have also sent a team to help with the investigators that are now working at the site. the wreckage is still at the site as they pick up the clues information on the theories as of now has come from pilots and other experts and not from officials that until this weekend had been working on recovering all of the remains. we know that all of the remains of the passengers have been recovered and taken to a facility they are also now working on identifying all of them as they communicate with the passengers, and we know from previous accidents that investigations like these could take months or years before we have more information as to what may have brought down the plane, chris. >> guad venegas, thank you

from brazil to greece now where firefighters are battling an extremely dangerous wildfire near the capital of athens officials say at times, the flames have been 80 feet high, fueled by strong winds and high temperatures authorities ordered a dozen communities to evacuate, along with a children's hospital, a military hospital and two monasteries. the heavy smoke sent more than a dozen people to the hospital for breathing problems but the full extent of damage from the flames remains unclear. and still to come, they're both from the midwest, but tim walz and j.d. vance have two very different ideas about how to deliver an attack line we'll talk about it, next. ♪ (woman) ugh. (woman) phone! (man) ahhh! (woman) oh! (man) oh no. (woman) dang it! (vo) you break it. we take it. trade in any phone, in any condition. guaranteed at verizon.

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>> well, certainly they've levied that charge against me more than anybody else, but i think that it drives home how they're trying to distract from their own policy failures. i mean, look, this is fundamentally schoolyard bully stuff, they can accuse me of whatever they want to accuse me of. >> susan del percio and basil smikle are back with me. in a political brawl, let's call it, between clever and callous, both of them being biting this their own way, who wins? >> donald trump is the biggest bully on the block, so if you figure that j.d. vance has to in some ways appease that bully, then he's going to come at walz with similar kind of language and attacks and falsehoods when you listen to tim walz, you kind of hear the teacher and the coach in him he's the one that's calling out facts, calling out lies, talking about why you need to believe the fact and not believe the lie, and how incredible it is that we have, you know, this

space where we can actually have this conversation and talk about ideas. you can hear that come out in his language a little bit. he's sort of -- and when i say performative, i don't mean not substantiative he's substantiative and performative he's bringing the crowd to him to say, come with me while i explain this to you and talk to you about this there's an appeal to that that i think j.d. vance doesn't really have. >> although he gets people fired up there was an article in new york magazine, and rebecca tracer argues, and i think rightfully so, these are two very different guys quote, as male democrats fall over one another in an effort to elect a woman to the presidency, they are presenting a different definition of masculine strength, in service of a party that seems to be finally to take women's rights and liberation as a central moral concern while the right is vibrating with the

creepier energies of the online manosphere, that tells men women have robbed them of their power. i guess somewhere in the middle is the mainstream. is it with child care and free tampons and choice and is it with let's go back to the country that we were that all of us were in love with >> it's a combination of a lot of things, chris and one of the things that i think is going to benefit the harris campaign a lot is seeing a governor, now a vp candidate, and a man talk about reproductive rights as if it was anything else that really mattered to americans, as if it's the economy, as if it's lunches for kids he makes it very relatable to everyone it's no longer a female issue, if you will. he kind of brings that out but what i get from walz, he is

who he is. whether you like him or not, he's not pretending to be anything going back to our other segment, if there was an ai caricature, it would be j.d. vance he says words typed into his brain and spits them out he has no personality. we know how he felt about donald trump, he's flipped on that, now he's flopping that back. he doesn't bring any authenticity to this race whatsoever. >> if i can add quickly as you're talking about masculinity earlier, this is what's so interesting about trump being in this race. the fact that we talk about toxic masculinity with him because he's trying to define masculinity a certain way. he's also trying to define kamala harris's gender and race for the people she doesn't have the agency to do that for herself. there's a way in which the trump campaign has and is trying to define america for himself and

for his voters, and robbing people of that sort of -- the ability to be authors of their own narrative. when you see harris and walz on that stage, they are authentically themselves, and their supporters buy into that they support that. whereas where you listen to trump and j.d. vance, we have to define america for you through a singular narrative, and that is not additive in a campaign it's pushing people away >> isn't it equally who they are? >> that is who they are. >> and i was thinking about how the childless cat lady remarks don't seem to be going away, and there are actually, at least in one situation i read, where j.d. vance was out there following around the democrats, a woman stood up very positively and said, you know, i'm a childless cat lady, and i love you but, again, he has to keep answering for it here's one of those answers. >> i never, dana, criticized people for not having kids i criticize people for being

antichild. >> let's be cheer, we're the ones trying to get the child tax credit expanded and j.d. vance couldn't be bothered to show up and vote for it, and republicans have blocked that from being expanded if you want to talk about promoting children, promoting family, put your money where your mouth is. >> it is an interesting thing that sticks. you never know which one is going to stick people judge right in the way he's answering that. let's take -- we have done all of this stuff about how it's offensive. let's talk about the actual policy >> after the convention next week what are we going to see the next time the vp candidates their debate, and it will be a very good debate, actually it will be very good to watch. probably one of the best we have seen in a couple of cycles that being said, we're not going to hear about the vice president picks for either candidate much. this is going to turn into vice president harris against former

president trump, and they are both going to bring it, and it's not going to matter who their running mate is, especially for those swing voters. >> i want to bring in garrett haake, tim walz is going to make his first solo campaign appearance tomorrow in l.a the start of a coast-to-coast campaign, and fundraising blitz. what does the trump/vance campaign have planned? >> i love the phrase about the online manosphere, that's where donald trump will be tonight he's trying to do a live stream event with elon musk the owner and trump supporter who runs x, formerly twitter, in the hopes of reaching men that are not necessarily paying attention to politics but are online, either on social media apps like twitter, gaming plamptforms and the like they hope this event will be larger we'll see trump in north carolina and pennsylvania, two of the states his campaign sees as his simplest path to victory,

if he holds north carolina, wins pennsylvania and georgia, that's it, 270 electoral votes. we have seen him spend time and energy and focus on that map that's where he'll be. vance will also be campaigning in michigan on wednesday, his return to the trail after that interview this weekend with sunday shows. >> all right thank you so much for that, garrett. so what are we going to see, do you think, going forward is this going to be an all out race to the finish are we going to see both sides out there, four, five, six, seven, eight times a week? >> i will say, at least on democratic side, you're going to see a lot of activity on the ground they have to take advantage of this energy right now, and they do not have the ability to make a lot of mistakes because the momentum is in the democrats' favor. donald trump spending $36 million in six, seven states that will have to speak for him while he stays home. >> there's a little bit of a different strategy for each

campaign harris has to capitalize and run out a full on marathon or sprint trump has to bring it now. it will be interesting to see how that turns out. >> susan del percio, basil smikle, thanks for sticking around appreciate it. still ahead, tom cruise takes the olympic games for the city of lights to the city of stars. how l.a. is already planning for its hosting duties in 2028 but first, some sky gazers in the northern u.s. got a double dose of celestial beauty shooting stars, peaked just as the aurora borealis was on display, marveling at the view made possible by a strong gio magnetic storm, which will take you back to your high school science days we'll be right back.

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consider it mission accomplished, hollywood superstar tom cruise helped pass the olympic baton from paris to l.a. with a death defying stunt worthy of one of his movies. so this is the closing ceremony, all the athletes in the stadium, and cruise known for doing his own stunts, does this epic one, repelling down into the stad defrance for the start of a finish reportedly a year in the making accepting the olympic flag, as well as kisses that we saw,

hopping on a motorcycle, and boarding a plane near the eiffel tower. pre-recorded footage also showed him sky diving into the hills behind the hollywood sign where he adorned the two o's with the olympic rings. there he goes. unbelievable stuff nbc's jacob soboroff takes a closer look now at how l.a. is already getting ready to play host four years from now >> reporter: with the end of the 2024 paris summer olympics. >> journey to america begins. >> reporter: a new count down to the next summer games is already underway in just four years, los angeles will once again take center stage as the host city of the 2028 olympics. >> we have now flipped the switch from planning to delivery. >> reporter: it's been 40 years since l.a. last held that honor, when olympian karl lewis took

home four gold medals at the los angeles memorial coliseum. the biggest track and field stars will once again get the chance to compete in this storied venue, a feeling lewis remembers well. >> that was a life changing thing. you'll never be this big in your whole life >> reporter: casey wasserman is a chairman of the l.a. 2028 committee, turning the coliseum, where rocket man famous flew from a football field to a track and field venue will be the most expe expe expensive investment of the games, one he believes is worth it. >> to put a track in, means we have to spend $150 million, and the track will go 14 rows into the stands because we have to put that in, we'll have the warm up track underneath the track. >> reporter: the coliseum will be an important part of the opening ceremonies but the torch will end the journey at sofi stadium, which will serve as the olympic swimmie as the olympic swimming venue. >> we will be literally under

water right here >> definitely right where we are. the biggest swim competition ever. >> reporter: wasserman recruited olympian janet evans to bring it to life. >> i'm sitting with janet evans in the world's largest stadium. >> to look around and see the facility, what our athletes will be experiencing, it's going to be incredible. >> reporter: putting on what will be the largest peacetime gathering in world history is no small undertaking but there won't be any new venues and no permanent construction more than 80 existing venues across southern california will hold olympic events. gymnastics will take place downtown at the crypto.com arena, and the rest, four years now, oklahoma to olympic basketball and 18,000 fans from around the world . >> having the olympics in the second largest city in the u.s.

comes with its share of challenges, including the city's legendary traffic. mayor karen bass says it's all part of the plan to make it manageable. >> the games are going to be car free which means if you want to go to the venues, you're going to have to take public transportation for all of those involved, four years will go fast as for waszeserman, he's excited to make an impact on the younger fans. >> hopefully inspires kids to do lots of things, sports being one of them. >> jacob soboroff, nbc news. >> i went to the first l.a. olympics, there was no traffic you got in the bus, you went to your venue, not like when i lived there at all that's going to do it for us this hour. love you, jacob. "chris jansing reports" is here every weekday 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. stay tuned because katy tur is back with "katy tur reports" next and are at high risk for fracture,

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