right now on msnbc former president trump's legal woes are not over yet. special counsel jack smith is trying to revive the election interference case against trump after the supreme court's

landmark immunity ruling, but will the courts allow the updated charges to stand? plus a busy day on the trail. vice president harris and governor walz head to georgia for a campaign bus tour ahead of their first joint interview. the stakes for that sit-down. and later israel launches the largest raids of the occupied west bank in at least 20 years. at least nine people killed with the operation still ongoing. we are live in the region. it is 10:00 eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific, i'm jose diaz-balart in for ana cabrera. we begin this morning with special counsel jack smith attempting to revive the federal election interference case against former president trump, with a new superseding indictment. this new indictment includes the same charges as the original, but some of the details of the

accusations have been tweaked after the supreme court's recent ruling granting presidents broad immunity for official acts. joining us now nbc's vaughn hillyard, also with us msnbc legal correspondent lisa rubin. let's start with you, lisa, what specifically is different in this superseding indictment vis-a-vis the original one? >> that's start with the biggest change, josé. the supreme court had said that president trump's communications with his department of justice were part of his core constitutional authority and the special counsel responded to that by taking out of this superseding indictment over 15 paragraphs that just talked about the plan to use the department of justice to essentially put its thumb on the scale and tell state legislatures that they didn't have to accept their state's slate of electors, that includes

a series of conversations with senior leadership at the department of justice who told the president in no uncertain terms that there was no evidence of widespread fraud. so that's all gone. in addition, there are some recharacterizations as you mentioned. there is an effort to try to refer to former vice president pence in his capacity as president of the senate, not as vice president where he could be considered a presidential adviser, but in his capacity as president of the senate it's clear that he and former president trump are communicating in a different way for which there wouldn't be necessarily presidential immunity. those are the two biggest changes and of course there are many others throughout the complaint, josé. >> vaughan, how is trump world reacting to this? >> i want to let you listen to j.d. vance, donald trump's running mate, he is the only one so far at least on camera who has addressed this superseding indictment against his running mate, just two months before the election. take a listen. >> i don't think that it's

changed anything legally. i think it's clearly an effort to try to do more election interference from jack smith. he should be ashamed of himself but it's one of the reasons why we have to win because he should not be anywhere near power. >> donald trump sent off a flurry of social media posts overnight calling this a direct result on democracy. among those social media posts there he went on to call this election interference. for the 2024 election we have seen in recent weeks really over the better part of the summer and begin to lay the groundwork to be able to claim that the 2024 election was rigged and that election interference changed the outcome of the election. this is another moment in which sort of facts aside in this case here he is continuing to argue that the fact that this indictment exists at all after the supreme court's immunity decision amounts to election interference. two weeks ago outside of his bedminster club i had to chance to ask him if he were to get back in the white house would he order his attorney general to dismiss the indictment for those

federal cases against him? he did not explicitly answer me but he said that they were nonsense cases. of course, if he were to get in the white house in 2025 he would potentially be able to order his department of justice to toss these cases against him which only raises the stakes this have election, josé. >> among the things that stuck out to me, the very first line says the original indictment began with, quote, donald trump was the 45th president of the united states, but this new superseding indictment starts with, quote, donald trump was a candidate for president in 2020. what does this change mean? >> josé, what that change means is that jack smith is focused on adhering to the supreme court immunity decision which means taking these charges out of the potential realm of official acts and putting them into unofficial acts and that's what this new indictment is seeking to do. supreme court didn't give a whole lot of guidance here, but jack smith is effectively going on the offensive. he's getting ahead of this and

going to judge chutkan with a revised slimmed-down indictment that really talks about candidate trump, not president trump. what that means here is that he's providing a roadmap that judge chutkan after hearing from the former president's lawyers could potentially move this case forward to trial. that trial is not going to happen before election day, but it does show that the department of justice has no intention of backing off on this case and is moving full speed ahead. >> so moving full speed ahead, lisa, what exactly happens next with this election interference case? >> so, josé, one of the reasons that the department of justice might have put forward that superseding indictment yesterday is because they were already facing a deadline this coming friday for a joint status report with former president trump's lawyers, that's where each party was supposed to tell judge chutkan how they think this case should move forward and when and how. that deadline still exists.

unless the judge cancels that we should hear what comes next. my expectation is that former president trump's lawyers will say we get a whole new round of briefing to move to dismiss this indictment on grounds including but not limited to the fact that it still doesn't comport with the supreme court's ruling as to what acts former president trump is entitled to immunity for. but this is a good faith effort by the special counsel's office to bring this indictment in line with the supreme court's ruling and just as it is in some places as temidayo said aggressive, in other places it's very modest, there were a whole series of allegations about january 6, for example, and communications that former president trump had that day with advisers, including with respect to the issuance of tweets and public statements. because those conversations took place with people in the executive branch on white house property, all of those things

are gone, including some of the famous tweets and public statements that he issued in the wake of the violence at the capitol. so we will just have to wait to see how judge chutkan believes this should go forward, but the time horizon for this case has certainly lengthened. we are nowhere near having a trial in this case and, in fact, may be ripe for a briefing that will go all the way up to the supreme court and back again before this case is ready for trial, josé. >> lisa, meanwhile, i want to play for you something that justice ketanji brown jackson said, she spoke with cbs news, i want to play for you some of her remarks. >> you were concerned about broad immunity. >> i was concerned about a system that appeared to provide immunity for one individual under one set of circumstances. when we have a criminal justice system that had ordinarily treated everyone the same. >> what do you make, lisa, of

her comments? >> you know, josé, on one hand justice brown jackson isn't telling us anything that we didn't already know from reading her writings in the case. on the other hand, it's highly unusual for a sitting supreme court justice to comment on a decided case that happened so recently. i can think of no other historical example where someone on the court is commenting on a case decided just months ago. she is choosing her words very carefully, but the fact that that subject was not off limits with cbs news' norah o'donnell tells me that justice ketanji brown jackson even in her modest way is trying purposefully to talk about that case and convey a message even if it's not straying so far from her written words. >> vaughan, there is some newly released video of former house speaker nancy pelosi the day after the january 6 attack. >> right. this is new footage, hbo footage shout by alexandra pelosi who is

a documentary filmmaker and also the daughter of speaker nancy pelosi. this footage was obtained by congress at the request of congress to hbo and has now just been released and in this footage, hours of footage from january 5, 6, and 7 you see nancy pelosi up close. irate, concerned about the events as they unfold in realtime. i want to let you just listen to one exchange with speaker pelosi at that time when she's talking explicitly about donald trump just down the road at the white house. >> we take an oath to protect our country from all enemies foreign and domestic. there is a domestic enemy in the white house. and let's not mince words about this. >> again, that was speaker pelosi calling donald trump a domestic enemy, along with others in the white house. explicit words that go beyond what she even said publicly at

the time of the attack. we also heard speaker pelosi bemoan the fact that there was not greater security preparations that would have staved off those thousands of individuals that attacked the capitol complex that day, josé. >> temidayo, i mean, i know you were senior investigative counsel to the house january 6 committee, i'm thinking what your reaction is when you see this. >> well, i think that the speaker's reaction fits the evidence that the committee laid out, which is that the former president knowingly went against and attacked our constitution. as far as her language, i will leave that to her, but i think the evidence supports that the former president did not abide by his oath of office and, you know, we had a hearing, called 187 minutes as the former president watched, as the capitol was attacked, as officers were beaten, as people tried to subvert the peaceful transfer of power, he did nothing. he called no one, he helped -- he didn't help at all. i think that's what she's getting at and that's what the evidence supports, but i will leave the rest to the american

people. >> vaughn hillyard, temidayo williams and lisa rubin, thank you for being with us this morning. from trump's legal troubles to his political ones, you may remember this moment from monday when trump visited arlington national cemetery. he was there to honor the 13 u.s. service members killed in the chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan three years ago, but new details about trump's visit first reported by npr are now emerging. alleging an altercation between two trump staffers and a cemetery official after the cemetery official reportedly tried to stop the campaign from filming in a highly restricted area of the cemetery known as section 60 where photography is banned. nbc's jonathan allen is tracking this story for us this morning. good to see you. what's the cemetery saying happened here and what are we hearing from the trump campaign? >> josé, the cemetery is saying that there was an incident and that a report has been filed.

so i guess we will have to wait to see when that gets released or if there is a freedom of information act request that can get that released to hear the cemetery's side of it. the trump campaign has said, and i think we've got a statement from steven chung, saying there was no physical altercation as had been alleged in terms of an effort to try to keep the trump team from photographing in section 60 and the trump team trying to photograph in section 60 and had said that -- chung said that they will release video if necessary. i will asked for that video and have not gotten a response. we will have to see how this plays out and if it continues to be a cemetery said versus trump said. there is a political risk here for donald trump which is that the afghanistan withdrawal had be something that was an unmitigated political advantage for him up until this moment where, you know, he's now muddied that advantage and given an opportunity for democrats to

suggest that he doesn't really care about the fallen soldiers and instead cares about the politics. >> jonathan allen, thank you very much. next, georgia on their mind. the harris campaign hits the road, kicking off a bus tour near savannah ahead of the vice president's first interview since she became the nominee. and millions under the thumb of sweltering heat with records expected to be smashed once again. we're back in 90 seconds. we're back in 90 seconds. nce ai. we're back in 90 seconds [street noise] [car door shuts] [paparazzi cameras] introducing, ned's plaque psoriasis. ned, ned, who are you wearing? he thinks his flaky red patches are all people see. otezla is the #1 prescribed pill to treat plaque psoriasis. ned? otezla can help you get clearer skin, and reduce itching and flaking. with no routine blood tests required. doctors have been prescribing otezla for over a decade. otezla is also approved to treat psoriatic arthritis.

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15 past the hour. the debate is set after some public wavering former president trump is sticking to the plan to debate vice president harris on the 10th of september, but before that voters will get to see the first big harris interview, the vice president will sit down with cnn for her first major interview as a nominee, airing tomorrow night. it's going to be a joint appearance with her running mate, governor walz. today that pair embarks on a bus tour in georgia. it's harris' seventh visit to the peach state this year as she tries to make inroads with rural voters to build on joe biden's 2020 success in that state. joining us now nbc news senior white house correspondent gabe gutierrez, tyler pager of the "washington post," former democratic congresswoman donna evans and former romney campaign

adviser lanhee chen. gabe, what's the significance of this georgia trip focusing on the southeast and savannah . >> the harris/walz campaign was supposed to go there a few weeks ago but was postponed because of a tropical storm. georgia is a huge state and they are focusing on the southeastern part of the state, different than from democrats traditionally focused on. democrats have been done well in the big city of atlanta and surrounding suburbs but by going to the southeast portion of the state and more rural parts of georgia the goal is to really cut into the margins of republicans. democrats don't think they can win outright many of those rural areas, but the key is if they can just get more votes there, perhaps even four or five percentage points that can make a huge difference when it comes to winning the state overall. and it's not just georgia, the same dynamic is at play in places like north carolina and

pennsylvania. the harris campaign feels that it can do very well in some of those rural areas in georgia in particular, the demographics are better for them, of course, there is a larger population of african americans, younger voters that vice president harris seems to be doing a lot better with than biden, josé. >> and, gabe, what about tomorrow night's interview that the vice president is giving, along with governor walz? >> certainly it's their first joint interview since, you know, vice president harris took over the top of the ticket. look, this is something that republicans have been criticizing her for, not doing an interview for more than 35 days or so, so the stakes are incredibly high here. and, look, for the harris campaign this is a way to put to bed some of that criticism. so far she has taken limited questions on the tarmac, hasn't held a press conference. certainly there will be a lot of questions during this interview, for example, on some of her policy positions that she's rolled out over the last couple

of weeks, also why she seemed to go against some of her policy positions back when she was a candidate in 2019. certainly this will be a huge opportunity to see vice president harris along with governor walz together in a controlled setting, but also being forced to answer some unscripted questions and being held to account for some of their policy positions, the harris campaign has repeatedly said she's been out talking to voters and this wasn't necessarily a priority in the first weeks of the campaign, but now after the democratic national convention, vice president harris said that she planned to schedule an interview before the end of the month and here we are, should be quite an interesting interview tomorrow, josé. >> indeed. gabe gutierrez at the white house, thank you very much. tyler, just your thoughts on the calculation behind the interview tomorrow, how and where it's going to be carried out and the fact that she's going to be walz there with her. >> yeah, as gabe was saying there's been increasing pressure and criticism even within the

democratic party for the vice president to sit down and engage with the press. there's a lot of questions as gabe outlined in his previous comments about what her plans are for a president. there have been a lot of policy changes over the last few years in terms of what she supports and what she doesn't. i think this will be an opportunity for the american people to get a better sense of what she's running on and what she hopes to accomplish should she be elected in november. i think this was part of a plan that the campaign had saying she was focused on other things and now they're ready for her to sit down. i think it is an interesting dynamic that her first interview is with her running mate governor tim walz. i think part of that is to take the pressure off just the vice president, having them appear together, have some of the questions directed at him and to talk about their partnership. open since tim walz has come on to the ticket he has become a national figure. someone that most americans did not know before he was selected and the campaign has been very happy with the reception he has received not just from the democratic party but throughout

the country and voters from across the country and so i think this is an effort to try to highlight that partnership and highlight him as much as it is to highlight vice president harris. it is also, you know, something that we see traditionally on campaigns as they do bus tours, often they will invite reporters on to the bus with them. when i was a campaign reporter in 2019 i was on kamala harris' bus tour through iowa and she did a similar thing, inviting reporters to her portion of the bus to answer questions. so i think we will see that sort of thing play out tomorrow. whether or not it will quiet the criticism, i think what remains to be seen how this interview unfolds and how she performs. there was that high profile interview at the beginning of her administration on nbc with lester holt where she was tripped up to questions related to her portfolio at the border. a lot of pressure on her tomorrow to perform well in this interview. >> yeah, i mean, during that interview with lester that she did right after her trip to

central america, actually, lester spoke with her i believe it was in guatemala, at the time i was anchoring at telemundo i was able to have 15 minutes with her right after that interview and she was available and accessible. donna, what do you want to hear tomorrow? >> i think it's very important for them to introduce themselves to america as a team. it is true that millions of people tuned into the convention, but this is kind of a different format and i think you don't -- you don't really see donald trump and j.d. vance as a team and i think that the harris campaign very strategically has helped to introduce her to the nation and tim walz to the nation in their convention and now sitting down in this interview i think we're going to hear a little bit more detail on some of the policy positions that she took in the past and has taken -- is taking now, and that's really going to

be an important opportunity for her to explain herself and to define herself as a candidate, separate from the biden/harris administration. >> how important is this first interview? >> well, i think it's critical for a number of reasons, first of all, i think she is probably going to get pressed on some of the ways in which she's changed her policy positions whether it's on tracking, for example, which has been well-publicized, the positions she's taking on immigration now are a little different than the ones she took when she ran for president four years ago. on those issues she's going to be pressed. i think also the degree to which harris and walz sort of get along, the degree to which they are seen to be a team, i think that will be something that americans will be observing as well. and i think it's an opportunity for her to sort of shake off this notion that she hasn't been responsive. you know, i think she's got to sit and answer all the questions that are asked of her and to the degree that she's able to do

that i think people will respond one way or another. so this is a very important interview leading into the first presidential debate we assume in a couple of weeks here and that will be the first opportunity that americans have to see harris and trump on stage together. so this next, you know, two week stretch of the campaign is going to be hugely invaluable in terms of determining where this race will go as we head toward november. >> i have a few questions, but i don't know, you know, when i will get answers to that, but i want to know is it going to be pretaped, is it going to be edited, how long is it going to be for? donna, today there's more backlash over past remarks from j.d. vance, once again, criticizing people without children. this was in 2021, he specifically calls out the head of the american federation of teachers. take a listen to this. >> so many of the leaders of the left, i hate to be so personal about this, but they're people without kids trying to brain

wash the minds of our children and that really dis orients me and really disturbs me. the head of the most powerful teachers union in the country doesn't have a i think single child. if she wants to brain wash and destroy the minds of children she had you had have it [ inaudible ]. >> has this become like a bigger problem for vance and trump than, you know, just people speaking off the top of their -- off the top of their heads? >> well, i mean, j.d. vance continues to alienate huge swaths of the voters. i mean, the attacks that he has gone on on women without children, i mean, think about who these women are, they are like my sisters, you know, really accomplished and amazing women who contribute, who don't complain about paying taxes for schools and nutrition and all kinds of things that benefit his children, and yet he attacks them. so i do think it's a larger problem because it feeds into the narrative that j.d. vance

and donald trump really have something against women and against strong women and independent women and that's not going to go over well in the electorate. >> lahnee, whether it's these vance clips or the harris campaign essentially calling trump a chicken over this debate issue, it's kind of unusual territory for trump to be playing defense all the time. >> it is a really different posture for this campaign. i think that's one thing that is noteworthy over the last several weeks since kamala harris has been the nominee and she's put her campaign organization together. they are more aggressive, they are trying to advance themes that i think that the biden team may have been a little bit reticent to advance, the way and the tactics in which they're doing it, you're referring, for example, to a video where they superimposed sound of a chicken over donald trump answering questions about the upcoming debate. you know, these are tactics and these are things strategically that mark a very different kind

of campaign. now, it will be interesting to see to what degree this affects how the trump campaign behaves, how they react, and most importantly, josé, how the candidate reacts. how does donald trump react to all of this? i think that's why this lead up to the debate and the tactical and strategic ways in which the harris campaign has changed have made this race so much more interesting and compelling than it was just a few weeks ago. >> tyler pager, donna edwards and lahnee chen thank you so much. appreciate it. in more january 6 legal news the first rioter to breach the capitol that day has been sentenced. michael sparks was sentence to more than four years in federal prison by a trump appointed judge. at the sentencing hearing sparks still parroted donald trump's lies about the 2020 election. i want to bring in nbc news justice correspondent ryan reilly. ryan, good morning. so tell us more about this. >> yeah, so michael sparks is the first rioter to breach the

capitol that day, you have to remember the proud boys broke that window, he was first through. what's remarkable about his case, you often see two paths that january 6 defendants can take when they are charged and face consequences, on the one hand they can realize that they were tricked, fooled and say that they were gullible for falling for the lies in the first place and the other way they can go is fully still buying into the lies about the 2020 election, that's the path that michael sparks went down. he apologized to the officers and his family but offered no apologies to members of congress who had to flee that day and still believes to this day that we are living under, quote, tyranny and that the election was stolen. the judge issued some really strong words in the aftermath of this and departed upward from the sentencing guidelines. he actually told the defendant here that he didn't believe that he realized the seriousness. he said i don't think you appreciate the full gravity of what happened that day and frankly the full seriousness of what you did. what happened on january 6 just cannot happen again.

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killed after israeli forces conduct add widespread military operation in the occupied west bank overnight. israel's foreign affairs minister described the raids as an effort to combat iran's eastern terrorist front. nbc's matt bradley is with us from tel aviv. matt, what's the very latest on this? >> reporter: as a matter of fact, josé, the very latest that we just got word from the u.s. state department that they are sanctioning one settler group in the west bank and one settler individual. now, this is not related to the incursions by the israelis into the west bank that as you mentioned have now killed at least nine people and resulted in many injuries, but it does dove tail with that. what we've been talking about for the last couple of months are a lot of settler violence, israelis who have been imposing violence on palestinians who live in the west bank, but that is the latest we're getting from there from washington, but also what's going on in the west

bank, this started overnight with air strikes and columns of armored vehicles, bulldozers, tanks moving into the northern part of the west bank, primarily in janine. these were the focal points but there were also other areas that, you know, have seen some incursions by the israelis, including, as i mentioned, armored vehicles, air strikes, hundreds of israeli soldiers fanning out throughout the northern part of the west bank, making arrests. these armored vehicles digging for ieds, explosive devices that israeli authorities have said they're finding underneath roads. and, again, we haven't heard the full extent of these casualties, those numbers we mentioned are very likely to go up. >> and, matt, i think it was about 24 hours ago right now when we were learning about this israeli hostage that had been rescued. what have we learned in this 24-lawyer period about him.

>> reporter: i went down to the month where he was convalescing, he was in good health and doctors had been holding him just for about 24 hours ever since he was rescued yesterday morning from the southern part of the gaza strip. i spoke with a family member who had said he had just been released within the last couple of hours. he's gone home to his village where it sounds like they're throwing him a small party, it might be a big party, but this is a cause of celebration particularly for a lot of that arab community in the southern part of israel where he is from. this is a man who has 11 kids so he has a huge family. i hope with just one relative who said that he's loss 55 pounds during the 326 days that he was being held in tunnels underneath the gaza strip because he wasn't getting access to enough food and was under strict guard the whole time. this is a man who is very, very grateful to have finally been released and the community and all of israel is celebrating

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now to an nbc news exclusive. two sources tell nbc a u.s. immigration program that was temporarily paused last month by the biden administration could be reinstated as early as this week. the program allowed people from cuba, haiti, nicaragua and venezuela to apply for entry to the u.s. from their home countries, but the administration put the program on hold over concerns of fraud. nbc's homeland security correspondent julia ainsley has that exclusive reporting. great seeing you always. what kind of concerns did officials have over this program? >> josé, we were able to look at an internal report that dhs put together in may and it's the reason why they paused this program. they found that just over 3,200 sponsors were putting their names out to sponsor over 100,000 migrants. they called these people serial sponsors. in many cases they used social security numbers like all 5s, all 4s, and still those

applications were getting through the system and some of those people were admitted. sponsors are supposed to show not only that they can financially support these migrants but that they have a place to live and that the sponsors themselves are legal residents of the united states. even if it's a legal permanent residency that they are allowed to be here. we found that -- and according to this internal report -- these sponsors were going to bring 600 migrants to an address that turned out to be a warehouse in orlando. in one case they would bring 700 migrants to a trailer park also in key west, florida. a lot of this centering around florida. they were sponsoring cubans, haitians, nicaraguans and venezuelans. as we understand is it they still have thousands if not tens of thousands of these potentially red flagged, potentially fraudulent applications to look at but they're going to restart the program anyway because they think it's so important to keeping the numbers down at the

southern border because if they don't encourage migrants to apply from home countries they're worried more will come to the border illegally. >> julia, there is a possibility that these 3,200 sponsors of more than 100,000 people could be nefarious and very dangerous work. these 100,000 plus people could be very, very seriously threatened. >> yes, we've seen in the past, josé, that there are -- there's examples of people advertising that they could be sponsors online so that someone would buy their response sponsorship. when you look at sponsors of unaccompanied children, anytime you have one person taking in a large amount of migrants they're always looking at that for possible human trafficking. this is all of the reasons why they stopped the program. i will say that u.s. officials told us when they restart the program they want to be looking at these applications but they say in small batches and reviewing them manually which of

course raises questions about how they were evergreen lighting these people before. >> yeah, i mean, maybe all -- all the same number for a social security number could -- could maybe raise a flag somewhere. although apparently didn't. julia, thank you so very much. really appreciate it. this morning more than 51 million people are facing alerts as record-breaking heat dome sears much of the u.s. dangerous temperatures are forcing chicago and philadelphia schools to ring early dismissal bells just a day after students returned from summer break. 114 degree temperatures making yesterday the windy city's hottest day so far in what's already been a legally scorching summer. the heat pushing power grids to the max from the midwest to the east coast. ryan nobles is in washington, d.c. where i understand it's going to be about 100 degrees fahrenheit today, ryan. how seriously are officials looking into this problem?

>> reporter: josé, don't pick on us too much, i know you are from south florida, you are used to the heat, but it does get warm here at the end of august in washington, d.c. the average high temperature is around 86 degrees. at last check we are already at 88 degrees with the possibility that it could get up to as high as 100 degrees and much like many other cities on the east coast, washington, d.c. is bracing to break yet another heat record. at a time when kids are heading back to school and the leaves will soon be falling, an unexpected turn in the temperature is making life difficult for millions of americans. >> oh, my gosh. this is so hot. >> reporter: a massive dome of heat is making its way across the country, temperatures in cities like chicago, st. louis and cincinnati were 10 to 15 degrees higher than normal, putting air conditioning units to a late season test. >> once those temperatures hit above 80, 85, we start to get a lot of call volume from air conditioners breaking down.

>> reporter: today it is the east coast and mid-atlantic's turn to bake. >> it's definitely a struggle getting to school and they have to come right back home. >> reporter: schools in philadelphia are planning for an early dismissal to avoid kids hitting in hot classrooms, many without air conditioning. >> why start before labor day every year? maybe the temperatures are rising each year. >> reporter: in new york city the u.s. open is preparing to give players additional breaks if the temperature goes above 86 degrees. and here in the nation's capital, filled with tourists getting in one last summer trip, temperatures are expected to reach as high as 100 degrees. and there is also the possibility of severe weather that could accompany this heat. the possibility of thunderstorms and flooding up and down the east coast. but the real issue is those high temperatures. in the city of washington, d.c. they have already declared a heat emergency that will begin at noon today and the national

weather service has also issued a heat advisory for washington, d.c. so far just in 2024 they've issued 12 of these advisories, josé, it's the most since 2005. >> ryan nobles in washington, thank you very much. health officials, mean while, in the northeast are sounding the alarm over dangerous diseases transmitted by mosquitos. a 41-year-old man in new hampshire died after contracting a rare virus known as eee. many people with it don't show any symptoms at all but if you do get sick it can be extremely dangerous, causing swelling of the brain. the virus is fatal for about a third of people who develop symptoms. the u.s. is also seeing a growing number of west nile cases this summer. now in 33 states. and federal officials are on the lookout for cases of a third virus known as sloth fever, at least 20 people returning to the u.s. from cuba have been

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53 parasummer games, in many ways just beginning. paris gearing up again to host another mega sporting event. the live shot of the paralympic games that start today. opening ceremony kicks off at 2:00 p.m. eastern hosted at the place de concorde. there you see it. great shot. over the weekend, about a week and a half more, more than 4,000 para-athletes will compete in 22 different sports. joining us from paris is nbc news correspondent emilie ikeda. lots of celebrations this summer. what and who are we expecting to see this week? >> reporter: they, there jose. good to be with you. teeming with excitement, this area.

organizers calling this second half to the game. olympics first half. tune in for the second half as well. a few short hours from now hundreds, thousands of paralympians will converge not far from here on the champs-elysees kicking off opening ceremonies kicking off 11 days of fierce competition across 22 different sports. leading team usa, flag bearers, nicky and steve, and people that travel across from america. take a listen. >> very exciting. the fact takes it on believes in athleticism of the athletes. high-performance train very, very hard. i love toparolympics and guests here in this city. amazing. >> reporter: sitting volleyball and men's wheelchair, going for

the third year in a row. let's go! let the games begin. >> from paris, thank you so much. great seeing you. the next hour of coverage, mold, mice, brown water. reporting on the conditions some u.s. troops see on american military bases. plus, we'll talk to a leader of the latino civil rights group about the raids on democratic latino activists in texas, and growing concerns about possible voter suppression. don't go anywhere. anywhere. ahhhh... with flonase, allergies don't have to be scary spraying flonase daily gives you long-lasting, non-drowsy relief. (psst psst) flonase. all good.

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