good morning. breaking overnight. indiana outlaws abortion. the state becoming the first in the nation to approve a new near total ban on bortion since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. what it means for providers in the state. resounding rebuke. a texas jury orders conspiracy theorist alex jones to pay for his lies. more than $45 million to the

family of the sandy hook victim. >> other parents, i wanted to represent you well. i know you endured pain just like i have over the past ten years. this is a huge victory for all of you. >> jones apologetic in court, but later defiant on the air. we're live with the latest. easing rcession fears? white house with hopeful economic news. the u.s. adding 500,000 jobs in july. doubling expectations. the economy gaining back all 22 million jobs lost since the pandemic began. it comes as the biden administration faces foreign policy challenges with russia and china. we're live at the white house. all that and the hunt is on. hundreds of people everglades t weekend with a shared to catch as many burmese pythons

as possible. >> what is your advice? >> be careful. >> why so many people are sussing out snakes. today, august 6th, 2022. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with peter alexander and kristen welker. welcome to "today." thanks for joining us on saturday morning. it turns out snowbirds are not the only ones converging on florida. they are overwhelmed by the species. great burmese python. sometimes 20 feet in length. >> i can't look at the video. thank goodness for kerry sanders to go to report on the story. >> we will have the latest coming up in a bit. breaking news from overnight. it is what happened in indiana. lawmakers approvaling a near

total ban on abortion overnight. the first state in the country to enact a new law since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. the governor holcomb signed the bill within an hour of the bill g. some republicans say the law that goes into effect next month goes too far. >> it includes almost no exceptions. only in cases of rape and incest before ten weeks to protect the life of the mother or the fetus has a lethal anomaly. >> procedures can only take place in hospital facilities. what that means is all abortion clinics will lose their licenses in indiana. any doctor who performs an illegal abortion will lose their medical license. abortion rights will be a defining issue in the midterms. no better evidence than what happened in kansas with voters in the state voted to protect

abortion rights. >> democrats are hoping to come together in washington for a test vote on that massive economic plan aimed at reducing inflation. now krysten sinema agreed to the deal. nbc's ali vitali is on capitol hill. >> reporter: peter and kristen, good morning. we are hours away now from the starting bell of democrats trying to pass the reconciliation package. it is a big one and lengthy process as they pass the deficit reduction deal. democrats marching in lock step. >> we are feeling good. >> reporter: set to kickoff a rare saturday afternoon. a package of deficit reduction and $350 billion in energy and climate provisions and new tax

reforms that force the wlthy and corporations to pay more. moderate democrats joe manchin and krysten sinema. manchin negotiating with chuck schumer. sinema holding out until the carried interest loophole and $4 billion for drought relief. sinema announcing subject to the review, i'll move forward. now with sinema on board, it is full steam ahead. not the road to passage is without speed bumps? >> it will be like hell. they deserve this. >> reporter: republicans vowing to make it as political painful as possible. democrats bracing for that. >> they will do lots of amendments. i believe we will have 50 votes to pass this legislation at the end of the day. >> reporter: the house set to come back from recess next friday to pass the bill and send

it to president biden's desk. the name of the game here is speed. democrats want to get this done as quickly as possible because they are very eager to campaign on it in the midterms. no surprise the provisions poll well from voters from both parties. the earliest we see it passed is sunday assuming no surprises in the process. peter and kristen. >> ali, thank you. the white house is touting a red hot jobs report. 500,000 jobs added in july doubling expectation. now all 22 million jobs recovered that were lost during the pandemic. that matches a 50-year low. still president biden is facing several foreign policy challenges with russia and china. nbc's monica alba is watching it from the white house. monica, good morning. >> reporter: peter, good morning. the administration is working to

broker a deal with moscow to free brittney griner and paul whelan after griner was sentenced to n more sin o >> meanwhile, in the indo-pacific, another crisis unfolding. china firing back over house speaker pelosi's trip to taiwan this week, carrying out military

exercises, launching a nuclear submarine and flying fighter jets around the island >> these provocative actions are a significant escalation. >> reporter: china claims the self-ruled territory as its own. the u.s. has stood firm in support of the one-china policy, reiterating that hasn't changed while supporting taiwan's right to efend itself. for the first time in years, there's no direct communication between washington and beijing, china cutting off high-level talks. speaker pelosi demanding her decision despite mounting tensions >> they will not isolate taiwan by preventing us from traveling there. they are not doing our travel schedule. >> reporter: as of friday president biden was still testing positive for covid from the rebound case so he continues to isolate and work from the white house residence. if he tests negative today, he could resume travel and the white house announced he and the first lady plan to visit kentucky on monday after the devastating floods swept the

state. peter and kristen. >> monicaal alba for us at the white house. thanks also new this morning, the jury is sending a strong message to alex jones. there's a price to pay for his lives. they awarded the parents of a 6-year-old sandy hook victim nearly 50 $50 million for the unfounded cloems that the elementary school massacre was a hoax priscilla thompson has more from texas. good morning to you. >> reporter: kristen, good morning. this is a major victory for the family, though they say it shouldn't have had to come to this to get jones to stop plying abou lying about the shooting meantime, jones is speaking out, saying that the trial was rigged this morning conspiracy theorist alex jones continuing to cast doubt. >> this really weird stuff going on in this trial. >> reporter: after a resounding rebuke, the "info wars" host was ordered to pay an additional

$45.2 million to the parents of a sandy hook shooting victim. >> i'm going to accept this as the verdict of the jury. >> reporter: that verdict handed down just one day after the texas jury ordered jones to pay $10 million for the years he spent calling the massacre a hoax the nearly $50 million payout, less than what the parents of 6-year-old jesse lewis hoped for. still, they say it is a win. >> other parents, i wanted to represent you well i know that you have endured pain just like i have over the past ten years, and this is a huge victory for all of you. >> reporter: but jones's attorney says it is not over >> you know, the first amendment is under siege and that he looks forward to continuing the fight. >> reporter: jones responding to the verdict last night, saying he doesn't have the money he's been ordered to pay, despite expert testimony that "infowars" is likely worth hundreds of millions of dollars. >> my net worth is below $5

million if you count everything i've got. >> reporter: all of this comes after a bombshell week in court where years of jones's text messages were revealed after being sent to the plaintiff's attorney by mistake. the messages contradicting testimony jones gave under oath with the potential to place him in even more hot water >> i've been asked by the january 6th committee to turn the documents -- >> reporter: and the attorney for the family says that those text messages that he received by mistake included messages between trump adviser roger stone and alex jones now, the january 6th committee is not commenting but they did subpoena jones back in november and they are looking into his role in the rally and later riot kristen, peter >> priscilla thompson, thank you so much. this morning there is a new health scare here in the united states officials are warning there may be a polio new york outbreak of

new york city. maggie vespa is following this for us good morning. >> reporter: good morning. doctors saying the first confirmed case of polio in their words may be the tip of the iceberg in tracking this long-eradicated virus. now after running tests in multiple counties doctors and health officials in new york state are pleading with americans to take the possibility of a polio outbreak seriously, warning hundreds may already be infected. after decades off our collective radar, polio has once again reared its head with health experts urging unvaccinated americans to get inoculated against the disease. >> would never have guessed in a million years it would pop up again. >> reporter: officials in new york state confirm wastewater samples collected in orange county contain the paralyzing and potentially deadly virus those tests ordered after a 20-year-old man in nearby rockland county tested positive last month experts fear hundreds more are infected >> so i would assume we have people that are positive from it. >> reporter: this latest strain also detected in the united

kingdom and israel for decades polio has only been active overseas, namely in afghanistan and pakistan >> once it gets into your body, it can cause fevers, flu-like symptoms, body aches, but in some people they actually get a paralysis. >> reporter: officials noting the new york man who tested positive last month never received the widely available vaccine, a four-dose regimen recommended for kids under 6 his case marking the first in the u.s. since 2013. the last time a case originated here, 1979 >> how insane is it in your mind we are talking about polio in 2022 >> you know, this is one of those viruses, one of those diseases we were so close to eradicating. i think what you are seeing are some of the worst repercussions of the vaccine hesitancy. >> reporter: now amid the covid pandemic and an outbreak of monkeypox, experts are begging americans to check their immunity to another virus, one long thought to be behind us

>> and speaking of monkeypox, that's also obviously a top health concern this morning as well now declared a national health emergency with vaccines in short supply also in that case here in illinois, new overnight, kids at a daycare in the champagne urbana area are being screened for possible exposure after a staff member tested positive peter. >> all right covid, monkeypox, polio, it is a lot for folks to think of these days maggie vespa, appreciate your reporting. thank you. >> sure is we are thinking about the weather and severe weather disrupted plans for tens of thousands of air travelers more than 16,000 flights were cancelled and another 8,500 were delayed. hundreds of flights have been cancelled today. they brought a renewed threat of flooding to parts of kentucky ravaged by deadly high waters a week ago some areas received 3 inches of rain friday with even more in the forecast today >> that's where our forecast is right now, on the weather.

somara theodore is here with that what is it looking like. like you said, areas of kentucky previously hit hard are in for more rain these storms are moving around 10 miles per hour yesterday, so these slow-moving storms will dump copious amounts of rain as a result rehave flood watches for kentucky through west virginia the timing on this, heading through your saturday 3:00 from 8:00 p.m. in kentucky along the i-95 corridor we will see the storms firing up the thing is we will see another round for your sunday during that same time frame we also have that stationary boundary that's kind of just lingering towards the heartland and the great lakes. as a result that's been bringing heavy rain we could see 1 to 3 inches of rain throughout the region, and right now, we have a cloudy

start. 65 degrees, mild to start off the day. we have low clouds, 60 eventually. low clouds will fade away in lynn and across the interbay by noon with the fog ongoing in the afternoon. pretty mild temperatures today, upper 70s, mid-80s inland. 60s to low 70s in oakland and more and that's your local forecast peter, kristen >> somara, thank you still to come, kerry sanders is live in florida where the hunt is on for pythons kerry, eke! >> reporter: really. well, you heard the horror movie "snakes on a plane," well, this is a real-world horror burmese pythons in the florida everglades where they do not belong this morning hunters are on the prowl, looking for those snakes to try to rid the everglades of what does not belong

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to safety in the back and called 911. police say two or three shots were fired inside the shot. a 13-year-old girl there with her mom was hit in the foot by bullet fragments. >> i saw her sitting there. i am just hoping nothing is fractured for life. >> the 13-year-old was treated at a hospital and is expected to be physically okay. the family and police do not know if the shooting was random or targeted. san francisco general hospital says they do not have enough doses of the monkeypox vaccine as the city awaits a shipment of monkeypox vaccines. if you already have an appointment scheduled, you are good to go. they will not accept walk-in appointments. the city has requested 10,000 doses and has reported 344 cases, more than one third of them. let's check in with meteorologist rob mayeda for a

quick look at the weekend forecast. >> we have low clouds in san jose, mild at 65 degrees to start. low clouds in dublin, 63. more low clouds around san francisco, 60 degrees. we will see the low clouds fading from the inland locations and around the bay by mid to late morning. a prettier nice afternoon for the fremont festival of the arts this weekend. sunshine this afternoon with temperatures climbing into the 70s. 80s around the valley. your weekend forecast is coming up. >> we will see you at 7:00. also coming up on today in the bay, new evidence and the timeline and images that have the family saying they can no longer hold out hope. we have that

on the count of three, yell as loud as you can so mr. vin can hear us from blue heaven. one, two, three he! . >> what a moment. we are back on this saturday morning august 6th, 2022 with a packed dodger stadium. it's time for dodger baseball.

in honor of vin scully. >> he will forever be the voice of the dodgers and team with the tribute to the beloved announcer unfurling a banner saying vin, we will miss you. what is memorable about the guy is he was a story teller. listening to him was the best way to listen to baseball. 67 years. >> he retired at the age of 88. what an incredible run. he will be missed. we begin this half hour with the check of the begin with recn the hottest and driest spot in north america. death valley national park was hit with 1.5 inches of rain on friday. it triggered flash floods and stranding about 1,000 visitors and workers. roughly 60 vehicles apparently were buried in mud and debris. hotel rooms and offices flooded

as well. no one was hurt. former president trump is back in the spotlight today. potentially setting the stage for the rematch against president biden in 2024. mr. trump is the keynote speaker at the gathering in dallas for the four-day action conference or cpac is a campaign stop for republican presidential hopefuls. other speakers included senator ted cruz, representative margorie taylor green. anne heche is in critical condition after a car crash on friday. police say it happened on friday morning after her mini cooper was speeding down the street and she crashed into a home where the home caught on fire. she has appeared in numerous tv

and film roles. also this morning, hundreds of hunters in florida looking for one thing. pythons. the hunt so fulfilling that some actually quit their day jobs to do this full-time. why would anyone want to hunt for snakes? who has the answer? kerry sanders live at the loxahatchie wildfire refuge. >> reporter: more than 89hunters and one from latvia for the next ten days will be here in the everglades trying to capture these pythons. at the same time, going for the biggest and longest and ridding the everglades of a snake that does not belong here. one that is scary and an

invasive species. florida everglades. the largest wetlands in the world. it is deceptive until you get on an air boat and realize it is a river of grass with an unwecome intruder. burmese python. >> whoa. it's aggressive. >> they are. >> reporter: mykayla spencer is the biologist. this one caught near miami. >> they came through people owning them as pets. they got released and sometimes breeding facilities. that's how they got to florida. >> 10,000? >> because they are hard to detect, we don't have population numbers. >> reporter: the longest python caught in florida is 18 feet and 9 inches. heaviest at 219 pounds. >> she hit me square in the nose. >> reporter: because they are

nocturnal, hunters headed out at night. amy gave up her day job to do this full-time. >> so big. >> clearly you are fearless. >> i love it. i love it. >> reporter: biologists say they eat everything. long the king of the jungle and now alligators are battling. lindsey and dan have been at this for full-time five years and for them it can be dangerous. >> what is your advice to the novices? >> be careful. >> you are laughing. >> it can get tricky. >> reporter: no guns allowed. no dogs allowed to sniff out the python pythons.

guys. >> kerry sanders, you are a braver reporter than i am. i like she said it can get tricky. >> i think kerry needs a rear-view mirror for the live shot. kerry, i appreciate it. thank you. i am glad it did not end with here is a tip to catch the python. let's check in with somara who is watching the skies. people are dealing with tough weather. >> we have another threat for severe weather today. flooding and the heat. we have to beat the heat. 48 million people impacted to the central plains and in areas like the midwest. omaha coming in with a heat warning today. as far as the heat goes, we are looking at temperatures feeling like the triple digits all u i-. philadelphia, 90 degrees today. it feels like 100. this is only going to fuel the afternoon thunderstorms that we're expecting on the east coast. you head out to areas like dodge

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what does that mean? >> undercover to infiltrate scenarios. >> reporter: she helps crackdown on human trafficking. $150 billion industry that involves forced labor and sexual exploitation. one in four victims of modern slavery are children according to the international labor organization. leaning on acting, she posed as just about everything to lure perpetrators in. even a young child seen here. >> what was going through your mind? >> i'll never forget one who said hey, kiddo. you want to reach through the phone and annihilate this person. you can't. i need to make this guy and these men come out of hiding who have done this so many times and used to doing this, by the way. i need them to show up because i've got a roomful of law enforcement next to me and

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"saturday night live." you can expect to see the romance on the next season of the kardashians with pita peering in the trailer of the show. peter and kristen, something to look forward to there. >> say it ain't so. i thought they were a cute couple. >> the next season is reliving their relationship that is now over for them. >> reason to tune in? >> maybe it will get them back together. i have no idea. we will see. next up, beyonce. one journalist decided to put a zing on it. listen to 15 queen bey references. >> traffic is getting heated and starting to break my soul a little bit. let's look at monroe township. 322. if you think it is slower, it is not just all up in your mind. it is slower because all lanes are closed in both directions. i told you that 95 was looking

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morning with a unique way to showcase your children's art work by turning it into something they can hold in their two hands. >> that is thanks to a company that takes kids creations and transforms them into stuffed animals. >> who doesn't love a stuffed animal? one that is a product of your child's imagination. i met kids who saw their drawings come to life. as surprises go for the kids in south florida, it may not get better than this. just ask 5-year-old denice. >> when you saw her, what did you say? >> i said i was like this. >> you were so excited? >> yeah. >> the special summer delivery courtesy of scott meyer on the unique mission. >> the goal is to make the world more huggable. >> what are the moments like? >> elation. seeing the kids and faces and so happy. i have never been santa. i got a taste.

>> he is the ceo of budsies of the they make one-of-a-kind stuffed animals from drawings. >> it's a stuffie. >> unicorns and dragons and a princess. >> what color is the dress? >> purple and blue and yellow and orange. >> how is this for a picture perfect playmate? >> who is that? >> crocodile pirate. >> crocodile pirate? >> what is your name? >> geno. >> who is this? >> me. >> that's you? >> who is that? >> me! >> for these childre at the francis center in boca raton. >> we hand out grants. there are few opportunities to engage in the end client.

this was just one of those times. it reaffirms everything we're doing. >> these kids aren't alone. >> wait. wait. >> budsies have turned more than 200,000 drawings into stuffed toys. creating plenty of smiles. >> when i opened it, i was so happy. >> why? >> because this was so stuffed. >> at $140 each at the kids, budsies would be likely out of reach making this moment that much more memorable. >> it brings the opportunity for them to know they are valued and important and they will be somebody some day. >> what was once only on paper, now something plush. >> it is your favorite doll now? >> thank you! >> oh, my goodness. peter, i wish i were a kid again. how cool. >> the pictures were awesome.

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