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today, thursday, june 1st. tale of the tape. the special counsel investigating donald trump now has a recording of him talking about a classified document that he kept. why that matters and what it could mean for the former president. warning sign, new documents reveal people living inside an iowa apartment building complained about the structure falling apart. what workers were told days before the building came down. breaking news, case re-opened. the new civil lawsuit filed against bill cosby today that could be the start of renewed legal issues for the disgraced comedian. and celebrating pride. a look at dozens of members of the lgbtq plus community and how they're making an impact nationwide. we begin in washington where the senate is racing to take up the debt ceiling bill with the clock very much ticking. it overwhelmingly passed in the house wednesday night, last night, with bipartisan support. >> time is a luxury the senate does not have if we want to

prevent default. june 5th is less than four days away. >> june 5th is when the treasury secretary says the u.s. will no longer be able to guarantee it can pay its debts. a big push under way now to get senators to vote on the bill perhaps as soon as tonight. nbc news capitol hill correspondent julie tsirkin joins us now. leaders of both parties urging quick passage. what kind of roadblocks might it face? >> reporter: they come in the form of amendments, what some republican answer a small fraction of them are urging leaders to agree on so they can proceed to this bill. now, you mentioned that vote tonight. it is still possible, i was just over there on the senate side down this hall talking to leadership who said they are still trying to come to a time agreement, which basically if i translate it to normal people-speak means they are trying to get this bill passed sooner than it would normally take if they were going to do

the whole drawn out process. if they couldn't get a time agreement here, which we believe they might be able to still, this process would take us into midnext week, days after that june 5th deadline, of course, lawmakers especially when they come up against a weekend, they tend to move more quickly than we expect them to so right now leadership are trying to settle the amount of votes they will allow. they don't expect any of those to pass because if they did, this bill would have to go back to the house, make changes, pass that bill again and we don't have that kind of time. >> julie, i know the house version of this bill passed last night with an overwhelming bipartisan support, so one day later what are lawmakers telling you about the vote? >> reporter: most lawmakers are praising speaker mccarthy for being able to make this happen. a lot in his own party didn't even know he was able to. i was talking to senator john kennedy of louisiana who was praising garrett graves, leader scalise and, look, they're pleased. it's not often where we see a bill get 300 plus votes on the

floor and that's exactly what happened to this one, especially if you're looking at alternative which is a clean debt ceiling which one republican told me could have passed, as well. this all bodes well for the speaker. >> julie for us on capitol hill, thank you. well, turning now to some weather news, today is the start of the atlantic hurricane season and on day one there is a tropical depression trying to form right now off the coast of florida. forecasters say it has a 70% chance of becoming even stronger in just the next 48 hours. so let's bring in nbc news meteorologist bill karins with the latest. bill, what exactly should we be watching for? >> not what we want to watch. it's the first day of hurricane season. okay, you have to do your preps and occasionally a storm forms in june, not typically. this year we could get a storm forming on the first day of the season which is highly unusual so the area of interest is in the northern gulf just south of panama city area south of pensacola, appalachia and off

the coast of tampa. it's small. it's not really showing signs of getting well organized, but it may just be organized enough to be classified as a tropical depression, maybe even a low-end tropical storm. that would be our "a" named storm arlene if it gets that strong. the hurricane center saying 70% chance and could be a short-lived tropical depression. in other words, it's not going to last long. the motion to the south, kind of an unusual motion and it's going to head towards western cuba in a couple of days and because of wind shear it should weaken and some dry air too so the development zone is away from florida off the coast and that means that all of the heavy rain associated with it should also stay off the coast. now, there is obviously southerly winds and a lot of humidity in florida so we'll get daily downpours but you're used to that this time of year anyway. this is the associated heavy rain with what should be a tropical depression. it doesn't look like it will have any impacts on the u.s. at

all. >> thank you so much. right now major cities on the east coast and upper midwest dealing with concerns about their air quality. >> yeah, it's happening in part because of smoke flowing from the south, wildfires burning right now in nova scotia, canada. here's anne thompson. >> reporter: across our northern border a string of massive fires rage on in november skoef and show no signs of slowing down. >> it's been heartbreaking news, definitely a lot of helplessness. >> reporter: as concerns over potentially dangerous air quality in the northeast as a result of the blazes grow. this satellite imagery showing the drifting smoke. >> we don't have any evidence there's a safe level of air pollution. every level we find adverse health effects associated with that. >> reporter: you could see the impacts wednesday in the hazy skylines of new york and boston

as a high pressure sent the canadian smoke south and west prompting environmental officials stateside to issue air quality alerts in new jersey and pennsylvania. >> we need to pay attention to this. anyone with asthma, emphysema, chronic lung disease, pre-existing heart disease, people who are pregnant. there's also concern particularly about the elderly or young children. >> no, it's not common. >> reporter: maya mitchell and her husband recently went out to dinner to celebrate her birthday. the couple greeted with smoke-tinged skies and an unmistakable scent in rhode island. >> it smelled like a house fire. >> reporter: as it makes wildfires more intense and stronger. >> should we expect more of this this summer? >> i think we will see more as the summer progresses as the west further dries out, and we deal with weather patterns that are limiting the amount of precipitation.

>> reporter: anne thompson, nbc news. anne thompson, thanks so much. we turn to what could be a game changer and one of the investigations into former president donald trump. >> nbc news learned the department of justice as a recording of trump acknowledging that he knowingly kept classified documents after he left office. the recording is said to be from a meeting at trump's new jersey home back in july 2021. nbc news has not heard the recording, but its contents have been described by a person directly familiar with the investigation. a justice department probe is looking into whether trump broke the law when he removed and retained hundreds of classified documents after leaving the white house. here's nbc's gabe gutierrez. >> reporter: another twist in the investigation. >> i did everything right. i did nothing wrong. >> reporter: citing multiple sources familiar with the investigation, cnn is reporting that prosecutors have obtained an audio recording indicating trump knew he kept classified

material after leaving the white house. the recording is from a july 2021 meeting in which trump discusses a classified pentagon document about a potential attack on iran according to cnn, which noted it has not listened to the recording. nbc news has not confirmed the reporting. prosecutors are currently looking into the former president's handling of documents that he took from the white house and would be particularly interested in whether trump has shared secret material with people not authorized to see it. trump has consistently claimed that he declassified the documents through his power as president. >> if you're the president, you can declassify it. >> reporter: in the recording according to two source, quote, trump's comments suggest he would like to share the information, but he's aware of limitations on his ability post-presidency to declassify records.

in a statement, a trump spokesman calling the investigations witch-hunts and saying leaks from radical partisans behind this political persecution are designed to inflame tensions. trump has brushed off the investigation and pointed out that classified documents have also been found at president joe biden's residences. but it could still be fodder for his opponents in the 2024 racwo. sources telling nbc news trump's former vice president, mike pence and chris christie who endorsed trump in 2016 both set to announce their bids next. in an interview overnight trump still focusing on attacking his main rival, florida governor ron desantis. >> he was a very disloyal person. >> reporter: desantis in new hampshire today after a flurry of campaign stops in iowa. >> leadership is not about entertainment. it is not about building a brand. >> reporter: gabe gutierrez, nbc news. well, meta has unveiled a new virtual reality headset and mark your calendar, it is almost

national donut day. >> oh, trust, mine is already marked. morgan brennan joins us with today's cnbc "money minute." >> hi, zinhle a and kate. facebook's parent company, meta unveiled its latest virtual reality headset as it continues to spend every. it will be available this fall with prices starting at just under $500. the announcement comes ahead of apple's expected debut of its vr headset next week. 176,000 ford broncos being recalled because people may get, quote, discouraged when trying to use seat belts. ford is only recalling five-door versions for 2021 to 2023. the national highway traffic safety administration found passengers can have difficulty reaching the metal portion of the seat belts when it is in the retracted position. and you just mentioned it. friday is national donut day. this is across the u.s. and some of the nation's biggest chains are celebrating by giving away free ones. krispy kreme is giving away a

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officials in davenport, iowa, say two of the five people unaccounted for in the apartment building collapse have been found safe. three others, though, remain missing, officials believe they may be trapped inside. they are branden colvin, ryan hitchcock and daniel prien and there are a trove of documents detailing warnings about the deteriorating condition and maggie vespa joins me from davenport, iowa. maggie, last hour i know things were shifting around and moving behind you, but i want to ask about the documents too. there's a letter from an engineer discussing brick repairs. it's dated days before the collapse and says, in part, quote, the clay brick facade on and between the window openings is bulging out and looks poised to fall.

goes on to say the facade needs to be secured. if that's not a red flag, i don't know what is. >> reporter: right, exactly and basically what we're seeing in the documents and these photos and everything released by the city, 100 plus documents is a city laying out sort of the evidence they had at tear disposal that caused them to mandate the owner make the repairs to those problems that you're highlighting. i want to show you photos included in this trove of documents, pictures we got last night. these photo, keep this in mind are dated thursday and the collapse happened sunday. you can see some of the brick walls bowing out, framing of windows appears to be slowly becoming misshapen and seem to be gaps in the internal walls, sort of the internal structures that stabilized a large building like this and the city says because of those things they again mandated these repairs they say were happening on sunday when this collapse finally happened and a lot of people who live in that building feel like this was inevitable

but also just their worst fears come to fruition. here's part of what the mayor had to say kind of about this buildup and how they're reviewing everything earlier today. take a listen. >> do i have regrets about this tragedy and about people potentially losing their lives? hell, yeah. do i think about this every moment, hell yeah. i have regrets about a lot of things. believe me, we're going to look at that. but i'll stand here and continue to do this. >> a question basically coming into focus did this happen, did this collapse happen because of the shape that the building was in leading up to sunday or did it happen kind of during the work that was happening and maybe because of something that happened during this repair work that has yet to be answered and quickly i know the machinery was moving around in our last shot and asked the city what it means. they're not telling us directly

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murder and assault with a deadly weapon. our investigative team dug into his background and found a violent criminal history. his attorney tells us that he is 61 years old and has an extensive history of mental health problems and he is a victim because she argues when he was sentenced to prison for previous crimes, he was denied access to proper mental health care. >> in our society, we have -- research has proven that individuals like him should be locked up, key thrown away. but it is this case that highlights that the research has been tried and it has failed. the question i think that we have to ask ourselves is, what are we doing as a community, as a society with individuals like

him who have extensive mental health conditions? >> he appeared in court yesterday for an arraignment. the court couldn't find an interpreter. the hearing was moved up to today. if convicted, he faces up to life in prison. in san francisco, bob redell, nbc bay area news. here are other stories. police are investigating a hit and run in concord. meta is threatening to pull news on facebook. city of oakland employees have filed a lawsuit against the city. a ransomware attack happened in january. it caused a leak of sensitive personal information like addresses, social security numbers and driver's license data. the employees who filed the lawsuit are looking for cash compensation and are asking city officials to encrypt all future personal data. meta threatened to pull news from its sites in response to a new california bill. the proposal would force platforms like facebook to pay

news organizations to post articles on its site. supporters of the bill say they benefit from the news posted on its platforms. meta say journalists put content on the sites on their own accord. the state assembly will vote ton today. police are looking for the driver of a black sedan involved in a hit and run. it happened last night. officers say the black sedan hit a bicyclist, pulled over briefly before taking off and driving on to 680. paramedics took the man on the bike to the hospital. he is listed in critical condition. we are inching closer to the weekend. it could be a great time to get out and take in the sunshine. >> on this first day of june, we are going to have more really pleasant weather across the bay area. it's been cooler than normal throughout the month of may. now that we are in june, it may be about normal this time of

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injured. all are in serious or critical condition. the two children who died from their injuries were 3 and 5 years old. ten ambulances responded to this crash. the cause is still under investigation. actor armie hammer will not face criminal charges in connection with allegations of sexual assault made in 2021. hammer, the star of "the social network" had been publicly accused of rape by a woman who has been identified only as effie. police confirm they investigated the allegation and forwarded it to the l.a. district attorney's office for review. on wednesday the d.a.'s office said there was insufficient evidence to charge hammer. some new video just in, president biden is okay after this fall at the air force graduation in colorado. he apparently tripped over a sandbag that was on the stage there. you can see secret service agents helping him back up. the white house says the president is fine. he went on to shake hands of the graduates at that ceremony. >> glad he's okay. we're following breaking news out of california. actor and comedian bill cosby is

facing a new sexual assault lawsuit. it was filed by former "playbook" model victoria valentino, one of several accusers expected to file civil suits in the coming days. kate snow has done extensive reporting on cosby over the years so we all know criminal charges back in pennsylvania and then that conviction, though, was overturned so what does this mean in the civil? >> yeah, so what's happening here now is cosby accusers are finding a new way to seek justice, victoria filed suit in los angeles under a new california statute that temporarily allows older cases to be filed. she's someone that i've known since 2015 when i interviewed 27 women who accused bill cosby of various crimes from harassment to rape. valentino says she met him more than 50 years ago. he took her to a restaurant with a friend, offered her pills, she says she took one and immediately felt dizzy and haushs and says bill cosby raped her. today after filing suit she told me she was in tears that she never thought she would see this day. here's a statement she wrote to me on a text to me, bill cosby

exploited me when i was at my lowest point and was consumed by grief. that's because she had lost her son. i hope this serves as a megaly -- legacy to my family and others find their voices that hope and healing is possible. >> powerful words from her. i know she's based in california, though, nevada has separate laws when it comes to statutes on sexual assault. >> so what's interesting is that they're just about to change their law in nevada, and some of the women who have accused cosby were involved in getting this new law passed in nevada. tomorrow the governor there will sign the law that allows anyone with a claim of sexual assault no matter how old it is to file lawsuits, a civil claim. i've spoken with three other cosby accusers today who intend to file suit as soon as they possibly can in nevada so that would be four different women, two different suits pursuing this civil litigation as we said, the criminal avenue is no longer open so going with this civil.

>> but could have far-reaching implications and, of course, bill cosby remains a household name. >> to be clear, he is no longer in prison. he is at home and a spokesperson did release this statement saying about victoria valentino that ms. valentino has skirted from town to town promoting her alleged allegations. i think we have a full screen, promotin allegations against mr. cosby to anyone that would give her a platform without any proof or facts. america is continuing to see this is a formula to make sure that no more black men in america accumulate the american dream that was secured by mr. cosby. that is a point that he and his attorneys have made again and again in the years that i have covered him. >> i was going to say, this is an important development but you have been covering this for years and have spoken to so many of these survivor. >> seven years now since we first sat down with as i said 26 women in one place who all had made various accusations and at the time bill cosby said he denied all of their allegation. >> this is definitely one to continue following, kate, thank you so much for your reporting on this. we're going to turn to other

news. a suspected serial rapist is behind bars thanks to new dna technology. police arrested the 35-year-old attorney earlier this week in new jersey. investigators say he is tied to a series of sexual assaults and kidnappings in boston more than a decade ago. nbc news correspondent ron allen joins us with the latest. some of these cases date back 15 years and it's important in an otherwise disturbing series of events. what can you tell us about the suspect and the technology used to actually track him down? >> reporter: his name is matthew nelo, an attorney, working in new jersey across the river. he's 35 and when these attacks allegedly happened he was 19 and a student in the boston area. he's facing a series of charges, aggravated rape, kidnapping, assault, so forth. and these crimes allegedly happened back in 2007 and through 2007 and into and through 2008, as well. four women are the accusers in these cases.

the survivors in these cases. he was in court this morning, was an extradition hearing. he didn't fight it so he will head back to or to boston at some point in the near future to face these charges. the key break in the case was his own dna and the technology is not that new or sophisticated. what's new is that the authorities apparently used these databases that are associated with ancestry searches and those kinds of sites somehow to connect his dna to find family members and then that led them to their suspect. so it's sort of a backwards process but the bottom line is that these dna databases are helping authorities track down suspects. we spoke to an expert. here's what he had to stay about the reliability of dna in these situations. >> it is super powerful for law enforcement and it is absolutely, like, i think 99.99%

accurate, and when i say 99.99, that means the chances of it being another individual is more than the population of the planet. >> reporter: nilo was in court and his attorney said he will plead not guilty, that he is ready to go back to boston where he will be able to prove his innocence, his attorney says. >> glad to hear technology being used for good. ron, thank you so much for your reporting. today three activists in atlanta are behind bars accused of money laundering and charity fraud. the leaders of what's known as the atlanta solidarity fund had said that money they collected would be used to help bail people out who were protesting in front of atlanta's proposed police and fire training center where there have been a lot of protests in recent months. nbc news correspondent blayne alexander joins us to sort it out. that organization supports the fight against what critics call cop city, right? walk us through what was happening there and what these activists are accused of.

>> reporter: well, absolutely. all of this comes down to really the latest battle over now a year's long fight over a proposed training center. it's just on the outside of the city of atlanta. but right over my shoulder this is part of the 85-acre property that would be part of the atlanta training facility. it would house mraepts police and atlanta fire. now, critics of this is a a couple of reasons they say they're against it, one, it encroaches on the forest, but they also say that it would serve to militarize police but defenders, members of the city, the mayor himself says it would do just the opposite and said they're going to set up things to improve community policing and that part of the training, plus they just say it's time that their training facility needs an upgrade so they need to build a bigger one. so at issue here, though, is really three people who run the atlanta solidarity fund so this is money that's raised, charitable foundation that's raised money to bail people out who are arrested for protesting to help with their legal fund. according to the warrants, they are being charged, facing two

charges essentially saying that the three leaders of this group used that money to help fund the people who are behind these protests here. so, you know, that's leading the attorney general to say that they are essentially linked with the protests here and put out a pretty strong statement saying they're about the violence that occurred at the site at the future atlanta public safety training center and elsewhere. as we've said before we will not rest until we've held accountable every person that funded, organized or participated in this violence and intimidation. >> so, on the other side, what are people who really want to stop this development, this cop city as they call it, what are they saying about the arrest? >> reporter: and that's exactly what their group is called, the stop cop city movement. they are calling this an attack on the right to protest, calling this an escalation, a provocation and denying all of these charges and put out a strong statement. they say, the arrests mmunicate the false message that it is illegal to provide legal support for those who have been criminalized if they are upheld, these charges would set a dangerous precedent and then go on to say they'll continue to

fight it. i spoke with a spokesperson for the movement. they say they are going to continue speaking out and there is a bail hearing tomorrow and plan to be at that, as well. >> blayne alexander, thank you. as the summer travel season takes off, the federal aviation administration is facing pressure to re-evaluate whether plananes can be quickly evacuat in an emergency. right now the faa says it should take just 90 seconds to evacuate an entire aircraft but the lawmakers say this ignores the needs of senior, children and people with disabilities along with other real world obstacles so let's bring in tom costello. tom, what exactly is the plan to update these guidelines and why are these so important? >> reporter: there is no plan to update them and that's why congress is pushing right now the faa to reconsider its evacuation standards and its tests, because according to members of congress and, by the way, also the pilots union, the flight attendants union,

professional firefighters unions are saying this 90-second rule, it's simply unrealistic. you've flown on a plane. consider how many people are elderly, disabled, babies, everybody grabs a carry-on, obese, all of that could obstruct and delay an evacuation. here's senator tammy duckworth who, of course, is also a pilot, disabled from her time in iraq talking about why it is time to redo these tests. >> i want them to conduct the tests under smoky condition, under nighttime conditions, it's really important for our first responders and cabin crew to know how chaotic and how much time it's really going to take. >> reporter: yeah, that's her argument here. now the faa says, listen, in addition to the test to see if you can get people out in 90 seconds which duckworth says the test is flawed, they say that there are also 300 real world evacuation studies that they have done in which they've seen how people get out of a plane, various demographics and the faa

says that those tests would suggest that people can get out in time. but captain sully sullenberger, the hero of the miracle on the hudson said it took three minutes to get everybody out of that flight on the hudson, not 90 seconds. >> yeah, so many considerations and thankfully that ended well but took more than 90 seconds for sure. you can see more of his reporting on "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. it is officially pride month and coming up we're taking a look at some of the most influential drag performers. some dating back to the 1700s. you're watch

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welcome back. well, june 1st marks the start of pride month and our colleagues at nbc have released their annual pride 30 list. >> this year the list is recognizing 30 performers who have practiced the art of drag. we have two guests now. thanks for being here. talk to us about why you do this every year and why this year pride 30 is around drag performers particularly. >> sure, i'd love to take that one. this will be our seventh year doing our annual pride 30 police and the idea was to celebrate people in the community and every year we try to pick a theme that's relevant, that's

newsy but fun. so this year with drag performers in the spotlight like they've never been before. >> in a negative spotlight in a lot of place. >> absolutely. we decided to choose them and drag is an art form that goes back at least hundreds of years, but only now we're seeing it, interestingly, at the center of the current political culture warfare. >> i wanted to dig into that with you, jay, because it strikes me, you say you want to celebrate queer joy at a time when drag performances are the center of america's culture war so talk to us about some of the performers on the list, especially given this art form has been around for so long. >> yeah, this certainly was a collaborative effort. it was about five of us working on the list and we had to condense the list down to 30 and pride 30, right? so we have performers from the 1700s, princess seraphina widely known as the first english drag queen then we have divine from the 1940s, 1970s who interestingly enough is the

inspiration for ursula in the 1989 "little mermaid" film still inspiring today and then, of course, we have rupaul charles who has opened many doors for other drag performers today with the reality competition show, "rupaul's drag race". >> some household names. >> probably my favorite person on the list, well, i don't want to say favorite person, the one i found so interesting and i learned a lot from putting the list together was madam patorini born in the mid-1800s, was one of brigham young's 57 children. >> byu. >> byu, founder of salt lake city, second president of the mormon church and madam patorini performed in front of one of its presidents. >> drag is highly visible, has been for hundreds of years.

but there have been a number of anti-drag bills, right, passed -- i think of tennessee specifically but all over the country there's been this movement. i wonder what you would say to the folks out there who maybe agree with those bills, what would you say? >> well, we have -- i just did a recount today, 19 states so far this year have proposed bills to limit or restrict drag in some way. and we have three states that passed -- that have governors have signed into law bills intended to stop drag. i would say to those who support the bill and, you know, i'm not saying, you know, my personal feelings about the bills, but i think there's a lot of confusion as to what drag is. so, i think there's this misconception that drag in general is something that, you know, appeals to the -- it's something sexual and belongs in seedy nightclubs, drag just like

big musical performances when singers are on stage, there is a vast spectrum, and there's some drag like drag story hours that are specifically geared toward kids. they're reading books to kids in libraries. those are very different from a drag performance, you may see in a nightclub after midnight. >> to that end, i mean i know, jay, you've spoken with some drag performers, what are you hearing from them when it comes to the current climate? >> certainly jinkx monsoon who is not shy of being vocal about the ties that drag has to the lgbtq plus community and aclu fund launched the drag defense fund with rupaul's drag race, mtv and simply saying that it is very much exercising their first amendment like any expression such as dance, fashion, music, so, again, jinx monsoon and ben de la creme went on air existing on air then it's been such an

important appearance for them. >> some of the more famous ones have beefed up security after the club q shooting. we talked to some of the most high-profile drag performers in the country and many have poured additional resources into their security system. >> you wonder if some folks could meet all the people you met in doing the project, whether that might create more dialogue. >> stories are a powerful way to learn about different communities and thank you for your stories. thanks for being with us. you're watching "nbc news daily." moderatete to severere eca still l disrupts m my skin. moderatete to severere eca despite e treatmentt it disruptpts my skin n with it. it disrurupts my skikin with ra. but t now, i canan disrupt e ea it disrurupts my skikin with ra. wiwith rinvoq.q. rinvoq i is not a ststeroid, wiwith rinvoq.q. topicacal, or injejection. wiwith rinvoq.q. it's one p pill, once e a. wiwith rinvoq.q. mamany taking g rinvoq saw clclear or a almost-cleaear skin mamany taking g rinvoq saw clclear

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