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♪ todo es d dorado ♪ ♪ feeeels so goldlden ♪ ♪ vive e en el e estado dorarado ♪ hi, everyone, thanks so much for joining us, i'm zinhle essamuah. >> and i'm kate kate. "nbc news daily" starts right
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now. ♪♪ today tuesday, july 25th, the son of nba superstar, lebron james, bronny, goes into cardiac arrest during practice at usc, what we know about his condition. breaking, delivering a deal, u.p.s. reaches a deal with union workers to prevent a historic strike. it was a hoax, the lawyer for carlee russell reveals she was not kidnapped as she told alabama police, the fallout from the scandal and possible charges she could face. and suffering in silence, a painful condition affecting more than 6 million women across america often misdiagnosed or ignored, we'll talk to a doctor about the signs and symptoms and how you can find relief. we're going to start with that breaking news out of los angeles, bronny james, the son of nba legend lebron james recovering in the hospital at this hour after he collapsed during a workout and suffered a cardiac arrest. >> the james family said this
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incident happened on monday, but it's just been made public today. it all happened at a practice at the university of southern california where bronny is set to play college ball this upcoming season. the 18-year-old was rushed to the hospital and is in stable condition according to a family statement. >> let's get right to nbc news correspondent erin mclaughlin in los angeles, and the director of atlanta health system sports cardiology at morristown medical center in new jersey, dr. matthew martinez. erin, i'll go to you first and then to the doctor. what more do we know about what actually happened? >> yeah, we're hearing from the james family, in a statement they say that bronny is out of the icu and currently in stable condition. portion of the statement, saying yesterday while practicing, bronny james suffered a cardiac arrest. medical staff was able to treat bronny and take him to the hospital. he is now i stable condition and no longer in the icu. lebron and savannah wish to
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publicly send their deepest thanks and appreciation to the usc medical and athletic staff for their incredible work and dedication to the safety of their athletes. now, bronny was -- is a rising star within the basketball world. he graduated from high school in the spring, considered to be a four-star recruit, expected to play for usc in the fall. his father lebron openly saying that it was his goal to play along side his son in the nba. now this cardiac event still much we do not know. we don't know his prognosis. we also don't know the cause. the sequence of events that led up to the cardiac arrest. the family is asking for privacy at this time. >> dr. martinez, let's bring you in here because this incident, of course, sadly harkens back to what we saw with buffalo bills player damar hamlin when he suffered a cardiac arrest after he was hit during a game. hamlin just 25 years old now, bronny is 18 years old.
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athlete, no known medical conditions. how unusual is it for something like this to happen to a young man, an athlete? >> sudden cardiac arrest is not new. it's a little rare in athletes. it is -- it occurs somewhere between 1 and 50,001 in 100,000 in the united states. there are some groups that are higher. so it can be a little worse than that if you're an african american male, it seems to be higher. in fact, african american basketball players seem to be at the highest risk for that. so this is just another event, different than damar, which was associated with a trauma, this is a little more akin to steven erickson, and it sounds like another win for aep and cpr. >> they had the defibrillator there or we presume they had it there. >> absolutely. >> i'm not sure if we even. >> we don't know and i certainly don't know, but at least the narrative suggests that this was a real win with early cpr.
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he's out of the icu in 24 hours. sounds like a great success. >> dr. martinez, i want to ask you since you're here, there's already growing speculation on social media linking this event to the covid vaccine. elon musk saying we cannot ascribe everything to the vaccine, but by the same token we cannot ascribe nothing. that's a quote. you're a doctor, fact check that for us. >> so myocarditis is definitely a cause of sudden cardiac arrest in athletes. it is not a common cause. it was before covid. it will be after covid. and a little less common. there's nothing here to suggest that this has anything to do with the vaccine or a native virus, a covid infection. i think it's wildly speculative. a little inappropriate to be blaming that. there's nothing to suggest that's the case. we published on this, ncaa athletes his age group would fit into that and in professional athletes of all the professional sports and a wide variety of
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ncaa sports. it's rare, covid myocarditis and allergy sequel lee related to this in young athletes, it's unusual. it's about 0.6, 0.8% depending on which population you're talking about. i don't think it's related. more to come. >> erin, it's not lost on me, of course, this is lebron's son. how has the sports world been reacting to this news? >> they're showing their support, zinhle. we actually heard today from damar hamlin, the 25-year-old buffalo bills safety who collapsed due to a cardiac event back in january during a game tweeting prayers to bronny and the james family as well. here for you guys just like you have been for me my entire process. worth noting that hamlin reported to bills' training camp on tuesday and himself is due for a full physical. we're also hearing from basketball great magic johnson tweet out his well wishes as well. >> erin mclaughlin for us, dr. matthew martinez, thanks to you both. appreciate it.
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we're also following breaking news this hour, u.p.s. and the teamsters union have reached an agreement to avoid a historic strike. >> the two sides tentatively agreeing to a new five-year deal after weeks of negotiations, more than 300,000 employees from the package delivery giant were preparing to walk off the job a week from today. let's get right to nbc news correspondent maura barrett. what do we know about the deal? walk us through the details. >> well, guys, it appears that we're avoiding potentially what could have been the most expensive strike in u.s. history. so let that sink in for a moment, but this tentative deal that the two sides, u.p.s. and the teamsters union agreed to is tentative. it still needs to be voted on. the big sticking point that was holding up these negotiations was a raise in pay for part-time workers. they are going to be getting a bump. they really are still only making half per hour of what the full-time workers make, but they also did add in worker protections and other worker benefits, and so both sides appear very happy with this
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agreement, and actually, in the last couple of minutes, we got a statement from the white house, president joe biden saying that this agreement is a testament to the power of employers and employees coming together to work out their differences at the bargaining table in a manner that helps businesses succeed while also helping workers secure pay and benefits. again, this will be voted on next month, and so for now that strike is no longer happening until we see what plays out with that vote. >> and maura, notably, the teamsters are saying that they've got -- or excuse me, that they've changed the game in reaching this agreement with u.p.s. without making any concessions. how could this agreement actually impact unions or employees' leverage in labor negotiations in the future looking ahead? >> well, this really showcases the strength of u.s. labor and unions right now. they've really been empowered and energized in recent months where we've been talking about so many different types of strikes this year. i think that really high lyings -- highlights the power they're looking to harness, the this
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contract sets a new standard in the labor movement and raises the bar for all workers. meanwhile, the u.p.s. ceo also said this is a win-win-win agreement because it continues to reward u.p.s.'s full and part-time employees and benefits in pay, while also retaining flexibility that they need in order to stay competitive. because this helps the employees, obviously, it helps the business. but it also helps consumers make sure they get their packages in a timely basis because, remember, guys, u.p.s. maintains and handles 30% of the country's deliveries every day. that amounts to about 20 million parcels per day. >> one strike avoided, many still ongoing. maura barrett, thank you so much. washington is watching and waiting on a federal grand jury investigating former president donald trump and his actions after the 2020 election. >> the grand jury has not yet met today, but the investigation is still very ongoing as prosecutors interview additional witnesses and sift through newly obtained evidence. despite the potential threat of another indictment, former president trump is forging ahead
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with his campaign. recent polls show he remains the republican front runner with several events planned over the next five days. >> joining us now, nbc news senior washington correspondent hallie jackson, anchor here on nbc news now. hallie, great to see you. how is the former president preparing for the potential of an indictment, publicly and maybe behind the scenes? >> well, listen, as those folk who is cover donald trump well know, there's often not a lot of daylight between his conduct privately and publicly. we tend to know what hees thinking. in this instance, it is clear he is continuing to fight what he think is a political persecution against him. talking about conspiracy theory ris related to the election, continuing to push the election fraud lies even as this potential third indictment looms, may be only a matter of days at this point. although kate and zinhle, we really don't know for sure. there is a lot of tea leaf
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reading happening about when this could come down. the only facts we have to hang our hat on at this point are what donald trump himself has said about the potential for this indictment to come, his receipt of that target letter and everything that falls out from that. this is likely going to be a factor, of course, in the 2024 race. it already is. but maybe not in the way that people might think. so far the other two indictments that donald trump has faced, he has been able to essentially see virtually no erosion of support inside the republican primary, at least based on polling since then. a primary is very different from a general election, though, and i think we should point out the facts of the matter regarding his election fraud lies and this investigation into that very different to even from some of the other issues that we've seen him face, legal troubles with. so for example, classified documents at mar-a-lago and then those -- that hush money payment that's related to the manhattan indictment. this is something that could be -- and we don't know yet, potentially extremely far reaching, go well beyond the bounds of the attack on the capitol, incorporate perhaps
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that fake elector scheme if not more. so these indictments are not all apples in a bowl of oranges. each of these things is very individual, and this potential third indictment should be viewed in that light too. >> i like that, not all apples. >> i sort of lost it there, the analogy. you know what i mean. >> we all know what you meant. thank you so much. >> check out hallie jackson now. hallie goes one on one with vivek ramaswamy streaming live on nbc news now. let's turn to our financial headlines. apple facing a billion dollar lawsuit, and gas prices spiking again. >> morgan brennan joins us now with today's cnbc money minute. >> 1,500 app developers in the united kingdom slammed app wl a $1 billion class action lawsuit. they claim the commission fees the tech giant charges violates some antitrust laws. those fees which range from 15 to 30% is charged for using an
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in app payment system. apple said 85% of developers don't pay commission. bad news for people with summer plans. gas prices they're on the rise again. aaa says the average price per gallon in the u.s. is up to $3.63. that's up $0.09 from last week. it's up $0.04 overnight. and wendy's has launched a new line of cold brew coffee with a nod to its famous frosty dessert, the frosty cream cold brew line of drinks come in vanilla, chocolate, and caramel flavors. a small costs $1.99 and a large is $3.49. i just have one key question about this, guys, and is it going to taste as good if you dip your french fries in? >> you have good taste, morgan. >> exactly right. >> thank you so much. coming up, what is next in the legal battle over that floating barrier separating the u.s. and mexico? plus, a new study shows how plus, a new study shows how allergies can often progress in
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the biden administration is suing texas over a buoy battle. republican governor greg abbott put a barrier in the rio grande river to stop migrants. the justice department says this violates federal law. priscilla thompson has the latest. >> reporter: in court date has
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been set yet, but already this is shaping up to be quite the legal battle. on one hand you have the doj accusing texas governor greg abbott of being in violation of federal law by placing this thousand foot buoy in the water. the doj saying that he did not get proper authorization from the u.s. army corps of engineers before putting it there. on the other hand you have a defiant governor abbott saying that texas has a constitutional right to defend its border and accusing the biden administration of trying to hamper his efforts to secure the border. and just to give you a sense of what it's like here, this buoy is about the length of three football fields meaning that migrants are having to walk further and into deeper water in order to come across, and then when they do, they are reaching an embankment that the governor has covered in razor wire, and there is wire fencing behind me. it is quite the journey that the
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buoys are causing. the doj has not filed for an injunction, meaning for now the buoys will stay in the water. priscilla thompson, nbc news, eagle pass, texas. former president barack obama and first lady michelle obama are mourning the loss of their personal chef. tafari campbell drowned after paddle boarding and having an accident near the obama's home on martha's vineyard. the obamas calling him, quote, a beloved part of our family. here's emily ikeda. >> reporter: tragedy on martha's vineyard after the family's long-time penl chef and friend tafari campbell was found dead 100 feet from shore. >> 40-year-old male, possible drowning. fire, water rescue personnel. >> reporter: the grim discovery fouled an hours long search and rescue efforts involving divers, boats and helicopters that began the night before. an adult male went missing after another paddle border saw he had gone into the water and then
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submerged and did not resurface. it happened in with parts eight feet deep. >> no life preserver, last seen wearing all black. they have not had eye contact on him. >> reporter: the 45-year-old who had been visiting the island was married with twin sons. his wife posting she was heartbroken yesterday. campbell had posted videos of himself practicing swimming on social media several years ago. he served as a personal employee of president obama for years. the pair first met when came campbell worked as a talented sous chef at the why is house. >> basically you let it fill all the way to the top. >> reporter: in 2015, campbell was in the kitchen when savannah spent the day with president obama at the why house for the day. >> tafari, you're making a mess. look at that. you're a little nervous. >> reporter: in a statement, mr. and mrs. obama say their family is heartbroken by the news, adding tafari was a beloved part of our family, creative and
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good tuesday. this is "the fast forward." i'm janelle wang. the bay bridge series is kicking off. there's a call to unite the bay in the stands and keep the a's in oakland. here is ginger conejero saab. >> reporter: a's fans are asking for helps from the giants fans in protesting against john fisher who plans to relocate the team to las vegas. tonight's game is similar to the reverse boycott at the coliseum in june. organizers will hand out
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t-shirts. there will be instructions when to stand in silence and chant "sell the team" in reference to fisher. >> thanks. the u.s. dodges a delivery crisis after a deal was made between u.p.s. and its workers union. over 300,000 workers were set to go on strike by the end of the month. the union reached a tentative five-year contract that includes pay races and safety and health protections like air conditioning in the vehicles. the ceo of u.p.s. says it rewards workers and serves customers. workers will vote to ratify it next month. cooler days ahead after dealing with warmer temps. here is kari hall with a look at the forecast. >> a look at high temperatures for the south bay, from 85 to 94. it's going to be hotter as you make your way inland with antioch reaching 97.
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in fremont, not too bad, warmer, reaching 80 there. we will see a high of 80 in san mateo. daily city, 65 for a high. downtown san francisco, expect it to reach 68. for the north bay, cool along the coast. the farther inland, the temperatures will feel very hot with clear lake reaching 96 degrees. low 90s in santa rosa. a look at the seven day forecast coming up in 30 minutes. >> thanks so much. here is stories you need to know about, including a bay era pastor charged with a cold case in pennsylvania. he was at christian reform church in fairfield. he is accused of kidnapping and killing an 8-year-old in 1975. investigate others say he offered her a ride near philadelphia before murdering her. he allegedly confessed after being shown new evidence.
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san rafael and the police department are being sued for excessive force. it happened last summer. it shows officers take down a man who is holding an open can of beer. he ended up bloody and taken to the hospital. prosecutors dropped charges against him. it claims it was unnecessary. the officers face criminal charges from the district attorney over this incident. they are due in court next month. health care workers are picketing outside several facilities in the bay area. they are outside facilities in san jose, richmond, kaiser workers are protest gs staffing levels and calling the situation unsafe. case the picket will last until friday. brace for street closures and detours when taylor swift stakes over levi stadium. police plan to lay out several
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plan to slow undocumented crossings along the u.s./mexico border. the policy disqualifies migrants from getting asylum if they cross the border illegally and without seeking protection. the judge ruled the new policy violates federal law and the ruling is on hold for 14 days pending an expected appeal from the justice department. and the twitter sign is coming down sort of. crews spent part of yesterday removing the sign and bird logo outside twitter's headquarters in san francisco, but according to our nbc station in the bay area, police showed up and stopped them before the last letters could be taken down. officers say they did not have the correct permit to close a part of the street and block traffic. it's not clear when the work will resume. this all comes days after twitter owner elon musk rebranded the social media platform to the letter x. president biden has officially designated the newest national monument honoring emmett till and his mother mamie till mobley, the monument will include three sites across illinois and mississippi that
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are central to the story of the 14-year-old whose murder in 1955 in part ignited the civil rights movement. >> darkness and denialism can hide much, they erase nothing. we can't just choose to learn what we want to know. we have to learn what we should know. we should know about our country. >> till was beaten and killed by two white men after being accused of whistling at a white woman. the men were acquitted by all all white all male jury ask later con fesed to the murder. decades later the woman involved revealed her claims were false. till's mother insisted on an open casket to show how her son was brutalized and photos were widely published in jet magazine. today would have been till's 82nd birthday. for days we covered the disappearance of carlee russell in alabama who said she was kidnapped along a highway. now she's admitting to police it was all made up. here's nbc news correspondent sam brock. >> reporter: in what amounted to
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a stunning public confession, even if it was somewhat unsurprising to many, carlee russell's attorneys came out and said the abduction, the cited toddler was a lie. the question now, why did she do it. what happened over that 48-hour period? her attorney was set to meet with investigators yesterday, that turned into an email exchange, that ultimately turned into an admission on her behalf that this whole thing was made up. investigators had hinted last week and painted a picture why it was almost impossible that abduction could have occurred, based on the fact that russell had traveled some 600 yards while on the phone with 911 reporting a toddler on the highway. they also revealed internet searches in the days and hours leading up to her disappearance to the effect of things like do you have to pay for an amber alert and one-way bus ticket from birmingham to nashville. the pieces were there to say this was a lie. now we have confirmation. where do we go from here? police in hoover say they are not filing any charges but in active conversations right now with the jefferson county d.a.'s
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office about possible criminal charges. as for russell's boyfriend, she posted on facebook that he was blind sided by this entire false narrative and he said that the entire family reacted out of love andcarlee but they are disy the outcome of the situation. sam brock, nbc news. the u.s. air force says russian jets damaged one of its drones in the skies over syria. video from the air force shows the jet flying within a few meters of the drone on sunday. moments later that jet dropped flares from above damaging the drone's propellers. this is the third close encounter this month alone. nbc's dan de luce is at the pentagon with the latest. first, what are the u.s. and russia actually doing in syria to begin with, and what else is the air force saying about this incident? >> well, russia is there supporting the regime of bashar al assad, and u.s. forces have been there for some time fighting isis militants, which are much less of a threat than they used to be.
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there's about 900 american troops on the ground. this drone is part of that effort trying to target isis militants. but in this case, again, what the air force is saying was a very unsafe, reckless course of action by that russian fighter jet, and this is the third time this has happened t >> and dan, it strikes me, we have seen a series of close encounters involving u.s. and russian aircraft this year alone. most of them have reportedly been provoked by the russians. does the pentagon know why russia is doing this? >> officially the pentagon isn't giving any explanation, but privately regional experts will tell you that it very much seems to be a russian pushback against u.s. assistance for ukrainian forces in the war there and also some kind of closer cooperation between russia and iran. iran of course providing drones to russia now in ukraine, and iran wants the u.s. out of syria entirely, and this may be part
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of a kind of concerted push against the americans there. >> dan de luce with the latest on this close encounter, thank you so much. let's move on to the extreme heat wave that's been gripping the nation for weeks now. if you live in the midwest, brace yourself. the record high temperatures are heading your way. right now 49 million people are under heat alerts stretching from southern california to the great plains. if you're in the northeast, you can expect temps hitting 90, even 100 degrees by friday. already climate experts say we are on pace for july to be the hottest month ever recorded. nbc news correspondent maggie vespa has the latest for us. >> reporter: this is not a sentence we say often, but the beaches here in minneapolis, minnesota, packed today. obviously this is a place we know and we come to to cover bone chilling cold and massive blizzards, but the heat wave that have been baking the southwest for weeks on end with temperatures well into the triple digits it's now made its way into the midwest andst it spreading east.
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temperatures here in minneapolis expected to top out around 97, 98 this week. the daily record tomorrow is 100 degrees. we're kind of in record tying territory. experts say this is the same system, the same heat wave that's been in the southwest for weeks on end. temperatures there well into the triple digits with doctors in the phoenix area for instance, saying they've seen two to three times the normal amount of patients they usually see in a summer, two to three times that for heat-related illnesses during this heat wave. also in the san diego area, nbc news confirming overnight a man in his 20s, a mountain biker who was just trying to help dehydrated hikers, he ended up dying of heat exposure and heat-related illnesses. so experts cautioning people to, while they may want to have fun in the sun, to go inside if they start to feel the effects of this heat. more broadly, amid our climate crisis, experts say earth on its whole is on track to experience its hottest july ever recorded and its single hottest month of
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any month ever recorded. they say this is caused or at least linked to human-caused climate change, and they say this will continue to get worse unless humans make drastic changes. back to you. >> yeah, good point, maggie, thank you. let's bring in nbc news meteorologist michelle grossman now. time this out for us. that heat dome, it seems like it's getting bigger. >> it's getting bigger, yeah, we're seeing expanded, i keep looking at this map every half hour and the numbers keep going up. we keep seeing little areas added. we're going to see this number continue to grow over the next several days. this is what it looks like right now, 49 million americans throughout most of the country seeing alerts. we're looking at above average temperatures with the exception of the pacific northwest. these heat advisories extend from the south central states to the central plains and northern plains, now into the midwest. also the northeast. so one near new york city, that heat advisory doesn't start until thursday, but it's a little preview of what's to come. we do have an excessive heat
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warning. that includes phoenix in that hot pink color. we're going to see temperatures soaring into the triple digits over the next few days still. so expanding heat, that's the big weather story as we go throughout this week and next week, most likely into augusts well. temperatures in the triple digits in las vegas, phoenix, albuquerque, notice that little triangle arrow next to those numbers. that's telling us how above average these temperatures are. so albuquerque, you're 12 degrees above normal. denver, 10 degrees above normal. and then this kind of slides off to the east. now we're including portions of the great lakes, also the northeast, baltimore by tomorrow 90 degrees, that's 3 degrees above average, and 93 in cincinnati. then look what's happened as we near the weekend, we're looking at temperatures near 100 degrees on friday. 97 in d.c. on saturday. you factor in the heat and humidity, it's going to feel like over 100 degrees. is sparking sto in the humidity northeast. we have some pretty heavy rainfall falling and also lightning and hearing that thunder. bao you. >> that's going to wreck my plans. michelle grossman, thank you.
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>> sure. in today's daily health a new study is showing that eczema in young children could be a sign that they're going to develop more allergies. >> doctors have a term for this, they call it allergic march. it describes the way allergies can develop and progress and march on in children beginning in infancy through age 3. this new research adds more credibility to the pattern. according to the journal pediatrics, babies diagnosed with eczema could then develop other conditions including food. let's bring i d
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