new techniques to get bombs past security. >> we're tracking that population, and we're very concerned about it because there are extremists within the borders of syria that would like to indoctrinate these people n send them back to their home countries with a different purpose. early fireworks for the economy sparking a record-breaking day for the dow so far with an hour to go before trading closes. plus, just cope. why this ceo is making headlines for her brutally honest take on that old balancing act between work and motherhood. >> you have to cope because you die with guilt. you just die with guilt. good day. i'm andrea mitchel in washington. hurricane arthur, the season's

first, expected to make landfall tonight in the outer banks of north carolina. national hurricane center officials are now saying they expect it could be a category 2 storm. mandatory evacuations are under way in some of the state's coastal areas. as officials warn of strong rip currents up and down the eastern seaboard on this busy holiday weekend. the hurricane is moving north and out to sea friday. but it is force something cities in the northeast to change their july 4th celebrations, including boston which moved up its famous fireworks display to tonight. kerry sanders joins me now from kill devil hills, north carolina. i know it looks beautiful now, but it is the calm before the storm. >> it is so absolutely correct. you look at this -- folks out here just relaxing. it's a beautiful day. a lot of people woke up this morning and they thought arthur was a tropical storm. and now it's grown into a hurricane. now it might have a category 2 when it comes ashore here. the projection right now is that

this area right here is going to get a pretty big hit. there's going to be, according to the projections and the forecasts, up to maybe four feet of water in the storm surge which really presents quite a bit of a problem because this is a narrow strip of land. these outer banks are like little islands off the coast of north carolina. about a million people will make their way here. some homeowners are already filling up the sandbags and putting the items they need in front of the homes that are at ground level. this area is experienced with hurricanes. and because of that, many of the homes are up. but that doesn't mean if you are here on vacation that it's going to be certainly something that's going to pass quickly. after a hurricane passes in all likelihood there will be no electricity. so there are some electrical crews from the area, power companies and from neighboring states that are positioning themselves to come here after this passes through. but at this point, the real question for folks who have spent a lot of money maybe making the reservations up to a

year ago, do they come here on vacation or not? and local authority is saying if you are in hatteras, that's a mandatory evacuation anyway. if you are coming here with the projections this may be a category 2, you may want to rethink your plans and come in after. the last thing you want to do is be here and be through the misery of what a hurricane brings. >> kerry, i wanted to talk about riptides. maybe we can help people understand how dangerous this is. full disclosure, i survived a riptide current in nantucket many years ago out at great point. it was terrifying. i had to tread water for 45 minutes out in the ocean i got so far out until the coast guard rescued me. and i really did not think i was going to survive. thanks to the coast guard for that. but it is really scary and it happens without you even realizing it and then you can't get back in. >> and it's not just here on the outer banks. it will be up the entire coast. let me explain it to you right here in the sand, okay? so what happens is you have the

water, the waves are coming in and out and coming in and out. and as the waves come in and out, what you can't see is down in the water, there is this sort of like valley that grows. and you can't see it. the water is coming in and the water rushes down this way. so you're swimming along hoar. you get caught in this and you get pulled out. the natural idea is let me swim back to shore. that water is going so fast and going out in that current in that valley that's been created down below that you can't see that even an olympic swimmer would be unable to make it to shore. you're very lucky. what they say you're supposed to do, swim parallel. make your way over here and get out of that current. but the truth is, it's so much easier said than done. so anybody who gets caught in a rip current, the last thing you want to do is try to fight it by swimming back to shore. you will get exhausted.

you won't make it to shore. >> and it is terrifying and just to caution everyone, do not swim where there are not lifeguards and pay attention to those warnings and particularly in the next 24, 48 hours. everyone up and down the east coast. be careful out there. kerry sanders, thank you so much. thanks for all your reporting. meanwhile, millions here at home are preparing for their holiday travel over the next few days. homeland security officials are focusing on potential terror plots involving foreign airports and commercial flights heading directly to the united states. nbc's tom costello joins me now. we know that this involves some intercepts, some between yemen and syria. a number of radical groups in syria where you have terrorists, extremists who have western passports. they have passports to european countries, to the uk where you don't need a visa to fly back into the united states. that is the level of concern. >> the concern is there's a nexus that's been created between these terrorists in syria and the bombmakers in

yemen. and what's particularly alarming, homeland security officials and secretary of homeland security talked about it last night is that we are seeing westerners from western europe, some americans, a handful, flowing into syria to take up that fight. and they could be compromised. in fact, what his concern was that you might be seeing radical elements try to turn those westerners and make them go back to europe or in fact, back to the states. but because they've got the western passport they'd more easily get on a plane and potentially take one of those bombs that may be coming from yemen and new technology, their words or new techniques to evade security. so because of all of that, homeland security is now urging foreign airports and airlines to begin stepping up, ramping up security. here's what they are doing. more random passenger patdowns. more screening ever carry-on bags. more swabbing for explosive residue on hands, on bags, on carry-ons and extra scrutiny of electronics. also, i should have put on there

extra scrutiny of shoes. you may recall richard reid and the shoe bomber in 2009. they have a very close working relationship. and airports and airlines that fly directly into the states must meet minimum u.s. tsa safety standards. so they are now telling them you have to ramp these up because of our intelligence suggesting we have a new threat. and, you know, one concern here, andrea is 13 years after 9/11, with iraq and with afghanistan now winding down, that the united states may be getting a bit complacent. not the government but jut everybody, every day loifrg lives when in fact the terror threat may be on the increase again. >> and you have a lot of techniques and sophistication in some of the european airports where we know because of 9/11 that friankfurt and others were really underexamined. but in north africa and in areas of the middle east, it is less so. >> i think that's exactly right. you know, those of white house

fly into and out of europe regularly, my wife is european. i'm in and out of europe regularly. in most major european cities now, the level of screening is fairly sophisticated. but the concern really is the mediterranean countries, the middle east and north africa and whether they are, in fact, robust enough but also we should say, u.s. intelligence sources concerned that you might have individuals within the screening process there that might be compromised. that might be turned by an al qaeda or a terrorist group. and might make it more easy for a weapon of some sort to be smuggled on to a plane. >> tom costello on the case. thank you. and more undocumented immigrants are expected to arrive tomorrow in murrieta, california. that's become a hotbed for the nation's debate on immigration. flag-waving protesters turned away three buses of people being brought to a processing center there. last night hundreds of angry residents flooded a town hall

meeting. it got ugly. >> we can help you send a message to washington, d.c., that we're not going to put up with this. >> please, use the word illegal aliens. they came across here illegally. >> nbc's miguel almaguer joins me from murrieta where he's been talking to the town's resident and the mayor. miguel, why has murrieta become the focus point for all the anger and, let's say it, hatred. >> that's one of the questions that town residents have is why are these immigrants being brought here. the undocumented imgrants here. the answer we've been getting from the border patrol is because they have the facility here, that facility is not large enough to facilitate hundreds of undocumented immigrants. the town has been protesting. you may be able to hear now. there is one protester out here on a bullhorn. he's certainly very loud. as you mentioned, yesterday there were hundreds of protesters who were in this area, who were protesting the arrival of other undocumented

workers that are supposed to be coming here to this facility over the next several days. we understand that there could be bus loads arriving here on friday, on the fourth of july. that has not been confirmed by the department of homeland security but we do expect more undocumented immigrants to arrive. that's why there's been so much protest and so much anger in this community. >> what about elsewhere along the border? what about texas? what are we seeing in the next couple of days? >> several buses have arrived not in this community but in other parts of california. three buses arrived here. other buses that are arriving. the influx of undocumented immigrants does continue to happen, even though they are not happening at this particular facility. >> thank you so much, miguel. thank you. much more ahead on "andrea mitchell reports," including the latest on hurricane arthur on track to make landfall later today as a category 2 hurricane.

arthur is already disrupting holiday plans up and down the east coast. many cities are following the lead of dover, delaware, and portsmouth, new hampshire, delaying fireworks displays until later this weekend once the storm is cleanly passed. in boston, they are trying to get ahead. the boston pops fourth of july ou outdoor concert and the fireworks show taking place tonight. get ready a day early to beat the storm's impact.

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the israeli military is sending more troops to the gaza border today calling it a defensive move after an exchange of rocketfire with hamas yesterday. this as palestinian protests over the death of a teenager following the slaying of the three israelis led to this tense

exchange yesterday. israeli security forces directly shot at our own clearly identified news team with rubber bullets. our team led by ayman mohyeldin. >> journalists! hey! >> it's a scene very similar to this one that we got caught up in earlier today. we were on the other side with the palestinian side. >> and it's much calmer today. ayman mohyeldin joining me from east jerusalem. ayman, thank you so much. it's good to see you. let's talk about what's happened overnight. the israeli, the idf says that its defensive, the move toward gaza, we know what happened a number of years ago when there was an all-out shooting war with gaza. between gaza and israel. what about attempts to dial down the tension and what about the burial of this palestinian

youth? >> that's absolutely right. a spokesperson for the israeli military told us a short while ago the intention of the israeli military is to deescalate. the policy as it stands right now is for de-escalation. they don't want to go into a shooting war with hamas or any other militant group right now in gaza. they are saying they've deployed additional troops, including some reserve units to the southern commune ifts israel. others in harm's way getting some of the rocketfire. they are going there mostly, primarily for defensive reasons, not for any offensive attacks or any imminent attacks. the spokesperson for the israeli military also told us they have been communicating through third parties, open sources and other channels with hamas to try and de-escalate the situation to restore a sense of calm and stability in the south before tomorrow's friday prayers where we are outside the old city and where certainly there's a build-up of troops in anticipation of what could be

another day of violence here. >> now i was talking to a senior israeli official on this side, over here in the last couple of days, who pointed to mahmoud abbas' statement after the israeli teenagers were killed so tragically. the fact that abbas had spoken out against it in arabic who to his community and this israeli official had counseled bebe netanyahu to make a return gesture to try to reach back to the palestinians. are those back panels working? >> it doesn't seem to be resonate with the communities of eastern jerusalem, the arab communities who have been demonstrating over the past few days. quite honestly, the words of president mahmoud abbas don't necessarily carry a lot of weight among palestinians in east jerusalem. there is no palestinian authority that controls or has an impact on the day-to-day lives. even some of those in the senior

leadership can't attend the funeral of the young palestinian teenager that was killed. there is growing criticism among the palestinian community in east jerusalem that the leader. israel over the past two weeks has been very inciteful against the arab community. some of the words and rhetoric coming out of senior israeli leaders they say has led to the kind of violence over the past 48 hours that led to the killing of the palestinian boy and they fear that that kind of incitement is precisely why they, again, say that an israeli young group of men took matters into their own hands and despite the fact that it has been widely condemned by the israeli prime minister and other senior leaders, it's the culture and the atmosphere and the fact they don't believe they'll get justice for the killing of this young palestinian boy. >> and it's precisely the problem of the lack of leadership and credibility of the leadership in the palestinian community after all of these years and failed negotiations that really crippled the peace negotiations that john kerry had tried to

initiate. that and intransigents on both sides, one should say. >> that's right. there's definitely been a crisis in the palestinian leadership for some time now. there's a lot of criticism, not only directed toward the national unity government but even within the palestinian political framework, these two parties that dominated both hamas and fatah really are losing a lot of traction with ordinary palestinians whose quality of life over the course of the past several years whether they live in gaza or the occupied west bank, both qualities of life have gotten worse substantially and they don't feel the palestinian leadership is able to deliver on the promises of independence or liberation. and that really is beginning to resonate louder with ordinary palestinians. >> ayman mohyeldin, thank you very much from east jerusalem. joining me, former under secretary of state nicholas burns. now a professor at harvard. previously in fact, at one point, serving in the consulate in the u.s. consulate in

jerusalem. thank you very much, nick, for being with us. >> thank you, andrea. >> let's talk about the israeli-palestinian conflict. and then i want to broaden it to this regional issue of extremism, what's happening in iraq, principally in syria as well as elsewhere inspect israel, this tension with the palestinians, do you think that we could be with any kind of spark on the brink of a third intefadeh? >> let's hope not. i was in jerusalem 30 years ago and left just before the first intefadeh. i remember that time very well. the problem right now is these horrific events, the deaths of the three israeli teenagers, the death of the palestinian teenager. it's revenge killings. and i think the united states is trying to use its influence with both sides to counsel them and back down from confrontation. good to hear from your correspondent that the israelis are thinking of these

deployments as defensive in orientation. you'll remember the rocket wars of the end of 2012 when secretary of state hillary clinton had to intervene to stop those wars because they were doing so much damage to both israel and the palestinians. a military confrontation between hamas and israel is just going to be a loser for both sides and one would hope they'd back away from that the next 24 hours. >> israel is very concerned about the threat from syria. and from iraq. and what's happening regionally. and that is just getting worse and worse. the maliki government, the parliament met on tuesday without any attempt to meet the deadlines and come up with a new government. they've postponed it until next week. the political process is going nowhere. what is our time frame? how long can the u.s. wait for air strikes now that we're beginning to game the intelligence with surveillance? isis continues to dig in and hold ground. >> i think time is one of the

crucial variables. the israelis and the americans now are more concerned strategically about what's going on in syria and iraq. isis that has established a radical caliphate. it took another oil field today in syria. it is growing in power. the kurds are thinking of an independent state. this is really the time for the united states. i think diplomatally to be very active to try to force maliki out and try to convince the iraqi leadership they have to form a new government, unity government that includes shia, sunni and kurd. no other way if they want to prevent the independence of kurdistan. if they want to strengthen themselves to fight back against this isis force that's proven to be quite formidable. it's taken the second largest city in the country, mosul in fallujah and ramadi. it's a dangerous moment.

that's where washington's focus is now. >> john biden called the former speaker of the house. clearly we're reaching out trying to build on what the ayatollah sistani said. have it be home grown rather than american. i want to also ask you, the daily beast, josh roggin says there's a debate inside the administration about forgetting about getting rid of assad. that clearly hasn't worked. and focusing on sort of de facto connection with assad to combat isis. maybe this is just acknowledging the reality that you can say assad must go and two years later if it hasn't happened you haven't armed the moderate rebels until it's arguably too late. maybe he's just acknowledging the reality on the ground? >> i think the administration's problem is there's so many fires that have broken out in the middle east. which one is the most important?

i think the answer will be from president obama and secretary kerry, iraq. that the possible breakup of iraq would be a catastrophe for the people of that country but also for the wider region. and that is going to metastasize into jordan and lebanon. i think you'll see the u.s. focus on iraq try to -- and you're right. behind the scenes, building on ayatollah sistani's work, trying to encourage the iraqi toss form a new state and keep that state together and slowly push back against isis. there's no love lost with president assad of syria. there are major problems with him. you see the administration arming in a more serious way. let's hope that goes forward. some of the moderate rebel groups. i don't think we'll see an assad/american alliance here. i think the u.s. is going to try to push back against assad but also try to hold iraq together. >> and when there are air strikes, and i think it's a when, not an if, i am hearing that it will be along that border area.

the border that's now disappeared where the isis supply lines are. the isis strongholds and on the syrian side of the bord sler goi going after isis. >> controls three of the four crossing points between syria and iraq. it has a supply line. it's overextended right now. it's controlling a lot of territory with very few fighters. and so that would be, obviously, a logical place to attack them. but, you know, they've made inroads clos to baghdad as well. i think the u.s. has been right to hold back. right to focus on diplomacy first. try to see if we can use our influence to create a new government in baghdad. but at some point, u.s. air power is going to be necessary. >> nick burns, thank you very much. happy fourth. boston is doing the pops tonight. get out there. >> yes it is. thank you. and coming up -- a record-breaking day for the dow and a new jobs report has wall street crowing, celebrating early this weekend. what the numbers really mean

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finally, is this the big boom we've all been waiting for. the month's job report showing 288,000 jobs were added in june bringing the unemployment rate now down to 6.1%. that's the lowest since september of 2008, before the big crash. we just heard from the president. the dow jones reached another major milestone clearing 17,000 for the first time ever. it's now up to 17,071. we only have about 25 minutes until the closing bell because they're closing early for the holiday weekend. this should all be great news for the obama administration. what's going wrong? the polls tell a different story. a clear majority of americans do not like the president's handling of the economy. they are disappointed. why isn't he getting the boost

from a market on the rise? joining me, michael gersen, former speech writer for president george w. bush. and "washington post" political reporter nia malika henderson. great to see you. let me ask you, nira, as a great supporter of the administration's, what's going wrong here, all the economic indicators are finally heading in the right direction? >> this is great news today. and any time we're improving the economy, that's great news for the incumbent and for everyone. we should take this out of politics. i think one of the challenges we've seen is that wages have been stagnant for a while. they've been stagnant for the last 12 years. so that's a -- people are still feeling a lot of pressure and most people still identify themselves as struggling. now if we have several more months like this, and the jobs numbers tighten up the labor market so that wages start to move up, i think you'll see a broader rebound in the political process. >> and, michael, this was an

across the board increase. 288,000 is a good number any way you cut it. sort of no bad news in this. but you have to have at least 150,000 or more jobs added just to make up for, you know, attrition. just to make any progress. >> i think it is good news. it comes after several months of good news. but there's still 3 million long-term unemployed. still a lot of people who involuntarily are in part-time work. a lot of people who the economy doesn't feel very good. that i think is part of the problem here. and, you know, labor participation rates need to move up in order for -- >> a lot of people have dropped out. >> they feel this is an improvement. so it could be happening, but we are not there. >> and i think that's right. the labor participation rate is still very low. it's about where it was in august 2008, so it hasn't rebounded. i think you are right. people experience the economy not based on numbers but whether or not their neighbors have jobs, when they go to walmart or

piggly wiggly, whether their friends are able to go there and -- >> spoken like a true southern girl. >> lower unemployment numbers also affect people's psyches. i think people think about how high it is, how low it is. the fact we're creeping towards the 5% range is a great number for people's confidence. you'll see over the next few months it will have an impact. >> the other piece of this is with such gridlock in washington, and the immigration debate in particular, everything is so toxic. it's hard for people to feel good about government at all. and so congress and the president get blamed, michael. >> you look at immigration. you've been debating this for several months. we're on the verge of agreement. the senate passes something. and the only thing we can do is respond to an emergency. that's how we move, crisis to crisis in our system. we're going to come back from the brink and there will be $2 billion for border security or

whatever. that may well pass. but it doesn't fundamentally solve our problems, doesn't -- it's not a broad agreement in our system. so i am afraid that's where we are in our politics. >> play a little bit of jeh johnson, homeland security secretary talking to rachel maddow last night. >> three-quarters of this influx are coming from guatemala, honduras and el salvador. the conditions in those countries are very, very difficult right now. and so when we talk to the kids, that's almost the first thing they mention. you know, a child told me that the gang was going to kill me, and so my grandmother or my father told me they had no choice but to send me to the united states to be with the other parent. >> neera, i think about july 4th and more bus loads are supposed to go to murrieta, california,

tomorrow. we had that angry, really ugly town meeting last night. they are feeling besieged. but when you see these mothers holding infants, it's heartbreaking to think that this is the american -- this is ellis island. this is -- >> right. >> give me your tired, give me your poor translated to our society. 150 years later. after that immigration wave. >> it's really important jeh johnson was speaking out about what's really happening here. there are murderous, vicious gangs. parents don't decide to send their children alone hundreds of miles with people they don't know unless there's a crisis. >> some cases a thousand. >> thousands of miles. these kids are in dangerous circumstances, and they are doing it because their lives are at stake. i hope that people at the border recognize these children, i mean, we're talking about children, not adults, are coming across the border because they are escaping murderous gangs. and that we should have -- we're a great country. we should be able to respond to

this crisis with some level of compassion. and i think it is a tragedy that we are only talking about a border enforcement issue. we could have comprehensive immigration reform, which would have border enforcement and other issues as well. >> and it field like obama, who had been nicknamed deporter in chief, he is hearing from these immigration reform advocates. >> they've been angry at him for deporting more people than any other president. >> and so he's very much pivoting at this point, trying to do some executive actions. we'll see what comes out of that in the coming weeks. but he's very much changing his approach, which used to be that he was going to get the republicans some space. >> michael, briefly if you can, give us some reason of, it's july 4th. the president is going to be doing a naturalization ceremony. it's my favorite holiday. you were the great speech writer. some reason to be hopeful and confident as we face all of these challenges at home and abroad. >> i do think that ultimately we're a generous country when it

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editor of the asian america. we both reacted to this. you as a young mom and me watching all of my friends deal with this over the years, friends and relatives, this is the age-old debate. this is sheryl sandberg versus -- >> i laughed every time i see that clip but when we first published this story, it got such a response. parents everywhere raising their hands and saying thank you and amen. because for the first time here was someone in an incredibly senior position. exactly the kind of woman that we as professional women have been told to look up to. she emigrated from india, worked her way up the corporate ladder, has children, is successful. and she was saying in a frank and candid way, it's not easy. i make these decisions every day. sometimes you are a bad mother and these are just decisions you have to make. and people everywhere felt relief because for the first time, they were not being told

this is what you need to do to make it work. you need to lean in, breathe out. they were told it's hard at every level and it continues to be hard, whether you've made it or not. >> the irony was she was being interviewed by david bradley, the publisher of "the atlantic" and they published the slaughter article which was the most widely read article information "the atlantic." it's now going to be turned into a book, i understand. so now here's another description by noovi of the conflicts that moms feel. >> coffee with mothers of working women. how am i going to take off 9:00 on wednesday mornings to go to class coffee. my daughter would come home and list off all the others that were there and you were not there, mom. first few times i would die with guilt. but i developed coping mechanisms. i called the school and i said give me a list of mothers who are not there. so when she came home in the

evening, she'd say you were not there. you were not there. ms. rag wasn't there, mrs. so and so wasn't there. so i'm not the only bad mother. >> what's so remarkable, i was there sitting and watching this at aspen. i've never heard noovi speak like this. she in fact, deliberately does not want to do interviews on the subject of the woman ceo. that's not the way she defines herself. let me share with you an e-mail exchange with a friend, a high-powered woman, three kids, wonderful children. she wrote to me when i inquired about this. she said many, many women have to do both. work like the devil and raise children and run a household. they have no choice and god bless them. they are saints. but she went on to write, the truth is if you want to do the best job of one or the other, you can't have any distractions, much less major pursuits like a demanding job or a family. so there really are choices that women like you make all the time. >> i think it's true. those are choices i struggled

with when i had my daughter nine months ago. choices all of our colleagues struggle with, women out there. the idea of choice is important here. we are talking about someone who has a lot of options available to her as well. she's not working out of necessity necessarily as she has options for child care. you are seeing my daughter there. >> beautiful. >> loves the selfie. these are choices. these are tough choices both mothers and fathers, all working parents make who have to both provide for their children or provide for their families in some way and work outside the home. and i have to say, that story that noovi shared about throwing back in her kid's face, i'm not the only bad mother. that did illicit some reader response saying maybe that's not the best way to deal with this. but overall what seemed to resonate with readers was that this is a woman who is handling these decisions with this kind of tone and approach that we haven't heard before. she's laughing about it. there are no regrets. she is sort of embracing both sides of this debate. and she certainly doesn't have

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northeast, which will be tomorrow morning, we will see winds shift out of the west-northwest. what happens is this sound rises about three to four feet. the problem? we're only about a foot above sea level right here out to the road. that's highway 12. that's the main reason for the evacuation order. we could have several miles of that road under sand and water. and they don't want people in harm's way. so the biggest period here for the outer banks will be tonight. especially late around 11:00 or so. the worst of the weather is expected to come in. we're going to see winds gusting 85, possibly higher if the storm were to strnengthen a little bi. tomorrow morning as the wind shifts around it's sound side flooding that's a big concern here in the uttouter banks. some of this area is only 100 yards wide where you can see the sound and the atlantic ocean. crunch time is tonight for the outer banks. hopefully by tomorrow, people will be able to come back in with little fanfare. we'll just have to wait and see. back to you. >> thanks to jim cantore. that does it for this

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