candidate for president of the united states and i am running for you. >> making a run, martin o'malley launches his bid for president. how much of an obstacle does he pose for hillary clinton? bracing for more rain. parts of texas already under water getting soaked again. the latest on a week of wild and deadly weather. patriot act politics. what's at stake as the clock ticks towards the end of key national security provisions. will it put the country at risk? they're here. the big budget summer blockbusters, but which ones are worth your time and money? hey, everyone. high noon in the east 9:00 a.m. in the west. developing now, texas is getting hammered with another round of heavy rain flash flood warnings

in effect and all comes on the heels of record rainfall that forced a closure of several highways before today's rain dallas saw 16 inches of rain in may, near houston a triple threat under way, water risesing on the river, the san jacinto and colorado rivers as well. forecasters say the colorado could crest at 43 feet today that would cause major flooding. and wharton ordered evacuation for two dozen homes. officials in dallas cautioning residents about the rising water levels. >> water will not disappear overnight. it could take days. we are asking for people to head home early and find alternate routes. >> president barack obama declared a flood disaster in tk. 28 people have been killed following last week's storms in texas and oklahoma. ten people remain missing. joining me in women berly, texas, sarah, with a good day to you, before you get to what's

happening in your area can you tell me what's going on in dallas right now? >> well good afternoon, alex. dallas getting hit once again with rain. this after the buckets they received yesterday which prompted about 200 swift water rescues in the area. the majority of those people had become trapped in their car from rapidly rising flood waters. now here in wimberley we're getting a break in the weather for the moment. more weather is expected today but for now the blue sunny skies and the river levels dropping a little bit giving volunteers new ground to cover. they're hoping to make a lot of progress today, but, of course, that all depends on the weather. >> that's my confirmation. >> reporter: sifting through belongings, looking for anything that can be salvaged. >> stuff like this i mean i think that's a goner. >> reporter: it's no easy task for homeowner wanda cook and her daughter-in-law brenda morrow. floodwater destroyed furniture,

photos and countless mementos but the family says they nor the wimberley community are calling it quits. we're going to make a comeback. i believe that. >> reporter: they're aided by volunteers going door to door to help people like morrow and cook doing whatever is needed. >> thank you. >> reporter: learning fast lessons along the way. >> don't walk under any furniture hanging from trees and keep an eye out for snakes wear your rubber boots. just good caution while you're working. that would be my advice. it's a mess. >> reporter: friday was clear and sunny, a welcome change in the weather for crews whose efforts were hampered by rain. weekend rains will force volunteers to pause their search at points for members of three families. >> we have hope that we're going to find survivors. >> reporter: relatives and friends remain optimistic buoyed by the support of 500 volunteers aiding in the search seek medics and those with technical

outdoor skills to help as the operation moves forward. >> we have a long road. >> how long will you keep this going? >> until we're done. >> doesn't matter how long it takes? >> reporter: lives, towns and terrain changed by the rat of mother nature. msnbc. >> authorities announced the discovery of two bodies of people who were inside that home when it was swept away by floodwaters. this announcement made yesterday. the recovery of the body of a 6-year-old boy and a man in his 70s. that leaves five people who were in that home still unaccounted for, alex. back to you. >> such a tragedy. thank you very much for the live report. when will texas get relief? joining me with that and the rest of our forecast meteorologist steves saucena. >> improvements tomorrow we have to get through one more day of rainfall and that will be heavy at times. the green shaded areas is a flash flood watch.

that means conditions are ripe prime for flash flooding. the red boxes across north texas near dallas that's flash flood warnings that means flooding is happening right now. the big concern with this is do not cross flooded roadways. turn around, don't drown, what we tell people. floodwaters may be deeper than you think. the reason why we have so much flooding even with not that much rain today is all the rainfall that we've seen during the month of may. look at this. 16.1 inches in dallas. 13.6. we've tripled the amount of rain we usually receive in a month. you can see all across oklahoma and texas where we've been seeing some of these high rainfall totals more rain expected here for today. the problem is this little disturbance you see that moved through dallas this morning, there's another backside of it coming through southern texas right now and then you're going to ignite thunderstorms near houston. i think houston is really the concern here for this afternoon. they had 13 inches of rain this

week. let's track thunderstorms for you. see the storms forming here by 4:00 this afternoon, heavy, torrential downpours in texas. more thunderstorms moving to the north and east but by tomorrow we start to see changes. drier air moves into texas so we'll shut down the rain for at least several days. that's very important for those folks to be able to clean up but the thunderstorms will move into the northeast which actually needs the rain. by the way, texas, looks like more storms may return next weekend. we'll have to watch it. for now at least a break. >> can't get sunny enough in houston soon enough. thank you so much steve. it's official former maryland governor martin o'malley will seek the democratic nomination for president. he hit on traditional democratic values and made it clear he was not going to spare hillary clinton any criticism. >> i'veyou've got news for the bullies of wall street the presidency is not a crown to be passed back and forth by you,

between two royal families. it is a sacred trust to be earned from the american people and exercised on behalf of the people of the united states. >> well o'malley joins hillary clinton and bernie sanders as the only three announced canned dates from the democratic party. as of now that could change. let's bring in political reporter alex. with a good day to you, any surprises as you were listening to the announcement about an hour ago? >> good afternoon, alex. one big surprise that we were sort of anticipating there were a handful of protesters here maybe about a dozen calling attention to martin o'malley's record as mayor when he put in place tough policing standards, lots of arrests, which have been blamed for the freddie gray riots and protests created around here. at the same time he's trying to emphasize his tenure record in baltimore, choosing this backdrop the city skyline this puts an asterisk on it and he

will have to address. i talked to one of his former top strategists who acknowledged the riots and controversy around freddie gray will complicate his run. he did say it's taught us a lesson but i'm not sure he's answered the questions yet. >> i'm not trying to take away from his thunder but isn't there rumors there will be another democrat entering into the race soon? >> yeah. i can confirm, alex lincoln chaffe the former governor and senator from rhode island sort of a mer curele figure former independent and republican and now democrat will get into the race on wednesday. we will double the size of the democratic field just in this past week and then there's always jim webb floating out there and stay tuned for joe biden, we could have news on him even further down the road. >> which would make it very interesting to say the least. alex, thank you very much. a busy day for you. see you again. sunday night at midnight sections of the patriot act including the one that allowed

the nsa to collect bulk data on citizens is set to expire. they would hold a sunday session to attempt to come up with some solution. president obama applied not so subtle pressure on senators to act. >> the only thing that's standing in the way is a handful of senators who are resisting these reforms, despite law enforcement and the ic saying let's go ahead and get this done. >> let's bring in nbc's kristen welker at the white house, was what does the president think is behind the impasse or pointing fingers at who? >> good afternoon. i think president obama thinks there's genuine opposition to this legislation but also thinks that some of the opposition is political, including republican candidate senator rand paul. i'll get to more on that in a minute. the key sticking point, alex just to map it out, is section 215, the provision exposed by edward snowden that gives the

government the ability to sweep up the phone records of millions of americans, opponents like senator rand paul say it's a violation of privacy rights. paul blocked that measure or any amended version of that measure in the senate last week by arguing against it for more than ten hours and today, he is digging in his heels vowing to do the same thing tomorrow. here's what he released in a statement, he says, quote, i believe we must fight terrorism and i believe we must stand strong against our enemies but do not need to give up who we are to defeat them. we misnot. there has to be another way. tomorrow i will force the expiration of the nsa illegal spy program. there you have it from senator rand paul. the white house and even republicans say that paul is just trying to gin up support for his presidential campaign. they say these provisions are key to protecting the nation to fighting against terrorists and they also point to the fact

alex that it a compromised measure passed with broad bipartisan support in the house and paul is refusing to back that. what do we expect to happen tomorrow? no one is sure. it seems unlikely the senate will reach a compromise. even if senators can reach some type of compromise agreement, the house is not back in session until monday which means it is very likely that key parts of this legislation will, in fact, expire. i've been talking to senior administration officials who say that the programs are so vast they are so complicated that they'll have to start dismantling them tomorrow afternoon and the program will be shut down by about 8:00 p.m. tomorrow evening. alex? >> okay. . it's quite extraordinary right now what's going on. thank you very much. kristen welker from the white house. other news, a religiously charged rally in phoenix friday night attracted a sizable crowd and heavily police presence. on one side of the street a group of anti-islam protesters armed with guns waving the

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. the story of our country's best days is not found in a history book because this generation of americans is about to write it. and that is why today, to you and to all who can hear my voice, i declare that i am a cap date for president of the united states and i am running for you. may god bless you and may god bless the united states of america. >> that was former governor martin o'malley announcing his entry into the 2016 presidential race. it will not be an easy primary road for o'malley. a new quinnipiac poll gives him 1% of the vote among democrats. no surprise he'swho's at the top.

joining me ileana contributing writer for essence magazine and steve kornacki host of "up." thank you for joining me. as you were listening to this did you hear anything from martin o'malley say anything that would offer a different trajectory for the race? >> looks like he wants to come at her from the left trying to connect with the elizabeth warren groos roots energy out there. the problem is that to the extent there's an appetite for that kind of alternative to hillary clinton, bernie sanders has really tapped into it already. you see in that poll i know it's early but the fact that sanders is sitting at 15%, he's gotten traction. o'malley has no traction. if you look at that as a matchup between o'malley and sanders to play that role against hillary clinton, it's very hard for me to see martin o'malley beating bernie sanders at that. that's bernie sanders' game. economic populism. he calls himself a democratic socialist. tough to get to the left of that. >> absolutely.

did you hear anything with this announcement, that gives you a sense of the kind of candidacy he'll run? >> he's trying to be the progressive alternative but i think we should be talking about his record in baltimore when he was the mayor and how that is going to impact his run now in a negative manner because of the zero tolerance policies. that's something that's going to resonate not just because of black lives matter but because we're headed into the black spring period where there's going to be a lot of activity and conversation around criminal justice reform and what is he going to say about that. hillary clinton is already out with actually pretty progressive messaging on that, that is to the left of her husband even. >> steve i was telling you, you sat down and wrote this article on o'malley and you write he is kind of stuck running as something he is not. can you explain that? >> yes. i talked about the piece why it's tough to run against sanders. he's forced into that position because of the role he would naturally play in a race like this is what you would call the establishment candidate.

he's an establishment politician. he has sort of the right dre kre densals, the mayor two terms, governor two terms, chaired the party's gubernatorial association for democrats. the kind of guy who would sort of -- that type of candidate is supposed to mouth the right words to the base but get the donors excited, money people elected official endorsements those things. no room for a candidate like that other than hillary clinton. she's gobbled up all the endorsements, the big campaign cash in the democratic party will be going with her. a lot of it is with her. martin o'malley can't play the role he naturally is suited for and he's forced into this position where he's trying to be the insurgent candidate, the outsider, where bernie sanders is and comes up into competition with sanders there. it's tough to see him out establishmenting hillary clinton if that's a word out insurnlgting bernie sanders. >> where does that leave him? >> i don't know where that -- >> rock and a hard place. >> a hard place. one of the things we're talking

about today is the polling, right. i mean he's announcing and it's important i think for the democratic side to have a robust debate and conversation as we head into the 2016 election but the problem for him is he's only at 1%. 1% is, you know, not very high. >> better than 0. >> yeah. it's -- >> zoeero in some. >> lincoln chaffe about to announce is at 1%. i think it's going to be a tough road ahead for him. >> i'm curious what you think both of you, steve, the surplus of republican candidates out there, does that do anything to help or hurt the democrats? how do you read it? >> i think the more candidates there are and the more sort of crazy the atmosphere will get at the debates democrats look back at 2012 and one of the things that helped president obama win re-election in the republican debates mitt romney, for instance, was forced to answer questions, forced to take positions, forced to react in ways that hurt him long term. it was a debate he made the comment about self-deportation.

the more chaotic it is the more likely the eventual republican candidate says something like that in these debates. >> something said on our air yesterday, we have house minority leader nancy pelosi on with my colleague thomas roberts and talked about the report from "the new york times" it was discussed that bill clinton has now decided that rather did do half a million speaking engagement for a fund-raiser for the clinton foundation, should be noted he had been asked several times to do that but no compensation involved and when the money came in -- in other words it doesn't look great. she had this response when asked about that. let's take a listen to that. >> the clintons will have to answer for the foundation but i would imagine that president clinton's participation in that event increased the take and the money spent at the foundation is for a very good cause as well. so it was sort of a everyone benefitted from it. no question it raises questions they'll have to answer.

>> the "new york times" said the payment to clinton and the foundation was about 25% of what they took in. she's looking at it from both sides. not exactly a full throated support there. >> they have a lot -- there is a lot of questions the clintons have to answer but that's part of this process and i think that the running for president it's a magnifying glass unlike any other process. i think that certainly the clintons have been in politics long enough to know, you know what is acceptable and not and where the line is. and sometimes they come close to that line but that doesn't mean they've crossed over it. we're going to get a lot more clarity on these issues as we go forward. >> what about the asia trade plans. as you know steve, when hillary clinton, secretary of state, a big supporter of that the president now finds himself in issues defending the trade bill what is her motivation where she's taking a stand now? >> she isn't taking a stand right now and part of it you see she's in a difficult position. a couple years ago she was for this thing, but if you say those letters, tpp, to this sort of

base of the democratic party, you know, they convulse when they hear that. there's bernie sanders who's out there being clearly opposed saying i am adamantly opposed to the tpp and want secretary clinton to be taking a position forced to choose does she stand with what she said before and stand with president obama who is for this or if she does that she alienates that bernie sanders' wing of the party that elizabeth warren wing of the party. she's trying not to alienate anything, which means not saying anything. probably can't keep it up much longer though. >> what about what's happening with rand paul battling it out with his fellow republicans over the foreign policy and punditry says he should be a liberal democrat accusingp arepps of being warmongers here. where is all this leading and what do you think is a winning message? i'll ask that to you first? >> for rand paul in the primary? >> right. >> look he's taking that position because of his father right. and it's not shocking to me

because there were certainly times in the previous cycle where his father would be talking about foreign policy and i'm like i agree with what he's saying. that's not surprising to me. what is going to be troubling for him in the primary is that they're just -- i think the republican party is really going to search for their heart and soul right now and there are certain positions you just can't say them out loud. you can't be pro-gay marriage can't be, you know anywhere seemed to be in favor of expanding women's rights or health care. none of the candidates have put forward really an alternative to obama care. we have the supreme court making a decision on that. on the republican side there's going to be a lot of shifting but rand paul right now, he's leading all of the polling. the latest polling this week anyway. i think that he's going to have a tough time certainly because he's seen as more progressive on some issues but i think that on their side it's a little bit more unpredictable. >> right now in terms of polling rand paul does the best when matched against hillary clinton.

the latest was like 46/42. >> rand paul and marco rubio. it's interesting because rand paul is -- there is the potential, you can see with him, if he were to be the republican nominee, to expand the base at the same time watch him on the nsa stuff with the fight he's picking in the senate, trying to make this to republicans rand paul versus barack obama, reading your e-mails, i don't want him too, that's the rhetoric and the republican hawks on national security sayings this isn't rand paul versus the president, this is rand paul versus us. loyalties matched against each other like that it's tough to survive. >> it's interesting. i find the republican side more interesting than the democratic side at this point. >> i find you both interesting so thank you both for joining us. thanks. just ahead, lost not found, you won't believe just how much forgetfulness is costing you in today's number ones up next. hey pal? you ready? can you pick me up at 6:30? ah... (boy) i'm here! i'm here!

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sunday unless the senate takes action and the senate will hold a rare sunday session to attempt to come up with a solution. the senate is at odds over provisions that allow the nsa to collect bulk data on the phone and e-mail records of american citizens. let's bring in ali, a political reporter at "the huffington post," with a welcome to you, what does the senate have to do on sunday? shoe they have to pass through the usa freedom act based on statements we've seen from rand paul in the last hour is not going to happen. you know, it sounds like they have until midnight but they don't have that much time. the nsa will start shutting down these programs start at 4 and have until about 8:00 p.m. to back off of that cliff, but the senate can't have any votes until after 6:00 so they have a two hour window to negotiate this political turmoil and doesn't look like it's going to happen. >> any betting odds on the chances of coming to a compromise there? >> i wouldn't hedge my bets on it. i think that it's become a reality for the intelligence

community. i think they've realized by midnight sunday they will not have these programs and explore other options here. >> so the white house, understands what the rules are of the game are here said they will wind down the bulk collection program, leave the data in the hands of the phone carriers, what is the rationale for having the private companies collect this data? >> well i mean when talking about the two sides of this argument when we talk civil liberties and privacy advocates and the government this was the middle ground. somewhere his data is ultimately going to exist anyway would a good compromise be to let the telecommunications company hold on to that instead of the government. that seems like the most viable avenue for compromise. just with the bulk collection program that's been the part of this debate that's gotten the most attention. there's a lot of other programs here running the clock down until midnight on sunday. as far as the bulk collection program, telecom companies will probably hold on to the information. it will changes the environment a little bit, not going to be as convenient for the government to get ahold of that information

since it will not be in their hands but the intelligence community has said in testimony to officials that, you know, it's not going to hamper it so much. that it's a viable option for them. >> so those who have struck this alarmist tone is there a reason for the alarm? the telecom companies are keeping this data and this information, i mean simple subpoena should be able to get what's needed? >> yeah. i mean the past couple -- this is not really a new thing. every time these provisions have come up for expiration we've seen a lot of this fire and brim stone from senior administration officials. there are some realities here of course it's not going to be as convenient but there are avenues that these senior administration officials aren't talking about that are options for still having these tools. the biggest of which, for example, is section 224, section b of the patriot act, that allows a grandfather clause. the administrations has said that they will not continue the bulk collection program under this grandfather clause which

means that any program that was started before the expiration date could continue but the other programs they've voiced concern about like lone wolf roving wire taps still an option to continue them and the government has not said they won't continue them under the grandfather clause. >> to the information that's been collected what happens to that? >> that's interesting as far as the bulk collection program. the nsa said they are not going to wipe the servers. they're just going to turn them off. they can't destroy the information as there's a lot of lawsuits obviously hitting the government for using this information, violating bill of rights and constitutional rights of american citizens and actually a res press servation order that's valid that requires the government not destroy that because it's evidence. for people who want to prove their case. >> ali, come see us again. thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. >> a programming note tomorrow on "meet the press" meet the can cats, chuck todd speaking with bernie sanders of vermont john kasic of ohio rick santorum of pennsylvania talk about their

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dollars. >> the defense is arguing reasonable doubt that this was simply an accident so at this point, i don't think this is a clear win for either side. >> reporter: officials say grasswald told investigators she felt trapped in the relationship and police say she waited nearly a half hour to call for help. with detailed information, authorities were still searching for clues from the public when aing charges -- announcing charges this week. >> looking for any information regarding this crime, people that have may seen the deceased and defendant prior to them going out on april 19th or know starngss regarding their relationship. >> reporter: grasswald's attorney said statements attributed to his clients may have been answers to questions she didn't fully understand. >> to make a homicide of what is an accidental drowning our belief is stronger than ever that miss grasswald is a victim here and this was an accident. >> reporter: this morning grasswald remains in jail on $3 million bail. ron mot, nbc news.

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movie to see right now in theaters which is it? >> the mad max reboot which took everyone by surprise a stripped down simple plot but just tremendous action. very little cgi which is so refreshing. lots of practical stunts. tremendous set design and production design. great costumes and vehicles. >> yeah. >> i think almost everybody who has seen it has been pleasantly surprised. >> you were part of the chorus and also good writing to add to that. splicingly so. there you have it. how about jurassic world? many are saying that's going to be the movie of the summer. produced by universal pictures our parent company. let's show everyone a little clip. here it is. >> oh, no. hold all your fire. hold your fire. do not fire. >> 12 amps in these animals they

will never trust me again. >> does it deliver? >> i haven't seen it yet and i think it's one of the movies that has a pretty high creel and low floor. it's a movie that could feel like a retread or could be a fresh one and the fact of the matter is nobody knows yet. people think it will make money but whether it's any good is still anyone's guess. >> let's talk about the memorial day weekend. it was a bit disappointing. why do you think the numbers were so bad at the box office? >> the big one tomorrowland which really underperformed. people had, you know, pretty big expectation for it. it's a big movie going weekend. i don't think it was a bad movie. not a great movie. a movie that didn't work and fell apart in its final act. it was a movie that unfortunately people didn't have -- never generated the buzz that people thought it might get and george clooney, everybody loved george clooney but he's never proven he can open a movie in a big way. it was just a movie that never

quite caught on. unfortunately another lesson in unfortunately the lesson that hollywood keeps learning which is that pre-sold brands marvel pictures or reboots or sequels, have built-in audience share and a movie brand new and has an interesting idea like tomorrowland really will struggle sometimes unless it knocks it out of the park? >> what is up or down shall we say, with "aloha." gotten tough reviews. >> i have to say, i was not a fan of "aloha." got a lot of moving pieces that don't fit together. i liked bradley cooper and emma stone but cam ron crowe, it's been a long time since he had a movie that worked. elizabethtown wasn't very good vanilla sky wasn't very good. a lot of us are rooting for cameron crowe and a lot of us remember jerry mcgwire and have a soft spot in our heart but he has not been able to put one together. >> despite that cast. talking about a blockbuster there. >> rachel mcadams too. >> your opinion on some of the

other films, going to say the name and tell me if it's worth the money or note not. how about spy with melissa mccarthy? >> another movie i haven't seen it yet. they haven't screened it in washington. the early buzz is positive. almost everybody saying it's the best melissa mccarthy movie yet. probably worth your money. >> inside out, a pixar film. >> is that the movie i am most excited about of the summer. >> really? >> yeah. pixar, after an incredible run for more than a decade really has had a few misses in a row. monster university wasn't very good cars 2 wasn't very good. this is by pete doctor who did monsters inc, may be the most underrated pixar and did "up" which may be the best pixar and everyone who has seen it -- and i have not -- says that it's tremendously high concept, really appealing to kids and grownups, it's very moving cre clever. so if there's one movie i am looking forward to that's the one. >> if it's anything like

"monsters inc" i'm with you. >> arnold schwarzenegger who's back in terminator genesis. >> at 67 is it? i think he's 67 now. >> not a movie i think anybody felt needed to be made but again these sort of pre-sold properties that have, you know, built in viewer interest are just the studios are relying on them more and more. i don't think -- what was the last terminator movie anyone really liked? the second one, 1991? >> none of those who haven't liked any of them. "entourage" i'm excited to see that. is it worth it? >> again, haven't seen it yet and i'm not an "entourage" fan. the trailers look promising. i will be going in fresh. i probably watched maybe three or four episodes total. >> i have a feeling you don't need to watch many more to get it. use it as an execution to binge watch the series. >> christopher, come see me again. this was fun. >> this was great. >> thanks.

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wild within. the jury in the colorado movie theater shooting is learning more about the mindset of shooter james holes. prosecutor presented two pieces of key evidence, a journal and a videotaped interview conducted by a state appointed psychiatrist last year which was two years after the fatal shooting. >> i only count fatalities. >> what about the wounded? >> they're like collateral damage. >> what brings tears to your eyes sometimes? >> just regrets. >> regrets about? >> about the shooting. >> prosecutors have been going over certain parts of the interview with the psychiatrist since calling him to the stand on thursday. jurors are expected to see all of the 22 hours of that interview. joining me now faith jen kins

from los angeles and msnbc legal analyst and host of "judge faith" and a former criminal prosecutor. with a welcome to you, the gunman told the psychiatrist during the interview he was depressed, he had taken these suicidal feelings he had towards himself, turned them to homicidal thoughts after breaking up with a girlfriend. how much weight does this carry since the interview was conducted two years after the shooting? >> in colorado where the trial is being held once a defendant inserts an insanity defense, the burden shifts to the state. they have to prove that holmes was sane at the time he committed these crimes. what you're seeing is the state putting on evidence that james holmes may have suffered from some kind of mental illness, i don't think that's in dispute, i think this man is suffering from a juries mental illness but that's not the law in determining whether or not someone will be not guilty by reason of insanity. the law is you have to have not

known that what you were doing was wrong. and so they are putting forth expert testimony now through the psychiatrist that james holmes knew that what he was doing was wrong. >> so faith, does that includes the time leading up to the actual shooting he had to be cognizant of what he was doing and the result would be or the minutes during the shooting? >> the analysis is applied to at the time the crime is committed. now, of course, you're going look at all of the surrounding circumstances. the prosecutors are actually using evidence in his journals to show that this was premeditated, that he spent months planning this attack and that he actually wrote in his journal he considered doing an attack in the airport but he thought no there's too much security. and then he considered movie theater and he wrote that there was a police station just three mind aminutes away so he had a 99% chance of getting caught. they are using those factors, everything he did leading up to

the moment that he committed the actual crime to say he knew that what he was doing was wrong. so the jurors in this case they really have to make a legal distinction between a person who is suffering from mental illness but even if they're suffering from mental illness does that excuse them under the law by our legal definition of what it means to be legally insane under the law. >> and in this journal, eight pages of the why, why, why, i mean it's written over and over again. what is going to hold more weight? the stuff you're describing where he's talking about the logic of each particular place he could have an attack and likelihood of success versus the why why why had he appears to be nuts? >> the state and defense will use that journal to argue their case. the defense is going to use the journal to say listen this was someone who had a psychotic breakdown at the moment when he committed this crime. this is someone who had a history of mental illness. he had been treated for mental illness prior to shooting up the movie theater. look at this journal.

this was someone who was not operating in a rationale person. he was insane. he was crazy and when he went in and shot the movie theater he didn't know what he was doing, didn't know what he was doing was wrong. each side will use that journal to argue their case. the state is going to use it to say he knew what he was doing was wrong, didn't want to get caught and the defense will use it to say no he had a psychotic breakdown and should not be held legally responsible. this isn't a case where it's about a who done it. he admits he did the shooting. a matter of will he be held legally responsible based on his mental illness and awareness. >> okay. faith jenkins, thanks for weighing in. appreciate it. >> sure. >> ahead in the next hour confessions of a hospital nurse real life stories from the men and women who call themselves members of a secret club and why they say you should never get sick in july. that's coming up. (mom) when our little girl was born we got a subaru. it's where she said her first word. (little girl) no! saw her first day of school. (little girl) bye bye! made a best friend forever. the back seat of my subaru

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and devastating flooding. joining the race martin o'malley announces but how does he hope to challenge hillary clinton for the democratic nomination? i think it's really shocking. i think especially if there was misconduct with a student. >> let the court do its justice and see where it goes. no one is guilty until found guilty. >> hometown reaction how people are reacting to the indictment of favorite son dennis hastert. how the death of an iraq war veteran could serve as a warning to others. good day to all of you. welcome to "weekends with alex witt." this news developing from texas, getting slammed with another round of heavy rain. flash flood warnings in effect and this comes on the heels of record rainfall that forced the closure of several highways. near houston a triple threat. waters rising on the brazos san

jacinto and the colorado. forecasters say the colorado could crest at 43 feet today causing major flooding. the city of wharton ordered a mandatory evacuation for two dozen homes due to the rising river and officials in dallas are cautioning residents about the rising water levels there. the president has declared a flood disaster in texas. so far at least 28 people have been killed following last week's storms in texas and oklahoma. ten remain missing. let's go to wimberley, texas, hard hit and msnbc's sair a ra daloff and what's the weather like there? any more rain expected in for example today? >> well no rain at the moment, alex alex, but it could come later today. the river levels are dropping be giving searchers new ground to cover and giving residents an expansive look at the damage caused by mother nature. for some people it's minor cleanup, but for others they've lost everything. their homes, their furniture, their personal heirlooms and photos.

everyone we've spoken to says they feel very lucky to be alive. across oklahoma and texas, 28 people confirmed dead 10 still unaccounted for. that includes five people here in wimberley inside a vacation home when it was swept away by floodwaters. authorities have recovered the bodies of three people inside that home one person who survived has been treated and released from the hospital. and as the search continues today in this good weather as the cleanup continues, authorities are warning people to be careful around the water even though if it's so much less threatening than earlier in the week a number of hidden dangers below the surface including sharp debris and possible disease, so alex things not yet back to normal here in wimberley. back to you. >> clearly as we look at the rushing waters in front of you. thank you very much. sarah daloff. it's official. former maryland governor and baltimore mayor martin o'malley will seek the democratic nomination for president. he hit on traditional democratic

values and made it clear he was not going to spare political dynasties criticism. >> i've got news for the bullies of wall street. the presidency is not a crown to be passed back and forth by you between two royal families. it is a say cret trust to be earned from the american people and exercised on behalf of the people of this united states. >> o'malley joins hillary clinton and bernie sanders as the only three announced democratic candidates, at least as of now. that will, of course, change. let's bring in political reporter alex size wald. with another welcome to you, any surprises with the announcement? >> well, alex the one sour note from martin o'malley in a carefully choreographed event with a backdrop was the presence of protesters about a dozen of them protesting martin o'malley's tough policeing tactics as mayor of baltimore. he chose to put his ties to the

city on display, choosing this as the backdrop but they were here in force and disrupting things, black lives matter something being pulled out, he did address the rights head on in his speech. for what took place here was not only about race not only about policing in america, it was about everything it is supposed to mean to be an american. the hard truth of our shared reality is this unemployment in many cities and small towns across the united states of america is higher now than it was eight years ago. conditions of extreme poverty breed conditions of extreme violence. >> reporter: so alex that was definitely an attempt to head off that criticism he's gotten in the wake of those. otherwise the speech very strong on populace progressive messages the messages that have

resonated with the elizabeth warren wing of the party hoping to stake out some space to the left of hillary clinton. >> and where is he headed to next? >> >>. >> he got on a plane right away to iowa two events later today. he is focusing squarely on iowa a state he cut his teeth as a political organizer working for gary hart's campaigns in the 1908s, a mentor for him trying to emulate what barack obama did defeating hillary clinton. alex seitz-wald thank you from baltimore. new revelations from the criminal indictment of former house speaker dennis hastert that says in 2010 hastert agreed to pay someone from his hometown of yorkville, illinois $3.5 million to conceal a, quote, past misconduct. it doesn't spell out what that misconduct was nor who that person is. but federal law enforcement sources telling msnbc news the payment relate to hassers's days as a coach and sexual misconduct with a student. a former school wrestler and

assistant coach he worked with are coming to his defense. >> the gentleman was a super professional, as a teacher, a coach, as a human being. i would refer to him as my second father. >> there isn't anything that happened in the six years that i worked with denny that would ever make me believe there was anything improper. >> hastert expected to be arraigned as early as this coming week. joining me is msnbc's adam reese, no, not joining me from yorkville, although hoping we get to the live shot out there. perhaps not. no. all right. let's -- i believe that's josh gursstein. sorry about that. thought we would get a live shot there. talk ate the suggestion that federal investigators might have been tipped off to all this. all this money that hastert was

withdrawing. how much was he taking out and how big were these chunks? >> at one point he was taking out money, $50,000 in cash at a time the later was determined that there was some agreement to pay this individual $3.5 million a total of $1.7 million in cash paid before this indictment was returned on thursday. so we're talking about a huge amount of money. at the moment it's not entirely clear whether the investigation began because of some kind of tip from the bank. we know according to the indictment the bank at one point cautioned him he was taking out such large sums of cash it was going to draw suspicion, or perhaps whether there was a tip from other legal difficulties that hastert found himself? >> i want to point out that jay david john and his legal team have declined to comment to msnbc, no comment at all from hastert, he has denied some of the claims and there's a new indictment, some new information according to the indictment that

hastert made several withdraws, the $50,000 you're mentioning between 2010 2012 but the fbi interviewing him this past december, that was more than a year after opening up this investigation, so the timing of the indictment, josh how do you read it after all this time? >> well the indications i've heard and seen are that the fbi authorities, the tax authorities had a tough time figuring out what hastert was doing with all this money. if he had been depositing huge sums of money that would have been a different and far more suspicious situation, but him taking the money out was a strange situation and they couldn't figure out why he was doing this or where the money was going and then there was this confrontation in december of last year where they went to him and asked him why he was doing this a victim of extortion? i think there may have been foreign concerns as well perhaps somebody had blackmailed him while in congress while he was speaker of the house, and he was now paying off whatever that

debt was. of course he responded atorgd to the indictment he was taking the money out because he didn't trust the banking system and keeping it which the authorities say was not true. he was paying it to this man apparently a former student, if these reports are to be believed. >> josh, we will bring into our conversation our msnbc reporter adam reese, we had the live shot up and running from yorkville, this is dennis hastert's hometown. you've been talking to folks, what are they saying about all this? again he is a favorite son. >> right. they're still scratching their heads. they don't know what to make of all this. they still call him coach here in yorkville, 40 years after he left school, as a teacher, football coach, as a wrestling coach. he took the wrestling team in 1976 to the state championship and wop. he was really a rags to riches story, someone who made it to the pinnacle of power in washington, house speaker for eight years as a republican. that was unprecedented. second in line to the presidency. but again, people here don't

know what to make of it. some are in disbelief, some not so surprised. >> i was very upset. felt terribly bad for his family and him. and, you know, but if he's guilty, then we have to do what's right. >> not surprised one bit. just seems the norm now with politicians running wild with sex scandals, money scandals. >> reporter: the school district put out a statement yesterday saying they had no knowledge of his alleged misconduct. they found out about this on thursday just like everybody else. and last 24 hours he stepped down from his law firm he's stepped down from the board of the cme, and i can tell you in the last hour stepped down from the dennis hastert center at wheaton college. he faces ten years in jail a $500,000 fine his future is uncertain. i can tell you that alex. >> yeah. and back in the conversation to

you, josh, stunned and stewpy fide was the way an earlier guest described the reaction on capitol hill and washington and all of this. you're seeing that applies to the residents in his hometown of yorkville. what does this do for his legacy? >> i think it's very damaging to his legacy because he was somebody brought in to kind of clean house in the house if you'll excuse the expression he was seen as a figure who was sort of clean as a whistle, no one would raise any complaints about. he was seen as very morally upright. i don't know that he was really seen as sort of an extreme social conservative. but he was seen as somebody that ran a clean ship in the house of representatives when he was speaker and so to have this come out and the sum of money involved as well you know, seems to suggest whatever the misconduct was, the inappropriate relationship, it may have gone on for some time it may have been pretty severe. $3.5 million is a lot of money and so we'll have to wait and see exactly what the details of

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and author of books on terrorism and the executive director of terror projects. is the current strategy such as it is working and if so to what degree? >> it can be said it's working in the fact that we're carrying out air strikes but the result of the air strikes don't seem to be reflecting any successes on the ground. we took this loss in ramadi recently not because the iraqis weren't fighting even though secretary of defense said there was a lack of a will to fight. they had one of their premier forces there. the iraqi special operations forces and they fight. but what they don't have is they don't have the aerial support that's coordinated with their actions. isis just flows around them like water on a rock. if we're not coordinating deeply with the iraqis it will not be successful. should u.s. forces be fighting on the ground? we're not talking necessarily large-scale ground troops but it's been suggested on this

broadcast before special operations could be very effective? >> when you say you're going to put forces on the ground there's a way to do that without having to actually commit combat forces, people going around kicking in doors. we took 4,693 dead in iraq and 32,000 wounded over an eight-year period. the american public needs to remember that. we fought a war in iraq and if we once to do that again it's going to take the national commitment to that. special operations forces using joint terminal aerial controllers, that's combat air controllers, can work closely on the ground with the iraqis to the point where they're within small arms and fire range, and more effectively bring aerial support to the iraqis. we need to commit to that instead of saying we want heavy ground forces to fight. >> haven't we been in training for some time and to what

effect? i mean look where we are? >> you know i've been training forces throughout the middle east for over 30s years. heavy forces in the middle east are effective only in certain circumstances like the first gulf war where you give them limited objectives. they are better insurgents better gorilla rilguerrilla forces. lawrence of arabia was the first one to say that. we need to allow the leadership of these smaller iraqi units like iraqi special forces like some of these iraqi army units to filter to the top and allow them to take the fight and then you've got to discard, you know, 100, 200,000 guys who just come in for a paycheck they're not doing anything in this fight. >> how do you train them to have a stake in the game? you can train them technically but to have that will? >> there are people in iraq and in syria who have the will to

fight. the kurds have the will to fight. iraqi special forces. iraqi special forces didn't even work for the government of iraq for almost a decade. they worked for us. they are very good at takings the fight to isis. but isis is a combined force of all of the former regime loyalists, all of the al qaeda in iraq people and all of the foreign fighters coming from syria. they're just in more places than you can get the most effective fighting forces. we need to sit down with the iraqis and sharpen this force and another thing, we're fighting this linear battle against them fighting on their terms, we need to be just as adaptive as they are. get into the isis rear. why are we not going out behind isis' lines and cutting off their lines of communication. they want to call themselves a state we can knock them down as a state going out as far as raqqah syria, tell afar and cutting off their lines of communications instead of these set battles where we just clash heads using militias land few

forces are effective. >> that kind of strategy not with standing when you look at what isis has its fingertips, the money, the weapons, the vehicles, does opposition stand a fighting chance? >> yeah they do. isis has money, weapons and vehicles but they're still -- it's still a numbers game. the thing that they have the most is that they have the entire community of iraq on their side. some of them came to our side in 2007. what we really need to do is understand that they operate in a pinpoint fashion. all the lines and highways they control, they don't actually physically control them. they control the beginning of the road a checkpoint in the end of that road and then they have their dissimilar forces which, you know, go around and swarm the iraqis static forces. you have to break that up. turn this into a battle of maneuver. i don't think they're good at battle of maneuver.

they're good at one thing, offense. they do not play defense and what we need to do is make them defensive everywhere. and if that means dropping people in by parachute or helicopter and giving them terminal air support, then i think we'll put them on the defensive and they won't stand. >> hey, malcolm, how vulnerable are we on the homeland to strikes by isis? >> look isis is just al qaeda. okay. everybody listening to the sound of my voice understand isis is just the next generation of al qaeda. a bunch of young guys who believe the exact same ideology we have already been struck by these groups in the west 9/11 was one of those types of tack. but now what they've done is pushed it down on to the individual. they don't get corporate support anymore. anyone can join isis and scary out at -- carry out an attack anywhere in their name and they will take credit for it. anything can happen. >> good to talk to you. thank you so much. appreciate it. >> while the hollywood box

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more than 13 million people bought tickets ushered to their seats for a musical or play during the season. broadway shows raked in more than $1 billion this past theater season which is up about 7% from the year before. let's bring in broadway producer kevin, whose credits include rent in the heights and the rival, and two plays on broadware something rotten which has ten nominations including best musical and land of god with five nominations including best play. you're so prolific. let's put it that way. >> it's been an amazing season. >> yeah. >> and it's because i've been working with great artists and authors and created two shows. one is a play hand to good and one is a big broadway musical called something rotten. >> interestingly, you don't necessarily have to take big stars and put them on broadway

though many shows are doing that. that doesn't guarantee success. >> that's the conventional wisdom to get a big star or revival or a show that opened let's say in london. my two shows don't have that and i think that's what makes broadway even more special. when you can discover new writers from rent avenue q in the heights and something rotten with carrie kilpatrick brothers and john owe farrell who wrote the book music and lyrics together and with hand to god, our author rob who has just, you know -- rob askins who has created the play out of his mind and it's a brilliant funny new american play. we need more american play writes on broadway and more living, writing for broadway. i love revivals. i love so much of the music from, you know, the 30s 40s 50s. however, my goal is to get artists working on broadway today to make a living in the theater. >> hand of god is brilliant. i've seen that. that said why do you think

broadway is a boom right now? the economy isn't necessarily booming. and ticket prices are not cheap. >> they are not. i think it's a result of technology. i truly believe the more we rely on our iphones, those aren't destinations. those are tools to gather. the real excitement is to gather in real time and real story telling. theater best reflects the world we're in today. it's -- it's an invention that we must make every day. it's not a manufactured item like a film that was made at some point in time in a stagnant. it lives and breathes. i think when you go to the theater if you've never been to a show do yourself a treat and go. it is unlike anything else and i think the tourists are realizing it. i think technology has said hey, come here. and also actors and the unions have been loser for producers like me to project images across the internet and while going to new york this might be a show for you. >> yeah. >> the ability to communicate with audience and thirsty to gather in real time we don't realize how technology is a

technology of convenience but actually that makes us want to go out and explore our world. >> what's interesting to me not just about advertising whether looking at an iphone or a commercial on television you have been specific. there has been a lot of tourists who come from london but brazilian tourists are coming in and instead of going shopping which used to be their number one thing you've gone to brazil and talked to people down there and brought down your artists an put on displace and that's enticing. >> i did motown coming back in the summer of '16, on tour and we went down and did a big conference and our director spoke on stage portuguese. that was wonderful for them. the time zones are similar so that you can -- it's a long flight but still on the time zone and i think our shows with the advent of disney having more shows and any time there's a big film and put it on stage, people like i know that story. that's what's interesting about this year with my shows, is that

i only opened eight weeks ago and ten weeks ago on my two shows, completely original. i'm right now in the educational process. next year i will go down to brazil and be around the country and the tourists will hear of us more. we're targeting primarily new yorkers. >> how tough is it do you live and die by reviews? another show out there i enjoyed seeing finding neverland and it's a great show and making money as something rotten is making money, the ones -- but didn't get great reviews. >> reviews are important. reviews are more important probably for awards than sales. and i think it's unfortunate we don't have more printed material. however, the internet is making the sensibility more democratic because word of mouth is now coming not only in your newspapers but on shows like this, the internet blogs, but nothing is more important than after seeing a show picking up a phone and calling a friend. and that's one of the great

things about my show is people are actually picking up the phone saying i didn't know what it was and it's been so long since i've been to the theater and been surprised. and that's what i tried to do and i think people will be surprised when they see finding neverland on how good it is and any show that can make it on broadway and captures the public's imagination is worthy and good. >> it's the people showing up that are the real reviews. >> also going to be exciting to see what happens to the tonys. you can't predict because you're up for them yourself. >> i can hope and pray. i had an ad campaign with hand to god no movie stars, no -- and just please pray for us. it's working. i'm getting a lot of good wishes on both my shows. >> as well you should be because they're fantastic. thank you so much. good luck next sunday. pulling for you. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. >> what could make the difference between life and death for accused gunman james holmes that's ahead.

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theater shooting is learning move about the mind set of shooter holmes. prosecutors presented two pieces of evidence, a journal and videotaped interview appointed by a i could psychiatrist last year two years after the shooting jurors are expected to see all 292 hours of that interview. nbc's jacob ras cone covering the trial for us. what has been the reaction to the reading of that journal and video? >> the jury has been fascinated. this is the crux of the case. we've had five weeks of testimony and evidence more than 150 witnesses, 2,000 pieces of evidence, everything focused so far on what he did in the defense's has admitted he did it. now of course the prosecution has to prove he was sane when he did all of this and so they bring out two things. this journal, which has been made available to the public by the way, 32 pages, and we have sections of questions about life and morality and good and evil and just eight pages of the word why and then we have a section

where james holmes gives himself a self-diagnosis and says he had ziz fren ya, ptsd many illnesses and details them for pages and goes into what he says is his answer zm toto all of this which is death, killing, obsession to kill since he was a little boy and that with age it grew and grew and then he had this moment months before the shooting, where he lost his girlfriend, where he was not doing well in skol where a lot of things were not going well and that is when he started to write this journal. and we get into these diagrams page after page of diagrams of the theater, of he says should i do it in an airport, and then he decides not to. buy lomgcle biological warfare, serial killing. that is what the prosecution is going to say he was methodical. he was meticulous. he was sane when he did this. this is rationale. the defense says this is a lot of crazy. so then after that we get the

interviews with james holmes from his own mouth. we hear what he thought about the killing, he calls the wounded collateral damage. how he had regrets actually and how he thought at one point he wished the fbi would have been monitoring him so they could have locked him up before he did it. >> i'm wondering, what has been his reaction to all this? because despite his mental illness, clear mental illness to whatever degree he has to be decided, but the fact is this is a smart guy. he was going for a ph.d. was he not. >> he was. at the point he was preparing for the shooting he was not doing well in school but up until then he was bright a ph.d. candidate. what the psychiatrist told the jury so far, he has a severe mental illness. he hasn't said what yet. but the psychiatrist on the stand says he is legally sane. in the future we expect to hear from one more psychiatrist for the prosecution that will say the same thing, and then later on somebody for the defense we

expect to say, no he's legally insane, a battle of the experts of course. >> okay. jacob, thank you so much for the update from l.a. the department of justice this week reached a settlement with the city of cleveland over its police department's pattern of excessive force and civil rights violation after protests in cleveland which were sparked by a judge's decision to acquit a white police officer charged in the shooting deaths of two unarmed black motorists and after the november shooting of 12-year-old tamir rice. the investigation into that shooting is still ongoing. among the reforms, a community police commission made up of community and police representatives, barring the display of firearms unless officers believe lethal force is necessary, mandatory reporting following the use of force and improved officer training. let's bring in cleveland city councilman jeffrey johnson and sir, welcome to you. i'm curious about the settlement and what you think of it and whether it goes far enough? >> thank you, miss witt for having me. appreciate it. >> what do you think?

are you happy with what you're hearing. >> we're very excited about the fact that not only -- that we get a consent decree we felt covered every one of the findings from the december report of hasst year but it actually went a little further and that we have a -- some teeth with the monitor as well as with the federal court. so we're comfortable and confident, we are aware of what happened in detroit, so, you know, we're moving ahead understanding that this is not a sure thing. >> councilman one of the new rules requires an officer to file a report each time he or she draws a weapon. the head of the police union is saying the rules could put officers and the public into danger, quote, because it's going to get somebody killed going to be a time when someone isn't going to want to do that paperwork, so he's going to keep that gun in his holster. does that make sense to you? >> no. there's been a very negative response to the head of the union because it seems ludicrous the idea a police officer if

he's fearing for his life or the life of a citizen, that he's not going to pull his gun to use force. deadly force if necessary only because he will not want to fill out a form. it what is we're dealing with here with the mentality of the union who believes continues to be in denial. so we're not buying that. we've reacted completely saying that doesn't make sense, and it's just a way for him to just try to in our opinion back off the justice department and get the community against it. >> so how difficult do you think it's going to be, given the tenor out there right now and we still await the results of tamir rice and the findings there, how difficult is it going to be for the community, the police force, police union to work together? >> well i think it's going to -- if we did not have the federal government involved, if we did not have the monitor in the teeth of the federal government i think it would be almost impossible. right now there is a big gap between a police and community relations. it's reflected in an inability

of us to solve crimes where you need a community. it's important to prove that so that we can do other things with it. but i do believe that there is a commitment of the business community what i'm hearing over the last week to fully help fund this because part of the problem is finding the dollars to really pay for this for the next five years. but i think that despite the difficulty of doing something we've never done before i think, you know, just like our cavalier model right now is all in, we all have to be in on this one and we hope in the unions will step up with us. >> can i ask you about officer michael brelo. he remains on unpaid leave. found not guilty that happened a week ago today in the manslaughter shooting charges of timothy russell and ma lisa. he fired 41 shots into the car in which the pair was riding the last 15 the one ones in question where he jumped on the hood of the car and shot through the wind kneeled, malissa williams we're talking about. do you think he should be

allowed to keep his job? >> no. i was one of the persons who came out early. we cannot afford to give the gun and the badge back to officer brelo. his judgment, the use of his judgment to jump on that hood, and we questioned whether he feared for his life being op on the hood shooting into the windshield and his judgment is so questionable he should not be a cleveland police officer. many of us have called on the mayor and the system to really look at it and really determine whether he should be on there. my belief is he should not be a cleveland police officer from this point on. >> i do want to take a look at the republican national convention as you know that's going to be held in your city next year. reverend al sharpton who is the head of the national action network, msnbc host here he said in cleveland last night the republicans are going to have to address the issues of police violence. jeb bush and scott walker and them think they are going to come in here and have four or five days of convention. we are going to have another convention outside. that convention is more than a year away. are you banking on these matters

having improved by then so that it won't be an issue at the convention? >> i think that's part of the driving force with some of our people in the community our business people as well as some other folks are going to want to get a significant improefrmt before the rnc shows up. i don't think the republican or democratic conventions could come into the city and not speaks to the problem nationally of police community relations. i do believe that's going to be an issue. i do believe there are forces that will be working hard to improve it to a point where it's not an embarrassment while the republicans are here. >> long time cleveland city councilman jeffrey johnson, thank you for your time. good to see you. >> thank you. >> she served her country in war time but lost her life this week on a carnival ride and her family is asking how it could happen. and a new book reveals the worst time of the year to go to the hospital. what can you do about it? the network that monitors her health. the secure cloud services

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head on the ground. >> my wife was one of the best people i've ever known. >> reporter: her husband was not there when she fell but he told us days before he and his wife saw the ride and agreed it was too dangerous. >> to see they had no safety nets, or any kind of safety precautions at all. >> reporter: sabrina's father says she was afraid of heights and her friends egged her on to jump which may be why she may have hesitated before falling. aspen decker the owner of free drop usa released a statement saying he's proud of his company's safety record citing more than 50,000 successful jumps nationwide. >> all i know my kids won't be going on it. >> reporter: her dad doesn't think anyone should go on it either. >> this was stupid. this was for professional stunt people not pay 15 bucks and jump. >> that dad is right there. that ride is closed while the

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>> it's had an affect that trickles down to the patients. the book is titled "the nurses a year of secrets, drama, and miracles with the heroes of the hospital." joining us is alexandra robins author of "the nurses." welcome. i should say my father is a doctor, and he always extolls the virtues of the nurses and says you can't get along without them. i've always believed that. one of the biggest take-aways that i got from this book is don't get sick in july. don't get sick on weekends either. this all has to do with the july affect. explain that to me. >> the july affect is something that the health care industry doesn't necessarily want people to know about.

nurses want people to know how they can get better health care. don't get sick in july. they say that because in teaching hospitals in july the death rate spikes by between 8% and 34%. this is because that's when medical students become first year interns or first year residents. first years become second years and so on. if you can avoid scheduling a complicated surgery in july or at least do it in a nonteaching hospital where you might want see a resident. >> but what if you get sick and what if you land in a teaching hospital? is there anything you can do to help your case? >> the nurses are always looking out for their patients every day of the we're, but you especially want to appreciate your nurses and make sure that they know your concerns so they can double-check triple check, quadruple check what the doctors are doing. >> oftentimes though there are too many patients for these nurses. i believe in your book you talked about having four is optimum, but often they're getting seven, eight.

one you talked to one nurse about as many as 20 patients. >> that's correct. under staffing is a national emergency in this country. california is the only state that has maximum -- safe maximum nurse-patient ratio laws. what that means is in any other state hospitals can assign nurses more than a safe load of patients. this affects all of us. we need to write our lawmakers and let hospitals know we want more nurses because the fewer the patients a nurse has, the lower the death rate. the lower the infection rate. health care improvement in this country could be as simple as hiring more nurses and treating them right. >> what is it about the v.i.p. treatment at some hospitals? the setup at these hospitals, what's that about, and are lives of other patients at risk in these situations? >> i was surprised about this. the book talks about these special fancy rooms that some hospitals save for v.i.p.'s celebrities, and politicians. nurses want to treat all patients equally, but some

institutions force them to cater to the v.i.p.'s. it's really not right that some politicians who help structure our health care system don't actually know wha the health est of us. >> and regarding accountability you've written that if a nurse does something wrong had he sh can get fired. if a resident something something wrong, she can be fired for carrying out the orders. >> that's right. nurses are often the scapegoats in hospitals across the country. the problem is people haven't caught up to the reality that nurses are unsung heroes who deserve our thanks our recognition, and our appreciation. nurses are not replaceable employees. they are skilled, trained, educated professionals, and hospitals and the general public needs to start treating them that way. >> what do you think the solution is? is it about getting more students and capable young minds to go into nursing? >> yes, and also paying nursing faculty more so that it's worth it for them to leave the bedside and teach new nurses. >> all right. alexandra robins the author of

"the nurses." thanks for having me. >> that's a wrap of weekends with alex wit. see you back here at noon tomorrow eastern. up next caught on camera. have yourself a great saturday.

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