a possible new sighting of those killers who escaped from a massive security prison more than two weeks ago. the focus is on a cabin less than 30 miles from the prison with multiple sources telling nbc news dna was found at the cabin on saturday. we are now waiting for an official update from new york state police set for noon eastern time. john yang has the latest. >> reporter: in the thick forest forest, the most intense day yet in the 17-day search for david sweat and richard matt. the new search was sparked just 30 miles from the prison after a break-in was reported at a remote cabin, the owner saying an individual was inside the cabin and fled the scene once he arrived. the search for escaped prisoners david sweat and richard matt now focused on the add ronirondack

mountains, close to where it all began. it comes less than 24 hours after a sighting of them had police searching in friendship, new york. >> we have sightings possibly matching the description of the fugitives. >> they were just coming up, my dog barked and that's when they turned around and ran back down. >> that search came up empty. meanwhile, nbc news has learned that the investigation of prison workers is expanding. already joyce mitchell is charged with giving them some of the tools they used to cut through steel walls and pipes. now several guards are under investigation, and one, gene palmer, has been put on administrative leave. his attorney says palmer had extensive contact with the escapees and mitchell but didn't have advanced knowledge of the prison break.

>> he plans on helping with any information that can help with the capture of mr. sweat and mr. matt. >> today new york state police are getting some help from their friends in the vermont state police a special tactical unit trained in things like active shooters and barricade situations. francis? >> john yang reporting for us keeping us up to date. there are also news breaking out of afghanistan, the taliban claiming responsibility for a brazen and deadly attack on the parliament building. on live television an explosion rocked the building filling the parliament with smoke and dozens of lawmakers there screamed. outside a massive car bomb had been detonated. they didn'tattempted to storm the parliament but they managed to repel that attack. ayman joins me in the studio. the lawmakers were waiting to confirm a defense minister

there. how does that happen? >> absolutely. it gifrzves you a sense of how brazen that attack was, knowing they were in session with members of parliament. this could have been a very serious disaster not only from a symbolic point of view but had they managed to make their way inside that parliament building they would have been able to carry out a deadly attack of some very important figures. >> we have to point out, all gunmen, at least six of them were killed during this. no injuries outside? >> there were injuries outside. at least 40 people were injured, and unfortunately, a woman and a child were killed. as we've seen in these kind of attacks, it's the innocents and civilians that get caught up with them. the attackers were repeled by security forces. they went to a nearby building. then gunfire ensued and some innocent bystanders were caught in the middle. >> you have innocents in the parliament, kind of a one-two

punch in afghanistan in the last couple days. overall we're seeing these strides made by the taliban after nato exited with its mission late last year. what does it tell us here and should we be helping? >> certainly not to the united states territorial, but u.s. interests without a doubt. the u.s. has invest aided a lot of money and blood and american lives there. the taliban has already started to take control of provinces in the northern part of the country, they have a foot in helmond and in southwest afghanistan, asknd they're carrying out brazen attacks in a hospital. they carried out an attack on foreigners. they are struggling to keep pace with them in afghanistan. they don't have the training and it makes it difficult to come together. there are some kind of peace

talks. it hasn't taken hold or really gotten off the ground yet. >> the "new york times" calling this attack an embarrassment to the parliament in this crucial time when they're waiting to confirm a defense minister. turning now to charleston south carolina where the community is bracing for a week of funerals for the nine victims killed in the massacre. a memorial continues to grow outside emanuel ame church after a massive showing over the weekend. people of all races and ages walked hand in hand over the loss. hundreds packed the emanuel church for an inspiring service just four days after the gunman carried out his rampage. craig melman joins me now. it's nice to see an outpouring of so much love from the community. >> reporter: yeah we continue

to see those types of displays francis. over the past you know i guess five days now, we've seen display after display here in charleston like that. you mentioned the 2500-word manifesto, that hate-filled manifesto. law enforce accidentment officers say the shooter himself did write that. meanwhile, the city of charleston continues to react with love. thousands marched in charleston. on sunday they opened their doors for the first church service since the tragedy. >> a lot of people expected us to do something strange and break out in a riot. well, they just don't know us. >> reporter: among the crowd, south carolina's governor one

of its senators and the long-time mayor of charleston. >> it broke our hearts in charleston, but it's broken hearts in america. >> reporter: some who lost family members in the attack like lana simmons, just had to be there. >> my grandfather loved charleston, and to see what an example they have been to the nation, his heart would just be so full. across the city bells tolled at many of charleston's other historic churches for nine minutes, one for each victim. including the church where the alleged shooter's family worshipped. >> we're in solidarity with the nine families who lost loved ones and we stand in amazement at the gift of forgiveness that they've already expressed in such an open way. >> reporter: meanwhile over the weekend, more disturbing images emerged of 21-year-old dylann roof posing with guns and at

many sites, near the confederacy. he wrote aifesto that perhaps laid out his plans for the attack. there were passages including, quote, someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and i guess that has to be me. the concession of the confederate flag has sparked desires to remove the flag from all parts of south carolina. to move on that petition has less than 5,000 sigts. the confederate flag flew in northern south carolina up until 2000. there was this grand compromise that was created by legislators here at the top of a state house. they put it on a memorial on state house grounds. now calls for it to be taken off those grounds and placed into a

museum. late word within the last ten minutes, that the governor of south carolina nicki haley, is planning a 4:00 news conference in columbia at the state house where it is expected that she will address all of this. francis? >> yes, craig, the community there need to buried the lives lost. craig melman in south carolina. craig, thank you. i'm joined now by state representative gary cleary. he spoke in support of removing the flag from the white house grounds. we appreciate you being heerl, especially when you having that backing against as my partner pointed out and as craig melman pointed out, that spot was removed from the building and placed atop a white house dome in the outset of the civil

rights movement in which some showed dethis is what we have to ask. in light of this tragedy and those nine lives lost why now? why did it take a tragedy like this to change our mind? shouldn't we have had this conversation decades before these lives were lost ns that horrific scene there at emanuel ame? >> first of all, thanks so much for having me on. you raise a very good question and before i get to answering that question i'm really sorry that this issue came up during the week that we are beginning to bury the nine souls that lost their lives there last week but once again, i think that it's an important discussion and you asked why it took so long. well, this is something that i thought about for a very long time. i'm actually a first term house member. i've been a member of the house since january of this year.

it was something that had not come up yet. we've had a number of other issues but i think the real impetus from last week's just tragic and horrific event has opened a lot of eyes and, you know i grew up during this time. i was a teenager when that flag was placed on the dome of the capitol, and then i was sia circuit judge when it was moved to its place that it now resides in 2000. i've been around the legislature as the legislature elects judges in our state and was aware of many of the issues but i think this is the right time. this is not a democratic or republican issue, this is an issue that cuts across every element and fabric of our society. >> of course we're hearing and seeing some of the focus of it becoming a republican issue especially when it comes to gop

republicans, they're especially down with 2016. i have to ask you because you mentioned a discussion. some say we're well past a discussion and we need action. we need to see more than a discussion, we need to see that flag taken down. we've heard from several high-profile republicans, most notably mitt romney who said take down the confederate flag at the sc capitol. to many it is a symbol of racial hatred. remove it now to honor charleston victims. and jeb bush said moving the flag from the state grounds to a museum where it belonged. it's part of a heritage and pride of the state, and you say it's time for discussion but

what will it take? >> i think it's going to take one of two things. number one, we're going back in session tomorrow to consider the conference committee budget report in the house and the senate. it would be a good time for it to be amended. if it were amended in the house, and i hope that it will be would then be sent to the senate. we signed a resolution over there next week wanting to talk about another matter and they refused to do so. if we can't get anything done between now and january, i'm sure that in january of 2016 that there will be a bill even before that prefiled in december that is going to address this issue and to see how much support we're going to gather. representative brown, who is a very good friend of mine and i have stepped out and are asking others to join us. i'm hopeful that any number of members of our general assembly

particularly our house colleagues, are going to see fit to join us in addressing this issue, because it's something that as a son of the south, i have ancestors that fought in the confederacy. i believe it's time for us to do something different. you know we're told in romans that we're to do good for each other and for mutual edification. i think that's what we're about here today. >> we'll see how far those efforts go with many in the state of south carolina and the nation looking at where that will go. the president used a racial slur in an address to the nation. >> the legacy of slavery, jim crow discrimination in almost every institution of our lives. you know, that casts a long shadow. >> and we will talk about the controversial comment the

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as the massacre discussion in charleston continues, president obama getting a lot of attention this morning. while speaking with comedian mark o'mara he talked about the debate over guns but this time he didn't hold back on the language he chose that some of you might find offensive.

>> the legacy of slavery, jim crow discrimination in almost every institution of our lives. you know that casts a long shadow and that's still part of our dna that's passed on. we're not cured of it. >> racism. >> racism. we're not cured of it clearly. and it's not just a matter of not being polite to say [ bleep ] in public. that's not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. it's not just a matter of overt discrimination. societies don't overnight completely erase everything that happened two to three hundred years prior. >> in his role as a first african-american president, the president has always been careful in the way he approached the topic of race but this is the first time he's ever verbally used the n word. in the interview he also

expressed frustration about congress's failure to pass any gun control measures even after sandy hook. joining me is political analyst eric dyson. eric thanks for being with us here. for those of us who are familiar with this podcast, it's important to note here that it is a podcast where the use of crude language is pretty frequent there. it's actually called wtf. but do you think the use of the word by president obama distracts from the point he was trying to make or do you think because he actually went there, he went there with the n word that that underscores it. >> the latter interpretation i think, is correct. those of us who have been pressing president obama to speak more exclusively about race, this is part of the payoff. this is a man who knows so much more than he's been willing to or allowed to speak about in public spaces. he chooses his words carefully, he chooses his point of entrance

carefully, but i think this was an incredibly important moment in intervention on behalf of the american public by our president, the president of the entire united states of america to talk specifically and particularly about using that n word. black people didn't die when white people said the n word those who were racist who lynched and castrated and murdered, they didn't use the n word they used the word itself. it's a shock to the system a jarring reminder of the temporate use of that word and how it's been connected to legacies of white supremacy that he has addressed and certainly in this case did again. >> you consider ferguson you consider baltimore, but now we have charleston and those nine lives lost there, and the shooter of that manifesto of hate. does it take that for the president to get this forceful i guess, if you will about race pretty much that's been absent in other years of his presidency, too.

or is it because this is his time left and we're going to see president obama when it comes to the topic of race. >> i think all of the above. we have been praying for the company to earn issues. we'll have different discussions about race. unfortunately, that left gaps. it left abysses in spaces. it took this where president obama felt comfortable enough to address this in an open fashion. >> let's talk about where he could have been effective without using the n word. i want to show you what he had to say about the use of the president's word. >> i probably would not have used the word to make the point that he was trying to make.

i mean we've elected an african-american president, the state of south carolina has an african-american senator. we have a long way to go still, but tremendous progress has been made. i probably would have focused on what's been focused on this morning. this family, the families there who lost loved ones how they were able to forgive and how the faith community united people. >> very quickly, could the president have been just as effective without using it? >> no. i love harold ford but i disagree with my friend. it was effective because he made an intervention by calling the very name that refuses to acknowledge, and whagthere is anger that continues to rock our nation, and he was forward in his description. >> thank you mark i appreciate that perspective. >> thank you. millions of americans are facing a threat of severe

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behind me it's extremely steep. there's trees coming down rocks coming down. >> reporter: about 2,000 firefighters have been called in. they're attacking flames that are feeding on old growth trees perched high atop peaks in the san bernardino national forest. some spots are so rugged they can't even be reached on the ground. >> so we're heldicoptering crews in and they're fighting that fire line so they can get up in the morning and fight it once again. >> reporter: the land is dry and the weather is hot and windy. dozens of fires have been knocked down quickly, but some won't go down without a fight. >> it's like a monster. it goes where it wants to going and nothing can stop it. >> reporter: he barely spared his house in southern california, but not his mother's mobile home. >> the fire was so huge and so intense and so fast i didn't think anything could survive. >> reporter: across

drought-stricken california, this is just one in a long fight. >> if this is going to be typical, firefighters are going to have to brace for a tough fire season. >> reporter: this is the worst fire on record already this year. calfire have responded to 1100 fires. typically that number is 650. >> they can use all the help they can get. thank you for that update. millions of americans are facing record heat and the threat of sef veerthe severe thunderstorms. the area includes chicago and detroit. they will have record high temperatures that could set new records. bill karas joins us. bill, good morning. >> we're going to continue watching severe thunderstorms, but i want to show you these pictures over the weekend, too. we have a lot of severe storms we dealt with. one of them was in texas.

there were rescues that took place as vehicles were stuck in high water. we had lightning damage around the mid-atlantic from those storms. now we're dealing with a severe weather threat. here's the area of enhancement, everywhere here in the orange. this could easily be upgraded to a mod rit risk and see we go through the next few days. tornadoes are expected. most likely early afternoon to early evening. areas of wisconsin especially. massive areas of milwaukee and then some could go to north michigan. possibility of isolated tornadoes near and around but not too many. then as we go into tomorrow, the tornado threat will be over with, but the line of storms will be very strong back to pittsburgh. it includes new york city the philadelphia area baltimore all the way in upstate new york vermont and new hampshire. on tuesday before the cold front

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we are back with the first read on politics this morning. race nations of the confederate flag is taking center stage. we'll have more on what they're saying today. the question now, can the denver underdog build on the momentum? joining me now, senior editor mark murray. moork, always good to see you here, and with so much talk about the confederate flag mitt romney is one of the first we heard from him. he tweeted it's time for it to come down and also called it a symbol of racial hatred. republican candidates are being asked about it. how are they navigating this question knowing down the road you have a primary here and they don't want to exclude potential voters? >> we've seen different opinions

and different opinions from the candidates so far. the point jeb bush made was i had them take down the confederate flag when i was governor in florida, and i hope the people in south carolina do the right thing. he didn't spell it out as directly as mitt romney did in his tweet, but he came pretty close. then you hear someone like marco rubio say, you know what outsiders shouldn't have a role there, this is something for south carolina to do. then scott walker the wisconsin governor, said there is so much mourning going on in south carolina, let's have a political debate later. now is not the time. >> as far as the broader question of race relations in america, we heard the president's blunt assessment earlier, and given what we've seen in ferguson, baltimore and now charleston how do you think this will weigh in in the future and especially when it comes to the campaign and 2016? >> francis, at this point it's important to note that democrats and republicans are talking to

two different audiences. hillary clinton, for example, is talking to her democratic base which has a large portion of african-americans, latinos, and she condemned what occurred in charleston. she also condemned the confederate flag talked about race and its importance in america. republicans, on the other hand, have a little bit of a more interesting tightrope to walk because their audience deals so much with white republican voters white males, so you have the candidates speaking to two different offices which i think explains what we heard when it comes to charleston, and more importantly, the confederate flag. >> bernie sanders over the weekend drew a huge crowd in the university of denver on saturday. 5500 people showed up. the same day he was in hollywood for a couple fundraisers there. we've got this momentum here the amount of enthusiasm he's been able to drum up. is that something he can ride for a while, and are you

surprised by it? >> it's been a great story so far. we call it berniementum here francis, and it's also showed up in a couple different polls in new hampshire, although worth noting he's from vermont, which is right next door to new hampshire. we have a brand new wall street poll coming out at 6:30 which gives the situation between hillary clinton and bernie sanders, so watch at 6:30. >> great to see you. thank you. >> thank you. coming up united airlines under fire again as hundreds of people stranded for almost 24 hours. what those passengers are saying after sleeping on the floor of an airport terminal and how the airline is reacting. things we build and it doesn't even fly. we build it in classrooms and exhibit halls, mentoring tomorrow's innovators. we build it raising roofs, preserving habitats and serving america's veterans. every day, thousands of boeing volunteers help make their communities the best they

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but only after travelers were forced to spend the night sleeping on the floor of a belfast airport. a passenger is scheduled to appear in court today, and they're raising questions about the united airlines service after the second time in two weeks things did not go as scheduled. >> i think united handled it very poorly. >> reporter: it was a weary and angry group of travelers finally arriving at o'hare international airport overnight after their united airlines flight from rome to chicago was diverted to belfast in northern ireland and stuck there for nearly 23 hours. ua flight 971 was force to do make an unscheduled landing following reports of an unruly passenger on board. >> he was cussing, swearing -- >> he was doing this. >> -- he was getting in the person's face behind him. >> he kept doing this. >> yeah just getting into her personal space. >> once in belfast, a 42-year-old man was taken into custody, his arrest captured on

cell phone video. but by this time the flight crew had gone over its hours, stranding 282 passengers first on the tarmac then in the airport terminal overnight. >> united airlines should have a reserve crew available, and they should know that this crew is getting ready to time out. >> reporter: while blankets food and water were provided many found themselves spending the entire night on the floor of the terminal building and without their luggage. in a statement, united airlines said, we understand the inconvenience this causes our customers and will refund their rome to chicago flight. it's the second time in as many weeks united passengers have spent an uncomfortable night. mechanical problems forced a chicago to london flight to land in remote goose bay on canada's east coast. they were housed in a local military barracks while the flight crew stayed at a local hotel. at that time united said we apologize to our customers for the disruption to their travel

plans and will be refunding their tickets to london. a routine international flight lands more than 30 hours later. but one passenger was missing, the one now charged and still being held in belfast for disruptive behavior on an airplane and common assault. kevin tibbles, nbc news chicago. >> what an ordeal for them. well the aloha state saying goodbye to cigarettes for people under the age of 21. over the weekend, hawaii governor david egay signed a bill making the legal age for smoking cigarettes 21 years of age. it will go into law september 21st. 86% said they started smoking before 21 and 34% started smoking between 18 and 20. joining me now to talk about hawaii's smoking law is john

schaafa. it's called raising tobacco-free kids but you can serve a country, go to combat you can vote. why raise that? you would think these adults would be able to make decisions for themselves. >> well first of all, we're very excited that hawaii did pass this legislation raising the age to 21 for sale of tobacco because it's going to save lifzves and improve health and it's going to save tax dollars that's a win-win all the way around. tobacco is an obstructive behavior, it's not a sign of adulthood. it's a time when people are doing things destructive and the industry is targeting young people. so getting them before they're 18 is what they're trying to do so if we can raise the age and help, that's what we want to do. >> in targeting the youth, why

not do it with education and campaigns? we've seen some commercials out there that are very very graphic, and some say very effective, so why not focus on that? >> sure. we're focused on a whole array of issues and areas where we can reduce the scourge of tobacco. raising the age is one. we're also considering taxes in a number of states. louisiana just passed one, kansas nevada just passed a dollar increase. that's one of the most effective ways of reducing youth smoking. we're also talking about passing comprehensive smoke-free legislation in communities around the country. this year for the first time the house of representatives in kentucky, the heart of tobaccoland, passed legislation. it didn't make it to the senate yet but we're not giving up. we also support cessation

programs, so we support all that. but raising the age to 21 is just one more step toward achieving the goal of a tobacco-free administration. >> do you see down the road where they'll say, i remember when we didn't have to be 21 to use tobacco or alcohol? do you see this trend as well? >> new jersey michigan washington are all considering raising the age, but we look forward to an age where people look back and can't believe that 25,000 people a year died from tobacco, that $171,000 is spent on health care for tobacco. we want to know that no one gets under way with a tactic we know. thank you, john. our pleasure.

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chef who used to work at the white house tops our look around the "newsnation" this morning. rescue workers in new mexico are piecing together the information about the discovery of 61-year-old walter sheed, last seen in the mountains a week and a half ago. search teams found his body late sunday. he was the white house chef under presidents clinton and bush from 1994 to 2005. on this morning former u.s. congressman jesse jackson jr. was released from baltimore halfway house. jackson moved into the halfway house from prison where he

served a 2 1/2 year sentence for spending $750,000 in campaign money on personal items. jackson must spend three years on supervised release and complete 500 hours of xhun tiecommunity service. taylor swift sliced through apple's music plans. hour afters she criticized apple in a letter posted online apple said it will pay royalties during a free three-month trial of new streaming music service. swift did not make her latest album available because apple service initially did not pay royalty royalties. she said, we don't ask you for flee i free iphones. earlier in the show we played you those strong remarks made by president obama during a podcast interview with comedian mark marion in what may be the president's strongest remarks yet on the issue of race when the president used the "n" word.

he was trying to make a remark about racism and crow's law. the "n" word is using it on social media. i am not comfortable with obama using the n-word. not presidential. another person says, he used the "n al qaeda word in a very pc manner on a serious issue, racism and that word are disgusting. i think his use made a point. what does your gut tell you? do you find the president's use of the "n" word acceptable? finally here, a technological breakthrough is opening doors at the office and creating a real life cyborg. giving them a chance to have a microchip injected under their skin. could make a computer id card a thing of the past. >> it's 7:00 a.m. in stockholm and cecelia arrives at the

office along with her colleagues. the secret a tiny microchip under the skin. >> you have a chip in your hand there? >> that's right. it's been inserted there. >> right. >> how do you open it? >> just like that. >> epicenter where big corporations like microsoft connect with fast growing companies puts the latest technology into the hands of its employees. literally. >> it's very practical. i can even use the photo copier. so if you old the phone against my chip you will get my contact details. that's you. technically these people are cyborgs. >> we're going to put a man inside a machine. okay. maybe robocop is taking it a bit far. but professor kevin warrick, expert on artificial intelligence, say if humans are to remain in charge of the planet we will one day have to

become part machines ourselves. >> we have to upgrade ourselves. we have to link our brains into the artificial intelligence network. if you're not, you get left behind. >> he should know because a few years back he upgraded himself. he had a microchip implanted in his arm and became the world's first cyborg. >> this is the implant that i had. >> reporter: that's quite large. so the chip in here is quite small, right? >> yes. it's super small. it's like a grain of rice. >> reporter: so, i guess, if you can't beat them -- >> are you nervous? >> i am nervous. >> so take a deep breath. exhale. >> ow that hurt. here on my left hand you can still see the mark is where that chip has been inserted into my hand. now i'm going to take this cyborg. i'm going to place it up against the reader here -- >> reporter: as is so often the

case with new technology there were one or two teething troubles. >> okay. okay. let me just try a little longer guys. >> reporter: keir simmons for msnbc, outside the epicenter building stockholm sweden. >> it isn't going to work here at 30 rock "early start" there, either. that does it now for this edition. i'm francis rivera in for tamron hall. i'll see you back here at 1:00 when my colleague thomas roberts on his show and catch "newsnation" every weekend day right here on msnbc. up next, "andrea mitchell reports." ♪ i built my business with passion. but i keep it growing by making every dollar count. that's why i have the spark cash card from capital one. i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy for my studio. ♪ and that unlimited 2% cash back from spark means thousands of dollars each year going back into my business...

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the new search was sparked just 30 miles from the prison after a break-in was reported in a remote cabin. the owner's saying an individual was inside the cabin and fled the scene once he arrived. and right now the state police major charm guest speaking on new evidence. let's listen. >> -- reported seeing two men walking along rare road track. the description provided by the witness is similar to the escapees. we conducted a thorough search that has now ended. we have declared that area clear. we continue to pursue evidence in both counties which include analyzing security camera footage provided by a business owner in steuben county. as of right now both sightings remain unconfirmed. on a separate track that also started over the weekend we are investigating a lead in owl's