it's monday, september 21st. right now on "first look" more political controversy for the presidential candidates as donald trump appears to be slipping and hillary clinton faces increasing odds against her. meanwhile pope francis wowed the throngs of cubans and stopped by with former dictator fidel castro. heroes to the rescue, four people were plucked from this burning yacht off the texas coast. a huge night for television, the stars came out for the prime time emmy. "first look" starts right now. good morning and thanks for waking up with us. i'm betty nguyen. it was busy on the 2016 campaign trail as experts are asking who is really in the lead here, the

two top democratic candidates spent time in new hampshire and looking at the crowds. you'd never know hillary clinton was the front-runner. she spoke in front of a crowd of only 600 people at the university of new hampshire friday. two days later at the same exact university senator bernie sappeders drew a crowd of five times larger, around 3,000 people according to "the washington post." spokesman for dr. jill biden released a statement she would be on board if her husband decides to run for president. nbc's trace east potts is live in washington following all of this. are we seeing any surges from last week's debate? >> it's interesting because we are starting to see numbers shift after the debate and it looks like for carly fiorina, she afought her way to the stage, for her it looks like it may have been worth it. the first big poll after last week's debate shows carly

fiorina surging up from 3% to now 15% n second place behind donald trump. >> as people come to know me and understand who i am and what i've done and most importantly what i will do they tend to support me. >> reporter: muslim groups are calling on carson to drop out of the race after he said this. >> i would not advocate that we put a muslim in charge of this nation. i absolutely would not agree with that. >> he said that on his own. that was like just startling. >> reporter: it came days after trump failed to correct a supporter who called president obama muslim. trump's reply seemed to support getting rid of muslims in america. >> the fact is there's a problem with some and it's a severe problem. >> he is fueling a level of paranoia and prejudice. >> reporter: also we're looking at a separate nbc poll of debate performance come out of that debate last week. the positives, subtracting the

negatives, the pal of that turns out carly fiorina is on top with 34% as her balance, her average. >> really? ? after that, marco rubio is the closest with only 8%. >> tracie, thank you for breaking down the numbers for us today. pope francis continues his historic tour through cuba this morning. right now a lot of people talking about this meeting between the pope and former leader fidel castro. the two metaphor 40 minutes. papal spokesperson says it was informal and friend i had. prior to that pope francis held the largest papal mass at revolution square. at least 2 hub,000 people were in attendance. the the pope had arrive in washington, d.c., tuesday, but a professor from the university of notre dame has come one a play list for the occasion and many are hymns but there are a few that reference cities where the pope will be traveling like "streets of ifily fill" by bruce

springsteen and "empire state of mind" by alicia keys. there were milestones, break-throughs and touch of the familiar. onning's mark barger has the highlights from the 6th prime time emmy awards. >> viola daveis. >> reporter: viola davis became the first african-american to win best actress in a drama for her role with "how to get away with murder." >> the only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. >> reporter: john hamm's last chance to win best actor for "madmen" paid off. after seven previous losses he crawled on stage to finally get his hands on the award. >> this is impossible. >> reporter: comedy actors jeffrey tamboor for his role in

"transgender." >> thank you for letting us be part of the change. >> julia lieu wiz dreyfuss "veep." >> reporter: the star won for the fourth straight year, her show broke through as best comedy for the first time. >> we just won the emmy, woo hoo! >> reporter: "the voice" won best reality competition series. amy schumer best variety sketch series and "the daily show" with jon stewart said farewell as best variety talk show series. >> thanks so much. will you never have to see me again. >> reporter: it was tracy morgan's return to the stage that produced one of the most poignant moment. >> i miss you guys so much. >> reporter: morgan presented the night's final award best dra drama. >> "game of thrones." >> reporter: it captured three other awards on the night.

>> quite a night. over the next two years the united states is expected to significantly increase the number of worldwide refugees it takes in. during a news conference sunday, secretary of state john kerry and germany's foreign minister discussed the massive number of syrians fleeing their civil war. the u.s. will accept 85,000 refugees up from 70,000, the total would rise to 100 nmpblt 2017. >> as soon as we have an opportunity to try to up that, we're welcome, because america has always welcomed bringing more people in, in these kinds of circumstances. >> reporter: according to kerry the migrants would be screened by the department of homeland security and reis heeled around the u.s. one week from this wednesday groundhog day, another potential government shutdown, that is the threat from some republicans in congress if they do not get their way on planned parent

hood. friday they voted to block the organization's funds for a year. the senate will hold a procedural vote tomorrow. democrats have enough votes to block it and the president has promised a veto if needed. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has come out against a government shutdown on september 30th, there's growing pressure from the party's conservative wing. commander scott kelly tweeted this photo of the crew during movie night this weekend, so what film did they see? none other than "the martian" starring matt damon. it's not in theaters until october 2nd but nasa scientists were consulted on the making of this film. no word whether kelly gave it two thumbs up or two thumbs down. good mornin landon dowdy. >> good morning. the markets look to rebound

after stocks suffered their first day in two weeks friday. it is fueling fears about the global economy. look for data on existing home sales. apple is removing popular apps in china after hackers got a developer to create the programs. apple hasn't said what steps users should take to determine if their apps are effective. >> if you plan on spending sunday on the couch watching your necessary flix shows you are out of luck. amazon suffered an outage five hours yesterday morning affecting netflix, amazon video, tinder and others. >> don't mess with netflix, people get mad. okay thank you. >> in sports, we start with football night in america, the seahawks descended on lambeau fields. aaron ronlers connects with

james jones running 29 yards for the first goal of the night. russell seahawk hits fred jackson over the middle. the biggest injury of the day, cowboys tony romo, he suffered his second broken collarbone in six seasons. dallas was able to hang on for the 20-10 victory. murray managed two yards on 13 carries again his former team. >> jameis winston powered tampa bay over the new orleans saints 26-19. he threw one t.d. and no interceptions in his second nfl start. johnny football came up big on just the second play of the game, johnny plans quells toes this of 0 yarder to strike first. the titans down 28-14.

tom brady passed for 466 yards and two touchdowns. the bills battled but came up short 40-32. >> the world's hottest golfer scorched the competition. jason day headed into the day four of the bmw championship with a six-stroke lead. he easily won his fifth pga tour victory of the season and that evolved jordan spieth and rory mcilroy into the number one investigations. an iner if toe turns everyday boaters into life savers, you're watching "first look."

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welcome back to "first look" on this monday morning. the weather this week relatively quiet. the exception will be arizona, portions of california, new mexico, areas of that don't get a lot of rain will get drempbled over the next couple of days.

heavy rapes in the deserts, the quick runoff. futurecast radar shows the storm system coming up into the four corpser region, should drop upwards of 4 inches of rain. flash flood watches are up and the concern is if you get a lot of heavy rain short period of time all the water goes into the washes and the roads get closed, the roads get blocked. that's the biggest concern if there are any cars in the way. cool morning, jackets for kids at the bus stops in some cases in the east. it will warm up to a nice afternoon. st. louis is nice, very warm. september continues to be a warm month in the middle of the country, it will be 90s today and tomorrow in texas and up into north dakota today, it could be 88 degrees. we're still looking at the possibilities of the warmest september ever. >> it's pretty out there, thank you. a harrowing scene off the coast of texas. good samaritans were luckily

close by. janet shamlian reports. >> horrifying moments, cell phone video captures a boat engulfed in flames off the coast of galveston. >> a thick black smoke, the vessel was xreetly engulfed in dplamz. >> reporter: college student michael marquez was captaining a charter boat near which. he cut the fishing lines and raced toward the vessel. >> i was saying don't go up. >> reporter: on board four people including a child, unsure of what to do. >> we were screaming throw the kid, get him in the water, my priority was to get him safe. >> reporter: the 6-year-old in a life jacket picked up first, then his mom rescued, michael lasoya spun to the burning boat and rescued the father. >> you take an oath as a captain you'll help somebody in their lives if they're in danger. >> the car captain hess cued by

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19 minutes past the hour. time for your monday edition of "scrambled politics." hillary clinton gave us a preview of what what we can expect from her over the next few days. >> there are issues that need to be addressed. i'll address them starting with how we're going to try to control the cost of skyrocketing prescription drugs. it's something that i hear about everywhere i go. it's part of the plan i'll be rolling out in the next few days. >> she'll be part of the first democratic debate coming up in just three weeks.

some within the party think there should be more and they made things awkward for dnc chairwoman debbie wasserman schultz in new hampshire. >> one of his supporters in the audience called president obama a muslim. my friends, what's more important, drawing a contrast with republicans or arguing about debates? let's focus on our mission and the task at hand. >> lawmakers including new york senator gillibrand are launching a campaign to make the stonewall inn a national park. it would be the first national park honoring lgbt history. politico magazine brought in a graduate of the united states secret services advanced document examination training program, did you get all that, to ablies candidates' signatures so here are a few of our favorites. hillary clinton, "a lot

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of the united states, i don't think there's any doubt about that. they are back, funnier guys, little republicans with their take on the second gop debate. >> i spend my days. >> with the constitution. >> i'm a retired pediatric neurosurgeon. >> a committed conservative performer. >> i'm the one who can fix this country. >> i'm donald trump. >> i think we are in fact the "a" team. >> i made sure i brought my own water. >> that's your morning dish of "scrambled politics." msnbc reporter jane tim joins me now. good morning. let's talk about donald trump but the normal version. he's not doing so great in the polls follow the debates. >> the reality show might not be fun after the first hour. >> we talked about this last week. it could be a pivoting point

with him. >> when you see a clip of him on the news you can be i like what he said. you watch him for three hours throwing war bees he seems less presidential. it's hard to maintain charisma for three hours like we saw up there but other candidates emerged, perhaps not stronger but definitely as strong. >> one of the vices you heard carly fiorina is gaining in some of the polls. they have her second. could she possibly be the gop's best bet to go up against the democratic leader as of now, hillary clinton? >> this is sort of a dramatic leap of political theater. you saw her polling almost at the bottom. >> she was at the kiddie table debate. and she won that and came to this debate, this latest one and did so well. >> the more people see her the more people like her. around march i saw her for the first time. every time i see her out in the field people say i didn't know

anything about her but i love her. can she keep impressing, evolving some of her talking points. some of the things we've heard at the debates i heard half a dozen times before word for word. she needs to continue this successful well trained rhetoric, audience tested and keep evolving and adding more interests. >> carson is saying he doesn't think a ms. lum could be president. does this hurt him or play to his party? >> there's a fire amount of imtolerance but it shows a big liability, he has a hyperboll foik sense of politics. just ahead, who will be playing donald trump on "snl" this season. we have the answer. plus going, going gone, caught on camera, flight attendant falling asleep on the job. we have the disturbing video coming up on "first look." small,

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nbc has announced that taran killam will be portraying donald trump on "saturday night live" this year. the season will kick off with miley cyrus as host. shocking new video shows the moment a southwest airlines attendant appears to fall asleep while giving instructions to passengers. the dallas to birmingham flight attendant walks off camera and according to "the daily mirror" the airlines said he may have been affected by a "new medication." he was removed from duty for the

remainder of the day. >> he was struggling. >> you could tell. we've all had those moments but that's a job you don't want to fall asleep on the job at. i'm betty nguyen, this is "first look" on msnbc. like us on facebook. >> i like you. donald trump of course is running for president to the delight of uncles everywhere. but i've got to say sure, donald trump seems racist. what else? side note is it just me or does bernie sanders always look like his flight is delayed? >> jokes and history being made at last night's prime time emmy awards. ground-breaking win for viola davis and this happened. >> and the emmy goes to -- john

hamm. >> the star of "madmen" john hamm crawls his way to a long, overdue emmy, we'll have the highlights. plus fresh calls for republican presidential candidate ben carson to drop out of the race after tell our chuck todd that he's opposed to a muslim becoming president. and dr. jill biden says she's all in if her husband decides to run for president. the latest indication that the v.p. might apply for the promotion. this is "way too early." ♪ good morning, it's monday, september 21st, i'm jonathan capehart reporting from washington, d.c. we begin with