all right. that is going to do it for us tonight, this fine friday eve. "way too early" is up next. ♪♪ good morning. president biden heads to storm-ravaged louisiana today to tour the damage caused by hurricane ida. he's promising government assistance to states hit by the storm. that includes the northeast where historic flooding has claimed dozens of lives. the question is when will we know the true toll of hurricane ida? plus, president biden launches a new era to protect abortion rights. the question is, what about other states that are considering similar measures? and after an 18-month shutdown, musical theater is returning to broadway, but with covid concerns taking center

stage, the question is how are theaters keeping audience members safe? it is "way too early" for this. ♪♪ good morning again, everybody. welcome to "way too early," the show that sings show tunes on the way to work, swear to god. i'm jacob soeb recover on this friday, september 3rd, and we eert start with the news. begin with the deadly flooding in the wake of hurricane ida. the storm is being blamed for at least 42 deaths in new york, new jersey, pennsylvania, and connecticut. the toll climbs even higher to 58 when you factor in the weather-related fatalities in states across the south where the storm first made landfall. in new york city, mayor bill de blasio says at least 13 people died in flooding incidents 26783 people were killed in new jersey. and in connecticut, a state

trooper, sergeant brian moll dyed after his cruiser was swept away in floodwaters. >> reporter: in the light of day, the storm damage on display, the danger far from over. water kept rising, the stranded rescued by helicopter. in mamaroneck, new york, boats carried them to safety. in new jersey, tornados also touched done. this neighborhood outside of philadelphia ripped apart. ida was no longer a hurricane when it hit the northeast, but it was no less a punishing storm, dropping so much rain so quickly, new york city was overwhelmed. more than 3 inches in central park in just one hour, smashing the previous record. waterfalls gushed into subway tunnels. in queens, passengers had to jump on their seats. the bus driving through a river that used to be a street. emergency crews worked

tirelessly to rescue people, but they couldn't get to everyone. >> they got stuck in the back and they couldn't come out. >> reporter: a mother and son drowned in their basement apartment. new york city's mayor frustrated saying the city was caught off guard. >> i think we understand now that every attempt at projection, bluntly, is failing us. from now on what i think we do is tell new yorkers to expect the very, very worst. >> reporter: here in new jersey, flood waters filled a home that later exploded because of a gas leak, that explosion caught by a camera across the street. at this nursing home, it looks like rapids racing past the front doors. >> how quickly did it rise. >> very quick. we put marks on the ground to know where the water levels were. by the time we got into the first facility, that marker was already gone. >> president biden will travel to new orleans to survey the damage caused by hurricane ida.

the category 4 storm made landfall on sunday, tearing through louisiana and mississippi, causing severe flooding and knocking out power to more than a million people. president biden will arrive in new orleans at noon central time. he'll meet with local leaders about the impacts. you see the schedule there. then he's going to tour a neighborhood in laplace, louisiana, and give remarks there. the president will then take an aerial tour of storm-ravaged towns including grand isle and port lushan. president biden addressed the weather this past week. >> in the past few weeks of the floods and the fires and flash floods in new york and new jersey is yet another reminder that these extreme storms and the climate crisis are here. we need to be much better prepared. we need to act. this isn't about politics. hurricane ida didn't care if you were a democrat or a republican,

rural or urban. this destruction is everywhere, and it's a matter of life and death, and we're all in this together. >> president biden is vowing to safeguard access to abortion rights in texas after the supreme court refused to block the state's near total ban on the procedure. in a statement biden called it unconstitutional chaos, and he said he's directing the white house counsel and his gender policy counsel to work with health and human services and the justice department to launch what they're calling a whole of government response to the court's decision. biden said the goal is to find, quote, what legal tools we have to insulate women and providers from the impact of texas's bizarre scheme of outsourced enforcement, adding complete strangers will now be empowered to inject themselves in the most private and personal health decisions faced by women. the law bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy and allows anyone to bring a court case

against those involved in obtained an abortion, and that includes taxi driver, includes receptionists, relatives who provide help for the procedure at all. bounty hunters can win up to $10,000. there are now other states that are contemplating passing similar bills. in florida, the state senate, a republican, said state legislators will introduce a similar bill in the upcoming decision. he said the high court's decision is sending a signal that all might be doing that. meanwhile in south dakota, governor christie gnome, also a republican, cited the supreme court decision and said she wants them to have, quote t strongest pro-life laws on the books.

nancy pelosi plans to cement the house to have protections put in place and added into federal law. >> it's not a state action but like a private action, which is clever, very, very dangerous. and so, you know, we expect to see that. that's why it's necessary to have a national law passed on "roe v. wade" protecting women's rights, wherever they live sfloo pelosi who was speaking in texas said she plans to speak on it. while it could pass the house with a simple majority, passing in the senate is more difficult. a 60-person threshold would need ten republicans to pass that

bill. press secretary jen psaki pushed back after a male reporter from a catholic news network questioned the president's support for abortion rights noting that biden was a catholic. watch this. >> why does the president support abortion when his own catholic faith teaches that abortion is totally wrong. >> he believes it's a woman's right, a woman's body, and it's her choice. >> who looks out for the unborn child? >> he believes it's up to a woman to make those decisions. i know you have never faced those choices nor ever been pregnant, but that's a difficult thing. >> joining us now, julia manchester. i appreciate you getting up with us so early this morning. as i mentioned, there are other states already talking about they're going to copy this texas law. you hoard what kristi noem said. what's your new reporting on how

democrats are going to fight back against this? >> well, it's interesting. talking to pro-life conservatives about this, they say, look, this is something that's going to really rally that base, but then talking to liberals and democrats, they say, look, these -- texas has essentially opened a pandora's box and that now liberal voters will very much be galvanized to come out at the polls in the 2022 midterms as well as 2021. remember, there's an off-year election in virginia, a gubernatorial race. you also have all 100 seats in the house and delegates up for grabs. see already that abortion is a major form of contention in that race. terry mcauliffe even before this entire texas decision came out was running ads, hitting his opponent glenn youngkin over

abortion. you see this down the ballot, and i think you're going to see especially the democratic side really try to get them to turn out their voters and rally them to the ballot box. >> voting and getting people to show up at the boll lot box is one thing, but what about conversations about expanding the court, expanding the bench? do you think this ruling is going to be a catalyst for that? what are you hearing? >> we're already hearing progressive lawmakers are already talking about this and really pushing for this. you're going to start hearing, i think, quite a bit more candidates up for election in 2022 to talk about expanding the court. so i think this is something we should definitely keep an eye on. this has long been on the progressives' wish list and the lists of many democrats. i would not be surprised if that becomes an issue in 202. >> "the hill's" julia

manchester. still ahead, joe manchin voices his opposition to a $3.5 trillion budget bill. what it means for president biden's economic agenda. plus, a second nfl team is now fully vaccinated against covid. those stories and a check on the weather when we come right back on msnbc. ♪

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time in the regular season under coach ryan day. he passed 246 of his 294 yards in the game and helped ohio state to a 45-31 win that keeps coach day undefeated in big ten play. we will be talking nfl in one week after the tampa bay buccaneers host the dallas cowboys in the season-opening kickoff on "thursday night football." the defending super bowl champs will be fully vaccinated for that game. head coach bruce aryan says the entire team is now vaccinated. just five more wins stand between novak djokovic in history as he moves another step in the calendar year, advancing to the third round of the u.s. open with a straight win last night on the court at arthur ashe stadium. over on the women's side, all

seeded women players vansd including ashleigh barty. and number 16, ashley gerber who will meet the 2016 chap sloane stevens in the third round. the u.s. remains winless in six straight road qualifiers, dating back to 2016. they play next sunday against our neighbors to the north, canada. and turning now to major league baseball where the san francisco giants up in the bay avoided a four-game sweep, scoring four runs in the ailkt eighth to beat the brewers, 5-1. the win moves san fran into a tie atop the n.l. west with my beloved dodgers. and in chicago, the cubbies catch a break in extras, tied with pirates in the bottom of the 11th.

>> the runner goes this. one popped up. right side. devo scrambling. oh, it falls. racing home, and the cubs win. holy cow! >> holy cow. a game-ending error by pittsburgh's second baseman, the missed pop-up. it allows the winning run to score from third, and the cubbies beat the bucks, 6-5. we turn now to meteorologist bill karins. it's still dark out. we still haven't seen the full effects in the northeast, but now we have. >> the water is incredible when you see cars stacked on top of each other and all the debris and damage and obviously all the fatalities too. most of the water has come down. some of the big rivers are going down. only the passaic river in new

jersey has to hit its crest. it's slower moving and takes longer than the other ones. yesterday was clear and so is today. much of the weekend too. the region gets a break from all of the rainfall it's been dealing with from all of the tropical systems over the summer season so far. we still have 52 river locations. there are gauges that sit on all the rivers, and it tells us the stream flow and river heights, so we get an idea when these rivers crest or are going down. only a couple are in major flood stainch. you notice much of the rivers in connecticut, massachusetts, are in minor flood stage. the way it goes, minor flooj stage is lower, then moderate and major and then record flood stage. a lot of them have come down significantly. as far as it goes in louisiana, i just checked. still have 75,000 people without power. for anyone trying to live in homes with those conditions,

it's brutal. 101 heat index this afternoon. no relief this weekend. 90, 91, and 90. you don't get relief in the deep south until sometimes october. one area of concern near the coastline there near outside of belize and heading toward the yucatan, that's only a 20% chance. we have hurricane larry out there. this one is way, way out in the atlantic. not a concern at all for the east coast, u.s. it will eventually bring big waves. we'll have to watch this in bermuda. again, no concerns for the lower 48 as we go through the holiday weekend and even into next week. today's forecast, enjoy it in the northeast. you deserve it after what you've been through. unfortunately, jacob, no relief for the people in new orleans this time of year. >> yes. still thinking about them. really nice to see sunshine. anyone who deserves a nice long

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good morning, again, everybody. welcome back to "way too early." it's 5:30 on the east coast, 2:30 out here in the west. i'm jacob soboroff. joe manchin is calling on his fellow democrats to take a pause before vangs historic $3.5 trillion budget plan. the senator is out with a new opinion piece in "the wall street journal" titled "why i won't support spending another $3.5 trillion." he writes this. instead of rushing to spend trillions on new government programs and additional stimulus funding, congress should hit a strategic pause on the budget-reconciliation legislation. i for one won't support a $3.5 trillion bill or another near that additional level of spending without greater clarity about why congress chooses to ignore the serious effects inflation and debt have on

existing government programs. the senate budget committee chairman bernie sanders was quick to respond to senator manchin's op-ed, arguing that both tracks of the infrastructure proposal must pass or neither will. this is what he tweeted. rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, roads, bridges, water systems is important. rebuilding our human infrastructure, human health care and climate change is more important. no infrastructure bill without the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. new polling shows president biden's approval sinking fast amid the chaotic u.s. withdrawal from after gab stan. in the latest npr/pbs, news hour and marist poll it's down 6% from july and it'sal the lowest mark for president biden since taking office. among independents, his ratings

changed. 61% said they disapproved including 71% of independents. one week after the deadly terror attacks in kabul, the president and the first lady visited walter reed medical center last night. the pair made a previously unscheduled trip to military hospital which is treating 15 marines injured in last week's gunfire. this is his second visit since taking office. it's the same hospital his son beau underwent cancer treatment before his death in 2015. joining us now, co-author of "the playbook," eugene daniels. thanks for getting up early with me. senator manchin i mentioned once again is wielding his outsized pow owner the because of the $3.5 trillion budget plan. what do we hear about what he wants to accomplish? >> yeah. i mean this is something that

joe manchin has been loving to do is get a lot of attention right around the things hes like that he can wield power just like the other joe can, right? joe biden, that's something we continue to see from him. you know, we've talked to a bunch of different people. some people think on the hill that this is just joe manchin being joe manchin, wanting to be a large part of the conversation, wanting to make sure he seems like he's wielding a lot of power here. he also hasn't really said how much money he is willing to spend. that is something people are waiting to hear. it wasn't in the op-ed or the speech he gave recently. the last time we heard about how much he was willing to spend, it was around $2 million on the human aspect of things. joe manchin knows like everyone else does what the agreement was between the white house, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, about the fact that you have -- they want to make sure there's this

two-track, and that's been here for months. have to see what his play is here, but he seems really concerned about how to pay for it or where the money comes from. he continues to have that kind of conversation. at this point, they're still wanting to move forward with the number that they have. >> you know, i mentioned those polls. we've seen a number of them showing the president's approval dropping over his handling of afghanistan. the white house seems steadfast in defending the decision-making surrounding the withdrawal from afghanistan. what's your sense about where they go from here, especially with the midterms coming up? >> yeah. the former senior adviser said something to me and a lot of us months ago about how she views these kinds of things. she was on the campaign trail with them, with president biden. what she says was, you know, you choose a decision and you move forward. that's something this white house has continued and it's kind of how they think of

things, right? they made this decision, so their job is to sell that to the american peep. you've seen the president koblts do that. nay know like we do how these approval ratings move up and down. they've been steadily going down over the last couple of weeks amid the chaos in afghanistan. like you said, they're not just steadfast on that. they also feel they're going to be proven right. the question is whether or not they're proven right before midterms, right? that is a question a lot of people have. they said over and over president biden said history would prove him right. that's a long time when you look at how history judges a presidency, and it affects what he's able to do right now. right now he's seemingly making his job a little harder when it comes to all the other things he has to do. we know it ice going to be a huge month for the white house. you have the reconciliation bill. they have to pass the

infrastructure bill in the senate. you have the debt limit, voting rights still going on. you now have this abortion issue going on in the supreme court. most importantly you have the delta variant and the pandemic. so all of these things are happening as you're seeing the president trying to steadfastly move forward on domestic issues and moving away from afghanistan. >> not to mention immigration reform. we don't know what's happening with daca and the situation on the border. there is so much yet to deal with. politico's eugene daniels. great to see you. still ahead, broadway celebrates the return of musical that it jeer plus we mentioned a new album coming from elton john. up next, the totally different sign of 15970s musical revival. "way too early" is back in just a moment.

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their new songs, "i still have faith in you" and "don't shut me down." no album would be complete without a concert, and the band is doing just that. it's set for may of next year, and it will take place at a new venue called the abba arena at queen elizabeth park in london. now to broadway. broadway is opening up. the lights went up on a hit show last night to the first kickoff on a return to musical theater. i'm a musical theater nerd. i'm so cited about this. so is joe fryer from nbc news. watch this. >> reporter: one of the first songs in the musical "waitress" is called "opening up." they'll help broadway do just that. >> welcome back to broadway pie. >> that's it right there, right? >> joe? >> reporter: sara who wrote the show's songs returns as the lead. >> why was it so important for you to come back to this role

for this turn to broadway? >> it's a great love of my artistic life. it's changed everything about my life in every way, shape, and form. >> reporter: "waitress" is just the first course. dozens of plays will open up, the audiences masked and fully vaxed. for the "waitress" community, the pandemic hit home after nick cordero in the original cast died from covid. >> nick was a beloved company member, deeply kind, deeply talented, had a big life here. >> reporter: in honor of him, their pie board now features a slice of live your life pie. >> that is a song he wrote, so he lives inside our little show for ever and ever. >> reporter: remembering while reopening. it's broadway's next act. >> our thanks to my friend joe

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it's been a very busy week. the stories making headlines are difficult to bear. i was watching rachel last night. the news gods have dumped upon us. on sunday, the flag-draped cases carrying the remains of the american troops killed in afghanistan returned to the united states. back in afghanistan, the people there face an uncertain future under the taliban, especially women and girls. here at home, devastating storms shook millions of people from the gulf coast to the northeast, raising new alarms about our changing environment. it comes as children head back to school amid the unrelenting pressure of the pandemic. we wanted to talk about this with a mental health policy expert and the president of well being and trust, dr. benjamin miller. dr. miller, thanks so much for waking up early with me. the pandemic has had this major effect on all of our lives.

many of us are facing challenges that can be stressful, that can be overwhelming, can cause extremely strong emotions in adults and in kids. you know, we want people to know who are watching us -- it's a little bit different -- they're not alone. what impact have you seen from covid-19 on mental health? >> first of all, thanks for having me on. and thanks for addressing such an important topic like mental health. as you said and clearly highlighted, mental health is affected to our health. i think what we've seen consistently throughout this pandemic is that most of the country reports increased stress related to covid, and that is not a surprise. but what's the kicker here is that we had a mental health problem in this country way before covid, and if you look at the data, they trend in the wrong direction.

so what do we do about it? i think there's three things. i think first and foremost, we have to begin to prioritize our mental health. we have to take care of our minds just like we do our bodies. so those morning walks we take, let's do the same things with our minds. let's think about ways to take a moment for our own mental health throughout the day. number two, we've got to take care of each other. this is a tough time, especially when we've been socially disconnected as we have. ask your friends ho are you really doing and be there when the answer's tough. number three, we have to do something about mental health in our communities. people are suffering. there has to be some type of comprehensive reform that puts mental health at a place of priority within our communities. i think if we do those three things, not only we emerge from the pandemic relatively victorious, we'll have a stronger foundation as we as a country move forward with mental health. >> you know, dr. miller, this is a politics-focused show after

all. i know you think there are things u.s. congress can do to help people cope with stress and uncertainty and mental health challenges better. >> absolutely. so we've seen some positive move management in that direction. the senate finance committee just a couple of months ago didd hearing ever on mental health. and in that hearing what we heard was a lot of the senators themselves not only have personal experience but have passion to pursue policy solutions for mental health so that's a positive. and i hope they continue to look at structural reform. one thing we talk about is that more money into the same structures does not solve problem. people need a different way to access mental health care and i'm hoping congress can take that on. we've seen positive direction around how people are discussing mental health. an example we just saw the other day, cms has been finding new ways to cover things like dental and vision.

and i noticed a couple days ago they highlighted a chief dental officer, that was positive. we need to do the same thing for mental health. there needs to be a chief mental health officer from cps, standing up, talking about these things from a policy position throughout our country. if we do so, we will see more of that structural change that helps people on the ground. >> feels like a deep breath for this program and all of us after a busy news week. appreciate you being here. thank you so much. earlier we asked why are you awake? betsy shared this photo, she's up for a little me time before making the best pancakes ever for these cute grand kids. another viewer is up to celebrate broadway being back. early flight to nyc from chicago taking my daughter to see bruce

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and a supreme court fight. joe biden, president biden, wants this fight. i think democrats think that the law in their eyes is so extreme that even swing voters who might be sympathetic to -- on the issue are going to turn and will turn their way. what's interesting to me is, i think this portends what you're going to see over the next decades in politics. you have a lot of democratic control at the federal level, but republicans beneath the surface has done well in state house races they have a disproportionate amount of power, particularly in the south and they have an advantage on the supreme court, so whether it's abortion, immigration, work place rules or mask mandates you're going to see this bubbling up at the state level, refereed by the supreme court and then you're going to see the federal government, democrats with the presidency, house and senate, trying to do something

legislatively about it. >> what does the texas abortion law mean for democrats on the hill and next year's midterms? they're coming sooner than you think. >> i think what you'll see, hear already from house democrats is they'll use this in most congressional races. remember conservative, there are some democrats who don't want to touch the issue but most do and think it'll be persuasive with women and swing voters. but you're already seeing republicans who have 2024 aspirations saying i like this law in texas, i want to replicate it. ron desantis overnight saying i want to look at this, maybe florida should do it. you're hearing that from a lot of governors in the south. you've seen a lot of activity on the abortion topic, particularly in the southern states, pushing the limits to outlaw abortion,

force it to the court where conservatives have an advantage and see if they can't overturn roe v wade or chip away at roe v wade. they set it up in this clever way to make it hard to challenge. if i were an uber driver i could sue an abortion provider in texas and i would have standing and get $10,000 for that. and i think that's what democrats are saying, that seems to most people to be extreme, to be too early, especially that early in a pregnancy. so we'll see how the politics play out but no doubt it's a national topic between now, 2022 and 2024. >> not to mention whether or not it's even constitutional. >> i saw something on axios a.m. that i wanted to ask you about as well, jim, this is the unofficial end of the summer and the unofficial start even though it's work from home for people, return to work. they're looking for a shift in

the work place, is this a global trend is that what you're seeing? >> definitely a global trend. my day job i'm a ceo. the work place has changed dramatically the last couple years, almost every person we recruit and train, they want to know what do we stand for as a company. now you see the polling data that's true across industry and countries. the fundamental mentality of the worker has changed, i think in a good way. when people are motivated by something other than money, good things can happen as long as you know how to set up your company that inspires them and not just setting it up for a stock price. >> jim, thank you for waking up early with me this morning and thanks to all of you as well getting up way too early. i will see you, as i report

across the networks of msnbc news in the weeks and months ahead, but for now "morning joe" starts right now. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." coming up on 6:00 in the morning at the united states capital at the end of a long week. it's friday, september 3rd, i'm willie geist, joe and mika will be back next week. we begin with the flooding across the northeast in the wake of hurricane ida. the storm is blamed for 42 deaths now in new york, new jersey, pennsylvania and connecticut. the toll climbs higher to 58 when you figure in the weather fatalities across the south where the storm first made landfall. bill de blasio said 23 people died in flooding incidents. in connecticut a state t