we have a lot more coming up with craig melvin, right now. good tuesday morning to you. craig melvin here. there's a lot more following this hour. first, any minute now president biden will be landing in the northeast where for the second time, communities ravaged by ida. on the agenda, seeing the devastation from the flooding in new jersey and new york firsthand. folks facing an uphill climb to rebuild. >> it's my life. cleanup is disastrous and it will take long time. >> if you don't have family here, where do you go?

>> gut wrenching. we're following another crisis on this tuesday morning, the pandemic. labor day's impact has yet to be seen, but so far daily covid-19 inof coursetions, nearly four times worst than this time last year. there's a new variant of interest popping up in nearly every state. kids heading back to school, and this pandemic inflexion point, ahead. also the fight for voting rights. in about an hour the governor of texas, governor abbott, will sign one bill into law. and nbc's alison barber is in manville, new jersey, and that's one of the stops on the president's trip, and rehema ellis is where the president will also be visiting. more than a dozen people killed in new york city alone, and

officials there say it should be a wake-up call about future storms. what are they hoping to show president biden today during this visit? >> reporter: they want to show him what is happening on this street, craig, and so many others throughout the community. while the sun is shining it's a very dark cloud hanging over people here. i am almost 5'8", and in some homes the water level was above my head. look inside ray's house where his parents live, they are in their late 80s and 90s, and everything in the basement is gone, it was devastated, damaged. he says it was not just the wooden things and the furniture, but listen to what he says how powerful this water was. >> this is what remains of the wall. so when the water came in here, it created like a swimming pool, and then it was pushed. anybody that would have been on that side would have been dead.

>> reporter: they would have been dead, and as you pointed out, craig, in new york city 13 people died and several of those right here in the queens section of new york. block after block and house after house you see garbage lining the streets, and it looks like trash to most people but these are precious treasures, and they can't get some back and they can put a couch back in their house but can't put back the memories of some of the things they lost, and they want to tell the president how devastating this is, and they hope he gets an opportunity to see and hear them. some were saying to me, once you see this it hard to believe that we don't need some sort of enhanced abilities for our infrastructure, because this, they say, can't keep going. one woman down the street where you see a pile of debris behind me, she said they have had floods here for years, but nothing, nothing was ever here like this, craig. >> so many stories like that. so much water so fast, so

devastating. rehema, thank you. president biden going to be in new jersey, landing there within the hour. what is the president going to see and hear from folks there in manville? >> reporter: i mean, piles and piles of everything people owned in their homes now moved out to the curb. saturated, ruined. like rehema mentioned, there are couches and things that can be replaced, but then there are these things, baby photos, the basketball awards and the things that make a house a home. i want to introduce you, if i can, to the family that lives in this house. dana camacho, and her mother-in-law moved in a couple years ago, and dana lives just around the corner. your family's three different homes impacted by this. walk us through what happened

that night? >> all we heard on the news prior to that is there was going to be a remanence of hurricane ida, and the week before we had the remanence of henri. when the rain came, it came quick and hard and we tried to move our cars before the sirens went off, and my son's brand-new two--day-old car went underneath, and the rain finally stopped at about 12:00, and so around 2:00 my son came over here, and there was no water. >> who lived here? >> my mother-in-law. the next thing i know, she said it's coming in the house, and i said grab what you can, the pocketbook and important papers, and the boat came up and she got in and when they dropped her out

over there by the bridge, she got out and broke her femur. >> reporter: what are you hoping the president knows about your story? what help do you need? >> i don't know how i will pay for this. i don't know how to fix the three houses. insurance is great until you need it. the last time when we had irene, you know, my house, $45,000 worth of stuff and damage and everything, and i went to get my insurance company to help, and everything is covered, everything is covered, and you know what i got? this. nothing. there's some sort of caveat or clause, and i don't know what i will do. it's right down to the floors, i don't know how i will pay for all of this. tell president biden to get his checkbook out, because i have a pen if he needs one. we need money to help or else everybody will walk away.

last time hundreds of people just walked away from their homes, and it's going to devastate this town financially because there's nothing on the tax roll. and the army corps of engineers came in and they deemed not to give us help. if we were worth saving, they would have done it already. it's going to happen again and again and again. i don't know how much more i can take of this before i walk away from three houses. >> reporter: appreciate you talking to us. craig, that's something we have heard from different people in this neighborhood is they don't know what they are going to do next, they need help and they need money, and they are not sure if they are going to be able to rebuild. the gas company are out here working right now, and all of this, there's so much to do that this best case scenario will take quite a while, and you have lot of people like dana that feel like they have been in the situation before and they didn't

get the help they needed then and are not sure they will get it now, craig. >> echoing a sentiment we have heard over the past few days, insurance is great until you need it. thank you, alison. and now you are learning at the white house, there are more counties added to the disaster declaration. what do we know about what the president plans to tell the people when he visits their communities today? >> reporter: as far as federal relief goes, that county that woman was just talking from, they are going to be eligible for fema funds. there are other countries more desperate for help because they were not included, and a white

house official told me today that they are still considering adding additional counties to be eligible for these fema funds. they are not done with their review. they are still assessing the damage. still hope that some of these other communities could get funds as well. when the president comes on the ground as well as hearing stories and seeing some of the damage firsthand, expect him to make a sales pitch for the infrastructure bill and not only that for the need to help people recover but to prevent devastation like this in communities. this is what the president had to say a few moments ago. >> we're hoping to fix the things we are able to fix permanently with the bill that we have in for infrastructure. >> reporter: you have gotten the democrats to agree on? >> president biden, i have a question. will the sun come out tomorrow? >> uncertainty there whether or

not congress will approve the bill the president wants to see passed so people don't have to worry about flooding like mansville in the past, but now are waiting for disasters to strike. >> as you are reporting here, president biden landing at j.fk there. this is the tarmac. president biden boarding marine one. again, the president going to be touring some of the neighborhoods and communities just absolutely ravaged by what was first hurricane ida, and then tropical storm and tropical depression ida as we see the president get set to take off there. shannon, don't go far. when the president touches down again, we would love to come back to you again. that shot looks like it's freezing there on the tarmac, but president biden is boarding marine one. we are talking about the folks devastated here in the

northeast. in louisiana, it has been nine days since ida made landfall as a category 4 hurricane, and more than 4,000 homes and businesses still do not have power. the lingering outages and the soaring temperatures are making the already-brutal recovery even worse for so many. >> there's no way we could live without power. it's too hot. >> we can't -- >> it's not fun. >> it's been hell, and it's wrong for them to treat us like we are not worthy to have our electricity turned on like everybody else. >> and the woman there echoing a sentiment we are hearing from a lot of folks, she feels forgotten. what are you seeing there today? what new weather concerns are

they facing that could hamper recovery efforts? >> reporter: it was four days ago that president biden was here in laplace, but the attention on this particular community cannot go unforgotten here in the weeks ahead. there are still hundreds of thousands of residents of the greater new orleans area without power, and ground support wise i have met power line workers from michigan, indiana, modesto, california, and i met one just yesterday, and this is day number nine of no power, no air-conditioning for so many. jim, you are just one of those residents. we came by your home this morning and you were sitting out on your porch trying to get fresh air. what time did you start yard work this morning? >> 6:30. >> you done for the day? >> yeah, it's hot. >> how long you have lived in

laplace? >> about 50 years. >> this is home? >> yes. >> reporter: this is a tight-knit community, and we have seen wind damage and significant flooding. >> it takes time to recover, and people stick together and you do recover, eventually. >> long term, what do you see about the community? the water plants, relocating -- >> yeah, they are talking that towards the mississippi river. >> reporter: we are on day number nine. >> right. >> reporter: do you find frustration with the parish and the federal government? >> between the parish and the federal government, really. >> reporter: what do you need going forward? >> get power and water going. that's what we need right away. >> reporter: we will be thinking about you in the days ahead. there are thousands of people

like jim here, still nine days later. >> i have family members in houma. hard hit. a lot of folks hit hard down there. vonn, thank you for that. earlier this morning a man in wichita, kansas, he shot eight people at a club and killed one 30-year-old man and the shooter was reportedly kicked out of the club due to a, quote, unknown disturbance. that man later returned and opened fire from outside of the building. two of the victims wounded in that shooting have life-threatening injuries and police are still searching for the suspect. we are watching two massive legal fights gets under way in texas, and how civil rights groups are pushing back on the elections bill that republican governor is expected to sign into law later this hour. we will look at how the justice department is looking at the anti-abortion law that just

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more students head into the classrooms, these are all new concerns that health officials are pointing to as triggers as a new surge in infections this fall. right now daily covid infections are four times worst than this time last year. daily deaths are nearly twice as high. with the rising number of children getting sick, more and more school districts are having to find bold, creative ways to keep students safe. nbc's heidi prez bella is in detroit where the public school system has been an unexpected leader in this country where it comes to covid safety protocols, and joined by the doctor, the dean of public health. heidi, what is the district there doing that stands out?

>> reporter: many detroiters will tell you public health experts say what is happening here now could put into debate about what is possible and not possible to protect kids from covid. masking, and they are using the money that came from the federal government the way the cdc told us to, and they have gone into every single classroom and tested the air quality, and they made changes including hepa filters, and some of these schools are next to sewage sites, and they have upgraded indoors and does the hepa filters, and testing. this is unique. every single student and staff member, when they come into the buildings will have access to rapid tests. they can take the tests and within 24 to 48 hours they get the results and that will allow

the school districts to do many things others can't or won't, and that's to take the asymptomatic students out before they infect the rest, and they are proud and comfortable in what they have done in sending the kids back to class even in the older buildings. >> it's safer to go to your local school than to go to an indoor theater or ball game or church, because universal masking, distancing, cleaning and most importantly testing. >> the doctor also told us, craig, he would be interested to know what other school districts across the country are doing, and it's kind of like the wild west when it comes to testing, and some are doing pool testing, and the federal government, you

and i, the taxpayers gave $10 million to do testing like this to school districts, and that's where one pediatrician said from new york state, if you don't know what testing they are doing, and i apologize to principals, but you need to make some calls. >> heidi, thank you. and doctor, a testing program is needed in all schools across the united states to get a handle on school-wide outbreaks, specifically. this approach they are trying in detroit, is this the kind of approach that would you like to see replicated in more places? >> first of all, thank you for having me back. i had to smile throughout that entire story, and that's what you want to hear, see a school take control and use science, evidence and data, and they are doing it right as far as we can tell. on your question of testing, absolutely.

kids should be getting tested once a week, staff, teachers, everybody. it's a really important part of preventing outbreaks. it prevents them from spreading it to other people. the ventilation upgrades, i hear them saying we can't upgrade the ventilation because we have old buildings, so i love what detroit has done. >> yeah, heidi made a great point, and we are talking about schools that have been woefully underfunded for a couple generations. let's talk about mississippi and texas for a moment. just last month, as you probably know, mississippi officials said more than 20,000 students were forced to quarantine after being exposed to the virus. texas, more than 51,000 students have tested positive since the first week of august. are you surprised by these

numbers? is this simply a direct result of kids going back to school or is there more to it than that? >> i am not surprised. i am not surprised, and the reason is the delta variant is very serious and very contagious, as we have discussed. can we get kids back to school safely? absolutely. we will do what we call the detroit plan, indoor masking, and testing and good ventilation. we are seeing what we are seeing, and it's very possible to get kids back safely but you have to follow the science. >> let's talk about -- you just mentioned the delta variant. appa new variant we are

variant? >> yeah, you know, we are going to see more and more variants. i will talk about mu in a second. we should expect to see more variants as long as a pandemic rages around the world, which is why we have to get the world vaccinated. in terms of mu, it has characteristics that are concerning, and right now i am looking at evidence, and delta, we have to see how it spreads, and there's some early evidence that maybe it pushes the vaccines a little, and i remain confident in the vaccines and i am not super worried about mu yet. >> for folks who don't understand science and medicine the way you do, explain why we are going to be seeing more of these variants? >> absolutely. so variants arise -- you think of variants of mutations of the

virus and mutations happen when viruses replicate, and we are giving the virus the chance to replicate by having a lot of people get infected, and in the south there's a host for more variants in the united states world, and the more people that get infected the more variants we will see. the best way to suppress variants is to get vaccinated. >> the message is always consistent. thank you, sir. always good to have you. thank you. just about half an hour from now, texas governor greg abbott will sign the controversial elections bill into law, and we will take a look at what happens when it goes into effect and what is next on the other big fight there in texas, the new restrictive anti-abortion law.

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in the next hour, texas governor greg abbott set to sign the new restrictive voting bill into law. for months protesters and democrats tried to stall the package, the republican-backed package there. they said the legislation will make it harder for minorities to vote. priscilla thompson is in austin outside the state capitol there. walk our viewers and listeners

on satellite radio about this. >> reporter: we're talking about 16.6 million registered voters that will have to contend with the changes. i will tell you about some of the changes, and it includes a ban on overnight and drive-through voting, something that was used during the pandemic, and it includes additional criminal penalties, and it's a felly for a worker to send a vote by mail ballot that is not requested, and voters with a disability language

barriers cannot have assistance. lawmakers say this will streamline the voting process across the state and make elections more secure, and democrats are saying the elections here don't need to be more secure, it was already very hard to vote here in texas and there was no evidence of widespread fraud that should have prompted these changes. they also point to there were not any claims of fraud in overnight or drive-through voting, which is one of the things being banned in the bill. so already we have seen two lawsuits by civil rights groups echoing some of the same concerns democrats have expressed, this is going to make it harder for minority voters and voters with disabilities, specifically. nonetheless, after all of the coream breaks, the governor is

expected to sign the bill. the question is, what does all this mean? i asked one of the democratic lawmakers that broke quorum and then returned, and i asked if it was worth it, all that they did, was it worth it, and he told me it was. and it's time for federal authorities to act on protections for voting? >> priscilla, thank you. let's stay in texas, because this morning the justice department decided to get involved in the fight surrounding that state's new controversial abortion law. merrick garland said the justice department will help women seeking an abortion under the federal law known as the freedom of access to clinic entrances act. i have not heard of that. what steps are they taking at

the justice department to help women that want an abortion there in texas? >> that act is known as the face act. it's one of the tools that the justice department has to try and protect women who are seeking an abortion and to protect even the buildings themselves of the clinics if there are threats to their physical structure or damage, and this is the way the federal government could get involved to stop that intimidation. as we will see, there's little the justice department can do right now before somebody actually uses this law to challenge or to sue, rather, somebody who might be performing an abortion. the attorney general said the justice department you are -- urgently continues to protect

those seeking to provide services. what they would hope for to challenge the lawsuit is for somebody to challenge the law is a lawsuit that would be using the law in the first place, and until that happens it's hard for the justice department or any prosecutors from the federal government to go to court and challenge the law and say that the person who was suing the abortion clinic or anybody connected to the abortion has standing. that's what they need here. until then there's the face act. of course, there's what could happen in congress, as we know president biden asked nancy pelosi to look at those options. >> julia, thank you. we're keeping a close eye on a deepening mystery in south carolina. we have learned prominent south carolina attorney, alex murdoch,

resigned from his firm on friday one day before an unidentified person shot him on the side of the road. he's now accused of misusing funds at his law firm. catie beck has more on the person that shot him and the person or people who also killed his wife and son back in june. >> reporter: this morning, alex murdaugh is out of the hospital and out of a job and entering rehab. he resigned from his law firm on friday after the firm discovered alex misappropriated funds. it's yet another twist in a stunning series of events devastating the well-known family. the resignation from the firm named in part for the murdoch family coming days after alex said he was shot in the head, and three months after his wife and son were killed in a mysterious murder.

he did not comment on the firm's allegations. he wrote he's entering rehab, adding i made a lot of decisions that i truly regret. i am immensely sorry to everybody i have hurt, including my family and colleagues. he said he was shot by somebody in a truck. he was airlifted and treated saturday for a superficial gunshot wound to the head. three months ago his wife and son were found fatally shot at their home. the incidents have left the family convinced they are being targeted. before his death, 22-year-old paul was preparing to face trial on charges related to a boat crash that left a 19-year-old dead. paul pleaded not guilty and the charges were dropped after his murder. they have been known as a powerful family in the state for decades. now the family facing yet

another misfortune. >> that was catie beck reporting there. his attorney tells nbc news he's out the hospital and he was reportedly able to get a detailed description of the shooter and their vehicle. we will continue to keep a close eye on this story in south carolina, but right now a live look at marine one. marine one has touched down in the hillsborough township in new jersey. president biden, again, going to be receiving a briefing there in new jersey before he tours some of the devastation caused by ida just a few days ago. flooding still a major problem in new jersey, including some highways. road crews have had to wait for some of the waters to recede before they could inspect and work on some of the damage of

the roadways. you can see the reporters assembling there as president biden gets ready to deplane. again, marine one has touched down in new jersey. president biden, after the briefing, after the official briefing, he will receive there and he will tour some of the damage, and then he will head back to new york where he will also be touring some of the damage in queens, specifically, just a few days ago president biden was down in louisiana taking a firsthand look at the damage and devastation that that hurricane left behind. we'll continue to keep an eye on the president's visit. meanwhile, this morning, another big visit to the middle east. not one, but two top biden administration cabinet secretaries are there today. their mission in qatar, and growing frustrations about the conditions on the ground in afghanistan. first, though, this morning andrea constand that led to

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it's rare to see two of the president's most senior cabinet members in a foreign country at the same time, but that's exactly what is happening right now in qatar. austin and blinken are there. the visit coming a day after the state department confirmed the first known evacuation of u.s. citizens since the official withdrawal. four more americans were able to get out but there have been new complications. planes with americans onboard grounded in northern afghanistan, and this is what secretary blinken said about that this morning. >> we're going to continue to engage, we're engaging as we speak and we are going to hold

the taliban to their pledge to allow americans to freely depart afghanistan. >> sanchez is on the ground in qatar. before we get to that, we just learned a short time ago that the taliban has just announced their new government in afghanistan. what more can you tell us about that? >> craig, that's right. in just the last hour at a press conference in kabul, the taliban announcing the new prime minister of afghanistan is hassan, a relatively low profile member of the taliban leadership, and he was in the regime overthrown by the u.s. military invasion, and he's more of a religious scholar than military commander, and he is not known for running around on the battlefield but he will be the new day-to-day leader of

afghanistan. the supreme leader of the country, the ceremonial figure head is a guy named sheik high bough taoula. his son was a suicide bomber that blew himself up in 2017. as we are expecting, there are no women in the cabinet of the government and that's dashing the hopes of afghan women that thought they might be represented in some way in the new government, craig. >> before i let you go, what more can you tell us about the secretary's visit there where you are in qatar? >> yeah, so a lot of the focus today is on the airport in northern afghanistan. we have known for a couple days there were charter planes there trying to leave and the taliban was preventing them from doing so and a representative, a republican from texas said over the weekend this is a hostage

situation. secretary of state blinken denied that today, and he gave some details about what is going on. he did confirm there are a relatively small number of americans at that airfield trying to get out. he said the problem, though, is they are on planes with afghans that don't have the right travel documents so those flights are not being allowed to leave, craig. >> thank you, bud. 20 years after 9/11, hard to believe it has been 20 years, but 20 years later there's a hearing for the accused mastermind behind the attack. it's happening right now in guantanamo, cuba. it's happening as we speak. and we are there on the ground and we will go to ken for his reporting from inside the courtroom, next. how's that? get...get mom. [ding]

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efforts that day. 343 firefighters died when those towers collapsed and one of those firefighters was actually pfeiffer's own brother kevin. he talked about the moment that he sent kevin up into one of the towers to help others escape. >> i picture him walking into the lobby and coming up to me without saying a word, and we looked at each other out of concern whether we were going to be okay, and then i ordered him as i ordered other firefighters to go up, and he turned around quietly, took engine 33, and that was the last time i saw my brother kevin and engine 33. >> you can hear more of pfeiffer's story tonight in an exclusive conversation with lester holt on "nightly news." just a few moments ago a pretrial hearing for one of the masterminds of the 9/11 attacks went into recess, khalid sheikh

mohammed also known as ksm, now he is back in court with four other defendants for a pretrial hearing. ken delaney made his way to guantanamo bay, the hearing postponed last year because of the pandemic. why has it taken so long to prosecute these men? >> reporter: craig, it was fairly dramatic. in part because this is the first time in more than 500 days that khalid sheikh mohammed and those other four defendants had appeared in open court and you had relatives of 9/11 victims sitting there in the courtroom alongside several journalists and others. it was a packed courtroom. ksm came in wearing a turban. he's got that orange beard dyed with henna. he answered yes in english when the judge explained to him his right to be there or to not be

there depending on his choosing. it was quite jarring never having covered this proceeding to see ksm, the mastermind, the confessed mastermind of 9/11 bantering and smiling with his co-defendant. he was accused of training some of the hijackers in hand to hand combat and it is a reminder that these five defendants have not been brought to justice. yes, they're here confined to guantanamo bay, but we are in the ninth hear of pre-trial hearings in the proceeding that most national security experts i've spoken to is failing. it's just not proceeding at the kind of a pace where we're ever going to see a result, and just today was a great example of that. they were in court for about an hour with the new judge, the fourth judge and they were going through a procedural issue where the defense lawyers questioned the judge about his qualifications and a case came down from an appeals court that required them to take a recess for the day so they could all digest this case and come back

tomorrow, and you know, you take all these legal delays and you add it to the logistical nightmare of getting down here, and you have years and years of delay, craig, and the 9/11 families who have not been able to get justice in this case. >> for 20 years. 20 years, justice denied. ken dilanian at guantanamo bay. ken, thank you. that's going to do it for me this hour. a reminder, though program tomorrow, msnbc films and peacock will present memory box, echoes of 9/11. it's a new documentary that tells the story of september 11th through personal recollections that were recorded in a video booth both then in 2001 and now. memory box will air commercial-free tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc and it will stream exclusively on peacock. andrea mitchell reports starts next. and comfortable long-lasting protection.

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