possible. >> indeed, he is. mike, thank you so much. we appreciate it. that wraps up this very busy hour. i'm stephanie ruhle. jose diaz-balart picks up the breaking news coverage right now. . >> and good morning. it's 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart. international travelers are preparing for emotional reunions with families and friends as the u.s. reopens its borders for people from 30 countries for the first time in nearly 20 months. this as the biden administration ramps up efforts to get young children vaccinated. we'll look at what it could mean for efforts to end the pandemic. meantime, we're learning more about the eight people who died when a crowd surged at the stage at a concert in houston, as the first lawsuits are filed in connection with that tragedy. we'll also look at what lies ahead for president biden's agenda after the house passed the bipartisan infrastructure bill on friday night. and the u.s. condemns

nicaragua for a sham election in which daniel ortega is set to win another term after arresting or detaining almost all of his rivals. and we begin this hour with the latest on the covid-19 pandemic. for the first time in more than a year and a half, the u.s. is open to vaccinated travelers from 33 countries, long-awaited good news for tourists and people who haven't seen their families since the pandemic started. let's get right to rahema ellis who the at jfk international airport for us and guad venegas in san ysidro, california, along the mexican border. pete williams is with us from washington. rahema, these must be emotional reunions. what's it like at jfk? >> reporter: it's excitement here for people coming into the country after not been allowed

here. we're not allowed in the terminal to be face to face with families and friends as they connect with one another, so we're not seeing all of that emotion just yet, but we are seeing some very happy people who are pleased to be able to come back into the country. listen to what two people told us about the safety protocols and the certificates that they had to have in place before they got on the plane. take a listen. they told us that we have to have vaccinated certificate before we come into the united states >> and did you have to have a negative covid-19 test? >> yes. >> reporter: how many hours before? >> 72 hours. >> no, no, no, the procedure was very fast. it was just, just comfortable. >> reporter: another man traveling here to the united states said it was really easy. once you know what those safety protocols are that you have to be fully vaccinated and you have to come in with a negative covid-19 test 72 hours before boarding the plane.

he said, there were no delays because most people had their papers. the thing about it, jose, i think, to remember is that the airlines are going to be responsible for checking all of this. the onus was on them. if there are violations, the airline could be fined up to $35,000 per violation. and the cdc says it's going to have workers at the airport, were doing spot checks to make certain that the safety protocols are followed. jose? >> and thank you, rahema. guad, meanwhile, today the u.s./mexico border is reopening to nonessential travelers for the first time since march of 2020. what's it like where you are? >> reporter: this is a big change for people at the border here, jose. if you look at the numbers, in 2019, about 270 million people crossed from mexico into the united states, a number that dropped to about 170 million the year after during the pandemic. that's how much it's been reduced. now, essential travel has been allowed for mexicans that have to work in the u.s. or american citizens that have to cross back and forth. but people that live in these

border cities, people with visas, who normally come into the u.s. to see family members or to do shopping, they have not been able to do so, so you have millions of people on the mexican side that have been waiting for this day, the day when nonessential travel is allowed through border crossings. you have people not just here in san diego, tijuana, you have people in el paso, texas, all along the mexican border, lot of excitement and it is expected that there will be longer wait times coming into the u.s. for all of these nonessential travelers to finally be able to cross the border. and we also say, they also have these vaccine requirements for anyone crossing into the u.s. here, jose. >> guad, you're a guy who grew up in a border area, right? crossings from the united states into mexico, many times throughout your life. this is such an important part of border life, and yet, for over a year, it's been

unaccessible. >> reporter: right. so it hasn't been normal, jose. as somebody who grew up on the border, the people that live here with cross on a daily basis. one of the things that's very unique about the border is the shopping malls on the american side. almost every border city along the u.s./mexico border will have a mall on the american side, lots of mexicans wait, they save their money, and they come and do their shopping here. that has not been happening because of the pandemic. so businesses have suffered all across san diego. these are the images you're seeing. this is what it looks like. this is the port of entry here in san ysidro, the largest land port of entry in the world. it's the most busy. and that's what's now reopening to its full capacity. this is going to help businesses on the american side, the sales tax, the way they're making their money. this has obviously been affected during the pandemic. and it's not just here. this is the same thing that happens all across the border, where lots of businesses have suffered and they're going to get those shoppers back starting today, jose. >> and pete, meanwhile,

president biden's effort to get more people vaccinated hit a roadblock when a federal appeals court suspended the administration's plan territory workers at companies with 100 or more employees to receive a vaccine or undergo weekly testing. what happens now, pete? >> well, now the government is going to have to respond. but you're right. any business with 100 or more employees has to ensure that the workforce is fully vaccinated or require the workers who aren't vaccinated to wear a mask and show a negative covid test, at least once a week. a group of companies sued along with texas, louisiana, mississippi, south carolina, and utah. they all say congress never gave osha authority to order something like this. and that covid is a society-wide pandemic, not a workplace hazard. they say public health responses are not the province of the federal government. that they are explicitly left to the states by the constitution. and they say this is the same kind of overreach as the biden administration's effort to have the centers for disease control ban evictions.

the employers say these rules will make it harder to maintain enough workers in a tight labor market. now, the law does have a quirk, because it allows filing a challenge directly to a three-judge panel of a federal appeals court, and that's the one that on saturday, the fifth circuit court of appeals temporarily blocked the rule. and it said that challengers, quote, gave cause to believe that there are grave statutory and constitutional issues with this mandate. so the court gave the government until 5:00 today to respond. now, for now, jose, this action doesn't change anything. the court's order, because the mask requirement for unvaccinated employees doesn't kick in until december 5th, and the vaccination requirement doesn't become effective until january 4th. so there's some time for the courts to work on this. >> and pete, as far as appeals, is this going to be something that goes on for a while? >> yes, i think -- this is not the only one. there's another challenge in another federal appeals court. and whoever loses here can go to

the full appeals court or to the supreme court. >> pete williams, guad venegas, and rahema ellis, thank you so much for being with me this morning. artist travis scott is now facing multiple civil lawsuits after eight people died and hundreds were injured in a mad crowd crush at his concert during the astroworld music festival in houston. videos have surfaced of concertgoers begging cameramen and security officials for help, as scott's set continued in the background. the known victims range in age from 14 to 27. scott saying that he is absolutely devastated by what happened. later today, we'll hear from the family of a 21-year-old who lost his life at friday night's concert. joining me now is nbc's catie beck. catie, good morning. we should know that kylie jenner said neither she or scott knew about deaths until after the concert? >> reporter: that's right, jose. both of them are expressing that

they are broken and devastated by what happened and they're working with the houston community to try to support victims and their families in any way they can. they say that they didn't learn about those fatalities until after the concert had ended and in noway would they have continued performing had they known that that was going on. now, officials here in houston say that there are also concerns with shutting an event down of this size, very suddenly. they say there is potential for riots. they had to take that into consideration at this event, as well. 50,000 people in that area, we've heard from so many over the past few days, just absolutely a horrific experiences of feeling suffocated, feeling bodies pressed against theirs, getting knocked to the ground, seeing people carried out on stretchers and cpr administered. these crowds were very dense and very thick and emergency personnel and first responders were having difficulty making their way through the crowds to tend to all of the people that had gone down. there was truly the worst-case

scenario of a mass casualty disaster. and though for the most part, officials said they felt going into this event that they had done their part to prepare, clearly, it didn't work. >> yeah, i mean, catie, city officials say a similar incident happened at astro world in 2019. do we know if any changes were made since then? >> at a press conference on saturday, officials say they made a lot of changes. they said, since that event, they actually beefed up manpower significantly, put more guards and more police here. they also say that there was extensive cite plans offered by live nation, the organizer of this event, and permitting was done. checks were had. they said that basically, going into this, they felt that they had well staffed the area, as well as putting ambulances all around the perimeter of this property. an expectation that when you have 50,000 people, there are going to be some type of medical needs and treatment. i don't think anyone expected it to be on the scale that it was. >> and what do we expect to hear

from one of victims' families during today's press conference, catie? >> well, i think we're going to be hearing from a lot of families in coming days, jose. i mean, we know now with several lawsuits that have been filed and they are against travis scott, they are against live nation, and they're against the city of houston, calling all three of them responsible parties for what happened here. a lot of the fans of travis scott are young people. very young people. i mean, the youngest victim in this case is 14. the oldest is just 27. and there was a 10-year-old boy who was actually in critical condition, who was transported to the hospital on saturday night. so, there are families who are grieve ing grieving, and the toughest way, because there are children involved. so i think young people at the start of their lives had a lot to lose and i think their parents will be expressing that through these press conferences in coming days. >> what a horrible tragedy. catie beck, thank you very much. a suspected serial killer is under arrest in the st. louis area, citing multiple police

sources, our nbc affiliate ksdk report that police believe that 25-year-old perez reed is responsible for four homicides in the st. louis area, two in kansas city, kansas. the killings happened in september and october. the st. louis county prosecutor's office has announced two counts of first-degree murder, and one count of assault against reed. ksdk reports that he was linked to the murders by the gun that he allegedly used and other evidence. police say most of the victims were women or those who dressed like women. nbc news has reached out to the st. louis metro and county police departments along with the kansas city police department. we're still awaiting a response. coming up, a win for the biden administration as the bipartisan infrastructure bill will soon be law. but what about the rest of his build back better agenda? we'll talk about that, next. s ba we'll talk about that, next. plus, first lady jill biden and the u.s. surgeon general are kicking off a nationwide campaign to encourage parents to

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there are new warning signs for democrats as they celebrate the passage of a huge part of president biden's agenda. moments ago, the president returned to the white house from delaware.

some time this week, he is expected to sign the bipartisan infrastructure bill, approved by the house late friday night. this as house democrats plan to vote next week on a huge bill aimed at reshaping the social safety net and fighting climate change. but a new "usa today" suffolk university poll shows the headwinds democrats are facing. the poll finds that president biden's approval rating has fallen to 38%, and if the midterm elections were held today, they're going to be held a year from today, voters would be more likely to choose republicans over democrats. with me now, nbc news capitol hill correspondent, leigh ann caldwell and "usa today" washington bureau chief, susan page. leigh ann, good morning. what challenges does this reconciliation bill face before it comes up for a vote in the house? >> good morning, jose. there's a lot of obstacles left, because the reason this build back better plan was not passed last week is because there was a small group of house moderates

who they wanted a complete analysis, a scores, as they call it, of how much the bill cost if they actually pay for it and their impact on the economy. so they signed -- they made a statement saying that they would vote for this legislation if and only if this analysis checks out. but they say that they will do that the week of november 15th, which was next week, but there's a couple of problems with that. the first is that that's a really aggressive timeline for the congressional budget office to come out with their analysis. this was more than a 2,000-page bill and it takes them some time to do this. and still, there has to be a lot of trust within the democratic party, including those moderates who have said that they would vote for it, if that checks out. well, even though the progressives have signed off on this, there's still some skepticism that they're going to be there. despite that, the congressional black caucus is optimistic. the head of the cbo this morning

on "morning joe" says she trusts every single one of her colleagues. let's listen. >> i trust all of my democrats in our house caucus, because we brought our diversity of our caucuses together. and here's the thing. we have to move forward. we have to move forward for this nation. i believe in the house we'll do what we're supposed to do and that's the people's work. >> and jose, those are just the challenges in the house. there's still senators who have not signed off on this, including senator joe manchin. there's provisions that the house added to this legislation, that there's some senators who don't approve of. so they want to pass all of this by thanksgiving, both the house and the senate. that's highly unlikely and it still has many obstacles before this can become law, jose. >> and susan, the "usa

today"/suffolk university poll was conducted before the bill passed. do you think the passage of that bill will make a difference for democrats? >> democrats think it will. it's a very popular bill and our survey was supported two to one, so it ought to help, but it doesn't deal with every problem that democrats now face. this is exactly one year before the midterm elections, november 8th, 2022. we'll see the house and the senate up for grabs. and at the moment, democrats face concerns from voters about whether they have delivered on their promises, whether they are progressive enough or maybe too progressive depending on what kind of voters you are talking to, and whether they have lived up to the expectations that voters had when they elected them, when they put them in power one year ago, jose. >> and i mean, the role and the importance of independent voters, right? those are the ones that really

helped president biden get to the white house, their opinion seems to have changed drastically in just a year. >> more than four in ten independent voters say that joe biden has done a less-good job than they thought that he would do at the point that he was elected. 16% of his own voters say he hasn't done as well as they expected. so there's an expectations problem here now. it's possible that this can get addressed, passage of an infrastructure bill should help. if they move ahead, democrats, and manage to do what leigh ann has just described and get the build back better act passed, that should help, too, on the issue of delivering on promises, but we know that historically, it's tough for the party of the president to avoid losing ground in that first midterm election. history is working against democrats in this case. >> and interesting, because i think that the impact to have not getting something like the build back better passed has, i

think, affected a lot of people's view as to what is or is not possible in washington. >> you know, the process has been messy. one of the promises that joe biden made was to operate in a more bipartisan manner. he did that on the infrastructure bill. it was passed with support from both parties. but you have to say that our politics today continues to be pretty poisoned. and it's going to take more than passage of one bill or even the work of one person, even if he is president, to deal with that. >> and leigh ann, in the next few weeks, congress will have to deal with government funding, and once again, raising the debt limit. what will this potentially mean for efforts to get the reconciliation bill done? >> it complicates things, jose. especially when it get to the senate, because things in the senate just take a lot of time. it takes time on the floor to do this stuff, because of senate rules. and so if they need to fund the government by december 3rd, there's a chance they have to lift the debt limit again in early december. there's other things, as well,

including the annual defense authorization bill that takes at least two weeks on the senate floor. there's not a lot of time left in the year. democrats will prioritize this reconciliation build back better plan, but they have all of these different things they have to do as well. it's definitely a time crunch and it complicates their goals and agenda, jose. >> leigh ann caldwell and susan page, thank you both for being with me this morning. still ahead, getting your young children vaccinated against covid. we'll cut through the misinformation, next. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" ing "jose di-bazalart reports" this is the greatest idea you'll ever hear. okay, it's an app that compares hundreds of travel sites for hotels and cars

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. 28 past the hour, later today, first lady jill biden will kick off a nationwide effort urging parents to vaccinate their children. this comes one week after the cdc approved pfizer's lower dose covid vaccine for childrens, ages 5 to 11. former fda director, dr. scott gottlieb, who now sits on the board of pfizer, addressed what impact vaccines will have on children in school. >> i think you'll see broad immunity get put into a child population. now, there won't be mandates on

vaccines for kids for a very long time. i don't see that happening for years, but i think a lot of parents will go out and vaccinate their children and that will improve the situation of safety in schools. >> with me is nbc news correspondent sam brock in miami at a pharmacy rolling out the vaccine for children. and dr. kavita patel. sam, you had the opportunity to speak with a pharmacist there about how they're preparing to vaccinate children. what'd you find? >> reporter: jose, that pharmacist that i spoke with got emotional describing what her experiences were like. having these families come in feeling like they were deprived for months, not being able to get the youngest members of their family protected. and it's something that's being done systemically and very expansive expansively. this cvs is one of 1500 across

the country that's participating in that. at denver, there's a zoo where there were vaccinations on-site there. in new york city, roughly a thousand schools that offered vaccinations for children. in san francisco, for example, community-based centers. it really runs the gamut. and in talking with that pharmacist, she said she had decades of experience with pediatrics, she was happy to do this. all of the vaccinators need specialized overviews and protocols to be able to follow, because the kids, like their adult counterparts, have higher levels of anxiety, some delicacy involved, but so many of them were grateful for this opportunity. it should be noted, the advice to parents, at least from cvs' standpoint is to go out and make an appointment line, because they have certain blocks set up for families. a lot of them are coming in, really in the afternoon, because kids are in school during the morning. they're expecting about 40 vaccinations here later today. so make that appointment and understand that if it's five or ten minutes for an adult, it might take 10 to 15 minutes for a child. but they're happy to be a part of this process. not exactly clear on the number of kids that will be vaccinated

day by day, but we know that there's a population of some 28 million children who are living with older relatives, exposed and constantly interacting with people who are more vulnerable or perhaps are not vaccinated themselves. this is such a critical component right now in getting our arms truly around this pandemic. jose? >> and dr. patel, this week will be the official rollout of the vaccine for kids. do we expect, you think, long lines of parents and kids waiting for these shots? >> not necessarily long lines, jose. because i think sam mentioned that most people are moving either towards appointments or schools are doing and counties are doing walkup clinics. i was at one this weekend. so you could walk up, but they targeted it for kind of school districts and let parents know and tried to space it out, so they could reassure parents that you do not need to wait in long lines. it wasn't like when we got adult vaccines rolled out and people were clicking to try to get an appointment. the administration is really trying to emphasize that they're going to get 15 million shots

out there across the country this week. and even more on its heels to follow. so it shouldn't be at heart, if you have to wait even a couple of days, jose. >> and let's talk about that shot for children, as we mentioned at the beginning of this conversation. it is a vaccine, smaller in quantity? >> yeah, that's right. it's a third of the dose of what adults get, and critical for this are two things, jose. number one, we do believe that this will lead to a lower rate of side effects in the trial, over 3,000 patients. they had lower incidents of fevers, chills, fatigues. the most common symptom, just to reassure parents, and my kids were one of the ones receiving them over the weekend, just a little bit of pain around the injection site and that was it. and we think the lower dose will help with that myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart, which we have seen in children 12 or older. rare side effect. you fill all of yankee stadium

with people who get vaccinated and you would only have one of these people in the stadium that get myocarditis, and they always -- 95% of the time resolve within weeks. so that's reassuring as well. >> reassuring to hear that you actually took your child. tell us about the process that you experienced and what did your child experience. >> well, my -- i would like to tell you that my kids were quiet and listened to their mom, since i give out vaccines, but big surprise, they weren't very quiet and they didn't listen to mom. it was really nice to have people who understand how to give children vaccines, which everybody inside of the pharmacies and the clinics do. and it was not that long of a process, but just making sure that, you know, the child is comfortable. it's all in, you know, the same part of the arm that the adults get it or if they need to, they can go to the thigh. but it's a pretty straight forward shot. i tried to tell my son, it's like the flu shot. and once it was done, he's been bragging to his other friends, you know, it's no big deal.

so i just want to reassure parents, though, that there is an opportunity to watch children for 15 to 30 minutes afterwards, so that if you're worried about any immediate reactions, health professionals, people like myself will be on hand and understand what to do about that. but again, we haven't seen that, so that's a good sign. >> yeah, indeed. so doctor, throughout the pandemic, we've seen so much misinformation. how, now, we're seeing some try to capitalize on parents fears. as a doctor, how do you break through this misinformation? >> yeah, i think you really have to break through to the child and the parent and kind of the individual and also just talk through number one, kind of what i see, what i'm doing with my own children. but also break down these statistics. the number one piece of misinformation that i'm hearing, by the way, even from some doctors in the community is that your children don't get it as bad as adults do. they don't need the vaccine. and i think what's really misunderstood is that children are getting covid anywhere from at least 7 to 10% are getting long covid symptoms.

and even more concerning is that we still have cases of children hospitalized and dying by the thousands. an unfortunate death that can be prevented with the vaccine. nine children getting vaccinated, jose, can prevent one symptomatic case of covid. we've never seen these kinds of rates of success with a vaccine. so i also try to tell them that this opens the door. day cares, children not having to quarantine. and jose, really important, is i think masks will be able come off in the school setting and feeling like we're getting back to normal next year, despite how many cases we're seeing, even today with children age 5 to 11. prevent this. >> doctor, you were talking, you just mentioned that we've seen some long-term effects of covid at some of our youngest children. what are some of those long-term effects? >> the more common symptoms tend to be non-specific joint pain, sometimes what we see in adults.

we are seeing some issues with memory recall. some behavioral issues, and of course, these are things that i think we're going to have to learn more about. we just have not spent enough time learning about what we call long covid syndrome. but here's, you know, parent-to-parent or family member to family member, as a mother, if something seems off with your child, even if they had kind of a mild infection in the past, it's absolutely worth bringing forward to your pediatrician, because they're seeing this, they understand how to deal with this. and they can help walk you through this process of what it might look like. but another reminder, don't think that just because your child had covid in the past, don't think that they don't need the vaccine. we're seeing vaccines helping with some of those long covid symptoms in adults and children. >> dr. kavita patel, thank you so much. sam brock, thank you as well for being with me this morning. green bay packers star quarterback aaron rodgers facing new fallout after admitting that he is not vaccinated against

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growing fallout for green bay packers star quarterback aaron rodgers after revealing that he was not vaccinated against covid-19 after saying in august that he was immunized against the virus. he also revealing that he took ivermectin, which isn't an authorized treatment for covid-19. now, prevea health, which rogers has been a spokesperson for since 2015, has announced that they're ending their agreement with him. joining me now is nbc news correspondent, stephanie gosk. stephanie, good morning. what do we know about how the nfl is handling this controversy? >> reporter: jose, the nfl knew that aaron rodgers was

unvaccinated. his team knew he was unvaccinated. he was deceptive, certainly, in that press conference back in august, but that was to the public. behind the scenes, everyone knew what was going on, but the question now that the nfl is asking is whether the team and rogers followed the protocol that was in place for people who are unvaccinated. rodgers himself said he didn't follow it in press conferences, pretty evident, he didn't wear a mask during press conferences. that is one of the rules. but beyond that, he says he did follow all of the protocol that included things like daily testing and social distancing from players. so what the league will do is look at all of that and decide whether the team should be fined or aaron rodgers himself should be fined. there has been talk about suspension, but it doesn't look like that's really on the table for this so far. >> so, he followed the rules, he didn't follow the protocol. what -- is there anything that could happen to him? >> well, he could get these fines. there have been some reports of

other players who were fined and then there's, once you're fined, the idea that you go back and still continue to break protocol, the league could potentially suspend you. there's no example of a player who's been suspended for breaking this protocol. and rodgers insists that he did it -- and it's interesting, jose, these facilities and all of these places where these players play, there are cameras there. the league insists on it. and they have ability to go back 30 days to see if these protocols were followed and to act on them if they were not. >> and so, you're saying that his teammates knew about it, the fans didn't. are we hearing from either of them? >> they aren't saying much. who you're hearing from is a lot of sports analysts and he's getting beaten up pretty hard by some people who have supported him through the years. some accusing him of being flat-out liar for that press conference. others accusing him of being selfish, because of his decision not to get vaccinated and then potentially, they say, although they don't know for sure, not

following these protocols, that he then jeopardizes his team and their season. they lost on sunday. the question remains how they rebound from this. rodgers will be back on the field next sunday, very likely. do they lose home team advantage in the playoffs. do they lose a buy? is it something that affects a team? that's something that will have to play out in the coming weeks, jose. >> stephanie gosk, thank you so much for being with me this morning. it's good to see you. >> you're welcome. it's time now for a check of headlines beyond our burgers. in nicaragua, authoritarian leader daniel ortega all but locked up a win in sunday's election. he will continue on to a fourth term in office after detaining his challengers, shutting down opposition parties, and closing voting stations. in mexico, a migrant caravan is continuing its journey to the u.s. despite clashes with the mexican national guard, which killed one cuban national last week. iraq's prime minister

survived an assassination attempt as armed drones targeted his home in baghdad's highly secured green zone. joining me now with details is nbc's matt bodder. what do we know about this attack? >> reporter: good morning. this is a pretty dramatic escalation in a situation that's already become pretty tense in terms of iraq's domestic politics. basically, two armed drones took off from about 12 kilometers to the northeast of baghdad and flew into the green zone to try to explode at the prime minister's residence. now, the green zone, of course, that very famous area of baghdad, highly secure, where there's a lot of foreign embassies, but a lot of iraqi government buildings. one of the things we still don't know is who exactly was behind this. no one is publicly taking credit, but reuters is reporting that iraqi security officials suspect that at least one of the iranian-backed militia groups that are active in iraqi politics right now are behind it. and they're saying that there's some evidence that the drone and

the explosives were also of iraqi make. this would kind of fall in line with those tensions i mentioned. you know, there were clashes between pro-iranian protesters outside the zone just a few days ago. this is very much a common theme in iraqi politics right now. but still a lot of details hanging in the air. >> and it looks like very kind of very powerful explosives were used. meanwhile, about 100 people were killed in a tanker explosion in sierra leone. the pictures are devastating. what can you tell us? >> so this one was just a really tragic series of events. basically, according to the local authorities, a fuel tanker was pulling off of a highway into a gas station, found itself in a collision with another vehicle. the drivers of both of these vehicles got out to assess the damage, to check the fuel leak from the tanker itself. and urging people to stay away from this. obviously, it's a very dangerous situation. while this was going on, according to local authorities, at least a few people tried to scoop up some of the fuel that

was coming out of this tanker, and somewhere in all of this, it exploded, and killed almost 100 people. just a tragic situation. >> meanwhile, matt, a russian court injected a appeal by former u.s. marine paul whealan? >> yeah, there's a few things going on with paul whealan. the big-picture, high-level talks between the u.s. government and the russian government about it and his own attempts to navigate the russian judicial system, and that's kind of what we saw today. whealan is trying to appeal to get himself extradited to the u.s. to serve the remainder of his sentence there. this hearing itself was rescheduled several times over the past few months. and i don't think there was ever really a big expectation that he would be extradited under these terms. and so there was no real surprise today when the court said "no." and this puts whealan in a very

bad situation, because he's now at the mercy of a direct intervention by the kremlin. and the kremlin or the russian government has made it clear through various means that it wants to trade paul whealan for some pretty big asks and it's difficult to see the u.s. government going for that. >> matt bodner in moscow, thank you very much. we just heard from former president obama at the cop-26 international climate summit in scotland. he warned that we're falling behind on climate change and voiced a call to action, urging international support. but also acknowledging how hard cooperation is this moment. >> i recognize that we're living in a moment when international cooperation has waned. a moment of greater geopolitical tension and stress. in part because of the pandemic, in part because of the rise of nationalism and tribal impulses around the world.

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day two of testimony in the trial of three white men accused of killing ahmaud arbery, and emotions in the courtroom are high. arbery's mother breaking down in tears friday watching the moment her son was shot. some in the jury shielding their view or shaking their heads. he was shot dead in a jog in the summer of early 2020. i want to bring in ron allen from outside the courthouse. what's the latest? >> day two of the prosecution's case. we're hearing from another investigator who arrived at the scene day one we heard from the first police officer who arrived at the scene. what the prosecutors are trying to do is recreate what happened out there, and they're doing it by using some very graphic crime scene footage that shows

arbery's body when these officers first arrived. it's -- we can't show it to you because it's just so graphic. his body is riddled with bullets, and there's a lot of blood. it's a difficult thing to watch which is why people in the courtroom are watching this and having difficulty at times taking it in. so we expect to hear from a lot of police officers at this stage of the case. because that's what they're trying to do. show the jury what happened, because they have no other way to do it. now, for its part, the defense is painting a different story about what happened. they reject this idea that arbery was a jogger. they say that he had been in the neighborhood at least four different occasions, there in a home that was open, that was unsecured, that the defense says he was, quote, unquote, plundering. they even maintain that travis mcmichael, one of the defendants came face to face with arbery 11 or 12 days before the fatal incident near their home.

they're making the point the defendants say they knew who this guy was, who arbery was. they're saying he was a troublemaker, a criminal, a robber, whatever, in this neighborhood, and that's why they responded as they did. and bryant, the other defendant. they said they were mindful, there had been break-ins in the neighborhood. it was a neighborhood on edge. and that's the context that the defense is building. the prosecution again is just trying to lay out what happened, what it thinks happened with the very emotional, very graphic crime scene video. we expect it to go on now for some time for them to continue laying out their case, and then the defense will respond at some point. again, the bottom line is that the prosecution is saying that arbery was an innocent man running through the neighborhood, jogging through the neighborhood on a sunday afternoon, and the defense is saying well, no, he wasn't jogging at all. he was running away from a potential crime scene, and the defendants who have law enforcement training went after him because it was a big problem with crime in the neighborhood.

it's just two different portrayals of what happened as the jury digests this case. >> ron allen in brunswick, georgia. thank you very much. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. you can always reach me on instagram and twitter. follow the show online @jdbalartmsnbc news. online @jdbalartmsnbc news quest? uh uh! one up the power of liquid with tide pods ultra oxi.

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and a good monday morning to you. craig melvin here. it's a busy hour. let's get to it. first, the growing legal fallout from friday's tragedy at a houston music festival. eight people all under the age of 30 died. people crushed under the weight of a jam packed crowd of 50,000. >> you couldn't breathe. i'm taking like everybody was so crushed up on you. >> everyone was pushing to the front. you had no room to walk. >> i couldn't even breathe. i really couldn't breathe. gasping for air, drowning in people. >> the deadly chaos now, the center of a major criminal investigation. we are going to dig into all of that along with disturbing video of attendees dancing on top of ambulances who are struggling to reach victims in the crowd. also also right now, the

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