♪ i've been everywhere ♪ ♪♪ good morning. 10:00 a.m. eastern. 7:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart. we begin with another holiday weekend tarnished by gun violence. we'll following the details about the parade that turned into chaos in a chicago suburb after a gunman opened fire into a crowd leaving six dead and dozens wounded. a person of interest is in custody. we'll talk with the illinois congressman. more protests in ohio after

police released footage showing the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old black man jalen walker. and later this hour, an update on wnba star brittney griner reaching out with a personal plea to president biden. we begin this morning with yet another community reeling and searching for answers after a mass shooting. hundreds of people gathered along a street in highland park, illinois, a half hour north of chicago. a gunman perched on a nearby roof opened fire seemingly at random. authorities say when the shooting stopped six people were dead. more than three dozen were injured. highland park mayor spoke with

nbc's "today" show about how the community is coping. >> my greater focus this morning as the sun is rising is how my community is feeling. the unbelievable sadness and shock. this tragedy never should have arrived in our doorsteps and as a small town, everybody knows somebody who was affected by this directly. >> investigators say the gunman fled after dropping the weapon and the mayor said it was purchased legally. police arrested a person of interest. he has not been charged as of right now but this picture may sum up the mood in that community. chicago tribune photographer captured this image of a police officer with the hands over the face walking down a street after the shooting surrounded by the items people left behind.

with us this start the coverage is correspondent kathy park in illinois, investigative correspondent tom winter. what has been the latest to learn this far? >> reporter: jose, within the last hour we have just learned from the lake county coroner's office that they won't release the full list of victims' names until this afternoon or tomorrow morning. but one individual is niklas toledo. he was 76 years old with mobility issues and watching the parade in a wheelchair and didn't want to come to this parade and encouraged to come from his family members and came out with several of them and unfortunately he was a victim and seated between his son and nephew and they described a

bloody scene when the barrage of bullets rained down the crowd less than a mile from here where we are at highland park hospital. another victim is jackie sunheim, a member of a synagogue here and released a statement writing in part jackie's work, kindness and warmth touched us all. guiding us through the life's moments of joy and sorrow. all of this with tireless dedication. but once again, jose, we are less than 24 hours since this mass shooting played out. just less than a mile from where we are right now and following the details coming in throughout the day. jose? >> what's the latest on the

injured? >> reporter: so right now there are still several victims who are recovering from injuries at area hospitals. this is less than a mile away from the parade route and a crush of patients that came here after the shooting. 26 patients came in. 25 sustained gunshot wounds. 19 of the patients were treated and have been released. the numbers are staggering. we'll be monitoring to get more information about the wounded, the victims as the day goes on, jose. >> tom, what have we learned about the person of interest? >> he goes by bobby. the photo in the vehicle is the apparent arrest video from

yesterday. that afternoon put out by the fbi and local authorities in chicago. our understanding is that from the mayor of highland park is that the gun was legally purchased. he was of age. no criminal record as best we can find. so there would be nothing presumably to stop him from buying this weapon. so we know that he has ties to the community. we know that he had a prolific social media presence and a lot of that since taken down. facebook, spotify. people posted about him on twitter. kind of fan club for apparently rap songs he put together. had postings on youtube. the underlying theme is that the theme was violence essentially. mass shootings. that's what he was focused on and the videos talked about.

weird characters in depictions. he has a number of tattoos. no indications he was on law enforcement radar. no indications he should have been other than the folks that saw the images and perhaps should have called authorities given how disturbing some of them are. but obviously quite graphic. that's what we know about him. the decision on whether or not he'll be charged is presumably is being made now or shortly and will likely get charged later today. police believe he is the shooter. he is in police custody at the highland park police department stations there. that's what we know about him. no indications that any others are involved and the investigation is obviously in the infancy whether or not he

had ties to terrorist organizations. >> tom, not a lot of information on the weapon utilized. >> we know enough at this point i think. the police said a high powered rifle. based on what we heard on the video and the recordings from witnesses it would appear to be a semiautomatic assault type weapon. we don't know the brand or model or modified or the ammunition on him but at this point the general knowledge or the general consensus is this is an assault-style rifle and when we hear that we think about uvalde, buffalo, new town and the list goes on and on. weapons that obviously can cause a lot of damage and death. >> thank you so much. we are joined by past president

of the black law enforcement executives. a msnbc law enforcement analyst. thank you for being with us this morning. how do you see this investigation going from here? >> what's going to be interesting to see how different it is from the other investigations because as you know each week it seems we get a mass shooting. different set of circumstances. at the end of it all same injuries and pain and death. it will be interesting to get more about this individual, where he is from, what are the affiliations if any at all. of course, more importantly, what can we learn from this? what we saw with this shooter that is different maybe than others is that he took an

elevated position. that is not new. we saw this several years ago in las vegas where a sniper took to a high-rise hotel building that shot and killed over 70 people. this is an ongoing issue in this country until we begin to address from my sperngs tell me the issues around guns in this country. we are a gun culture. we need to accept that. millions of people who are rightful and legal institutionally with owners of weapons such as myself but it keeps appearing that the weapons are getting into the hanz of the wrong persons. then it causes this country a great deal of grief and it is every week, it is every day in many cities in this country that plays it out. >> indeed.

illinois has some of the strictest gun laws in the country and bordered by indiana and wisconsin with fairly lax gun laws. looks as though this the person purchased the weapon legally. is there anything that can be done to stop these shootings, curtail them, to minimize them? >> well, i'm not sure. i think this is a deeper discussion. let me talk about the states that have strict gun laws and states that don't. they're contiguous to each other or not. we have guns in the society and our condition and just because there's an imaginary line there saying one state is separated from the other does not necessarily mean that keeps guns out. clearly that's the case. the point is that the guns can be moved across anywhere any

part of this country at any time, are doing so as we are speaking. legally and illegally. the fact we have so many guns in our environment, in fact, more guns than we have people in this country. i think it requires a much deeper conversation. not to in any kind of way suggest that the constitutional right should not be respected. it should. we have to begin to think about how do we best get in front of some of this? what will be a stricter recourse to protect citizens against harm? and that's going to require a whole lot more conversation and because that question you're asking, i'm going to tell you and sad to say, this is not the

end of this. we'll see more. it happens every day. in streets across country and then we see it in the types of social events where a person for an unknowneason find themselves behind the weapon doing such great harm to innocent people. we come back here and we talk about it and then wait for the next one. we got to do more and we got to do more. >> thank you so much for being with us. to continue the conversation, very well stated, this is an important conversation that we need to have. illinois congressman jesus chuy. i begin with the thoughts in highland park yesterday. >> my heart is so heavy for the victims and the families and the highland park community for all

that they have experienced and the shock and the grief but as we mourn we need to be cognizant of the fact there's a dozen mass shootings over the july fourth weekend and 75 mass shootings since the beginning of june. so obviously we need to have a national conversation about how to prevent this. i think we need further action by congress even though the modest more sacred communities act bipartisan bill that we enacted in response to the uvalde shootings and now had three exceptionally deadly shootings happen before our very eyes and as mr. al xander underscored not likely to be the last until we have reflection with a reconsideration of

protocols to protect peoeith large gatherings like concerts or fireworks displays or parades. we are at a place as a nation that the world looks upon great shock with more weapons in the united states than people as mr. alexander pointed out. this calls for deep reflection and action. >> i'm just thinking, what is the further action. i want to talk to you about you represent parts of chicago. our colleagues say at least 57 people were shot over the holiday weekend. nine people died. that doesn't include the shooting in highland park. why so much violence? why so much death? why so much constant carnage in areas like chicago? >> the carnage is unbearable. there was someone shot and

killed a block away from my house on thursday night over a discussion, an incident. a local fast food restaurant. rally for life -- value for life seems to have taken a hard toll and a hit. over the pandemic, over the past three years. i believe that there is a direct connection to being -- people being isolated, people feeling desolate and hopeless about the future and this is why we need to have a national dialogue for people to be real about our just infatuation with guns and especially with the availability of military style weapons. i continue to believe that we need a military style weapons ban nationally. i think this is one more testament although we don't have

details about the gun used but seems to be pretty obvious that it was a high caliber powerful and an assault weapon in nature so all of these things need to be considered but it also calls attention to the need for investment in poor, disadvantaged communities on one hand and also a greater investment in mental health services because many people are out there who need help. >> congressman garcia, thank you for being with us this morning. still ahead, a city on edge in ohio after the deadly police shooting of a 25-year-old black man. we'll talk to the president of the naacp of what he wants to see happen. major developments in the war in ukraine. russia is on the verge of seizing a key eastern region of

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. 21 past the hour. a state of emergency in effect in akron, ohio, amid growing outrage over a deadly police shooting of a black man. authorities released body cam video on sunday showing eight officers shooting the 25-year-old jalen walker after he ran from a car from which police say a shot had been fired earlier. an attorney for the walker family said officers fired 90 times. he suffered 60 wounds. we will show you body cam video of the shooting. you will probably find it disturbing. maggie vespa explains what the video shows. >> reporter: the 7-minute clip shows walker's last moments.

officers tried to pull walker over for an unspecified traffic violation not shown on tape but allegedly fired at them. >> had a shot come out of the door. >> reporter: police say you can say the flash of the gun from a security camera. walker ran from the car wearing a ski mask. they fired tasers but miss jd that fatal hail of bullets. the officer said they thought walker was reaching for a gun and found it in the car. walker had recently lost his fiancee. >> good morning. what is it like in the community there this morning? >> reporter: yeah. jose, the calm after the storm. it feels like. then again police and city officials planning for more protests and there's a mandatory

curfew at 9:00 p.m. and businesses cleaning up from damage from nights of protests over the weekend. i want to show you conversations we had in downtown akron. what is this like to have akron in the news like this? >> you don't think it could happen here. kind of thing. but it does. and it is disappointing. >> what did you think when you saw this? >> i'm devastated. my new baby. it is like -- yeah. broken into. very upset. >> this isn't typically akron. so -- we're a good city. this is a bad thing that happened. >> reporter: everyone we talked to devastated by the shooting and protesters blown away by the

magnitude of the police response. really troubled by what they see happening on the streets. things calm today but still under a state of emergency and the investigation into the shooting continues. no estimate how long that might take. jose? >> maggie, thank you very much. joining us is derrick johnson, president and ceo of the naacp. good to see you. i want to get your reaction following this shooting. >> it is unfortunate yet another shooting, another city, another time where police officers still lack the type of standardized accountability across the country. i can recall being on this show on msnbc a few weeks ago talking about buffalo. now talking about highland park, illinois. akron, ohio. we have bookend problems.

one side we have far too many police jurisdictions without a floor of accountability and then rampant gun violence. at some point we have to put in place a federal policy to govern this to stop seeing a repeat of what's taking place in this country for far, far too long. >> 90 shots fired. that's a lot. that's a lot of bullet. eight officers involved are on paid administrative leave. what do you see happening and what should be happening now? >> it would be interesting to learn whether or not the officers have been involved for misconduct in the past at another jurisdiction and this jurisdiction and not held accountedible. remember tamil rice.

the records didn't follow them. it would be interesting to find out what procedures that they were trained under and whether or not they followed the training. under no circumstances should those shots. he did not have a weapon on the person but more importantly an officer based on information received asking the other officers to stop. it is uncomprehensible that the person was fired at in nighttime. what other could have happened. against innocent citizens in that particular area. >> so many questionings. i thank you for being with us this morning. >> thank you. we'll go live to ukraine where russia is ramping up its

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wnba star brittney griner jailed on drug charges in russia four months is begging president biden for help and terrified she might be there forever. in a letter delivered to the white house yesterday a spokesman said she wrote in part quote i realize you're dealing with so much but please don't forget about me and the other american detainees. please do all you can to bring us home. russia says it found vape cartridges with cannabis oil in her luggage. a trial is under way facing up to ten years in prison if convicted. the white house said it is working aggressively to bring her home. today the world's largist military alliance took a step closer to adding two additional members. nato allies signed off on the ascension protocols for finland and sweden. this comes after putin declared

victory in the ukraine eastern region of luhansk on monday. russian forces are intensifying the shelling of two ukrainian strongholds as they shift to capturing dunk. what's the latest on the ground there, ellison? >> reporter: jose, so the governor of the donetsk region said a number of cities came under heavy shelling and no safe place in donetsk. at a press conference today we heard from a spokesperson with the ukrainian ministry of defense saying there's troops that are being heavily fired upon and said the situation is tense but under control.

the uk ministry of defense said adds russia is shifting they expect them to continue using the same tactics used in the luhansk region. they say that the battle for the donbas has been a grinding and attritional one and they expect that to continue in the coming weeks. it looks like russia forces are focusing on two citys that are sort of along the border with luhansk and will try to take them first and then make a more aggressive push to a larger city, one of the largest population cities in donetsk and important to russia as the site of a first separatist uprising in 2014. the mayor is warning, pleading with, telling citizens to evacuate as soon as they can. jose? >> thank you so much. we'll go back to the scene

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give us a sense this. >> reporter: we are a block away from the shooting occur jd the street is still closed off. investigators are going through the items meticulously and the blankets and the chair, the wagons, the bicycles left behind. people were celebrating the holiday and participating in that parade. we'll expect to hear from investigators and local law enforcement at some point later today likely in the 12:00 eastern time period. they announced that the person of interest who they say they believe is responsible for the shooting officially captured about 15 minutes from where we are now and the mayor told hoda this morning that she believes and the information suggest it is weapon used that's described

as a high power rifle and obtained legally. that is the focus of the elected leaders here. you hear from nurses and doctors responding saying the impact it had on the individuals who were shot we know six people lost the lives, 38 people rushed to the hospital. as of this morning two of the hospitals that have taken hospitals say about 12 people are still hospitalized as of this morning so we can expect things to update through the course of the day. the next major update at 12:00 eastern hearing from local law enforcement officials about where the investigation stands and whether or not that person of interest will be officially charged. jose? >> thank you. with us now is one of the hundreds of people watching the

parade when the gun fire broke out. thank you for being for being with me. >> thank you for having me. i had the images i observed, the firsthand images i observed yesterday still sered in my mind and just the 30 or so rapid pops that i thought i had a dream but they were real and happening in our community so i will be fine and get rest later today. thank you for asking. >> how do you process something like that, miles? >> you know, i had to tell you that it's a july fourth parade on the country's birthday and once i heard these pops and i

served in the reserves decades ago and after i dismissed it as a backfire of a car or a couple of firecrackers, then i said, this sounds like gun fire. i said, no, that can't be. it is in highland park but it was. approaching the scene i was maybe half a block away from it. and i saw blood on the ground and then people with blood on the legs or arms and then very, very graphically i saw turned out to be three females in pools of blood on the cement as if they were murdered by the gun and strikes a dagger in the heart of anybody. it happened in uvalde or buffalo or the synagogue in pittsburgh

but until you see it firsthand to see blood spilling from human bodies that were enjoying whatever event it was it doesn't hit home as hard as it did me yesterday. >> it is so random. it is so bloody. it is so illogical in so many ways and yet it is something we see over and over and over again. you were saying. it is happening everywhere. >> it is happening everywhere and the word that comes to mind is a voter american is we have -- it is moronic. that's probably the best word. if people in washington that we send there to do the people's business don't understand finally that guns kill and guns need to be controlled just, for

example, like dring a car. we can't drive without a license or practice a profession without going through training and license. to buy a gun even a handgun you got to be 21 and so not necessarily from illinois but in other states in the country they don't seem to care why they don't seem to care or they believe that guns prevail over human life and that has to stop. has to stop. >> miles -- no, no, no, no, no. it's important. what is the one image that just stays sered in your memory? >> seeing dead bodies in pools of blood that moments earlier were enjoying a festive occasion. a parade with family, friends, children, pets and so forth.

that will always remain sered in my memory. >> miles, i thank you very much for being with us. take care. >> thank you for having me. up next, new details about what it was like inside that sweltering truck where more than 50 people died trying to reach their american dream. what our next guest says needs to happen to prevent another tragedy. you are watching "jose diaz-balart reports." "jose diaz-balart reports.

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couldn't breathe. joining us with more is the president and ceo of the lutheran immigration and refugee service, previously served as a policy director for michelle obama. always a pleasure to see you. what a tragedy. you've written about this tragedy, said these deaths should shake our humanity. how can we prevent something like this from happening again? >> jose, thank you so much for having me. the reality is we need a reckoning with the fatal fallout of this country's deterrence immigration policy. this tragedy is the latest. it's happened time and time again and only getting worse. so my point is that there are actionable steps that we can take to pre vent these in the future. yes, we need to address drivers of displacement in the countries of origin, but that's a long-term strategy. in the meantime there are important things that we can do. obviously, when we talk about a

family fleeing gang threats in guatemala, if they can't access asylum, they're going to figure out whatever way they can. beyond that, we need to develop the capacity to process visa applications in central and south america so people can wait in country and have that happen. we allow for that all over the world, but in our back yard that is far more difficult. i think just the final thing, jose, is recognize -- sorry. >> please continue. >> i think beyond that it's recognizing that at a time when we have over 11 million jobs that are going unfilled, we know that immigration across the southern border will be reduced if we actually put in place the visas that allow those who are not seeking asylum but seeking jobs to come over. that's where i think congress and the administration have an opportunity, rather than make this a wedge issue, rather than allow partisan politics to paralyze the system, create a functional one. >> you're so right, but on the

issue of the fact that there is no real understandable, concrete immigration policy in this country. so you're absolutely right. there is no way for people in their home country to ask for -- the process of asking for asylum is not available to the people in central and south america, so you're forcing people to take to the seas, to leave a 63-year dictatorship in cuba, haiti the situation is completely unlivable, untenable, central and south america. yet, chris, there's no way for them to do it. the only people making out really well with this is organized crime and people that deal with smuggling human beings in in the back of trucks where 53 people die. is there any possibility of anything getting better? >> i'm hopeful. i think i just have to have

hope. we saw the administration and congress strike a deal on how we can manage guns better in this country. i hope that even on a lightning rod issue like immigration there is an opportunity, and i think that's where we as individuals need to put pressure on our political leaders to say, look, let's actually have a functioning system. when people say, well, they should come the right way, there is no right way. for three decades we have had a system that has had no change. that's where there's an opportunity to have both an orderly humane system. if we create pathways whether they're economic, asylum, if we build the income passity, if we recognize that climate displacement is only going to get worse, i think there are ways in which we can treat those in our back yard to a better system. >> krish, i thank you, always a pleasure to see you. thank you for your time. >> thanks for having me. we're just moments away from

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don't wait - ask your healthcare provider right away if an authorized oral treatment is right for you. in just a couple minutes president biden will award the nation's highest military honor to four soldiers who fought during the vietnam war. present gone correspondent courtney kube joins us. tell us more. >> the one thing all four of these men have in common is that each of them put himself in danger over and over and over again in battle to save their fellow soldiers. as you mentioned, there's four of them, all being presented the medal of honor for different battles in vietnam. as we saw on the screen, dwight birdwell, john duffy and dennis fujii will be there to receive the medal from president biden

at the white house. edward kaneshiro was killed in a battle in vietnam. each of them are stringers to one another. they have never met before this. now after today, they will be recognized for their selfless courage and their service to their fellow soldiers, each of them saving lives and making a major difference in their respective battles. today they'll be recognized for that more than five decades after each of them served in combat. they'll always be remembered by the american people for their heroism, jose. >> this is going to happen, courtney, in just a couple minutes, right? >> that's right. 11:15 at the white house. they will all be presented, edward khan shiro left behind a widow and five children, the youngest was only four months old at the time his father was killed. he went on to a life in the military serving in the army.

he'll receive his father's medal today. >> four heroes being recognized today. courtney kube, thank you so much. that wraps up the hour from me. i'm jose diaz-balart. you can lulz reach me on twitter and instagram. follow the show online at jdbalart msnbc.com. andrea mitchell reports start right now. kicking off two hours of coverage this morning, a patriotic american tradition, fourth of july parade, now the scene of the tragic reality of america, a mass shooting with a high-powered military style rifle n. highland park, illinois, upscale town of 30,000 people a half hour north of chicago, a quintessential chicago that has been the