thank you thank you both very much for being on this morning. and that does it for us this it morning. jose picks up our live coverage right now. good morning. it's 10:00 a.m. eastern, i'm jose diaz-balart. we're 99 day was from the critical 2022 midterm elections. tomorrow voters in five key states will head to the ballot box to shape the november races. two climate emergencies are unfolding. in kentucky the death toll now stands at 30. the governor says that number could still go up. and in california we'll get an update on the largest wildfire in the state so far this year. already scorching 50,000 acres.

now that nancy pelosi is in asia, there are questions whether she will visit taiwan or not. something the chinese government has been threatening her not to do. 99 days before the midterm elections. we're keeping a close eye on big races across the nation. five states, michigan, missouri, kansas, arizona and washington will hold primary elections tomorrow. all eyes on kansas, where boorgs rights will be on the ballot for the first time since the supreme court overruled roe v. wade back in june. voters will decide on a constitutional amendment that could pave the way for more abortion restrictions. next door in missouri, three candidates are locked in a tight race for the republican nomination to succeed retiring senator roy blunt. all three seeking donald trump's

endorsement, which he hasn't given yet. with us to start our coverage this hour is dasha burns in kansas. and washington correspondent in missouri. dasha s this the first major test of abortion rights on the ballot since roe v. wade was taken away by the supreme court? how are things shaping up there? >> jose, behind me is one of five abortion clinics in the entire state of kansas. it became one of a few in the entire region since the supreme court decision overing roe v. wade. many of of the surrounding state states have enacted all out bans or significant restrictions to the procedure. the stakes are high because of that here in kansas as kansasens become the first in the nation to vote on the issue since the supreme court decision. watch. it's the final push in the first

state to put abortion on the ballot since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. in kansas, activists on both sides working around the clock ahead of tuesday oes vote that could determine the future of abortion rights here. it's impossible to avoid the debate here. there are signs everywhere of the ballot battle ahead. from the streets to the air waves, in 2019 the kansas supreme court ruled the state constitution protects the right to an abortion. if kansasens vote yes on the amendment, that protection would be removed. the power to take action on the issue would be in the hands of the heavy conservative state legislature that could mean more restrictions or a possible ban. if kansasens vote no, the constitutional right to an abortion would remain in place making further restrictions more difficult to pass.

a tight race with 47% planning to vote yes, 43% planning to vote no, and 10% undecided. >> we have a limited right to access abortion care in our state right now, but this constitutional amendment will mandate government control over our private medical decisions and pave the way for a total ban on abortion. >> reporter: but anti-abortion activists say it's about putting the power in the hands of the people. >> does this amendment pave the pathway to a ban? >> it paves the way for future conversations to be able to happen. i want to see a future where kansasens are involved in the discussion. where unelected judges don't decide for the rest of us. the right kinds of limits in our state. >> reporter: experts say it's a pivotal vote, one the whole nation will be watching. >> a yes vote probably doesn't tell us a lot because kansas is a conservative and republican-leaning state. but a no vote or even a narrow loss by the no side will tell us that abortion rights supporters have a lot of strength in the

elections of 2022. >> for those on both sides, the stakes couldn't be higher. >> reporter: jose, one other aspect of this that could impact the outcome is the fact that this is on the primary ballot rather than the general. activists say that puts them at a disadvantage because primaries set to attract a smaller voter group that leans more conservative. but those that are advocating in favor of this say that it was on the primary ballot so they could avoid the fray of the general election and have people really focused on this issue. but we'll see what that means in terms of turnout tomorrow. >> absolutely. pretty critical missouri senate race. what are the main issues there? >> this is a fragmented three-way race between republicans vying to replace senator roy blunt and the gop senate primary race on and what

we hear from people here is that all of these candidates are vying to get the endorsement of former president trump is who has not endorsed a candidate. take a listen to what one democratic voter told me about this race. >> we have a number of people -- it's kind of sad to see roy blunt having left. i never cared for roy's politic, but compared to the politicians that are coming in to replace him, i would rather have roy back. >> why do you think roy is retiring? >> i think he's tired of where the republican party is going. he didn't support the trump that it was stolen, and he decided that there was no place in him for politics the way it is now. >> reporter: so this has been a very, very tight race. we should sort of really explain to people who is running.

so there's two erics and a vicky. the first is an embattled former governor. he resigned in disgrace. he is been accused of domestic abuse, sexual abuse and alienated himself from much of the republican party. so he has the support of donald trump jr. former president trump has not endorsed this in race. then you have the missouri attorney general and he is someone who hopefully i would catch up with and he's supposed to be coming here to have a campaign event. he's a moderate republican who has tackled right. he's come out against supporting mitch mcconnell for senate majority leader if the republicans should take back the senate. then you have vicky, she's serving in the u.s. house. she voted against certifying the 2020 election. however, she's already been told by former president trump publicly he will not endorse her and he has said she does not have what it takes to be the next republican senator from

missouri. i'm told by sources that former president trump doesn't like her because she expressed disdain after the capitol attack. all that is happening if you look at the latest poll by a republican group that shows eric scmitt is likely in the lead. it's an interesting poll though because at this point, it's still very tight. the other thing we should note is former president trump while he has not endorsed is having his eyes on missouri politics. just in the last 24 hours, he posted on true social, which is the social media site about a poll conducted. it was about 2024 and potential republican presidential nominees. it showed he would have 42% of the support of republicans here if he were to run in 2024. he say he is should have something like 70% instead of 42%. now he's very wildly popular in the state. but it's an important point to make because the poll group that made that, they are connected to

eric smitt's organization. so definitely a race to watch. >> thank you both very much for being with us this morning. a programming note. tonight steve kornacki returns to the big board to break down the key races for the house, senate and governor this midterm session. we'll look at how the races could affect the next presidential election. watch "countdown to miterms" only on mississippi nbc news. that's 7:00 p.m. pacific. with us now to continue our conversation is the former president of the latino victory project and former biden campaign adviser. it's great to see you. i have the privilege of knowing you and working with you on so many different fronts for many years. it's good to see you, my friend. how are you? >> great to be with you. thanks for having me on. >> democrats are banking on

abortion as being a key issue in this election. we were just seeing what dasha was reporting this morning. polling shows the top issues on people's minds are the economy. what do democrats need to do to get those voters that maybe don't traditionally turn out on special elections or not on presidentials to come out and vote? >> think pointing out the top issue is the economy. but abortion rights is going to be a major driver in this election. at the top of the show, you said all eyes are on kansas. i agree with you. voters tomorrow will decide on an amendment that could grant republicans who control the legislature there the ability to do away with abortion. and i think that's going to have tremendous turnout. what we're seeing so far is a 246% increase in turnout in kansas. that's over the 2018 midterm

cycling, which was a record turnout year. as a father of two baby girls, it's shocking and outrageous that the supreme court has rolled back rights and they would grow up in a world with fewer rights. that outrage is felt by so many people across the country and is exactly what you're seeing in kansas with that increase in turnout and what you'll see in november. but you're right. the economy is key and there are things that democrats need to do to lean into their success on the economy. i think we're now into the 7th straight week of gas prices dropping. we're baically at full employment on the economy. again, led by president biden and members of the democratic party in congress who have really done all they can to rebuild our economy after covid. >> you know as well as anybody else, when you're home and you see the basic food stuffs that a family requires to have in their home from the market, they are

seeing a huge increase in the price of everything. the price of gasoline has been dropping, but it's almost at the same level as european countries. in other words, there's a lot of costs that people are having to assume on a daily basis that, i think, people aren't realizing matters to folks more than anything else. is there something that you see could turn things around in the next months? >> i do. i think we're on the cusp. now of a major breakthrough. >> they had major components. that will bring down the cost of some of the most expensive things from prescription drugs and medical care. it also addresses and would be a past the most significant climate change legislation in u.s. history. that coupled with gas prices,

activity in congress that affects the economy will slowly start to bring down those prices. i'm optimistic that by the time we get to november, gas prices will be down far belw what they are now because they are on a pretty steep downward trajectory. but you're right. the economy is going to be the most important thing. and democrats leadership outside groups need to keep talking about the positive things that are happening because there's a big disconnect between how americans feel about their own personal economics and the national economics. so we have to lean into that more and make the case. >> it's great to see you. thank you for being with us this morning on msnbc. >> great to see you. speaker pelosi met with leaders in singapore to kick off her trip to asia. the big question is will she

make a stop in taiwan? china claims it as part of its territory. legal immediatelated she will pay a visit. it does not nat any plans to do so. joining us with the latest is ali vitali. what more do we know about how officials in washington are reacting to the possibility she may stop by taiwan? >> reporter: a lot of wait and see here on the hill because the speaker's office and frankly the other lawmakers who are with her have all been mum on whether or not she will go to taiwan. it's very much a play by ear situation. she said as much oz on friday speaking to reporters when we asked her if even in light of president xi jinping she would continue her tentative plans to go to taiwan. she leaned heavily on the idea on if, but even within administration, there's been back and forth on whether or not to say whether she should go.

and twhas they said this morning on "morning joe." >> we have had congressional leaders go in the past, including the speaker of the house. there's nothing unusual about this. it's frankly disconcerting that the chinese might use this as a pretext to actually increase the tensions. and it has been the chinese side over recent weeks and months. even before there was talk about speaker pelosi trip, to increase the tensions across the street. >> many people pointing to the same thing that kirby is pointing to in that sound byte saying they are reading a lot into the proemt of chinese politics and for president xi himself. by the way they are reacting to this trip in talking with congressman andy kim, who is also on the trip with pelosi right now. he said that this moment says a lot more about where china is right now in regards to the u.s. than about pelosi herself. but certainly she the person that china is looking at. she make this is swing through asia with some of her

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white house policy director under president obama. she's also an msnbc medical contribute canner. also with us is anchor lindsey roger live from new york city outside of monkeypox vaccine site. how is the city's efforts to get people vaccinated going? >> reporter: the demand is high right now. not everybody is considered eligible. they are trying to target certain populations for the amount of vaccines available. a week ago there were about 17,000 appointments opened up, they went in 30 minutes. you mentioned the u.s. hitting more than 5,000 cases. let's show you new york the numbers we're dealing with. the state makes up more than a quarter of the cases in the u.s. currently new york state is seeing 1,383 confirmed cases. and we know that right now most of these cases are in manhattan between a certain age group among men 30 to 39. we also know monkeypox spreads

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reports of people dying from monkeypox in spain and brazil. the first ones outside of africa. what is going on? and something was mentioned of the 800,000 vaccines that are in stockpile, why aren't they releasing all 800,000 and what does it take to get these things out there? >> it's definitely frustrating. so just on the topic of the deaths that we're seeing, and we'll see more deaths. i want to prepare people for that because that's what we would expect as we see higher numbers. the fatality rate is less than a percent in africa, which is reassuring, but that translates to deaths. and another reassuring piece of data, but not one to get overconfident, the deaths in brazil and spain were linked to person who is had compromised immune status. other chronic conditions, one had lymphoma. so that needs to be watched closely as we're watching this spread and try to understand it's global spread to the point

of the vaccines who said a couple things. i'm not beginning to defend why it's so slow, but it's not just makes the doses and puts them on a truck and gets to the clinics. there are fda inspections. they have accelerated those inspections and cleared hundreds of thousands of doses. that's what you're seeing come through. we have a strategic national stockpile. we don't want that stockpile to be empty. so there's a balance with trying to load allocate where the demand is. now on another note, you may ask what more could we be doing. there's a lot more we could be doing, but hopefully that addresses some of the issueses you brought up. >> always so clear in your explanations, thank you for that. turning to covid issues, president biden is back in isolation after once again testing positive for covid after testing negative. this has something to do with what? >> this is a phenomenon known as rebound. it's now become pretty well

characterized. we see it a little more common, we think, than the 1 to 3% reported in the trials done by pfizer, but it's a recurrence of covid symptoms or a positive test after testing negative and completing your course of isolation just like president biden. he tested positive. doesn't have any symptoms. that can be pretty typical for the rebound, but the bad news is you start the plot over again for isolation. you don't count past days. you start over. that can be frustrating. a. >> i have so many questions. so if you take this and get over it and you're negative and then you're positive again a couple days later, are you once again now contagious? >> that's the debate. for the sake of being extremely cautious, we do treat people as if they are contagious and recommend isolation. but studies have shown that

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she covers immigration policy. it's great seeing you. the president promised to end remain in mexico. >> so this is a really complicated case that goes back, but the biden administration fought a case all the way to the supreme court for the right to be able to end this program, but in the meantime, obviously, we're seeing a lot of crossings at the border. administration officials started getting nervous and feeling like they needsed to have all the options available to them. they didn't want to fore cleez options. so now you're seeing this tug of war happening inside the biden administration where some of those top official, particularly on the national security council, sort of expressing that view. we can't shut this down entirely or others in the administration are saying, are you kidding? we have spent a year and a half fighting to end this policy. we need to. >> i don't know if you got an

understanding of it in your reporting, but this is not like it happened overnight. this has been going on, remain in mexico, it was established by trump and then they have been fighting this in court. so it seems as though they should have at least thought of what they were fighting for and what happens if their desires come true. >> it's a good point. i think this administration has been torn on immigration policy since the beginning of the administration. they all have the same sort of general desire to redo the immigration system, particularly the asylum system at the border. there's some differences in thinking about how quickly to do

that before you're able to make changes for them to be more effective. the other thing we didn't anticipate is that mexico like this is program and want it is to continue. now that's affecting negotiations with mexico. >> meanwhile, what you have is thousands literally tens of thousands of people living this this inhumane circumstances on the side of the mexican border. and you have cartels ask human smugglers making millions and hundreds of millions of dollars off of this. those are the people that are suffering. yet there's still a freeze in d.c. i thank you so much for being with us this morning. we have breaking news out of the nfl this morning. deshaun watson, quarterback for the cleveland browns, has been suspended for six games for violating the league's personal conduct policy. son has faced 20 allegations of sexual misconduct during his time with the houston texans, which he was traded from earlier this year. watson denies wrong doing.

joining us now is a sports writer and correspondent on hbo "real sports." thank you for being with us. what are these allegations and what happened this morning? >> so 24 women have accused watson of coercive or lewd behavior in the course of massage therapy he received from them. there's reporting that the texans distributed ndas to these women. and today an independent judge has recommended a six-game suspension, which is a far gap from what the nfl was seeking which was a full season to an indefinite suspension. >> with the suspension, is there anything else the nfl could or considering doing? >> the nfl has three days to appeal. it has not said whether it will or will not. yesterday the union said it would not appeal whatever

decision the judge came down with. that means the decision goes to either the commissioner or a designee he can appoint for an ultimate stance here. and if this decision is overturned by the league, then most watson and his camp would then sue the league. >> kavitha davidson, i thank you so much for being with us this morning. up next, the huge development on the war in ukraine that will be felt around the world. it's a bit of good news the world needs to hear right now as ukraine continues to suffer under the violence and destruction that russia is carrying out ukraine. we are live in ukraine next. you're watching jose diaz reports. g jose diaz reports. of another heart attack by 31%. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. covid-19 moves fast, and now you can too by asking your healthcare provider

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today for the first time since russia's invasion of ukraine more than five months ago, a ship carrying grain has left from the port of odesa. the ship is carrying 26,000 tons of ukrainian corn destined for the port of tripoli in lebanon. u.s. ambassador to ukraine praised the u.n. and turkey for helping negotiate the deal while calling on russia to end its assault on ukraine. joining us now from kyiv, nbc correspondent josh lederman. great to see you. what more can you tell us about this breakthrough that led to corn finally being able to leave

ukraine? >> reporter: it is a breakthrough, jose, and it wasn't even clear at all that this deal was going to be able to hold after russia within 24 hours of agreeing to this deal launched missiles at the odesa port, but today we have the first ship leaving. it is a drop in the bucket when you think about the 20 million tons of agricultural products that it trapped in ukraine ever since this war started. but the ukrainians hope this will be the first of many to come, that it will be an economic boon for them as they try to keep their economy afloat, but also it's going to ameliorate the looming prices so many around the world, especially in north african countries that rely on ukraine, have been worried about. i smoke with the minister here about this deal and about the fact that they're starting so slowly. only one ship leaving today. and i asked him why not send more ships quickly, given that food prices. here's what he had to say.

>> yes. this is only one ship, which is leaving today. it's a private ship. there's 6,000 corn leaving to port -- two days, we hope it will reach and successfully and everything will be okay. we just need to try and hope the safe corridor is working. >> reporter: so the way to think about this is really a test run. you heard him say it will take two days for that ship to hopefully make it to its destination port in lebanon. he told me they only expect to send up to three ships a day in the next couple of weeks as they make sure that the russians frankly abide by their commitments not to attack the ships, to make sure they get the

ships safely where they need to go. remember, there are mines all over the black sea that ukraine has put in there. there are some left over from world war ii. they have learns escorting the ships through a very narrow channel. they don't want to go too fast. they want to test it out first. within a month, month and a half, they hope to get back up to the capacity where ukraine can start to export 3 million tons of agriculture a month. i asked the minister what this was like for the ukrainians who for months who have been watching the grain products trapped in this country. they said as they heard the fog horn sounding on the first ship leaving the odesa port today, it was the sound of hope. jose? >> and, josh, this happens as this ukrainian continues to fall

to death and destruction five months into the invasion. >> reporter: that's absolutely right. in a stroke of irony, there was an attack over the weekend that killed one of the biggest grain mobiles in ukraine. this was a person who modernized getting the equipment to export the products on a world stage like a modern european country should be able to do. he was killed in mykolaiv along with his wife. he was in his 70s. and the adviser to the ukrainian president, they believe that was a deliberate attack by the russians as they aim to try to really kneecap ukraine's ability to export their grain even as russia has agreed to this deal. so you see, jose, how this is a two steps forward, one step backward kind of situation. there have been other strikes in the odesa region, the very port

region where they're relying on to be able to get these agricultural products out. for now, they're hoping this ship is the first of many to be able to sail out of ukraine. jose? >> josh lederman, i thank you very much for that report. this just in. president biden's doctor just released a letter about the president's covid condition. as of right now, he says the president tested positive for covid again this morning. this comes after the president took paxlovid when he got covid just recently, but that the president feels well and will continue his isolation at the white house. and before we go, i'd like to recognize a member of the team who passed away. basketball legend bill russell passed away yesterday at the age of 88. he dominated basketball in the '50s and the '60s.

and he also was a head coach for two leagues. and he was awarded the presidential award of freedom. and nichelle nichols who played on "star trek" passed away at the age of 88. she was the first black woman to play a role on tv and had the first interracial kiss on tv with william shatner. president biden said sunday she redefined what is possible for black americans. that wraps it for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. be sure to follow me online. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell with more news right now.