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.

and good morning, everyone. this is "andrea mitchell reports" in washington following the continuing devastation from historic floods in kentucky. at this time at least 30 people are dead. thousands more are still trapped in their communities. with residents desperate for food, shelter, electricity, and clean drinking water. this morning kentucky governor andy beshear updating reporters on the devastation and search for survivors. >> i got to talk to some of the families here and the other places too. they don't have anything. i mean the clothes on their back, but happy to be alive and grateful for the folks that are helping out. on capitol hill, senate democrats are hoping to sell their colleague kyrsten sinema on a health care package than

casts hundreds of billions into the climate and energy sectors. >> she has tremendous, tremendous input in these pieces of legislation. this is something everyone has worked on in the last eight months or more, and she basically insisted no tax increases on. that she was very, very adamant about that, and i support and i agree with her. also this hour an update on president biden's rebound covid case days after completing a full reg mend of the antiviral drug paxlovid. the white house has identified six individuals who are in close contact with the president, but administration officials say none of those people have tested positive. and we'll be checking in with nbc's kerry sanders in illinois with two questions capturing the question of the nation. who won the mega millions? if it were i, i would not be here. and when will they collect. joining me now is maggie

vespa in kentucky and nbc meteorologist bill karins in new york. maggie, so what else did you hear from the governor today on the press conference about the devastating floods? >> reporter: yeah, andrea. so many devastating details. he just pointed out the cleanup effort is just getting underway. we're almost weirdly used to seeing or numb to images like this, damages across the area. we're just now getting scope of the damage, really wrapping our minding around it at this point. the numbers are staggering. the death count is at 30. that's expected to rise. hundreds missing. they can't get an accurate missing count because those accounts keep coming in. 2 12,000 without water and more with boiling alerts. overnight we're getting more

torrential rain. this creek rose again. the governor is pointing out the threat of more flooding in this devastating community is very real. take a listen. >> if things weren't hard enough on the people of this region, they're getting rain right now. there's a severe storm potential today in all of the impacted areas. that is just not right. just as concerning, high wind. think how saturated the ground has been. it could knock over poels and trees, so people need to be careful. >> reporter: we talked to a woman yesterday who had watched her son's house get swept away with her daughter-in-law and husband on the front porch. they're okay. they barely made it out with their lives, but during her interview, it started pouring, and i said, is this nerve-racking for you to see? and she said, honestly, at this point, we don't have any more to lose. she said, we pretty much lost

everything. she said for a lot of people out there who maybe their homes are not destroyed but they see more rain coming, this has to be terrifying. andrea, i'll send it back to you. >> maggie, i saw that interview you did yesterday. it was just heartbreaking. so, bill karins, we heard the governor mention, rain, wind, and severe heat. people don't have power throughout the state. that could impact their efforts. >> yeah. we're concerned with the fact we're going to get this line of thunderstorms later tonight. it could impact people losing power. it takes more time for recover iry. all the creeks in the area receded quickly after. it's a one-in-1,000-year-event. it's a winning the lottery type of odds. they're going to look at these creeks differently than they ever did before. they probably couldn't believe they could get as high as they did last week, and they can. you've seen all the pictures.

we currently have people in eastern kentucky with a flood floosh watch. we have one flash flood warning in virginia. none in the area of kentucky. this little line of thunderstorms is finally moving out, and that rain fafl is ending. we'll get another round of rainstorms later today. we're expecting not everyone's going to get severe weather, but if you're in this area from indianapolis too columbus, cincinnati, lexington, louisville, bowling green, kentucky, you have a chance for hail and small thunderstorms tonight. with the flash floods, you can get flooding too. in northern california, this fire exploded yesterday. mckinney fire, now 55,000 acres burned. it's the biggest california has had so far this season it's been fairly quiet. new mexico has had a huge fire, but california had been quiet. the temperatures are warm

inland. at the coast, it's a little cooler. there's hope we'll get cooler air in the days ahead. the winds are good. that's good for the firefighters trying to get on the blaze. the humidity is low, so that enables the fire to burn more quickly. the wind is blowing northward. you'll see the smoke blow in the air. the smoke will eventually blow over the northern rockies. finally, andrea, as we've been doing this all summer long, it's going to be another blistering day, especially in the northern rockies. we're getting a break in portland and seattle after your heatwave, but now it's going to be on the move across the country once again tomorrow in areas like omaha, 101 degrees, and finally it will get to the east coast by the time we get to friday. andrea, we just saw in july, the warmest ever month in tampa. we broke the record in austin,

san antonio, and it just goes on and on. >> and, bill karins, thank you for the smoke warning. that's an air quality alert for people who are compromised in that whole area. peel should just hydrate and look out for your neighbors and look out for your friends. maggie vespa, thank you, and bill karins, thank you. here in dc, the prosecutors are asking for 15 years for guy reffitt, a texas militia member who stormed the capitol armed with a gun and zip ties. this comes as they could be focusing on law enforcement failures. that includes the secret service leading up to the attack. joining me now, ken, you were at the courthouse in washington. what are you hearing from inside the court as the sentencing has progressed, i assume?

>>. >> reporter: it has, andrea, though we have not heard the sentence yet. some of guy reffitt's family is here. his wife speaking in the courtroom. his lawyer says the request for 15 years is absurd because he wasn't convicted of assaults a police officer and he never entered the capitol some of why are the prosecutors trying to throw the book at guy reffitt? they say he didn't want to just come to the capitol to stop the counting. he wanted to drag nancy pelosi out of the office by her ankles. he had a loaded hollister and assault rifle but didn't bring it to the capitol. and the prosecutors say he played the role of encouraging others to breach the capitol, even though he didn't go in himself because he was pepper

sprayed. afterward he tried to cover up his actions and absolutely showed no remorse, and they say he threatened his children who talked about turning him in to the fbi. his teenaged son testified against him in the trial. as we mentioned, this is the first case they're seeking to imply a terrorism enhancement. there's no crime of terrorism, but they're accusing him of being a domestic terrorist and the judge should sentence him to a longer term of incarceration because of that. as i mentioned, sentencing well underway, well expected into the afternoon. >> just to look ahead to the january 6th work before they have hearings in september, what is the vulnerability of law enforcement agencies at large because we did have those

hearings that senators klobuchar and blunt held just a year ago, a little more than a year ago, on the law enforcement communication fail yaurs. what are they looking at? >> there's what's called the blue team focusing expressly on the law enforcement and intelligence failures. they did a fantastic job of looking at the capitol police. they had all kinds of internal messaging by the capitol police. what they didn't have was messaging by the fbi. what information did they have? why didn't they post a joint intelligence bulletin? why weren't they better told? it's going to be the subject of an upcoming hearing. this doesn't fit the narrative

of donald trump's conspiracy to overturn the election. many think it's important to get this information out, to learn these lessons of how a major domestic terrorism attack was able to unfold in the heart of our government, andrea. >> thanks to you, ken delaney, and becky woodward swan. "the washington post" has an article which zoloft and others flagged last week was going to be a prime issue for them. the chief watchdog scrapped its agency. they prepared efforts to retrieve the texts but decided against it, citing multiple sources and government whistle-blowers. they certainly didn't flag it at all, early enough to the january

6th committee. betsy? >> yeah. it's just bizarre, and at the bare minimum, assuming most benign possible explanations for all this really, really unusual bizarre behavior, teen most benign explanation is deeply and acutely embarrassing for the department of homeland security. they were stood up in the wake of 9/11 and has tried to position itself as the lead arm on cybersecurity issues. this is one of the things they view as a core part of their mission set. so the fact that dhs and one of its most prized components, the secret service, can't seem to engage in the basic logging and tackling of message retention just looks really, really calamitous frankly, and now in addition, the inspector general, the department's internal watchdog, has had his investigation progress and then

apparently stop progressing along such an unusual time line only heightens the level of external concern that members of congress have about the way this has all played out. any time inspectors generals' offices fail to do their job, it's especially concerning. they exist because they have the resources an subject matter to do what congress can't always do. so when things play out the way they have here, the hill finds it very disturbing. >> betsy, you have your own exclusive reporting in "politico" saying more. what more can you tell us? >> that's right. in at least three witnesses to subpoenas in arizona and georgia, there's a person. his name is joshua findley. during the campaign, findley

worked on the trump campaign's internal legal office. after biden was inaugurated, findley went over to the rnc to take over as a post title national director of election integrity. this is something that was a huge priority for the rnc as they tried to simultaneously at least from an optics perspective vaguely distance themselves from the stop the steal extremism, the january 6th extremism, but at the same time, the enormous portion of the republican base believed that the election had been stolen. the subpoenas seek communications to and from joshua findley up until the date when the witnesses received them, which means it's possible that those subpoenas could capture not just communications that findley had or received related to january 6th, but also communications related to his work at the rnc. >> that is so interesting.

thank you so much. betsy woodruff swan. and our thanks to ken. rebound. president biden is back in covid isolation just days after he thought he was free of the virus. the latest on what we know, plus a medical explanation. that's next. this is andrea mitchell reports only on nbc. ell reports only on nbc. we've still got the best moves you've ever seen good for you, but shingles doesn't care. because 1 in 3 people will get shingles, you need protection. but, no matter how healthy you feel, your immune system declines as you age increasing your risk for getting shingles. so, what can protect you? shingrix protects. you can protect yourself from shingles with a vaccine proven to be over 90% effective. shingrix is a vaccine used to prevent shingles in adults 50 years and older. shingrix does not protect everyone and is not for those with severe allergic reactions to its ingredients or to a previous dose. an increased risk of guillain-barré syndrome was observed after getting shingrix.

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and now to breaking news on the white house covid front. the president's doctor just releasing a new letter saying that president biden tested positive again today and continues to feel well. in other words, he's not symptomatic. he's back in isolation, though, after testing positive in a rebound case. the white house says president biden is not experiencing any symptoms nor receiving any treatment, biden tweeting out this message on saturday. >> folks, joe biden here. tested positive this morning. i'll be working from home for the next couple of days. i feel fine.

everything is good. i've come in, and i've got work to do. >> during his first covid testing, he treated with paxlovid. joining me now are my guests. the president did have close contact with six people last week, 17 the week before in his initial covid diagnosis. none of those turned out to be positive. do you know anything about these six contacts? that i do not include, by the way, the first lady, who has not seen the president since before his first covid infection. >> reporter: that's right, andrea. as you remember, after the president initially tested negative after he exited the first time with the covid diagnosis, we saw him several times unmasqued at outdoor and indoor events celebrating and taking a victory lap around the covid vaccines, boosters, and

anti-vie rat treatments that are available. the white house did identify six contacts in the most recent incident, 000 they did confirm none of those people have tested possible positive. the president's doctor says he continues to tell positive after testing positive on saturday and sunday. the white house says the president will continue to isolate until he tests negative. that's kind of the unknown on when we will see the president since he is working remotely in the white house. >> and, maura, the president was supposed to travel to michigan this week. missed a planned visit to veterans families protesting on the capitol, but he did send a face channel or communicated with them. let's play that. >> with all seriousness, thank you for your heart, thank you

for your soul. i have been saying it for years. america has a lot of only gages but one truly sacred obligation, and i mean this from the bottom of my heart around that is to care for those we send to war and those who come home as long as i have a breath in me. >> that, of course, a big issue with the veterans and the burn pit issue. dr. hilton, to explain the rebound case, is this more of a political problem for the president not being able to campaign as he wanted to than a physical or medical problem, given that he's not symptomatic? >> right. i feel like it's more than that. it's a public health problem. my question is when is the cdc going to change their policy of saying you can go back into public, you know, into these crowded spaces after five days without testing to make sure that you're actually negative. with the president of the united states, we have to understand he has resources and access to

thinks that the common american does not, one big thing being, when is he ever in a place that's been ventilated? we can say the persons around him are not testing positive, but it's likely because of the ventilation strategies in place where he attends. and we also have to think about the fact he was taking paxlovid which hopefully lowered his viral count, access that many americans still don't have their fingers on because, one, they lack a hospital or pharmacy within their communities, and/or they don't have a primary care physician and/or money to be able to pay for co-pay. we have to consider those things when we see what we're seeing with the president of the united states. >> dr. hilton, is the cdc looking at whether or not -- or the fha -- looking at whether or not they should be seeking an extension of the initial core

treatment? should it be more than five days? >> that's something we're looking at. we know from the studies there was a certain percentage of persons who had this rebound, either positive in their symptoms and/or positive in their testing. paxlovid is a great drug, a great agent. i don't want to cast any doubt on that. but i think the fcc and fha should say within testing positive for five days, we have to think about the fact i was just on a plane last night and there were tons of people without wearing a mask. what does that mean when you're still contagious? is on the cdc's website, they maintain one inevery three persons who tests positive for covid after five days of isolation. with that i of number in the middling of an airborne pandemic that has claimed the lives of over a million americans, 1.26

million, when are they going to follow the science and test themselves and not go back into the world and extend the tomb of isolation from five days back to ten days back to what it was in december of 2021. >> exports say even though you test positive, you are not shedding virus, you are not contagious at that point. so there is dispute on that, but we're waiting for the cdc to update its guidelines on paxlovid. thank you both. and the agent for nancy pelosi's itinerary in the far east, a lot of people are nervous around the world. what the house speaker's travel plans could mean for american diplomacy coming up. this is ""andrea mitchell reports"" on msnbc. ""andrea mit reports"" on msnbc

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stable relationship. i want to bring in nbc's scott yuan. what are the possible implications on this trip for pelosi and the u.s.? >> reporter: well, nancy, as you mentioned, tensions are extremely high both in washington, in bay shings, and throughout the asian pacific region. over the weekend, andrea, china conducted military exercises in anticipation of a potential visit by nancy pelosi. taiwan did much the same. there is also talk or discussion about if pelosi does make the trip in to taiwan, that china would establish a no-fly zone over taiwan. so you can imagine some type of

support. you can imagine the concern. nancy pelosi is second to the presidency after kamala harris, so while a number of lawmakers have already made that visit to taiwan, she would be the highest ranking official as newt gingrich in 1987. that's causing some alarm. the white house is downplaying the trip by pelosi. let's listen to spokesperson john kirby talking about how mek's "one china policy" has not changed regarding taiwan. >> reporter: if anything, you would think the chinese would welcome it because it shows consistency. it shows that nothing has changed about america's "one china policy." it shows that nothing has changed about our lob obamalygations under the taiwan relationship to help with taiwan's self-defense. there's nothing unusual about this, and it's, kuwait frankly,

disconcerting that kai na might use this as a pretext to increase tensions. >> so, andrea, a lot of rhetoric on the part of the chinese. nancy pelosi and this delegation are currently in singapore. you mentioned that's their first stop. a number of lawmakers are traveling with her, all democrats, including foreign affairs chairman gregory meeks and va chairman mark chi cano. >> things have changes because president biden said we will defend taiwan, which was considered strategic ambiguity until now, and there's been no speaker going since 1997, as you pointed out, scott. kyrsten sinema will s still mum on whether she's a holdout. what are your sources telling you? >> reporter: you know, i've

covered kyrsten sinema for a number of years going back to when she was a legislator in arizona and i was a reporter in phoenix. she has always communicated she was a dealmaker. let's remember she was at the center of the bipartisan infrastructure built last year. she got that done with the republicans. she was at the center of the gun reform talks earlier this summer. they got that done as well. she didn't see herself as an obstructionist but rather a dealmaker. so that's sort of how she's approaching this. of course, you know, she does have some objections specifically to the loophole provision that is part of the tax reform package or aspect of this package. and so there will be a lot of discussions going forward, but democrats are feeling very positive about this breakthrough with joe manchin and chuck schumer. >> yeah. and joe manchin said he's not

going to negotiate on the issue and it's very important to the people of west virginia and around the country that so many corporations pay not even the minimum 15% corporate minimum tax. thank you so much, scott wong, for all of that from capitolhill. voters in six states are headed to the polls tomorrow including arizona where election deniers backed by donald trump are running in key primary races and rusty bower could lose his race for standing up to trump. in missouri, there's a heated three-way. and kansas will be the first state to vote whether to keep the abortion rights to the state or keep a complete ban. joining us now is nbc news

correspondent von hilliard and our reporter in washington, missouri. vaughn, a number of races to watch, including a grip on the republican party. there was a piece you did with rusty bowers. talk about that. >> we're looking at the reality, andrea, there could with b a clean sweep in arizona. this is the first major primary coming out of these public january 6th hearings. there are a lot of national implications we could take away from essentially of these races. you know, one of them is the governor's race. you have two political newcomers. you have kari lake and robeson who's also endorsed. and you've got an running for attorney general with trump's endorsement. he's also called for the decertification of the 2020 election.

of course, blake masters for the u.s. senate is atop the polls here, but the other race here is the very, very local one. that legislative race. rusty bowers after publicly testifying in frlk of the january 6th committee, after serving in public office for 16 years t mormon house speaker from the east valley of may san jose sharks arizona, he could potentially lose his primary to a trump-endorsed challenger. i was able to catch up with him over the weekend and asked him what he will tell us on tuesday night if he doesn't pull off a win. take a listen. if you do not win on tuesday, why would it be? >> probably because i stood up. and when they asked me to tell the truth, i told the truth. that the fact that i would break ranks and somehow find what the former president did was unacceptable, that's like i broke some type of taboo, and i did break a taboo, and it's kind of a cultic thing.

>> reporter: andrea, these last weeks, we have had the conversations about republican voters' takeaway for the january 6th public hearings. well, this is their opportunity to make their voices heard. its going to be republican voters making their decisions in these primaries tomorrow. andrea? >> we know how key arizona was. ameesh in mochl our donald trump says he's going to make an endorsement today. what are voters telling him? >> andrea, you've got big news that happened in a few minutes. there are a lot of things. the first eric is eric schmidt. he's the embattled -- i'm sorry.

he's the missouri attorney jen general he was a moderate republican. but he's more conservative and someone who has come out who said he would not support senator mitch mcconnell if he were to win and the republicans were to win back the senate. that's the first eric. then you have eric gregans. he resigned. he's accused of domestic abuse, sexual abuse, as well as, i'm being told, alienated from the republican party. the endorsement in talking to people sounds like it might go to the second eric, the one who's embattled. there's also vicky hartzler. we know she's not going to get it. donald trump said he's not going to endorse her. he said she doesn't have what it takes to be the next senator from missouri. we'll play for folks some sounds

of what voters have been telling us. take a listen to what one woman said here in washington, missouri >> i've been watching the advertisements and i'm on my social media and they're all a hot mess. i think they need to find someone with more integrity. >> what do you make of the fact that donald trump is looming so large in this race? he's not been endorsed yet. >> that man should have been gone a long time ago. >> reporter: so that was a democratic voter saying everyone is a hot mess on the republican side. i should also tell you i talked to a young republican voter. she's undecided. but she told me she's very, very alarmed that former president donald trump has become, in her words, to someone as a god for those in this part of the state as being someone popular. he's the person who everyone in

the state is looking to to see who he will endorse. we should notice eric granby, he already has the support of donald trump jr., but it is only donald trump jr. so far, andrea. >> very briefly, yamiche, just across the border in kansas, the state is going to vote whether abortions should be determined state, constitutional or not. this is a very big test right there in kansas city. we don't know which way this is going to go. >> reporter: it certainly is a test. we have our dasha burns there covering it. it's really dividing a lot of people in that state. i should tell you i've been hearing from people i've been talking to here in missouri that really roe and abortion is top of mind for a lot of people. that young republican woman i talked to said she's pro-choice. she likes the republican party, likes what they're doing, that they work for middle-class

voters. but she said she's 19 and she's alarming that women and their personal health has been taken out of their hands. she wants them to ease their stance on the issue of abortion. >> vaughn hillyard and yamiche alcindor. thank you. and first shipment, a cargo lode of grain from ukraine finally making its way ow outto sea through that russian embargo. what that food means for the global food crisis next. this is "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. on msnbc.

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is loaded with 26,000 tons of corn. 26 million tons is backed up. it began its journey today through heavily mined fields to the port of tripoli, lebanon. today it's raising hopes that the impact of the war might be eased for people facing poverty and hunger around the world. nbc's josh lederman with more. josh, you and i can't stress how important this is. this is an agreement with turkey, russia, and the united nations, and clearly ukrainians had to give a roadmap -- a naval map to protect them further out in the black sea. >> reporter: that's exactly right, andrea. in fact, they had to carve out a narrow channel to demine through

the black sea and now have to try to guide these ships through that channel that has been demined in the opens of avoiding any obstacle as they make their way first to turkey where the ship will be inspected and then onto their final destinations. when you think about countries like lib non, which will be received the first grain shipment, lebanon gets about 0% of its grain exports from ukraine. not having that has raised all kinds of fears about famine. i spoke with the infrastructure minister as you mentioned about what it was like to see the ship departing. he told me he visited the odesa port recently, normally bustling with activity. of course, it has been at a standstill since this war started. when he heard the fog horn leaving the port torkd it was the sound of hope, and he told me why this is so significant not only for ukraine but also for the rest of the world. take a listen.

>> second, understand -- products is very important for all our allies, few the united states, for uk and the european union. when we stand, it's not only a ukrainian problem, but russian problem and world problem. for us, we understand this, and we're doing our best in order to -- >> reporter: this first ship is just a drop in the bucket when you think about the 20 million or so tons of agricultural products that have been trapped in this country since the war started, andrea. but the infrastructure minister said they're intentionally taking this slow. one ship today and up to three ships a day. this is a test run. they don't know if they're going to hit mines or what russia is going to do. they're going to take it slow and make sure they get the process down. and in a mojts, month and a

half, they hope to get up to 3 million tons a month that ukraine should be able to export through the black sea, which should go so far toward reducing the fierce of famine in north africa and other parts of the world. andrey kra? >> this was a big issue between the u.s. and russia, because the russian foreign minister lavrov was in africa last week claiming that it was the u.s.'s fault because of the sanctions that that food was not getting out. secretary blinken was pointing out that food is exempted from all those sanctions, but it was becoming a real black eye for the u.s. as it tries to defend and keep a line of support for ukraine and for the sanctions going forward. >> reporter: that's exactly right. one might ask what is in it for the russians to participate in this deal? they are alluding to some type

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