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and businesses are facing major pressure to deliver as retailers warn of a slowdown in recent sales. also this hour, we'll bring you an update on how communities in virginia and colorado are grappling with recent losses from the mass shootings and at walmart and an lgbtq night club as president biden says he's going to push for an assault weapons ban. hospitals around the country are grappling with a surge in rsv, the flu and covid all at the same time. we'll break down what you need to know about each of these illnesses. meanwhile in ukraine, power is slowly coming back after this week's russian shelling as millions suffer in the dark and cold. and as winter approaches, how are people preparing? we are live in kharkiv. a highly anticipated match at the world cup between the u.s. and england. we'll bring you an update from qatar. ♪♪

and right now across the country, millions of americans are getting a headstart on their holiday shopping even as families grapple with inflation. an estimated 166 million americans are expected to shop between thanksgiving and cyber monday, according to the national retail federation. it's the highest number recorded since the organization began tracking data in 2017. joining us now with more is msnbc news business and data reporter brian chung live from guard state plaza in new york city. it's great to see you. what does the mall look like today? >> it's 10:00 a.m., and you can see here there is plenty of people walking around engaging in the economy, going out there spending. a lot of people already with bags this early. the backdrop of all this spending is against prices 7.7 higher this time than they were last year.

americans are budgeting about $1,400 of spending this holiday season compared to last year. that's about the same. but with prices higher that, means those dollars might stretch not as far. but for what it's worth, we did get some data from adobe analytics over what spending looked like on thanksgiving day. a lot of people over thanksgiving dinner doing a little bit of e-commerce as well. there was a record $5.3 billion spent on thanksgiving day, which could bear well for the numbers on black friday and cyber monday. but here at the mall so far on this very busy friday morning, seems like americans are pretty excited to go out and go and spend. >> brian cheug, i thank you so very much. we have brand new details from police this morning about the suspect's iphone from the shooting. he killed six other employees and injured at least four others before taking his own life.

two victims who were injured are still in the hospital. nbc's cal perry joins us from chesapeake, virginia. what's the latest on the investigation there? >> the atf and the fbi working through the holiday and working through the holiday obviously bearing fruit. they did carry out some kind of search of the suspect's home yesterday, and they found an iphone which included a message written by the gunman, a man who, when you read the message, clearly knew what he was going to do, asking at the end for forgiveness for the murders that he was going to carry out. it is an unquestionably rambling and very difficult message to read. he talks about the paranoia that he felt towards the employees that he worked with at this walmart. basically saying they were conspiring against him, gossiping behind his back, again, asking for forgiveness for doing what he knew he was

going to do, carrying out these heinous murders. it provides a glimpse into the motive. we now know that it was the people that he worked with that he wanted to kill. we also have some clarification on the gun. we know now that the gunman bought the weapon, a handgun, the morning of the shooting and he bought the weapon legally, according to authorities. >> cal perry, thank you so very much for that update. as authorities continue to find out more about the shooting that claimed five lives at club q in colorado springs, the lgbtq+ community is asking why. a makeshift memorial is attracting scores of mourners, all coming to grieve the fallen. some go to stand in solidarity with their fellow lgbtq+ americans. together they hope to drive home the point that the lgbtq community is part of our national fabric in an attack on one and is not attack on all.

joining us now is maura barrett live from colorado springs. what are you hearing from folks there? >> reporter: jose, there's still obviously a lot of pain, a lot of sadness here in this community. but as we've spent time here over the last week, it's become very clear how close and tight-knit this queer community is, how they protect each other. that was exemplified when we spoke to the boyfriend of daniel aston, one of the bartenders that lost their lives in the shooting. and he told me about how he was there celebrating his birthday, his best friends had been there to celebrate with him where daniel ultimately lost his life, kelly loving also took a bullet. she died on top of him but she never had any doubt that the queer community would protect themselves, that rich fierro said he knew it was his best

friend's dad. he's working to take steps to heal but also honor their legacies. >> i'm not sure any of us really know what healing is going to look like. but it's my goal now to fulfill all five of their legacies, five people that i knew personally, five people that knew me personally. i have daniel's poetry to send into the world. people have to read his words. that is what's my path towards healing right now. >> reporter: just an incredibly emotional conversation yesterday with wyatt as he mourns his boyfriend and his friends. but, again, he described the light that each of the victims brought to this world, the personal connection that he had with all of them and how much they brought this community and how they all identified as each others' families. >> this has affected so many

people in so many ways. >> reporter: it really has. and here at club q, the day after thanksgiving it's important to note that this is a space that physically is a representative of a safe space in this community. but many people have told me about the community that they built inside of it and how that's going to exist outside of the club until hopefully it reopens and they can rebuild even stronger. because especially around the holiday season, those in the queer community that don't feel comfortable going home because their biological families might not accept them, their chosen families are the ones that they want to spend time with. and for the past ten years club q has hosted a thanksgiving dinner for those chosen families. within the last week after the shooting, the community came together hosting dinner. there was donations from across town, hundreds of people being served thanksgiving dinner to make sure that they can still gather and grief together but make sure they know that their

community is stronger than ever and they'll grow and rebuild together as well. >> maura barrett in colorado springs, thank you so very much. the latest string of deadly mass shootings has the white house rethinking their strategy in the final months of this current congress, including another push for gun safety legislation. >> the idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick. it's just sick. it has no, no value, none, not a single solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturers. >> are you going to do anything during lame duck? >> i am going to try to get rid of assault weapons. >> gentlemen, thank you for being with us this morning. peter, in the past we've seen legislation pass in the lame duck session after elections are over. but something like this, do you

think this has a chance? >> no. that was a statement of frustration by the president, a statement of support for something he finds to be very common sense. as long as you're not able to get ten republicans in the senate, you're not going to get -- the house did pass an assault weapon ban, but you would have to be able to filibuster. it didn't half an uvalde when many, many children were slaughtered. didn't happen after so many other, parkland, newtown. it doesn't seem to be any reason to believe that politically that has changed. but it indicates, i think, a sense of anger on the part of the president that he hasn't been able to make any kind of difference like that. he did in fact help pass an assault weapons ban in the '90s that expired ten years later. but the politics of that have never returned to the place where you could pass it again. and he is, i think, expressing his aggravation that that's the

case. >> i was struck yesterday. yesterday was thanksgiving day and it was also six months since the massacre in uvalde, the 24th of may. jonathan, could these new comments by the president actually have a political effect on, for example, georgia where the issue of guns and the second amendment is a big issue? >> certainly, jose, this is not a new position for the president. but any time there are fresh remarks made about an issue like this, it's a hot-button one that gets voters excited, there's certainly the possibility that we're going to hear those replayed in the georgia senate race. i think the president was expressing frustration. i don't think anybody who's watched the gun control debate over the last 30 years thinks that there's anything that's going to happen in the lame duck session. that assault weapons ban that passed in 1994 had a sunset

provision and lasted for ten years. i think there are a lot of people who voted for that bill who now regret that that included the sunset and was not a permanent ban. >> and no matter what happens in the next few months, the white house has to look forward to dealing with a new house majority at the house of representatives with a republican speaker. how will they push back on things like investigations? >> they've already begun staffing up for this. they've hired people in the white house counsel's office to respond to subpoenas and other requests for information that they're going to get. the white house has a really interesting test here because what you saw in the last administration was a president who basically thumbed his nose at congress and said i don't have to respond to your subpoenas and oversight because it's considered to be political and illegitimate. the question now is how does that white house take that precedent in some people in their party would like to say

what's good for the goose is good for the gander. they are now suddenly expressing congress' authority to conduct oversight. but president biden is saying, wait a second, i think this is political and therefore i'm not going to respond to this subpoena or that subpoena. they'll probably respond to things on the border, things on afghanistan, things that relate to -- hunter biden, i think you might expect more resistance on their part and they'll take this precedent that former president trump set and apply it in the current era. >> yeah, how do you see things, jonathan? >> we're seeing, i think, a division, like peter says, where the white house is going to try to define what is a legitimate investigation. it's interesting there's a "washington post" story yesterday that suggested what they're going to do is, i believe, "the post" is basically saying they're going to say afghanistan is okay, but hunter

biden is not. if i were the national security adviser of the secretary of state, i'd be concerned that i'm being thrown under the bus to spare some folks in the biden family. i think that -- look, the republicans are going to investigate whatever they can, and the white house will not entirely be able to define what's legitimate or not. >> peter, one thing that you just mentioned, and i think that it's going to, no doubt, play a part post january. is the situation of the humanitarian crisis at the border and the issue of immigration. it seems as though that is a subject that both sides are interested in talking about, but it seems like neither one has been able to establish a clear policy as far as immigration reform and as far as the humanitarian crisis at the border. >> yeah, that's right. congress has a legitimate role for oversight here. this is the point that was made

during the trump presidency. congress has a legitimate interest, even though president trump tried to basically break that interest. and, so, i think the biden white house understands that even if they're not going to be very comfortable with it. they assume not participate in what they consider to be show trial hearings that are aimed at scoring political points. you saw kevin mccarthy who's trying to shore up his conservative base to win the speakership, talking about impeaching the secretary of homeland secretary, mayorkas. just to say that is to throw meat to his caucus. and even legitimate oversight can become so politicized that it doesn't necessarily lead to policy recommendations. in theory, outside of a politicized environment, you couldn't come up with one because right now it's just too much of a hot button for republicans and to some extent for democrats in a different way

to actually find a rational solution, the politics are just too hot and heavy right now. >> jonathan, is there anything realistically that can be accomplished, can be done on the issue of immigration and on the border crisis going forward? >> that's a great question. i feel like we've been asking it for basically since the 1986 reagan law. but more recently for at least the last 15 years or so. there is not any consensus, at least within the political parties. i think there is some consensus among americans about what should be done. but it's not reflected because there is such a tremendous incentive for the left and the right, particularly on the right to go as far as they possibly can to not compromise. we saw president trump had an opportunity to get money to build his wall in exchange for a path to citizenship for

documented immigrants. he ended up balking and passing at the end of it. so we're still not there yet. and it's certainly not something that i see happening in the lame duck or in the new congress. >> it's great seeing you, i thank you both for your time this morning. coming up, the legal battle over the trump-era health policy, title 42, and what it could mean for the people who are risking everything to flee to the united states. plus, with the holidays now in full swing, healthcare officials are warning of a tripledemic of covid flu or rsv. doesn't it seem like a lot of people that you know are kind of getting sick? what you need to know to keep your family safe. the virus ths shingles is sleeping... in 99% of people over 50. it's lying dormant, waiting... and could reactivate. shingles strikes as a painful, blistering rash that can last for weeks.

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21 past the hour with families gathered together for thanksgiving and the december holidays around the corner, health officials fear a tripledemic of flu, covid-19,

and rsv. the department of health and human services says 76% of hospital beds nationwide are full, 76%. experts believe that holiday travel and large family gatherings may worsen this tripledemic and push hospitals to the brink. joining us now is a critical care pulmonologist at the university of washington and an msnbc contributor. i thank you always for your time, doctor. so, covid-19, rsv, and the flu share some common symptoms, right? but what are the main differences that we should all be watching out for? >> jose, good morning. great to see you. and you're right. they all do share common symptoms for your viewers out there, they could all cause sniffles. they could in some cases cause cough. we know that covid and flu, for example, more likely, especially in adults, it can cause shortness of breath.

but what are the differences? there are a few. let me caution for your viewers that you can't just take the symptom profile and say, well, gosh, we have rsv or flu. we need a test to distinguish between them hopefully at home just like with covid and something like that, hopefully in the next year or so will be available if it passes through regulators and the fda. until then, how do you distinguish between them? what we know is especially rsv, which affects those that are under 2 most commonly, infants under 2. it can cause high-pitched wheezing. when you're taking a deep breath out or when an infant is taking a deep breath out, high-pitched wheezing is a hallmark. you might actually see their noses start to flare out or other signs of respiratory distress. their rib cage is getting sucked in, their belly might be doing

abdominal breathing where their abdomen is moving out as they're trying to take a deep breath in. common in rsv. less likely in covid and flu. with flu, usually symptoms start very suddenly. incubation period, jose, for flu, can be as short as 48 hours. rsv, four to six days. covid, it can be something similar, anywhere from three to five days. you can experience a shorter time from exposure to feeling crummy with influenza with flu than with rsv and covid. so that's another thing to keep out or at least keep in mind. and lastly i will say for flu, high fevers, 103 and above, total body aches. if you're watching this, you've probably experienced this at some point in your life, you know what i'm talking about. covid often can cause extra

pulmonary symptoms, brain fog, diarrhea, loss of taste and smell in the acute phase, just even if you're battling say a cough from covid, you might be experiencing taste and smell very quickly as well. so those are the big differences here. again, let me caution everybody to say these various distinguishing features, you can use them only so much of a degree. you need a test really to have confidence. but that's a sense of how they clinically differ. >> doctor, you just gave us just like this amazing, clear, understandable perspective that we really needed. and thank you for that. but let me ask you, then, flu, cold, covid. so, there is no test for flu, correct? i mean, that you can do at home?

>> hopefully before long. at this time if we're having this conversation in 12 months, 2023, i suspect that's going to be different but not right now, you're right. >> okay. so if you start feeling bad, it could come on very quickly. you said flu and covid kind of could come on in 48 hours to three to five days. what do you do if you feel bad? do you just go do a home covid test to start things off? and if it isn't covid, how do you know that it's the flu and not a cold or the cold and not the flu? >> it's all a good point. especially because we have treatments that are pretty effective for flu. in this case tamiflu. in the case of covid, we have, for example, pfizer's oral antiviral pill paxlovid.

these medications are critical to start as soon as possible after diagnosis. you don't want to wait, especially if you're somebody that's medically higher risk either based on age. we're defining that as 50 and above at this point. or if you have, say, an underlying condition like poorly controlled diabetes or cancer, it's important not to wait and just say, well, gosh, i heard jose had been talking -- i'm just going to take my time and see what happens. if you're medically in a higher-risk category or if you have a child under 2 who is experiencing some of those symptoms i talked about, seek medical attention, talk to your pediatrician if you have an infant under 2. because you might benefit from eyes on so that baby getting tested, in some cases hospitalization might be needed for supplemental oxygen. luckily rsv does not result in a lot of pediatric deaths. but it does sometimes require

hospitalization. in the case of medically higher-risk adults, treatment soon after diagnosis is important. so that's why you want to make sure you get eyes on. if you are somebody who is feeling unwell, slap an oxygen monitor on, folks have heard me talk about that. if it's below 96% and you're feeling short of breath, those are two guideposts to say let me speak to my medical provider. >> and then, doctor, so, what's a protocol? because the messaging is always so complicated and so convoluted. what's a protocol for folks who test positive for covid right at home? how long should they isolate? and then when one keeps getting tested at home and that second line is still there, are you able to transmit covid five, seven, eight days after your first test when it still shows

the second line but you don't have any symptoms? >> the short answer is yes. things have changed year three into this pandemic in terms of expectations and how we've been recommended to operate. so, the answer here is if you've tested positive and you're vaccinated and asymptomatic, wear a mask, no need to isolate like we did in the past. if you're unvaccinated or if you're symptomatic, let's say in the setting of a positive test, it is recommended then that you are to isolate for at least five days until you're feeling better for not only your sake, just to rest and make sure you're recovering, but especially for the sake of your family members, especially for someone who is medically higher risk. i would recommend that you test at day five, especially if you're living in a multigenerational household, to

see if you're positive. and if you're still testing positive, it's possible you're still contagious. so it comes down to vaccination status and how you're feeling. if you're otherwise healthy, you're vaccinated, asymptomatic, wear a mask if you're out on a plane, if you're out going shopping today's black friday, for everybody's health. if you're unwell and you're testing positive, especially if you're unvaccinated, take those five days, isolate at home, and then wear a mask until you're testing negative. so really the end result here is if you're testing positive at all, whether you're walking well, wear a mask. >> if you're coughing all over the place, have some manners, cover the cough, put a mask on. it's the least thing that we can do. dr. gupta, it's always a pleasure to see you. i thank you so much for your clear and really important explanations.

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about the power situation in this country, it is still difficult. the mayor says 60% of people are still without power here in kharkiv we spent time at a dormitory for internally displaced people. life here it is often full of contrast. these happy moments sprinkled in between the bad ones. that shelter, that dormitory we saw children outside playing in the snow, giggling, building snowmen. but inside their parents were in the lobby of the building where there was no electricity waiting in line for a bowl of soup. the chairman of ukraine's national energy company, he says that as far as the energy system goes, they are past the most difficult points at this point in time, and the key part of what he has talked about is he says there are three nuclear power plants in the unoccupied territories. all of those, they say, are working again. energy officials are hoping that within the next one to two days, they will be able to limit some

of the scheduled outages. but for people, this is still an ongoing issue in progress, while it's being made, doesn't necessarily mean the average person is feeling it at least right away. power first goes to critical infrastructure before it goes to people. shelter for internally displaced people, people are in a position right now where their homes are destroyed, they don't have anywhere to stay, they're in these in-between places. right now we have seen shelling in the last 24 hours here in the kharkiv region. we just heard an air raid siren go off here within the last hour. but some of the most intense nonfront line activity is taking place in the kherson region. that recently liberated city came under massive artillery fire in the last 24 hours, injuring 50 people, killing at

least ten. president zelenskyy is calling this russia's revenges for their failures on the battlefield. >> ellison barber, i thank you so very much. appreciate it. rick, let's talk about this because there is a very clear, approaching quickly, humanitarian crisis in ukraine. i'm just wondering, rick -- and it's good to see you, rick. >> it's good to see you. >> how concerned is the united states, and what things could we do to help alleviate a problem that is very clearly coming? >> yes. i mean, there is a humanitarian crisis now, jose. great to see you, as always. it is likely to get worse in the winter. i think that's part of russia's terrorist war strategy in the last few days, the european parliament has called russia's war on ukraine a collective act of terrorism. they're bargaining on ukrainians not being able to survive the

winter. i know you're interested in history, jose. it's chilling to me because what it really echos to me is the seeds of stalingrad or leningrad during world war ii. the nazis had for two and a half years russia's principal city, millions of people died and starved. it was maybe the largest single act of terrorism in the history of war. and now -- and it became a part of russian mythology, about russian resilience, that we survive, we defeated the nazis. and now the russians are inflicting that on their brother nation ukraine. i mean, it's not irony, it's tragic, and illegal and an act of terrorism. >> you know -- >> the world has -- yeah. >> no, i was just saying, and thank you for mentioning that. i was just reading up on

stalingrad and the fact is that the russians did hold out under the most horrendous circumstances. but then they had their own russians right in the front there so that when russian soldiers turned, they would get shot by their own special forces. but, rick, this is like history repeating itself over and over and over again. how does a zelenskyy go forward in this very difficult time when, you know, they're saying, oh, this is a time to negotiate with the russians? >> jose, throughout history, we learned that the greatest ally on the battlefield is belief in what you're fighting for. the russians have no belief in what they're fighting for. the ukrainians are fighting for their state, they're fighting for their country, they're fighting for their lives. it's an existential threat to them. that's why the russians survived

the siege of stalingrad in world war ii because they were fighting for their lives. that is what i would count on with the ukrainians that they're willing to suffer for something they care about and something they believe in. the russian war is, itself, so cynical. there are no russian soldiers that believe in what they're doing. so, that, to me, is the strength of the ukrainians, and mr. zelenskyy, as we've seen since the beginning, is the person who is giving that strength to his own people. i hope and pray that they will survive, and i think they will. >> and to paraphrase an historical statement, we have so many arrows that we can blanket the sun. well, we fight best in the shadows. rick stengel, it's always a pleasure to see you, my friend. this is a picture shared by u.s. border patrol of a homemade vessel used by cubans who landed on the florida keys on thanksgiving. more and more people from cuba,

from haiti, from nicaragua, from venezuela are making this dangerous journey. and many are also making the dangerous journey by land to the u.s. southern border. next, let's take a look at what's next for people who want asylum as the legal battle over the trump-era health policy title 42 eats up. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." hello! hello is friendly... hello is open... it's welcoming. everything we want to be when helping people find a medicare plan.

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harrowing story on the west coast. our san diego affiliate reports says a coast guard crew rescued 18 migrants who were stranded on a motorboat off the coast of baja, california for five days. children as young as 4 and 2 years old were aboard. according to a coast guards spokesman, rescuers were amazed it was even afloat. and on thanksgiving yesterday, u.s. border patrol agents responded to multiple landings in the florida keys. this was carrying 15 humans. the u.s. coast guard says it stopped at sea more than 6,000 times. it's the most in more than seven years. as we hear these gut-wrenching stories of people fleeing to the united states, a pandemic-era health policy that restricts asylum-seekers from crossing the border is set to come to an end

on december 20th, taking effect on midnight the 21st. this as several states argued it would lead to an increase of people arriving to the u.s. joining us now with more is an immigration attorney and former president of the american immigration lawyers association. alan, thank you for being with us this morning. these stories of people desperate to seek a new life in freedom in the united states is the result of a broken immigration system. there is no line to jump to the back of. and this is not going away at any point, alan. it's getting more and more dangerous for people to flee. and why is it that there is no way for them to, at their home country or somewhere else, try and reach a new life? >> i think they're really difficult arrangements in country that the vice president has worked on through the

refugee program. and many of these programs are related to the u.n. beyond that, what we can also say is that there is an american law that allows for asylum. the use of title 42, a 1944 law that was done around the same time we were imprisoning japanese americans in internment camps, it is exacted to give harm and cruelty to these individuals. >> so, if that's the case, why is it still in use today, and what is -- it's a health law, right, that is being used for immigration policy. what is the immigration policy? >> so, the current immigration policy is that asylum is legal. and that's the problem, that we're not following our own laws. we're saying that we can't handle the number and we're afraid of the amount of people coming to our border.

we're just concerned about the southern border. so we're not addressing immigration comprehensively. we're only saying let's talk about the southern border. in fact when we say, as you said earlier in the segment, that if we were to pass some type of immigration reform, we could address a lot of the pull that is pushing these immigrants to the border. many of the states that are suing the federal government to keep 42 in place are the highest states that use immigrant labor through the h2b program. they can't say to us we can't take these immigrants in, and at the same time use them for work. every time something happens politically, we say look at the southern border. when in fact stunts and tricks at the southern border are not the resolve for this. mr. mccarthy should've been in d.c. drafting legislation to address the issue. >> allen, when you look at the

world around us, haiti is devolving into a lawless state, essentially, and people are just being very difficult to survive in haiti on a daily basis. you have cuba with a 62-year-plus dictatorship. venezuela, nicaragua. you have countries where people really feel that they have -- that their only solution is to leave. so how do we as a country deal with that reality? >> i think the first thing is, as we celebrate native american history day, that we're not afraid that people want to come and be a part of our country. our concern is basically being the best country with regards to our laws. with with the problem around the world, that's something that requires work by the u.n. i don't think treating humans not as problems but as people and addressing our immigration code to reform it, to meet the need and also to follow our own

asylum laws as they're printed, if congress wants to change them, they can, and accepting people is not a problem. i find it very alarming to me that when people come 1,000 miles, 30 people get in a boat, they risk their lives to come to this country to just be a part of the greatness that we have, that we say to them, no, you're a problem, when in fact we have over 2 million jobs that are unfilled right now and they're trying to meet part of the need we have overall with population decline. >> every day as you and i speak, and you know this better than anybody else, there are people that are going through the most difficult, horrific conditions through the darien jungle, going through next, getting on a raft or a boat leaving cuba or haiti, trying to get out of venezuela, that's happening right now as we speak. it's a continuing crisis. i thank you so much for shining a light on it and for doing the work that you do. i really appreciate it. >> thank you so much for having me. >> thanks. hey, i'm sure you've been

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what great games we've seen so far. >> reporter: i'm telling you, you know, let's start with this iran game. that matters. i mean, that whole game iran was tied with wales, right? it wasn't until overtime when iran was able to get those back to back those with a 2-0 win over wales. that's important because that did add added pressure on team usa. they take the field behind me here in three hours. they're not expected to win tonight. of course, england is favored, number fifth in the world. in the event they don't win tonight, that would mean that they have to win that game next week against iran in order to advance the knockout round. i've been talking to the fans also known as experts here, they tell me that team usa is going all the way and they're going to get the title. as you mentioned, when you look at what we've seen this entire tournament, you never know. it's so unpredictable. japan beating germany ranked number 11th, germany has four world cup titles.

we saw morocco holding off croatia. that's what makes this game so unpredictable, so fun to watch. you just never know what's going to happen. all eyes are going to be on the stadium behind me when team usa takes the pitch against england, jose. >> megan fitzgerald, great seeing you. much more ahead in our next hour of coverage including what folks traveling this weekend can expect and the future of daca in the spotlight. after a quick break, please stay with us. i'll see you soon. th us. i'll see you soon. it's nice d after a long week of telling people how liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. showtime. whoo! i'm on fire tonight. (limu squawks) yes! limu, you're a natural. we're not counting that. only pay for what you need.

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