gain much ground in the meantime, holding ground means hemorrhaging men for those soldiers who stay strong in ukraine's east, the rewards are modest, maybe the kind of martyrdom. this video of paraska's on, he declares glory to ukraine before he's murdered in captivity. >> translator: we have no option but to continue fighting all this blood that was lost cannot be lost in vain we need to continue defending ourselves. >> reporter: this is the face that holds ukraine's front lines. but if this war is larger than one life, then no single life can be lost in vain. >> translator: i had only one son, and i lost him. but now i have gained many sons. all of his fellow soldiers are my sons now. >> reporter: matt bradley, nbc news we have a lot to cover in

our second hour of "chris jansing reports. let's get right to it. >> at this hour, the new information we learned from the first court appearance of the suspected leaker of a trove of classified documents, and the reaction from capitol hill former president trump trying once again to get courts to block key testimony from his vice president, mike pence what that means for the federal january 6th probe. a downpour of historic proportions, south florida flooded after being slammed with a crippling amount of rain we'll take you to fort lauderdale where the community is bracing, if you can believe it, for yet another downpour, and cracking down, the justice department taking aim at drug cartels for the flood of deadly fentanyl across the border the stunning acts of accused violence involving tigers, the country halfway around the world named in the investigation

our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments today we heard the words probably we never thought would come out of any u.s. attorney general's mouth before attorney general merrick garland saying that the drug cartel he's investigating these victims, dead and alive to its pet tigers nbc homeland security correspondent, julia ainsley is live from d.c., the details that are in this are shocking, disgusting, gruesome, what can you tell us about what merrick garland had to say today. >> it's incredibly disturbing, chris, and what my sources are telling me is this level of detail and the announcement today is no coincidence. the timing comes just as a mexican delegation of government officials came to the u.s. yesterday meeting with the biden administration to work on a deal where we've previewed this on nbc news where the mexican government is going to do more to share information on what sinaloa cartel and other cartels

are doing as they manufacture fentanyl, trying to track down on the trafficking of deadly fentanyl across the southern border into the u.s. while the u.s. is trying to do more to trace guns that are going and winding up in mexico this is all part of enhanced cooperation, and the announcement, the sinaloa cartel, a dozen of top members taken down, including four sons of el cha po guzman, now merrick garland making that announcement today, and here's what he had to say about the gruesome details you previewed, chris. >> those defendants experimented on a woman they had been ordered to shoot instead they injected her repeatedly with fentanyl until she overdosed and died and after an addict died testing a batch of the cartel's fentanyl, one of the defendants sent the batch to the united states anyway. as described in the ndictment,

security forces attack law enforcement, intimidate civilians, destroy unsupportive businesses and capture contested territory. they often torture and kill their victims. they have fed some of their victims dead and alive to tigers belonging to the chapitos. >> now, chris, of course all of that is incredibly disturbing t hear we're getting the details because of the enhanced cooperation. this is not your average drug dealer this is an incredibly cool organization out not just for profits but to inflict massive pain and power over its victims and the people they control. it's not yjust a matter of tryin to cut down on fentanyl. it's trying to stop a criminal organization from inflicting for suffering. >> the level of depravity is unbelievable thank you for that. fort lauderdale officials

say 100 people had to be rescued after being trapped in flooding from record busting rainfall sam brock is here. sam, residents, businesses, airlines, cruise lines, all disrupted. what's the latest? >> after historic starts and neighborhoods here in fort lauderdale, that are still flooded, even 36 to 48 hours after the real heat of this event, a lot of questions now about what comes next. we are getting critical pieces of information an update from officials in broward county and fort lauderdale about where things stand in terms of displacement and rescue efforts we found out there are no life threatening situations anymore all of the efforts are to help people in uncomfortable situations, and that's a lot of folks. i can attest to that firsthand we were in neighborhoods like flamingo park where there is 2 to 3 feet of water that have been not been flushed out. there's 30 to 40 people in an emergency shelter. initially the city said somewhere in the range of 600. that appears to be incorrect, how many were rescues versus

displacements. for so many people who are frustrated and trying to figure out why is it there's still so much standing water in my neighborhood, i'm told there's two reasons behind that. one, high and low tide when it's low tide, that's their window a 90 minute cycle to get all the water through the storm water system flushed into the ocean where the pipes are not covered. up when the tide comes up, that's no longer possible, everything is clogged again. they're work ing in small windows. the big trucks that vacuum up the water and carry it out, they don't have enough. there's 20 on the ground, they requested another 20 officials going through the process of trying to clear the neighborhoods out. amazingly throughout all of this, no reported fatalities, and the regional airport is back up and running that had caused quite a travel snare for a period of time you're looking at hundreds of flights that were already cancelled today, 230 plus, at least things are back up and

running today. the community still, though, is dealing with the effects of what certainly feels to many like a hurricane level event. in fort lauderdale, sam brock, nbc news, back to you. >> thank you so much and new today, former president donald trump, asking a federal appeals court to block the testimony of mike pence. ryan riley joins me, what can we expect a decision and what might it mean for the investigation? >> i think we can expect it relatively soon. when they have gotten a request for an injunction, they have tender that out quickly. it's an indication that there may be a day on the books already for mike pence, testified before that federal grand jury ongoing in district court in d.c. because, you know, this is a motion for an injunction, meaning that they want to freeze while this appeals process takes place. if you kill something and the

testimony happens anyway, that would be a loss for the president there. he wants to freeze this, the broader issue of whether or not mike pence can testify before the grand jury that's investigating these critical issues around january 6th, and has been speaking with a number of top former trump administration officials as they go about investigating some of the circumstances leading up to the attack on the capitol on january 6th. >> with a wall full of credentials, that's a cool way to display them. thank you, my friend good to see you. let's go to capitol hill where there is fallout to the leaked classified documents. nbc's julie tsirkin is on the hill with the latest for us. what are you hearing, julie? >> reporter: a part from the shock of the situation, republicans and democrats are coming together to figure out next steps in investigating how this leak occurred, possibly holding hearings there's now conversations in terms of what committees will take that work on in both the

house and senate, and potentially craft some sort of legislation to perform the security clearance process that enabled this 20 something-year-old jack teixeira from getting his hands on these documents in the first place then you have an outlier, of course, marjorie taylor greene, the republican from georgia who tweeted in defense of this young man you see on your screen she called out the biden administration instead and ukraine. she tweeted a couple of minutes ago saying it's almost like there's evidence of war crimes and treason, but stop talking about the classified information already. she is defending him she's saying that he's a white male christian, and anti-war, and that's why he's quote an enemy to the biden regime, and he told the truth, she says about troops being on the ground in ukraine and a lot more. she's getting blow back, not only from democrats but from former congresswoman liz cheney who used to be in mccarthy's innermost circle before she was kicked out for her remark on the

former president cheney said marjorie taylor greene cannot be trusted going a step further, echoed by eric swalwell who say the same for greene, but all in all, other republicans and democrats are looking at the situation as what it is, a completely unprecedented that this happened they're trying to get to the bottom of it hike i said, sources are telling me they're coming together to see how this can be prevented in the future. >> i see hearings in your future, julie tsirkin. thank you so much. appreciate that reporting. this leak comes on the heels of multiple investigations into how classified documents were handled. does the government have a problem keeping information safe we'll dig into that in just 60 seconds.

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people are asking, who is 21-year-old leak suspect jack teixeira well, we know the airman comes from a patriotic family with a military background. members of his family seen here leaving the courthouse earlier today after hearing the charges against him. "the washington post" reports his dad shouted love you, jack the suspect responded, love you too, dad teixeira is described as a history buff with a keen interest in the military itself. but if the allegations are true, there was also a brash and careless side to the young airman with a very different outcome than described by the pentagon >> in the same way that if you locked your front door and somebody came into your house and took something, you followed your procedures and you locked your door but somebody went in your house and took something and put it out on the street that's what we're talking about here >> it is worth remembering that while this was the largest leak in at least a decade, there are ongoing investigations into classified documents found at

the homes of the current and former president and just this week, a potentially sensitive document was found on a city street in belfast during president biden's ireland trip i want to bring in nbc news chief who's correspondent kristen welker, and national security intelligence analyst, marc polymeropoulos. so, marc, simple question, does the united states have a problem safeguarding important information or given the volume of information out there, are these kinds of leaks inevitable? >> i think this just highlights the challenges of securing information. as you noted, there's a lot of people who have access to classified documents i think there are different cases that you noted certainly, you know, presidents accidentally taking home classified, some residents who took it home and didn't want to give it back, and then an individual like this who very clearly, you know, was doing something that was both illegal and really could harm the united states but there is a challenge here, and i think that the more

information we have learned, look, this unit, this intelligence unit out of cape cod of all places is a legitimate unit, and he had -- this individual had a role as an i.t. tech where he did have access to classified information, so to me, it goes now to the sense of the background investigation this is where the failure, like, how did he get hired and of course his ongoing access to information, and i think that's where you're going to see a lot of calls in congress in terms of how do we monitor personnel who have really kind of some secrets to the -- or the keys to the kingdom. i'm not as interested in this kind of idea of over classification or the number of people this individual needed to have access to this information this was a real unit the question is how was he hired, and why was he still working there? >> so you think he,s s the stufs that's posted and various papers have reported different things, things had had access to, as

opposed to he was somebody who had a certain level of clearance but also had tech skills that were above his clearance level. >> right and this is what some of the i.t. folks have access to. that is a vulnerability, hostile intelligence services would look at this individual as someone to target, not to say this is what occurred, but that's right and so the question is when we put people in positions of trust, you know, how do we ensure that they stay whole, and, you know, i'm not sure how he was certainly hired, but the thing that people are really going to look at is this notion of access to social media, and there's going to be a real struggle to those who have access to information, are there privacy concerns this is what congress is going to dive into, especially with generation z, you know, with younger folks who do these things but at the end of the day, you know, we have to put trust in people and, you know, this is also a lesson on kind of the frailty of the human condition

sometimes people go bad. we just have to be able to catch them before they do harm. >> the question for the white house, of course, kristen is what to do about it. i know the president commented on it, both verbally from ireland, but also has put out a statement. what's the administration's position on this what is president biden saying >> i think first of all, big picture, you heard julie talking about this, democrats and republicans, vowing to investigate to make sure this never happens again. let me read a part of his statement. while we are determining the validity of those documents, i have directed our military and intelligence community to take steps to further secure and limit distribution of sensitive information and our national security team is closely coordinating with our partners and allies now, congressman mike turner, chairman of the house intel committee said he will investigate. you can expect multiple hearings and briefings. the pentagon is launching its own interior rooeview to determe what happened here, and the other piece is the fallout amongst allies

the prime minister of poland who met with the vice president, the vice president has tried to reassure him about u.s. intelligence and he down played the leaks, but look, there's no doubt that all of this comes at a critical moment in the war in ukraine, and that could have real implications for the conflict there and for the united states' relationship with its most important partners. >> you know, marc, if someone robs you to use general wright's analogy or you have classified documents in your garage or your office, presumably, right, the exposure is limited, but if millions of people have access to various site where these documents end up on the certainty, exponentially, it getting into the wrong hands increases so do we have the wherewithal, do we have the will to deal with this rapidly changing technology? >> so, you know, you raise a great point, and there's some irony in this. so remember post 9/11, when the intelligence community was really severely criticized for

over compartmentalizing, for withholding information, having stove pipes, there's a desire to share more amongst intelligence agencies in the u.s. government. now the pendulum has swung too much perhaps there's too much of that we need to go back to a little bit of a strict com, you know, versus the notion that we don't want another 9/11 style event where one side of the u.s. government information didn't share with the other, and so, you know, that's an ongoing challenge, and you know, we'll have to kind of keep trying to find that right balance. >> you know, teixeira is not analogous with this, but you and i were working at the white house together when there was concern about isis and chat rooms, and online things where americans were being radicalized and the steps being taken to

change it. for a lot of people, not enough change was made, but in this instance, is your sense that this could be an opportunity and, in fact, there will be a major overhaul in how classified documents are handled? >> reporter: absolutely, they are taking a hard look at that we know that teixeira had top secret level clearance, since 2021, and as part of the i.t. team, he likely had access to a computer system with that type of sensitive information, but to your point, the pentagon, as part of the review, is going to take a serious look at how many people have access to that kind of information, and the biden administration is looking at expanding how it monitors social media sites and chat rooms that's a critical piece of this. there's no doubt they're going to have an all hands on deck approach trying to get to the bottom of this, and how to fix it >> kristen welker, marc polymeropoulos, thank you so much, appreciate it. florida governor ron desantis quietly signing a six-week abortion ban before

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of the pre-presidential primary season is tonight in new hampshire, and party officials say the interest in the guest speaker, florida governor ron desantis is huge they say it's already raked in a record breaking amount of cash, and it comes at a critical and challenging time for desantis who has been sliding in the polls and has gotten criticism for the signing of a controversial six-week abortion ban late last night. that may be why a group supporting him is about to launch a major tv ad buy with an ad both patriotic and combative. >> you're coming after the rights of parents. i'm standing in your way >> freedom is here to stay >> is this the start of a campaign reset even before he officially joins the race? nbc's ally -- ali vitali, great to have both of you here ali, you have been everywhere.

i think you're currently tracking another 2024 hopeful, south carolina senator tim scott. before i ask you about thim, i wonder what you're hearing broadly about ron desantis and where his campaign is standing right now or lack thereof officially anyway? >> reporter: right, exactly. i will say the good news is nbc has apparently perfected cloning because i can be everywhere now, which is awesome for us, but when you think about the 2024 field and desantis specifically, there are some who might look at the polling slide, and say that this is just the result of him not being an official candidate, and that this is kind of what you get when you play ftootsy with a bid that should come at the beginning of the summer if it comes at all first he wants to get through the legislative session because so many of the things that they're doing in florida are directly related to what he wants to take in his national message. it's not a surprise that he wants to use this so-called blueprint for florida as the

thing that he wants to run his platform on. that's everything from education, just like the super pack is highlighted and the six-week abortion ban that desant desantis wants to make another plank of his message even though it was signed quietly, he did it as quickly as possible before flying back into the state, heading into new hampshire, making sure there was no time to pass when it got through the legislature as when it got to the desk that's something that the conservative faithful are going to want to hear about. even if we see candidates struggling with the message of abortion. >> another way to look at it for people who want to be critical of ron desantis right now is he's trying to thread a needle, right, signing that restrictive abortion ban but late at night, he did a big thing last time, the 15-week ban. not this time, and he's on tape, not in person at the nra you can say, well, he has other things on his schedule like new hampshire. what do you make of his unofficial campaign so far

>> well, i think at this point, his strategy is to win back the evangelicals who trump lost. evangelicals felt hoodwinked by trump, and i think that's desantis's play here, even though it's quiet, it's become something he can use as a talking point with evangelicals. it's important to note that he can not win the nomination with evangelicals alone what is the remainder of the strategy here because nationally, he's polling way underneath trump with the latest poll at 33 points underneath trump. how do you dig out of that even if he becomes an official candidate, i'm not sure how he can make up for that polls with such extreme positions while he's trying to position himself as the alternative to donald trump, trump is making him the ire of all of his attacks right now. so until desantis starts doing the same for him and starts to throw his hat into the ring a bit more clearly, which maybe the ad buy is doing, i really

think he's going to get into some trouble if you're not first, you're last, and that's exactly what we're seeing from his unofficial campaign right now. >> obviously we have talked about this before, ali, the trick is, yes, for a primary audience, if you want to have a six-week abortion ban, works, right, for the traditional far right primary voter, not so great in the general i was interested to hear what tim scott had to say when he was asked a question about whether he would support a national ban, here's what he said. >> the fact of the matter is when you look at the issue of abortion, one of the challenges we have, we continue to go through the most restrictive conversations, without broadening the scope and looking at the fact i'm 100% pro life, but the truth of the matter is when you look at the issues of abortion, i start with the very important conversation i had in a banking hearing where i was sitting in my office and listening to janet yellen, the secretary of the treasury talk about increasing the labor force

participation rate for african-american women who are in poverty by having abortions >> you just interviewed the senator. put that into context for us, and what else did he tell you? >> reporter: scott is making the argument that abortion is an economic issue, which a lot of people would agree that it is. that wasn't the way our conversation went, and in fact, we've seen him over the course of the last few days, initially struggle to articulate specific ideas, and then today in an interview with me, he sort of seemed to say he would take whatever the most conservative congress could get him was this is what part of our exclusive sit-down included. >> every time a state has a decision, states have the ability to have the most conservative bills that they can get passed in their legislature. i support the culture of life. >> but is six weeks the right mile marker? >> the people have decided that

their elected leaders have the opportunity to do so, so i say absolutely as a culture of life is being protected, we should celebrate that states will have different views of that. if i were president of the united states, i would literally sign the most conservative pro life legislation that they can get through congress. >> reporter: even if it was six weeks? >> i'm not going to talk about six or five or seven or ten, i'm saying whatever the most conservative legislation is that can come through congress. >> reporter: is what you would sign >> yes >> reporter: now, scott has previously said that he would sign a ban at 20 weeks you heard him there saying that he doesn't want to get into hypotheticals at other various week marks but this is i think a question that every republican candidate is going to have to be asked and then answer, especially as we see states across the country like florida putting in place bans at six weeks. we're watching other states make different restrictions around the ways people can access care there. this is going to be a live

issue. as much as these candidates might not want to talk in hypotheticals, everything was hypothetical until it wasn't the supreme court striking down roe was hypothetical until it wasn't they could become real as we watch conservative legislatures take the country in a restrictive direction in their states, and statest oppositeavig the patch work open. >> ali vitali, thank you both so much protests are continuing in paris as france's high court just ruled on the plan to raise the country's retirement age plus, president biden wrapping up his trip to ireland after praising the enduring bond between his country. also, a surprising unexpected emotional moment you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc power e*trade's award-winning trading app makes trading easier. with its customizable options chain, easy-to-use tools, and paper trading to help sharpen your skills,

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constitutional counsel, france's highest constitutional authority have ruled in favor of president macron, and it's not entirely surprising, many of them are seen as macron is and they take the same view as him in order to balance the books in this country, these reforms are essential to make the changes. so it's a huge win for president macron president macron's prime minister tweeted right after the bill had been pushed through the legal path has now come to an end the constitutional path has come to an end. there are no winners and losers in this fight. but i don't think that's going to resonate with the people that have been protesting on the streets for so long. they certainly feel that they have lost this battle. it has been a week's long fight. emotions have been running high. the country has come to a standstill, and ultimately, they didn't get what they wanted. now, the constitutional counsel struck down some of the reforms citing legal issues with it. but, you know, they gave the

green light to the flagship measure to raise the age of retirement from 62 to 64, which was at the heart of the matter it's not entirely over yet, chris. the counsel had rejected one motion that was tabled for a referendum they are now considering a second motion for a referendum, and they'll rule on that on the third of may but it's very unlikely that they will give a dpgreen light to th referendum the turn has been set with the council, and all probability, macron is going to press ahead with this reform he still has to tread carefully as emotions are running very high interestingly, we are outside city hall, and just before the announcement was made, there were maybe about a thousand people here waiting for that result as soon as the result came in, they fizzled out, and that was an expectation here in paris

the expectation was that if that reform didn't go the way the protesters wanted, there was going to be a lot of commotion, possibly some more riots, but that didn't happen they just disbursed and went home >> ali arouzi, thank you for that i appreciate it. from france to ireland, and a final day that's turned out to be a particularly emotional one for president joe biden in his an ancestral homeland it involves a press release named reverend frank o grady mike memoli is in ireland traveling with the president who has made it clear how much he's loved being there. this was quite a surprise today, wasn't it, mike? >> yeah, absolutely, chris the president and his aides were already expecting something of an emotional day, one of the stops that they had planned to make was at a hospice center that had been dedicated in memory of the president's late son beau biden it was at an important religious site that the president was stunned to encounter one of the

priests there was the very same priest who eight years ago performed the last rites on beau biden at walter reid army medical center the presidential i'm told by white house officials was overcome by emotion. this was not something anybody on the president's team was expecting, and so it really just speaks to a day of incredible contrast, chris. as you can tell, the atmosphere here is far different, a rally like atmosphere, this small town, about 10,000 people live here has swelled, double in size to welcome back the great great grandson of edwin, a brick seller, sold the bricks that helped build the cathedral behind me. they're calling it the joe show in mayo. he's going to be speaking about the importance of the irish-american experience, the resilience of the irish people, and how the values that have informed his life, the irish people's life, the importance of

dignity and treating everyone with equality have informed his politics so really, chris,this has been an entire trip in which we've seen potentially some of the emotions that might lead the president in a different direction. he talked about the fact that he intends to run and he's a great respecter of faith you have the president energized by some of the crowds you've seen, and also moments that are a reminder of the fate that he says he's the respecter of. >> mike memoli in ireland, thank you so much, it's good to see you, mike. new fallout for justice clarence thomas after a report found a never disclosed real estate deal with a megadonor one of the reporters who broke that story will be here next you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc

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disclose that a gop brought a property from him. that's from documents p propublica -- we have not heard back you might remember, though, a previous report on trips thomas took with the donor. the justice said at the time they are close personal friend and the trips were not reportable before guidelines changed. i'm joined now by one of the pro publica reporters on the by line, joel elliot. what are the details, and what are the legal flags this might raise? >> sure, as you say, after our first story, justice thomas, and ha harlan crowe described their relationship as a friendship and talked about these family trips. our news story is about actually a real estate deal between the two of them where crowe bought a house and two vacant lots in

savannah, georgia, from justice thomas, and some of his relatives. the house is a house that justice thomas grew up in and his elderly mother actually still lives there, putting crowe in the unusual position of possibly being her landlord. >> so he said in a statement, right, harlan crowe, i'm talking about, that he wanted to turn this into a museum or someplace the public could eventually go does that change the equation in a legal sense? >> it does not change justice thomas's obligations to disclose the transaction, so supreme court justices like many other government officials have to file this annual filing where they list their assets and transactions, you know, such as selling real estate, like in this case. and the reason for that is it allows members of the public and in this case, people before the supreme court to assess potential conflicts of interest, see who's potentially influencing them, and that sort

of thing in this case, joseph thomas simply didn't report this sale that happened in 2014. we posted the public records that established this sale happened the fact that harlan crowe said he's planning to someday put a museum in this house, we were told by ethics experts doesn't change the equation, and i would also just add that crowe didn't respond to our questions about why he would need to purchase vacant lots down the block from justice thomas in order to put a museum in the house. >> has there ever been a situation like this with a justice that you know of is this unprecedented? >> we have not been able to find any perfectly analogous situation. there was a scandal in the 1960s with a supreme court justice named abe fortis getting money from a wall street financier, that led to his resignation from

the court. but we haven't found anything daya analogous to make sure to watch katy tur, she'll talk to a member of the judiciary committee about supreme court oversight. that is coming up in our next hour. we have some developing details out of new port news, virginia the mother of the 6-year-old student who you'll recall shot and wounded his first grade teacher has made her first quote appearance just a day after turning herself in and posting a $5,000 bond. this is 25-year-old daysha tailor, charged with child neglect and a misdemeanor for leaving a loaded firearm she faces a maximum of six years in prison. virginia lawmakers have passed a resolution, honoring the 25-year-old elementary teacher, for her courage and dedication to students. despite warnings about the economy, surprising new information about travelers and

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about the economy, this year, summer travel is expected to be one for the record books that's according to the ceo of delta who says they're projecting a strong travel season ahead but can the air travel system handle this spike in demand?

nbc's tom costello is at reagan national airport hey there, tom, what's the latest >> chris, good day to you. we have already seen heavy traffic here at the tsa check point at reguagan, this is happening nationwide, it's a friday, tail end of spring break. tsa is reporting 2 million people per day at least going through check points, sunday, 2 1/2 million. we are at or exceeding 2019 pre-pandemic levels and there's one study out from the economist intelligence agency saying we could see travel surging this summer, global travel surging by about 30%. delta air lines saying summer bookings are already at record levels indeed. all right, the airlines say they have learned from the mistakes last summer when they had such a big meltdown, 23% of all flights last summer delayed at least an hour the airlines say they have learned the lesson here's where we stand at hopper.com on air fares says the

typical air fare this summer is going to be up 18% over where it was pre-pandemic 2019. on average, domestic tickets in the state, $328. tickets for mexico, 528 bucks on average this summer, and $1,100 round trip, if you're going to europe that's up 30% since 2019 top destinations in the states no surprise. it's the big apple number one. vegas, orlando, and washington, d.c., and then overseas, london, paris, tokyo, and rome europe is back and in a big way. by the way, it's not just air fares, we've also got food, which is up about 9% compared to a year ago everything, of course, gets more expensive. everybody remembers the meltdown from last summer there weren't enough people in the airports, in the airplanes, there wasn't enough staff, and then we had a problem with not enough pilots. the airline said they have staffed up, signed labor agreements, they say that is not

going to happen again this summer we'll see, right keep your fingers crossed. by the way, we also want to mention it's not just staffing for the airlines and airports. the faa has a shortage of air traffic controllers and as a result, they have asked the airlines to trim their schedules going into and out of new york city that means fewer flights that means prices likely to be higher into and out of new york, and as always, in the summer, the weather is the big caveat. so take a breath, here we go end of spring break, get ready for summer and a very busy travel season indeed, chris. >> thank you so much, tom costello, and i am going to take a breath because of that the centuries long rat race in new york city has taken a new turn mayor eric adams announcing that a former schoolteacher is going to take on the city's rodent problem. kathleen karati is the city's new director of rodent mitigation, but informally, the role is called rat czar.

she played a big part in revamping sanitation efforts in city schools, and now her first order of business, cutting off the rat's food supply, and she's putting them on notice >> rats and the conditions that support their thriving will no longer be tolerated in new york city there's a new sheriff in town. and with your help, we'll send those rats packing >> she will make $155,000 a year for tackling the problem, but most new yorkers agree a rat free city is priceless may i just say, while ooi've ner seen a rat that big in times square, i might have seen one that big on the subway system. good luck. that's going to do it for us this hour. make sure to join us for "chris jansing reports" every weekday, 1:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc "katy tur reports" is right now. ♪ abortion is going back to

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