fishing or by the nearby reef, but they've never seen one so close to shore. and ella says she still wants to be a marine biologist, ana, despite everything that's happened, and in terms of some context right now as far as unprovoked shark bites are concerned, they're actually down in 2022 versus the rest of the last decade. there were 57 last year versus roughly about 75 a year over the course of that time frame. florida still ranks number one in the world with 16 last year. this is more common than you might think. >> incredible story, such a brave, brave girl. sam brock, thank you for that. that's going to do it for us today. thank you for being here. we'll be back tomorrow, same time, same place. until then, reporting from new york, i'm ana cabrera, thank you. josé diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. and good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific, i'm josé diaz-balart. new numbers out this morning appearing to show the humanitarian crisis at the southern border could be easing

a bit after the end of title 42. we're live with what migrants tell nbc news could be behind it. cleanup is underway after deadly weekend weather across the plains. at least 55 tornados have been reported in the region since friday. one texas community taking a direct hit. we're just a little more than two weeks away from june 1st, the day the treasury secretary warns the u.s. will run out of money to pay its bills, and right now there's no deal on the debt ceiling in sight, details on tomorrow's critical meeting. the race for 2024 heating up in iowa, florida governor ron desantis swoops in to fill in the gap left by former president trump after he canceled a rally in des moines. and a year after the deadly mass shooting at a buffalo supermarket, we'll hear how the community is healing with the help of a very special teen. >> none of us knew what we were getting into. there is no plan when someone comes to kill you with an ar-15.

and we begin with the very latest on the humanitarian crisis now unfolding at the southern border. homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas says there has been a drop in the number of illegal border crossings in the day since title 42 was lifted, but he says it's still too early to tell if things have peaked. >> in these first two days after the end of title 42, the united states border patrol has seen a 50% drop in the number of people encountered at our southern border. it is too early in the process, but we continue to execute our plan. >> so just a little bit of context, in the days leading up to the end of title 42, the u.s. saw roughly 10 to 11,000 illegal border crossings every day. as of yesterday, those numbers are just above 4,000, even

though there's been a decrease in people caught crossing the border illegally, most of them actually handing themselves in to authorities. some of those who have crossed are once again living on the streets of el paso while others are stuck inside severely overcrowded detention facilities. nbc's george solis joins us from plan. good morning, what's the situation on the ground there today? >> yeah, good morning, jose. humanitarian crisis still unfolding. there are still a number of my grants sleeping on the streets. a number of men as the women and children usually stay at sacred heart behind me. many of them are trying to navigate this new landscape after they reached those port of entries. many of them of course as you know going through hell and back essentially with their families encountering people who are trying to steal from them, being kidnapped, and even worse along their trails there. many of the families here trying to figure out what's next. many of them wondering if they will stay here, try to get to a

sanctuary city, many of them as you know are heading to cities up north and many of them are being met with protests, people who are upset that, you know, they're being moved to hotels, and they just want to know if they're going to be reunited with their families if they are being separated here at the ports of entry, which we've heard a number of stories from. i want to tell you quickly that some of the families that i've interviewed here, you had one mother who had her child here as she was entering there that port of entry. that child is now 18 days old. luckily she is safe and sound here at one of shelters she was able to find here. other migrants saying they're still having a lot of issues with that cbp 1 app. they are trying to schedule those which is a requirement to try and get an appointment with an immigration judge. they're saying they've had a number of issues with that app. they're either miles away or these appointments are taking years to get through. i also want to tell you a really

quick story about a couple i interviewed yesterday who was sleeping on the streets here. they just made it through that port of entry, they were separated from their 4-year-old grandson. the grandmother telling me she was accused of being a child trafficker. it was a very horrific event for her, evening after everything she'd already been experiencing. i want you to take a listen to some of the conversation we've had. [ speaking non-english ] >> franklin tells me that this is really the only option that they had. a lot of the shelters only accepting women and children at the time. so this is really more of a situation of circumstance. they have a 4-year-old grandson that is not with them. he's being processed right now. they have the option to leave, but they say they cannot leave their grandson behind.

>> reporter: and jose, i just got an update from franklin and evelyn who you just heard from. they're telling me they may actually have to leave their grandson behind. they believe they will not be reunited and they're trying to get to dallas as quickly as possible to establish a new life to hopefully be reunited sooner rather than later. jose. >> george, very briefly, when we left el paso over the weekend, the airplane that we were on, all of the other terminals saw there were a lot of people that had just recently crossed the border and they were heading to different places. they're not just going via airplane, but they're looking to go via bus, and a lot of them are actually looking for the means to which they can get a bus ticket or a plane ticket to go other places in our country. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. many of them saying once they get to cities that they're trying to get to, they obviously have to work some kind of old

jobs, hopefully they have a point of contact. in some cases like with franklin and evelyn they can prove that they are settled so hopefully that makes their case a little easier for trying to get them reunited with their loved ones. jose. >> george solis in el paso, i thank you very much. right now the cleanup effort is underway across the south and midwest after dozens of tornados were reported over the weeken including a devastating ef-1 tornado which was about 20 miles away from the border city of brownsville. strong winds destroyed homes and tossed cars into residents' yards. at least ten people were injured, one person was killed. joining us now from laguna heights, texas, is nbc's catie beck. good morning, what's the very latest today? >> good morning, jose. this area has already this morning experienced another round of thunderstorms and rain, which has obviously delayed recovery effort this is morning as there are some puddles and standing water around.

the folks here are really just starting to put the pieces together after that deadly ef-1 tornado swept through town with little warning and claiming the life of 42-year-old robert flores. we spoke to some of his family members here on the ground who told us he was sadly enjoying his life as a newlywed and as a new father. this is devastating for them and obviously the families here are very close-knit. this is a community of just about 1,500 people, so many of these families have had land here in their family for generations. despite all of the loss, they still feel very optimistic and hopeful that they're going to be able to rebuild. here's what some of them told us yesterday about their spirit. >> just keep your head up, move on. keep getting together, build yourself up, don't worry about the past. just get together. worry about what you have right now. >> we have a lot of family

support, and i mean, we'll make the best of it. we're survivors and that's the way it is. >> reporter: that woman speaking there actually was able to evacuate her 81-year-old mother, jose, just before that storm came. it was coincidentally mother's day weekend, and she had taken her out of her home to visit with her at her home and then hours later that tornado ripped through. so there were some small blessings here, people feeling pretty grateful to be here and to be able to clean up. >> catie beck, i thank you so much. this morning we just heard from house speaker kevin mccarthy casting doubt on the state of debt ceiling talks with just over two weeks until the u.s. could default on its $31 trillion debt. tomorrow president biden is set to meet with mccarthy and other top lawmakers telling reporters sunday he's optimistic about their ability to make a deal. joining us now from capitol hill is nbc ease garrett haake.

garrett, good morning. between the g-7 starting this week, the memorial day recess around the corner, can anything be done in time? >> hey, jose, good morning. i think there's always time if congress is able to strike a deal to move something. there will be two parts of this. you have to pass whatever deal you strike, which can be slow. if there's a big coalition that says, yeah, we've got to get it done and we've got to get it done by a specific day, they could probably move quickly. as we see from the way that president biden and speaker mccarthy are having two kinds of very different sets of public comments about the state of negotiations, they're just not there yet. now, here's what speaker mccarthy told reporters at the end of a weekend of staff negotiations about where things stand right now. >> i still think we're far apart. it doesn't seem to be getting want to look like they're, it seems more like they want a default than a deal.

>> reporter: i've covered a bunch of these kinds of negotiations. that kind of language doesn't surprise me. i would suspect we're going to hear that pessimism perhaps right up until the moment there is a deal. staff were in meetings all weekend long. the big question is will another meeting of president biden, the congressional leadership happen tomorrow before the president leaves the country, or will it not? that had been the expectation when they canceled friday's meeting, but nothing has been kind of set in stone on any kind of calendar for tomorrow yet. that will be a very big tell. if they're even able to get in the room and mark some kind of progress or not before the president leaves the country, watch that space for news from the white house about a meeting tomorrow. >> will do, garrett haake in washington, thank you so much. up next, we're going to go to denver, a city feeling the impact of the humanitarian crisis despite being hundreds of miles from the border. we'll talk to the mayor about what his city needs. we're back in 60 seconds. you're watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. é

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12 past the hour. there have been elections over the weekend in turkey important for turkey's impact not only in europe and the middle east and asia, but also the relations with nato and so much more. let's go to raf sanchez in tel aviv with the very latest. raf. >> reporter: selection really couldn't be higher both for the future of turkey's democracy but also, as you said, its relationship with the rest of the world. president tayyip erdogan was elected as a reformer but he's become increasingly authoritarian in recent years. many people in turkey see this election as really kind of their last best chance to oust president erdogan, to put their

country back on a democratic path. in terms of turkey's relationship with the west, turkey is a member of nato, but to say its relationship with the rest of the alliance is complicated would be an understatement. we have seen president erdogan lashing out at president biden on the campaign trail, accusing his opponents of colluding with the united states. we've also seen turkey refusing to join in western sanctions against russia and holding up sweden joining the nato alliance. now, his challenger has said that if he is elected, he will not only restore democracy in turkey, but he will put the country on a more pro-western path. i want you to take a listen to a little bit of conversation i had with an analyst earlier about what that path might look like. >> i think one of the first foreign policy steps of president kolasharo would be to

green light -- that would restore faith between turkey and nato. he would broadly align with transatlantic community from shaming the chinese concerning their persecution of uighurs to criticizing russia concerning its aggression against ukraine. >> reporter: now, we had the first round of voting last night, and president erdogan kind of defying polls, which put him behind. he won just shy of 50% of the vote according to the central election committee. that is not enough to prevent a runoff election against his challenger on may 28th. erdogan seems to have a lot of momentum going into that second round of voting, not only having done well last night, but also his party doing extremely well in parliamentary elections. but jose, there was a third-party candidate who got only about 5% of the vote.

he may be in something of a king maker position. he is open to endorsing the opposition, but he has a bunch of demands, including a political crackdown on the country's curdish -- kurdish minority. the whole world from washington to europe to ukraine will be watching extremely closely to see what happens over the next two weeks and on election night in turkey may 28th. jose. >> raf sanchez, thank you so very much. let's take a look at the markets, how they're doing this morning. it looks as though they're up a little bit. the dow was up about five points, the s&p 500 three. nasdaq up 40. it comes as investors face mixed messages on the efforts to raise the debt ceiling. while both treasury secretary janet yellen and president biden offered a hopeful tone on the status of negotiations, house speaker mccarthy we just heard that, said that he thinks both sides are still far apart on a deal. joining us now with more is

cnbc's frank holland. good to see you. what are investors making of these mixed messages? >> right now you're seeing the markets ticking slightly higher. i think the wall street community is very similar to janet yellen, cautiously optimistic that a deal will get done. over the weekend, janet yellen balancing a very stern warning of the impact of a u.s. debt default and still remaining hopeful as you mentioned. the treasury secretary has repeatedly urged congress to raise the $31.4 trillion cap on federal borrowing. on tuesday president biden, house speaker mccarthy will meet face-to-face along with congressional leaders. that meeting postponed from last week with many experts telling us that's a hopeful sign that their staffs are making progress behind the scenes on a deal that will satisfy the needs of the country and the political demands of both parties. over the weekend, a rare consensus in d.c. everyone now agrees that so-called x date is june 1st at the earliest, and more likely a

few more weeks away. that puts the u.s. on the precipice of what yellen has called a potential economic and financial catastrophe. you're looking at today's market action, traders, investors taking a cautiously optimistic tone that something can be worked out. up next, an update on the humanitarian crisis at the southern border hundreds of miles away in denver. we'll talk to the mayor about what's happening on the ground there. you're watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. a.

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22 past the hour, the humanitarian crisis isn't just being felt at the southern border. cities across our nation are finding themselves on the front lines in many ways. texas governor greg abbott continues to send bus loads of migrants towards new york city, washington, and denver. many migrants who are released once they cross into the united states find a way, any way they can to get to different cities in our country. as resources are strained and shelters are filling up in cities throughout the country. i want to talk with denver mayor michael hancock who has declared a state of emergency because of the humanitarian crisis. mayor, it's always great to see you. what's the situation on the ground in your city. good to see you as well, jose, and good to be with you. we are seeing a bit of a lull, if you will, in the number of migrants that are coming into denver at least in the last three or four days of the week,

and then through the weekend. last tuesday we had an epic number, close to 400 came through the city of denver again creating the need for us to -- for me as the mayor to reactivate the emergency operation center and to begin to put our agencies on notice and engage everyone in our efforts to try to continue to provide the best care we can for the migrants who come to our city. >> so how is your city coping with this? >> we're at the breaking point, particularly with regard to resources in terms of capacity and space as well as money. we've expended close to $17 million since the end of the year on helping our migrants with a little help from our state, the state has certainly leaned in, and they certainly have provided more support than the federal government. we just received notice, as you may know last week, you know, after spending close to at the time we applied for support from the federal government 11, $12 million, we received $900,000 from the federal

government. unfortunately municipaliies like denver as you mentioned, chicago, d.c., new york, and others are bearing the burden of the responsibility of the federal government and unfortunately it's stressing our resources locally. i've had to inform my agency last week that we may have to face some cuts. we're going to do everything we can to avoid that. we don't believe the people of denver should have to suffer in terms of their services because the federal government hasn't leaned in. >> mayor, i just want to use these last couple of seconds that we have to our conversation. so you've had to spend more than $17 million, and you've requested help from the federal government, and you've received 900,000? now i'm not sure because math is not my forte, but it doesn't seem like those numbers are adding up there. what is it that needs to happen so that someone in washington will listen to you and all of the other cities that are going through these emergencies.

jose, you went right to the heart of the problem. it's not just about must be, obviously we've got migrants here and we want to be as compassionate as we possibly can, seeking support and trying to flee, you know, disaster situations in our home country. but here's the reality, five mayors including myself have joined together to write a letter to the president. it should be issued today if he doesn't already have it on his desk, request a meeting so that we can be very clear in terms of the challenges we have on the ground here in our cities and the need for the federal government to step up. we know that president biden is doing everything he can to stem the tide and to provide resources. but the reality is that we need for him to join with us in going to congress and saying enough is enough. do not create a tenuous, safe condition for the migrants as well as for u.s. residents in our cities because we don't have the resources, we're expending a

lot of our own general funds when it's the responsibility of the federal government. >> i look forward to seeing that letter, let's keep in close touch. i want to hear all about that response when that meeting does take place, and how things are going. i really appreciate your time. it's always a pleasure. >> as always, jose, thank you. >> thanks. up next, we're going to go back to buffalo a year after a racist mass shooting at a supermarket left ten people dead. we'll talk to buffalo's city council president about why he says his community is frustrated as they continue to try to heal. you're watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. a. (seth) and i got to choose the phone i wanted. for free. (cecily) not that you're bragging. (vo) choose the phone you want, on us. during our spring savings event. (cecily) on the network worth bragging about. verizon "look at this skin, baby. she is glowing. she is 1 of 1." with new olay hyaluronic body wash 95% of women had visibly-better skin. "my skin is so much more moisturized."

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31 past the hour, the community of buffalo, new york, is honoring the lives lost in a racist supermarket massacre one year ago. on may 14th, 2022, a gunman opened fire in the top supermarket in east buffalo, a predominantly black neighborhood. ten people were killed, three others injured. on sunday, people gathered for a memorial including some of the loved ones of the victims. joining us now with more is msnbc correspondent trymaine lee. great seeing you. how is the community moving forward after this horrible tragedy? >> jose, as you know, there is no antidote for this kind of pain, and there is no road map for healing, but this community is doing the best they can with the only medicine they have, which is each other. let's take a listen. it's thursday morning in east buffalo, and nurse trinette

austin is making her way into tops supermarket, one of multiple house calls she makes each week. >> pop in and say, hey, i'm here. do somebody need something, give them a hug or whatever. >> reporter: the moment she steps into the place, she's more than a nurse, she's like family. locals call it 514, the day last year when a racist shooter attacked the store killing ten people in this mostly black community. others were injured, some physically, but many more were wounded in ways that were harder to spot. nurse t has been a near constant presence in the lives of top associates ever since working to heal those invisible pains. >> i mean, you still have people today who can't listen to certain music because it reminds them of the gunshots. you have people who still can't sleep. >> reporter: austin was hand picked by dr. lavon unsari, her boss at community health of buffalo to be part of an ad hoc team responding to the tragedy.

>> none of us knew what we were getting into. there is no plan when someone comes to kill you with an ar-15. >> they are working together to come up with ways to help including grief counseling, a day of healing for store employees, and often just a smile, a hug, or a shoulder to laugh or cry on. through it all, she never stops showing up for the people at tops, sometimes popping into the store after working 12-hour shifts at the health center. >> does it ever feel like the needs are just too much or too great? >> what's too much? what they need is what they need. >> reporter: she's formed a tight bond with associates like lorraine greeny baker, a customer service lead who's worked for tops for more than 21 years. >> you are employee of tops. >> reporter: and office manager nicki moore. >> i'll hunt her down, nurse c, she went down the bread aisle, there you go to find her. >> reporter: both women say that leaning on nurse t has helped them heal and process in ways

they could have never imagined a year ago. >> i needed her, she was there, and didn't second guess it, and some of this stuff it might have been crazy, but it was important to me at that time, and she didn't judge me or nothing. she was there for me. >> everybody made promises they didn't keep, this is one promise we know she going to keep. when she says she's going to do something for us, her word is her bond. >> jose, a year has passed but for the folks in buffalo, many say it feels like they're trapped in that day, and even though there have been dozens of mass shootings all across the country and the cameras have gone and many of the promises that folks made to this community have faded, they want america to know that they're still there, they're still suffering in many ways, but they're doing the best they can, jose. >> trymaine lee, i thank you so much. an important story, i really appreciate it. joining us with more is buffalo city council president darius

pridgeon and a bishop and senior pastor. thank you for being with us. we spoke a year ago. >> yeah. >> how is the community doing one year after this horrible shooting? >> you know, it's tough. i just heard the words trapped in our grief. you know, this has been a full weekend. every event that you can think of happened, but it still doesn't change the fact. there was a lot of attention on buffalo a year ago, and we know that since then there have been hundreds of mass shootings all over the united states, but there's something a little different about here because we have a white supremacist, identified white supremacist who said that he wanted to kill as many black people as possible, so at the end of the day, i still think that there is this grief that just has not lifted yet. >> yeah, you know, just hearing

trymaine's story that some people just can't hear certain music and they're still having nightmares about it. i just wonder how does grief manifest itself and it's so unique to every single person, but is there anything that can be a balm to grief? >> you know, i think that -- and i don't want to make it seem like there is no progress in our grief. i want to be careful there because i've never seen as many african americans in this neighborhood -- well, period seeking grief counseling. at our church we have -- well, i should say mental health professionals there once a week. that would have never happened in our community. i live only two blocks away from the tops. i see people who are going to different places getting the

help so that we can move forward. i think that the year anniversary just opened up so many wounds again. it was like we kind of -- we did not forget and we'll never forget, but we're kind of getting to the point of dealing with it, and then this weekend comes and you hear the names over and over. we need that, we need it not so much to heal from the grief but to move an agenda because what we need now, we need more than money. we need a movement across the united states of america because money is not going to fix really all of our woes. it will fix some things that have been needed because of suspended racism, but what we need is a movement. >> you know, i keep thinking, you know, it was just -- it's over and over again, darius. it just seems like sometimes we're in a wheel of things that just aren't light. they're darkness, and i'm thinking, you know, no one is born a racist.

they have to learn how to be, you know, a racist. how do you -- darius, how do we change that reality? >> we expose racism for what it is. we really put a light on it and stop hiding. the one thing this murderer did is he unlocked our lips. i've heard people say white supremacist racist, people i would have never heard it, but taking that stigma off being able to address racism in america, years ago if you talked about white supremacist people said you're playing the race card. well, i say what happened in buffalo over a year ago allowed us to play every card. i'm playing every card in the deck. and everybody in the united states who really is sympathetic, empathetic and educated about racism and white supremacy needs to take the locks off of their lips and the

locks off of our minds and not only have the conversation but make those changes across our country when we talk about those who get exposed to racism. at the end. at the end of the day, it's so important, we have a company accused of -- a housing company of using the word canadian when referring to blacks, and this is from their higher echelon who have left the company. so racism didn't start 200 miles away from buffalo. it's right here in western new york and some in every area of the united states. >> darius pridgen, i thank you. it's odd to say, but it's great seeing you. it's odd because of what we're talking about, the deaths of ten people who had dreams, hopes, and aspirations, and yet, i thank you. thank you for being with us today. >> thank you, and thanks to your station. >> thanks. up next, florida governor ron desantis on the verge of officially running for

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today. the move will require the not yet announced campaign to spend more than $5,000. when this happens, someone running from federal office is required to register with the federal election commission, file financial reports and designate a proper campaign committee. with us now to talk about this nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard and julian castro, former secretary of housing and urban development and an msnbc political analyst. desantis spent part of the weekend in iowa. what did he have to say there? >> this was notable here, look, donald trump, he's really laid claim over this republican primary field at this point. nikki haley has made campaign stops, yes, but when you're talking about ron desantis, you're talking about nearing the end of may here, and compare it to four years ago, democrats like the secretary himself, they were jumping in an early 2019 and really making a play from january and february, and so at this point he has relied, ron desantis had more than

$10 million of super pac spending on his behalf. he made stops in sioux city, cedar rapids and in des moines while donald trump was stuck in florida because of a tornado watch that grounded he has plane. i want to let you listen a little bit to the messaging of the ron desantis. while he didn't take on donald trump by name, you'll clearly take what he meant. >> we must reject the culture of losing that has infected our party in recent years, the time for excuses is over. we got to demonstrate the courage to lead and the strength to win. if we do that, if we make 2024 election a referendum on joe biden and his failures and if we provide a positive alternative for the future of this country, republicans will win across the board. >> now i was talking to several iowa republican activists over the weekend, while in iowa, jose, and they were telling me

it is so important that ron desantis gets on the ground and starts working hard now because if he's able to at least out hustle donald trump on the ground, it is the only way in which he is going to be able to have a shot, and they emphasize that the only way to stop donald trump is by stopping him in iowa because you'll recall, back in 2016 he narrowly lost iowa to ted cruz, but he went on to massive victories in new hampshire, south carolina, and nevada. that is why republicans say that they are not naive to the importance of ron desantis or another candidate really getting ahead of this and spending that money and energy and that ground game now. >> that's interesting. julian, you've run for president, you know, vaughn was commenting on that. i was one of the moderators of those two debates, those first ones that you really kind of, you know, you were like one of the stars of one of those early debates. is it too early in the campaign season to be looking at the tea leaves on this? >> i mean, it's too early and

it's never too early, right, jose? we still have eight months until the republicans have their iowa caucus. we have nine months until the democratic primary in south carolina under their new calendar, but there is a blueprint as vaughn mentioned for beating donald trump in iowa and ted cruz used that blueprint largely based on evangelical support in 2016. this is where iowa's particular status as a place that lights retail politics, a relatively small state, 99 counties that if you hustle you can get around these places, not that many tv markets, and so it's not -- it'. it allows for somebody like ron desantis to build up his name, to be able to compete against donald trump, and we also know that trump might be in a vulnerable position now after the -- being found liable in the e. jean carroll case. he had this weird weekend a couple of days ago, didn't show

up at an event and said it was related to weather. at the same time there was ron desantis in the middle of all of the action and also getting about three dozen endorsements from different iowa elected officials. so he had a weekend of momentum. i think his challenge is going to be trump still seems to have a real hold on the republican base and the people that turn out in these elections, these caucuses and primaries, especially in caucuses, come from that base. >> yeah, hey, julian, i just want your thoughts on this whole fallout over the end of title 42. connecticut senator chris murphy was on "meet the press" yesterday and seemed to suggest there could be some movement possible on immigration reform. there could be some movement. >> i think there is still an opportunity at least in the senate for bipartisan immigration reform. maybe not the size of the bill

in 2013, but i think there are a group of republicans in the senate who recognize we have this massive labor shortage. to try to find some common ground on immigration. >> hasn't been immigration reform since 1986 when reagan was president. when you ran, you highlighted the need for something like that, but it it takes a lot of give and take. is there a reason to feel optimistic about some immigration reform? >> we've needed this for generations. we were almost there ten years ago with legislation that got 68 votes, bipartisan, in the senate, but john boehner did not allow a vote on the house floor. i think it's interesting to contrast the difference between

who propelled that legislation and what's going on now. what really propelled that is that republicans were stunned in 2012 believing the latino vote with no immigration reform and believing that republicans held that up and all the activism around daca and so forth, it stung them. they did that autopsy and this was part of their effort to try and win over the latino vote. ten years later, they're in a very different place. they get their jollies it seems like from antagonizing the latino community and immigrants even more so that doesn't give me hope. >> i thank you both very much. for being with us. up next, a basketball star with the memphis grizzlies suspended from the team yet again. what ja morant is accused of doing this time. you're watching jose diaz-balart reports on msnbc. watching joset reports on msnbc wanted. for free.

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the morning, the nba is reviewing an incident involving ja morant after another social media video appeared to show him holding a gun. grizzlies announced morant was suspended from team activities. the incident comes two months after he was suspended and benched for eight games for apparently flashing a gun on social media. he said he accepted full responsibility. for his actions. nbc news reached out to his representative about the video and haven't heard back. kathy park joins us now. where do things stand this morning? >> hey, jose. good morning to you. well, this all kind of gained a lot of momentum over the weekend. so there's still a lot of unknowns but we know this grizzlies did release a statement saying morant, all activities had been suspended and the nba will continue to gather more information, but the

video in question had surfaced over the weekend and basically went viral. it shows morant sitting in the passenger's seat and there's a brief moment when he is flashing a gun and right now, we should note it's still unclear when and where this footage was taken. this comes two months after a very similar incident. morant also in the center of that. it happened at a denver nightclub. he's seen holding a handgun. but the fallout was pretty quick after that. the nba commissioner said look, this was reckless, irresponsible, and potentially dangerous. that was referring to that march incident and morant, as a result, actually sought counseling and he said he went there to figure out how to better handle stress and took full responsibility for his actions. but this is a big blow for a rising star in the nba.

he's one of the top point guards in the nba and just last summer, he signed a five-year extension worth close to $200 million. he also has a sponsorship with nike. so a lot to kind of untangle as to what sort of repercussions we could see. one expert is suggesting that the regular-season is over, so this could play out the next season. so more to come. jose. >> thank you so much. we have good news to bring you this morning before we go. after an accident left her paralyzed, hannah thought she would never walk again. now, six years later, she is beating the odds. walking a mile for the first time during a race in austin, texas. achieving her goal, hannah says it was one of the best days of her life. >> the moment of crossing the finish line, i had to earn it. even right now, i'm brought right back to it and i'm just so full of joy, i can just feel it

overflowing. it was incredible. i'll be living that moment for the rest of my life. >> and that wraps up the hour for me. you can reach me on twitter and instagram. you can watch highlights from the show online. thank you for the privilege of your time. ryan nobles picks up with more news right now. >> and right now on "andrea mitchell reports," debt ceiling negotiators from the white house and congress work to find a solution that all sides can agree upon. with the president's trip to japan just days away and a potential default on the horizon. >> i remain optimistic. i really think the desire on their part as well as ours to reach an agreement. i think we'll be able to do it. >> doesn't seem to be what they wanted. it just seems they want to look at their end but they're not, they're not talking anything