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hello, thank you so much for joining us. it is 10:00 eastern. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. the search for gunmen after a beach day turns violent. dozens of shots ringing out in hollywood, florida, nine people injured including four children. the youngest only 1 is year old. plus, after 24 hours hiding under a couch a woman is rescued from the collapsed apartment building in iowa. this dramatic scene unfolding after the city had ended rescue operations. demolition plans now under evaluation and anger now boiling over in that community. [ chanting ] . later, we have a deal, but now the sell. president biden and speaker
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mccarthy striking a weekend agreement to avert a catastrophic default. the rules committee set to meet in a few hours with the full house expected to vote tomorrow. will enough members of both parties accept this compromise with a debt deadline still looming? we begin with the breaking news in florida and the hunt for suspects after gunfire sent beachgoers racing for cover. take a look. the moments of panic and terror as shots were fired. at least nine people are injured. among them children including a 1-year-old. police say this shooting happened when an altercation broke out between two groups. nbc news correspondent guad venegas is live from hollywood, florida. guad, we know one person is now in custody. what more are you learning about what happened? >> reporter: ana, authorities say the person of interest was in custody and still searching for one suspect. so this happened late monday afternoon. people were celebrating memorial
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day and authorities say there were thousands on the beach as you can see from those surveillance videos. now, police officers were able to interview a lot of the witnesses here yesterday, but they are still asking for people that might have videos or photos of the suspects so that could help with the investigation. as you mentioned, nine people were struck by the gunfire. one was a 1-year-old child, total of four were minors, five adults. as of last night eight were in stable condition and one of those victims was undergoing a surgery. now, i have been speaking to some of the people here, a lot of the witnesses that are back on the beach today, especially workers in the area are hess trants to share a lot of the details but they have told me they were able to witness what happened like as you mentioned, it was two different groups of individuals, now, two different people i've spoken to told me they saw multiple guns and individuals arguing then shooting at each other, now, they also said authorities arrived just seconds after the
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gunshots broke out. police had mentioned yesterday that they had a lot of police officers and first responders in the area because of the holiday weekend and they were able to respond right away and attend to victims on the beach and they were also able to interview some of those witnesses. as of now we know that there is the search for this one suspect and that investigation, of course, continues here in hollywood beach. ana. >> wow, what a scare. guad, thank you so much for that reporting. turning now to capitol hill where urgent efforts are under way to get lawmakers behind the debt deal compromise and avert a historic default before next monday. that is the new debt deadline. the house is expected to begin processing this legislation officially tomorrow, but before that can happen, the rules committee has to meet. that will happen today. they'll begin their work. in the meantime, behind the scenes leaders of both parties are working to convince their members to get on board and joining us now from the white house is monica alba and capitol
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hill correspondent garrett haake. garrett, the rules committee gets this deal first and there are some big skeptics on the committee, republican chip roy among them who called this deal a turd sandwich. so how might this go? >> reporter: ana, i'm glad you took that quote so i didn't have to. >> it wasn't my words. his word. >> reporter: that's right so the rules committee is going to be our barometer for how big a problem this might face on the floor. we have heard so far the kind of grousing you would expect to hear from conservatives including freedom caucus members like chip roy in the colorful language you just laid out. the freedom caucus on the far right and not so far right are frustrated this bill, this compromise bill doesn't go as far to rein in spending as did their house republican only bill. that's the nature of a compromise. what we don't know and what i think the rules committee will start to show us is whether their frustration is the kind of thing where they'll vote no and
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grumble and move on or whether they'll vote no and try to take this bill down either on the floor or in the rules committee where any three republicans if they voted with all democrats opposed could tie this thing up. there are three far right sort of freedom caucus allied house republicans on the rules committee. they could gum this thing up if they so choose collectively or they could decide that the kind of modest gains here that you see on your jean -- screen, clawing back of irs money and permitting reform and some small measure on energy projects are enough for them to give this the go-ahead. the simple answer, we don't know. we're hearing from more republican no votes by the minute. but whether they are the vote no hope yes type or more serious threat to the bill is something we'll discover later today. >> monica, there are reports progressive members of the many diddic party are unhappy with some of the concessions in this deal. what's their objection
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specifically and is the white house confident they can bring them on board? >> this didn't come as too much of a surprise, ana, to the white house and to president biden who had been working the phones speaking with members of congress exactly about these kinds of concerns last week in the lead-up to the homestretch toward finalizing the tentative deal specifically talking about members like progressive caucus chair pramila jayapal who spoke with the president who told him directly the stricter work requirements to her amount to bad policy. she said she was very disappointed that it was an unfortunate situation that that made it into this agreement but nonetheless was waiting to take a look at the final bill before deciding exactly on how she's going to vote along with the rest of the progressives but the white house says, look, we knew heading into it not everybody, democrat or republican, was going to be happy. that's the nature of compromise. that's the nature of concessions, nobody is going to get what they want. specifically progressives are taking aim at the fact that the work requirements even though
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there are some temporary carveouts that actually the white house says they're pretty proud of, the fact they fought hard for that in these weeks of negotiations but the fact it does affect food assistance for people, talking about several hundreds of thousands who rely on them, that is why they are very concerned about this and there are some democrats who have even said there are things in this bill i would never vote for but under the circumstances, of course, they want to avoid the severe economic consequences of what default would look like so at the end of the day, the white house, the president, they're continuing to make these calls to various members of congress, in fact, the president also spoke with leader mcconnell and he said yesterday he feels very optimistic about where things are now and where this goes into the next phase in terms of the senate and we will likely hear a little more potentially from the president on this as he works the phone behind the scenes but he's also right now currently in wilmington, delaware, marking an incredibly somber anniversary, it is now eight years since the death of his son beau biden who passed from brain cancer in 2015.
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so the president, that is why he spent the night there. he went this morning to visit his grave site then to pay tribute to veterans at a memorial in delaware. he'll be back here at the white house in the next hour or so, ana. >> okay, sounds like the next 24 to 48 hours are big when it comes to the deal. thank you both for your reporting. we're back in just 60 seconds. search and rescue. the latest from the keen of that apartment building collapse in iowa including stories of survival and efforts to find those still missing. plus, seeking justice. the trial begins for the man accused of killing 11 people at the tree of life synagogue. what we're watching with the death penalty on the line. also, drone strikes in moscow. is russia's war on ukraine coming home? and a mystery in the canals of venice, italian police now investigating why the city's famous waters turned fluorescent green. (vo) this is sadie. she's on verizon.
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we're back with the miracle at the scene of a apartment collapse. 52-year-old lisa brooks, rescued after the city had already ended the search for survivors yesterday. additional people remain unaccounted for at this hour. demolition of this building, which was scheduled to start as soon as this morning, is now on hold. this as the search for answers begins into why this building collapsed. but residents say they have complained about the structure for years. joining us now from davenport, iowa, is nbc news correspondent maggie vespa. what's the focus right now there on the ground? >> reporter: yes, so, ana, we've been told that demolition you talked when, the time line is being evaluated but city officials have said they'll start staging equipment that they would need to obviously physically knock this building down here this morning. so when people see that, you can bet there will be a lot more tension on the ground, people, especially pointing to that
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rescue last night, 52-year-old lisa brooks randomly coming to her window 4 hours waving from the fourth floor. her family among those on the ground said they had come to stop the bulldozers and basically a lot of people who for years said they had been complaining about the state of this building and had concerns about its structural integrity and basically the safety of it, they say the process to fix that lagged and now by contrast their fear is the city is moving too quickly to knock down what's left. in davenport, iowa, amid jaw-dropping wreckage, an incredible display of survival and hope. [ crowd chanting, "get her out" ] >> reporter: she later told her family that she had been hiding under her couch in shock for 24 hours after a large chunk of her historic six-story apartment building collapsed sunday. brooks monday night carried out by first responders.
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[ applause ] >> what happened when everybody saw her? is there they started screaming. >> reporter: her nephew in total disbelief. >> so she took flight and went under there and hid. >> reporter: quickly -- [ crowd chanting, "find our people" ] >> reporter: they argued more could still be trapped and demanding the city postpone plans to demolish the building as soon as this morning. search crews with canines had thoroughly combed the site adding -- >> the building is structural unsound posing a risk to responders. >> reporter: overnight davenport's mayor telling nbc news demolition plans are under evaluation. >> the frickin' building just collapsed. >> reporter: at least nine have been pulled from the rubble. lexus says her wife was among them. >> the ground just caved in and then above us caved in on top of
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us. >> reporter: for days the couple had noticed cracks in their unit snapping this photo just minutes before the collapse. quanesha was trapped with her legs pinned down currently recovering in the icu. >> her injuries are going to be life changing for her. >> reporter: so many incredible stories coming out of this. we should note the building -- the collapse's official cause still has yet to be determined and at the same time we reached out to the apparent owner, listed owner multiple times and have yet to hear back. the city meanwhile very concerned this obviously unstable structure that the rest of it essentially could fall at any time so pleading with people to stay at least a block back and that includes protesters who, again, are angry and worried that more people could be inside. ana, we do have another press conference set for 11:00 eastern here in davenport with the city with first responders and expect to hear much more about this entire process including that
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potential demolition at that press conference. we'll keep you posted. >> i feel for those who haven't been able to get in contact with others who lived in that building. we'll watch and see. >> reporter: excruciating. >> maggie, thank you so much. this afternoon the man accused of driving a truck into white house barriers will be back in court. 19-year-old has been held without bail. that happened last week. he has been charged with destruction of government property but in newly filed court documents prosecutors detail a broader motive. they allege his aim was to overthrow the government. that he had prepared a speech announcing the end of american democracy. and that he told secret service agents he would kill the president if necessary. next on "ana cabrera reports," the tree of life shooting trial. what we can expect from the
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suspect's defense. she graced the cover of magazines, she was a one-time silicon valley star but by tonight elizabeth holmes will be behind bars. and chaos on the high seas. travelers on one packed cruise ship getting much more than they bargained for. >> i recently went through cancer treatment and this trip was about three times scarier than that.
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life shooting trial. robert bowers is accused of killing 11 people in the 2018 attack at the synagogue in pittsburgh. with the facts of this case largely undisputed, the question at the heart of this trial is whether bowers will get the death penalty. let's bring in nbc news correspondent george solis and former federal prosecutor, carol lam. george, what are we hearing in opening statements so far? >> reporter: yeah, good morning, ana. opening arguments starting before 10:00. the prosecution up first and they are really just going through all of the details of this massacre, this case more than four years in the making, the defense will have their opportunity to make their case before the jury of 12 and 6 alternates, 7 men and 11 women, the suspect, robert bowers, in the courtroom, we're told pretty alert talking to his defense team right now. a couple of interesting things taking place this morning. the jury prior to the jury
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entering defense reminded there should be no mention of the death penalty or mental health as this is going to be used during the penalty phase of the discussion because this is really taking part in two phased, first whether or not he is guilty and it's a unanimous verdict of guilty, then they will move over to that discussion, that divisive discussion of whether or not he shall be sentenced to death. as we know there was plenty of deals or trying to find a deal to sentence him to basically say that he was either going to spend the rest of his life in jail or go before a trial like this and debate the death penalty. another important thing that we found out, the judge ruled in favor of the state's request to limit certain evidence, particularly the showing of images and some audio recordings, this is not sealed, so the media and the people in the courtroom will be able to hear and see some of these images but they are not to be redistributed or rebroadcast. we saw the families of the victims show up in court this
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morning. obviously this is very harrowing for them to have to relive this massacre. we know obviously for this community, this has been such a heart-wrenching event and to have to go through it all again, again, especially right now during the opening argument by the prosecution, you can only imagine what's going through their heads. this trial expected, at least this part expected to go a month. the sentencing part could take a little bit longer as well. all told we're looking at a trial that could take about two months. >> it's hard to believe it's been five years since this tragedy and i'm sure there is a retraumatization. if the focus really is more about whether bowers gets the death penalty, again, can't be mentioned during this part, how does it impact how the evidence is presented here? >> well, you're right, ana. this trial is all about the
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death penalty, because the -- there's really no dispute what happened in the case. the defense has already offereds to have mr. bowers plead guilty to a life sentence without possibility of parole. that was rejected by the federal government. they said they do want to go through the penalty phase for the death penalty. so that's what this case is about. very, very skilled defense attorneys who are skilled in defending capital cases or where the death penalty is at issue, and so, but yet it is important for the defense to go through the entire trial and fight the entire trial because there's always the possibility that some aspect of the criminal trial even in the guilt phase as opposed to the penalty phase could result in some kind of error that could be reversed on appeal and that would give more time to the defendant to perhaps even have a retrial. >> we rarely see mass killers go
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on trial. i mean, there are oftentimes among those killed in the course of their crimes. how does an attorney mount a defense in a case like this? >> yeah, so there are some typical defenses that are raised in death penalty cases, and in this case the defense has given what is required notice to the prosecution that they are going to raise a defense of mental deficiency, that this defendant suffers from schizophrenia and epilepsy and has had many incidents in his life that have caused him to have a mental illness. that is something that the jurors can take into account during the death penalty phase of this trial in deciding whether or not to impose the ultimate sentence of death here. >> carol lam and george solis, thank you both. now to developments in a different high-profile case, her face graced the covers of
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magazines. her story featured in a television miniseries. this afternoon, disgraced theranos head elizabeth holmes will report to a federal prison in texas to begin an 11-year sentence. holmes was found guilty in january of 2022 of four counts of wire fraud. her company defrauded investors and failed to deliver on its promise of diagnosing a multitude of conditions with just a drop of blood. at its height theranos was valued at more than $9 billion and boasted high-level investors and board members that included news corps chairman rupert murdoch, former secretaries of state u.s. senators, as well at former defense secretary james mattis. passengers are calling it a nightmare cruise. the trip home on the carnival "sunshine" was anything but shooter sailing as it was caught in a treacherous storm off the coast of south carolina on saturday with winds clocking in at over 80 miles per hour. the swell rising to over 15
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feet. video and photos taken by passengers show the water surging into rooms and flooding hallways. nbc's sam brock is following the story and joins us with more. sam. >> reporter: thousands of people, kids and families were part of this ordeal. the national hurricane center keeping tabs on a storm that was sitting here in florida off the east coast for the better part of a week, 12 to 17-foot swells. that is exactly what the carnival "sunshine" ship ran into off the coast of south carolina. those rough seas flooding hallways and staterooms as passengers were concerned about the level of communication. for some 3,000 passengers cruising on the carnival "sunshine" this past week. >> it's crazy. >> reporter: a coastal storm turned their caribbean dreams into a very scary nightmare. >> i just prayed over and over and over for those waters to calm down. >> reporter: after five days of nearly perfect weather, the 100,000-ton ship was slammed by
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wind gusts of 80 miles an hour as it approached south carolina's coast. swells of nearly 20 feet tilting the ship flooding corridors, unhinging doors and terrifying passengers. >> i recently went through cancer treatment and this trip was about three times scarier than that. >> reporter: sharon, a college professor, was celebrating with her 73-year-old mom, her caregiver during those cancer treatments. both women couldn't believe what they were witnessing. >> the ship took a hit from a massive wave. it scared the heck out of me. it sounded like the ship split in two. >> reporter: to make matters worst frustrated passengers say the only communication coming from the captain friday was just as the storm started. >> we are expecting adverse weather condition as we sail back to charleston and may be arriving later than scheduled. we will continue to monitor the situation to provide you with an update early tomorrow morning. >> reporter: the captain also telling passengers to be cautious when walking around the
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ship and that the vessel might move a little more than usual. over 12 hours the ship was pounded by fierce winds and rough seas. several passengers we spoke with said they didn't receive any further information from the captain or crew until well into the next morning and a screen displaying wind speeds was replaced with a stand by slate. >> there was a crew door there and they said they saw the crew wearing life jackets. at that point i'm like, they're wearing life jackets but not telling us to do anything. >> reporter: daniel's cabin was on deck two in the front of the ship. >> sounded like a wrecking ball was hitting the sea and sounded like it was tearing the ship apart. >> reporter: carnival releasing a statement writing, carnival "sunshine's" return to charleston was impacted by the weather. the weather's prolonged impact on the charleston area delayed the ship's arrival. we appreciate the patience and understanding of all of our guests. the unsettling sequence leaving thousands shaken, but thankfully there were to reports of any injuries.
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>> i don't wish this on my worst enemy. it was awful. >> reporter: the ship ended up making it back to the port of charleston 12 hours late that evening on saturday but by the next morning the "sunshine" was back out on another voyage. carnival didn't offer any explanation as to why they didn't wait or change their course before approaching the storm. sam brock, nbc news. >> thanks for that. three times scarier than cancer treatment, holy moly. up next here on "ana cabrera reports." drone strikes prompting evacuations and damaging buildings overnight. could there be bigger implications? later overseas, la dolce vita has become la vida loca in venice. why are the city's waters green? the rec league's self-crowned pickleball king. do you just bow down? no you de-thrown the king. pedialyte. 3x the electrolytes.
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narrator: california's community schools: reimagining public education. turning to the war in ukraine with russia seeing an attack on its capital city for the first time since the start of this invasion. russia's defense ministry claims that ukraine was behind the drone strikes on residential buildings in moscow early this morning which vladimir putin is calling, quote, terrorist activity. ukraine is denying any direct involvement. in video posted to telegram you can faintly hear the explosions, you can see a plume of smoke rising over moscow. this as russia continues its near daily aerial attacks on
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civilian targets far from the front lines in ukraine. at least one person is now dead after russia launched at least 20 drones at kyiv overnight. the third aerial attack on the capital in just the past 24 hours. that includes a rare daytime attack on the capital city that sent people screaming and running for cover. joining us now from kyiv is nbc news foreign correspondent molly hunter and also with us msnbc military analyst lieutenant general steph twitty. molly, what do we know about the early morning drone attacks in moscow? >> reporter: hey, ana, nice to be with you. you laid it out pretty well. the limit of our information in kyiv is just, of course, that official russian narrative at this point. we do not have -- i'm not in moscow. i'm here so anything we're reading and getting is what ukrainian officials are putting out, what we are confirming and verifying on social media are 0 the official line. so the official line from moscow is that eight drones attacked targets in moscow today.
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they were all shot down and the kremlin has said that president putin was briefed very early. there were some light injuries, there was light damage. two people hospitalized. moscow is potting the finger at kyiv. a senior ukrainian official today says we are watching closely but denies they have anything to do with it, ana. >> so general twitty, denying direct involvement although one of the officials there says they were pleased to observe this and predict an increase in the number of attacks, so if it isn't ukraine then who? is there a resistance inside russia capable of carrying out an attack like this? >> well, what we've seen over the past couple of weeks are russian pro-ukrainian fighters out there, they could have conducted the attacks. they would have to get the equipment obviously from ukraine to do so but we can't discount
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that there are some russians that are disgruntled at the way this war has progressed and there's russians that are disgruntled because they don't like the fact that russia is in a war any way. and so i would not discount that. i would suspect it's probably the ukrainians that conducted this attack. >> could it be part of a ukrainian counteroffensive? is that what it looks like hitting them on their home turf as well as fighting back in ukraine itself? >> well, you know over the past month, russia has attacked the ukraine for 17 attacks throughout the month, that's a lot of attacks there on kyiv. and so instead of sitting back and receiving all these attacks, this may be the ukrainians going on the offense and attacking moscow back and you can't blame them for trying to gain the
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initiative here and go after some strategic targets there in moscow. it's sort of an embarrassment on the russians that ukraine has been able to attack deep inside moscow. this shows that the air defense systems there in russia are weak. >> it hurts my heart to see those schoolchildren running as we talk about what's happening in kyiv, molly, where we're seeing near daily russian aerial assaults. what is the atmosphere like in the capital right now, and has it changed in recent days at all? >> reporter: yeah, ana, it feels massively different even last week. you mentioned the three waves of attacks we have seen in the last 24 hour, look, going back to saturday into sunday night four major waves, that was the biggest drone attack this country has seen since the start of the war. we were talking to a couple of young girls at one of the apartment buildings, it wasn't clear if it took a direct hit or if it was damage from a drone
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interception but we are talking to these two young students who live around the corner and one of them said clearly she tries to sleep through it. she still has to go to class and does not go down to the bunker. the other one said her nerves are i intoed. her behavior is completely changed and goes down to the bunker when you hear the air raid siren. when we talk about the air defenses and to be clear, the capital city is much more protected than kharkiv, than dnipro or lviv in the west. when we talk about air defenses working that means there is debris, fragments from the interceptions that come down and still cause damage. you mentioned at least one person was killed over the weekend. several others injured and i got to say looking at that 24-story residential apartment building, it was absolutely ruined. and it's going to be interesting to see whether ukrainian officials say that was, in fact, a direct hit or if that was fragments from an interception, a successful interception, i should say. >> molly, you do awesome reporting. thank you for those details,
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in texas where after the house voted for the historic impeachment of ken paxton, the action now heads to the senate. paxton is already under immediate suspension from office pending the outcome of his senate trial which is expected to begin no later than august 28th so a few months away. one of the big questions now is whether his wife who is a state senator will recuse herself from the proceedings. so far she has not. controversies followed him for years. he pleaded not guilty back in 2015 to two felony counts involving securities fraud and then it was earlier this year he settled a whistle-blower lawsuit for over $3 million. he's also a staunch ally of former president trump even speaking at the january 6th rally before the mob stormed the capitol. for his part trump has already rushed to paxton's defense. florida governor ron
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desantis is making his first official visit to the caucus state of iowa as a presidential candidate. desantis will be in des moines for his first planned campaign in person event since last week's rocky twitter rollout. let's go to dasha burns just outside of des moines and with us also msnbc political analyst susan del percio. what are you expecting from desantis at this first in-person campaign event today? >> reporter: yeah, ana, it's funny because i think i've reported about three times now from a desantis event in iowa, but this is the first time i'm reporting on a desantis event where he's an actual presidential candidate. he'll be holding his kickoff event here tonight at the church behind me but this is changing the game now. now that he's officially in the race, the pressure is on, because for the last few months when the team is asked about the lagging poll numbers and about some of the controversies they said, look, we are not a
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campaign yet. we are not in the race, well now they are officially in the race and there are a few things that i'm going to be looking for, both here in iowa and the rest of the week as they're planning a 12-city swing throughout iowa, new hampshire and south carolina, of course, these critical early states, number one, is the retail politics, we have not seen desantis do too much of that yet and a lot of the skeptics are wondering if he will be good at it, whether he will be capable at it and this is his time to prove that he can, in fact, look voters in the eye and shake hands and convince them to come on over to team desantis. number two, how is he going to walk that fine line with his top rival former president trump? he's got to find his footing really quickly here. how directly is he going to go after trump? is he going to keep doing the sort of subtle jabs or is he going to really take him head-on? and, number three, this is perhaps the most challenging uphill climb for this campaign, they need to now really work on creating a permission structure
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over the coming months for those voters and i've met several of them who are looking to find an alternative to former president trump. they voted for trump twice, but they're not exactly thrilled to see him on the ballot again. they're looking for an alternative but not yet convinced by desantis and a lot of their friends love trump and they're worried about jumping ship and need to create that permission structure for them to jump over to team desantis and, by the way, say to their friends, hey, look, the water is fine. come on in. that will be really tough and how he messages that, how he makes that happen is going to be critical to watch. >> now we've reported that desantis' team is trying to position himself as the values candidate in contrast with former president trump. susan, i want you to listen to desantis yesterday on fox news giving his elevator pitch. >> right now, the time for ron desantis to run for president. >> because everyone knows if i'm the nominee, i will beat biden
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and i will serve two terms, and i will be able to destroy leftism in this country and leave woke ideology on the dust bin on history. >> okay, so he's testing out his messagesing. how does it sit for you? >> if it's an elevator pitch he's tuck between floors because he's not doing a direct hit against trump. he's not setting himself apart, nor is he giving a future vision for people. as a candidate coming in and he no longer is just talking from the sidelines as dasha said, he's got to offer something to voters. and right now if he's the values candidate as you mentioned, he's for a six-week as you mentioned he's for a six-week abortion ban and wokeness. what does that mean? where does that get him moving forward to his vision?
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who is he? that was a horrible pitch. now he has to face the voters head-on, and he has to open it up and see what he is made of. >> what we heard was him taking on biden, trying to position himself as the candidate to go through biden, but he has to get through trump first, and the 2024 field, right? >> yeah, and some of the mistakes desantis and other candidates are making is you are not going to get the maga base as long as donald trump is in the race, and i don't know if they are hoping he drops out which is highly unlikely unless something pushes him to an extreme position, but they have to look at him at broadening a base of republicans, and bringing in republicans who have
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not been involved in the party but wanted to be and couldn't stomach voting for donald trump. >> i always have more questions for you, because it's fascinating to see the dynamics as the race heats up. we will be watching desantis on the campaign trail. up next on "ana cabrera reports," why were the waters of this famous canal fluorescent? boost® high protein. now available in cinnabon® bakery-inspired flavor. learn more at boost.com/tv america is on the brink of defaulting on its debt, and donald trump is telling republicans in congress: “you're going to have to do a default.” he's pushing an extreme agenda to slash the basics we depend on, hurting the middle class, seniors, and veterans. a default would crash our economy,
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we're back with new developments in a dramatic scare in the air pap south korean man is under arrest for opening a aircraft door mid flight. you can see passengers terrified and hanging on for dear life. the suspect faces up to ten years in prison. he told authorities he felt suffocated and wanted to get off the plane quickly and when he opened the door while it was still 700 feet up in the air, 12 people were injured during that incident. and then why were the waters here on the camious canal bright green? authorities are working with environmental officials to try and identify how and why this happened. nbc news international
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correspondent, keir simmons, is in venice with more. >> reporter: hey there, from beautiful venice on what has to be the assignment of the year, and under this 12th century bridge they are looking at cctv to try and figure out how come this water was turned green. as you can see, it's not green any longer. but the mystery is like something from an agatha christy whodunit? soon, images began appearing on social media, filmed by tourists here to enjoy the picture postcard views of a city famed for its beauty, stunned by the unexexplained stain in the water. we arrived early this morning. our water taxi captain had seen the strange green wash.
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>> was the color of the incredible hulk? >> yes. >> reporter: now there's a police investigation and wild speculation. we just came under the rialto bridge. this is where that green stain was. it has disappeared. its appearance in the water still a mystery. officials say the green color was caused by a harmless chemical. first it seemed like there was so much of it. does that suggest somebody did it deliberately? the investigations are looking everywhere, and all hypotheses are open. in 1968, there was green dye thrown in with activist, and then in 2022, oil activist threw
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soup at a van gogh masterpiece. >> for years venus has had floods, and then the water was so clean jellyfish appeared, and nothing like this has been seen for decades, and so far no explanation. some think it was for fun, and the chemicals were used to look for leaks in pipes and it could have been an accident, but so far we simply don't know who did it. >> an accident. right. and that does it for us today. appreciate you joining us,
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