indictment after indictment possibly in front of him. i don't think this is helping them, jonathan. >> no, i'd say not and this week is a testament to joe biden focusing on getting the job done. it doesn't matter that he fell on the stage in colorado. it's about getting the debt limit ceiling passed and getting ready for the 2024 election. >> all right, that does it for us this morning. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. ♪♪ hello, and happy friday. it is 10:00 eastern. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. this morning we have breaking economic news, and it's good. the latest jobs report out a short time ago defying expectations, blasting past what analysts predicted, we'll dive into what the number reveals about the jobs market and our economy. plus, more breaking news, the deal is done. the senate passing the debt

agreement in a late night vote avoiding a disastrous default that would have crippled the economy. that bill now on its way to the president's desk, and we'll hear from him in a prime time speech planned for tonight. and later, donald trump reacting to the news that the special counsel has a recording of him talking about classified documents. two attorneys join us to talk about the legal peril that evidence could pose. and the gloves are off, trump and desantis going round for round trading blows. >> governor, how come you're not taking questions from voters? >> coming up to me talking to me, what are you talking about? are you blind? >> what? >> are you blind? >> he got very angry at the press. you're not allowed to get angry at the press. >> we're live in south carolina where the florida governor is campaigning this morning. let's get straight to those breaking economic numbers right now, the jobs report revealing a huge number for the month of

may, 339,000 jobs added, the unemployment rate ticking up to 3.7%. but the number of jobs added far surpasses almost doubles analysts predictions, and the markets reacting positively to this news along with the news on the debt ceiling deal. more on that in just a moment. first let's bring in nbc news business and data reporter brian cheung and host of npr's full disclosure roben farzad. brian, start us off. break down these numbers for us. >> the numbers coming in blow out in terms of how many jobs were added in the month of may. as you mentioned, 339,000 jobs, that's how many were added in the month and to contextualize it, that is well above the pace we had seen in the month of april, which was revised up to 294,000. the unemployment rate did tick up from 3.4% in the prior month to 3.7% in the month of may, but again, this overall number does show that there's a lot of broad-based job gains.

where exactly did we see those job gains? we saw it in these industries. take another look at professional and business services adding 64,000 jobs, again, just in the month of may alone. we also saw job gains in health care, retail trade added about 12,000, and leisure and hospitality up about 48,000 in the month. so again, a blowout jobs report well above wall street estimates and showing that the jobs market continues to be strong even this far away from the pandemic recovery. >> so what's your reaction to this report, and why do you think analysts have been so off with their projections in these recent months? >> well, why did everybody come into this year all the way saying that it's fait accompli that we're going to be in a recession. it's been a surreal year with these massive bank failures with wage inflation and people polled on the street would say the misery index is pretty high as we've discussed career. then you have brian discussing these 50-year low numbers in unemployment.

you have to duck to not get hired by the service sector, the hospitality sector. if you compare all of this versus where we were in the depths of the first couple of weeks of the pandemic where unemployment, i mean, spiked up to almost 15% overnight, it's a real remarkable recovery. don't forget that both the fed and congress threw trillions and trillions of dollars at this problem and they still have to mop up some of that excess stimulus, and that's going to be hard for the fed to keep doing. >> what do today's numbers signal to the fed in terms of their next move after they keep raising interest rates. >> word on the street this week was that they might pause for the next meeting and see how the patient's taking the medicine, but i think this gives you ammo to keep hiking, and i don't know if the fed thinks it can still land this economy softly, if we could get away without a recession, but look, it's deep. you see the wage pressures. you see this -- i mean, you blew the numbers out this morning. i think the fed would gladly trade a point or two higher in unemployment. we're already so low to see

inflation maybe slashed by two or three points if that's possible. >> so brian, are wages any closer to matching inflation? >> yeah, well, right now wages are not keeping up with inflation, and again, as roben was talking about, this is the number the federal reserve is looking at in this report. may, 4.3%. that's how much more people were getting paid in terms of average hourly earnings compared to may of last year. that's a bit of a slowdown from the 4.4% pace we saw in the month of april. when you consider that the pace of inflation is somewhere around 5%, that means that, okay, well, it's great that your wages are going up, but it's not keeping up with how much more expensive things are at the store. the federal reserve is trying to deliberately slow the economy to take inflation down. hopefully as it does get those things back into balance. >> we mentioned that unemployment rate. that actually went up a little bit in this latest report. why is that, and at this point, who has the leverage, employers or employees?

>> you know, it's actually splitting hairs. it's inside baseball why the dot employment rate maybe went up 0.2 or down 0.2 in terms of the denominator and numerator and who's dropping out and who's being counted. certainly, definitely, ir refutably the leverage is with workers right now, they can hold restaurants over a barrel, they can keep planes from flying. this is such a roar back with service sector workers. we saw a great headline in "the wall street journal" this week that never has it been so great for people who want to skip college and go straight into the service sector because wages have really come up over the last two years during this inflationary period. i do think it does present an enormous problem for the federal reserve. can you have this kind of growth. i mean, what is it, 29 straight months maybe wanting to hike 12 times. can you possibly have all of this, have your pie and eat it too? >> i hope so. i sure hope so. i love pie, i love cake too and frosting. >> me too.

>> i think brian must have fielded one or two job offers while we were having this interview. >> i haven't checked my phone yet. >> real quick before i let you go, roben, i wanted to get your reaction to the debt ceiling deal being pased through the senate, it's going to the president's desk. secretary yellen kept saying a default would lead to economic catastrophe. how close did we come to that? >> performative fiscal policy. i mean, it's just performance crying wolf so many times they come up against this ceiling. we've seen this play before, and i worry that we're going to see it again. >> thank you so much, roben farzad, brian cheung, happy friday, guys. as we just mentioned the deal is done. tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern, president biden set to give an evening address on the bipartisan debt limit bill. it's on his way to the president's desk after swift passage in the senate late last night. let's bring in nbc's mike memoli who's on capitol hill for us and

monica alba at the white house. mike, how did the senate manage to get this done so quickly? >> reporter: quickly is an understatement. this is called the world's greatest deliberative body. the process could have lasted well into early next week, potentially even past that x date, the default date, but there are two very powerful forces that can often speed things up in the senate. one is momentum. we saw that bigger than expected vote in the house on wednesday, more than 300 members there having ultimately voted for this bill when we all thought it would come down to the wire, and that's why we also saw the strong senate result last night. all but five senate democrats, 46 in total voting for this. only 17 republicans but enough to get over that 60 vote threshold. the other big motivating factor is jet volumes. a lot of senators did see the writing on the wall that this was likely to get into the president's hands sooner rather than later. they chose sooner so they could get home and enjoy their weekend. there was a marathon series of

votes that went almost until midnight last night. 11 amendments were defeated before that final passage. senator chuck schumer taking a little bit of victory lap after. let's take a listen. >> we've saved the country from the scourge of default, even though there were some on the other side who wanted default, wanted to lead us to default. we may be a little tired, but we did it. look at the vote, underestimating kevin mccarthy, look at the vote in the house and senate. that says it all. we didn't underestimate him. >> reporter: so just to step pack, if you a week ago had asked a lot of people in this building whether we'd be talking about a final vote happening days before the deadline, frankly even 48 hours ago a lot of people would have looked at you strange. now this bill needs to be enrolled, the speaker and the majority leader will sign off on it before it gets to the president's desk, and we'll see him it sounds like take a little bit of a victory lap as well. >> that's right, monica.

what message can we expect to hear from the president when he addresses the nation tonight? >> reporter: i think you're really going to hear something from the president that he campaigned on for the longest time, which is this idea that you can govern in washington in a bipartisan fashion and bring both sides together for the most critical of issues, especially when it comes to the fact that they were able to avert, they hope, this default by coming together with the president and wanted to sign this legislation sometime this weekend. it's not completely clear whether that is because it just takes a little bit to enroll the bill and get it to his desk. but nonetheless, tonight he will be speaking to the importance of this legislation, and i think over the last couple of days he didn't want to get out in front of it before everything was cleared in terms of those hurdles on capitol hill, he wanted to make sure that the process was playing out. he was deferring to speaker mccarthy, to leader schumer in many ways to see that go through both chambers and now tonight i think you'll expect him to actually echo a little bit of the statement he just put out

this morning on the latest jobs report, touting the fact that this addition and continuation of a recovering economy is because he will argue his economic plan is working and a default would have completely derailed that. so he did write that due to this historic action taken by congress this week, my economic plan will continue to deliver goods for the american people in communities throughout the country. i look forward to signing this bipartisan budget agreement into law. it is notable that he is being to be speaking from the oval office this evening, anna, that's not something he's done so far in his presidency. we have seen some prime time addresses on other topics elsewhere throughout the white house, but the fact that he is going to be behind the resolute desk tonight talking about the implications and what he was able to accomplish here bringing republicans and democrats together, that's something i think you very much will expect to hear him talk about in his re-election campaign. >> hopefully everybody can rest a little easy this weekend.

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leaving office, and trump's reaction is about what you would expect. right. we have the presidential records act, which i abided by 100%. >> special counsel jack smith has a tape recorded at bedminster in 2021 in which trump can be heard discussing a classified planning document that he kept in his possession after leaving the white house. this is according to a source directly familiar with the matter. that recording we're told was played during grand jury testimony, and joining us now for more on this, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian along with joyce vance former u.s. attorney in alabama and msnbc legal analyst, and dave aaronburg state attorney from palm beach county, florida. this recording seems like a huge piece of evidence. what can we glean about the status of the special counsel's investigation as we've been getting this and other recent big revelations?

>> good morning, ana, look, there's only a handful of people in the world that know exactly where this investigation stands, and most of them are in there building where i am at the department of justice, and they're not talking. but there sure are a lot of signs and signals that this investigation is reaching its conclusion. we believe the grand jury in this matter hasn't met for several weeks. we believe that they've interviewed almost every possible witness who could know anything about what happened at mar-a-lago with the classified documents, and now this tape really does add a new dimension to the extent of the evidence, if the reports that we're getting and i spoke to a source about this, are accurate, this tape amounts to a confession in a sense that donald trump is saying on this tape he was aware he possessed classified information after he no longer had authorization to do that, and it really does undercut what he and som of his lawyers are saying, that he declassified this material before he left the

presidency as he was transiting from the white house to mar-a-lago and other places. we're going to wait and watch and report is and see where this thing goes, but it does feel like it's reaching a conclusion. and you know, as our legal experts would tell you, almost anyone else in this situation with this fact pattern would already have been charged. obviously this is a much different situation, wel have to see where it goes. >> i see you shaking your head there, dave, what are you thinking? >> this is a big deal. the department of justice doesn't need to have classified documents to file charges. but as joyce knows, if you're a federal prosecutor, you have to have a good faith basis to believe you can get a conviction beyond any reasonable doubt and the department of justice was stuck on this declassification defense trump was going to put forward, did he mentally declassify it, we know it's not true, but you don't want one juror to think maybe there's a possibility. that's reasonable doubt.

that will get you in trouble if you're a prosecutor. this recording debunks that defense. that's why it's a big deal. which makes you think they have the final piece of the puzzle and are ready to go. >> we played that clip from trump last night where he said, quote, he did everything right, he wasn't asked a follow-up question, but what does the evidence tell you? >> you know, those comments are so telling, ana, this whole notion of i don't know anything about it, but everything i did was right. you could put that on trump's tombstone. many times targets of investigations will come in and they will have a conversation with prosecutors, and they might make a confession. with trump the confessions come in these public statements. we saw it in the cnn town hall with the e. jean carroll case, we are seeing it again here in this regard. prosecutors will be able to play this tape for the jury, and jurors will not buy the generic i did nothing wrong because here we have trump on tape as dave and ken have said, admitting

that he had possession of these documents when he was no longer entitled to have them. and that will be the -- there's the espionage act, other statutes that come into play involving retention of documents and even obstruction of an investigation, but at heart this case is about a former president who took the nation's most important secrets with him when he left office and refused to turn them over, and here the government has it on an audio recording in his own words. >> and dave, you mentioned how trump and his lawyers have tried to argue that he declassified everything that he had in his possession after he left the white house. what we're hearing here seems to contradict all of that, but how worried do you think trump should be? >> he should be very worried. the department of justice called kash patel before the grand jury. he's a loyalist to trump. he's the one who said, yeah, he declassified everything. that's why the doj wanted patel

to testify under oath before a grand jury. when he refused to they gave him immunity. that's how serious they are in debunking this defense. people may lie, but recordings don't. that's why trump should be really worried because it's his own voice apparently on that recording. >> we don't know what jack smith is going to do, the special counsel. we don't know all the information and potential evidence he has. we have this reporting about a piece of evidence. there could be much more, but i know you believe this mar-a-lago documents investigation is likely to end with an indictment. what could that look like? >>. >> yeah, you know, i do because doj precedence suggests there's a dividing line in these cases, that people who retain documents but return them, retain them inadvertently, those people won't be charged. where there's aggravating factor, whether that's refusing to give them back, obstructing, keeping them in large numbers, those are the cases that get

indicted. i loved hearing ken say that he's standing outside of doj and that there are no leaks. that's what's important in the american tradition of justice, and it's good to see that being restored under attorney general merrick garland's leadership. we will find out there's an indictment close in time to when it is unsealed and made public. i suspect it will be a multicount indictment, that it will have both substantive charges about the documents but also these obstruction of justice charges related to trump's efforts to hang onto the documents that he essentially said were his precious. but i think the doj may also have some twists here and we may see some unexpected things when the final indictment is revealed. >> all of this has been a bit of a roller coaster ride, right, for the whole country. dave, i want to remind everybody, jack smith has two parallel investigations. we've been talking about the mar-a-lago documents case, but he's also looking into actions around january 6th. and so with these two separate

cases or investigations, do you get a sense of whether one's further along than the other? >> i think there's no doubt that the documents are further long. that investigation to me is going to lead to an indictment sooner than later. the january 6th i'm not as sure. i think what's going to happen -- my prediction is that you'll see an indictment over the documents sometime this month, and then later they will amend the pleadings to add january 6th. i think when it comes to january 6th, it's a harder prosecution because the documents, there's a direct tie between trump and the alleged criminality. there are many layers between trump and the violence of january 6th. i think you can still possibly charge him for obstruction of an official proceeding or expertise to defraud the united states, which so many hundreds of these rioters were charged with. it won't get to the point of seditious conspiracy. i do think charges are forthcoming. >> given we have these different jurisdictions involved, mar-a-lago where the documents

were recovered, bedminster where the recording took place, the grand jury meeting in d.c., does that complicate the legal path forward at all? >> it complicates it in the sense that prosecutors will have to make smart legal decisions about the correct place to bring this indictment. there's some benefits to being in washington, d.c., because we're involved with classified information, and that's complicated. the case could probably also be brought in the southern district of florida and even elsewhere. prosecutors will need to make these decisions based on what gets a conviction if they obtain one affirmed on appeal, but even in some of the other cases, the georgia prosecution, there's news this morning that fulton county d.a. fani willis is looking for evidence that exceeds conduct that occurred strictly within the confines of her home state, georgia, and the fact that because she has some expansive jurisdiction under georgia's rico statute, she's looking elsewhere also.

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this morning a political food fight between the two front runners for the republican presidential nomination. former president trump and florida governor ron desantis in the key primary states of iowa and new hampshire yesterday sparring over everything. here's just a sample. >> when i heard desanctus go out and say -- talk about eight years, we need eight years. you don't need eight years. you need six months. >> he's not going to be able to nix the deep state in six months. he had four years, he didn't make a dent in it. give me a break. >> how come you're not taking questions from voters? >> people are coming up to me talking to me. what are you talking about? are you blind? >> he had a very bad day. he got very angry at the press. you're not allowed to get angry at the press. >> joining us now from gilbert, south carolina, is nbc news correspondent dasha burns. also joining us is former republican congressman david jolly of florida. dasha, the intensity really

seems to be picking up between these two, desantis and trump. bring us more of the details of what we're hearing and seeing. >> reporter: that's maybe the most significant change that we've seen from governor desantis as candidate now hitting the trail in these early states because we've seen him in iowa before, and we've seen him in some of these early states on his book tour before formally jumping into the race. he had sort of shied away from taking direct shots at trump. that has changed now that he's formally in the game. he's still not going directly after him by name in his speeches directly to voters. but when reporters asked him questions, especially when they asked questions about the former president's criticisms of him, he is not afraid to hit back. like in this exchange on a radio program when asked about the controversy around how to pronounce his name. take a listen. >> what's your reaction to attacks like that, even on your name? do you think that's sort of beneath the former president, or

is that what you expect? >> i think it's so petty. i think it's so juvenile. i don't think that's what voters want, and honestly, i think that his conduct which he's been doing for years now, i think that's one of the reasons he's not in the white house now because i think he alienated too many voters for things that really don't matter. >> reporter: the two have also sparred over disney, over the use of the word woke, and over the covid response, which has been a really big part of the governor's platform for his campaign, and former president trump has said, you know, that cuomo has handled covid better than florida has, the governor has really jumped on that really using that as a wedge between the two and as a contrast between the two of them. the other big change, though, is how casey, his wife has played in this campaign. today this event is going to be a fireside chat between the two of them. she's really starting to play a

big role in this campaign. >> congressman, i just want to zero in on the sound we heard at the top from ron desantis with some strong words towards a reporter saying are you blind? do those moment help or hurt the florida governor? >> they hurt because it leans into his unlikability, which has always been a professional challenge for ron desantis. and you can see it in the way he's going at donald trump as well. i think there's real questions are his attacks on trump strategy or are they a bit of political arrogance. ron desantis known to be somebody with the vanity of donald trump and the paranoia of richard nixon, and the nation is now getting to know him. look, he could be going out on the national trail right now, trying to achieve some level of likability. as dasha said, i think it's a reason you're seeing his wife casey desantis. in florida casey has kind of softened those edges for some. although for other certainly has reflected the hard edges of ron desantis. but what we do know is it is

getting hot early between desantis and trump. if this was a strategy, get ready for it because they're going to be going at each other for weeks to come now. >> dasha burns, thank you. congressman, please stay with us because we have some breaking news right now on the department of justice investigation into classified documents found at the home of former vice president mike pence. the doj has now informed pence's attorney that the investigation will not lead to any criminal charges. now, remember, this is separate from the special counsel's investigation into donald trump and those classified documents found at mar-a-lago, which is still ongoing. let me get right to nbc news senior legal correspondent laura jarrett. what more can you tell us, laura? >> after a months' long investigation i have confirmed that the justice department has officially closed the investigation into how the former vice president handled classified information, information that was found at his home back in january. you might remember his attorney

informed the national archives that it had found a small batch of documents and the department has now closed that investigation. ky i can confirm that the department informed pence's attorneys yesterday that he would not be charged in this case. obviously it comes as a relief to the former vice president who expects to announce his campaign for president just next week, and also, at the same time, his former boss is facing a separate investigation as you mentioned with a special counsel looking into an entirely different situation that stands in stark contrast to the one that former vice president pence was facing, ana. >> and so just remind us, laura, because i don't want people to get confused. we have three separate special counsel investigations if i understand it correctly, regarding the classified documents because there's the trump case, the pence case, which you're discussing, and there was also an investigation looking into the documents found at president biden's, right? >> it is confusing. let's break it down for our

audience. the way all of this started was back in january we learned that the president back when he was vice president had kept a small batch of documents at his thinking tank. that came out, and as a result of that news, remember, it got so much attention, pence instructed his attorneys to go make sure he too didn't have any classified documents and it turned out he did have a small batch at his home in indiana. his attorneys then informed the national archives, there was no sort of resistance about turning them over, but the fbi did subsequently search pence's home and found another document. at the same time, we also have the long-running investigation into what's going on with trump and his handling of documents that were found down at mar-a-lago, and then as a result of all of this, the attorney general decided to appoint two separate special counsels, understanding that all of these people are running for re-election. we're in sort of an extraordinary situation. the attorney general merrick garland decided to actually appoint robert hur, who is

running the investigation into what's going on with biden and jack smith who's running the investigation into what's going on with trump. the one as it relates to pence, though, that never had a special counsel. that was only run within the department and fbi. that one was treated a ril differently. it's interesting to note it is obviously now the one that is closed whereas the other two we're still waiting to find out what's going on there. >> and the special counsel investigations are still ongoing involving president trump and president biden. thank you, laura jarrett, please stand by for me. i want to bring back our legal eagle here, that is dave aronberg. what's your reaction to the news? >> this shows that prosecutors are not as interested in the possession of the documents as they are in the refusal to give them back, and that's where donald trump and his supporters get it wrong. they're not in the same category as mike pence and joe biden.

they're in a different category because for trump it's about the obstruction. it's about the refusal to give them back. it's about showing the documents to people who are not allowed to see them. today's news is not unexpected. today's news is good news for mike pence. it's going to be good news for joe biden, it shows he's not going to be charged either, and i think it shows that donald trump's day of reckoning is coming. >> again, these are separate cases and separate investigations when it comes to these three men, and so you don't believe that the current president, joe biden will be charged, but you think that perhaps there is some legal jeopardy for former president trump. could today's verdict of sorts -- it's not a verdict, i use that term loosely, but this announcement, this news we're learning, could it impact the outcomes in these others? >> i don't think it's going to impact it, but it's a signal that joe biden is going to be cleared. because he, like mike pence, told the department of justice, told the feds we've got documents. come on in here. we are cooperating. by contrast, donald trump tried

to hide the document. he moved them around according to reports to keep them out of the eyes of the fed. so that's the difference here. and when you say that, yeah, it means perhaps donald trump's going to be charged, i'll go one step further. i think donald trump will be charged for his possession and refusal to return the documents for his obstruction, and i think that's going to come this month. >> so congressman jolly, pence, he's expected to announce his campaign for 2024 next week. i imagine he's quite happy to get this out of the way before he starts campaigning. what are your thoughts on this? >> i'm sure so, but i'm not sure that mike pence nor joe biden have been much worried about these investigations. as dave rightly said, in the case of donald trump you really have the alleged criminality of obstruction, intention to evade and continued movement of documents. with pence and biden, it appears to be an error. those are the facts. the question about republican politics gets interesting

because donald trump will absolutely suggest if he is charged that there is this deep state hypocrisy that has let joe biden go without being charged and ultimately mike pence without being charged either. donald trump and republicans will draw the contrast between the former president trump and the current president joe biden, one who likely will be charged under dave's analysis, i agree with, one who will not, and they will start the deep state narrative going into the republican primary season. >> of course we really don't know what the special counsels are going to do and what, if any charges, they will bring. i do wonder, dave aronburg, you know trump is going to grab ahold of this and try to use it and wield it in his own case, do you think it helps his defense at all? >> no, i think it helps him in the court of public opinion, and i think david jolly as usual is right on. my fellow floridian, it's because this is going to play well with his base. nothing fuels maga like

grievance, martyrdom is their jet fuel, and he's going to use that in the iowa caucuses, but it's going to hurt in a general election. as far as prosecutors and judges, this stuff is not going to affect it. they're going to base their decision on the evidence and the law. the evidence and the law are really bad for donald trump because under the federal law for obstruction, you can get up to 20 years of prison, and under the law of espionage, you can get up to ten years in prison. tough days ahead for the former president. >> okay, and much more to discuss as we continue to follow these cases as well as the 2024 campaign. gentlemen, thank you so much. dave aronberg, former congressman dave jolly and laura jolly, we appreciate it. up next here on "ana cabrera reports" from flooding to extreme heat, dangerous weather is hitting part of the country. we'll get an update on that tropical system building near the coast of florida. e's one thg we can all agree on. the promise of our constitution and the hope that liberty and justice

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it's just like finally some nice, warm sunshine. >> reporter: in minneapolis where temperatures are set to reach the 90s this weekend, a downtown field day getting locals outside and into the early summer spirit. the city of pittsburgh activating cooling centers for residents and visitors as relentless heat prompts the closure of public schools in grand rapids, michigan, an early dismissal in detroit and hundreds of schools in philadelphia today. the national weather service predicts above normal temperatures across much of the country this summer, which could prove problematic for america's power grid. roughly two-thirds of the country are at an elevated risk of power loss or blackouts. >> if we have a sharp fall of electricity relative to demand in the summer, there are things we can do to manage that if we plan ahead. >> reporter: things like learning how to use and conserve energy responsibly, performing wellness checks on elderly neighbors, and utilizing public cooling center. the extreme heat also fueling

wildfires, and worsening air quality with alerts now in 18 states. a season under the sun kicking off with potentially dangerous consequences. okay. so a few things you can do to help beat the heat. wear light clothing, lather that sunscreen on, and above hydrate. if you are working in extreme heat, you should be drinking a cup of water every 15 to 20 minutes. i'll add this, i'm also hearing it's really important to consume ice cream cones and snow cones, so i'll be sure for the sake of this assignment to do that, and for safety too, in the name of safety. >> better safe than sorry as they say, and plus, it's friday, so why not sweeten the deal. thank you so much. good to see you, emilie ikeda. now i want to bring in meteorologist angie lassman. it is serious stuff we're talking about with this dangerous heat, and you're also tracking a new system in the south? >> yeah, a tropical system. we started hurricane season

yesterday. we're only one day in, but we're already dealing with one system that's going to impact the state of florida indirectly over the next couple of days. let me give you the details. it is a tropical depression, tropical depression 2. the winds 35 miles per hour. you see this blob of rain, it's pretty unorganized. we initially expected it to become a tropical storm, it doesn't really look like that's going to happen. the window for it at least is closing as we go through the rest of the morning and the afternoon hours. either way it's moving south at 5 miles per hour, and it's going to indirectly bring a lot of heavy rain and multiple rounds of those tropical downpours to the state of florida. here's the track of the system. it will eventually start to move a little more southerly and southeasterly, and parts of western cuba, bringing them some rain. for the state of florida, it stays offshore. the rain is what will really get people's attention as we go through the rest of your friday into your saturday and sunday. a flood watch is in effect with multiple rounds of storms affected. some of those could pack gusts,

elevated gusts, it could be higher than we like. it could enter into the severe criteria. here's how it plays out throughout the weekend. there will be dry periods, but eventually there will be some more rain on the back side of that system, ana, it's going to be something we watch through the next couple of days with multiple inches of rain expected. >> we know you will keep us posted, thank you. up next on "ana cabrera reports," the exclusive new video showing the iowa apartment collapse adding to the outrage.

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the right side of the screen. shaq brewster spoke with a masonry expert who said he raised safety concerns about this building days before the collapse. and shaq joins us now from davenport, iowa. what did this masonry expert tell you about the state of this building before the collapse? >> reporter: good morning, ana. i do want to talk about that conversation, but i want to give you a quick update on what we're seeing here at scene. it is more active than we have seen it since the hours after the initial collapse sunday night and into monday morning. we have been seeing large pieces of machinery being moved around, large pieces of debris being moved around, rescue workers going in, picking up pieces, one by one, using their hands. a very active scene here. the city confirmed last night that urban search and rescue teams are now back on the scene, they're going through, supporting the building, there is also some canines, both cadaver dogs and also live canines or canines looking for

live people as well. but going back to that interview that we had yesterday, and you're looking at some of the video now, but going back to that interview yesterday, yes, a masonry expert said in the hours before this building came down he actually warned workers who were doing construction to essentially leave. he said he saw the bricks on the ground, he was able to look at the foundation, and i want you to listen to a little bit of what he told me. >> there's four layers of bricks on that building and i was under the impression it was the outer layer falling. saturday, i saw that it was actually the interior layers as well. and that's the main stretch of the building. if that falls, it's going. saturday is when i addressed the workers that were working and i said you need to leave, it is going to fall, it is going to fall. >> reporter: he said that he also prompted a 911 call that was confirmed. the city may be releasing this in the next few days to come. it is just another warning sign

that we're seeing after the city released a trove of documents showing more than 100 code violations connected to this building, photos of the conditions of this building from cracks to heating issues to the issues with the bricks outside, the brick facade that was being repaired at the time of the collapse. all of that causing many questions and many frustrations for residents who say this was likely avoidable. we have reached out to the owner of this building, he has declined our multiple requests for an interview. all he's released so far is the statement saying that he extends his prayers to the tenants. >> shaq brewster, thank you for your reporting there this week. up next, say good-bye to the piano man. the emotional announcement from billy joel making big waves in the music world. also ahead, can you spell winner? l winner are you tired of clean clothes that just don't smell clean? downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters

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and he's moving out. music icon billy joel is officially saying good-bye to his record-breaking run at new york's madison square garden. the piano man has held his residency at this venue for ten years, full of sold out shows. here is nbc's carson daly with more. ♪ piano man ♪ >> reporter: the piano man is

moving out of madison square garden after a record-breaking decade-long residency. >> welcome to madison square garden, the center of the universe. >> reporter: billy joel emotional yesterday as he broke the news. >> it is hard to end, even after 150 lifetime shows, i want to thank everyone for the wonderful thing that's happened here. >> reporter: his final show in july 2024 will be his 150th. by far the most of any artist. selling more than 1.6 million tickets to fans from all 50 states and 120 countries throughout his residency. and it is the end of a new york era. >> he captured the essence of new york city. >> reporter: joel has been the sound of new york, from hits like "new york state of mind." ♪ i'm in a new york state of mind ♪ >> reporter: and "uptown girl," to the closing concert at the legendary shea stadium. ♪ sing us a song you're the piano man ♪

>> reporter: and in the aftermath of 9/11, joel sang at the concert for new york city honoring workers and victims. ♪ i've seen the lights go out on broadway ♪ >> reporter: despite all this career milestones, the garden still holds a special place in his heart. >> madison square garden is more than just our office, it is home. >> reporter: he's even been joined by famous friends there. but joel always focusing on the fans. >> this is the best job i ever had. i want to thank you all for coming to our show. >> such a legend. carson daly with that report. thank you to carson. this is for all the avid spellers out there. there is a new national spelling bee champ. >> psammophile. psammophile. >> psammophile. >> p-s-a-m-m-o-p-h-i-l-e, psammophile. >> that is correct.

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