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♪ hello again, thanks for being with us. it's 11:00 a.m. eastern, i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york with this special second hour on this federal holiday, and we are following breaking news this morning. america's secretary of state holding a high pressure meeting with china's president xi. did that one-on-one do anything to settle the simmering tensions between our two countries. extreme weather, millions remain under threat, even as communities reel from the aftermath of devastating tornados also ahead, a terrifying close call at one of the busiest airports in the country, a passenger capturing the video of

this plane's wing almost hitting another plane on the runway. and later, celebrating juneteenth, we'll take you to galveston, texas, known as the birthplace of this federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery here in america. but first the breaking news out of china where u.s. secretary of state antony blinken met just a couple of hours ago with president xi, the 35-minute sit-down comes with tensions between the u.s. and china at the highest they have been in decades. let's go live to beijing and nbc's janis mackey frayer and also with us, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times" peter baker janis you spoke with secretary blinken after his one-on-one meeting with xi. what is he saying about this crucial meeting and what they accomplished >> reporter: they feel that thi is at least an important start towards stabilizing relations between the u.s. and china, which the foreign minister here

yesterday characterized as being at the lowest valley that the relations between these two countries are at their worst point since relations were first established, so it's coming off quite a low. in that sense, there were not many high expectations for this visit by the secretary of state, but the fact that it was happening was seen as a step in the right direction. i sat down with him after he met today with china's president xi jinping, here's more of what secretary of state antony blinken had to say. >> it's a good and important start. both chinas and the united states recognize that we were in an increasingly unstable place in our relationship. i think this is the start of a process to put a little bit more stability into it. both of us recognize that we have an obligation to responsibly manage the relationship, and that starts with communicating, with actually engaging across our government, and this was an

opportunity to do that, an opportunity to make very clear where our deep differences are and to have very detailed conversations about that as well as to see if there are areas where in our mutual interest we might actually cooperate >> ana, my last question to him was about the spy balloon incident considering that was the event that had postponed the visit for four months now. i asked if it was water under the bridge with beijing, and he said, quote, that chapter should be closed, so there is the sense that the u.s. is wanting to move on from the spy balloon at least how it erelates to its ties with china. >> and blinken's visit comes after he canceled a scheduled one following the u.s. shatootig

down that u.s. spy balloon peter, what's your assessment of whether today's meeting. >> it sounds like it accomplished what tony blinken wanted to establish, getting off the spiral we've seen dangerous incidents in the sea and air between chai knees military and aircraft. that kind of thing worries american policymakers that you could see an accidental, you know, confrontation out there in the oceans out in the air space spiral out of control. so this is what they wanted to do they're hoping to lay the groundwork for future visits by other officials, gina raimondo, john kerry, and possibly a meeting between president biden and president xi by the end of the year to try to stabilize things from the low point that they have been >> there was a fly-by that we covered not too long ago when china got right in front of an american jet, and then there was

of course the incident at sea as well where we saw similar sort of maneuvering with a chinese ship in front of an american ship my understanding is china did not agree to establish military to military communications and a channel in which they could avoid a more dangerous situation. this is something blinken brought up repeatedly during this trip we're told, so how concerning is this >> reporter: he said it's something that's definitely in the u.s.'s best interests and should also be in china's best interests, but he did not leave with full assurances that these lines of communication between the u.s. and chinese militaries would reopen they have been cut off since that spy balloon incident. there have been close encounters both in the air and at sea there is growing concern that there could be some sort of miscalculation, some sort of accident, and with the militaries not able to talk to each other, it would create an

incredibly dangerous situation so he did not leave with those assurances he said that the talks would be ongoing. the defense secretary lloyd austin had his invitation to meet with china's defense minister rejected when the two men were going to be at the same security summit in singapore the issue at hand, though, is that the u.s. still has sanctions placed on china's defense minister that hold over from the trump administration and the biden administration has not made any moves to remove those sanctions. >> peter, quickly if you will, do you get a sense that there will be a biden xi meeting anytime soon >> americans are optimistic that they do think that's going to happen they do think the chinese want it to happen there's to be a thaw as president biden put it when he was in japan

that they'll be able to put things back into a little closer than regular order doesn't mean there aren't going to be disagreements. obviously there are quite a lot of themment t they want to the get point where they have a dialogue that president biden and xi had before the spy incident interrupted things. >> thank you so much. in just a couple of hours, gop presidential hopeful nikki haley will sit down for a live town hall in south carolina, and we're keeping an eye on the governments there. but it is former president trump's hurricane of legal trouble that continues to dominate conversation among the primary field. one candidate worrying the former president would pardon himself if he wins back the white house. others refusing to say if they would considering pardoning the former president if he's convicted. joining us now is nbc news political correspondent ali vitali in moncks corner, south carolina and democratic strategist cornell belcher, a former

pollster for the dnc, and carlos cur curbelo, a former republican congressman for florida. ali, let's talk about what's happening right now. nikki haley is going to have the microphone there in moncks corner this afternoon. how hard is it going to be for her to try to keep the conversation off of trump? >> reporter: well, look, for haley, and frankly, the rest of this republican field, he is still the man to beat. if that's the strategy that they take on the campaign trail, that's where things sort of break apart because even is trying to run their own race for many of these candidates, haley included, she is still very much in the introductory phase of her campaign, at least outside the state of south carolina you're watching her in places like iowa and new hampshire introducing herself for the first time for here shoe's a former governo of the state, she can tout her roots in this community, the things she was able to do for voters and contend with the rest of the field

i'm looking for what's on the mind of any in the political media and back in washington are also on the minds of voters here as she goes on this town hall and fields quest from the people who are in attendance today. what's been fascinating for someone like former governor haley is the way that she's tried to maneuver around the trump issue, especially around this latest indictment taking the position we've seen from others saying this could be an example of a two-tiered system of justice also saying as a military spouse whose husband just deployed this weekend for a year-long tour in africa, what it means to her to see someone like trump to be reckless with national security in the keeping of these documents that he had at mar-a-lago and saying that she would go so far as to potentially pardon him because she thinks that he -- that that kind of an indictment wouldn't be good for the country if he were, in fact, indicted. she's having to contend with the trump issue even as she's out here running her own race, and that's the challenge for all of these republican contenders.

>> congressman curbelo, chris christie was asked this weekend about this loyalty pledge, the rnc is requiring candidates sign to get onto the debate stage christ christie pointed to the fact in 2016 trump refused to reaffirm a commitment. >> i'll take the pledge in 2024 just as seriously as donald trump took the pledge in 2016. look, i think the pledge is just a useless idea, jake, and by the way, in all my life, we never had to have republican primary candidates take a pledge >> congressman, there's not even a carveout if somebody is convicted of a federal crime, why is the rnc demanding this? >> well, i think governor christie's right, ana, i mean, this pledge only serves to protect donald trump for a couple reasons because, number one, he's the one that's surrounded by the most scandal

and controversy, but number two, donald trump would never abide by this pledge if he does not win the nomination, i can guarantee, especially if it's someone like ron desantis, donald trump is not going to support that person and is actually going to do everything in his power to prevent them from getting to the pres presidency so this pledge is only good if donald trump becomes the nominee because it compels the other candidate to support him when he is not going to do the same for the rest of the field. >> cornell, you're a polling guy in a suffolk university poll out this weekend shows a statistical tie between president biden and former former president trump if the election were held today should democrats be worried that president biden isn't currently ahead of a challenger who faces criminal indictment in two cases right now, possibly indictment in another, and was recently found liable for sexual abuse and defamation >> you would think so.

although, you know, as a pollster i would say step back from all the polls right now because polling this far out is really meaningless and look, it's too far out the dynamics of this race haven't unfolded, there's a lot of not so good polling going on and we pay far too much attention to polls at this point as opposed to are where the candidates actually are. you look at where the independent voters and look at polling, you know, the biden polling out there right now looking at independent vote e. overwhelmingly independent voters are turning against donald trump overwhelmingly independent voters are -- take this indictment seriously unlike the base of the republican party, they take this indictment seriously. they think that donald trump has potentially put the country in harm's way by what he's doing. are those people going to turn and support donald trump

overwhelmingly after all -- after this indictment? i think he has a hard ceiling. look, we've seen in two elections right now donald trump has a ceiling around 46, maybe 47%. the question is does this indictment and all of this chaos, does this help him expand above 46, 47%? because, look, he's going to need to get above 47% in order to win the presidency, and right now it looks really difficult for him to get above 46%. >> cornell, let me just ask you about something slightly different. former president obama is calling out nikki haley and tim scott. tim scott answered back, take a listen. >> i haven't spent a lot of time studying tim scott speeches. i think there is a long history of african american or other minority candidates within the republican party who will validate america and say everything's great and we can

all make it. i mean, nikki haley i think has a similar approach. >> there's no higher compliment than to be attacked by president obama. whenever democrats feel attacked, they drag out the former president the truth of my life disproves the lies of the radical left >> cornell, what did you make of that back goand forth? >> that's a really good question and i think, look, america's still struggling with the question of racism, and -- well, america's not really struggling with the question of racism. some in america are struggling with the question of racism because they want to pretend it doesn't exist. one of the things the george floyd uprising, young people, and white people, and asian people, and not even people just in america, it's black lives matter being chanted in australia and the uk and france, all across the world

we have issues with racism in this country, and those candidates who want to ignore those issues of racism and say, look, if you would just be like me and work hard all this racism can be ignored and you can get ahead, that's problematic because statistics don't support that when you look at everything from home lending to being pulled over to being prosecuted, the statistics don't match that, and right now we need candidates who will say, you know what? america's a great country, but we do have to address these issues of institutional structural racism so that we all can get ahead, and what's missing from tim scott and nikki haley, is they want to ignore this idea that racism is still a factor in america and simply say if you just work hard, we can all get ahead. and we know factually that's not true because racism does exist. >> cornell belcher, carlos cur

w extreme weather. 14 tornados in nine states this weekend as record breaking triple digit temperatures hit parts of the region. plus, unprovoked, the deadly bear attack this arizona that experts are calling extremely rare what happened? and later, we'll travel to galveston, texas, known as the birthplace of juneteenth this is "ana cabrera reports". stay right there our heritage is ingrained in our skin. and even when we metamorphosize into our new

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karins we'll get to bill in just a moment and a new tropical storm forming, but priscilla, first, what doesed r the road to recov look like for this texas community? >> is a long road to recovery, especially when you look at the devastation that is all around me four days out, folks are still back here cleaning out these areas. this is a business and there are more businesses over here that are kpleed completely destroyed we're talking about 200 homes and businesses that were destroyed. we're seeing people out with this heavy machinery trying to get as much of that damaged material and debris as they can, clearing out these businesses to see what they have left. you may also notice that there are some signs of hope here. the power trucks are also out here as these folks are working on these cleanup efforts this is one of those hardest hit areas where power is now being restored i talked to the man oscar

hernandez who owns this business, two businesses over here, and one back there all four were destroyed, and he did not have insurance, and he told me he doesn't know how exactly he's going to rebuild, where that money is going to come from? i spoke to the mayor who says that 90% of people here did not have insurance, and so the question now is what is the aid going to look like i want to play a little bit about what the mayor had to say to me about that >> the threshold for texas for federal aid is monumental, and we're a small town we're going to work towards that federal aid, but that federal aid is months away what we need is money now to help these families. >> reporter: and so we're seeing a lot of volunteers out here there are a lot of volunteers helping with cleanup, helping to pass out hot meals, trying to do

what they can for this community. a lot of folks wondering where the money is going to come from for temporary housing and in order to rebuild, and the mayor did tell me, this is a small town if people don't rebuild, this town may not survive ana. >> it's got to be so j overwhelming for everybody there. thank you very much for shining light for us bill, meanwhile, as these communities are trying to recover, i know you're tracking more storms in the forecast including a tropical depression forming in the atlantic. >> you know what i don't need, i don't need to be here this upcoming weekend tracking a hurricane. it's possible. in june we get heat waves, we're getting towards the hot portion of our summer. june is our third most popular month for tornados we've had a lot lately, but it's not unheard of this is a little unheard of to be tracking something this far out in the atlantic this early in the season. pretty harmless, well out in the middle of the atlantic the thing i don't like is this brand new forecast in from the

national hurricane center. we wanted this to turn out to sea. we wanted this to be called a fish story, it will turn, go out in the ocean, affect the cruise industries and container ships and that's it. the forecast has it to a category 1 hurricane thursday ask then heading through the southern win ward islands or near the leeward islands this is where the virgin islands are located here, and then you see puerto rico here and that's saturday morning as a possible category 1 hurricane and puerto rico is in that cone of uncertainty it can be more than that but that's the average something obviously our friends in puerto rico are going to be paying very close attention to and all the areas of the islands from st. lucia north wards as we go throughout the end of this week let's bring it back to the lower 48 we're still tracking some severe storms we have strong thunderstorms rolling through southern georgia and northern portions of florida. we have a severe thunderstorm watching until 2:00 in this area mostly wind damage would be the

problem. one strong storm, isolated storm by itself. this finally dissipated over interstate 59. that's great so we can get rid of that threat but for the rest of this afternoon, new storms will fire up as we go throughout the afternoon and evening. along i-10, the same areas that have been getting hit time and tame again as far as the heat goes, it's been right around corpus christi for like five straight days. it already feels like 106 degrees. i mean, we're not even to lunch hour yet it's 106 104, victoria, tit's not going anywhere it was hot this last weekend it's going to stay that way into the upcoming weekend, day after day close to record highs, ana >> wow. >> not fun, but texas kind of -- you're built for it, you're ready for it it's like being cold in the winter in the northeast. >> they're tough there in texas. speaking of the northeast, it's been super mild so far this summer doesn't even feel like summer yet. >> it's been a very unusual weather pattern. >> all around.

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the end of the plane's wing right there coming into contact with the tail of another plane that was parked at the time. joining us now from miami international airport is nbc's sam brock. sam, what more are you learning about how this happened? >> reporter: yeah, ana, pretty jolting. you could only imagine if you were a passenger in one of those planes and suddenly you feel the whole aircraft shake and you're trying to figure out what is going on here. the two airlines that were involved with this, united and delta, neither one explained how this happened. they said they did deboard all of their passengers and rebook them onto other flights. this by the way, is the eighth incident since the beginning of the year where planes have either klcollided or almost collided a the u.s. airports in terms of what might have been going on here, there's a couple theories, we speak to nbc news aviation analyst, one of the things they were in the parking area at logan, not the gates so there weren't people there necessary tli to be guiding the plane. it's on the pilot to use their

discretion to try to figure out the depth and distance the other thing is the fact that the airplane wings, the wingspan is wider the that's for aerodynamic and fuel purposes. it also makes it harder to navigate them. the analyst said it's a good thing the pilots were going slowly or it could have been worse. >> very slow movement because if pilots taxi faster than that, then these types of incidents would garner much more damage, exponential damage the faster you go, even by a few miles an hour the increase in the amount of damage you can do from the impact of whatever you're striking. >> reporter: now back in march, the faa did call for a nationwide safety summit at that summit they earmarked $100 million for 12 airports around the country including here in miami. how that money would actually be used the faa says for

reconfiguring taxiways that might be confusing or adding lights to the airfield the reality is since the summit in march they have cut down the number of incursions by half, but it's still about one every three weeks, ana. >> that seems like a lot, sam brock, thanks for that report. and now to this terrifying attack, a 66-year-old arizona man was killed on friday by a black bear officials say steven jackson was enjoying his morning cup of coffee on his property where he was building a new cabin when the adult bear attacked. nbc's miguel almaguer has the very latest. >> rp reporting that the neighbor was being attacked by a bear >> reporter: in what's being described as a vicious unprovoked attack, authorities say on friday in this rural area of northern arizona an adult male black bear mauled a 66-year-old man to death, witnesses telling sheriff's deputies steven jackson was having a cup of coffee on his property where he had begun

building a cabin when the bear approached him and attacked. jackson screams heard by neighbors who tried to distract the bear and stop the brutal scene. >> there was honking horns, different things that they were doing. there was no success in stopping the attack. >> the bear dragged jackson about 75 yards down a nearby hill before one neighbor arrived with a rifle. >> the bear has been shot stwl the bear is down i have visual on it, and it's not moving. >> the neighbor killed the bear, but it was too late for jackson who died from his injuries. >> nothing jumped out at us as being obvious why this occurred or what brought the bear to this location this attack appears to be predatory in nature. >> adult male black bears can weigh up to 600 pounds, but des despite their intimidating size, attacks are incredibly rare. with about 300,000 lig living in the u.s., there's only about one

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welcome back, all eyes will be on the supreme court in the next couple of weeks with a series of blockbuster decisions still to be decided. among them, significant cases relating to affirmative action and lgbtq plus rights as well as a crucial question over whether state legislatures are immune from judicial review of state election laws and the future of president biden's student loan forgiveness program. let's discuss this with msnbc legal analyst melissa murray, law professor and former law clerk to then judge, now justice

sonia sotomayor, and charles coleman, a civil rights attorney and former prosecutor. thank you both for taking the time melissa, why do you think the supreme court has saved these cases for the very end >> i don't know necessarily that they've saved them for the very end, ana it's typically the case in the rhythms of the court's term that the most consequential decisions are the ones that are issued last there's a lot of internal workings as they work to issue these opinions, sometimes majorities can shift sometimes separate opinions can be written all of that takes time, especially in these cases that are more controversial this is not unusual at all last year the dobbs opinion was decided on june 25th well towards the end of the term this is all business as usual. >> and there's so much on the line, charles, these all have widespread implications. let's focus on the issue of affirmative action and whether

race should be considered as a factor for college admissions. that is the question here. in oral arguments, the conservative justices seem to be leaning toward doing away with affirmative action do you think that's where this one is headed, and what do you see as the impacts >> well, ana, unfortunately, i do think that that's where we're headed but this has been the result of a long string of cases oaf the course of decades. we've seen this fight waged over and over again each time the supreme court has given a little bit more indication that they are looking to ultimately end affirmative action this may be its death knell. we got here because over and over again it was challenged in many cases, the issue that i have seen as part of why this discussion is so important is that it's taken specifically in the context of education and college admissions only without regard for the long-term effects of whatnot allowing or not considering or appreciating what diversity means on a college campus has for larger society, and what i mean by that is

access to jobs, access to higher paying wages access to a number of different things on an equal scale all of which can start with access to quality education. affirmative action is going to shut out a number of people from those opportunities, and that's the part of this that is so painful to watch as this entire case unfolds and what will likely be the end of affirmative action in its current form. >> we will be watching closely for the ruling in that one melissa, the other big one that i want to touch on here is the student loan forgiveness plan. and we're talk about 40 million americans right now who are eligible to have some kind of debt relief under the plan, who are waiting for this ruling, if the supreme court rules this plan is unconstitutional, what other options are there for the biden administration to get this one done >> well, first, i want to just sort of link this case to the affirmative action case. charles is exactly right this is about economic mobility, being able to move forward in

society as a multiracial democracy. and student loans have been one of the chief mechanisms for people who don't come from a lot of money to be able to access higher education the fact that the biden administration is set to forgive these loans and the court is stepping in saying their efforts are unconstitutional would really limit the opportunities to expand mobility in that way through the forfgiveness of student loans. this has huge implications beyond just the question of student loans. the biden administration had authorized the student loan relief under the heroes act, which was a law passed in the wake of 9/11 that allowed the federal government and specifically the executive to respond to issues of emergency that arose in the context of 9/11 or other emergencies that might befall the nation. if the court dertermines this is outside of the scope of the heroes act it's going to make it a lot harder for the biden administration and any future administration to be able to use emergency measures to respond to things as they come up you would definitely need for congress, which is very polarized, and not very nimble in responding to be able to step

in ask address those things itself with specific legislation. and so there's a lot on the line for the executive and indeed for the country. >> and a big trickle down effect as you point out charles, quickly i want to ask you about the possibility of the supreme court also revisiting past rulings on gun rights we just learned the biden administration is asking the justices to uphold restrictions on people with domestic violence restraining orders we just talked about another weekend of violence across the country, how do you think all of these recent shootings will impact or could impact what the supreme court does with this >> well, i think the recent shootings play a factors but it's also the resulting decisions that occurred in lower courts following the decision in new york which basically opened the door for conceal carry in public for a number of different states that did not have it that has led to a number of different decisions in different states that essentially are conflicting on gun rights and gun restrictions

so i think that and clarity around its decision there and being more specific and outlining what its intention is is ultimately going to be the driving factor as to whether they take up the case that has been put before them by president biden. >> i feel like we could dive deeper on every single one of these cases and these issues because they're so meaty and so many different aspects and angles to touch on we'll be talking obviously in the days to come as these decisions come down. thank you both so much for just scratching the surface with me. up next here on "ana cabrera reports," ukrainian forces launching a widespread counteroffensive next we'll go live to ukraine with the very latest on the battlefield. the only thing i regret about my life was hiring local talent. if i knew about upwork. i would have hired actually talented people from all over the world. instead of talentless people from all over my house. why give your family just ordinary eggs when they can enjoy the best? eggland's best.

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fill us in on what exactly is happening on the front lines >> reporter: so ana, in just the last couple of hours, the ukrainian military has announced its first battlefield gains in about a week or so they say they have liberated a small village in zaporizhzhia not that far from the nuclear power plant that we all have been talking so much about this is a relatively small community. it was taken back after a pretty fierce assault by ukrainian forces using ing drones, using tanks, but now the blue and yellow flag is flying over that village for the first time since it was occupied by russian forces at the very start of this war back in february 2022. ana, the problem from kyiv's perspective is that the progress this counteroffensive at this stage is being measured in villages, not cities it is not going as fast as some thought it might be, and russian forces are deeply entrenched they've had a lot of time to build up their fortifications, to lay land mines, and paubecau

the fighting is happening close to russia itself and to occupied crimea, the russians are able to bring a lot more of their superior air power to the fight. ukrainian air defenses are further back they're less able to stop them despite all of that, ana, we are seeing ukrainian successes over the weekend, the ukrainians struck a number of russian ammunition depots far, far behind the front lines, caused a lot of chaos, major explosions, fire balls that could be seen from miles around. and the british government is saying it estimates the russian casualties at this point are the highest they have been since the peak of the battle of bakhmut. you'll remember just throwing wave bakmut russia throws waves of mercenary soldiers and troops at that city and they managed to take it but an absolutely enormous cost. ana, as officials in kyiv and

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after the emancipation proclamation our reporter traveled to galveston where the fight for equality is going on isn'try and a half later and the latest front is gentrifiication >> i went down to the descendents who celebrate the ye earliest juneteenth celebrations they are fighting to hold on to their communities. i went to galveston to learn more check it out >> reporter: you're here on the southwest corner of 22nd and strang where the juneteenth store began. >> reporter: it's been 157 years since the very first juneteenth celebration. here on the island of galveston in texas where the last of america's enslaved back people were finally freed sam collins is the co-chair of the juneteenth legacy project. >> we are at the colored church

on broadway where the union soldiers would have moved through the city and posted the notice general order number 3 on the door here. >> reporter: general order number 3 required absolute equality but for galveston's black community, equality has been anything but absolute. >> people paw about wall street in tulsa but there were many communities that were successful outside of those stories of places that were destroyed grandpa galv galveston is one of those. >> he said low playing jobs and people fleeing to opportunities else wren and drained historic neighborhoods and in 2008 a near death blow to the black community. hurricane ike. >> tonight, galveston is a soaked and shattered disaster zone. >> reporter: 75% of galveston's houses and other buildings were taken out by the storm, including nearly 600 units of public housing the primarily black residents

who lived there had no choice but to relocate. between 2000 and 2010, galveston's black population plummeted by 37% the city was eventually forced by the federal government to bring some public housing units back then came the pandemic as struggling families dislocated, galveston drew in wealthy investors. >> so many of the homes that used to be occupied by black families are now short-term rentals. >> reporter: black families moving in? >> no. i have almost never heard of any black families moving in at all. >> reporter: generation of her family grew up in galveston in the sevcentury old house by the gulf i recognize this front porch. >> this is the front porch where we are now this is my great grandfather ralph ab bert skull who was 5 on juneteenth. >> reporter: folks used to call this place an island of color, a

name that has faded with time. >> i guess what is at stake is just the preservation of this very important history they made homes for themselves they educated themselves they formed organizations. >> i want to bring back black folks having influence on the island. >> reporter: long time resident anthony griffin is breathing new life into old black galveston. >> we want to put a commercial development there and place a hotel on the other side of the street we own three or four lots on the other side. >> reporter: his plan? buy up as much lapped as he can to house employee families still fighting for the true freedom that was promised. >> if you don't have economic opportunity, if you don't own land, if you're not able to participate fully in the american dream, you can't ever have absolutely equality. >> reporter: folks say that it's great that people all around the country are paying taattention o galveston but folks are still fighting today and they have

lost their numbers and decimate they are stanth stding strong. >> so many impacts have carried through a century here i am so grateful that you're able to educate us on what is happening. i was telling you during the commercial break, my daughter who is in first grade asked me last night, what is juneteenth we had an opportunity to talk about it at our kitchen table and i'm sure other families are doing the same today as twe mar this federal holiday that does it for us here we will see you back here for "ana cabrera reports" at 10:00 a.m. eastern thank you for joining us jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now good afternoon happy juneteenth thanks for joining us. i'm jose diaz-balart covering two hours of nbc reports today today a high stakes meeting in beijing between secretary of st