the legendary singer's farewell yellow brick road tour lasted five years with 330 shows, it is recognized as the highest grossing tour in billboard box score history making more than $900 million. the rocket man singer now says he's looking forward to retiring and spending some more time with his children. such a legend. that's going to do it for us today. we'll see you back here tomorrow, same time, same place. until then, i'm ana cabrera. josé diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm josé diaz-balart. we're following breaking news overseas. the kremlin says putin had a lengthy meeting with yevgeny prigozhin just five days after the wagner group's attempted rebellion. meantime, happening now, president biden is on a critical trip in europe. he is heading to the nato summit where the war in ukraine and the nation's potential nato membership is number one on the

agenda. back here at home, dive teams are trying to rescue people after torrential downpours in the northeast. the flooding turning deadly in new york. and more cases of malaria are being found in the united states. what you need to know to stay safe. we begin with breaking news from russia where there is a surprising twist related to last month's failed uprising. the kremlin says russia's vladimir putin met with the head of the wagner group and its top commanders just five days after the attempted rebellion, but the whereabouts of the wagner group's leader are still unclear. this comes as president biden makes his way to lithuania for a hike-stakes nato summit where the war in ukraine will be high on the agenda. but the president says ukraine will not become a nato member state, at least not for now. >> i don't think it's ready for membership in nato. i don't think there is unanimity in nato about whether or not to

bring ukraine into the nato family now at this moment in the middle of a war. so i think we have to lay out a path, a rational path, for russia -- excuse me, for ukraine to be able to qualify to get into nato. >> the president kicked off his european trip with a stop in london where he met with british prime minister rishi sunak for the sixth time in nine months. then the president traveled to windsor castle to meet with king charles for the first time since he was crowned in may. with us to talk more about this, nbc news correspondent kelly cobiella in kyiv, ukraine. what more do we know about this meeting between putin and prigozhin, and what's the latest in ukraine? >> reporter: we've heard so much about prigozhin and his wagner group over the past couple of weeks, and there have been so many questions about whether

they would be in belarus in the future, whether they would remain in ukraine, or remain in russia where they would be back on the front lines in ukraine, and now this bombshell from moscow this morning, the kremlin saying that the wagner head, yevgeny prigozhin, along with his top commanders, several top commanders as many as 35 people in this meeting in total all met with president putin just five days after that armed rebellion. the kremlin said that they met in the kremlin, sat down with president putin, explained their rationale for marching on moscow, and that they then vowed allegiance, pledged their allegiance to both the president and to the motherland, pledged to fight for russia. so open-ended question once again, what happens next? do they continue to fight for russia? do they end up back on the front lines in ukraine? as for ukraine right now, of

course the counteroffensive continues. the defense ministry saying there are some gains on the battlefield. really the focus right now is on nato. president zelenskyy says that he wants concrete assurances that there is a path forward for ukraine in terms of nato membership. you heard president biden say it's not going to happen right now, not when this war is ongoing. that's because of article 5 saying an attack on one is an attack on all. but zelenskyy really wants to hear that there is an opening there, and he wants a concrete signal that there's an opening suggesting that he may stay away from the nato summit altogether if he doesn't get those assurances. mane time, jose, 500 days plus of this war now. the u.n. says more than 9,000 civilians have been killed. 500 of them -- excuse me. 500 of them children, and yet again, another attack on

civilians today, a russian bomb fell on an aid distribution site in the city close to the front lines in the south. four people killed. jose, this is something that we see time and time again. it's happened throughout the war as the u.n. outlined with those casualty figures, and we've seen it several times since we've been here just over the past two and a half weeks. there just seems to be no end in sight, particularly for civilians caught up in this, jose. >> indeed. megan, meanwhile, what was on the president's agenda with his stop in the united kingdom? >> reporter: jose, good to be with you. look, it certainly highlights that strong relationship between the united kingdom and the united states. now president biden joking in the garden when he was having tea this morning with prime minister rishi sunak, they only see each other once a month. they've seen each other six times in the last six months.

the conversation largely about ukraine, providing them weapons to try and defeat russia. but of course this all comes on the backdrop of just a couple of days ago when president biden agreed to send ukraine cluster munitions, very controversial. the united kingdom is one of more than 100 nations that has banned the use of these cluster bombs because they have the potential of killing civilians. president biden telling cnn that it was a difficult decision. in the end he ultimately decided to send these weapons. after he had that meeting this morning at 10 downing street, he made his way here to windsor castle where he met with king charles. the first tylenol he -- time he met with him since he was crowned. the topic was climate change, something we've seen him campaign on really for the last five decades and then of course he left for lithuania where he will attend that nato summit. >> how critical is this nato

meeting? >> reporter: it's a great question. it's very critical. we're going to be watching for several things. one, as my colleague kelly cobiella said, is whether or not we will see president zelenskyy of ukraine at this summit. he has been very clear that he wants clarity, he wants to see a pathway forward for his nation to join nato. something the president and his allays have said now is not time for. all eyes are going to be watching president erdogan of sweden. he said earlier this morning that he wants a pathway for his nation to join the european union, and then he will give sweden a pathway to joining nato. we know that the president will be meeting with erdogan. there will most certainly be a lot of pressure placed upon him. jose. >> kelly cobiella and meagan fitzgerald, joining general mccaffrey. it's always a pleasure to see

you. i just want your thoughts on this whole news that we're seeing this morning that putin met with prigozhin and 35 other, you know, leaders of the wagner group just five days after their failed uprising. what do you see there? >> it surely is astonishing. the russian state tv right now is heavily involved in demolishing prigozhin's reputation, corruption, weapons, his relatives are all living a life not involved in the war. putin still understands that prigozhin is a huge threat to him personally and to the russian state. on the other hand, i think putin's not clear in his own mind and should not be clear on how much loyalty the u.s. is able to ascribe to the russian military. are they going to stay with putin? there was no real reaction to a brigade sized unit of 8,000

prigozhin fighters headed to moscow except for some attacks by russian air force, they moved unimpeded up to the gates of moscow. so i think putin's saying correctly i better be careful. sort out this guy's influence and take action eventually. he's got to kill this guy or detain him eventually. the question is does he think he can move now and the answer is no. >> but general, the fact that they would all go to moscow and meet with him at the kremlin and apparently have no problems getting out, i mean, there are just so many possible layers upon layers of questions and motives. it just seems odd, doesn't it? >> oh, yeah, it definitely does. it reminds you in some ways after the death of stalin, when they marched barea out and shot him outside the kremlin after

the first meeting he attended. so this is a gang of thieves in a way. it's more like a mafia structure than a government. i'm sure prigozhin got assurances and he would have said it's unlikely i'm going to be arrest instead a gun fight inside the kremlin. but still, these are high stakes. people's lives and fortunes are at stake. putin's kept control of his government by murdering people, but detaining them, throwing them behind bars, by taking away their fortune. but holding their families hostage. so he's a pretty tough customer. and these are high stake "new york times" -- times in russia. i think at the end of the day, putin is forced to get his own people in there. they're not actually vital to the combat strength of the russian armed forces. they're a threat to putin, so

we'll have to see how this plays out. meanwhile, in the background nato has come together in lithuania. the alliance in most ways is more powerful than ever. the turkish naval forces in the black sea really are a counter to the russian naval forces. finland's in the naval membership thank god. so i think biden ought to be pretty pleased with the setup he has as he arrives in lithuania. >> and general, just before the president left the u.s. he agreed to provide ukraine with cluster munitions. he explained his reasoning in an interview over the weekend. take a listen. >> it took me a while to be convinced to do it. they either have the weapons to keep them from stopping the ukrainian offensive through these areas or they don't, and i think they needed them.

>> i think it's important, general, if you would explain what these munitions are all about, what they do. >> they have cluster bomb dual purpose missions. they're actually effective against armor also because their top attack systems, they're the most devastating of all counter artillery munitions. the principal arm of the russian armed forces is their artillery so it's a huge boost to the ukrainian ability to protect themselves. we've got to remember, jose, for god sakes the russians have been massively employs high dud rate dcipm throughout the war. ukraine has used them. it's also their country. they're also running out of conventional 155 military

artillery unitary rounds. so i think president biden, secretary austin came together and said we've got to put these weapons in play. right now they're fighting for their survival. >> general barry mccaffrey, always a pleasure. i thank you for being with us this morning. breaking news, larry nassar the doctor convicted of sexually abusing olympic gymnasts has been stabbed at a federal prison. we've got the details. plus, the latest on the catastrophic and deadly flooding in the northeast. we're back in just 60 seconds. you're watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. ée diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. than detergent alone. if you want laundry to smell fresh for weeks, make sure you have downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters. nexium 24hr

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abusing more than 300 female gymnasts including olympians was stabbed multiple times at a florida prison last night. it was confirmed that nassar was stabbed twice in the neck and back and six times in the chest leaving him with a collapsed lung. the official says nassar is currently in stable condition. nassar's serving a 40-year prison sentence. and turning now to extreme weather, heavy rainfall left one person dead in new york state, and 14 million people across the northeast under flood alerts. hudson valley new york received nearly 10 inch os of rain in a day, and that's usually the amount of rain that an area gets across three months in a typical summer. 38 million people in parts of the southwest, texas, and florida remain under heat alerts with el paso reaching a record breaking 24 consecutive days of temperatures above 100 degrees. nbc's emilie ikeda has the latest.

>> overnight, a string of dangerous thunderstorms slamming the northeast. washing away cars and collapsing roads. >> that's insane. >> reporter: 27 million people now under flood alerts across the northeast from eastern new york to new hampshire. >> a lot of traffic, a lot of water. >> oh, my gosh. >> reporter: torrential downpours leaving drivers stranded like this apocalyptic scene in orange county, new york, which is now under a state of emergency. >> be advised, main street and the traffic circle's completely under water. i've got a car going down the liver. >> reporter: rain totals reaching nearly 8 inches creating hazardous sink holes in the road. one woman was killed trying to evacuate her home. the national weather service in new york urging residents to avoid the roads warning stay away or be swept away. drivers dealing with swamped roads throughout the region. in pennsylvania nearly 10 inches

of water left vehicles submerged. while parts of connecticut were hammered by five inches of rain in just over an hour. americans in the south and west are dealing with the extreme heat that's baking the region. southwest temperatures. another disaster struck in los angeles county. a massive landslide causing evacuations in rolling hills estates. back east, residents look for rescues as a deluge of devastating weather wreaks havoc on the region. up next, new reporting about special counsel jack smith's investigation into trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. what witnesses are now telling the grand jury. plus, it's banned in some schools abroad. now the fda is being asked to investigate prime promoted by

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22 past the hour. today new details on special counsel jack smith's investigation into donald trump's attempts to stop the transfer of power following the 2020 election. according to an nbc news analysis, federal grand jurors have heard testimony from dozens of witnesses from current and former members of trump's circle including mike pence, steve

bannon, and stephen miller. joining us now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian and paul butler, former federal prosecutor and professor at the georgetown school of law, he is an msnbc legal analyst. what else does this analysis tell us about the scope of the special counsel's focus here? >> good morning, jose. it shows that this a far reaching, sprawling investigation into any efforts to thwart the lawful transfer of power, which is the other mandate of special counsel jack smith, in addition to investigating the classied documents. we just chronicled that dozens of witnesses who have traukd to prosecutors, everybody from low level state officials who were pressured or higher level state officials like brad raffensperger the secretary of state of georgia and rusty bowers to members of the trump team to secret service agents to as you said, former vice president mike pence.

when you look at it, it appears that jack smith is investigating this case as a expertise to thwart a lawful transfer of power. whether he brings a case against donald trump himself remains to be seen, but remember, there are already four phones seized by federal agents in this case pursuant to warrants including the phone of mr. eastman, a lawyer and close adviser to donald trump who's advising him about the fake elector scheme. we already knew, we've known for months they have a lot of evidence in this case. it now appears it's even more far reaching than people realize. it also seems that it's coming to a head this summer. >> and ken, meanwhile, nbc news exclusively obtained a new book from someone who worked in the trump administration. who is it, and what are they saying? >> that's miles taylor. he worked for the department of homeland security. he's a long-time trump critic. he writes about an episode back in 2018 where he says that sarah huckabee sanders, the then press secretary described being at a meeting with donald trump and

reporters who were working on a book and talking about the case of jamal khashoggi, the journalist who was killed according to the cia by the saudi then crown prince, and talks about trump waving classified documents around in the presence of these journalists. sarah didn't believe that these journalists actually saw the documents, but it was an example of mr. trump being cavalier with classiied documents and deploying them for his own purposes. and john bolton, the former national security adviser told us as he has in the past this is one of many such examples that he observed in the trump presidency where donald trump was asking for classified documents, keeping them, hoarding them, that there was a lot of concern among aides in the inner circle about mr. trump's treatment of classified information. >> could any of this be of interest to the justice department, do you think? >> i think all of it is of interest to the justice department, jose. every week a new revelation

about somebody trump was showing off war planes and nuclear secrets and other sensitive material that puts our national security at risk. so the mar-a-lago indictment talks about trump apparently disseminating documents at his bedminster country club to four people, none of whom have security clearances. last week stephanie grisham saw trump show off documents to people at mar-a-lago. if i were jack smith, i would put sarah huckabee and john bolton in the grand jury to get them to testify under oath and to prevent them from showing up as defense witnesses at trump's trial. >> and paul, "the new york times" is reporting that former chief of staff john kelly said in a sworn statement that trump discussed having the irs and other agencies investigate two fbi officials involved in the investigation into potential ties between trump's campaign and russia. do you see any legal implications to this? >> so jose, kelly says he doesn't know whether trump actually tried to order the fbi

to investigate these officials and that provides some wiggle room for trump if this were to turn into an investigation. as far as we know there's no official inquiry. it's weird that james comey and andrew mccabe were subject to irs audits when then president trump was railing against them, and of course trump was successful in getting doj to name a special counsel to investigate the fbi's role in the 2016 campaign, but as we all know, the durham investigation came up with nothing. so this reporting also says that trump tried to get the security clearances of these fbi officials revoked. this is consistent with trump trying to weaponize the federal government and especially the justice department for his own political and personal reasons, but i can't -- i doubt that this will go anywhere illegally

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33 past the hour. here in florida, health officials on thursday reported two additional cases of malaria, bringing the number of infections in the state to seven. both of the new cases are not linked to travel outside the country. these infections in a separate case in texas are the first time

in 20 years that malaria has been acquired locally in the u.s. leading the cdc to issue a health alert. if you've been to south florida anytime recently, you would actually notice the mosquitos are actually this size. nbc's guad venegas is in miami. guad, good morning, what are you learning about the cases here in florida? >>. >> reporter: jose, we've all certainly seen big mosquitos in florida. i think for anyone who lives in florida, we know that we are surrounded by mosquitos. it is a lot and humid place. we should keep in mind, jose, first of all, that county public health officials in florida are prepared to deal with situations like these. so we know that these cases are in sarasota county. that's an area just south of tampa bay. public health officials there are working hard as of friday, they were working with airplanes to supply certain areas of sarasota county. as you mentioned, these are locally contracted cases, which means the individuals that were bit by these mosquitos did not

travel abroad. public health experts believe what could have happened here is someone traveled into the united states that was infected with the virus. that person could have been bitten by a mosquito and that mosquito could have spread malaria. it's not something that should cause panic. according to health officials it should make people be aware, especially in this area, of course, and the symptoms to watch for are flu-like symptoms. the one thing people should pay attention to is the fever. people who have malaria have a uniquely or notoriously high fever. we should also keep in mind that hospitals in the united states are well equipped to test for malaria and also have the medication to treat it. >> guad venegas in miami, i thank you so very much. and joining us now from sarasota is dr. manuel gordillio at sarasota memorial hospital.

it's great to see you. talk to us about what malaria is. it's not a virus, is it? >> it's a parasite. and the specific species that we're seeing is plasmodium. >> you've been dealing with some of those cases. what are you seeing in those cases? >> we've seen four of the six cases in this hospital. what we're seeing is what was described. they presented with fever, and at the beginning, since most of us don't see locally acquired malaria, a lot of them were not thinking it was malaria. in fact, the first cases were diagnosed a very acutely suspicious laboratory technician

looked at the smears and found the malaria parasites in the red cells. they alerted us, the clinicians, and that's how the first cases were diagnosed. as we have seen more, now we're more aware and we're looking for the most common symptoms, the fever, the body aches, the headaches, and especially those that persist, you know, because a lot of infections that we see present that way with fevers and headaches, body aches and most turn out to be viruses, but sometimes if they're persistent, we're thinking malaria now. >> so i'm just wondering, i mean, so if -- you know, and we were just talking about it with guad, there are a lot mosquitos in florida. now at this time of the year maybe more than at other times. so what are some of those symptoms? what is it that we should be looking out for, and how are these symptoms different than the flu, the cold or even some

covid cases? >> yeah, in fact, they're no different, and that is why everybody in the medical community needs to be aware of this because there's a specific test that you have to do on people that present with fever, body aches, nausea, vomiting, sometimes didiarrhea, belly pai. those symptoms non-specific and could be due to a number of different things. so if we do not suspect malaria, we can miss the diagnosis. we have educated the medical community to do something called a malaria smear test, which is a blood test. it's very reliable, and we've been able to use it on each one of the cases and diagnose all those cases, which is very important. we need to detect those cases and treat them properly. >> real quickly, there are no tests, no home tests that we could check for malaria. how dangerous is malaria on the human? why do you think so many cases now? >> yeah, that's a great

question. so it's not clear why we have malaria now in this part of the country, like was said at the introduction, last time we had malaria acquired in the united states was in palm beach 20 years ago. and in this area in sarasota, we haven't had it in over 70 years. so why is it happening? we really don't know, you know. you can speculate that it has to do with movement, you know, from other geographic areas, travelers, migrants, refugees moving to the country and bringing this parasite from endemic areas here, but also here we would have to have the perfect conditions, you know. we have to have the proper humidity. not all mosquitos transmit malaria. there's certain species of mosquito that we do have in the

united states, especially in the south. so a number of conditions have to converge in order to have this locally acquired and it has happened in our area and my understanding there is a single case in texas and probably there are more cases in texas undiagnosed. >> i thank you so much for being with us this morning. really appreciate your time. >> thank you for having me. up next, the clock is ticking for republican presidential hopefuls to make their case against donald trump. why the iowa caucuses are being held earlier this year. you're watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. ée diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. so, no matter what, i'm running this kitchen. (vo) make the switch. it's your business. it's your verizon. i will be a travel influencer... hey, i thought you were on vacation? it's too expensive. use priceline, they've got deals no one else has.

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voted unanimously to hold the caucuses on what happens to be martin luther king jr. day holiday. that means gop hopefuls have six months from saturday before voters get their chance to weigh in on this race. joining us now with more is mark murray, nbc news political editor and victoria defrancesco soto of the clinton school of public service at the university of arkansas. what went into the party's decision to hold these contests so early, and what does it mean for the candidates. >> this is all about preserving iowa's first in the nation designation, to go first before everyone else does. and already we end up getting word that south carolina republicans were going to hold their primary in february, and so by having it start on january 15th, it ensures that republicans will begin first are the iowa caucuses and then will probably end up having that new hampshire primary right

afterwards. it is also worth noting that the candidate who ends up winning iowa, doesn't always end up winning the nomination on the republican side. we see rick san tor rum in 2012, mike huckabee in 2008, all of them won the iowa caucuses on the republican side. neither ended up becoming the republicans' nominee. what the process does is it just whittles down the field from a multicandidate field into a field where there are really only two or three strong contenders left. >> mark, as you put it in first read this morning, this starts the clock for the republican rivals to stop trump. which campaigns are welcoming this, and which are seeing this as a major hurdle? >> yeah, jose. six months is plenty of time for any of these candidates to really kind of gain momentum to pull off a victory in the caucus

winning over a lot of those evangelical voters. iowa's really key to stopping donald trump. this nomination fight would be effectively over, and so if you are ron desantis, if you are tim scott, nikki haley, it's got to start first this iowa. >> victoria. what do you see as the challenges mark was just speaking about, desantis, haley, scott and others trying to chip away at trump's base of support. >> it is time, and even though six months does seem like a lot of time, when you have a front runner like donald trump with such an advantage, it is going to be difficult. i mean, i think the date of the iowa caucus being so early is going to hurt, and these are candidates who are going to have to be on the ground. the flip side is you don't need a ton of money. when you get into the big media market, your super tuesday

state, you need a ton of cash to flooded air waves. in iowa you can just hit the road. you can do old school school leather politics, talk to people, are have them get to know you. it is a small state, so for these underdogs the size of the state and the fact that there isn't a huge media market helps them in trying that stop trump effort. >> on the democratic side, president biden had this to say on the idea of stepping aside for the next generation. take a listen. >> i think we're at an infection point. i think the world is which i think -- changing, and there's one thing that comes with age if you're honest about it your whole life. that is some wisdom. i just want to finish the job, and i think we can do that in the next six years. >> what's your reaction to that? how do you see the path forward for the democratic party? >> the first thing that jumps up is doubling down on the

experience argument. and we saw that from the beginning when, you know, then candidate joe biden was running, it was about experience, even though he was up against a host of a lot of younger challengers in the primary. you know, and second, i do think that the democratic party can point to, for example, in passing the torch in the house leadership showing that they are open to having new votes come along. but there is that anxiety, and there is that desire among the democratic party where the base is overwhelmingly young, to have new faces into look more like them. >> mark murray and victoria defrancesco soto, thank you both so much. up next, new clues in the massive manhunt for a murder suspect what escaped from jail and is no stranger to evading police. plus, what you need to know if you're in the market to buy a car. you're watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. .

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53 past the hour. right now, a man hunt for a murder suspect who escaped from jail three days ago. police are looking for this man who hunt missing from warren county jail friday morning. he is believed to be armed and dangerous. joining us now is anne thompson. >> wait until you hear this. he was out in the exercise yard thursday night and officials say he apparently climbed on top of a piece of exercise equipment then went out through a metal gated roof and was carrying with him a rope made of bed sheets and apparently shimmied down. the thing that's really concerning here, well, a couple of things. he is a self-taught survivalist.

he has mil military reserve training. he is wanting for arson, murder, kidnapping, rape. he has been on a crime spree in recent months and was being held on a million dollars bond. it is a very concerning situation in northwest pennsylvania, jose. they don't think he's left that area. they suspect he is in that area. over the weekend, they searched houses and they searched structures. there are a lot of abandoned buildings there in that area, we are told, and they found evidence of camping sites and stockpiles of supplies we assume and they think those may be connected to him. >> thank you so much for that update. just this morning, new data for consumers in the market for a new car. according to cox automotive, wholesale used cars posted their

largest drop since the beginning of the pandemic last month. but that doesn't mean prices are falling as fast as many people would like. joining us now with more is dominic chu. what should we be taking away from this? >> the takeaway is that car prices are falling but don't expect to see massive sale prices or cuts anytime soon. that wholesale used vehicle index posted a 4.2% drop between may and june. that's the third straight month of price drops and one of the biggest on record according to cox. it's also about 10% below where it was the same time last week. that's the good news but we are still way higher than we were on average pre pandemic. so that lower trend in wholesale prices, it could lead to a drop in retail prices at some point. that's the good news. but there's an expectation that you're going to start to see inventory levels and prices for used cars find stability in the

coming months. meanwhile though where you might see bigger deals is in electric vehicles. those analysts note that ev inventory rs starting to build up because production is ramping up and buyers aren't yet flocking to get one. tesla and others have cut prices to spur demand so there might be a chance to get a better price on an ev than some traditional internal combustion vehicles. >> and dom, is it because ice, because the electric cars, there's more in the production pipeline? does that mean this price lowering has also come into the new car market? >> it has come into the new car market as well. more than anything else, jose, it is about whether or not people consumers, not just here in america, but around the world, are likely to adopt evs quicker. there are folks that have gone the ev route, but not as many as

buying the same gasoline powered cars they know and love and have over the years. so as many of these ev producers ramp up production, like tesla and others, it shows they can get cars out there. but now it's about getting people convinced to buy one. a lot of things go into play. things like tax credits, incentives. we know price cuts have helped companies like tesla sell more vehicles. so that's going to be one of those dynamics to watch. whether or not folks like you and i actually feel compelled to buy an ev. >> and consumers can expect to see deals in the coming days with christmas in july. >> it's prime day, jose. amazon.com is going to put a ton of items on sale tomorrow through july 12th. what amazon is hoping to do is to lure shoppers through its site, through those price drops, cuts on things like lightning

deals, limited supplies of certain goods. this year, amazon will also be putting out deals specifically for its prime membership customers. the folks that pay the annual fee for free shipping and access to video and audio. now, the move, this is the big deal, is also that other retailers will have their sales to try to cash in on some of that traffic and buzz. so expect walmart, target, nordstrom, wayfair, others to have sales of their own in the coming days. >> great to see you. thank you very much. before we go, money keeps going up. the power ball and megamillions jackpots reached over $1 billion combined. power ball prize money is now at about 650 million. while megamillions grand prize sits at an estimated 480 million. power ball says this is the ninth largest jackpot. the power ball jackpot on record in the second largest this year.

drawing happens tonight for power ball and tuesday for megamillions. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. you can reach me on twitter and instagram. thank you for the privilege of your time. garrett haake picks up with more news right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," president biden traveling to lithuania for a critical nato summit hours after an audience with king charles at windsor. also, the president defending his decision to send controversial cluster munitions to aid ukrainian forces on the battlefield despite the pushback from within his own party. >> it's not in certain areas we're trying to get through those trenches and stop those tanks from rolling. so but it was not an easy decision. >> and new details on