anyone who kills two people and especially having -- in such a brutal manner, should ever be let out of prison. >> reporter: anne thompson, nbc news. we have a lot to cover in our second hour of "chris jansing reports," let's get right to it. at this hour, a dozen homes at risk of sinking into a canyon outside of los angeles, after being ripped from their foundations after a massive landslide. the cracking, popping and creeking sounds haunting that neighborhood. brand new and better than expected june inflation numbers out today. how your money is now going further than it has in two years. and the dow is jumping on the news, up more than 100 points right now, what it means for you and your 401(k). plus, president biden vowing to support ukraine for as long as it takes in a meeting with

president zelenskyy in lithuania as the alliance declares ukraine's future is in nato. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments and we begin with ukraine's big ask at the nato summit. nbc's kelly cobiella is following that story from kyiv. so what is president zelenskyy walking away with after this summit? >> reporter: yeah, well, chris, we all know that he wanted those promises from nato that they would have a firm time line for joining the alliance. he said there were a lot of positive outcomes, even though he didn't get what he went there to achieve. just take a look at some of the things that he did get, and chief among them is this security guarantee from g7 countries. unwavering support pledged from the g7 and security guarantees which essentially mean they have committed to supporting ukraine's right to self-defense, focusing on air defense

artillery, armored vehicles, air combat, intelligence sharing and reconstruction and recovery, so long-term military and economic commitments. on top of that, a lot of new military hardware. france agreeing to send long range cruise missiles, similar to the ones that the uk has already been supplying, and ukraine has been using in the battlefield, just if the past couple of weeks. we've seen evidence of that. and germany saying that they will commit to providing more tanks, armored vehicles, patriot air defense systems and also crucially, artillery. and, chris, that's not all. they did come away with this new ukraine nato council. it sounds like a bureaucratic kind of thing, but this actually does have some teeth. it gives ukraine a seat at the table with nato.

president zelenskyy himself said it helps to integrate ukraine more with nato politically. the president zelenskyy can actually call a crisis meeting. he has the power to do that now that this has been elevated to council status. so they did walk away with a good package. president zelenskyy describing it as good, not ideal, but good. chris. >> kelly cobiella, thank you for that. in fact, president biden right now getting aboard air force one. he's on his way to his next stop on this nearly week long trip heading to helsinki finland at the invitation of the president there. we're going to keep our eye on the president. now to the better than expected june inflation numbers. cnbc's brian cheung joins us now with the latest. what do they tell us? >> what they tell is us inflation is cooling. prices are at a slower miss, 9

yearly, now 3% yearly. if you take a look at the categories the consumer price index breaks out the categories. food and shelter did get cheaper. gas prices did take a leg up between may and june. those are monthly changes you're looking at there. when we talk about other contributors to inflation, declining on the headline number, look no further than for example used cars and trucks. this has been an area that was particularly squeezed by a shortage of micro chips in addition to high demand in the post pandemic period. we've seen prices fall by .5% between may and june. over 5% year over year when you compare june of this year to june of last year. the broad picture here is for americans, things are getting cheaper in categories. getting more expensive, broadly speaking but again,s federal reserve and economists looking at the report, they're getting encouragement, numbers are

coming down, and the fed might see this as a sign they can stop hiking interest rates at some point down the line. federal reserve expected to raise interest rates one more time at the end of the month by a quarter of a percentage point. maybe after that, they could be done. that would be relief for the high mortgage rates, high credit card rates. wall street reacting positively to that report that we got this morning. chris. >> brian cheung, thank you. and to look at exactly how wall street is reporting, let's go to cnbc on msnbc. morgan brennan is standing by. what is the mood on wall street? >> i mean, the mood is positive, chris, markets are reacting very positively to this news. the s&p 500 and nasdaq are both trading at fresh one-year plus highs. the dow industrial is making gains as well. up about 140 points right now. and you just heard it from brian, inflation is easing. you've got higher interest rates, supply chains returning to normal, for example, in the auto market, and that means pressure on the pace of inflation.

that could give the federal reserve some breathing room in regards to future rate increases. right now, the market expects another quarter point increase by the central bank later in month. after this expected reading for cpi, there are growing expectations on wall street now that this could be the last increase. remember, the fed has said that it expects to increase two more times. does this reading actually change that. the consumer price index grew at the lowest pace since march of 2021, the reading that economists play the closest attention to is core cpi. that increased 4.8%. strips out food and energy prices. economists exclude to get a better sense of how sticky inflation is and whether it is entrenched. higher than 2% inflation. it is moving in the right direction. that's the lowest reading since october of 2021. hence this expectation out there in the markets that perhaps one more rate increase and then we're done.

chris? >> morgan brennan, thank you. in southern california, 12 families have spent the last 24 hours watching their home sink, and officials still aren't sure why. nbc's steve patterson is live from rolling hills estate, which is south of los angeles, these families were given, what, ten minutes to pack up and get out. what do we know about what's happening here? >> imagine that, chris, ten minutes to grab everything you can and leave your home before it sinks into the ground. the problem is we don't know why. we won't know until the results of a geological survey are done in this area. that could take some time. now it's day five of residents looking at the remains of their home, and watching those remains continue to slide down, crumble into the ravine that's on screen. as you can see in some cases. 12 homes are red tagged. ten homes are still moving. 16 homes are now being

monitored, and again, we don't have the results of a survey. we don't know how far this may spread. does this affect the foundations of other homes. will this affect the water main or sewage line. we don't know. that's what's been frustrating with so many. i have been speaking with residents in that neighborhood. one tells me his home has moved 10 feet every day since this happened. there was a fissure underneath the homes. officials are looking into that. they are providing relief. the city declared a state of emergency that will free up resources. there's tax relief for people who lost their homes. what they can't find is answers and that's what's so frustrating to folks here. >> steve patterson, thank you so much for that. and extreme heat wreaking havoc across the southern u.s.

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officials in vermont's capital are still warning against traveling on downtown roads where flood water levels have dropped slightly since yesterday's historic conditions but still pose real problems. emergency teams conducted more than 200 rescues this week. now the pain staking recovery work has to be done, and there's a chance of even more rain. across the south, a severe heat wave just isn't letting up. we've already seen weeks of unprecedented temperatures. now they're expected to get worse. climate experts are not mincing words, calling this week's forecast intense, worrying and extremely dangerous. i'm joined by nbc news meteorologist bill karins. any end in sight? >> not even close. i think we're going to peak this

weekend or middle of next week, and fingers crossed we head in a better direction. this is the hottest time of year. anytime you get a heat wave during the hottest time of the year, you're going to have a chance at significant all time records. oklahoma city, dallas, phoenix, vegas, sacramento, all cities under what we call excessive heat warnings. for those cities, it's exceptional, maybe happens once or twice a summer. the other thing we have to watch for is what's going to happen in florida. that's where it continues to be very hot and very humid. miami the other day was 110 degrees with the heat index, and that is like one degree away from their all time record. today won't be quite as bad, probably around 107. one of the biggest things we'll have watch is vegas, supposed to hit 116 degrees, twice, hottest temperature ever is 117 degrees.

that's going to be one streak we're going to come close to. our friends in phoenix, by the way, they are now on day 13 of it being 110 degrees every single day. the longest streak they've ever had is 18 days. we're going to probably blow by that as we go throughout next week. many different things and pieces here. the fact that it goes all the way from california to areas of south florida, that's what is unusual. when we get the heat waves in the summer time, we'll have the west coast, and east coast. this has been exceptional, just everyone in the south is dealing with it, and all indications are, the middle of next week we're going to expand into areas of the midwest too, some areas hit 105 degrees in kansas and illinois. we are not done by any means. >> we were joking for a long time in my family, which is mostly in ohio. my brothers would say, come back to live here, it's the ideal climate. the winters have gotten so much

milder. one of the things that's really struck me this week is the water temperatures. you couldn't previously almost ever go swimming in lake erie until this time of year without it being freezing cold. all the old bets are off. >> things have changed. you know, and the saddest thing with all of this is that i tell people, you know, i hope you're enjoying the coolest summer of the rest of your life, and people are like, what are you talking about? well, in 20 years from now, and we'll look at this summer, and think it's cool compared to what we're dealing with. that's our reality. >> we were just talking about the fact that we're going to see another visit to china by the head of, you know, the president's envoy on climate change, john kerry. these things are significant. so thank you, bill karins, for that really uplifting bit of information. we appreciate that. now we have a disturbing and tragic story in a suburb of memphis, tennessee. a surgeon fatally shot by a

patient in an exam room. dr. benjamin mauck was killed in what police are calling a targeted attack. the suspect was arrested outside the building shortly after the incident. maggie vespa is following this story for us. what else do we know about it? >> we got the identity and the mug shot of the alleged shooter, the suspect in this case, they just released this photo of 29-year-old larry pickens, they say he's charged with first-degree murder and aggravated assault in this shooting. right now being held on $1.2 million bond. initially in this case police were a little bit tight lipped about what happened. they got the call from the colin in colliersville, tennessee, a half hour east of memphis, around 2:00 p.m. yesterday just saying that a doctor had been shot inside an exam room. and when they arrived, they found dr. ben mauck, again, shot and killed.

a prominent hand surgeon. officers arriving him, finding him dead at the scene. this is part of what they had to say in the initial briefing with reporters yesterday. take a listen. >> he was a patient, our understanding. other officers encountered the suspect on the south side of poplar, very near to the entrance. suspect had a firearm in his position. it was on his person. it wasn't in his hand. he was taken into custody without incident. >> again, that suspect has now been named as 29-year-old larry pickens. one of the pieces of info is any kind of motive. police saying then and reiterating now, they have no idea what could have driven the suspect, to shoot and kill dr. mauck. we have been told and seen multiple statements from hospitals and medical agencies is a prominent orthopedic

surgeon in the area, both working out of those clinics and the local children's hospital. a lot of love pouring out for him on facebook and social media, and executives at the hospitals and clinics where he worked just saying that he was a beloved colleague of theirs, and a locally renowned with national ranking surgeons, so a lot of people keeping his family in theitoy, as again, police contie to investigate this tragic shooting. chris. >> maggie vespa, thank you for that. 2024 republican contender struggling to get out of the former president's shadow. so is this the power of trump or the weakness of his opponents? that's next. f his opponents? that's next. with its customizable options chain, easy-to-use tools and paper trading to help sharpen your skills, you can stay on top of the market from wherever you are. e*trade from morgan stanley. make complex trading less complicated.

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donald trump's 2024 rivals are learning again what the campaign taught us. it's incredibly tough to run against the former president. as "politico" points out, even as he flaunts all of the political conventions, including saying no to an important iowa event this weekend, nothing they say or do seems to stick. for the consistent number to win the polls, ron desantis, he's at the stage where he's being asked if he would consider being trump's actual number two? >> would you ever agree to be donald trump's running mate, yes or no? >> i don't think so. i'm not a number two guy. i think i'm a leader.

as governor of florida, i've been able to accomplish a lot. i think i probably could do more staying there than being vp which doesn't have authority. >> ron desantis's isn't anybody's guy, he's not the guy. he's just a guy. ron is just there. sullen and sad because his numbers are as tiny as him. let's bring in tim miller, former communications director for jeb bush's campaign, and writer at the bulwark. for trump's rivals why is it that nothing sticks. is it trump or the weakness of them? >> that's a pretty weird statement for the trump campaign. i never put out one like that. it's still a little disorienting to see that as on on the record quote. but look there are two things at play here, one is that trump gained power by connecting with

maga republican voters, the republican primary voters, then he was president, then he ran on a campaign again, throughout that time, with a handful of exceptions, nobody ever stood up to him. nobody ever communicated to the voters, the ways in which he was letting them down. nobody talked about the scams that hurt maga voters. nobody did anything to criticize them. i don't always like the tweets but i like the policies. if you're doing that for six, seven, eight years, and all these voters are hearing good things, it's not surprising it's going to be hard to get them off trump. that's the one thing. these voters never warmed up to hear anything negative about donald trump, because nobody in the right wing media ever had the gumption to do it, and then the second thing is i think there's a weakness in the candidates. ron desantis was polling a lot better in december than he is now. he's done a poor job out of the gate. if you look at vivek, he's come

up with creative ideas. he's not my cup of tea, but breaking in maga media. you can see there's a path out there to get news and attention for yourself in the maga world, you know, if you're nimble. but none of these other candidates have been able to do that yet. it's still early. >> some republicans believe, as you well know that the problem is the size of the field, including texas senator john cornyn who alluded to the trump opposition. what's the opposite of cohesive, there's too many of them. is that at least an element of what's going on here? >> i guess. i don't think so. i mean, who's john cornyn endorsed. if he wants to know the field, he should be out there doing it. he's got a role to play. trump's over 50%, right, you know, sure, desantis or whoever the other person would be would be helped by a field that's narrowed. once you get pass desantis, none

of the other heads are above 6 or 5. it's not as if it's a very divided field. it's trump in a big lead, and two people in the low double digits. i think it would help on the margins. i don't think that's the problem here. >> yeah, i mean, well, look, first of all, chris christie has gone after him hard. that hasn't changed his prospects so far. nikki haley is one of the folks trying to find some kind of balance in her level of criticism. i just want to play something she said about trump's much maligned attacks against iowa's governor. take a listen. >> it's what he does. i mean, when he feels attacked or he feels threatened, he's incredibly thin skinned and he starts to lash out. that's why, you know, i've always told him, he can tell you, you're your own worst enemy, don't do this. but he has done that. >> how does a comment like that help her gain ground on him? >> i don't think it does.

again, chris, some of the stuff is, you know, nikki haley had a chance to distinguish herself from trump, she didn't have to go to the u.n. we could re-run history a million ways for nikki haley, she went along with him. now doing these little very small criticisms, they don't land with people. it makes her seem unauthentic. i don't see that it does her any good. nikki haley is not relevant in this primary. unfortunately. >> tim miller needs to go back and start working on his statements, clearly, it's a whole new world out there, tim. thank you so much. >> wow. >> wow is right. always good to see you. today, senate republicans are struggling with how to respond to the growing controversy surrounding their colleague from alabama. senator tommy tuberville, who recently -- whose recent comments on white nationalism have created a rift in the party. the controversy began in may when he defended white

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political reporter, sahil kapur. what are you hearing on the hill? >> reporter: republicans certainly don't agree with tommy tuberville. they're not exactly disowning him, denouncing or condemning him, in quite the same way democrats are. they're expressing their own personal views of white nationalism and white supremacy do not belong in american society and don't belong in the military. starting with mitch mcconnell, let's play what he had to say. >> do you have concerns that a member of your conference has a hard time denouncing white nationalism? >> white supremacy is unacceptable in the military and in our whole country. >> reporter: his deputy, john thune saying of white nationalism, there isn't any place for it. we are a country built around a set of principles that are welcoming.

senator marco rubio said his definition is someone who believes america belongs to white people, un-american, something that would be a problem in the military. he did add however that he knows tommy tuberville and defended him saying he's not a racist. tuberville somewhat backtracked from his earlier comments and, you know, what you just played, as well as yesterday telling reporters, quote, white nationalists are racist, suggesting that it is a fact, not an opinion. >> sahil kapur, thank you for that. the penalty phase of the pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial coming to a close. will the jury spare the gunman's life? that's next. that's next. for twice as long as pepcid. get all-day and all-night heartburn acid prevention with just one pill a day. choose acid prevention. choose nexium. i'm mark and i live in vero beach, florida. my wife and i have three children. ruthann and i like to hike.

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. right now, jurors are hearing closing arguments in the penalty phase of the pittsburgh synagogue shooter trial. the prosecution made its case this morning. now it's the defense. they'll have to decide, jurors will, if the convicted shooter will be eligible for the death penalty. msnbc legal analyst, danny cevallos, also with me, nbc's rehema ellis. what has stood out to you following these proceedings today? >> they're both asking jurors to do something that's difficult. prosecution wants to put this man to be eligible for the death penalty. the defense attorney is trying to spare his life, saying in essence, isn't it insane to

think that anybody would go into a synagogue on the sabbath, heavily armed and deliberately target jews. that's the prosecution basically saying that, and saying he has evidence to show that his client has a brain disorder, that he has psychiatric disorder, that he has schizophrenia. the prosecution, on the other hand, is saying, no he doesn't, there's no evidence of any of those things. you're talking about whether your client is mentally disturbed, but the prosecution is saying he's intentionally criminal. and the jurors, these seven women and five men have got to decide, what do they do. normally if someone is considered ill, which a mental illness is, we don't put them to death. we don't make them eligible for the death penalty, but the prosecution is arguing very hard that this man, robert bowers, knew what he was doing, he targeted these people in the synagogue and successfully slaughtered them. that it was a hunting ground for him, and he should be put to death because of it. >> you know, it's one thing, danny, and i'm sure you've

talked to jurors as i have. it's one thing in the jury selection process to be asked whether or not you could make a fair decision and whether you could make a decision on life or death, and people obviously to be on the jury say yes, and it's another thing if you're faced with doing it. what will the judge tell them they are to consider when they are making this momentous decision? >> non-capital jurors, it's a much different process for seating a noncapital jury as opposed to a capital or death penalty eligible injury. they go through a lot more questioning because they have a much more difficult issue to decide. there's an entire body of resources available to attorneys to even prepare for choosing a death penalty qualified jury. so in this case, as with all federal death penalty cases, the jury, the prosecution has the burden of proving the aggravating factors beyond a reasonable doubt but the defense

only has the burden of proving mitigating factors by a preponderance of the evidence. the rules are skewed in favor of the defense. they give the defense a benefit of the doubt. when you see these arguments over whether he suffered from mental illness owner, it's not a 50/50 determination. if the defense is getting this evidence in, and if the jury finds it as a mitigating factor, then that goes a long way towards a sentence of life as opposed to death. and for the most part, whether state or federal, this is really about life or death. if there is not a death penalty imposed, then it reverts to life in prison automatically. this has to be a unanimous decision, and if the jury recommends death, under the rules and urn the statute, the judge must impose death. he has no discretion. >> so once the defense rests, this is like any other jury deliberation, they go in and they stay in until they're ready

to say either we have a decision or we're deadlocked? >> yes and no, except the only difference being they're deliberating on additional rules they're given as part of the death penalty process. they're going to consider all of the listed aggravating factors and the factors that the prosecution gave notice of. they're also going to consider mitigating factors, and that's really what they're deliberating. unlike a normal guilt phase jury, they're not deciding guilt or innocence. the issue of mental illness is not about a finding of not guilty by reason of insanity. although it may seem like that from the outside, and it may seem like that in the courtroom. this evidence is really being presented as a mitigating factor. and if the defense or if the jury finds that the defense has proven a mitigating factor, then they may already be to a sentence of life. the rules tend to favor a sentence of life over death. but in a case like this, where

the aggravating markets are just so overwhelming, the prosecution has a good chance of meeting its burden of beyond a reasonable doubt, just as it did in the guilt phase. >> and in either case, the appeals process kicks in? >> not only does the appeals process kick in, but it is even much more complicated in a death penalty case. you can expect death penalty appeals to last for decades. i mean, the statistics are that of all the people on federal death row, a tiny fraction of them are ever actually executed. i'm talking a handful in the last several decades, so you're just not going to see statistically a lot of people put to death. that's because the appeals process is so robust. you have direct appeals and collateral attack and hab yous petitions. the likelihood of success on appeal is tiny but in the united states, the defendant is entitled to all of those appeals

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fbi director christopher wray facing his harshest critics on the hill for the first time since republicans took the house. he's testifying on everything from the investigations into president trump to hunter biden. "politico" calls this moment for house republicans, quote, the best opportunity all year to draw rhetorical blood from the fbi chief. >> is broken so bad that people can go and engage in queries that when you come before the congress to answer questions, you're like blissfully ignorant as to the unlawful queries, you're blissfully ignorant as to the biden shake down regime. >> for them, this hearing is little more than performance art. it is an elaborate show designed with only two purposes in mind, to protect donald trump from the consequences of his actions and to return him to the white house in the next election.

>> i want to bring in senior congressional correspondent garrett haake, also tim miller back with us. so garrett, wray has been testifying for, what, four hours or so so far? how are things going? is it getting pretty heated? >> reporter: it has gotten pretty heated, chris, certainly generating more heat than light. wray has been trying to defend the men and women of the fbi and his own reputation, at one point commenting on the idea that he's leading a bureau that's biassed against conservatives, which is insane given his background as a lifelong republican, and someone put in the position he now holds by former president trump. just to give you a sampling, he's been pressed on a variety of issues, everything on the handling of investigations by donald trump and investigations of conservative activists, which led to this exchange with chip roy a short time ago. >> your job is to review what they do. your job is to protect the american people from the tyrannical fbi storming home of an american family.

>> i could not disagree more with your description of the fbi as tyrannical. >> you don't believe it's tyrannical that fbi agents were part of storming a father's home in philadelphia. >> time has expired. witness may respond. >> sir, respectfully, they did not storm his house. they came to his door. they knocked on his door and identified identified themselves, they asked him to exit. he did without incident. >> reporter: chris, while this may seem like a lot of sound and fury, part of the reason it matters is we're in appropriations season here. the funding for the government, including the fbi for next year, that process is underway right now in the house, and house republicans want to cut the funding for the fbi, and so wray has to defend the work that his organization is doing, both here domestically and around the world to keep americans safe. he is quite literally, you know, fighting for the future of his

agency as he sees it going on hour five now. >> and it's a part of a bigger picture, tim. the house gop promising to hammer home a message of what they call the weaponization of the federal government, but, i mean, has it had any impact or uncovered anything meaningful at all? >> i think this is a problem, chris, i watched some of the hearing today, and every once in a while a republican member will bring up a fair point. there have been investigations of the fbi using fisa improperly. no one wants the fbi going outside the law. that's a bipartisan issue. the problem is instead of focusing on the narrow issues where the fbi requires oversight or reform, republican members are saying the fbi is part of the woke liberal, deep state, out to protect biden. nobody believes this. you know, the fbi is a liberal bastian. do you know your history? do you know anything about this

organization? if anything it's been a long time conservative leaning member of the organization. a lot of folks are nonpartisan. chris wray was appointed by multiple republican presidents to different jobs. all of that seems preposterous and undermines any of the credible arguments they have, and i don't think it's landing with anyone outside of the conservative media ecosystem. >> what happens if a republican gets elected president in '24, '28, there's this idea that's been perpetuated of a woke fbi, untrustworthy, then what happens when a republican president needs to know that the fbi is doing its job? >> yeah, i mean, i think that's one of the scarier things about a potential trump or desantis administration. both have said they would do what these guys are doing, with oversight on the biden administration. they said out front, they want to weaponize the government, clean out the fbi and other agencies like this. that's ironic that they want to

defund the federal police after the pushback of funding the police. that's a big substantiative issue as we go forward as to what a republican president in '24, '28 might do. i would expect kind of a disturbing plan to meddle much more aggressively than presidents have in the past in doj and fbi. >> at least for now, garrett, is this it? they're going to wrap this up, this hearing is going to be over and they're going to move on or is this the start of many more to come? >> reporter: this is a standard oversight hearing in the sense that there will be more of these in years to come. there will be more of these in years to come. but it is basically a one off. it will inform the appropriations process in things like will this be money for a new fbi headquarters and will there be money or changes to some of these domestic surveillance programs that get a lot of attention. it's a jumping off point to a broader discussion. i don't expect to see chris wray dragged up here every other week.

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in california, climate change is having a major impact on agriculture, due to record level precipitation and expected flooding, crops are eroding, leaving many farmers empty

handed and some say the worst is yet to come. nbc's greg bledsoe traveled to the central valley to see the problem firsthand. >> this was all open farmland, tomatoes, cotton, pistachios, wheat. it's about 130 square miles that are flooded right now. the vastness, the enormity of how much water is down here is wild because it's just water as far as the eye can see. >> reporter: what you're looking at is close to 100,000 acres of farmland, now sitting under water. >> the lake at the deepest point is about 17 feet deep. >> reporter: and getting deeper. >> the water is still rising, it has been rising about a half inch per day. >> reporter: for california farmers, it's a situation soaked in irony. >> it's a blessing and a curse. we have been in three years of drought prior to this, and now

they have so much water they're inundated and can't farm at all. >> reporter: california's record rain and snow this winter rescued the state from drought, but pushed its reservoirs to capacity, leaving the state no choice but to release as much water as they could, as fast as they could. nasa satellite images show the result, the once dry lake bed roared back to life before most farmers had time to react. >> this was completely dry three days ago, about 1,200 acres of land went under water in the last three days. >> reporter: with it, $118 million in crop damage so far. >> so those are just little, you know, 1-year-old pistachio trees they planted last year. they're all under water. they're going to die. they will not survive being under water. >> reporter: and this won't won't just drain or evaporate away in the months ahead. >> we're talking about farms that will be underwater for two years, and neigh grow the food that people eat all over the

country? >> yes. >> reporter: how much of a concern is that for the rest of the country? >> i'm not sure it's made it to the rest of the country on a large scale. >> we don't know the long-term environmental and resource consequences. >> reporter: dr. dan sumner says the one thing we know is the tulary lake region had a lot of tomatoes growing this year. >> the source of our spaghetti sauce and taco sauce and everything else, let alone ketchup. the other thing we may see is california's a big producer of cheese and milk, but especially for the national markets, you could see the prices of cheese going up a little bit. >> reporter: a little bit. that's what most of us will likely notice. but for these farmers, there's nothing little about this. >> they're going to take a huge hit. it's like having your business headquarters being under water. you can't even imagine. the water is going to be here

for a while. >> greg bledsoe with that report. thank you. and that's going to do it for us this hour. make sure to join us for "chris jansing reports" reports every weekday, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. our coverage continues with "katy tur reports" right now. ♪♪ good to be with you. i'm katy tur. president biden spoke again to one of the largest crowds he's gathered during his time running for and in office. lithuania proving to be a pretty friendly place for the american president who got cheers for denouncing vladimir putin and hailing nato as stronger than ever. it has been a remarkable two days. first, turkish president erdogan relented and sweden was finally admitted into the alliance, and then ukrainian president zelenskyy made about face going from slamming the summit to thanking the