an emotional salute to his young son in the players box. soccer royalty has arrived in miami. world cup champion and soccer icon lionel messi welcomed to a massive sunday celebration after rejecting lucrative offers from saudi leagues to start his next chapter right in the u.s. in the mls. messi has scored more than 800 goals throughout a nearly two-decade career that began as a teenager. soccer fans are hoping he adds to that total in miami and visiting stadiums across the country over the coming month. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." "chris jansing reports" starts right now. good day. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. a stunning 100 million-plus people in the s. right now, a third of the population under warnings for dangerous, even

deadly levels of heat. if it hasn't hit you yet, well, it's on the move. scorching temperatures have been making life miserable for folks across the southwest and are now spreading the the southeast. a heat wave that stretches nearly 2,000 miles and could feel like triple digits from las vegas to atlanta by the end of the week. we'll have the latest in just a minute. ron desantis' campaign burning cash and cutting staff. what it means for the former governor's challenge of former president trump and could mike pence's candidacy be all but over after he was outraced by almost everyone including north dakota governor doug bergham. air drones in ukraine, this may be our first evidence of what sea drones can do. the latest on the attack on a key symbolic and strategic bridge and what it means for the future of that war. we start this week with a brand new set of challenges for

officials in every corner of the country, scrambling to protect their populations from the kinds of extraordinary and dangerous weather few have ever seen. history-making heat. take a listen to what some of what we're hearing from officials grappling with this extreme weather. >> these storms are biblical in terms of the torrential rainfall you get. they're happening more and more frequently. >> just seems unrelenting this year. and it seems that mother nature is not quite done with us yet. >> in my 44 years, i've never seen anything like it. we had approximately 6.5 to 7 inches of rain in under 45 minutes. >> that last man was fire chief tim brewer, bucks county, pennsylvania, talking about flash flooding that came up so suddenly on saturday, it rose up around dozens of cars and swept them right off the road. harrowing stories surrounding the deaths of around five people, two others, a 9-month-old boy and 2-year-old

girl remain missing. nbc's emilie ikeda has more. >> reporter: the massive cleanup process beginning to get under way. you can see to what degree. buckled roadways like this will need to be repaired. i want to show you something. you'll see the creek flowing under this roadway. that is typically what the level of the creek is. if you look at the debris that has completely pushed this guardrail, you'll get a sense for how high the waterline was. absolutely taking over this roadway. if you look over here, you'll see damaged power lines between the roadway along here as well. throughout bucks county, there have been at least five people who died from flash flooding and the wild weather we saw over the course of the weekend including a mother. she was with her family according to officials. they were driving to a barbecue, the family from south carolina, and got caught up in the flash flooding. from the rapid rainfall rates that quickly allowed waters to rise and overcome certain vehicles. several members of the family

were able to make it out. what's happening right now are search efforts under way looking for two small children, a 9-month-old baby boy, a 2-year-old girl who are still missing according to authorities at this hour. they're ramping up efforts because we're seeing a brief reprieve from the severe weather. they are using boats on the delaware river which is less than a quarter mile from where i'm standing. they're using sonar technology, canines, drone, all in an effort to bring those children back home to the families. pennsylvania was not alone in seeing the serious weather play out over the weekend. a handful of states across the northeast were batter bid heavy rainfall. more than five inches in part of the new york area. new jersey's governor declaring a state of emergency. a tornado touched down in massachusetts over the weekend as well. this heavy rain is out of the region for now, but we could see more showers on the way for parts of the northeast. they won't be to the same degree to what we saw over the weekend.

for areas that have been inundated, it could prove problematic. back to you. >> thank you so much, emilie. right now from monday tan nah to tulsa, east to pittsburgh, across the southwest, it's heat that's made life unbearable. extreme heat alerts in effect from northern nevada to new orleans. in the midwest there are new warnings about smoke from those canadian wildfires making it tougher to breathe. nbc meteorologist bill karins is with me, but first i want to bring in nbc's marissa parra live in phoenix which hit a record high 118 degrees over the weekend. i can't even fathom that. one devastating story i heard out of phoenix, a man from his 70s never got home from a bike ride because his bike got a flat tire and he died in the desert. what is the outlook there? >> reporter: it's an important

reminder that this heat is not just uncomfortable, it can be deadly, especially for thepopul. we're talking people that don't have homes. the older you get, the younger you get you'll be more susceptible. if yu have some sort of pre-existing condition, you're more at risk with these types of temperatures. of course, the population who can get inside, they are doing exactly that. this is an inside look at a hospital we got a chance to see on saturday. this is one of the ers, valleywise health. they're prepping ice pools, ice baths because they're getting so many patients with heat-related illness, heat exhaustion, heat stroke. we're talking internal body temperatures of 107. because they have so many patients coming in, they're having to use the overflow of the hospital. they're prepping ice pools and ice bathing for people because they know they're going to be showing up. chris, when we talk about the dangers, we did hear of someone

who had third degree burns all over his body. he did not survive. that was in the phoenix area, as well as someone with an internal body temperature of 110. this is something that -- phoenix, arizona, is no stranger to this heat w. this many con sec seccive days. >> let me ask you about firefighters. i can only imagine what it must be like to fight a fire in this kind of weather. >> reporter: right. i'm standing inside a firehouse. it was only a few minutes ago there was a fire truck behind me. they had to leave for a call to a fire. we had a chance to speak with them, to go on several rightalongs with them. you can imagine how many calls they're getting. having to wear all that equipment, it just makes it even hotter for them. what you're seeing is a heat-related call. we had a chance to take a look at that yesterday. there is just the sheer number,

the volume of calls that they're getting. then there's just, in addition to what they normally do, heat is always a factor, no matter what they're responding to, they're coming with extra waters, ice packs. in fact, they have to pack their ivs into a cooler full of ice. then you talk about the temperatures, they were telling me sometimes they have to bring additional crews, additional firefighters because they simply can't last as long. they said it can get upwards of 1200 degrees, chris. i know these guys and gals who are part of the firefighters, they're tough, they're strong. they san jose they can handle it. ultimately the human body can only take so much. they have ice baths here ready for them when they have a particularly grueling call. again, we talk about the marathon. once we get 110 degrees today, that will be the 18th consecutive days of weather exactly like this. it is scorching. >> unbelievable stuff. you take care, marissa. bill, when are these people

going to catch a break? >> as in break, you mean like cooler or do you just want it a little better? >> i would like it a lot better. i'm sure they would, too. >> that break is not going to come for a long time. we have hit what we call the peak of this extended heat wave. that was yesterday. vegas was 116. only one degree away from their all-time record high. that was it. they're not going to be that hot again, at least not in the next week. phoenix, that streak will be tied today, broken tomorrow. el paso, 31 straight days, a whole month straight of 100 degrees each and every day. let's talk las vegas first. i mentioned 116 yesterday. not exactly cool today, 114. but then we drop down to 112, 111. that's kind of a more normal heat. it should be around 104-105 every day this time of year in vegas. as far as phoenix goes, obviously we tie that record today, blow past it.

a bunch of 117s in a row. phoenix should be about 108-110. it's hotter than it should be. towards the end of this weekend we're thinking things will begin to get better. >> when you talk about dropping down to 111, that's not a place that i think is a pleasant place to be. what about the rest of the country? >> well, we've been moving this heat wave, like it was in texas, then the west, then to texas, back to the west. now it's going to move back towards texas again. already warning from san antonio to dallas. it's not like the desert southwest with the dry heat. now we're adding more moisture and humidity so we start talking about the heat index problems. vegas is already -- it's not even lunch yet, 105 degrees. miami continues to be very warm, stoo. that's more of the humidity added with it. these are the areas with a chance of record highs, amarillo, consider pus christy, phoenix are close to record highs. tomorrow we'll come close to record highs near like

birmingham, areas in north carolina, new orleans. san antonio is going to be 104. wichita falls near 110 degrees. this isn't ending any time soon. no relief in sight. areas are going to stay very warm, chris, right through the end of this week. >> bill karins, thank you. i'm sure we'll be seeing you throughout the week. the extreme heat in arizona has super heated some sidewalks to 180 degrees. coming up next hour, i'll talk to a doctor who has been treating patients in the arizona burn center. but first, ron desantis back on the trail today with new warning signs that his campaign is having some financial problems. we're back in 60 seconds. my frequent heartburn had me taking antacid after antacid all day long but with prilosec otc just one pill a day blocks heartburn for a full 24 hours. for one and done heartburn relief, prilosec otc. one pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn.

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tapped out top donors and burned through nearly $8 million in his first six weeks as a presidential candidate. the numbers suggest for the first time that it could be a threat to desantis's campaign which has reportedly fired a dozen staffers as a cost cutting measure. at the same time former president donald trump is firing away at desantis for his record as governor, more recently for insurers leaving florida. nbc's ally vitali is following the desantis campaign. the chief strategist for mitt romney's 2012 campaign. alley, governor desantis just concluded his remarks. what did he somewhere to say? more to the point of the story, what is his campaign saying about their finances? >> perhaps unsurprisingly desantis didn't say anything regarding the troubles that his campaign is facing right now behind the scenes. instead this was a speech

focused on israel, focused on foreign policy. that's generally the theme desantis stuck to. it sounded a little like this. watch. >> folks in florida would agree, so many people run for office and they promise big things and then they underdeliver on their promises. in florida we make bold promises, but we overdeliver on our promises. when we say we're going to do something, we do it. one of the things that i said was that if you elect me as governor in 2018, that i would be the most pro israel government newspaper the united states and we have kept our promise on that. >> chris, perhaps because of the momentum desantis had on the ground in florida especially coming out of 2022 in the midterms, maybe people thought this campaign would be a

behemoth. certainly that's what they sold to donors. now in the aftermath of those q2 numbers is that the burn rate within the desantis campaign, the sheer quickness with which they're spending cash has donors concerned. clearly we're watching them now begin the process of offloading about a dozen or so staff to try to make their operation more lean. look, all of us are aware of the comparisons that desantis faced when he first got into this race, the idea that people were thinking about him as a governor scott walker type. a man who comes into the field with a lot of fanfare, a lot of expectation but builds the campaign to be too top-heavy. in this case when you look at desantis before the hirings having more than 90 people on his campaign payroll, almost double than that of his competitors, it's a question of whether they developed too soon. >> stewart stephens, you're somebody who has been a

strategist on a major presidential campaign, is it potentially too much too soon and they can readjust or is this a real warning sign, that he's already firing staff? >> i think it's both. the problem with ron desantis' campaign is ron desantis. it's not the staff. there's this need amongst certain donors to invent a cabinet alternative to donald trump. their model is a big state governor. they say, ron desantis, he won the race, that's what he can be. the problem is, look at mitt romney who won a nomination. they're entirely different candidates. they're very optimistic candidates. they have some reason that they're running. desantis is a small man running for a big office.

that gap becomes more and more apparent. he's angry at the world. he ran one of the most despicable spots attacking donald trump for not being too mean and too vicious to those in the lgbt community. it's a race to the bottom that he's engaged in. can that change? maybe. is ron desantis really going to change? and that's the problem. >> everyone who is not named trump, frankly, is far be hient in terms of fund-raising, specifically chris christie, mike pence. they didn't even list anyone on their payrolls as of june 30th. how significant is this cash crunch for well-known candidates, frankly, and how much time do they have to make up for it before donors look at them and say, you know what, it's not in the cards for them in 2024, they can't mount a credible challenge to donald trump? >> you know, there's a tendency

in campaigns to substitute structure and process from message. that's always a mistake. one of the few arguments i had with mitt romney around this time of the campaign, i wanted when we were flying around on southwest to go business select, and he thought it was a waste of money. ron desantis has become addicted to this. we'll pretend we're a big president campaign and, therefore, people will treat us like a big presidential campaign. it just never works. it didn't work for jeb bush. it didn't work for scott walker. there's a sort of hollowness to it. why is this guy running for president? someone who was elected by running an ad in which he had his toddler children building a wall like donald trump, and now he's running against donald trump? there's a fundamental flaw in all of this. i think that's why the whole campaign is sort of imploding. >> ally vitali, stuwar steven,

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ukrainian naval drones struck a key bridge linking russia to occupied crimea overnight, a critical conduit for supplying russian forces fighting in southern ukraine. the kremlin says two people were killed and a child injured. now, kyiv didn't openly admit to the attack but offered a hint staying in a statement the details will be announced after the victory. the bridge is a source of pride for president putin who attended the opening ceremony back in 2018, personally driving a truck across the span. just hours after the explosion, russia announced it was pausing its participation in a deal that allowed ukraine to export grain by sea, a decision that could have major implications for world hunger. joining us now, add march james stavridis, former supreme allied

commander of nato and msnbc news analyst. always good to see you. i want to start with the crimea bridge. how important is it for russia's war effort and ukraine's counteroffensive? >> it's very important, and the reason is that it is the major conduit across which logistics we supply food, fuel, ammunition, has been flowing from mother russia across that stretch alongside the black sea and the sea of azov to the russian troops that are dug in. this puts a significant monkey wrench into vladimir putin's planning. so there's a practical component, chris. secondly, as you pointed out in that excellent read-in, it's a very symbolic, very symbolic point. putin himself drove across. the ukrainians hit it once early in the war, kind of knocked it down. the russians repaired it.

here are the ukrainians knocking on the door get. this is good news for ukrainian, bad news for russia. >> the kremlin claims, as i'm sure you know, admirable, the bridge is unrelated to the black sea grain deal, but the implications are potentially serious. the international rescue committee said in a statement the expiration of the deal risks holding global food security at ransom. the world's most vulnerable will face the harshest consequences of today's withdrawal. do you agree with that? what are the chances putin could be persuaded to resume the deal? >> first and foremost, the real problem here is delivering those agrarian products, not just grain. it's also fertilizer. it's a whole host of critical food items. most of them go from ukraine out into the mediterranean and very poor countries in north africa and the lavonte. that's where there's already a

lot of poverty. it's a significant humanitarian crisis in every sense. putin has pulled out of the deal for a variety of reasons, not just because of the bridge, although i'm sure that upset him further. but he's pulled out of this deal because of the sanctions that russia is under, the way he feels he's being treated in the west. all of that plays into this. the chances of him willingly going back into this deal i think are extremely low. the next step in the process, frankly, is going to be weather nato decides to step up and escort these grain tankers in and out of odesa, the free ukrainian port. i think that will be under consideration at nato. that's escalatory, puts nato warships nose to nose with russian warships. this is a humanitarian effort. i think nato is going to look very seriously about escorting these grain ships.

>> given the escalatory nature of it, what do you think the chances are they decide to do that? are there any other pressure points they could use? is there an alternative? >> the pressure point will be simply saying to putin, if you don't allow the grain deal to continue, we will conduct these escorts. that makes him look very small on the international stage. it reduces the morale in his forces and his nation. i think that's the principle pressure point that can be used here because sanctions are already fully in place across the spectrum. we need the practical effect of getting the grain out regardless of what he says about it. >> admiral james stavridis, always great to have a conversation with you. thank you so much. good to see you. right now in egypt, rescue teams are searching for survivors after a five-story building collapsed in cairo. stayed media reporting at least nine people killed and four

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congresswoman pramila jayapal is walking back her comments calling israel a, quote, racist state. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle condemned the remarks, and jayapal put out a statement saying that words do matter and that she does not believe the idea of israel as a nation is racist. the controversy for the head of the congressional progressive caucus comes ahead of president herzog's visit tomorrow. nbc's ryan nobles is on capitol hill. also co-founder of punchbowl news and msnbc political contributor jake sherman. jake, congresswoman jayapal's comments come as progressive lawmakers including alexandria ocasio-cortez say they're going to boycott president herzog's

address. what does this tell us about the divide in congress? >> it's really the divide of the democratic party more than the defensive void of congress. republicans are lockstep behind israel. very little daylight between republicans when it comes to israel. i will say this. this is all quite uncomfortable for democrats. you saw house democratic leadership hakeem jeffries and his leadership team have to put out a statement late last night saying israel is not a racist country. hakeem jeffries visited vale not too long ago, as did kevin mccarthy, speaker of the house. on the week that president isaac herzog is coming to capitol hill, you're seeing this intraparty, within the democratic party scuffle play out. >> thank you so much for that, appreciate it. always good to have you hear, jake. ryan, what's the latest you're hearing from folks on capitol hill? >> there seems to be a divide, chris, amongst the recognition of israel specifically versus their current leadership.

a lot of democrats, particularly on the progressive side, you saw in jayapal's response or somewhat of a restraks to the statement that she wasn't talking about israel specifically but more about the current regime and the way they're going about conducting business, particularly as it relates to the treatment of the palestinian people. the jewish members of the democratic caucus want to make it clear that they don't think that type of language is acceptable. we've obtained a draft letter from several democratic members that specifically talk about the comments that jayapal made saying they're deeply concerned about hir unacceptable comments about her historic democratic ally israel and we appreciate her retraction. they go on to say that we will never allow anti zionist voices that embolden anti-semitism to hijack the democratic party and this country. to jake's point earlier, this is a divide within the democratic

party, one that republicans clearly enjoy exposing. it comes at a time when israel is going to be in the spotlight with the president's remarks here later this week. >> i also want to ask you, ryan, about democratic presidential candidate john kennedy saying that pandemic could be -- what's been the response from members of congress and what does he have to say about it now? >> robert f. kennedy, jr., is attempting to explain what he was talking about. he said the comments he made at a dinner he thought was off the record were taken out of context, that he tried to point to medical journals that back up his claims. it's not something that many people are buying. they view this as an anti-semitic remark by rfk jr. they say it tracks with a long list of anti-semitic comments he's made in the past. one member of congress, josh gottheimer, a jewish member of

comments said on twitter that rfk jr. is a disgrace to the republican party, the kennedy name. for the record, my whole family, who is jewish, got covid. this, of course, we see this condemnation from democrats. rfk jr. is currently a candidate for the democratic candidate for president. he's schedule to be the star of a hearing coming up later this week on capitol hill. republicans clearly believe his message needs to go to a wider audience. they obviously enjoy the role he plays as a potential spoiler he plays to president biden. it's an interesting dichotomy that someone who holds that legendary ken day name, particularly in the democratic party being embraced by conservatives, and even despite his rhetoric this week which has been roundly condemned, republicans still plan on rfk

jr. being a big part of this hearing later this week on capitol hill. >> we'll talk about the concerns that democrats have. ryan nobles, thank you so much for that. meanwhile, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been discharged from the hospital after an overnight stay after a dizzy spell. he's had a series of heart tests done and a heart monitor implanted. doctors say he was hospitalized for dehydration and his heart is completely normal. in a statement after leaving the hospital, netanyahu wrote, thank god, i feel good. the recent supreme court ruling on lgbtq rights and the mountain of cases it has spurred. so what is the new legal line and how many more cases might we see? coming up at the top of the hour, with picketing planned for new york, los angeles and other major cities, we'll have the latest on the actors' and writers' strikes in hollywood. you're watching "chris jansing reports." hollywood. you're watching "chris jansing reports.

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the ruling allows a hair salon to refuse service to transgender and queer customers. in north carolina a substitute teacher who won a lawsuit arguing he lost his job because he's gay is now fighting that battle all over again. a religious liberty non-profit is challenging his win, saying the supreme court's decision on the web designer bolsters its case. i want to bring newspaper chris geidner, a journalist who has covered the supreme court for years and now publishes the law dork newsletter. joyce vance is a former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst. great to have both of you. chris, you write about this in your newsletter. how much have things changed in the two weeks since the supreme court announced this decision? a lot of action? >> yeah. i mean this is the situation that we're faced with when we have a supreme court that's issuing decisions as broad as they're issuing, and that we

have lower court judges who feel very empowered by the extremism of this supreme court. so while there's an argument that this ruling should be narrowly interpreted, that it's limited to very specific facts of this case involving lori smith and her website company, 303 creative, what we're seeing already from these cases that you just talked about is that certainly litigators out there are going to try to be arguing to courts that this should be interpreted very broadly, and we're going to at the very least be faced with having to deal with that in courts across the country in coming months. >> in courts and in real life because shades of gray creates confusion. >> yes, absolutely. this is the problem, is that people are -- the three cases that you talked about, we're

talking about a judge down in texas who with the support of jonathan mitchell, the former solicitor general of texas, is arguing that under texas's religious freedom restoration act, that this should be looked at differently now, that her case should be looked at differently now, and we've got the same situation in michigan where a salon owner is saying i don't need to provide services to transgender people because i don't want to and the law can't make me. that is a real effect of real people even if they don't want to go to that salon, they're having to hear that, they're having to see that. they're having to question when they go places, am i going to potentially face whether they have a legal right to do so or not, a sol lon own who are asserts that they don't have to serve me. that creates real long-term questions of stigma and

discrimination that are the reason we have these laws in the first place to offset those possibilities. >> joyce, let's talk about what comes next. in the majority opinion, justice gorsuch wrote that the first amendment envisions the united states as a rich and complex place where all persons are free to think and speak as they wish, not as the government demands. given that, what kinds of cases do you think we'll see before the supreme court that could test the limits on how far businesses can go in denying service? >> so that's precisely the point that chris is raising. there is a large universe of folks who will try to use this case to say i don't have to serve -- take your pick of a protected class that they've like to avoid providing service to. there will be clear constitutional limits in some cases, particularly in cases involving race. one would hope those limits

would survive. there are a lot of gray areas. there's this increasing notion that people will be free to try to use legal process in order to assert the worst sorts of forms of hate and of bad faith in these sorts of commercial settings. the supreme court has opened the flood gates for all of this. this's absolutely no limitation now on not only who might choose to bring a lawsuit, but he might simply say in day-to-day life and say i'm not going to serve you, exposing customers to these sorts of prejudices that we thought were part of the 1950s, not of the 2020s. >> chris points out in the article, joyce, there are 22 states and four territories with no state laws protecting lgbtq+ discrimination in public accommodation. so where does it leave them? how long are we away from, frankly, knowing when folks will

understand clearly what their rights are here or lack thereof? >> it is very unlikely that there will be clear understanding here because of the way 303 creative was written. with all deference was written. maybe that case was just limited to its facts that's not why the supreme court takes a case. they don't hear a case limited to facts specifically, in a situation like this. they take a case like this because they are going to make law that will have to be interrupted through the courts, sometimes for the next few years, other times for decades, and that's very likely what this case involves because it's a line drawing on a case-by-case basis, on just how much folks who do not want to serve people in the lgbt community can get away with, and that lack of certainty further marginalizes people. this is a great example of the court taking us a step

backwards, something they didn't hesitate to do in a number of rulings. >> thank you both. we appreciate it. up next, the latest on the gilgo beach murders investigation, what we're learning about the suspected serial killer and how he was found hiding in plain sight. and lionel messi has formally signed a deal with the mls club, inter miami. a torrential downpour couldn't keep fans away from the celebration in fort lauderdale last night. a sea of black and pink jerseys, and his first match, by the way, could some as soon as this friday. no pressure. fans believe messi can bring inter miami and soccer in america to a whole new level. >> welcome to miami. >> can't wait to see him. i'm a little excited. >> if i see him, i'd be on the

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a disturbing profile is emerging for the suspect in a string of murders on new york's

long island, following the arrest of hex heuermann, the district attorney reveals he had licenses for 92 firearms and set up a false e-mail account that he used to search for violent pornography. "the new york times" reports that more than a decade's old profile of a likely suspect seems to match some of the characteristics experts gave. nbc's stephanie gosk has the latest details. >> rex, did you do it? >> reporter: the suspected serial killer behind the gilgo beach slayings is behind bars. >> rex heuermann is a demon that walks among us. a predator that ruined families. >> reporter: 59-year-old rex heuermann is accused of murdering megan waterman, melissa barthelemy, and amber costello. the victims' remains found wrapped in burlap in a quarter mile stretch on long island's gilgo beach in 2010. a witness helped crack the case according to court documents.

>> a witness described a description of the vehicle, details, and indicated the person is somewhat unique. >> reporter: describing a large white male with dark bushy hair, driving a chevy avalanche. as well as using dna samples from bottles and this pizza crush pulled from the trash. those who live there had afraid a serial killer was on the loose. heuermann, an architect and a married father of two was allegedly hiding in plain sight and living a double life all along. even using burner phones say investigators who tracked heuermann's phone activity near his fifth avenue in manhattan and his suburban home. he also believe he used melissa barthelemy's cell phone to make taunting calls to her family after she disappeared, court documents detailing escort

services and fake dating profiles, a stark contrast to the every day businessman, seen in this video taken last year. >> a job that should have been routine suddenly becomes not routine i get the phone call. >> authorities now continuing to investigate if heuermann is connected to the murder of other women, including maureen brainard-barnes. >> even with this arrest, we're not done. there's more work to do. >> reporter: stephanie gosk, 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, another massive heat wave blazes through europe, and this time it's so bad meteorologists have named it after the under world ferry man. plus, morality police back on hi jab patrol ten months after that nation was engulfed in protests

over the death of 22-year-old masa amean. what the crackdown means for iranian women. and sag-aftra, picketing in cities. the warning if that strike continues. we're hearing from the heroic couple whose dog tipped them off on the whereabouts of an escaped murder suspect. the case cracking k-9 helping police end the multistate man hunt. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. let's start with nbc's george solis at the erie county prison where that inmate is being held. george, you talked to the couple that helped end this man hunt, what did they tell you? >> reporter: they are completely flabbergasted that this unfolded in their