drop in the bucket. they may be able to intervene 1% of the total migrants that border patrol would intervene. the fallout is a lot of people getting hurt. border patrol saying it's actually making it harder for them to do their job, andrea. we might see this go all the way to court. >> really, really tough issue. thank you so much, julia. 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 in new york city. bad judgment, reckless words. just some of the new justifications for donald trump's actions on january 6th. not from his lawyers but from his republican opponents. with a third indictment possible this week, will the loyal base start to wonder if he can win. furious protesters filling

the streets, military threatening to walk off the job. how israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's overhaul may be threatening the very democrats he claims to be pretending. check out this video from maricopa county, arizona, officials, that's right, baking cookies on the dashboard of their car over the weekend. the heat there hitting 118 on saturday. so hot it delayed a heavy metal concert because they just couldn't get their equipment to work. the latest on all of that, plus why the record-breaking temperatures are making it harder for planes to take off. not good news for folks who just want to fly to some place cooler. we begin with another week and another possible indictment looming for donald trump. his fine to regain the white house overshadowed by charges he tried to overturn the 2020 election. this is one of the few x factors that could give someone else a chance to make the race for the nomination more of an actual

race. this weekend brought new examples of just how far trump's republican opponents are willing to go not to take advantage. >> while his words are reckless, based on what i know, i'm not convinced they're criminal. >> i would have made better and different judgments for the country. a bad judgment is not the same thing as a crime. >> i hold the folks who broke into the capitol with ill will in their hearts, destroying property, responsible for their actions. i don't hold the former president who didn't show up at the capitol and threaten my life as responsible. >> they aren't alone. a poll taken just last week found that just 4% of republicans said trump should be considered personally responsible for the events of january 6th. even fewer, just 22% believe he committed a crime. only 40% of the critical independent voters think that. all of that putting republican opponents in a box. how do you make the case that

the indictments themselves make trump unelectable without arguing he may be guilty? here is how nikki haley tried to thread that needle this morning. >> i have said clearly we need a new generational leader. we've got to leave these things behind. >> would you support him? >> i would support him. because i'm not going to have a president kamala harris. we can't afford that. that is not going to happen. i will tell you, you look at these indictments, there's probably going to be a fourth indictment. we can't have as republicans him as the nominee. he can't win a general election. that's the problem. we've got to have someone who can actually win. that's what it's going to take. >> i want to bring in nbc's garrett haake who is keeping a close eye on the special counsel's office. michael steele is former rnc chairman and glenn kirschner, an msnbc analyst.

i want to go to nikki haley's remarks. she's trying that pragmatic electability argument to trump voters say, yes, i support him, too, but he can't win. is there any evidence that's the messaging that's going to reach anybody? >> you know better than me trying to parse this bubble gum speak coming out of the mouths of these people. it's just banal attempts to placate. it's frustrating. do you want to be president? you have to go through the guy sitting at 52% among the republican base. otherwise, get out of the race. stop wasting our time. you're not going to take him on, then why are you in the game? are you waiting for the justice system which you demonize and belittle and berate to do the thing you won't do? which do you want? you can't have it both ways. the justice system is not going

to deliver donald trump on your political platter. it's just not going to work that way. the reality of it is you either want the job or you don't. if you do, that means you're going to have to sound a lot more like chris christie than the way you're sounding right now. if there are more unified messaging in that regard, then you would probably begin to see some movement inside the party. but everyone is hunkering down around protecting trump as opposed to taking him out because they're afraid of what? so, you know, it's almost to the point where you get tired of answering the question about what are these people doing? they have no clue what they're doing. >> so speaking of chris christie, glenn, i want to play for you what he had to say over the weekend. >> the president lied to them and told them the election was stolen, asked them to march to capitol hill while the votes were to be counted. the president sat there in the

white house and did nothing while the attacks went on. >> should that amount to insurrection or sedition charges which we don't know to be the case at this point? >> margaret, i loved, when itches u.s. attorney, i used to say i love the job because only i know what i know. i want to see what all the evidence is that the special counsel put together to decide whether i would charge something like that or not. >> we don't know the evidence, glenn. maybe we'll get more this week if we actually get our hands on an indictment. but do you see grounds for insurrection, for sedition, any evidence jack smith might be leaning that way? >> it's nice to see christie tell a little truth. better late than never. i think it's a bit of a copout. he knows, just as i know as a former career federal prosecutor, that the evidence we've seen publicly reported makes out a case of both insurrection and seditious

con spear see. there is a second allowable theory of liability. it's that if you by force resist or delay or prevent the execution of any law of the united states like the electoral counteract, that is undeniably what donald trump and others did. now, we can't say he will be convicted, but i think chris christie would have to agree based on the evidence there is enough to charge him. that s there's probable cause which is a fairly low standard. and then you have to build the evidence to beyond a reasonable doubt which is the standard to convict someone at trial. >> so to indict or not to indict, that is the question we're all waiting the have answered, garrett. what are your sources telling you? >> chris, it's a mixed bag. what i have not heard is any indication of any other target letters going out that might suggest a broader set of

indictments like what we saw in michigan where they indicted those fake electors at a state level in michigan. there are a number of potential witnesses represented by other attorneys in all of this, someone like a bernie kerik, who haven't been called to testify but expect they will in the not-too-distant future. the thing that's hanging overall this is that target letter that the former president received more than a week ago which does seem to suggest we're in the end game here. the grand jury is back tomorrow. they regularly meet on tuesdays. perhaps we're closer to the end of this than it appears. but it's really tough to pin this down given the secretive nature of this process and the nature of what we know of the evidence collected and that target letter. i feel like i should point out there's nothing in that target letter that suggests we'd see a charge of something like seditious conspiracy. there's evidence we're talking about something much bigger than january 6th. this is not just about the

attack on the capitol which is the way so many of those candidates framed their responses in the lead-in to this. it's about everything that happened, from election day through the lead-up. if we are going to see something, it's possible it isn't directly related to attack itself, but rather the broader effort. setting up the feek electors and trying to find a semi legal pathway to getting donald trump back in the oval office, if such a thing existed which, of course, it didn't. >> i want to ask you about some new reporting, glenn, that jack smith is looking closely at text messages from mark meadows. "the washington post" said he was joking with him son about trump's attempts to find enough votes to put him over the top in georgia. just another example that we've seen elsewhere, that a lot of folks in trump's circle were mocking some of the things that he was trying to do that they didn't believe they could possibly work. so what if that's what's in these text messages?

what can they tell us? >> the reporting from "the washington post" really was pretty revealing. i learned things i hadn't heard before, like mark meadows' son who is an attorney in atlanta was also apparently trying to assisted, finding, for example, dead people who voted, fraudulently voted. he could find only a handful of fraudulent votes. it's interesting that keeping trump in power was apparently a meadows family affair. when you find that the trump campaign hired an outside organization to find fraudulent votes. they counted find none. donald trump pressured brad raffensperger to find votes. raffensperger couldn't do it because they weren't there. yet, the reporting indicates mark meadows after that kept doing donald trump's nefarious bidding to try to overturn the election's results. that to me screams potential criminal liability for mark meadows, especially when i saw

in that "washington post" reporting that grand jury witnesses are being intensely questioned about who mark meadows -- they were even shown a grand jury exhibit reportedly of mark meadows' communications and they described it as a grid of meadows' communications. when i generated exhibits like that for the grand jury, chris, that was a sure sign i was possibly looking to indict that person. so mark meadows may have a world of trouble coming to him. >> wow. so another possible person you think could be in the sights of jack smith. one of the things we've talked about is how much more we got in jack smith's first indictment than we might have expected. what are you looking for, glenn? let's say this does come down this week as some people are anticipating. what will you be looking for? >> i'm looking for a speaking indictment. i think jack smith will inevitably speak to the american people again true a narrative in

this indictment. garrett is right. the three crimes in the target letter didn't involve insurrection or seditious conspiracy. but everybody needs to know there's no legal requirement for a target letter in the first place. if one is delivered to a defendant, there's no requirement that every charge that could end up being indicted must be included in that target letter. i think of the most intense interest to me, chris, is will this first indictment that we're all expecting be against donald trump alone, or will we see co-conspirators in it? one way or another, i think it's going to be a very compelling read. >> michael, "the washington post" had another interesting article pointing out that as much as half of the money coming into the trump campaign is going to pay legal bills. the article says, quote, any distinction between the former president's white house bid and his criminal defense is vanishing as the charges against him mount. fighting those prosecutions is

increasingly dominating his time, resources and messaging, making the centerpiece of his candidacy an appeal to stay out of prison. as he forges ahead, much of the republican base appears to be cheering him at each turn. a lot of the folks we talked to out on the road certainly are cheering him on. they know where this money is going. is this a campaign based on becoming president, keeping him out of jail? how do you see this fact of how much money is being spent that in a normal campaign would be going for things like tv ads? >> it's everything. it's all about keeping trump out of jail and getting trump back into the white house. so the campaign, there's no fec, federal election commission, requirement or regulation that

says you can't spend that money that way. the donors ostensibly could object if they didn't want their money spent that way. remember we've got from one cent of every dollar donated to his legal defense to 10 cents of every dollar. now it appears we're up to 50 cents of every dollar going towards his legal defense. that's the donors. if they want to give donald trump money that he's going to spend on his legal defense, that's their right and prerogative to do. it presents a problem for the rnc certainly. it presents challenges if he's the nominee and he's trying to raise money to battle what will be a well-financed democratic campaign, at the same time trying to defend donald trump in court, and donald trump wanting to spend more and more of those dollars towards his legal defense, it could be a real challenge for the party.

they're already hitting walls on fund-raising. we saw that from the second quarter numbers. donors are hesitant to see their dollars go towards something other than a candidate or a campaign or campaign operations. so it's all of that right now. it will only get worse as this thing begins to accelerate. we're into trial, we're into debates and we're into the process of primaries. >> michael steele, you'll be back with us later on when we talk about the debates with glenn kirschner. my dear friend, garrett haake, always good to talk to you. michael, i promise not to ask you if you think the other republicans are change their strategy a year from now? >> it's not you. >> trust me. you and i are on the same page there, my friend. what's going on in israel as

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petition the supreme court to strike down the law, so maybe it's not the final chapter. what can you tell us? what's going on there? >> well, chris, israel is entering uncharted constitutional waters. these protesters you can see behind me have actually gathered in front of the israeli supreme court. the institution they've been trying for seven long months to protect. as you said, it is very possible that at some point in the coming weeks and months, we're going to have a situation where the supreme court strikes down this law to weaken the powers of the supreme court, and all bets are off at this point. legal scholars, politicians, analysts, nobody knows what happens at that stage except it looks a lot like a constitutional crisis. the other crisis facing israel tonight, chris, is whether this political situation is going to undermine national security. that's because thousands of military reservists, air force pilots, members of elite commando units have said they

will not show up to reservist duty now that this legislation has gone through. they say they signed up to serve in the military in a democratic country and they're no longer sure whether israel is one or not. prime minister netanyahu, if he were here, would tell you the unelected judges of the supreme court needed to be reined n. the prime minister in pushing this legislation through today, 64-0, opposition lawmakers walking out of the knesset in protest. president biden last night called on the prime minister to hit pause on this divisive legislation. the white house today is saying it is unfortunate that this vote went through on the slimmest possible majority. so real pressure, also, on the u.s. israel relationship going forward. this is a relationship, as president biden likes to say, is based on shared values.

one of those shared values is a commitment to democracy, to checks and balances and an independent judiciary. >> raf sanchez at 8:19 in jerusalem. jake, obviously this overhaul hasn't just exposed divisions, but raised tensions between israel and the u.s. let me read exactly what the white house said last night. it doesn't make sense for israeli leaders to rush this. the focus should be on pulling people together and finding consensus, obviously. something different happened here. what are you hearing on the hill and what are you hearing just around washington about what we're watching unfold in israel right now? >> reporter: chris, one of those issues where republicans and democrats are saying completely different things. you should not be surprised about that. when israeli president isaac herzog was here last week speaking to a joint session of congress, republicans said this

is israel's business, we can't get involved in domestic politics. this is not an international issue. this is an israeli decision by israeli voters. this is showing that democracy is at its finest. that's what republicans say. democrats have been much more willing to criticize the administration. by the way, as you noted before, the white house released another statement today suggesting this was a bad idea that this was rushed through, that this was effectively a power grab in so many words by netanyahu. he's trying to in his estimation rein in some of these supreme court justices. i don't expect, chris, to hear a ton of criticism on capitol hill this week. although i think the temperature will be dialed up a little bit because this has passed. i was in israel a couple weeks ago, chris, and there were hundreds of thousands of people on the streets week by week, according to people who were there. it's an uprising or protest unlike anything the country has seen before. two sides of the coin, republicans pretty quiet on it, democrats getting louder by the

minute. >> as you mentioned, president herzog was in washington and there were questions about there would be an invitation coming for the prime minister. the word from the white house and israel at the time was that netanyahu and the president had something -- the wording was something like a long and friendly or fruitful discussion, that there might be an invitation forthcoming, although no timeline was put on it. mccarthy, i'm assuming, still says that if there is not an invitation from the white house, one could come for him to address congress from mccarthy himself. you're suggesting there's no change in status on any of that stuff right now? >> there's a big back and forth about whether biden asked netanyahu to come to the white house or said they would meet at some point this year. the white house has been telling us they expect there to be a biden-netanyahu meeting at some point this calendar year.

mccarthy, i take him at his word, that he will invite netanyahu if he doesn't think an invitation is forthcoming. netanyahu has addressed congress many times, most notably when john boehner was speaker, he angered a bunch of democrats. i would say if netanyahu is invited to capitol hill to address a joint session, it will be an extremely highly charged moment. you had democrats protest herzog who is basically a non-partisan and ceremonial figure. people will -- i would imagine more people would boycott netanyahu, especially in the wake of passing this law. >> jake sherman, thank you so much. i'm sure we'll speak about this going forward. in our next hour of "chris jansing reports," i'll talk to a former cia officer about what these protests mean for stability in the nation and the region. war reached the russian capital overnight with drones hitting two non-residential

buildings in moscow this morning. no one was injured in the attack which the kremlin blames on ukraine. debris from a downed drones fell just 200 yards from the russian defense ministry. also russia ramped up the aerial assault on odesa, warehouses filled with grain. odesa has been the focus of a russian air campaign ever since the kremlin pulled out of the deal, allowing ukraine to export grain. north korea launched two ballistic missiles into the sea according to south korean and japanese officials. the launches come just hours after this nuclear-propelled submarine, the u.s.s. annapolis arrived in a port in south korea. also, we'll have more on the detained soldier travis king in our next hour. tourists flocking to death valley despite extreme

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the extreme heat is responsible for more deaths, scorching the planet during what climate scientists say are the

hottest weeks in our history. there have been four deaths at u.s. national parks. the latest two hikers found dead in nevada where temperatures were in triple digits. despite deadly heat warnings we're seeing tourists posing for pictures, 133 there, standing right next to them. the conditions have already killed more than a dozen people in the south, leading to protests over the lack of air conditioning in some texas prisons. advocates constructing a makeshift cell on the capitol steps and democratic state reps saying it's inhuman that more than half of the state's 128,000 prisoners should go without cooling systems saying, quote, this state requires our animal shelters must be air conditioned, but when it comes to people, who are we? apocalyptic scenes in greece. nbc's marissa parra is in miami which is under an excessive heat

warning. i'm also joined by nbc meteorologist michelle grossman. marissa, what's it like there today? i see at least a couple people on the beach. >> reporter: we remember the fact that it's 90 degrees, about 90 degrees in terms of the actual temperature, but the heat index is 105. that's the feels-like temperature. it is scorching. obviously not so bad if you're laying along the beach, you have water next to you. but this is just down right dangerous, if not deadly, for people who don't have the ability to access air conditioning and access water. people who are left outside for long periods of time. you just mentioned how deadly this can get. different circumstances here. you have hikers. in death valley you have hikers outside of las vegas who have either needed to be rescued or found dead along a trail and they were ill-prepared or ill-equipped to deal with the heat and those intense temperatures. we're not talking about heat index. we're talking about straight

temps, upwards either at or above 110 degrees. then you people working outside. you have migrants. you have farmworkers, laborers, construction workers. actually that is something we're seeing in south florida. we saw a lot of people pushing -- activists pushing for more to be done for those people stuck outside in these kinds of temperatures. in fact, there's an ordinance here in south florida that actually passed through the first hurdle. this is an ordinance that looks out for people who work outside here in south florida, particularly construction workers and those farmworkers in order to make sure there's some sort of documentation on how many breaks they're getting, access to water that they have. we know we have seen deaths in south florida result of these extreme temperatures. so there is a lot of activism being done to make sure people are being looked out for. we spoke with the chief heat officer here in miami-dade county, and we've spoken to people in phoenix. we have been reporting on heat

for the past couple weeks, chris. heat is a difficult thing to show, to visualize just how dangerous it is outside of things melting, but you see how dangerous it is when we report on the deaths. phoenix, the counties surrounding it, maricopa county, has seen at least 18 confirmed deaths that are heat related since april 11th. again, this is something that might be difficult to visualize. you can look at my live shot and maybe you may not see how hot it is. but we are seeing just in how dangerous and the deaths that have been reported across the country as a result of heat, how dangerous it can be, chris. >> michelle, how much more extreme heat is the u.s. facing and where? >> hey there, chris. we'll see it at least for the near future. the outlook from noaa looks to next week and looks to be hot in so many places. the august outlook doesn't look great either. we continue to sizzle in the south. it's also expanding, 30 million americans under a heat advisory

right now. where you see the orange, that's a heat advisory. excessive heat warnings. we're into a month and nearly a half of really dangerous temperatures in the south. phoenix you're under an excessive heat warning. salt lake city, you are, too, miami, you'll see temperatures in the 90s. you factor in the humidity, it's going to feel like over 100 degrees. so record heat once again. we continue to break records. daily, monthly, all time records. that will continue as we go throughout the summer months. looking at 115 in phoenix today. the record is 116. 100 in great falls. we are dangerously hot. 98 in denver, 103 in abilene. it's not just the intensity of the heat, but the longevity. a heat dome is in place and is not moving. we'll see the heat alert number grow as we head towards friday. record heat tomorrow once again. i do want to show the expanding heat, chris. we'll see the heat into the

northeast by friday. new york city will feel near 100 degrees on friday. back to you. >> michelle grossman, our thanks to marissa parra who we let go into some air conditioning. later this hour, nbc's tom costello with a report on why climate change might be to blame for the surge in summer flight delays and turbulence. still to come, will he even bother to show up? the question the other republicans running for president have about donald trump who has some time before he needs to make up his mind. that's next. you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc. reports" only on msnbc

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if everyone agrees to show up, and six have now qualified, next month's republican debate could be the marquee event of the primary season, literally putting donald trump face-to-face with his rivals while forcing his opponents to decide once and for all if they're willing to take him on directly. that's a big if. for his part, donald trump has hinted he might skip the debate suggesting he might have more to lose than he does to gain. two brand new polls out of iowa and south carolina seem to back that up, showing the former president with a 30-point lead in both states. i want to bring back former rnc chairman michael steele. michael, when you look at the polls, at the national polls, does it show that trump might be right for skipping the debate?

what does he have to gain? >> i agree with that. there is no political upside for him. he is running from the position as, quote, an incumbent, if you will. he is still the tich lar head of the republican party because the base affirms that, not just in polling but in their ongoing support for him. so when you're looking at going into a debate scenario, the question for any candidate is where do i gain from this? everybody else except for trump, their gain is to show they're presidential, show their ability to take on the front-runner and to carve out a message that's different from the others. for trump, he's got the brand. he's got the message. he already has the carve out. he's sitting at 30 points. why would he give that? what he likely will do is counterprogram. that is offer an event for others to watch and participate in, meaning his base, as opposed

to being regaled by his challengers. there's more upside than downside for trump to not be on that stage in august. >> in fact, on truth social just yesterday he claimed so many people have suggested he should debate tucker carlson on that same night to counterprogram. do you think that just might happen? >> if he's suggesting that, that means someone is thinking about it. that means there are conversations around it. i won't say it's likely to happen, but that gives you a sense of how donald trump is looking at counterprogramming. he knows what's going to pull the audience. he knows what's going to pull the media. think about it. which objectively do you think will be the most interesting and intriguing? that's the problem that these candidates have which, again, is why they need to clearly state their line of attack on trump

like a chris christie and an asa hutchinson, who has not qualified yet, in order to kind of kbrand the conversation. trump right now continues to do that branding not just for himself but for everybody else as well. >> well, there's a counterargument and maybe it's this. i'll see what you think about it, michael. why wouldn't you, if you're donald trump, go out there and say i'm going to win this no matter what because that's why people love me. i'm not afraid to go up against these people, and by the way, nobody else who thinks they might gain a little leverage by having the sound bite of the night is going to get the sound bite of the night because i, donald trump, will have it. >> because that's just not how he looks at it. quite honestly, that just doesn't work for him. he's created this space. that's the space he's going to stay in. he didn't participate in the

last set of primary debates. they basically did away with any effort to pretend at that. 16 -- he owned that stage and he was sitting at 3%. so the reality of it is, he's in a much better position not to be on the stage. now, it's not good for the process. it's not good for the party. it's certainly not good for voters who are trying to objectively decide who they want to be the next president, but that's what this primary environment that's been set up by his opponents, including the rnc, which is supposedly an objective participant, unbiased participant, find themselves having to navigate. >> michael steele, always a pleasure to have you. can i ask you a personal question? >> sure. >> did you go to the movies this weekend? >> i did not. i did not. i actually took the weekend off and stayed home. >> outstanding.

well, i have to say there's one place where there's no debate, and that's that barbenheimer set a post pandemic record. barbie debuting at $162 million in the u.s. alone. that's the largest opening weekend in 2023 so far. it's the biggest opening on record for a female director. now, as for christopher nolan's film about the dark origins of the atomic bomb, "oppenheimer" stand at $82.4 million. that's a far better take than was expected. "the new york times" puts the record-breaking weekend like this "the movie business lives". still ahead, democrats putting the pressure on mitch mcconnell to end tuberville's blockade on reckless military nominations. what's behind elon musk's

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the armed forces. nbc's ally -- ali vitali is on capitol hill. >> reporter: i don't know that a letter is going to do it, especially when you're seeing this response from a spokesperson for mcconnell, effectively saying, hey, don't democrats run the floor? of course they do, but the fear in putting some of these nominations on the floor has a few prongs to it. first and foremost, the fact that it would really take a long time to go through all of these hundreds of nominees at this point, and there's a concern that even if they were to put up just a few of the top positions that need confirmations that that would set the precedent and that it would be a slippery slope where all of these nominations would have to be confirmed, one by one, cutting into pressure floor time and cutting into their recess. there are questions about what tuberville will accept in terms of a vote to actually drop this

hold. there was back and forth last week about if it would be enough to do a vote on this as an amendment, as part of the national defense authorization act. there were other questions about if it needed to be a straight up or down vote. a few different things that are still out there. no decisions as of yet, but it's clear that democrats and republicans both are trying to find a way to land this plane. i've got to tell you, chris, you see senator tuberville in the halls. he has been doing this since the winter. this is something where he has remained steadfast even over multiple times where colleagues have pled with him on the senate floor to reverse this hold to take his block off these promotions. he has said no, not until he sees the military reverse that policy. that's where it stands right now, even as democratic colleagues on the senate armed services committee are pleading with the top republican to please do something about this continued hold on nominees. >> if he messes with them going to their home districts, let's

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from heat advisories and flash floods to tornado warnings, the weather this summer has caused hundreds of thousands of flight delays at airports all across the u.s., and now one airline's ceo is warning that this may be the new normal thanks to climate change. nbc's tom costello has more. >> 431 laguardia has been caught in a ground stop. >> reporter: in a summer of extreme heat, torrential rain and violent storms.

>> just looking at thunderstorms we're monitoring. >> thunderstorms north of houston, around the san antonio area. >> how are you? >> have a great day. >> reporter: the nation's airports and airlines have been in the bull's eye with cancellations. 343,000 flights delayed, nearly 26% of the total. >> laguardia has enter into a ground stop for weather and thunderstorms in the area. >> reporter: in late june, hundreds of thousands of passengers were grounded after violent storms parked over newark and denver for days. most affected, united airlines, forced to cancel up a third of its flights. >> it's historically unprecedented to have multiday events. >> reporter: united's ceo is warning this could be the new normal. >> events are more likely to

occur, thermo dynamics 101, we're going to have more thunderstorms. >> reporter: atmospheric researchers agree, and say high altitude turbulence has grown stronger overthe decades sending service carts flying. it already happens 5,500 times each year, and projected to grow two to three times worse in the years to come. >> what we can confidently say is that climate change is increasing the amount of clear air turbulence in the atmosphere. >> reporter: while airlines can warn pilots of turbulence ahead, violent thunderstorms remain the biggest threat. >> the number one cause of delays and cancellations is weather. >> reporter: tom costello, nbc news. we have a lot to cover in our second hour of "chris jansing reports." let's get right to