right right now on "ana cabrera reports," the grand jury investigating donald trump is arriving at a d.c. courthouse. could we see a vote today on indicting the former president on election interference? the latest on that case and the other growing legal troubles swirling around trump. plus, the suspected gilgo beach serial killer expected before a judge in hours. the mountain of evidence now in police hands as they look to tie him to more killings. and later, a potential school shooting thwarted. the terrifying scene that unfolded outside a hebrew school in memphis as an armed suspect tried to get inside.

it is great to have you with us. it is 10:00 it is 10:00 i'm i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. we have our eyes trained on a courthouse in washington this morning, where the grand jury empanelled by the special counsel to investigate donald trump and election interference is beginning to arrive as we that speak. that means a secret vote on whether to indict the former president could potentially come at any moment. nbc's ryan reilly is at that courthouse. garrett haake is standing by in along along with former federal prosecutor cynthia axne and veteran prosecutor and trial attorney paul henderson joins us as well. right to ryan to start us off do here. do we know for sure if a vote is going to happen today, ryan? >> reporter: we don't know that for sure. all we know is that they are present here at the courthouse. our producers who have been tracking this grand jury over several months recognize many some of the grand jurors and know that they are now upstairs

on the third floor where the grand jury actually meets. so, we're on the lookout for any potential witnesses that might come forward to testify. that's also something you sort of have to track and look at who potentially could testify, you know, a few weeks back we saw it was the fake electors, a couple of them, who had come into town. that's something we're continuing to watch. but there is a little bit of an increased security presence, i would say here, certainly behind you me. you notice where normally we see members of the court staff vehicles parked, you'll see two police vehicles behind me. federal protective services. so that's a little bit of a and, you and, you know, this is really i think getting to this point. now we are more than two weeks out from when donald trump got that target letter saying that he was indeed potentially going to be brought up on charges. the last time around it was around three weeks, but, you know, that's not necessarily set

in stone. so, it certainly is something we'll be watching here on tuesday and once again on that thursday. that is unless there is some sort of special session tomorrow that we'll be keeping our eye on for as well, ana. >> five days ago, we know, trump lawyers met with the special counsel at the d.c. courthouse too and the grand jury was meeting last thursday. garrett, are we hearing anything from trump world as we all await a possible indictment? >> not since yesterday afternoon when the former president put out a post on his social media platform saying he expected an indictment any day now. the reality is that's the posture that trump's campaign and his broader orbit have been in for a couple of weeks. they expect this to happen, they expect it to happen soon. he has no campaign events on his schedule this week until friday. as far as we can tell, no interviews, nothing else sort of public facing on the campaign front in the works. they're very much in a wait and see posture, knowing that when the indictments drop, and the arraignments that follow, it tends to swamp everything else that is happening in the campaign for at least a few

up until this up until this point, that's not been a bad thing for the former president, blocks out any of the news coverage for any other candidate and first two indictments and arraignment cycles, he was able to raise significant amounts of money for his campaign. though less the second time than the first, we'll see if that's a trend that continues if and when this next indictment drops. >> cynthia, if this vote happens today and we see an indictment what will you be looking for? >> looking for a couple of i'm looking to see what judge things. i'm looking to see what judge assigned. assigned. i'm looking to see are there cooperating witnesses? we had a lot of speculation about what is mark meadows and doing. and one thing we know about jack smith is he does speaking indictments and will tell the we're story. we're going to learn who is it that has been cooperating and are there any surprises in and i'm there. and i'm looking to see, well, first of all, let me say, i think it is coming today. because of the combination of things, not only what everybody has mentioned about how long it has been since the target letter, but in the last grand jury session, you know, they

spent about seven hours without witnesses, which is a logical time to be -- doing a summation and also charging the grand jury with instructions. so, my guess is we're going to find out that we're going to get this indictment very soon. and recognize also because sometimes witnesses do come in, jack smith is very comfortable doing a superseding indictment and we learned that from his case in florida. so i'm looking for that judge and those cooperating witnesses and i'm looking for that indictment to come today. >> paul, the prosecuting donald trump podcast just had judge michael ludig on and he's important because he advised mike pence about the powers he did and didn't have on january 6t and he and he had this to say about the timing of a potential trial. >> i have been convinced, long before anyone else even suggested it, that at least the federal courts would have this trial of the former president

with respect to either or both the classified documents case and the january 6th case before the election. >> so, paul, do you think he's will right? will we see a conclusion before americans cast their votes? >> i think we will. it is just a juggle now to see which ball is going to drop first and send accountability to donald trump. i think figuring out what he is saying and responding to all of these mounting bingo card of convictions, of charges, and indictments really puts a lot of pressure on him, one, to become the nominee to make sure that he can address all of these charges and try to diminish his exposure in terms of jail and prison time, but also to try and force a delay on all fronts, to try and push as many of these out as possible so that his nominee and running for the party is the i don't priority. i don't think he'll be able to do that, especially with this

last charge, which is going to be the most serious that we're expecting from the indictment that we're all waiting for on bated breath now. i believe that one of these federal charges are going to supersede his process of becoming the nominee and will overtake the campaign. at least for a period of time. that's what i'm waiting to see. that's what i'm expecting from this target letter indictment that i expect to come out today as well. >> cynthia, just a reminder of the potential charges that trump could be facing, it is deprivation of rights under the color of law, conspiracy to defraud the united states, and witness tampering. when you compare that to the criminal charges he's already facing with the classified documents case, the manhattan hush money case, how does this one -- this case stack up? does the gravity of this one feel different? >> it does. i think this is the most important case maybe since the civil war. this case is -- is the president

of the united states for the first time since george washington refused to release, relinquish power. and not only refuse to do it, but came up with a conspiracy to try and force the vice president to overturn an election he did not have the right to do, to include fake electors in six different states to lie and say they were the electors when he knew they were not, and ultimately to start an insurrection with armed people storming the capitol. not to mention just the disinformation campaign that rudy giuliani ran for him. this is the graphman of his crime against the united states. while i think the florida case is an important case, that's number two be, and i also think we're going to see yet another superseding indictment in that case, i think the florida case is important. it doesn't begin to compare with the violations that the president -- the ex-president has done to the country as a

whole, to the voters as a whole to refuse to listen to the will of the people. >> paul, we have some new reporting out of georgia as well, and the situation where the district attorney there, fani willis, is, of course, preparing to potentially indict trump as well, as early as next week in terms of timing that she's sort of suggested it could willis come. willis revealed just today, in fact, a letter she received last friday that called her a racial it slur. it was especially vulgar. she described this email as, quote, pretty typical. that situation in georgia seems to be particularly tense with the orange barricades being put up outside the courthouse, willis asking her staff to work remotely for the first part of are august. are you worried about potential violence? >> i'm always worried about potential violence because we have seen it in the past, especially with trump. in terms of how he rallies his supporters, what he's asking for is for them to protest. what he's asking for is for them to challenge the authority, and that authority is prosecuting

what him. what i'm looking for in this case especially in georgia and i think we'll start seeing this more and more, of all of these various prosecutions are going to be sharing information and so the information we see about election fraud that happens in georgia, some of that testimony, some of that evidence, some of the evidence being used for those charges will be shared among some of these other and hopefully, especially in this case that we're all waiting for now, the federal indictments that are coming as well. so what is happening even at a local level matters. all of it takes the -- puts the taint on donald trump, continues to paint him in a very specific light and very specific way, and i don't think some of his audience cares about it, but the rest of the country is likely to care about it, especially when we start getting more of the details of his very specific behavior, avoiding the transition of power and avoiding the return of documents, that's what i think is at the forefront as well. so i agree with that. >> a lot of the voters that we're talking to around the

country at his events really see him as the victim, which goes to show again how polarized this society is right now. thank you, all, for that and conversation. and when we're back in 60 seconds, the suspected gilgo beach killer is in court today. what we could learn about the boxes of evidence taken from his family home. plus, thwarted. how police say fast action from a memphis community foiled a potential mass shooting at a hebrew school. also ahead, new polling on a biden/trump rematch in 2024 and the numbers are close. really close. and later, the saying goes, one man's trash is another man's how treasure. how one suspected bank burglar looking for treasure found the trash instead. he trash instead. (fan #1) there ya go! that's what i'm talkin' about! (josh allen) is this your plan to watch the game today? (hero fan) uh, yea. i have to watch my neighbors' nfl sunday ticket. (josh allen) it's not your best plan. but you know what is? myplan from verizon. switch now and they'll give you nfl sunday ticket from youtubetv, on them.

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gilgo beach serial killer since his arraignment. rex heuermann is due in court at 2:00 p.m. eastern for a hearing on bail and discovery. two weeks after pleading not guilty to three counts of first degree murder. let's bring in nbc news correspondent ron allen outside court in riverhead, new york. and casey jordan. what can we expect to come out of this hearing? >> reporter: as you said, the focus is going to be on bail and on evidence, discovery. but for many people, this will be the first time that they get a good look at this suspect, who lived in this community for a very long time, and was known as an architect who kind of kept to himself and commuted back and forth to midtown manhattan like so many other people do out here in long island. he's charged with three counts of murder, six counts of murder, three first degree, three second degree and he's a suspect in a fourth murder. and the question is whether in fact as they go through this evidence prosecutors might read more about what they have that

ties him to any of these cases. there is a possibility that his attorney will argue for bail, for his release. at the moment he's being held without if he if he requests bail, we expect prosecutors to push back very hard because he is a suspect in at least a fourth murder and perhaps others. there are investigations going on in numerous other places seeing if he is tied to them. he is a flight risk, they would these argue. these crimes are obviously extremely serious. so, the likelihood of him being granted bail i would suspect is rather low. in terms of the evidence in this case, we know prosecutors, police went through his home, his other areas that he was associated with, like storage areas for almost two weeks. they dug up his backyard. they say that they have a lot of evidence that connects him to this crime, to these crimes and perhaps to others. and, again, we may learn more about that. we expect it to be a very brief

hearing, again, beginning at 2:00, and for a lot of people, again, this will be the first opportunity for them to get a really good look at them. we expect perhaps some of the victims' families, relatives may come to see this. we do not expect his family here. his his wife has been -- estranged wife has been interviewed recently and said -- talked about how this has all destroyed her life, the life of their two adult children, because they suspected nothing of this at all. >> ron allen at the courthouse there, ahead of the hearing with the suspected serial killer, thank you. casey, we hear from investigators they have collected a mountain of material from his home to go through, nearly 300 guns seized from a walk-in vault that had an iron door, backyard dug up, searches across states. right now as investigators are working to fully uncover the depths of his potential crimes and try to understand the kind of person they're dealing with,

what would you tell them? >> well, with eff to keep in mind that there was already an investigative profile on this killer before we caught rex i have heuermann. i have to say now that we know a lot more about him after these last two weeks, he's ticking almost all of the boxes with regard to mostly living in the area because we do know that most serial killers kill within their comfort zone, especially when it comes to disposing of it bodies. it gives them a sense of what control. what they're looking for in the house is probably any evidence, not only of the three potentially four victims of which he is accused of murdering, but other murders as because well. because as we know there are another seven bodies found in the area that are still unaccounted for in terms of being linked to him. they're going to be looking not only for the digital footprint, which we already know about his computer searches, his pornography habit, they'll look for anything from these victims

or other victims, souvenirs, lingerie, jewelry, driver's licenses, anything from anybody, maybe even victims that are currently not even on their list that could link heuermann not just again to the three murders he's accused of, but other cold cases in the area, even nationwide because he liked to hunt, he liked to travel, and he had hunting licenses in a number of -- all those states are looking to see if they could link him to any unsolved crimes. >> i keep wondering, one of the things that links these three victims in particular was how their bodies were disposed. how often does a serial killer change their tactics? >> well, they tend to change once they know that police are on to them. and if you look at the map of where this -- the bodies were all disposed of, the gilgo four, three of which he is formally charged and the fourth one i'm sure coming soon, the other

bodies found in the area were distributed further down the beach and they were earlier in their timeline of disappearing. and so he probably started further up the beach, and as time went on, moved down the beach, assuming, again, innocent until proven guilty. he changed his mo in response to any media coverage of these missing women. and we do know that in 2010, 2011, when all of these bodies were found, we didn't find any more bodies on the beach. that seems to indicate he was definitely changing his behavior pattern, in response to media coverage. we know we know he did searches. currently suspected, by all accounts he looks good for it from a behavioral standpoint. >> how would they determine how many victims are actually out there that could be his? is this something you think that they could potentially coax out a confession or would they try to make some kind of a deal so that they can bring families

closure? >> that is the million dollar question for investigators and prosecutors in this case. because now they have him charged with three. there could be seven more at least. there could be there could be dozens more nationwide. and they don't have much to negotiate with because new york state is not a death penalty and state. and he knows that he is looking at life in prison. so what could they use to play let's make a deal because so many of these unsolved murders, given the length of time that has passed and the lack of forensic evidence, they could only be cleared most likely by the circumstantial the circumstantial might be might be weak because of the passage of time. it will be interesting to see if they come to him and say, mr. heuermann, if you would like to plead guilty to these and confess to the others, perhaps we could put you in a more comfortable prison, get you some amenities, we could, you know, make this go away very quickly without a lot of public relations, without a big trial, but if he's looking for a trial,

if he's playing that power control game, he will never confess, he will want to go to trial to milk the media limelight and it is unlikely we'll get very many answers to the unsolved questions of the other bodies. so right now, it is a little bit of let's make a deal going on behind closed doors of how they might proceed if they want to get answers. >> casey jordan, appreciate your good insights. good to see you. thank you very much. >> good to be here. up next on "ana cabrera reports," a man taken down by memphis officers who say they foiled a potential mass shooting at a hebrew school. parents of children there left deeply shaken. >> so many emotions, you know. nervous, angry, scared, anxious. plus, jury deliberations under way at this moment in the trial of the tree of life synagogue shooter, with the death penalty on the line for the deadliest attack on jews in u.s. history. in u.s. history oh, hello! hi! do you know that every load of laundry could be worth as much as $300? really?

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welcome this morning, tennessee police are searching for answers after thwarting a potential mass shooting. a suspect a suspect now in critical condition after police say he tried to break into a hebrew school and open fire before he was taken down by officers. nbc news correspondent blayne alexander has the details. blayne? >> reporter: this >> reporter: this was an unbelievably close call. police are calling this a potential mass shooting, stopped only by a locked door. school is out for the summer, but there were people working inside, and today officials are crediting a strong school security plan with potentially saving lives. it is the bone chilling emergency call, describing the terrifying scene unfolding outside a school in memphis. >> male, light green shirt with a gun. >> reporter: authorities say that suspect tried to force his way inside the academy, but was

met with a closed door. when he couldn't get inside, he opened fire. >> the suspect did try to enter the building, armed with a gun. when he could not gain entry, he fired shots outside the school. >> reporter: in a letter sent to parents, obtained by nbc news, school officials say the suspect encountered a contract worker with whom he had a brief confrontation saying the suspect fired two shots from the gun while retreating. and an additional two shots while leaving. he then took off in a pickup truck, triggering a massive manhunt, with police putting other potential targets in the area on high alert. >> we need officers to go to every jewish facility and city of memphis with that broadcasted description in case he tries another facility. >> reporter: it all came to an end, less than five miles away, when police cornered the suspect, who emerged from his truck with a gun and was shot by officers. he was he was taken to the hospital in critical condition. incredibly, no one else was and police and police are praising school

officials for their fast action. >> they were able to provide us with a photograph of the suspect, they also provided us with the vehicle description that the suspect left. >> reporter: according to tennessee representative steve cohen, the suspect is a former student at margolin hebrew academy, though police have not confirmed that. the incident, the police have described as a potential mass shooting is leaving many parents deeply shaken. >> so many emotions, you know. nervous, angry, scared, anxious. >> reporter: gila says she's grateful officials had a safety plan in place. >> security is absolutely a priority for our community. >> reporter: this latest incident comes on the heels of a shooting at a school in nashville in march that left three children and thr of course, of course, that shooting sparked state wide calls for stronger gun laws and stronger school security across tennessee. those calls have only grown louder with this latest

incident. back to you. >> blayne alexander reporting for us, thank you. today, a michigan judge will hear a final day of testimony in a sentencing hearing for the oxford high school shooter. the question before the court is whether the teenage shooter will spend life behind bars without because parole? because of his age, how long he is, he cannot be automatically sentenced to life. he was 15 at the time of the shooting. he's 17 now. he's already pleaded guilty to charges of murder and terrorism. this hearing has included just heart breaking accounts from survivors and victims' family members. the judge isn't expected to issue his ruling today. we will continue to stay on and that. and now to an update in another mass shooting trial. jurors in pittsburgh just began deliberations this morning. this shooting was the deadliest anti-semitic attack ever on u.s. soil.

nbc's kathy park nbc's kathy park joins us from outside court. what do we know about the status of the deliberations? >> reporter: hey, ana, good deliberations got under way shortly after morning. deliberations got under way shortly after 9:00 this morning and keep in mind this is the same jury that convicted robert bauers in june on 63 criminal counts and they'll decide whether he gets the death penalty or spends the rest of his life in prison without just parole. just before deliberations actually got under way this morning, his defense lawyer filed overnight a motion for a mistrial, objecting to the closing arguments presented by defense yesterday. however, the judge denied that request and just a few moments ago, in fact, the jury came out to review some of the weapons used in the attack. and, yesterday, we heard closing arguments, defense really leaned on robert bauer's past, talking about his troubled childhood,

traumatic childhood, the neglectful caregivers he grew up with, and also talked about his mental health. there were several experts who took the stand during the trial, said that he had schizophrenia and disillusion beliefs which ultimately prompted him to carry out the attack. however, the government disputed that, saying that he was filled with hate, had white supremacist beliefs and when he carried out the attack and killed 11 worshipers, he had no remorse. now, in order for the death penalty to be carried out, the jury needs to come back with a unanimous decision. and, of course this has been extremely emotional for the family members of the victims. many of them have been attending the trial from the very beginning and, of course, several of them have taken the stand as well throughout the as trial. as the verdict comes down, we're told they will be delivering some remarks at the tree of life back synagogue. back to you. >> kathy park, thank you very much for that reporting.

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we're back we're back with the latest culture war dominating the 2024 presidential race. ron desantis is now calling on vice president kamala harris to come down to the sunshine state to, quote, set the record straight, on his plan for black history standards which suggest enslaved people benefitted from the skills they were forced to use. harris, hitting back on this policy and desantis. last night to abc news. >> there are so-called leaders, extremists, who are attempting to require in our nation an

unnecessary debate with the intention, i believe, to intention, i believe, to try to divide us as americans. stop. stop. >> >> let's bring in jonathan alan, donna edwards, and republican strategist susan del percio. congressman edwards, vice president harris is traveling to orlando today. do you think she will engage in this debate in that visit? >> well, she doesn't have to engage in a debate, but she does have to set the record straight and make the distinction that ron desantis is really out of touch with where the majority of americans are. and i think that she's right, desantis is intentionally trying to divide in order to shore up his street cred with his base. and unfortunately that alienates the majority of the american people and so i think it is important for the vice president

and for the president to draw these distinctions with the -- what seems to be the mainstay of the republican party at least in the form of ron desantis. and i think that will serve them well in a general election with an electorate that really isn't going to tolerate this idea that in tim scott's words there is some silver lining to slavery. >> desantis is trying to make this a fight against the vice president or a fight between republicans and democrats. but he's ignoring the fact that his own party is criticizing this black history curriculum. take a listen. >> desantis started this fire with the bill that he signed. and now he doesn't want to take responsibility for whatever is done in the aftermath of it. >> obviously we should be teaching kids about the awful legacy of slavery. >> we can all agree that there was no -- there were no positives that came out of he slavery. he just should come out and say no positives came out of

slavery. >> >> slavery was really about separating families, about mutilating humans, and even raping their wives. it was just devastating. so i would hope that every person in our country and certainly running for president would appreciate that. >> susan, i don't get it. what is desantis doing defending a curriculum that teaches that there are beneficial aspects of being a slave? >> i don't get it either, but perhaps it explains his poll numbers. it explains why you cannot go that extreme to the right. and, you know, it is interesting because desantis' first position, when called out on this, he kind of, like, stepped away from it saying i don't know exactly what that was and then he leaned into it. he made an active decision, instead of at that point in time saying, you know what, this is wrong, i will go and fix it. it is happening in my state. he decided to lean in and thought it would be a good

argument to have. which just tells me, no amount of resetting, rebooting or retooling is going to help ron desantis' campaign. >> jonathan, in fact, you have this new reporting on potential problems for desantis in new hampshire, writing about an event that had very low turnout. and i quote it here, for $1, new hampshire voters were invited to drink beer with florida governor ron desantis on saturday in but concord. but barely more than two dozen people showed up. john, what is going on here? is he just the kind of guy people want to have a beer with? >> maybe they should have offered something harder, ana. maybe half a bottle of liquor or something. what i think what happened here and what we saw in the reporting of that story was that the tickets were originally $50, they were slashed to a dollar, a nominal fee, meant to be free, about two dozen people showed last up. last night desantis was at a house party, about 35 people showed up to that.

so he spent four days in new hampshire, had a couple of good events with slightly larger crowds, but maybe 200 or 300 people over the course of four days, which is wasted campaign time at this point in a presidential primary. it also says this comes on the back end of a two-day bus tour of iowa, where we saw images and recordings of desantis struggling to talk to voters, asking one person about the sugar content of his icee. >> his turnout is going down. it is not going up. as he's supposed to be having this reset. what do you think is desantis' main problem? why is he not connecting? >> well, i think you could look at that event in new hampshire and say, well, his event fell >> flat. >> >> and >> and the beer was too. but the problem with desantis is that his campaign is based on a

bad premise, which is i'll be there, i'm a better -- i'm trumpier than trump. i'll be there if trump falls. well, people are happy with donald trump within the republican party. they don't need to turn to ron as a as a matter of fact, i think it is looking more and more likely that ron desantis is not just going to stay 30 points behind donald trump, but he's looking at a probably likely third or fourth place in the polls pretty darn soon, probably coming after tim scott. >> we're getting more from this nyt senna poll today which shows a head to head matchup between joe biden and donald trump is now an even split. both candidates with 43% in that "new york times" poll. is that concerning for >> i >> i think not at this stage. i think one of the things that you have to look at in this poll as well is where independents

are, independents are probably going to decide this race. i know that that gap has closed as well as demonstrated by the poll. i i would say the president going around the country making his case on an economy that is getting increasingly better, people will be able to attribute that to their personal economy and i think that that is going to make the difference in this >> race. >> but, really, is it not concerning when you look deeper in this poll, 65% of americans say the u.s. is on the wrong track, that cuts across all groups, men and women, all ages, different races, both college and noneducated, et cetera? >> well, again, i -- look, i think that it is important for democrats and for the president to pay attention to that. and to stay focused on getting their message out across the country. and i think particularly around the economy, i think some of these polls actually lagged in terms of the way people will begin to feel the economic numbers that we have seen with

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we're we're back with another drone that managed to slip through russia's air defenses overnight, striking a skyscraper in the heart of moscow. this is the second such strike in as many days and coming after ukraine's president proclaimed the war was returning to russia. nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel has the latest. >> reporter: richard? >> reporter: drone attacks in and around moscow are intensifying rapidly. there was another one this morning against the same building that was hit on sunday. it is right in the business district, a largely commercial area, not very many people live in there. in fact, a lot of these office buildings don't have very many occupants at all. the same building that has been attacked now twice, according to russian officials, houses personnel from three different government ministries. no one was killed in either of the attacks against the same building this morning or on but sunday. but it is upsetting to many people in russia.

many people in russia are feeling the war is coming home and russian authorities are blaming ukraine for this. and it is not entirely without reaso because ukraine because ukraine has carried out a number of cross border attacks since this war began and it was only on sunday after the initial attack in the moscow business district that ukraine's president zelenskyy said that the war is shifting to russia and he said that the move from the ukrainian territory to russian territory is appropriate and just to use his language. ukraine isn't accepting responsibility, but it is indicating that there could be more attacks like this. ukraine also has promised not to use u.s. or other western supplies, weapons to carry out attacks outside of ukraine. so instead ukraine is developing its own drone industry, trying to extend the range of these armed drones, making them harder to stop, making them more difficult to intercept. at this stage, it seems like

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welcome back. now to the video of the day. a would-be ohio thief ending up in the can. you can see police bust this burglar that falls from the roof of this bank directly into a recycling bin as police are approaching. police were alerted to the scene by an alarm and the incident captured on police body cam video and shared by the police department about 50 miles from cleveland. the suspect did not manage to get any cash before the recycling bin got him and he since has been released on a $50,000 bond. that did not go as planned.

this video might overtake it. a zoo in china is insisting this is actually a bear and not a human in a bear suit. yes, this is really happening. this footage shows a malaysian sun bear standing on its hind legs and interacting with tourists. look at this. bear or no bear? that's the question. world cup fans may be a bit blurry-eyed this morning. the match was at 3:00 a.m. eastern, and they gave them the points to sneak into the knockout stages where it's win or go home.

it's one-game elimination brackets until it whittles down to the final two teams to finish. joining us is molly hunter. take it away. >> reporter: this late-night party should not fool you. u.s. fans are not happy with the 0-0 report, and a tie is good enough to move the u.s. to the knockout round. not what they wanted, though. take a look. the u.s. hopes of moving on to the next round saved by an inch, and rapinoe injecting energy into a u.s. team with a jolt. seconds later, portugal hitting the post. both sides battling to the end and sending in subs with just two minutes to go.

through much of the match, the midfielder leading the charge again and again. the u.s. not finding the net. the 28-year-old midfielder starting for the first time in tournament after recovering from an injury earlier this spring, getting handed her second yellow card in as many matches which means for the next game she's out. tonight veterans were setting the pace. >> going out there i know i am confident in my game, and my teammates can look at me and know i am going to bring something and give everything. >> in another game this morning, the netherlands landing a 7-0 final score and securing the top seed of the group, and the u.s. team looking disappointed in the postgame huddle.

the diehard u.s. fans on this night are determined. >> the amount of stress i had every single time they were in front of the goal, i was, like, yes, yes, yes, yes. >> next up for the u.s. team is going to be facing off against sweden in melbourne. they do have five days before that game. when we spoke with rapinoe after that game, she said this team needs to analyze and look at the footage and take the next five days at the team. >> "josé diaz-balart reports" picks up our coverage right now. good morning. it's 11:00 a.m. eastern, and 8:00 a.m. pacific. right now in washington, d.c. a grand jury investigating former president trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 elections back at the courthouse. it comes as trump