the nfl truly believes that's going to reduce collisions and concussions, projecting a drop of 15% of concussions from kickoff as well. they're trying to attack this from multiple angles. that's going to do it for us today, thank you for joining us. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. josé diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. and good morning. it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm josé diaz-balart. right now presidents and residents along the west coast waking up to potentially life-threatening flooding from the effects of hilary. and in the midst of it all, los angeles area residents rocked by an earthquake. president biden and the first lady will soon meet with survivors and local officials as a number of people killed in the wildfires reaches 114. but the president won't get a warm reception from all residents. >> we don't need you. don't come here. >> stay out of our way. get rid of the red tape.

>> reporter: new this morning, the first nbc polling numbers from iowa among the 2024 gop presidential hopefuls coming after trump's fourth indictment and before the first debate. a critical week for the former president, he and his 18 co-defendants have until friday at noon to turn themselves in on racketeering charges in georgia. we begin this hour with the historic impact of tropical storm hilary, the first to hit southern california in more than 20 years. hilary now a post-tropical cyclone is bringing record-breaking rain and flooding triggering a state of emergency for parts of the region. take a look at what it looked like for those who dared to drive through the storm on sunday in los angeles. today the l.a. unified school district closed all of its schools. according to the national weather service, virtually all daily records for rainfall have been broken with lewis ranch,

california, getting more than 7 inches of rain. the heavy downpours and flooding were felt in northern mexico as well. take a look at this, floods sweeping down a street in baja, california. in the midst of hilary's impact, the 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck southern california. you can see the lights shaking inside restaurant. no reports of significant damage. joining us now, nbc's guad venegas and nbc meteorologist bill karins who is following the track of this storm. guad, what conditions are you seeing this morning? >> jose, we have some light rain here in san diego, now the storm has passed the region or at least the big part of the storm we had rain all throughout yesterday and we saw those images you just played from mexico. that's where the hurricane made landfall or that is the tropical

storm once it arrived, it made landfall in mexico, and depending on the areas where it was going through, of course, the results are different. usually the mountain areas will get the rain and that rain will run off through the flat areas and we saw what can happen once it makes its way and those flash floods happen in mexico. the tropical storm came into the san diego area, there were power outages. the power company had warned the customers here that those were a possibility. thousands were affected yesterday. we had some downed trees in the area here in san diego, but most of the rain and the heavy winds were in the mountainous area on the east side of san diego, also east of los angeles. so again, depending on the geography, a lot of the mountains that got the heavy rain, that rain will wash down into rivers. we saw a lot of flooding in the flat areas, roads down in the desert east of the san diego and l.a. area. we're seeing images of a

boulder, this boulder landed on a roadway. this is a freeway that connects san diego to the deserts east of san diego. fortunately authorities were prepared and they had first responders standing by. they asked people to stay off the roads, to stay in their homes during the storms and as of now, there have not been any reports of any serious injuries or damage other than trees falling on some structures here in san diego. in los angeles, as you mentioned, jose, during this storm we had this earthquake in ohio. that was northwest los angeles north of ventura. it scared a lot of residents as they were waiting for the storm to pass. all of this hit san diego, los angeles, palm springs and riverside county. a tropical storm that as of now fortunately it did create some flash floods. but fortunately we haven't reported major damage to structures other than the roads that we've seen in these videos that were damaged.

and of course let's keep in mind that those areas that are still flooded, jose, do pose a threat for anyone that attempts to enter flooded areas. something as simple as driving a vehicle through it could be extremely dangerous. authorities keep telling people to stay away from any flooded areas, jose. >> guad venegas in san diego, i thank you so very much. bill, where are the remnants of the storm heading now? >> jose, the remnants are heading into idaho and oregon. never has any meteorologist ever said those words before, that the remnants of a tropical system are heading into the areas of the northern rockies. we still have a little bit of leftover rain in california, and the rain totals as we thought, the mountainous areas were very heavy. we got 8 inches outside of l.a., san jacinto got a foot of rain. that was the highest total we've seen. there was a lot of landslides, mudslides, flash flooding. the rain has been over now for about six to ten hours, the heavy stuff.

a lot of the flooding is gone. it's done with and over with in most cases. now it's an assessment period of how bad those mud is and debris and rock slides were. we have numerous flood warnings because of that. to the north, now we're starting in idaho waiting to get flash flood warnings. san diego, l.a., you're fine, you're done, it's cleanup time for whatever tree branches and stuff fell down. good estimates on what roads need to be cleared. the additional rainfall will be around baker city north wards, idaho, and even into montana. we didn't get the direct listened fall into california with this. this was still only the fourth time we've had a tropical storm over the top of california. >> and bill, meanwhile, i know you're following several storms in the atlantic. >> things got crazy over the weekend. we had three storms get named, emily far out in the atlantic, not a concern. we had gert that's going to die off quickly, not a concern. franklin, we'll talk about that for our friends in puerto rico and the dominican republic. my eyes are in the gulf of

mexico. the national hurricane center just minutes ago, they're now saying this should become a tropical storm. they're calling it a future tropical storm because it's not quite developed yet to call it that. it doesn't have winds that are strong enough. this is going to race across the gulf of mexico, likely become a tropical depression later today, then a tropical storm tonight into tomorrow morning. should make landfall somewhere near brownsville to corpus christi, has a low to medium-sized tropical storm. they've been this a drought. they would welcome the rainfall as long as we don't have problems like tornados, we shouldn't have a huge amount of impacts. for our friends in the dominican republic and puerto rico, it looks like this is -- franklin's going to head over the dominican republic, not strong winds, but you know the mountainous areas on hispaniola, it's going to cause a lot of rain issues for haiti and the dominican republic. >> bill, back to that system in the gulf. when do you think it may be hitting our friends in texas?

>> tomorrow morning, a lot of our computer guidance said this thing will move on shore between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. winds should only be about 40, 50 miles per hour. by texas, coastal standards that shouldn't cause any problems at all. it will be a period of heavy rain for five, six hours. they're in drought conditions. they've had a brutally hot summer. that will actually be welcome. occasionally these tropical storms can actually be beneficial. we'll wait and see if this happens tomorrow. the name of that storm when it gets it tomorrow or tonight, will be called harold. >> thank you, bill karins, i appreciate that. good to see you. turning to the recovery from the devastating wildfires in hawaii. today president biden and the first lady are headed to lahaina to visit with survivors and first responders. the death toll stands at 114 with the maui mayor saying 850 people are still presumed missing. officials say it could take weeks to search the burn zone in maui. nbc news spoke to a family who lost everything in the fires. now their children are grappling

with trauma and nightmares. >> i had to run super duper fast. it was just so scary. i felt the wind just pushing me backwards. >> joining us now, nbc's steve patterson in maui and nbc's monica alba in truckee, california. steve, what are you hearing there today? >> reporter: jose, that 850 number that you listed is the first time we've gotten an official number of the missing from an official statewide compile list. it's offering closure to a lot of families as that list was made by reducing the number as they sort of checked them off. a lot of families getting notification that their loved one is okay while others are getting notifications that their loved one has passed. we spoke to another family, the fuentes family, they were not there at the time of the fire, but their 14-year-old son was. kiero was just after school, he

was found in his room by his family shielding his dog dexter. we spoke to his brother about what that discovery was like and what kiero was like. listen to this. >> they were found together hugging, you know, he probably tried to save him. this was actually his favorite beach, we'd bring him here when he was just a baby. he started taking his first steps here, and this is where he started walking. some of his dreams were that he wanted to fly out to his younger siblings in mexico and dance with his sister for her quinceanera. >> we just lost steve patterson, and i thank steve patterson for being with us this morning. monica, how can we expect today's trip, the president's going to be taking to hawaii, to play out? >> reporter: well, it's those kinds of devastating storying that we are hearing on the ground there, jose, that

president biden says he wants to hear for himself and wants to see the destruction firsthand. he is now headed from here in lake tahoe where he has been on vacation to the airport in reno where he will take that flight over to hawaii with the first lady, and we do expect them both to take an aerial tour to see just the extent of the damage from overhead before landing there in maui where they will go to lahaina specifically to meet with some of those state and local officials. and of course survivors. and we have seen the president do this many times with natural disasters in the past, but of course given the extreme loss of life here, that number, the hundreds still unaccounted for. this is going to be an incredibly somber day for the president and first lady, and so much of this can also take place behind the scenes and not in front of cameras. we will see the president give remarks later today where he is expected to announce a new chief federal response coordinator. that's robert fenton who is

currently a region 9 fema administrator. he's going to be detailed to oversee the effort, and the president is already saying that this is going to be an extremely long and challenging recovery. and none of this is going to be straightforward. he may be met on the ground with some criticism from some residents and folks that we've talked to, our teams there who have said that they have questions about the federal response and questions about what the president did or did not say in the immediate days following the devastating wildfires, but the president now is pledging that the 1,000 federal personnel on the ground currently will stay until the job is done, 450 of those are just detailed to search and rescue because that process will be pain staking. and then you're going to continue to see fema respond to this as the president over the weekend was also monitoring tropical storm hilary, which we're feeling the final effects of here now in california and that the president did see and was speaking to governor newsom of california yesterday, so it

also -- we're expecting the president to speak to just all of these different natural disasters, the challenge, specifically of climate change and what he feels he can do in his administration to continue to address it. jose. >> monica alba, thank you so very much. and turning now to washington state where tree active wildfires are ravaging spokane county. officials have found two people dead within the perimeters of the fire but have not yet determined a cause of death. right now thousands of residents are under an evacuation order. one woman tells nbc news she lost her home. >> i can't even explain the feeling of knowing that like everything that you worked for is gone. >> the flames have destroyed 185 homes and counting, charred more than 35,000 acres. the fires were sparked friday outside of spokane fueled by extreme heat and heavy wind gusts. it's been a summer of

extreme deadly weather throughout the country. we're going to talk about why this is all happening now a little later with bill nye. and brand new nbc news polling from iowa shows former president trump with a whopping lead over his republican rivals in 2024, but don't count out his challengers just yet. steve kornacki here to break it all down for us when we come back in just 60 seconds. steve, it's great seeing you. you're watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. ée diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. so congested! you need sinex saline from vicks. just sinex, breathe, ahhhh! [sniffs] what is — wow! baby: daddy. sinex. breathe. ahhhhhh! age is just a number, and mine's unlisted. try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for muscle health versus 16 grams in ensure® high protein. boost® high protein. now available in cinnabon® bakery-inspired flavor. learn more at boost.com/tv

15 past the hour. we're getting a new look at where things stand in iowa just two days before the first republican presidential debate. a brand new nbc news des moines register media com policy gives donald trump a huge lead over his rivals. nbc news national political correspondent steve kornacki is with us with a closer look at the numbers. steve, what do they tell us? >> yeah, well, as you say, jose, this is starting at -- this is the first des moines register

nbc poll this cycle, and trump starts out here with a more than 2 to 1 advantage over his nearest rival, that's ron desantis the florida governor, trump 23 points ahead of desantis. nobody else even in double-digits. tim scott there at 9%, a scattering for the rest. that is a very big lead for donald trump, in a state by the way, if you remember back in 2016 the leadoff iowa caucuses donald trump actually lost iowa to ted cruz in 2016. here he is polling at 42% right now. take a look, though, you see a 23 point lead here in the summer before the caucuses. how does that stack up to past republican races in iowa? what you're looking at here is this des moines register poll. it's got a storied history, goes way back. you're looking at the des moines register poll, who was leading and how much they were leading by in republican races at this same point. so some perspective on that 23-point lead that trump enjoys right now.

it's not the largest we've ever seen a republican candidate, george w. bush at this point in the 2000 cycle was 27 points ahead in iowa. he ended up winning the caucuses by 11 points. bob dole in 1996 at this point was 46 points ahead in iowa. he ended up winning the '96 caucus us but lost almost all of that 46 point lead. he ended up holding off pat buchanan by three points. we have several examples of candidate who is led in iowa including trump himself at this point in the 2016 cycle who ended up losing. their leads weren't quite as big. this does tell you overall that historically there's room for movement in these polls. this is sort of the starting point in terms of our nbc des moines register poll. there's room, there's been room historically for movement. we'll see if that happens, if there is going to be movement, if somebody's going to step up here and make this a fight with trump in iowa, who might that

be? you may get a clue looking at this, what you see here from the same poll, the favorable and unfavorable rating. here we're just asking do you like them or not like them. i think it's notable, while trump is winning by a big margin right now, actually, it's ron desantis who has the highest favorable mark among iowa republicans. then you see trump a tick under him. and by the way, look at tim scott, the senator from south carolina. 59, 17, a 42 point margin there in the favorable direction for scott. so there is broad good will for desantis, for scott to some degree for nikki haley as well. you think tradition of iowa caucus, you have these events, is there room, is there opportunity for a tim scott, for a ron desantis to tap into that good will that they have with iowa republicans and translate

it into support. interesting opportunity for all of them on wednesday in this debate that donald trump says he's going to be skipping. could one of them emerge from that debate with an enhanced or reputation among republicans. one thing just quickly to keep in mind here, we also asked iowa republicans who's your second choice, and you see here, it's a mishmash, 20% shows desantis, but there's no clear default second choice candidate. that's the challenge for all of the non-trump candidates here is can they consolidate that non-trump vote. can one of them emerge and consolidate the bulk of that non-trump support. i think ultimately if someone's going to beat trump in iowa, that's what it's going to take. >> steve kornacki, thank you so very much. appreciate it. >> you got it. >> with us now to continue our conversation, victoria defrancesco soto, dean of the clinton school of public service at the university of arkansas, former republican national committee chair, michael steele. victoria and michael are msnbc

contributors. so michael, what do you make of these numbers where things stand today in iowa? >> you know, it's interesting i guess. it's -- you know, it's nice to kind of kick off the political season. i'm just not impressed with iowa doing too much of anything when it comes to politics because at the end of the day, you've got 49 other states that are going to be a bigger play in this mix. it kind of sets, i think, the narrative a little bit prematurely as we saw in the last election. in 2016 donald trump lost iowa, and the rest as they say is donald trump. so the reality of it is i think trump is the big piece in this whole story line. the polling doesn't matter that much. i don't know if he he holds a 46 point lead. the question boils down to the one you ask. who takes the number away from

him. steve has very aptly shown there is no consensus. the reality of it is donald trump is in the poll position. he will remain in the poll position until one of these candidates has enough within themselves to take on both trump and that base and recognize that that base is a third of the vote they could reasonably get in a republican primary. that's not the entire base is that trump corner of 35, 40%. you've got a larger base that you can carve out. it's just amazing to me, jose, that no one has figured out how to do that yet. >> i was fascinated by the unfavorable, favorable difference there between the candidates because it's -- if i recall on it, the ones who have the largest unfavorables are the ones who have been most critical of trump publicly. so michael, when you're talking about, oh, it's going to take a

candidate to, you know, confront trump, the ones that are confronting trump are the ones that have the biggest unfavorables. >> exactly. so you're looking at mike pence and chris christie are the two with the largest unfavorables. >> hutchinson is in on that one too. >> yes, exactly. the reality becomes, all right, that's the trump base. that's the core base, but you and i know that in any primary -- and victoria knows this as well -- you only get 20 to 25% of the base, the total of the electorate that's eligible to vote to turn out. you're sitting with a larger portion of republicans who don't participate in primaries. what is your strategy to get them into the game and to have their vote register in this upcoming cycle? you've got to do that in order to offset the strength that trump has. until you do that, these numbers are going to still weigh in his favor and a minority of voters

are going to end up re-nominating donald trump. >> vaughn hillyard talked with some voters who participated in the poll about whether trump would be a risk in the general election. here's some of what some of them had to say. listen to this. >> i don't think he's going to lose a second time. i think it's worth the risk because i don't think the others have a particularly better chance, in effect, i think donald trump still has the best chance. >> i think that if donald trump is the candidate, then i think we're looking at four more years of democratic president because there are a lot of people like me that have been lifelong republicans that will not vote for donald trump if he is the candidate. >> victoria, how do you read that? >> so there are two other sets of numbers that were in this polling data. the first is that when it comes to independents, desantis and trump are tied. so i think that's very telling

that that dominating strength that donald trump has in the top line start to fizzle when we look at independents. the second piece is in addition to the horse race and the favorables and the unfavorables, here's a question that was asked, do you think that donald trump committed serious crimes, and 65% of respondents essentially two-thirds said, no, not really. so i think that this speaks very much to the comment of the first gentleman in what you just played where he's like, you know what? he's the one who has the best chance of taking us back into the white house, and so understanding really what undergirds the republican base but also keeping our eye on the independents, right? because this is really not just within iowa, but we zoom out to the larger country, that's the vision i keep my eye on. >> victoria defrancesco soto and

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29 past the hour. new developments in two cases facing former president donald trump in the classified documents case. former white house chief of staff mark meadows told the special counsel he could not

recall trump declassifying the materials the fbi seized at mar-a-lago citing sources familiar. nbc news has not independently verified that. here's how former vice president mike pence responded when asked about the report. >> in my case i was never made aware of any broad-based effort to declassify documents. i don't have any knowledge of any broad-based directive from the president, but that doesn't mean it didn't occur. i just -- it's not something that i ever heard about. >> in response to the abc report, the trump campaign accused the doj of leaking information and slammed the investigation once again as a witch hunt. meanwhile, a friday deadline looms for the former president and his 18 co-defendants in the case centered around efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in georgia. law enforcement sources tell nbc news trump has no plans to surrender earlier than thursday. joinings now with more is nbc's ali vitali in fulton county, georgia, and lisa rubin msnbc

legal analyst. defendants in the georgia case have until friday at noon to turn themselves in. what can we expect the next couple of days to look like? >> reporter: more of this waiting game, jose. we know from our law enforcement sources, as you just mentioned, the fact that the former president is not expected to turn himself in until at least thursday of this week, that allows him ample time to do some counter programming in the middle of the week for what would otherwise be the night of the first gop primary presidential debate, trump himself saying he's not going to be there. we expect him to be doing another kind of counter programming event with potentially an interview with someone like tucker carlson that would be wednesday night. really, it's just another moment of trump being defiant in the face of not just this fulton county probe, which of course we're waiting for him to surrender in, but also as we see other things moving forward in different probes of the former president, specifically in regards to the department of justice both on the documents case front as you mentioned what mark meadows is saying there and then of course also on the

january 6th doj probe. in regards to fulton counties we've also seen some movement here not in terms of other people turning themselves in. all of those co-conspirators have until friday to do so, but we have also seen his former chief of staff mark meadows try to get the case in fulton county, move to federal court and dismissed. those are two separate actions, and it requires several procedural steps in order for that to happen. it seems farfetched. nevertheless, we're watching the process play out and the jockeying continue even as we wait for trump to turn himself in. >> lisa, so what specific legal grounds is mark meadows looking for when he asks, as ali was saying, for the two parts of that. first it be moved to federal and then be dropped. >> let's start with the first part first, jose. you can remove a case from state court to federal court in certain circumstances, and here mark meadows is relying on a federal statute that allows a federal official or someone acting at the direction of a

federal official to move a state case to federal court where it presents what's called a colorable question of federal law. the colorable question that mark meadows is relying on is him saying that essentially he is immune because the president himself was immune and can't be prosecuted by a state prosecutor for doing things that are inherent to his duties as president. that's not an argument that i expect will succeed in federal court, but in order to make that argument, mr. meadows first has so get over the threshold of bringing his case to federal court, a hearing scheduled now for august 28th on that issue, jose. >> so you think that this is something the former president's team is going to ask for as well? >> the former president has asked for removal before he did so in the southern district of new york. that's manhattan federal court, with respect to the hush money case brought by manhattan district attorney alvin bragg.

that didn't succeed there. on the other hand, this is a much closer case. it's one thing for former president trump to say that he was paying michael cohen as his personal lawyer and that that somehow stems from his duties as president. it's another thing entirely for him to say that the effort to overturn the 2020 election was related to his duties as president and specifically to his constitutional duties to ensure that the election was fair and properly administered. so jose, i don't think that the former president will succeed, but i think he'll make it. >> i'm sorry to interrupt there, i was just thinking on what we were speaking with ali about, the classified documents case, what, lisa, is the significance of pence and reportedly meadows saying they weren't aware of trump declassifying any of those documents. >> let's take pence first. i think in pence's case he's sort of having it both ways as he has with many issues in the

past involving former president trump. on one hand he's saying i'm not going to rescue trump here. on the other hand he's saying i'm not going to bury him either. he said i'm not going to help you but i'm really not going to be the one who puts the knife in you either. mark meadows said he offered in his capacity as one of former president trump's designees with the national archives to help him go through those materials once they became aware that the national archives thought that there were things that needed to be returned and that offer was rebuffed. that's a more significant piece of evidence as far as i'm concerned than his saying, look, i wasn't aware that there was any broad-based effort to declassified, jose. >> ali vitali and lisa rubin thank you both so much for being with us. the chances of a united autoworkers strike is becoming dangerously high. what that would mean for the auto industry.

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40 past the hour. take a look at some stories making news beyond our borders. this morning a british nurse convicted last week of killing seven newborns and trying to kill six others was sentenced today to life in prison without parole. lucy lefty refused to appear in court during her sentencing but the court heard heart wrenching testimony of the parents of babies who were killed. in ecuador, voters will head to the polls again in october after no candidate in sunday's special presidential election received enough support to be declared the winner. an establishment leftist and newcomer businessman appeared to capture the top states. the vote came after fernando

villavicencio was assassinated. spain celebrating after its women's soccer team won its first cup, olga carmona scored the game's only goal to are propel spain to a 1-0 victory over england. triumph soon turned to tragedy as carmona was told after the match that her father had died after a long illness. turning now to the high stakes negotiations between autoworkers and top u.s. manufacturers at midnight on the 14th of september, contracts between detroit automakers and the uaw are set to expire. uaw leadership has called ongoing talks, quote, a defining moment for the union and has hinted at the likelihood of a strike. joining us now with more is cnbc's seema mody. what more would a strike mean for the automotive industry and for our economy? >> well, jose, this strike would involve roughly 150,000

autoworkers costing the country over $5 billion. that's the latest estimate from the anderson economic group. now, another potential outcome is more american car manufacturers moving their operations outside the country. according to the head of the union's unit, the carmaker is discussing relocating some of its pickup truck production from detroit to mexico due to these ongoing labor discussions. and of course that's a trend that we've been seeing over the last two to three years because of the pandemic. >> seema mody, i thank you so very much, appreciate it. up next, shock in one california community after a shop owner was apparently killed over flying a pride flag. plus, climate change appears to be taking a major toll on the united states with deadly wildfires, damaging storms, extreme heat. we'll talk to bill my about how it may all be connected. you're watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. r.

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getting on board air force one. meanwhile, a california community is in mourning this morning after a local business owner was fatally shot, allegedly over a pride flag displayed in her shop. authorities say the suspect made several disparaging remarks about the flag outside of the lake arrowhead clothing store before shooting laura ann carleton and fleeing the scene on friday. sheriff's deputies say the suspect was killed this a lethal force encounter. carleton was married for 28 years and a mother of nine. turning to our op story, the historic impact of tropical storm hilary, marked the wettest august and wettest summer day on record for san diego, breaking a previous record that stood for more than 150 years. now, even as hilary weakens, it

is helping amplify rising temperatures, increasing the potential of new fires. joining us now is science educator bill nye, bill, it's great to see you. just how unusual was it -- and let's just start with one unusual aspect after another, how unusual was it to have a tropical storm hit southern california? >> well, it's been 84 years apparently. i don't remember it, but i've read the records, and so what we got, everybody, is this heat dome over north america, over the continental u.s., and let's say high pressure systems spin clockwise, and then you have this low pressure system coming up from the middle pacific, western pacific, and so the two, to me, they act like gears enabling this storm to travel much farther north and much farther east than has happened in quite a while. so everybody -- it's very difficult to tie any specific

weather event to climate change, but if you like to worry about things, this is a great time. we have this huge heat dome, extraordinary humidity in southern u.s., and we have these very high winds in hawaii, and then we have this came through here. i live in los angeles. i'm in los angeles right now. it came through here last night. it was raining hard. and the difficulty, everybody, of course the roads get closed, but it's expensive. we've got to clean this stuff up. of course once in a while, there's a tragic event but this may be the beginning of things and people like to throw around the expression, new normal. it's not going to be normal. it's just going to get worse and worse, probably. so what i'm, what i would like you all to do as hard hitting investigating reporters at the place for politics, is get

somebody, probably a young person, during this debate this week to ask any of these guys and gal running for president what they're going to do about climate change. back to you. >> and so what is it that you think and when you mention all of these different factors that we've been seeing. can't hide it. we're seeing it. how are all of these things interconnected and what is it that we can all do to make a difference? >> okay. so they're connected because the world's getting warmer and most of that heat ends up in the ocean. and so what drives a hurricane or enables hurricanes or cyclonic storms is heat. then the spin of the earth makes them spin. and so if you're on the right side of the storm as seen on a

map, you get higher winds and that's what happened here in southern california. so what we can all do about it. i say this all the time. is vote. you know, this perception that if you just recycle your water bottles, your newspapers, climate change will be addressed. that is not the case. and i'll tell you, between you and me, everybody's talking about this movie, oppenheimer. this is an enormous government investment to create new physics to come up with a new understanding of nature. what we need, everybody, is virtually unlimited electricity. and so if i were king of the forest, what we would do, i'm not kidding. we would invest in fusion because there's so many organizations, universities, private companies working on fusion. somebody's going to figure this

out. >> hey, bill, i think we should continue our conversation going forward. really appreciate you being with us. >> thank you for your time. watch out for young people. they're going to demand change. they're going to demand climate change. it reminds me of a certain age of the vietnam war where people just, we've had enough. we're going to demonstrate. you watch out. young people are going to demand change. thank you very much. up next, good news to start the week. what a 13-year-old boy said on a doorbell cam that made this go viral. you're watching jose diaz-balart reports on msnbc. iaz-balart reports on msnbc it's my favorite mouth guard flavor. mmmm. now available at subway. the sub, not the mouth guard. type 2 diabetes? discover the ozempic® tri-zone. now available at subway. in my ozempic® tri-zone, i lowered my a1c, cv risk, and lost some weight.

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56 past the hour. this morning, we have good news to share. here are a few of the stories that will help start your week on an uplifting note. >> this is the moment andre had

been waiting for. embraced by family. after finding out she had passed her final nursing exam. a dream come true for this proud latina who came to america as a child. she is the first in her family to graduate college in the u.s. >> we know that it's not easy for us to obtain the american dream. at least seeing one or two people have hope, it gives everybody else hope. ♪♪ >> and take a look at this very good boy. that's retired military dog, rider, getting a very special package from the u.s. war dogs association filled with toys, a certificate, and medal for his service. >> look at you. >> rider served in the us navy, spending time overseas, with his owner, josh.

♪♪ that's theo finally getting glasses after being diagnosed as legally blind. his mom puts them on then he sees clearly for the very first time. giving us all a smile as bright as sunshine. >> there's always going to be somebody that cares about you. >> in minnesota, this is 13-year-old jackson pruitt. >> i'm just trying to say something nice. >> out with friends, the kids were dig dong ditching. >> i'm just trying to say you matter, man, or girl. >> but jackson had other plans, sharing a message. >> whoever you are, you matter to someone. >> hey, jackson, tell me about why you decided to record that message. >> i just thought that maybe the person that would see the video needed to hear it. >> ashley mann lives at that

house and was so moved by jackson's words, she posted the video to social media. >> it left me speechless. because it was something i never expected a young kid to say. >> jackson's mom, karissa, proud of her son. >> i just stood there in awe and amazement and really proud. >> i'm just trying to say that you matter, man. >> what is it that you want jackson to know? >> that he matters, too. i mean, everybody, everybody matters in this world. we're all humans. we all deserve a chance to have happiness and love and everything else. >> whoever you are, you matter to someone. keep that in mind. don't forget that. >> it means that everyone, everyone matters. jackson giving us a life lesson. he said he didn't ever think

that message he was leaving on that camera would be seen by anybody but the person at the house. well, thousands of people have seen it and have made that message their own. everyone matters. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. you can always reach me on social media and you can watch high lights from today's show online. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," tropical storm hilary ripping through the western u.s., flooding communities with record rainfall. as california's north of l.a. hit a one-two punch from hilary and a 5.1 magnitude earthquake and aftershocks. all this as president biden leaves for hawaii today to survey the devastation and talk to survivors there as anger mounts at the state and federal response. and crews keep