good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm josé diaz-balart. all eyes today on georgia this week as the final seven defendants prepare their pleas or get ready to go before a judge. the latest developments in that wide ranging election interference case. plus, a ray of hope for the tens of thousands of people at burning man who have been essentially stuck there. the festival goers hoping the weather lets up just enough to free them from their muddy misfortunate. and later, the intense manhunt for a man who is supposed to be serving a life

sentence. how did danielo cavalcante manage to escape from prison. and welcome to a special second hour of "josé diaz-balart reports." we begin this hour with the big week ahead in georgia, the clock is ticking for the final seven defendants in the wide ranging election interference case to enter their pleas or get ready to appear for their arraignment on wednesday. joining us now nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, danny cevallos and veteran prosecutor paul henderson. ken, where do things stand now as we await that wednesday deadline? >> good morning, jose. obviously the court's closed on this holiday, and we fully expect that all of these defendants will either waive appearance or come in and enter a plea in what is really a formality, this arraignment. the big questions looming over this case have to do with

scheduling, have to do with whether mark meadows will be successful in his bid to get his particular portion of the case moved to federal court. and if he is, whether donald trump will try to follow suit and whether some of these defendants were pursuing early speedy trials will get their wish and go on trial this fall, and whether that will then give donald trump's attorneys a free crack at some of the evidence and the witnesses. so a lot of looming questions over this case, one of obviously four against the former president, jose. >> so danny, what are you watching for as we get closer to this trial? >> jose, i hate to answer a question with a question. i think the answer is what trial? there could be several different trials. there are defendants seeking to sever themselves from the other defendants, defendants asking for speedy trials, other defendants wanting anything but a speedy trial. part of this case is in federal court. a lot of people are calling that a request for, say, mark meadows to move his case to federal

court. it is not a request. the defendant removes and now it's the prosecutor's job, the state prosecutor to try and drag this case back down to state court. she may succeed, but for now, there are two different courts, federal and state, two different sovereigns handling this case. so what trial? i guess the soonest trial, even that set trial date i don't think is likely to go forward. and given that there is a current rico case in fulton county that has had eight months of jury selection, it's not likely that even when this first trial starts it will be done within a year. >> and so, paul, what do you make of kenneth chesebro asking again for his case to be severed from the rest, this time saying he doesn't want to be tried with sidney powell because chesebro's attorney said he never directly communicated with powell. >> right, i think that's what's going to drive the train in terms of what's going to happen next. those big motions that we were alluding to about the motion to sever and the motion to remove, that's referencing the speedy

trial motion. i think that's going to be the big decision maker in terms of how this case proceeds because the batch of defendants is likely going to be split in two in terms of those that are demanding their speedy trials and want to move forward and those that do not -- that get severed and have to be put off for whatever reason. i think that's going to drive the training about how these two dockets of defendants are going to be treated. i suspect that even is going to wait, and i suspect that trump will try to be, if those cases get split up and the trial has to be split into two different dockets, that trump will want to be in the latter docket, he will try to use that to his advantage, so that he can watch and hear the information and the evidence that prosecutors all have, and we will see a whole process that i alluded to before in georgia of rolling transparencies, of evidence, of testimony, and witnesses cross

pollinating some of the other indictments that we've seen throughout the country. that's what i think is going to happen next, and that's what i'm looking for. >> yeah, meanwhile, ken, the judge has already said that much of the trial is likely to be televised. that sort of transparency is sort of the norm in georgia but on the national stage, how rare is this. >> obviously jose, it's not uncommon for trials to be televised at the state level that are of national interest. think of the recent alex murdaugh trial in south carolina or the derek chauvin trial in minnesota. what's different here is that this is a case that really has enormous implications for our democracy and two of the main cases against donald trump they're in federal court with no possibility of any television, any visibility on the proceedings at all or audio recordings for that matter. so this is the only shot at the public getting to see donald trump on trial if, in fact, this case goes forward to a trial with donald trump as a

defendant. that's why the stakes are e near -- enormous here. it's kind of a travesty because it's important for the public to see this evidence in a trial that you can't think of larger implications for the democracy than for these trials. >> we're also expecting the fulton county grand jury to have their report released in the next couple of days? what are you watching for there? >> we will probably be printing that out, i and many other legal analysts, printing that out, taking the fulton county indictment, and comparing them. and the defense attorneys will be looking closely to see if there's anything inconsistent, anything they can mine in that document. you'll recall that there was a somewhat unredacted version that was released earlier. that was in terms of redactions still mostly a redacted document. a lot of people will be watching closely to see to what degree this earlier grand jury report now that it's unsealed will

compare to the actual fulton county indictment that came months and months later and see how much they match up, to what degree there may be some inconsistencies, look for the defense to capitalize on that. >> paul, how important is that report to willis's case? >> i think it's absolutely important because it shows her hand, where she thought her strongest legal arguments are going to be, and to whom blame is going to be aligned with, and so all like we just talked about, a lot of those defendants are going to be saying how can i wiggle through and try and place the blame other places, and we've already started to see that coming from the other defendants that are being arraigned, we've even seen that in the motions they're making up to sever the case to go to federal court where they're talking about, hey, the reason that i am indicted is because i was following the orders of someone else. of course all roads lead to donald trump, and so looking at

those final charges will give an indication from the prosecution of who they think is going to be held accountable for the trial that they have upcoming and what role they played in that process. that's why people really want to see that, and that's why the individual defendants are going to be looking at it carefully to try and craft their arguments to make the most persuasive argument they can to the court of why they are less accountable or not accountable because we're seeing the defendants being treated differently in this case, depending on the roles they played based on the charges we had. that's why all of this matters and people will be looking at that evidence as it rolls out very carefully. >> ken dilanian, dann cevallos and paul henderson, thank you so much. we'll soon know if conditions in the nevada desert, not sure they're exactly feeling their trap. they haven't been allowed out. heavy rains turned the annual

gathering into a massive, miles long mud pit closing roads prompting an emergency shelter in place with folks advised to ration food and water. nbc's liz kreutz is at the festival entrance and michelle grossman is standing by with the forecast. liz, how is it looking at this hour? >> reporter: hi, jose, you know, i would say that burners are probably pretty happy right now. the rain has stopped. it's been about 24 hours since they've seen rain, and it looks pretty dry, so things are in some areas starting to dry up, but other areas it's like where we are, the sticky, wet mud still, still very uncomfortable for some people. in fact, of these who have been able to get out, some are saying it wasn't so bad, but others were telling me -- i met a guy at the reno airport last night, who was so relieved to get out, almost in tears saying it was so uncomfortable. this whole ordeal has led people to trekking for miles through the desert to get out through

the mud. in fact, one man told us he was so desperate to get home to his children that he was going to do whatever he could to get out. >> i'm actually going to try to make a break for it. they're saying the gates are still closed by i've got a four-wheel drive car and i'm going to try to make it out. i'm mostly worried about having to sit in line to get out of here with 70,000 people. >> reporter: and probably the most famous people to make this kind of trek is comedian chris rock and dj diplo. they posted on social media that their whole ordeal trekking out of burning man through the mud and hitchhiking, good samaritans picking them up on the side of the road. i will say that a lot of the attendees have said this is part of the experience. it's part of the burning man way. this is what you come here for. we are in an extraordinarily remote part of the nevada desert. everybody's sort of taking it in

stride. we are starting to see cars trickle out, the roads starting to dry up. about a mile down the road where there's more cars going out, you can see them going slowly one by one making their way around flooded areas trying to get out. jose. >> that sticky mud, you know what it's great for is burning mud sculptures which i'm looking forward to seeing some of the elaborate ones that may have been created these last couple of days. michelle, what's the weather looking like today for these folks? >> hey, jose, well, looking much better. we're looking at sunshine, you can see that with liz. notice her coat, it's chilly. we're in the desert. we see those temperatures dip down at night. hoping everyone still has fuel for their vehicles. it's dipped down into the 40s. we're now into the low 50s. we're expecting to keep that sunshine in place at least for the next week or, so which is great news, but not before we saw nearly two months of rain in

just 24 hours. that was really over 3/4 of an inch of rain that fell. it doesn't sound like a lot, but it's a desert. when that rain falls, it becomes runoff. it doesn't have vegetation to soak it up. as we go throughout tonight, expecting to burn the man, i think that's the phrase, mostly clear skies, it will be cool tonight around 9:00. we'll see those temperatures dip into the 40s. then we're going to keep that sunshine in place. as we look at satellite and radar, we can see that the rain is falling, but it's not falling in nevada. it's falling to the east. now we're looking at portions of utah. we're looking at flurries. the higher elevation, some wintry weather there and rain falling throughout montana and wyoming. that's going to be the story as we go throughout the day. for your labor day forecast, heavy rains, some storms, a threat for severe weather in portions of the high plains, the northern rockies into parts of the central and northern high plains. we're looking at showers and

storms also along the golf coast. then the big story today will be about the heat. it's the unofficial end of summer. we're going to feel like the middle of the summer in so many spots. temperatures soaring in the northeast, mid-atlantic, the gulf coast states, the northern plains into the upper 90s, you factor in that humidity. it's going to feel like over 100 degrees. lots of kids going back to school tomorrow. we got some emails from our district saying there might be some early dismissals. also, jose, we are looking at the chance for severe storms in portions of the northern plains, that includes bismarck down to rapid city. we do have rocky weather later on today. back to you. >> liz kreutz and michelle grossman, thank you both for being with us this morning. >> sure. coming up, the search for an escaped killer in pennsylvania is intensifying after he is spotted on a doorbell camera. still wearing his prison outfit. the tense scene near the prison as the search enters its fifth

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helicopters are new to us, and they've been low flying especially today. the lower they get the more concerned we are he's closer to where we are. >> 15 past the hour. neighbors on high alert just outside philadelphia where a convicted killer is on the run after breaking out of prison. police still have not said how danielo cavalcante escaped. they're focused on getting the murderer behind bars. we expect to hear the from the local d.a. george solis is outside that d.a.'s office in westchester, pennsylvania. so what doe we know as of right now? >> reporter: yeah, good morning, jose. some details that we're expecting to learn during this 1:00 news conference here outside of the d.a.'s office, a source telling me that they

believe there may have been another sighting of danielocavalcante in the wooded area where the doorbell footage captured him traversing through the heavily wooded area. it lets authorities know that he hasn't fled the area, that he still might be in that two-mile radius outside of the chester county prison where he escaped from. this is a massive manhunt by air, by foot. authorities are swarming this two-mile radius trying to find him. obviously a big lead for them over the weekend came with that doorbell video when they saw him walking through that neighborhood. he was still wearing that prison attire, somehow he got a backpack. authorities weren't clear where that may have come from. this is a very heavily wooded area. this is a very small community. it's tight-knit. people telling me they don't normally lock their doors. for this to be happening and playing out in realtime for them, it is very scarscary.

very unnerving. you have police officers with long guns stopping people and looking into their vehicles for any trace of this wanted killer. authorities stress this guy is very dangerous. he escaped days after being sentenced for the murder of his ex-girlfriend. he's also wanted for a 2017 murder in his native brazil. yesterday we had a brief moment inside one of those search zones. spoke with a couple who was walking, and they were definitely frantic. take a listen to what they told me. >> we have never seen anything like this before, and we are in the perimeter. we're very worried. very concerned. >> reporter: yeah, jose, so again, law enforcement source telling me that there may have been another potential sighting, which sort of makes sense with what we were seeing yesterday. we saw a large convoy of police officers just racing into that search zone into a heavily wooded area. we're also hearing reports that with the choppers, they're also yelling messages out in portuguese because, again, he is from brazil. we're expecting to learn a lot

more details here into the afternoon as this manhunt enters its fifth day. jose. >> george solis, thank you very much. keep us updated, please. a new development this morning in the suspected gilgo beach serial killer case, a potential link between a missing south carolina mom last seen in 2017 and the long island architect charged with several murders on long island. investigators in sumpter county, south carolina, say a tipster claiming to be a friend of julia ann bean called to say of a connection between bean and rex heuermann. local authorities say there are still no confirmed facts to bean or heuermann, but her case will remain open until she is found. coming up, campaigning on four criminal indictments, the new poll showing donald trump gaining, gaining on his rivals since his latest legal troubles. and as students head back to

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and now to the latest in what's effectively a race for second place in the republican party, the entire presidential field tries to catch up to donald trump. today mike pence and vivek

ramaswamy along with will hurd and asa hutchinson are all in new hampshire for a labor day picnic, less than a month out from the next gop debate. i want to bring in nbc news correspondent dasha burns in salem, new hampshire, former aid to republican speakers paul ryan and john boehner, brendan buck, and democratic pollster fernand amandi. what are we expecting to see in new hampshire today? >> reporter: we're going to see all the folks you just mentioned vying for votes in new hampshire. this is a state where voters here have a lot of scrutiny. they are independent voters. a lot of folks here very independent minded. they're going to be watching closely to see what those folks have to say. it's going to be interesting because we are going to have mike pence is and vivek ramaswamy, when those two have been locked into little bit of a battle with pence consistently going after ramaswamy. it started on the debate stage, and it spilled over to the scam

-- campaign trail. take a listen to what he had to say, mike pence recently. >> i don't have a problem with vivek. i met him a couple of years ago, he's a good man, a good family man but he's wrong on foreign policy. he kind of goes one direction and then goes back another direction. i don't know how we fully back and then say that there's a limit to what our military involvement would be defending israel in an attack by iran. >> reporter: and by the way, it's not just mike pence, nikki haley, chris christie and the super pac supporting florida governor ron desantis, they've all been going after ramaswamy who says he's wearing it essentially as a badge of honor. he feels like when people are coming after you, that means you're doing something right. whether or not that holds true, we'll have to see. >> what do you make of the fact that everyone, at least pence, haley, focusing on ramaswamy,

they're not then even mentioning trump. >> yeah, it feels a little bit like whistling past the graveyard. i think you put it very well. they're fighting for second. i get it, they're all trying to establish themselves as the al alternative. only one person can really be the alternative. as long as ramaswamy is threatening to be the alternative, you have to -- no one is gaining ground on donald trump. he continues having a dominant lead, and maybe there's a play to be made by going to new hampshire and iowa and trying to sort of earn it on the ground, obviously donald trump's not going to do that, but all of it feels so completely inadequate to the -- how far back they are in this race. you would think that after that debate and showing no real momentum, they would try to shake things up a bit. they're fighting with themselves a long, far distance from donald trump. >> in the latest wall street journal poll, trump is 46 points

ahead of the rest of the field, do you think, fernand, this is pretty much for the republicans at least so far a done deal for trump? is there anything that you think any of the other candidates could or should be focused on to try and change that number? >> jose, i do think it's pretty much a done deal. i mean, we've now seen four indictments, 91 counts, donald trump convicted or at least civilly charged for sexual assault, not to mention the two impeachments. it hasn't done a thing to dent his support among republicans. the only person right now who's going to stop donald trump is donald trump. what the rest of the field is doing, they're playing the last man or woman standing game. if trump through his own volition exits the race or decides legally he can't continue running for president, that's where these other candidate are making a play. but nothing of any of the candidates on the field right now is going to stop the current dynamic. we're also at a historic

inflection point with what this polling suggests. no one of either party has gone on to lose after having almost an insurmountable lead this close to the voting. >> i'm curious to your thoughts on the fact that even with these four indictments, even with these 90 plus cases against him, he's not only in the lead but he's fund-raising off of it and then the latest polls seem to show if the election were held today between trump and biden it would be pretty much a tie right now. >> well, that point you just made, jose, is the most important point for donald trump right now. the argument of the other contenders where they can say look, we can't afford to lose the race to biden is that trump was going to be running far behind biden and as inexplicable as that may seem, the talk that trump would jail his political

opponents if he returns to the presidency, on the polling they're virtually tied. that is yet another argument that takes away any case that a non-trump republican can make to the republican voters can say why they and not donald trump should be the standard bearer next year in 2024. >> dasha, new hampshire governor chris sununu addressed the possibility of using the 14th amendment to keep trump off the ballot. what did he have to say? >> that's been a conversation that's starting to bubble up across states across the country. here's what he had to say, and let's talk on the other side. >> do you expect to have to see this litigated before donald trump's on the new hampshire ballot? >> no, no, donald trump's going to be -- if donald trump follows the rules like everybody else and signs up like everybody else, that's the beauty of the new hampshire first in the nation process, it's a very open, very easy process for a lot of folks to partake in.

i see no reason why he wouldn't be on the that ballot. >> sununu says he's going to be on the ballot, but the other point he's making is he hopes he's not on the ballot, not because of some legal mum bow jumbo but because voters decide that an alternative would be better. he's looking at the polls that say the vast majority of americans do not want to see a trump/biden rematch, and he's really concerned that might be what happens, and he's worried about the sort of morale of american voters, the spirit of the country if that is, in fact, where our politics take us. and so everything that we've been talking about today with how far ahead trump is in the polls, sununu is pointing to the hope that something will potentially change between now and january 15 when the iowa caucuses kick off and followed by new hampshire and all of the the other early states. what might change between now and then, trump is the only one that can stand in the way of trump, we'll have to see.

but he's not wrong, when i talk to voters, the prospect of another trump/biden rematch is really demoralizing and folks feel like that's quite a bleak possibility but it is a probability if we're looking at the numbers right now, jose. >> yeah, i mean, talk of using the 14th amendment, et cetera is to kind of go off of fernand's point, it's all trying to deal with trump without, you know, the fact taking into consideration the fact that he's way ahead in every single poll. >> yeah, and even having that conversation is going to do nothing but fire up trump supporters even more. look, it's very clear that a lot of these campaigns got in with the expectation or maybe even just the hope that somehow donald trump was going to blow up. he was going to implode, and they were going to be standing there. i don't know why you would think that given all we've been through, at this point, with all the indictments, i think it should be clear donald trump is not going to implode. voters are not going to run away

from him. what's important for us as a party is to learn the lesson of 2016, and that is you can't spread out all of the other votes among six or seven candidates. it seems very early, but it's not, and it's about the time that some of these people polling at 2, 3, 4% look in the mirror and say do you actually have the chance. we need to have at most two people, hopefully just one who are going head to head with donald trump, create a real contrast. that seems like the only chance to stop him at this point. otherwise the other votes are going to be divided and he's going to ride very easily back into the nomination. >> thank you so much for being with us this morning, appreciate it. well, in new york, back to school is going to look a little different this year. classrooms are preparing for an influx of new students. thousands of migrant families are now enrolling their kids in city schools. nbc's lindsey reiser has more. >> across the country, cities like new york are buckling under

the pressure of incoming asylum seekers. it's become a flash point as more and more migrants arrive by the bus load. >> we have people sitting in shelters and in hotel rooms with no place to go, no work, no way to get around the city. >> reporter: and as the city grapples with more than 107,000 new arrivals since last spring, according to new york officials, concerns are now turning to the school year which begins this week. while the city says 19,000 new students living in temporary housing, many of them migrants have enrolled since july of 2022, mayor eric adams says there's no way to know how many more there are. at this recent event organized by the community empowerment o, migrant families picked up free backpacks and got information about the upcoming school year. berlin suarez arrived last month from venezuela with her three daughters.

we asked her daughter how she felt about starting a new school in a new country. >> are you scared? she said this is new for her because it's not the same as it was in venezuela and she's afraid she won't be accepted for who she is. meanwhile, with every new migrant that enrolls, some parents are running out of patience while schools are running out of room. on new york's upper west side we . >> have a library that is no longer. there are no books in there. it's being used as occupational therapy. we have teachers that are sitting the entire day in closets. >> where do your frustrations lie? >> i want to see more being done tr a city level, a state level. >> are you worried as a result

of all of this your own children will fall behind academically? >> yes and no. it's unfair that my kid doesn't have a s.t.e.a.m. room where he can do hands on science projects and he doesn't have creative art rooms that keep him engaged. >> david banks says more help is on the way. >> we committed an additional $110 million to address immediate requirements for all of our schools. >> and have you ever blamed the asylum seekers? >> they're not the problem. the problem is that we are not equipped to help them. and we should be. >> reporter: parents from near is and far just hoping for a better future for their kids. >> thank you, lindsey, for that report. i just keep thinking about that little girl who's fearing starting school because she may be rejected. coming up, a gender reveal party with a pilot hired for a dramatic fly-by ends in tragedy.

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turning now to a tragic scene in mexico over the weekend. a video capturing the moment a small plane losing control and crashes right in the middle of a gender reveal party. nbc's correspondent erin mclaughlin has the story. >> gender reveals are supposed to be joyful occasions for expectant parents, but in recent years, some of these celebrations have taken a dangerous turn. over the weekend, one party in mexico ending in tragedy when a plane suddenly crashed to the ground. just the latest example of a gender reveal gone wrong.

>> the terrifying moments caught on camera as a gender reveal party in san pedro, mexico, turned deadly. video shows a small plane flying quickly past the parents to be letting them know a baby girl is on the way. but seconds later just as the crowd begins to celebrate, the aircraft suddenly shoots up. its left wing appears to give out. the plane then spiraling out of control, eventually crashing into the ground. the expecting couple and other partygoers seemingly unaware of what was happening above them. photos showing the mangled aircraft as emergency responders arrived on the scene. the local authorities telling nbc news the pilot was the only person inside the plane. he died on the way to the hospital. >> just get the cake next time and stop with news stunts. >> reporter: this isn't the first time a gender reveal has gone horribly wrong. in 2021, new york state police say a 28-year-old father to be

died after a device he was building for a gender reveal exploded. a year earlier in california over labor day a smoke generating device used during a gender reveal ignited the el dorado wildfire destroying more than 20,000 acres and forcing tens of thousands to evacuate. a similar story back in 2017 when an expectant father shot his rifle at a target packed with an explosive powder in a dry, grassy area in arizona. according to officials that single gunshot sparked a massive brush fire that took hundreds of firefighters weeks to control. the blaze consuming more than 45,000 acres and resulting in $8 million in damages. this latest fatality yet another cautionary tale that some of these celebrations continue to get out of control. a first responder tells us there were no other injuries at the

scene and several partygoers called 911 about the incident. it's unclear what caused that wing to give out. experts say think safety first when celebrating your baby. back to you. >> erin mclaughlin, thank you so very much. turning now to the war in ukraine, russian president vladimir putin in sochi, russia, today meeting with turkey's president about the black sea grain deal. putin says he'll only agree to restart the critical food shipments if the west meets his demands. meanwhile president zelenskyy is moving to dismiss ukraine's defense minister in his nightly video address to the nation sunday, he told ukrainians he believes the ministry needs, quote, new approaches, change must be sanctioned by ukraine's parliament, but zelenskyy says he expects they will vote to approve his pick. at least two people are dead and another three missing after record rainfall caused catastrophic flooding in central

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destinations for americans traveling aboard. there's been about a 4% increase in domestic travel just in weekend inside the united states but there's been an astonishing 44% increase in the number of americans traveling aboard to places like this. now, we spoke with some americans who were all standing outside here watching the changing of the guard just a couple of hours ago. we asked them why do you think you are among this huge number of americans who are now leaving the country and traveling to places like europe? most of them didn't seem to know. some said that the time is just right in terms of economics. here's one person we spoke with just a couple of hours ago. >> it's cheaper than traveling within the united states. >> no, how so? >> because i mean, eating out is cheaper. and you can visit more countries within you know, one travel versus in the states. it just takes longer to get to

one thing. >> now i don't know about that, jose, because here in britain, they're still reeling from sky high inflation. it's a huge scandal here. but apparently to some americans, it's cheaper to visit britain. i don't find it that way. i find the city to be punishingly expensive. there's also united airlines, they say they're bookings are up 35% from last year. so clearly, for whatever reason, it might have to do with the pandemic settling. it might have to do with the war in ukraine no longer making headlines and scaring americans off of going to europe. i don't really know. the fact is, americans are m coing across the sea. >> to hear someone say london is cheaper. i agree with you on that one. haven't seen that. matt bradley in london. good to see you. exactly. take care, buddy. programming note.

today, msnbc films presents a holiday marathon of documentaries kicking off with all six episodes of leguizamo does america at 4:00 following up with an encore presentation of when truth isn't truth. tonight, 10:00 p.m. eastern here on msnbc. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. you can reach me on social media. thank you for the privilege of your time. your time. hey, everybody, good day. the disastrous debacle at burning man potentially coming to an end today as 70,000 stranden revelers may be getting word on when they can finally head home.