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right now on "ana cabrera reports," donald trump's talk with elon musk, heavy on tech issues and falsehoods, light on substance. and we have got new reporting on growing frustration among trump's allies this morning. plus, riding solo, vp contender tim walz hitting the trail by himself for the first time, where he'll stump today. also ahead, breaking news in a new york courtroom this morning. we're there as disgraced and ousted former congressman george santos goes back before a judge. and later, israel's military at its highest level of readiness as iran refuses to back down from threats of a retaliatory strike. good morning. it is 10:00 eastern, i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. in a bid to take back the 2024 narrative, former president

trump joined his billionaire ally elon musk for a lengthy live stream on the x social media platform that musk owns. this discussion was riddled with tech problems, and with trump's usual falsehoods about issues like crime and immigration. trump also boasted about his, quote, good relationship with vladimir putin. and discussed kamala harris' physical appearance. the long winded conversation prompted real time responses from the harris campaign as trump allies tried to get him to focus and get out on the trail. and nbc's monica alba and garrett haake are in washington covering the two campaigns. garrett, what is the feeling in trump world, are they happy with how this x discussion played out? >> i think reasonably so. it is important to remember the audience for this streaming event last night has no overlap with the audience watching this broadcast right now. the trump campaign is trying to reach people who don't watch the news, don't read a newspaper, and probably don't attend trump rallies.

they think there is a segment of the population out there who might be amenable to supporting donald trump if they can reach them in some way with political content. the content that viewers or listeners got last night sounded a lot like a trump rally on decaf, complete with some of his favorite topics and some of his distortions and outright falsehoods. here is a sampling if you didn't stay up late to listen. >> i say, what is the biggest problem, he said, north korea. and i had that problem worked out very quickly. it was nasty at the beginning with rocket man and, you know, all the different things. but all of a sudden -- >> those were some epic tweets, by the way. >> they were epic, everything. he said he had has a red button on his desk. i said, i have a red button on my desk too, but my red button is much bigger. if you're a jewish person or if you believe in israel, if you're person that, you know, is very pro-israel, if you vote for her, it is worse than biden and biden was bad. but if you vote for her, you

ought to have your head examined. we'll have a meeting and dinner in venezuela. that's what's happening. their crime rate is coming down and our crime rate is going through the roof. >> most of this pretty stock trump. and in this format, with elon musk, a supporter, a donor, endorsee, no fact checking, including of that last point about crime when we know in fact crime is down pretty significantly all around the country right now. >> so, monica, let's talk harris campaign. today governor walz has his first solo event. what are you watching for there? >> yeah, he's going to be addressing a key public sector union at their conference in los angeles, ana. and then he's really going to embark on a solo tour fund-raising-wise. he's going to be heading out and talking to donors while he's there in california, and then he's going to be heading out to colorado, massachusetts, rhode island, and he's going to kind of spend this week trying to introduce himself to that key sector for the harris/walz campaign. and operation, try to rake in all of that money. but also try to really now stand

alone as his own candidate in terms of being the vice presidential nominee and talk about his -- what he brings to the table and a little bit of his story and his background. last week we clearly saw the vice president and governor walz do that together instead he's going to be doing that on his own this week while the vice president is finalizing some policy proposals and rollouts that we expect in the next couple of days. and then we have learned that she is going to finish this week by heading to north carolina, to talk about lowering costs for americans, and corporate price gouging which had been a stop she was going to do last week, but got scrambled due to tropical storm debby. so, you're going to be seeing travel from both of them, even though they're not going to necessarily be doing it together this week compared to last week. ana? >> monica alba and garrett haake, thanks for bringing us the latest from both campaigns. joining us now, political commentator chris cillizza and variety co-editor in chief

ramin statuda. you both stayed up late watching and listening to that conversation last night. let's talk about where we landed this morning after all that. trump said this would be the interview of the century. chris, in reality, a peak of about 1.3 million tuned in concurrently. now that it is over what did trump accomplish with it? >> so, i think garrett's right that sort of the audience was not -- what i would say is it was just kind of boring. i listened to -- i'm not going to lie, ana, i would love to say i listened to every single second, i listened to 75, 80% of it. if you ever have seen or listened to or read the transcript of a trump campaign speech, everything he said last night will be very familiar to you. it was a conversation or interview in name only. musk would ask something and trump would just kind of go into

his usual campaign riff, whether about immigration or weirdly joe biden or he just kind of has -- it is like going to see the eagles on tour at this point, right? they're going to play "hotel california," that's sort of what this was, really, a sort of greatest hits of donald trump. i don't know that it convinces anyone who was not already convinced. maybe because it is a different medium he reaches some people who have not heard this message, but it is hard for me to imagine people have not heard most of what he said so far. >> musk said up front this would not be an adversarial interview. he wanted open minded voters to catch a vibe, to get a feel for what a conversation with trump is like. so, ramin, you had multiple conversations with donald trump. your takeaway and if this is what they were going for, what do you think is the takeaway for viewers or for listeners? >> i think calling it an interview is generous. for most of us as journalists watching it, it was a train

wreck. elon musk didn't ask very many questions, donald trump wasn't fact checked in real time. the argument in my book is that donald trump sees the world through the paradigm of reality tv and all the seasons of "the apprentice" he starred in and runs his campaigns luke a reality show. for him, to be able to have this two-hour conversation where he could say whatever he wants makes him feel good. he doesn't talk to journalists because he is fact-checked. he gets to dominate the news cycle, people play clips, he talks about how his red button was bigger than any other red button and he's able to get back in the news. that's how donald trump campaigns. for us as journalists, it seems like a dud. for donald trump this is the way in which he brands himself and i think it succeeded on that level. >> that's interesting. i wanted to highlight one odd moment in this two plus hour conversation when trump discussed vice president harris' physical appearance and her cover of "time" magazine. watch this.

>> she's terrible. she's terrible. she's getting a free ride. a picture of her on "time" magazine today. she looks like the most beautiful actress to ever live. it was a drawing. and actually she looked very much like a great first lady, melania. she looked -- didn't look like kamala, but she's a beautiful woman, we'll leave it at that. >> you have said that this is an example of why trump needs an editor. >> it is. when he was on the apprentice, mark burnett could cut things he said that didn't make sense. it was also interesting, i went to mar-a-lago and in the hallway of mar-a-lago, donald trump has framed all the issues of "time" magazine that he thought were flattering enough to frame. he said a lot of them he couldn't frame. but he wants to be on the cover of magazines. he's drawn to the media. so i saw this as donald trump being jealous that kamala harris is on the cover of "time" magazine and he's not. that's the ultimate currency. he looks at the world through

the paradigm of fame. >> chris, we have new reporting that trump allies are trying to get him to refocus his message. but when he, i guess you could say was on message last night, talking about the issues they want him to focus on, crime or immigration, he's trading in falsehoods. what would a focused trump look like? >> i would say good luck. i feel like the trump allies want him to get on message is the story of literally the last nine and a half years. trump is trump. he's going to sort of do the kinds of things he did in that interview last night. there is just no way around it. it is both his great appeal and his great weakness. look, i think it took him a very long time in that interview to get to what i think is probably his best message, which is kamala harris is too liberal, she's from san francisco, her voting record is too liberal in the senate, her time as a candidate, that's not a bad

message for him and it could reach those swing voters. the problem is it came 97 minutes into a 120-minute conversation because he spent the first 45 minutes, elon and him patting each other on the back and him recounting in very long form the attempted assassination. that's the issue. the message is in there. you just got to dig and i don't know that the average swing voter is spending 90, 100 minutes listening to that on a late monday night on the east coast. >> the harris campaign was responding in real time. the subject line was, the two worst people you know are live right now. and the harris camp messaging has been notable, chris, ezra kline points out that is gone is the grave stentorian tone of biden's news release. her campaign wants to be talked

about and knows how to get people talking. it is trying to do something democrats have treated as beneath them for years. win news cycles. as we understand it, the harris team has many of the same people who worked on biden's campaign. what do you make of the rhetorical shift? >> well, look, campaigns are reflective generally speaking of the candidate, right? and joe biden was not a guy -- he's never really been a guy who will look at his senate career, he's never been a guy who liked the kind of like memeification of politics. kamala harris is a different person, she's 20 plus years younger. she's a woman of color. she's someone who has grown up more in the world of i don't want to call it the donald trump fiction of politics, but the need to win each news cycle and win it like a knife fight. every day you have to fight to try to win the news cycle. it is a reflection of the

candidate more than it is the campaign. i think they had the capacity to do this before. i think joe biden and his inner circle didn't want to do it because they were running this idea that he was the serious, more somber one and donald trump was the more threatening one, the danger to democracy. i think that's a different dynamic than how kamala harris wants to run. >> trump is not used to this style of pushback from an opponent. is this him getting a taste of his own medicine and how do you think he'll respond if he continues to see this kind of an attack against him? >> it is him getting a taste of his own medicine and no one has been successful in being to do it. i think it is interesting that eight years ago michelle obama said when the republicans go low, the democrats go high and based on polling and biden not doing well in the election cycle, the lesson is the democrats have to go low and that's what the kamala harris is doing and i think this is effective messaging. the question is can this continue to work for the next

two months as we wait for the election? >> you say it is effective. how do you think it is effective against trump? >> i think it is effective because donald trump is a reality star, and so you are fighting him as if he were a reality star, talking about him in low brow terms that a lot of americans can understand and see when they see donald trump on the campaign trail. >> ramin, thank you for your insights. chris, thank you for the analysis as always. good to have you both here. up next, israel reaches, quote, peak readiness in preparation for a potential attack from iran. we're in the region as tensions are rising. plus, disgraced former congressman george santos back in court this morning. we're there as he faces 23 federal charges for everything from wire fraud to identity theft. also ahead, new inflation numbers, and what they signal about the u.s. economy and your finances. and later, the bronze medal battle involving u.s. gymnast jordan chiles is not over. we're back in 90 seconds. not o.

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hamas official in tehran about two weeks ago now. and nbc's richard engel has the latest from israel. richard? >> reporter: it is a moving target, yesterday it seemed like military action from iran was imminent. israel put itself on its highest state of alert and readiness and is still on high alert. but in the background, there are many diplomatic efforts to try and reach a cease-fire in gaza and de-escalate the tension. but those efforts are extremely fragile. israel attacked this morning what it described as hezbollah military structures in lebanon. in response to hezbollah strikes on israel yesterday. but this tit for tat isn't the big one. the expected major iranian retaliation, likely in concert with hezbollah, for israel's dual assassinations two wees ago. israeli military announcing last

night it is now at its highest state of alert and readiness. the u.s. also concerned. >> we have to be prepared for what could be a significant set of attacks. >> reporter: but will iran call it off? in a joint statement, the united states, france, the uk, germany, and italy called on iran to stand down its ongoing threats of a military attack against israel. adding the country's discussed the serious consequences for regional security. the u.s. military has made some of those consequences abundantly clear. the pentagon announcing it is speeding up the arrival of a second aircraft carrier to join a guided missile submarine and squadron of f-22 fighters already prepositioned. the biden administration and arab mediators want to push ahead with diplomacy, and stop the war in gaza with a cease-fire and hostage deal, in talks that could resume this

week unless the middle east goes up in flames. in gaza, israeli strikes continue. the hamas run health ministry says at least 142 people have been killed in the last 48 hours. a woman in khan younis telling our cameraman -- enough, we are tired, we can't bear it anymore, she says. israel launched its war in gaza after hamas murdered around 1200 israelis in october. israel says hamas fighters are hiding among civilians. and hamas announced that two of its guards suggesting that they were operating alone shot and killed a male israeli hostage and seriously wounded two females. israel says it is investigating. richard engel, thanks. joining us now is retired admiral james stavridis, nbc news chief international

analyst. we have been anticipating iran's retaliatory strike for two weeks now. why do you think they're waiting? >> good morning, ana. they're waiting because they want to line this up and to strike a significant blow. they also want to coordinate not only with hezbollah, but also with hamas efforts on the ground in gaza and even the houthis down on the red sea. they're going to try and put all that together, unlike the last attack of a month or so ago, where 300 rockets came in, but were scattered. i think this one is going to be intensively directed, probably at an israeli military target. so the short answer is they want to get this one right, but i think it is still coming. >> what does getting it right look like then? do you expect that it will be more damaging, potentially deadly, and do you see it as imminent or do you still think

that there is time before it happens? >> i think it is imminent and i think they will seek to achieve some strikes against military targets. what i think iran will want to avoid is striking civilians. because they know that is the path to a much wider war in the middle east. so, watch for an attack that is probably pretty sharply focused against an israeli military base, for example, and i do think that it will be in the next few days. >> we'll be watching very, very closely for any signals and obviously we'll be covering it as that unfolds when it unfolds, if it unfolds. i want to talk about ukraine, because there have been some major developments as well there. ukraine has now seized, it says, 386 miles of russian territory. it has been about a week since that surprise cross border assault that left the kremlin scrambling. so with ukrainian troops now pushing in -- >> i think ana just froze on me.

>> we may have lost -- >> hello. >> can you hear me, admiral? i'm afraid we lost him. again, we're just covering what is happening in ukraine and they have seized russian territory. we'll stay on top of those developments or at least fighting on russian territory, i should say. so what does that mean for the war in ukraine, another story we'll be on top of. our thanks to admiral james stavridis for joining us. up next on "ana cabrera reports," remember the former congressman who allegedly spent campaign funds on ferragamo, botox and onlyfans? why george santos who is facing 23 charges on everything from wire fraud to identity theft is back in court today. plus, the fbi confirms it is investigating the alleged hack into the trump campaign and we're learning it wasn't the only target. ng it wasn't the only target. into something we can see and hold.

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that courthouse in central eye slip, new york. what should we expect at today's hearing and tell us more about the charges santos is facing. >> good morning, ana. the hearing should get under way any minute now and he is facing some incredibly serious charges. it is more than just the shopping and expensive personal gifts and trips to casinos. he is facing charges for conspiracy to commit offenses against the u.s., money laundering, identity theft, wire fraud, and for making false statements to the fec, the federal election commission. and to give people a sense of some of these anecdotes, for example, he allegedly took a donor's credit card number and then used that to transfer thousands of dollars into his own personal bank accounts. he went on trips, bought flights, got botox as you mentioned, and really prosecutors are building this case of someone who was using this office as a way to

personally enrich himself. he, of course, has pled not guilty to all these charges, though months back now nbc news and others have been reporting there had been the potential of a plea deal, but the reality is right now that all signs show we are still moving toward a trial in early september. >> so, with that schedule, and this trial beginning next month, they are already starting to work on jury matters, right? what is happening there? >> reporter: that's right. that's a lot of what the discussion is boeing to be about. that's because the santos team asked for two stipulations. the first is they want all the perspective jurors to have their identities concealed. this is something the government actually doesn't disagree with. they like to leave it up to the discretion of the court. but it is the second issue that the santos team is asking that all of the perspective jurors have to go through a very extensive questionnaire process that is causing some issue here. the santos team says that's because he has been at the receiving end of a lot of bad

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both the trump and harris campaigns, including attempts to hack three biden/harris campaign staffers and trump adviser roger stone. the trump campaign says it was hacked in june. the fbi still hasn't confirmed that or whether any of the attempted hacks were actually successful. nbc's ken dilanian is joining us now. walk us through this. the fbi says there were efforts to hack that campaign, but they haven't said whether those efforts worked? >> well, in one case they believe it worked. the fbi is investigating as you said attempts to hack into the email accounts of officials on both campaigns, including three biden/harris staffers and one trump campaign official. there is no indication the attempts against the harris campaign were successful, and in fact the campaign tells us it sees no evidence of a cyberbreach. in the case of a trump campaign, mr. trump himself says that a campaign website was hacked by iran, and former trump adviser roger stone is saying that authorities told him his email

accounts were compromised. also, several news organizations have said they were offered what appeared to be internal trump campaign documents. it does look like the hack of the trump campaign was somewhat successful. the fbi isn't saying this was iran, but microsoft's intelligent unit said friday, u.s. intelligence officials have been saying for a while now iran is trying to influence the election and wants trump to lose. so the bottom line, it does appear a foreign government is once again attempting to hack and dump operation to influence the presidential election, just as we saw when the russians hacked the democrats in 2016. >> you covered roger stone for years. what did you make about the fact that he's specifically involved here, he was at the center of so many conversations about leaks back in 2016. >> yeah. the irony could not be thicker. multiple investigations found that roger stone was in secret communication with wikileaks in

2016 and did everything he could to help the trump campaign exploit that hack of the democrats by russian spies. trump himself urged russia, we all remember, to find hillary clinton's missing emails and he celebrated those wikileaks disclosures and and knew at the time came from a russian hack. now the trump campaign is urging news organizations not to use any documents stolen by a foreign government in what some seem as breathtaking hypocrisy. so far, news organizations do not appear to have published any internal trump documents. but nothing is stopping the hackers from posting them on the web somewhere, which will create a real dilemma for the media if the documents are newsworthy. no one wants to help a foreign government influence an election. >> challenging times. ken dilanian, thanks so much for the update. in other campaign developments, robert f. kennedy jr. is scrambling to get his name on the ballot across the country as an independent candidate. he was just dealt a blow in new

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media companies. oppose ab 886. paid for by ccia. we're back with breaking news on the state of the u.s. economy. the first of two inflation reports expected this week coming in better than expected, showing wholesale price hikes easing. this just a week after fears of a slowing u.s. economy sent markets into a free fall worldwide. we're also following a shake-up this morning for one of the country's biggest coffee companies, starbucks ousting its ceo after just a year as it continues to see sales slump. and joining us now, nbc news business and data correspondent brian cheung. today's inflation numbers were lower than expected. good news, right? >> it is good news because in the context of what we have been talking about, it was a really volatile week in markets last week because of the sensitivity

around are we going to have this soft landing that we have been talking about, which is inflation coming down, while not letting the unemployment rate rise too much. people were freaking out about the unemployment rate rising, here is one inflation report telling us on the inflation side of things, things are calming down a little bit. the producer price index showing that prices rose by just .1% between june and july. that was below what economists had expected. they were projecting around .2% this report. this is not the big inflation report we usually talk about. this is the producer price index, much domestic suppliers, your target or costco, are getting paid for their goods. it is not the prices we pay. that measure comes from another report that is going to come out tomorrow morning, the consumer price index and we can talk about that then. this is kind of one indicator of what that report might look like, could be positive. >> hopefully it is an indicator of what that report should look like as the wholesalers were then passing the costs down in

the fair increments to the consumer. so, let's talk about the other big news that we just mentioned about starbucks getting a new ceo or ousting the old one. for those who aren't following the day to day when it comes to this sort of thing, why is this a big deal? >> even casual starbucks customers may have noticed of late they're getting more coupons in their apps and that's because starbucks has been trying to stimulate sales and at the top, saying this is the time for new leadership. they ousted their former ceo and they're going to install as of the first week of september a new ceo, brian niccol, who is currently the ceo of chipotle. so, a little bit of a round robin musical chairs happening in the quick food service industry space. and you have some analysts saying he can provide the jolt they need to try to boost sales, especially in china, where they have been having issues there. >> interesting. and now we talked about coffee and mexican food, two of my favorites. not even lunch time yet.

thank you, brian cheung. now controversy over the bronze medal awarded to gymnast jordan chiles. she lost her appeal to keep the medal. the court of arbitration for sport said their ruling cannot be reconsidered even when conclusive new evidence is presented. but usa gymnastics says this is not over. they're going to keep fighting. i want to bring in the athletic's tessa myers. where does u.s. gymnastics take this next? >> good morning. i think the next step will be to the swiss federal tribunal that is where these appeals go from the cas because the cas doesn't revisit their own decisions the next step up would be the swiss federal tribunal. >> when they talk about evidence, new conclusive evidence, what is it that the u.s. says it has that can prove that she does deserve this medal? >> usa gymnastics is saying that it has a video, which shows that jordan's coach cecile landi did

submit the score inquiry within the one-minute window after jordan's score was posted. the cas ruling said the inquiry came four seconds too late, but usa gymnastics is saying, no, we have a video that shows it was submitted within 47 seconds and then i believe they're also claiming they have proof she submitted a second inquiry within 55 seconds. so, all of this within that one-minute window. >> interesting. so practically speaking, at this point, the ioc said she has to send the medal back, she can't have the bronze medal. would they make her have to mail it back to them? >> we're not sure yet. the only instances i'm aware of where athletes had to physically return a medal has been doping violations or cheating of some sort. jordan chiles and her coach did not break any rules. they did everything as they were aware by the book and the score inquiry was accepted on the day, no one was alerted to the fact

that it was four seconds too late as the cas ruling says. so, usa gymnastics is going to continue this appeal process for jordan to keep her medal. i'm honestly not sure what the process would look like if jordan were told to physically return the medal, so it could be reallocated to the romanian gymnast. >> it is unchartered territory so to speak. in terms of the possible outcomes here is there a chance both jordan chiles and the romanian athlete could both receive the bronze? >> it seems to me that will come down to the international olympic committee because the cas ruling initially put the medal reallocation on international gymnastics federation, who then said that responsibility was on the ioc. and the ioc had the option to award multiple medals initially, the romanian gymnastics federation suggested multiple athletes get the bronze medal,

but the ioc determined that the bronze medal should be reallocated to one gymnast. so, moving forward, i'm not sure how the appeal process will play out or if the ioc will take that into consideration, determining who gets that medal, if there is more than one medal to be awarded here. >> this is an olympic story that is continuing well past the games. thank you for offering us your reporting and your insights on how this is going to play out. i appreciate it. up next here on "ana cabrera reports," wildfires whipping through greece. not far from the capital of athens and forcing evacuations. inside the fight to contain the flames. plus, californians rattled by a magnitude 4.4 earthquake, shaking every from l.a. to san diego. shaking every from l.a. to san diego.

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welcome back. a dangerous wildfire turns deadly in greece. here is a look at a suburb of athens, where hundreds of local residents and even local hospitals have been forced to evacuate as firefighters battled this fire, right at the peak of tourist season. nbc's kelly cobiella is following the latest for us. >> this athens and its famous ancient sites. the fire started sunday, after the hottest june and july on record, the warmest winter on record as well. it's been fueled by extreme heat and wind gusts up to 40 miles an

hour. flames shooting more than 80 feet into the air as a fast-moving and unpredictable wildfire closed in on the greek capital of athens overnight. the ancient buildings that make the city a hot spot with more than a million americans visiting every year in the path. >> i've never seen anything like this, all over greece. >> reporter: susan and her husband from alabama saw the fire when they arrived sunday. >> we couldn't believe all the smoke and just literally so close to us, and just a giant smoke cloud that almost looked like a mushroom cloud from a bomb or something. >> reporter: the fire forcing evacuations, burning homes and businesses, turning hotels into shelters. at least one person has died, more than a dozen treated for burns and breathing problems. the smoke and fire closing in on monday. kate and ryan from california capturing this, in greece to celebrate their daughter's college graduation.

>> while we were here, we received emergency alerts on our phones, which was both concerning and comforting at the same time. >> reporter: this satellite image showing the size. the fire scorching 25,000 acres. this morning, warnings for children, pregnant women and the elderly to be extra cautious because of the smoke. >> the smoke was bad. we didn't really smell it yesterday. we could see it, obviously, in the air for the last few days. it did not change our travel plans at all. >> reporter: nearly 700 firefighters are battling this blaze. they got a bit of reprieve from the winds this morning. the gusts picking up this afternoon with temperatures forecast to soar above 100 degrees today and tomorrow. >> thank you. back here at home, southern california is breathing a sigh of relief after an earthquake rattled the los angeles area. here is the moment it was captured on one home.

luckily, that cat there didn't seem too bothered at the bottom of your screen. this earthquake coming in at a 4.4 magnitude, with an epicenter just south of highland park in northeast l.a. it was felt miles away. no major damage reported so far. pasadena officials say it caused a water pipe to burst inside city hall and local residents are still bracing for aftershocks. next on "ana cabrera reports," all of the lights, the stunning auroras and potential disruptions from solar flares. [laughter and giggling] got real serious for a moment. —okay. —whoa! [indistinct chatters] [laughter and giggling] [laughter and giggling]

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welcome back. have you looked up at the sky lately? the national oceanic and atmospheric administration is monitoring the sun this week following a series of intense flares that began over the weekend, flares that could disrupt technology, but are also unleashing some fantastic scenes in the sky, increasing the visibility of the northern lights here in the u.s. nbc's tom costello joins us with more on this ongoing solar phenomenon. first, what exactly is going on here, tom? >> so space weather forecasters, and yes, there are some, they have been reporting a severe geomagnetic storm conditions on the sun, and that includes at least five strong solar flares since august 10th. and the activity has been much more intense than originally expected. now, we are right now in a period known as solar maximum,

and the sun's magnetic field is close to a peak of its 11-year cycle. and that is causing it to send out bubbling, shooting streams of plasma that are four times hotter than the sun itself. scientists had expected increased solar activity, but the intensity of this flare has caught them by surprise and it continues. >> it's so beautiful when you look at these lights. what can we expect in terms of the impacts from these solar conditions here on earth? >> we've seen it in the past. it could happen again, interfering with power grids, by surging higher voltages through transmission lines. so power companies are right now preparing to avoid disruptions. we could also see high frequency communications affected at high altitudes and scrambling radio and gps signals. the storms might even increase the earth's drag on satellites, the drag on satellites in low earth orbit. thankfully so far, no major problems reported.

here is what's cool. the auroras from these storms are sometimes visible at night, even in the summer. and forecasters say we should watch the sky tonight as far south as alabama, as far west as california. we might pick up a trace of auroras, not the bright lights you may see in the winter in the north, but just a trace of the auroras, even in a summer sky. so pretty amazing stuff. >> very quickly, if you will, how long could this last? >> well, they're saying for a few more days. it kind of all depends on what's happening on the sun, you know, how far away that is, and nobody on the sun is answering the phone to tell us how long it's going to last. >> i guess we've got to keep our eyes to the sky. tom costello, thanks. that does it for us today. i'll see you back here, same time, same place, tomorrow. you can catch our show online around the clock on youtube and other platforms. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now