the pilot heard on the phone after landing in a backyard here's blayne alexander. >> reporter: as a $100 million military fighter jet tore unmanned through the south carolina sky, tonight for the first time, we're hearing from its pilot in a 911 call moments after he parachuted to safety. >> we had a military jet crash. i'm the pilot. we need to get rescue rolling. >> reporter: the 47-year-old pilot was flying an f-35 sunday but had to eject landing in the backyard of a north charleston home where a stunned homeowner called 911. >> i guess we got a pilot in our house, and he says he got ejected or he ejected from a plane, so we just see if we can get some ambulance, please >> i'm sorry. what happened? >> we got a pilot in the house, and i guess he landed in my backyard. >> reporter: the pilot describes his harrowing escape saying, incredibly his only injury is back pain >> how far did he fall >> i was at 2,000 feet. >> and what caused the fall >> an aircraft failure. >> reporter: he urgently tells the dispatcher, the plane is likely going down. >> i'm not sure where the airplane is. it w

blayne alexander now with what families need to know. >> reporter: it's hard to find a dull moment in the baxter household, with two full-time working parents and two small children, the secret sauce in keeping it all together the clay county early education center here in hayesville, north carolina that's where 3-year-old jura spends her days. how crucial is that child care to just having your family run smoothly >> we depend on it, 100% like -- i truly don't know what we would do if we did not have that >> reporter: but that center is now in jeopardy of closing for good it's among the more than 220,000 child care providers across the country that received $24 billion in federal pandemic relief money that, for the last two years, has helped keep the doors open but with that funding set to end september 30th, it could have a resounding impact. one report estimates more than 70,000 child care providers that have received that money could face possible closure sheila hoyle is director of the southwestern child development commission, which operates the hayesville center. >> we need chil

here's blayne alexander. >> reporter: it's hard to find a dull moment in the baxter household, with two full-time working parents and two small children the secret sauce in keeping it all together the clay county early education center, here in haysville, north carolina that's where this 3-year-old spends her days. how crucial is that childcare to just having your family run smoothly >> we depend on it, 100%, like i truly don't know what we would do if we did not have that >> reporter: but that center is now in jeopardy of closing for good it's among the more than 220,000 childcare providers across the country that received $24 billion in federal pandemic relief money that for the last two years has helped keep the doors open but with that funding set to end september 30th, it could have a resounding impact. one report estimates more than 70,000 childcare providers that have received that money could face possible closure. sheila hoyle is director that operates the center. >> we need childcare we need it not only for the economic value of supporting the workforce, but we need it because

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nbc's blayne alexander joins us from new orleans. how soon might sints run out of fresh water? next month. that's when officials say there could be an impact felt here in new orleans. it's not just the people here in new orleans, but the river provides drinking water to many in the is a state of emergency. they're watching this very closely, and it's important to keep in mind, ana, it's already been impacted further down river, smaller communities, less populated communities are already feeling the impact. they're bringing in bottled water to help with that situation. >> so what are officials doing then to keep the faucets flowing with drinkable water? what can be done? >> reporter: severalthings, one, they're bringing inresh water, literally shipping it in, to the tune of some tens of millions of gallons of fresh water a day coming in by barge. they're hoping to m that with saline content inside.e the the other things they're doing is they're literally trying to tracks.e saltd water in its they're raising an underwater barrier 25 feet and hoping to slow the flow of that salt w

joining me now, blayne alexander in atlanta. peter baker and harry litman. blayne, start us off.e us the context surrounding the governor's comments. >> reporter: yeah. this is something that -- this comes after a couple of days of seeing some far right republicans calling for a way to remove willis from office or discipline her. this is not a mainstream call among republicans in statehouse. these are far right members of the party and some other republicans have been pushing back against that. what we saw yesterday from governor kemp was the strongest pushback against that. if you have issues with the way the d.a. is doing her job, there are proper proceedings by which to raise those complaints. he is not going to call a special session to raise the issue of looking at impeaching her saying that that with likely be proven unconstitutional. he went a step further and said that he really hasn't seen any evidence that she has violated her oath or dog done anything improper. it's interesting when you see the fact that governor kemp pushed back and said we're not going to focus on th

here is nbc news correspondent blayne alexander. >> reporter: it's hard to find a dull moment in ther household, with two full-time working parents and two small children, the secret sauce in keeping it all together, the early education center here in haynesville, north carolina. that's where the 3-year-old jura spends her days. >> how crucial is that child chair to having your family run smoothly? >> we depend on it. 100 partly sunny. like i truly don't know what we would do if we did not have that. >> reporter: but that center is now in jeopardy of closing for good. it's among the more than 220,000 child care providers across the country that received $24 billion in federal pandemic relief. money that for the last two years has helped keep the doors open. but with that funding set to end, september 30th, it could have a resounding impact. one report estimates more than 70,000 child care providers that have received that money could face possible closure. sheila boil is director of the southwestern child development commission, which operates the haynesville center. >> we need child

blayne alexander is in atlanta, and this means mr. trump avoids another court appearance next week >> reporter: well, lester, that's right his arraignment was initially scheduled for next wednesday and of course, it comes on the heels of that extraordinary jailhouse surrender and mug shot last week now, the republican front-runner has also entered a plea of not guilty he has slammed this entire case as politically motivated. now, today, mr. trump also asked to be tried separately from some of his co-defendants who are set to go on trial on october 23rd. all 19 co-defendants are charged with trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election results here in georgia now, lester, all of this comes as georgia's republican governor said that he will not call a special legislative session to remove fulton county's democratic d.a. fani willis from office, despite calls from a handful of local republican lawmakers. and lester, today, a judge confirmed that all proceedings related to this case will be livestreamed on the court's youtube channel

here's nbc's blayne alexander. >> i guess we got a pilot at our house, and he says he got ejected. >>t to go missing, then crash in rural south carolina. the pilot, ejected and landed in the backyard of a home near north charleston earlier this week. the stunned homeowner called 911. >> i'm sorry, what happened? >> we got a pilot in the house, and i guess he landed in my backyard, and we're trying to see if we can get an ambulance to the house, please. >> reporter: then the pilot took the phone. >> how old is the patient? >> we have a military jet crash. i'm the pilot. we need to get rescue rolling. i'm not sure where the airplane is. it would have crash landed somewhere. i ejected. >> reporter: the 47-year-old pilot described a harrowing escape. >> how far did he fall? >> 2,000 feet. >> okay. and what caused the fall. >> an aircraft failure. >> reporter: the marine corps says the pilot ejected around 1:30 sunday afternoon, and residents reported feeling their homes shaking after 2:00 meaning the plane could have been flying on auto pilot for more than a half hour. the pilot ejected i

with us now, nbc news correspondent blayne alexander in atlanta and carol lam, former federal prosecutorsnbc legal analyst. blayne, several other co-defendants have waived their arraignments or moved to separate their cases. can we expect more of this going down the pike? >> well, jose, i think we can expect more to do the same thing. in fact, that's likely what we're going to see. we're watching for that. we know there is a number of those who are scheduled to have arraignments next wednesday on the 6th. they have until monday to wave their right to an appearance before a judge during that arraignment. we expect others to follow suit. and enter the same not guilty plea. the other thing we're watching is that when you have a case this complex, talking about 19 different defendants, of course, you're going to see a flurry of different motions, and filings to discuss how and where this is going to be tried. so, in addition to people waving their appearances, we're seeing like you saw with the former president people asking to sever from their co-defendants, and then, of course, as you ment

blayne alexander was there. here's blayne with more. >> reporter: up until recently the only thing we've seen out of the former president's stop at the fulton county jail was the infamous mugshot. we really didn't know very much about the intake process looked like inside the jail. the fulton county sheriff gave me an exclusive walk-through of the intake area in that jail, he showed me the door that the former president walked in, the wall where his mugshot was taken. one thing we did learn even though the motorcade was there for about 21 minutes between going in and going out the former president was inside the jail for about eight of those mint, his paperwork, consent bond forms were brought out to the car and signed in the car. here's a little bit more from my conversation with the slch. i asked him about his decision to have a mugshot of the former president taken. >> the motorcade came in and around these doors, he came in and took a mugshot over there and gave instructions to go back with his i.d.s and fing

and they're hoping to make it safe to drink. >> blayne alexander for us there in new orleans thank youce. the spacecraft flew past earth earl yesterday morning and released a capsule filled with a half pound of rocks and dust that landed in the utah desert. they were then collected from an asteroid 200 million miles away. and scientists are excited now because they say an asteroid is like a time capsule that can help them study how the effort -- the earth was formed. >>> dozens of people flocked to a beach on lake michigan this morning to see something they never imagined flamingos in wisconsin the pink ones are grown-ups. the gray ones are younger. wildlife officials believe they were blown off course last month from winds of hurricane idalia they hope the weather gets colder and the instincts kick in and those flamingos will go back home. >> they really drew a crowd out there. >> they did. >>> coming up next, we will sit down with the wildfire of bruce willis emma her inspiring mission to raise awareness and get more help for other caregivers that is coming up right after this now, i

nbc news correspondent blayne alexander has more for us. e sequence of events, especially as we learn more and more about what happened. at times during that 911 call it sounds like the dispatcher herself was having a hard time making sense of exactly what she was hearing. now, for the very first time, we're hearing from that pilot in his own words about that incredible story of survival. >> i guess we got a pilot at our house, and he says he got ejected. >> reporter: this morning a dramatic 911 call is giving new insight into a $100 million mystery, what caused an f-35 fighter jet to go missing, then crash in rural south carolina. the pilot ejected and landed in the backyard of a home near north charleston earlier this week. the stunned homeowner called 911. >> i'm sorry, what happened? >> we got a pilot in the house, and i guess he landed in my backyard, and we're trying to see if we can get an ambulance to the house, please. >> reporter: then the pilot took the phone. >> how old is the patient? >> 47, man, a military jet crashed, i'm the

blayne alexander is following this story. the police, the school? >> reporter: well, i just finished speaking with that band director, he said he has gone to doctor's appointment to check up on his health after the tasing accident. he said he's traumatized by what happened and his students are traumatized. police are saying it unfolded after a football game last week, where the police told both band directors to stop their bands from playing, they say that this band director was part of the visiting team did not stop, they tried to get him to do so and that's when things escalated. when i spoke with mr. mimms he said that was part of a planned arrangement between the two bands, something that's known as the fifth quarter, they expect the bands to keep playing for several rounds between the two of them as the crowds begin to leave the stadium, he said it was nothing unusual, nothing out of ordinary, he coordinated with the other band director as well. when officers came up to him he was on the podium, he was directing and he t

joining me from the fulton county courthouse is nbc news correspondent, blayne alexander, and former federal prosecutor, and msnbc legal analyst, paul butler, welcome to you both. blayne, you first here, could most or all of the defendants enter a plea and waive their appearance before wednesday. what's the latest on that? >> i think it's very likely that we could see a lot more people join that number, alex. in fact, just through the course of the day, we have seen a lot of people enter the waivers. we are up to ten if you include the former president. we heard from a spokesperson for giuliani who says he intends to. we're talking about eleven or so people who have or are going to waive their arraignment appearances and have entered the not guilty plea. i should put this into context, though, it is not surprising. this is something we somewhat expected. we certainly didn't expect for all of them to come down here again to fulton county and go before a judge. they still have until monday. we could still see more people enter the waivers and choose to not go before a judge during their

coors, the grand jury foreperson said it could be upwards of a dozen people when she spoke with blayne alexander. the report is not so lengthy. it's upper wards of 10 and fewer than 20. we should see what conclusions a special grand jury came to at the end of their investigation. >> that will ban be an interesting read. file an order to remove his case to federal court as mark meadows and others have done. >> well, you know, obviously the fulton county d.a. is going to oppose that. he would have a distinct advantage in going to federal court. he said once you get outside of 285, which is sort of the boundary interstate for atlanta, things start to become more and more conservative the further north you get. the northern district of georgia, the federal circuit, these are all potential jurors all the way from atlanta up to the tennessee line, and so a lot of those folks are going to be trump supporters. his team wants to get it out of the city of flan. >> get it out of the belt line is the way to put it. let me ask you about just the case that fani willis has going here. i was talking to chuck ro

today, fulton county sheriff labonte explained to nbc's blayne alexander why it was important for donald trump to be processed the same way everyone else arrested in fulton county is processed. >> for me, it was understanding that again, we have a community, of black and brown people that we have 3600 detainees. 85 to 90% looked like you and i. and they don't have that choice. we don't give them that choice. and they aren't simply accused of a crime as well. and so this accusation, this indictment really at its highest level, i have a responsibility to make sure that we are equally -- in what that looks like. have i received death threats because of it? absolutely. absolutely. >> leading off our discussion tonight is glenn kershner, and -- former u.s. attorney and a professor at the university of alabama school of law. both are msnbc legal analysts. glenn, i want to get your reaction to this filing by fani willis tonight, just within the last hour, saying once again, all 19 defendants should be tried together. >> you know, she makes a powerful argument, lawrence. and i have been skeptica

and blayne alexander got to get first video inside that jail.s where donald trump went. she also spoke to the sheriff there about trump raising money off the mug shot that was taken, and here's what he said about that. >> i asked the county attorneys to look into the potential of recouping any moneys that ultimately whether it was copy righted or not copy righted if there was an opportunity, we want to know what that is. i've heard numbers from $7 million to $20 million, but if there's an opportunity for the county to get anything, it's an opportunity for us to reinvest in our facility. and potentially save lives. >> given what's been reported about the condition of the jail, there's no doubt they could use the money. the question is legally do they have a foot to stand on to try to get it? >> no, but it's good for him to say it, making a point because it is true that jailhouse is apparently a horror show, and they do need the money. >> let me ask you finally before i let you go about the federal judge rejecting mark meadows' request for an emer

. >> blayne alexander, thank you for that. congresswoman, when you look at this, is georgia just a microcosm, really what we're seeing within the republican party, this split, this big chasm within the republican party created by donald trump and which side you're on? >> well, it is, but really it would be great if more republicans would listen to governor kemp because governor kemp is in a swing state, and he's a winner and he's following the rule of law, and he's following the constitution. whereas donald trump and his hand-picked candidates have lost in georgia repeatedly in '20, in '22 with the senate candidates, and he has said he wanted to suspend the constitution, and then he's finding people like that character that, you know, who's in the state senate there who's just trying to raise money just like trump himself is trying to raise money, and these are losers. so donald trump is a loser. you can stay on the loser train with him, which is what brian kemp is pointing out, or you can get on the winner train and follow th

i keep thinking about blayne alexander's interview with emily coors and she was almost giddy with excitement recalling seeding rudy giuliani before her, headaching her hand. she was part of this body of people recommending extensive charges against mr. giuliani and others. that speaks to, i think, what we can expect of jurors throughout this country who are asked to pass judgment on the former president and his allies in a number of these cases. we shouldn't be so negative about the capacity of people whose political beliefs madoff tail with the president's to mete out justice in these cases. >> when one is involved in a judicial process of any kind, they ask jurors can you separate your beliefs on -- or even likes or dislikes about a person so that you can take this responsibility seriously. and that's a question that every juror has to answer. >> air always asked by both sides, civil or criminal case, can you be a fair and impartial juror. and what does that mean? it means i may be a registered republican, a registered democrat, i may be an independent with no party affiliation, but i can

blayne alexander, nbc news. >>> we have a lot to cover in our second hour of "chris jansing reports." let's get right to it. at this hour, breaking news, the chairman of the powerful foreign relations committee indicted on bribery charges. the stunning allegations against senator bob menendez, including the search that turned up gold bars and money stuffed into jackets. >>> also breaking, the auto strike this afternoon shifting into high gear after a key deadline passed with no deal. the picket lines going up at plants in 20 states. tragedy on the rio grande, a 3-year-old boy drowns trying to cross the border near a texas town, scrambling to handle that flood of migrants. we'll get the latest. >>> plus, investigators now think they know what caused a deadly crash carrying a bus full of kids to band camp. we begin with nbc ken dilanian with that sweeping indictment against new jersey senator bob menendez. ken, break down these allegations for us. >> good afternoon, chris, this 39-page speaking indictment details a sprawling bribery experience among senator me mendez, his wife, and thre

blayne alexander, she did an interview with the sheriff of fulton county, on why, he explained why het. take a listen. >> we have 3600 detainees. 85 to 90% look like you and i. and they don't have that choice. we don't give them that choice. and they aren't simply accused of a crime as well. and so this accusation, this indictment really at its highest level, i have a responsibility to our community to make sure that we are equal across the board and what that looks like. have i received death threats because of it? absolutely. absolutely. >> thoughts. >> death threats for making the point that no person, including the president of the united states, and the former president, is above the law? death threats for that, really? donald trump thinks that the fulton county courthouse and jail are for black people and for poor people and for brown people. he thinks that he has no business there. people like fani willis, people like the sheriff, people like judge chutkan are doing their jobs objectively and dispassionately, and making the case that nobody, including a rich white male billiona

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blayne alexander, thank you for that interview. to change things up a little bit with little bit with a conversation on the topic of happiness. >> when is a good time? you are not happy with a family friend, david ignatius. >> there was a lot more going on with that column. that's all i am going to say. >> i don't know what that means. >> on a happier note, our next guest is an expert on happiness and says americans have been struggling to see the joy in life for years. over the past decade the number of americans that said they are not too happy rose from 10% to 24%. what is the secret to being happy and staying that way? that is that the subject of a new book entitled "build the life you want: the art and science of getting happier." >> and oprah joins us -- >> no, arthur joins us now. >> yeah, and we have talked about this. tell me why the time is now for this book? i am thinking especially when it comes to our young people and technology. >> yeah, for sure. there's a lot that goes into it. the truth is happiness has been in a s

nbc's blayne alexander with that report. you got your toys?der inequity and more. the event featured artists and speakers from the jonas brothers to nancy pelosi. tomorrow the festival returned to central park. the organizers say it might be the most impactful yet. here to explain why is the ceo and cofounder of global citizen hugh evans and fran catsutis. she runs it. let's just say it. fran serves on the board of directors for global citizen. by the way, she was also an honoree on the forbes and know your value 50 over 50 list last year. let's start with you. >> let's talk about the history of it. we have been so excited to see over the past 11 year what is you've done, and so many of these things come and go. they're fads. yours is not. it's an incredible story how it started, but 11 years now. how much closer to your goal of ending extreme poverty are you? >> firstly, i should say thank you to fran and thank you to you, joe and mika. i honestly believe we wouldn't be here today without you because you were involved since day one. huge than