dana griffin is in tracy, california. dana, how serious is the threat? >> reporter: extremely serious. firefighters battling this blaze all weekend, but the risk is not over as a heat wave stretching across much of the southwest threatens to produce additional wildfires. frightening images of a wind-fueled wildfire in northern california's san joaquin county nearly 60 miles east of san jose. families forced to evacuate under heavy smoke. >> the flame was actually lapping up on the side of the trailers and the side of my car. >> reporter: this house, the only one to go up in flames, now a charred reminder of what once stood. the corral fire driven by 40 mile-per-hour winds started saturday afternoon near the lawrence livermore national laboratory. two firefighters were injured as more than 14,000 acres burned. the cause unknown. this week marks the first significant west coast heat wave of the year, coming off the heels of a wet winter. there's a lot more vegetation to burn. heat alerts are in effect for 23 million people across the southwest including ca

dana griffin, nbc news. >>> the weekend saw a spate of shark attacks in the united states, two happened miles apart with two people seriously hurt. it's unclear whether it was the same shark in both incidents. nbc's marissa parra asked florida officials if the water is safe. >> what i don't think people should be historical or paralyzed only as far as they need to be aware of their surroundings and look out for each other. >> statistically speaking attacks on sharks by humans are rare, but friday's florida shark attacks came on the same day as an attack reported out of hawaii and after last week's attack in galveston, texas, where a 19-year-old had to fight a 5 footer off with her hands. >>> it is a stormy start to the week across the south. nbc meteorologist bill karins is tracking the threat for us. >> good morning, frances. it's a pretty quiet monday weather day and the weekend was pretty quiet, too, but this week will be all about the heavy rain in florida and the temperatures in the west. today just some scattered showers and storms, typical for florida late afternoon, but it's not

dana griffin, nbc news. >>> we are getting our first look at newly released bodycam video of a huge house explosion in suburban virginia. first responders running for their lives and desperately trying to get neighbors to safety. here's jesse kirsch. >> reporter: this was the moment an arlington, virginia home exploded. first responders fleeing. >> i'm here! i'm here! >> reporter: and evacuating residents. >> police department! i need you to evacuate and move down the street, okay? >> reporter: watch again from another angle. authorities say this armored police vehicle was about to smash in a covered window, but the blast came first. these videos, newly released by authorities show a december incident that investigators started with a homeowner firing more than 40 flares into the neighborhood, sparking a standoff between police and the suspect, who did not surrender. >> arlington county police! stop shooting the flares! mr. yu! >> reporter: authorities identified the suspect as 56-year-old james yu, described by neighbors as an erratic individual. >> there was no nexus to terrorism, and t

dana griffin reports.arning for you, some may find the video disturbing. >> reporter: tonight an ntsb and faa investigation is under way into the single-engine two seater plane crash that killed famed nasa astronaut and former air force major general bill anders. a couple watching wildlife off the coast of san juan county, washington capturing this moment, the 90-year-old pilot, the only person on board, taking a nose-dive. >> it was inverted, went into this barrel roll loop thing. tried to pull up before it hit the water but it was too low. >> reporter: the plane crashes into the water, bursting into flames. hours later, anders' body is pulled from the water. in 2018 anders talked with nbc's harry smith about his career. >> probably the world's best fighter pilot. but we don't talk about that. >> reporter: before astronauts could set foot on the moon the apollo 8 crew first had to prove they could fly round the moon and back. >> wow, that's pretty. >> reporter: and it was the photo he took dubbed earth ri

nbc news correspondent dana griffin joins us now. i have been to yellowstone -- we don't have dana at this moment. should we hold off? i'll turn it back to you. >> thank you so much. >>> let's turn to an important investigation on an organization that was built on the mission to help critically ill patients raise money for life-saving organ transplants. patients around the country say that mission has failed. now they are fighting for their lives and to get back the hundreds of thousands of dollars they raised. >> reporter: kathy needed a double lung transplant. >> i knew i couldn't walk from here to there without gasping for air. >> reporter: for years she used a well-known charity to raise $13,000 for her medical expenses without issue. but in april, she checked her account and the money was gone. >> you didn't know they had shut down. >> no. >> reporter: the nonprofit had abruptly closed. donna sinclair says she lost $11,000 raised with nft for treatment following her double lung transplant. >> how did that feel? >> horrible. >> re

dana griffin, nbc news. >> our thanks to dana griffin for that reporting. >>> up next on "ana cabrera event in more than a decade. the company's big announcement and what it could mean for how you use their tech. >>> plus, the threat in the shallows. the string of shark attacks scaring beachgoers. k attacks scaring beachgoers ting these two every thursday. help fuel today with boost high protein, complete nutrition you need... ...without the stuff you don't. so, here's to now. boost. new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. when you sponsor a job, you immediately get your shortlist of quality candidates, whose resumes on indeed match your job criteria. visit indeed.com/hire and get started today. (vo) you've had thyroid eye disease for a long time. and you've lived with the damage it caused. whose resumes on indeed match your job criteria. but even after all these years, restoration is still possible. learn how at tedhelp.com. when you purchase a pair of bombas socks, tees, or underwear, you also donate one to someone facing homelessness

nbc's dana griffin takes a look in our "sunday focus." [ phone rings ] >> reporter: back then bulky brickns. >> zach can't come to the phone right now. he's on his way to pick up season tickets to detention. >> reporter: smart phones are considered a rite of passage, and for many students, addictive. >> you want to keep scrolling and scrolling. >> i'm on my phone about ten hours a day. >> everything is on the phone. nobody speaks face-to-face with people anymore. >> reporter: school used to focus on reading, writing, and arithmetic but with new technology comes powerful new distractions. this week the los angeles unified school district approved an in-school ban on phones to try to tackle the issue. >> yes. >> passes. >> reporter: experts warned with the impact on mental health. excessive cell phone use can increase anxiety and depression amongst students, stifle meaningful personal interaction, and enable cyber bullying. >> they'll be more present not only with their teachers but one another as well. >> reporter: surgeon general vivek murthy added for warnings be added similar to those o

nbc's dana griffin is tracking the latest for us on this. dana, what can you tell us about the fire-fighting efforts, and who's still in harm's wait right now? >> reporter: when you have a fire that has been burning now since monday, some 23,000 acres burned and zero containment, that is a recipe for additional disaster. as you mentioned earlier, two people have been killed. new mexico state police saying one person was found outside near a hotel. his family confirmed to a local news station that he was waiting for a ride to be picked up. that second person was found in a burned out vehicle. so it shows how fast this fire was moving for people who were probably in the position to evacuate but still got caught up in all of this. you can see just the images of these burned out shells of homes and vehicles. some 1,400 structures have been burned. and the governor has made it clear that this is probably one of the most devastating wildfires that they have had in the state. listen to what she also said earlier today. >> we have two devastating, en

nbc news correspondent dana griffin has been covering this case since the beginning, and joins us nowbreak this down. what in court is happening right now, what do people need to know? >> reporter: so, this is the last hearing of the day where the judge ruled aside -- the prop gun that was used that ultimately fired that deadly round was destroyed by the fbi during their testing of the weapon. this is nothing new. we've heard about this before in the previous trial of the armorer. so, right now, the state is questioning one of the lead detectives about what was the state of that weapon when they showed up the day of that shooting, and so far that detective has said that the weapon was not damaged. so that could be pretty hurtful for the baldwin case because they are trying to use this alleged damaged gun to try to get out of charges. ellison? >> the judge is also weighing a request from baldwin's defense attorneys about this question, their proposal, their suggestion, argument, that this trial should not go forward. can you break down exactly what they are saying supports that case he

dana griffin reports. >> it would be appropriate to impose the death penalty. >> reporter: chad daybell, the so-called doomsday cult leader convicted of triple murder sentenced to death. an idaho jury deciding his fate on saturday, two days after finding him guilty of conspiring with his wife lori vallow daybell and ryan and jj vallow. >> i lost everything. but more importantly, we all lost tylee and jj. >> i was praying for a just verdict. and we got it. >> reporter: in court, like much of the two-month-long trial, daybell sat emotionless. what happens next? >> the appeals process begins. and this can take years, if not de decades. >> reporter: the sentence marks the end of a grim investigation that gripped the nation starting in september 2019 when the two children were last seen alive. daybell's first wife tammy died a month later, just weeks before lori and chad married. months later, the newlyweds dodging questions while in hawaii. the following summer, the children's remains were found buried on chad's east idaho property. >> it has been a nightmare that you feel never ends. >> re

>> dana griffin, thank you. >>> a disappointing day at cape canaveral in florida as nasa was forced to again scrub the firsto launch of boeing's starliner spaceship with astronauts onboard. the mission is years behind schedule. tom costello is at the kennedy space center. and tom, they also had to scrub just last month. >> reporter: that's right. may 6th they had to scrub because of a helium leak in the rocket made by united launch alliance. not boeing's problem. but then today another problem with united launch alliance rocket. the astronauts was strapped in, supny, butch, ready to go, and then a t-minus 3 minutes and 50 second, suddenly the computer stopped the launch. engineers now believe they have a hardware problem with the launch commuter with the ula rocket. they're going to try again on wednesday according to nasa as they work this problem. if they get it up, it'll be the first time astronauts have been on that boeing starliner spaceship. jose? >> thank you. >>> now to fallout from donald trump's first conviction. the first polls are in what impact it could have on the preside

let's bring in nbc's dana griffin who's covering all of this out there for us. dana, what can you tell us about new mexico? >> reporter: katy, at this hour, that fire that has been burning since monday, these two fires are 0% contained. that's critical. for a fire that's been burning so long, destroyed 23,000 acres, another 1,400 buildings and homes and has killed two people so far, this is just the beginning of the effort to try to get this fire under control. there was a fierce storm that rolled into new mexico yesterday, which dumped some 2 to 4 inches of rain. that created flash flooding in some areas. because of the burn scars that have been created because of these fires. so it kind of impacted the fire fighting effort. some firefighters had to move out of the area during that storm. the governor has declared a regional state of emergency, and how long it takes these firefighters to get this fire under control still remains unknown. we know that more manpower is on the way, possibly 2 to 500 firefighters will be moving into south new mexico to try to help p

dana griffin joins us. you have heard from people in the area.s as a catastrophic failure of the roadway. for many families, this is a catastrophic blow to their livelihood. you've got thousands of people who live in east idaho and beyond. they commute some two hours each way just so they can make double earnings in wyoming. day service that tourist industry there. and now that this road is compromised and there's no time line on when it will be fixed, it's impacting so many people, including one worker i spoke with. he told me he already had to sit down his 7-year-old daughter to explain why she won't see him as often. listen to what he told me. >> i'm anticipating that my two-hour commute just turned into a six-hour commute. i'm not going to see my family until on the weekends. it makes me feel terrible. i'm going to have to leave at 2:00, 3:00 in the morning to battle the commute because now the infrastructure of the roads around here are not built for this amount of traffic. >> reporter: so i spoke to a wyoming department of transportation en

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we will start with nbc's dana griffin in tracy, california, that's just east of san francisco. dana, good morning. >> reporter: hoda, good morning. we had storms overnight in the central plains. and this is the first significant heat wave in california. and across the west coast, nearly 30 million people across this region under heat alerts. when you add in the higher temperatures, plus dry grasses like this, it could be added fuel for potential wild fires. >> reporter: this morning, strong storms and fierce heat sweeping the country. the wild weather bringing flooding risks in oklahoma and the central plains. while in other states, the heat is on. >> tomorrow, up to 100 degrees. >> reporter: a sweltering heat wave with temperatures 20 degrees higher than usual in many places. in texas, from austin to the rio grande, the heat index could range from 110 to 115 degrees. while later this week, phoenix is expecting to hit 112 degrees for the first time this year. after hitting that mark more than 50 times last year, resulting in 645 heat-related deaths in and around the city. in th

and are you expecting fairness out of jake and dana may know the congress, a griffin? oh yes. well, the answer is yes, but it doesn't matter because the last time that donald trump actually answer the question was approximately 1983. and all the interviews can do is simply ask questions. that's what they do. and it's going to be even worse, because what they really want to do is ask different tablets, different questions, and the format doesn't permit that. that would be actually meaningful. like asking donald trump for this is why is you put class slides documents right next to your toilet in the bathroom? ah, that's not a question for joe by and that's the question for donald trump. why did you tell the sectors day to get to another 13000 boats? that's a question for donald trump, not joe biden. so therefore, this is an inherently difficult format in order to actually accomplish anything useful. and i'm sure that all a moderate is whether biased or not are going to end up entirely frustrated. and that's what makes is absolutely in a very, very interesting and larry, because