dasha burns took a ride to see for herself. >> all clear. >> reporter: we have a big mission ahead ofs today. >> we do you are going to see a lot of things no one has ever seen in the sky before. >> reporter: his call sign is rebel. and here just beyond the hoover dam, he's going to fly me into a dog fight with a chinese fighter jet. well, sort of. this is unreal before takeoff, rebel, aka major brandon harris, prepared me for this unreal experience am i your maverick >> you are except for the bad part. >> reporter: rebel is a reservist with the air force, but also a test pilot for red six, an augmented reality company working with the air force to train fighter pilots. to see it firsthand, i had to suit up "top gun" style and get into the back of this 540. but one thing maverick didn't have is this augmented reality device inside my helmet that could project combat scenarios using artificial intelligence as we fly like when suddenly a chinese j-20 engages us and our wing man and the f-18 there. this video shows what i was seeing in that moment. >> stakes are high i think we got this.

and our dasha burns took a ride to see for herself >> all clear >> reporter: we've got a big missiongs no one's ever seen in the sky before >> reporter: his call sign is "rebel". and here just beyond the hoover dam, he's going to fly me into a dogfight with a chinese fighter jet, well, sort of before take off, rebel prepared me for this unreal experience. rebel is a reservist with the air force but also a test pilot for red 6. the augmented reality company working with the air force to train fighter pilots to see if first hand i had to suit up "top gun" style get into the back of this 540. but one thing maverick didn't have, this augmented reality device inside my helmet that uses artificial intelligence as we fly like when suddenly a chinese j-20 engages us and our wing man in the f-18 there. this shows what i was seeing in that moment. >> i think we got this >> reporter: digital images lay over our real-world environment. >> let's keep going. i see the weapons lock and fox 2. and splash the j-20. >> reporter: we emerge unscathed. but not always the case. more service members die in

that's where we find dasha burns. what are you hearing from voters there today?heating up when you find me in a diner talking to voters. we're here in a county that used to be a democratic strong hold and trump turned it red in 2016. the pessimism we're hearing very much reflected here. this is a county that's not a high income county. a lot of middle class voters, folks living paycheck to paycheck. when you see inflation rise, when you see high gas prices, when you see groceries going through the roof, folks here feel that. there's a lot of frustration with the current administration, not surprising in a largely republican county, but the reasons why are really important to listen to. i want you to hear from a small business owner. take a listen. >> everything this administration is doing is killing me. they took away all our incentives, even tax incentives for me to get everything going. it's tough. there's no out look in the future that i can see it gets any better either. >> reporter: the future outlook, that is a tough one for a lot of voters we've been talk

dasha burns put them to the test. >> reporter: inside this massive 24-foot dome at the university ofing for answers. with giant touch screens now in 99% of new cars, are we losing focus and veering off the road? this right here is a simulator that mimics the forces of driving and allows researchers here to safely study everything from impaired driving to distracted driving. inside sits a car and the dome sits on tracks inside a building the size of a basketball arena. as the subject drives inside, the machine accelerates, brakes, and swerves. mimicking real driving safely. >> you can go and hop in and then i'll show you the controls real quick. >> reporter: today i'm the test driver. >> are you ready to drive? >> i am. oh. as i hit the road, researchers ask me to enter my destination in the navigation system. >> navigate to 401 west martin luther king jr. parkway. >> reporter: look at this, my eyes veering off the road for more than 30 seconds, causing me to veer into another lane. you can see me cross over the dotted line. a typo in the address, my eyes once again moving from the ro

savannah. >> dasha burns, thank you very much. >>> 7:15 more to get to good morning to craig. >> good morning to you some new details are emerging about the snowplowing accident that landed actor jeremy renner in the hospital with some serious injuries the marvel star now posting a selfie and a message of thanks to fans as he continues to recover. nbc's erin mclaughlin joins us with more on this story. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, craig. many were relieved to see the 51-year-old actor since a 14,000-pound piece of machinery rolled over him leaving him critically injured authorities say it happened after he set out to help a family member in need. this morning we're hearing from actor jeremy renner for the first time since the snowplow accident that left him critically injured posting a photo of himself showing the two-time oscar nominee lying in a hospital bed, his face swollen and bruised the caption reading, thank you all for your kind words. i'm too messed up now to type, but i send love to you all a heartfelt message met with an outpouring of love and support fr

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. >> dasha burns live. i'll let you go get lunch. thank you., a different kind of drama where you are in new hampshire. democrats are working to put in place this new primary calendar. talk us through what you've got in manchester. >> reporter: and senior democrats in new hampshire say it's drama between the national democratic party and new hampshire's state law. let's set this up a little bit. the national democratic party, they're trying to emphasize diversity. they want diverse states to be able to jump the line essentially and become those first early nominating contests. south carolina, they want to be the first state and then a few days later, they want new hampshire to share the day with nevada. well, when you talk to senior democrats in new hampshire, they say the problem is new hampshire law requires it to be the first in the nation primary state, so even if they wanted to, they say, change that date, they can't because it would require a republican governor, a republican legislature to agree to a democratic party proposal at the nati

nbc's dasha burns with that report.i will say, maybe the parents don't even -- of course their parents don't know about this, because, again, the people that we talk to, that just see something on a website. >> and think it's true. >> and you say cross-reference it. anybody doing this? no. what's the website say? never heard of it before. the things, cross-reference it. >> and can i tell you? anybody going to wikipedia is not necessarily good information. >> oh, usually it's not. >> they use it widely. first thing that pops up. so this brings us to the president on foreign relations richard haass and his newtitled regulations." >> good citizens throughout the years called me up on a conspiracy theory. >> they think they're good citizens. >> obviously conspiracy theory, and i -- i talk them through it and say, you know, you're a conservative. why don't you read the "wall street journal"? rupert murdoch other thanes that paper. he's not part of the deep state conspiracy against donald trump. or a liberal, why don't you re