this is david samson. christie's mentor and friend. the port authority operates the bridges, airports and others has an annual budget of more than $8 billion. that means samson was a very powerful individual. back in 2007 american airlines want his help. united was pushing for million of dollars at liberty international airport. that included a proposed train line extension so passengers could take a direct train from manhattan to the airport. and samson allegedly wanted something from united as well. you see, he had a vacation home in aikin, south carolina, and he reportedly found it frustrating to get to that vacation home ever since direct flights from newark to nearby columbia were halted in 2009. he either had to fly wound 50 mile away or take a connecting flight. the sort of thing that could really mess up your whole weekend. and in september 2011, bloomberg reports, samson and jeffrey, the united ceo, went to a group dinner at an italian restaurant in manhattan, he made a request. could they revive the route so that samson could

david samson was forced out of the port authority last year amid that scandal. united's flights from newark to columbia ended three days later. smisek being replaced on a temporary basis for now by united board member oscar munoz, who's a former railroad executive. lester? >> all right, tom, thanks. >>> we're following brought late breaking news here. let's go to miguel almaguer. >> good evening. a close call in las vegas. a british airways 777 aborted takeoff after an engine fire. 172 people had to deplane using emergency slides. you can see smoke and flames pouring from the plane. two passengers suffered minor injuries. and in orange county, california, tonight a wildfire. take a look at these live pictures. it's burning in dense brush creeping closer to homes at this very hour. the fast-moving blaze is threatening a major subdivision as additional resources arrive. mandatory evacuations are under way. stay tuned to your local station for late updates. now back to lester in new york. >> nbc's miguel almaguer. >>> now to the race for president and news tonight

david samson was forced out of the port authority last year amid that scandal. united's flights from newark to columbia ended three days later. smisek being replaced on a temporary basis for now by united board member oscar munoz, who's a former railroad executive. lester? >> all right, tom, thanks. >>> now to the race for president and news tonight of a shake-up in the campaign trail. hillary clinton issuing a new apology about that e-mail controversy while nbc news has learned her campaign is deploying a new strategy. and on the republican side an outsider is surging in the polls, though not the outsider you may be thinking of. we have two reports beginning with nbc's andrea mitchell. andrea? >> reporter: good evening, lester. hillary clinton is apologizing for using a private server. she's also rebooting her campaign after complaints from donors about the e-mail controversy and polls now showing bernie sandsers pulling ahead of clinton in new hampshire. and possible candidate joe biden doing better than clinton against donald trump. >> thank you for being her

columbia, south carolina, to curry favor with the chairman of the port authority, as you mentioned, david samsonrity dollars to expand united's hub at newark. at the time samson owned a vacation home in columbia. he allegedly called those flights the chairman's flights, referring to himself. he was forced out as part of the bridgegate scandal. united canceled those flights three days after samson left the port authority. in a statement united airlines says the departures are in connection with the company's previously disclosed internal investigation related to the federal investigation associated with the port authority of new york and new jersey. there's no indication of any financial or accounting issues here. the ceo is being replaced by oscar munoz, a former railroad executive. in addition to whether united was trying to curry favor with the port authority, united's performance has been a big issue since its merger with continental, delays, computer failures, complaints about poor customer service. they have aggravated customers and caused the stock price to underperform its peers. >> what

looking into whether jeff tried to improperly influence the former head of new york and new jersey david samson and adding flights to a city where there was a vacation home. federal law enforcement says that it's an extension and that's forced them to resin. >>> today is also a special one. it's a royal record and queen elizabeth will become the longest living. nbc joins me now from london. jacob, is there any circumstance planned today or just business as usual? >> her majesty say that is she wants today to be low key. breaking the record by the great great grandmother and it's a different place in 1952 and she became the majesty and the world watched to become a mother, grandmother and great grandmother. she out lasted 127 prime ministers here and 12 u.s. presidents. it's an in credible milestone, but with all of the fuss later today it's business as usual for the queen who was on royal duty in scotland arriving at waverly train station. in fact the next hour or so, she may reference the significance of the day in a speech. long may she reign is some of the tributes here. the record will be b

david: we are trying to see where the investigation is going and whether david samson may be charged the airline. is in thehe ball authority court, whether they charge them. david: right. erik: and the first time that the port authority of new new york and new jersey has come over scrutiny. david: this has been going on for a couple of years now. the investigation of the port authority since the closure of george washington bridge. scarlet: and it now includes united and the ceo. thank you. still ahead on the bloomberg market day, netflix stock under scrutiny after seven straight days of the crime and it has rebounded. what is behind the sellout and was a justified? we will discuss. ♪ scarlet:scarlet: welcome back. we are one hour into the u.s. trading session and the rally underway. tok: a good opportunity bring everybody called up over the past, let's call it, 18 hours. let's start in asia where the session closed with green everywhere. the nikkei finished up 7.7%, the biggest gain since 2008. the hang seng in hong kong up 4% overnight and the shanghai, up over 2%. scarlet: another

or at least we think we know what to united and jeff smisekna and perhaps other executives and david samson the flight was public, but the reason for the was secret. seth: absolutely and completely inappropriate and allegations are correct. is it the only time in history this has happened? no. commonplace in this part of the world, something like launching thatket for a reason like is not common either. is somebody getting an upgrade edition not be getting, or something along those lines, yes, probably so, but they're definitely pushes the balance of the idea of launching a flight that should not have otherwise exist is not something that happens every day. at least not in this part of the world. scarlet: you are a known entity inside the airline industry, you have caught -- you have taught whatmic courses, tell us the feeling is probably like inside delta, inside american? are they rubbing their hands together thinking this smells opportunity, especially when they are competing on price? have it does and they already taken advantage. continental, prior to the merger with united, sitting in

linked to investigation into his company's dealings with the port authority and former chairman david samson. this is interesting. the u.s. attorney's office in new jersey is said to be risking at san synapses the 9 united project in newark liberty airport. around the same time united resumes flights from newark to columbia, south carolina where samson has a home. of former ceo has agreed to cooperate with the investigation. ben: we will see what happens with that. juliet: the city board of health getting ready to vote on putting salt warnings on restaurant menus. ben: how much is too much? teresa priolo is on the upper east side with the answer, the problem is most of us do not adhere to this daily recommended guidelines. >> reporter: 90% of us don't. pretty big number. a lot is hidden in your food. let's look at the restaurant behind me. i'm looking at their menu, plastic salad from here if you read the whole thing as 1900 milligrams of sodium, there pizza if you have a deep dish pepperoni pizza, 4,000 milligrams of sodium. the city says a lot are getting caught in this trap. we don't know

whether united launched a direct flight from newark to columbia, south carolina to curry favor with david samson the former chair of the port authority of new york and new jersey, which operates all new york area airports. sampson, who at a weekend home in columbia, south carolina, is a longtime ally of new jersey governor and republican presidential candidate governor chris christie. he resigned in the wake of that bridge gates can aware chris christie appointees and staffers apparently colluded to create traffic jams on the george washington bridge as a form of political revenge against democratic mayor who would not support chris christie. tuesday, september 8, marked native american women's equal pay day. on average, american indian and alaska native women are paid only $.59 for every that white dollar men earn. hasaltimore, the city reached a tentative $6.4 million settlement with the family of freddie gray. you was an african-american man who died in april after being arrested and transported without a seat belt in a police van. his family said his spine was 80% severed at the neck. police

columbia is near the weekend home of david samson, former chairman of the port authority.ed, in return, allegedly wanted improvements done at newark airport, which was overseen by samson. united's c.e.o., jeff smisek, had led the airline since it merged with continental in 2010, but that merger has been anything but smooth. yesterday, amid the new turmoil, smisek and two other united officials resigned. scott mayerowitz covers this for the a.p., and george hamlin is an airline industry analyst and consultant. welcome to both of you. scott mayerowitz, let me start with you. trading favors, cronyism, inside dealings? it's quite a tale. tell us a little bit about the alleged dealings here. >> this is one of those scandals that started with the closing of a few lanes on a bridge has now led to the toppling of the c.e.o. of th the second largest airline in the world. the flights were one of the issues. united wanted more improvements to its airports and also wanted to get a direct from wall street and appears executives were willing to do whatever it took to make port authority

dogged by scandals including bridgegate, as well as federal investigation into christie appointee david samson that resulted last week in the resignation of the ceo of united airlines jeff smisek. christie was asked about those scandals on "meet the press" this weekend. >> you have absolutely no idea, you have no idea as you sit here today that he did anything wrong. r does abody else. and so let's stop just reading the newspapers, okay? >> fair enough. >> seth: that's right. do christie a favor and stop reading the newspapers. [ laughter ] and if you are going to read them, do him a favor and have the decency to flip 'em upside down because then if you look at closing in on bobby jindal. [ laughter ] look out bobby jindal. that is the hot breath of [ light laughter ] this latest christie scandal deserves some background because it is incredible. the two main players are samson, the former chairman of the port authority which oversees the regions airports, and smisek, the united airlines ceo. you may know smisek from his wooden preflight welcome video. a ritual we sit through because airlines

it has to do with perhaps some quid pro quo with perhaps someone once described as your mentor, david samson who ran the port authority. let me ask you this question. you have got four people close to you who have indicted, pled guilty or are under investigation. what should we take about this? as americans when we think about you, either that you had bad judgment in the people you picked or you created a climate where people thought they could operate this way? >> neither. here's what happens, for 13 years i have been in public life as u.s. attorney and as governor. i've set an incredibly high standard for all of our people have have to reach every day and i hold them to that standard. here's what a leader does. you can't when you have 60,000 people -- >> this is not 60,000 -- this is as big of an appointment in you make in new jersey. is it not? >> first of all, you have no idea -- you have no idea as you sit here today that he did anything wrong. nor does anybody else. let's stop just reading the newspapers. >> fair enough. >> let's stop reading the newspapers and just blathering back wha

between united airlines and chairman of the port authority of new york and new jersey, david samson.he theory is denied wants improvements at the terminal in newark and they also want to pay less men. in order to sweeten the deal, they decided to operate a flight between newark and columbia, south carolina. that is where mr. sampson back at home is. his wife has family down there. putting on a flight. late a money-losing flight and they operated this two to three days after he resigned from the port authority who by the way this mixed up in the fiasco with chris christie. >> is that unacceptable? it seems convenient. absolutely amazing. charles: thanks a lot. coming up, and a plane bursting into flames. look at that. more than 170 people still on board that plane. kentucky clerk kim davis released from jail despite her refusal to issue gay marriage licenses. judge andrew napolitano is back. more bernie coming out. >> to interfere with what is the public policy of the land. same-sex marriages lawful. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like shopping hungr

a direct flight from newark to columbia, south carolina, where former port authority chairman david samson was canceled after samson resigned from the port authority early last year due to an unrelated federal probe. united is now announcing oscar munoz is going to become the coo immediately. they called that flight the chairman's flight. shares of united right now are about $57. becky, over to you. >> thank you. >>> right now it is time for a special "squawk" conversation for the next 20 years. sanctions against chinese companies accused of prophetipr from the digital theft could come as early as next week. that would be ahead of xi jingping's visit to washington. that's raising a lot of eyeballs. right now what corporations could be facing the next 20 years, we are joined by the ceo of fire eye. his security firm's customers include 600-plus fortune 500 companies. also with us this morning is jim chanos. he has over $3 billion in assets under management and famously sounded the alarm on the scandal that befell enron. gentlemen, again, thank you to both of you. i think the biggest questio

linked to an a investigation into company dealings with the port authority and former chairman david samson now you know him he was reportedly involved with "bridgegate." u.s. attorney office in new jersey said to be looking into sampson votes on united projects at newark liberty airport around at the same time to south carolina. >> had a house in south carolina and to curry favor with him an united had a flight basically just for this guy. >> from newark -- is that a problg? >> rosanna not for him but for -- >> for shareholders were for you i've heard your rant i think when you were on the tarmac about united airlines service would you like to know that a plane was taken up for that. it's complicated. >> the people on the flight. >> i parentally underattended flight. >> that's the problem. what else? >> city board of health is set to vote today and possibly putting salt warnings on menus. >> salt is bad for us. >> you mean there's salt on french price. chicken i think centers >> going to minimze this ?oir >> first city in america to require this warning label but how much is too much? >> a

united executives and the former head of the port authority in new york and new jersey, that being david samson. this has also to do with flights between newark and columbia, south carolina where mr. samson had a second home. a lot of people were calling it the chairman's flight. people were saying why were these flights added between newark and south carolina and did it have in ig to do with united as it was negotiating its lease at the newark airport which is its hub, by the way, there in the tri-state area. i'm not sure we'll hear a whole lot more from some time, but certainly this is a day of transition for united airlines. >> eamon, let me turn to you. i'm sure, phil, you'll have some thoughts on this as well. it kind of doesn't surprise me, in a way. i grew up in washington. i remember how congressmen were always, always fightsing for flights between what was then called national airport, now reagan national, and their district. amazingly there would be direct flights between washington and let's say knoxville. they would come out of nowhere. i like knoxville. or lubbock. i don't know. so

it happened as prosecutors are looking into united's dealings with david samson. he was once the port authority chairman. there are accusations that samson pressed united to fly a suppression route from newark to south carolina, near samson's summer home. >>> 6:04. time for weather and traffic on the 4s. chris, i have to pass along the questions from my wife who loves to garden. any relief, soaking rain coming in the future? >> there will be tomorrow. i think a good douse of rain up there as well. a couple of days where we have a lull and then more rain on sunday. for the gardners, finally that parched earth will get a little bit of rain. it's a warm start today. temperatures 60s and 70s. hottest temperatures today inland, low 90s there. even a few mid-90s can't be ruled out. the humidity runs higher today than yesterday. that means it's uncomfortable. could be an isolated shower or thunderstorm. a high of 90 in the city. westfield, 93. hempstead at 83. the east end of long island, south facing shorelines cooler. but the inland spots again in the 90s one more day.

different projects they wanted approval for an out of the blue at a dinner meeting in manhattan david samson this inke you to revive south carolina, i have a weekend home out there. against that backdrop there were all sorts of negotiations for port authority money and approvals. fbi and the u.s. attorney's office are looking to see whether that was an extortion or whether united crossed the line and got something in return, in which case it could be some sort of bribe. at this point there is no indication that there are criminal charges imminent. the fact that the internal investigation has found -- tom: david, terrific work in breaking the story. you are on our financial crimes team. no one has been charged with anything. authorityout the port of new york, new jersey, everyone else. jfk.ow it as the owners of there a relationship? >> they do a huge amount of business. as a regulator, they can control all kinds of things. flight fees, gate assignments. they wanted to build a new for the least they were trying to negotiate at the time. tom: are you willing to say to your work in reporting th

david the u.s. attorney's office in new jersey is said to be looking into samson's votes on united projects at newark liberty airport, which happened around the same time united resumed flights from newark to columbia south carolina where samson has home. former ceo agreed to pulley cooperate with that investigation. steve: football players blin sided a ref. they claimed the referee had directed racial slurs at them. it a happened friday might between a game. this this video sews one of the my years from johnp j. high school am slaking the ref behind while a second player jumped on top. both suspended. assistance football coach accused of telling the players to retell it a against the rep has been placed on paid leave. >> it is a match we may never see again. sisters venus and serena williams facing off hen quarterfinals today. they gave it their all. dan bowens at the open right now with a recap. dan, i was dipping in and out. it was painful. i was frightening. tell us what is going on? reporter: it was special. what a special match this was, dari, steve. serene ma williams takes it thrown sets and