anchor: june dreyer, you mentioned rare earth elements in your previous answer.to bring that up. you wrote a piece last year analyzing china's monopoly on rare earth elements. how does that play into the semi conductor industry concerns going forward? june dreyer: it plays into china's whole of government and whole of society attack, and it is a well coordinated one. no matter whether you are pro-were anti-china or meh -china, you have to admit they have played their hand brilliantly. rare earth are mostly silica and, hence -- silicon, and for many that is not a rare earth, but the same kinds of techniques are seen when china decides to do something. it decides to do it in a very coordinated way, and this is a coordinated way. the problem with democracies in general, and this is a bigger problem for the eu because they have so many democracies with different interests, is coordination. i have been told a foundry costs between $10 billion and $12 billion to make, depending on what kind of chip you want to produce, and after you make it, it would take at least five

dylan dreyer ease got a check of our forecast. >> good morning again, and it's going to be hot for afolks across the country today, especially out in the pacific northwest where temperatures are running about 20 to 30 degrees above average. look at some of our highs. boise, idaho, 101 today. the record is 98 degrees billings should break a record salt lake city should break a record, reno should break a record then you move east as we go into tomorrow, all across north dakota, back through montana, temperatures will be in the mid to upper 90s, and that heat is trickling eastward i know it's been a little bit below average the last couple of days, especially with all the clouds around, but chicago, you're in the '90s all weekend long, 91 on sunday, cincinnati 86 on saturday, you're up to 90 by monday. buffalo even gets into the upper 80s by the start of next week. burlington, vermont, 95 degrees by monday. so we'll likel >>> and certainly seeing that marine layer in san francisco right now. a live look at the airport, you can barely read it on the mountain. that's helping keep us cool

i'm dylan dreyer and this is "earth odyssey".y, we journey around the planet to the sandiest ecosystems to discover what creatures love the land that's covered in sand. like the island of zanzibar, where the beaches are beautiful but life as a crab can sometimes be brutal. and later, we'll head to the thar desert, where traveling in the heat can be difficult but these mammals help locals get over the hump. plus, most penguins love the snow, but the sandy falkland islands are all these gentoo penguins know.

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. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with peter alexander, kristen welker and dylan dreyer. >>> welcome to "today," thanks for joining us this saturday morning. we are happy to have morgan radford. kristen still on baby watch, as soon as we know, we will tell you. you're in d.c. in time to cook. >> i heard some sizzling weather is headed this way. >> making up for next weekend tenfold. >> we'll get to the forecast in a second. the other top story, former president trump preparing for high profile return to the political battlefield. speaking at the republican state convention in north carolina tonight. it comes a day after facebook announced it was banning him from its social media platforms for two years. ali vitale in greenville for us this morning. good morning. >> reporter: hey, peter, good morning. former president donald trump in the spotlight afterff theirlatf. former president donald trump blocked from facebook for at least two years, tying the ban to his role in the deadly riot at the capitol january 6, saying we believe his actions constitute severe violation of ou

so dylan dreyer is here with us. how about a quick check of the weekend weather?parts of southern la louisiana, into mississippi, alabama, and even the panhandle of florida where we do have flood alerts too. we have outer bands of rain trying to make their way onshore and it's a tropical system so these bands are heavy in nature. as this storm continues to strengthen overnight, it will likely become a tropical storm its name would be claudette. we are going to see that rain eventually move over into alabama through the day on saturday, through georgia too and into the carolinas where we could see some of the heavier rain impact the carolinas sunday into monday. rainfall totals could be as much as 8 to 12 inches, so we could certainly see some flooding out of this storm system so we'll be watching that all weekend long >>> good morning, i'm meteorologist kari halle we'll be under the heat advisories and excessive warnings. today. bright pink, that's where the temperatures will reach over 100 degrees today. we're up to 103 and mid 90s tomorrow. father's day, pretty

. ♪♪ >> announcer: from nbc news this is "today" with peter alexander, kristen welker and dylan dreyercome to "today," thanks for joining us on this saturday morning. hallie jackson in for kristen this morning. kristen enjoying maternity leave, we will check in with her and baby margot a little later. a world premiere of this morning. >> by the text messages that wolf has already sent this morning she'd been up for 90 minutes solidly. >> not clear that they went to bed. we will sort that out a little later this morning. we want to get, of course, to our top story this morning, that is the ongoing search for survivors in surfside, florida, more than 48 hours after that horrific condo complex collapsed. rescue crews there working around the clock as 159 people remain unaccounted for and now we're learning new information about an engineering report from 2018 that shows major structural problems in that building. nbc's kerry sanders is on the seen for us in surfside again this morning. kerry, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning. this three-year-old report, an engineering report,

dylan dreyer, you have a check of the weather for us?lows because it is all about the heat in places you might not expect it to get that hot. billings, montana, 98 degrees. bismarck, north dakota, 102 for a high today the record is 95 degrees las vegas. naturally, it is hot, but it is almost near record highs even there. 108 for a high today 109 is the record. as we go into tomorrow, temperatures continue to be close to records, if not breaking records fargo, north dakota, forecasting a high of 100 degrees tomorrow the old record was 95 degrees. duluth up into minnesota, 88 degrees. it'd tie a record. oi owe claire, 94 degrees, looks like we'll break a record there as well. into the weekend for the east coast, starts on saturday, stays hot through sunday into monday into tuesday vermont, mid 90s rochester, new york, in the 90s. pittsburgh, mid to upper 80s new york city 93 on sunday and monday even down through richmond, 90s, everybody is in the 90s, except texas where >>> seasonal weather today with sunshine for inland areas. even thoug

you see the folks there, the jurassic world velocicoaster about to launch, kenan thompson, dylan dreyer planning a trip to a theme park or the beach, jill martin will help you make the most of it with a special summer on the go edition of steals and deals. >> craig you have a fun conversation on the third hour of "today" with nba legend, d. wade. >> i have been a d wade fan for a long time. he's living out his childhood dream now, he's hosting a game show we talked about that we talked about the nba playoffs, fatherhood, and a whole heck of a lot more as well looking forward to sharing that chat with you in a few minutes. >>> coming up, excuse me, tomorrow on "today," great music s to round out the week, adam levine and maroon 5 will join us for a special performance. they have great new music that they're releasing today. look forward to having them. >> concerts are back how about a final check of the weather. >>> let's look ahead to the weekend. we'll start with tomorrow, you can see cooler along the coast, heavy rain in the mid-atlantic, record heat down south. more rain northern cal

this is jason dreyer reporting from new york for bloomberg news. ♪ shery: the e3 videogame showcase beginsweekend. eight months after celebrating a narrow escape from a natural disaster, chinese billionaire hui ka yan finds himself back in crisis fighting mode over concerns about the health of evergrande group, a flagship property company, pushing the stock to close at its lowest's of last year. joining us now is our china credit reporter. rebecca, why are investors worried about evergrande again? rebecca: signs of stress hitting everywhere for asia's largest issuer of junk bonds. investors are really worried about its financial health. we have reports that evergrande has been taken a watchlist by china's biggest onshore credit rating firm. and also, it missed a payment for commercial debt. and once again, we are seeing that banks are being asked to test their exposure to evergrande. so real concern about the broader implication about what financial risk means. if we start looking at any kind of crisis or major problem with this borrow again. haidi: evergrande is the biggest junk bond issu