vice president kamala harris' husband doug emhoff speaks out in an exclusive interview. >> there's breaks sometimes involved but that's okay. >> where he sees the couple's historic place in washington. >>> and stayin' alive! >> he scores! >> the new york islanders with a dramatic overtime goal against the tampa bay lightning. [ cheers ] to force a game seven with a trip to the stanley cup final on the line. "today," thursday, june 24, 2021. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> welcome to "today." it a thursday morning. savannah is working from home this morning. >>> good morning. the breaking news overnight, that building collapse in south florida. dozens of fire and rescue units responding to the emergency call just before 2:00 a.m. >> it happened in the city of surfside, that's just north of miami beach. the structure is a 12-story residential condominium building. >> the rescue operation has going on. earlier, they pulled a young boy out of that rubble. >> we'll talk with a woman rescued from her b

we'll see you tonight at 7:00. >>> and next on "nightly news," second gentleman doug emhoff sits down with nbc news chief white house correspondent peter alexander for an exclusive interview. what he thinks about his wife being elected the first woman, first black and south asian vice president. the fill interview can be seen tomorrow on "today." it's come up in about two minutes, and you can watch a portion of it next on "nightly news." >> before you go if you like to drink wine because a lot of us do. >> nodding. >> this is a chance to make a career out of it. >> it's a really good job offer. the murphy winery offered a job where you can pursue your passion in the wine industry. the winery says it received so many applications from its first posting it's now creating a second position. i just read the details of this position. >> what is it? >> it's offering $10,000 a month. can you live rent-free for a year and enjoy all the wine you want. >> 120,000 a year rent-free and all the wine you can drink. >> and it's basically -- like an internship. you follow and shadow the wine-maker an

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. >>> up next for us tonight, our exclusive first interview with doug emhoff, husband of vice president harris >>> the white house announced vice president kamala harris will visit the southern border on friday it comes after our interview in guatemala earlier this month when we asked her about criticism that she had not gone yet her trip was announced after former president trump said he would travel to the border next week and also comes amid word border patrol chief rodney scott who assumed the role in the trump era is leaving. >>> in an nbc news exclusive harris' husband is opening up in his first tv interview as second gentleman. doug emhoff speaking out to our peter alexander about the criticism the vice president has faced on the border issue >> president trump today said the reason she's going this week is because he's going next week. what do you make of that >> kamala harris is not driven by any political issues or political pressure she's really just doing what the right thing is to do for this very important job that the president entrusted her with. >> when you see the atta

we're talking about doug emhoff, the husband of vice president kamala harris.s sitting down with nbc's peter alexander talking about what he hopes to achieve. >> this role as second gentleman taken very seriously. being a lawyer, i did a lot of homework. before i started, i talked to some former second ladies. i approached it like i do anything, with a lot of research -- >> you'll be able to see that full interview coming up on "nbc nightly news" tonight at 6:30 here on nbc bay area. >>> a mystery man left thousands of dollars in a tip at a new hampshire restaurant. the customer sat by himself outdoors, ordered a couple of hot dogs, fried pickles and drinks. when it comes to paying the tab, he paid a $16,000 tip. the owner was reassured after he said he warranted to do something nice for the staff. >>> congratulations to this couple. this is really a magical moment captured by one photographer walking in san francisco on her question afterwards. she saw this couple getting engaged, captured the photos but wasn't able to meet with them afterwards. she went to so

emhoff.ley, distinguished guests, service members, goldstar family members, my fellow veterans, ladies and gentlemen. thank you for joining us on this solemn day in this solemn place. we come together to remember and to renew our sense of common purpose. and to reach out to those who have long warned and to those who newly grieve. mr. president, in thinking about joining you here today i reflected upon a meeting i held a few days ago with some of our goldstar and surviving families. one of them was shannon, a wife of a marine reservist. they have three children. her husband, chris, was killed by a suicide bomber on april 8, 20 and afghanistan. the first thing she said in our meeting was, i'm going to try not to cry. and she told us that before her husband left on one of his deployments, she sat him down and said god forbid something happens to you. but if it does where you want me , to bury you? and he told her, i do not care. i just want to be near you. and today, staff sergeant chris -- res

second gentleman, doug emhoff, joined the vp. harris spoke about the biden administration's work with the lgbtq community. >> there is so much more work to do. and i know we are committed, and we understand the importance of this movement and our roles of leadership in this ongoing movement. so, happy pride, everybody. >> vice president, also, advocated for more lgbtq protections around employment, housing, and the transgender community. it's a sign we are nearing the other side of the pandemic. >>> the tsa screened more than 2 million travelers, yesterday, at airports all across the country. that is the most, since last march, when covid brought travel to, pretty much, a halt. the flood of travelers is, also, causing problems, however. dozens of the nation's largest airports are facing tsa staffing shortages this month. part of the reason more people are traveling? vaccination numbers continue to climb. tonight, 52% of americans have gotten at least one shot. still, that is quite a bit below president biden's goal of having at l

second gentleman doug emhoff joined the vp. harris delivered a few remarks about the biden administration's commitment to the lgbtq community. >> there is so much more work to do and i know we are committed and we understand the importance of this movement and our roles of leadership in this ongoing movement. so happy pride, everybody. >> the vice president also advocated for more lgbtq protections around employment, housing and the transgender community. >>> oakland firefighters contained a recycling yard fire that sent up a lot of smoke this afternoon. when i say a lot of smoke, that's what i'm talking about. that's what it looked like a few hours ago anyway. fire burned at california waste solutions recycling center south of the bay bridge entrance. firefighters expect smoke and poor air quality through the night. will remain on the scene. one firefighter was injured but is expected to be okay. >>> our news team is keeping a close eye on this fire, getting breaking news updates sent straight to your phone. just download our

employment and housing there is so much more work to do >> the vice president and second gentleman doug emhoffsed the crowd, calling for the package of the equality act. >> the first sitting vp to actually the that quite a scene near d.c >>> a district now in new jersey is streamlining its school calendar after a heated debate whether or not to change columbus day to indigenous people's day they're removing all holidays from the calendar the students will still get breaks but just be designated as days off as school board members unanimously voted for the change, hoping to avoid future controversies. >>> new details about the danish soccer player who collapsed revealing how dire his condition really was kathy park has the story >> reporter: stunning details about an international soccer star's onfield collapse. >> he was calm and we did cardiac resuscitation. >> reporter: denmark's euro 2020 opener against finland took a frightening turn when 29-year-old midfielder christian eriksen dropped face first. >> and this does look serious. >> reporter: the health emergency sending shockwaves through

her husband, doug emhoff, the first lady and others in the th biden cabinet will also be visiting pop >>> a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by staff at a huston hospital who refused to get their vaccine. more than 100 employees sighed a huston hospital because it is required to get vaccinated. the lawsuit calls the vaccine experimental and dangerous. the judge agreed with the hospital saying that the claims about the vaccine are not true. lawyers are going to be filing an appeal. >> we are getting exclusive details about what researchers are learning about covid-19. >> most scientists expect to find out that covid-19 occurred from nature but there another possibility. an accidental lab leak. the wuhan lab is one leading research facilities on coronaviruses. researchers said viruses that they have collect dod not match the virus that caused the pandemic. >> there is no virus that is close enough that you use any research to get to sars cov2. you can think that the investigators at the wuhan institute the viruses had a virus that was closer p they are not telling us about that.

. >>> and then getting answers in a new exclusive interview, and we are talking about doug emhoff. >> this role as second gentleman, taken very seriously. being a lawyer, i did a lot of homework before i started. i talked to some former second ladies, and i really approached it like i do anything, with a lot of research. >> you will be able to see the full interview coming up on nbc "nightly news" tonight at 6:00 p.m. right here on nbc bay area. >>> for san jose water customers, in a week and a half there will be new drought restrictions effective july 9th. san jose water will ask customers to only water their yards at night or mornings before 10:00 a.m., and only two days a week for no more than 15 minutes a day. this is an effort to cut consumption by 15%. >>> we've been talking about the drought, and kari hall has been monitoring that and the conditions we are expecting today. >> we are still dry and in the middle of the dry season right now. no rain headed our way, of course. we are starting out with clouds, and in some spots we have seen mist and drizzle in the early hours. tempe

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. >>> now to a nbc news exclusive, second gentleman doug emhoff spoke to peter alexander.ained lawyer, you know how to make a case. how do you convince the holdouts to get a shot? >> you know, been all around the country, down south and here in chicago today. it's really what you saw in the barbershop, just trying to talk about facts. they're effective. they're free. they're available, and they work. and it's also -- if you don't want to hear it from me, talk to the barber, talk to the pastor, talk to the adviser who has the information and they can debunk the information that's out there. the other thing finding the variant, the delta variant, so much more dangerous. so much more communicable. and you see the numbers where the spikes in cases in deaths, that's where the vaccinations are the lowest. that's kind of the lawyer in me. and that's my case. >> you can match more of that interview tonight on "nbc nightly news" and the full interview on tomorrow on "today" and across all of nbc's many platforms that you see on the screen. >>> still ahead, a rare bipartisan effort

second thing i want president biden and second gentleman doug emhoff both recorded videos of encouragementfor the it gets better project. global nonprofit each year reaches millions of lgbt q. young people who are struggling vice president kamala harris is set to visit the southern border with mexico on friday. this will be the vice president's first visit since president biden put her in charge of the border crisis three months ago, harris had been focusing on the root cause of migration and met with leaders of central american countries. but many of her critics say a tripe border to see the situation first hand is long overdue. people in texas communities along the border and other border states feel absolutely abandoned by their government and by their commander in chief. homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas is set to join the vice president during her border visit the white house santa bipartisan group of senators struck a tentative deal today for the framework of an infrastructure package all on the same page both tracks the bipartisan track and the budget reconciliation tra

doug emhoff, the second gentleman, was there with her. >>> now to some breaking news from overnight,se from pennsylvania has won best in show at the westminster dog show. >> the 3-year-old plans to dine on filet mignon to celebrate his victory. earlier he won the toy group. of course this is the pekingese breed's fifth westminster dog show win. >> that face. oh, that hair! >> give me the hair. >> maybe he's born with it. maybe it's the westminster dog show. a whippet named bourbon repeated as runner-up. the competition was forced -- i can't stop looking at this dog -- to make big changes due to the pandemic, moving out of new york city. it was held outdoors in tarrytown. no fans were allowed. it took place in june instead of february. that dog, that hair, that's a pantene commercial. >> i went to school here in new york city, so i got to cover that. every year. and these dogs live better than i do. i mean, they live such posh lives. >> did you see that dog? that dog hasn't seen trouble a day in his life. he said stress? where? he has trims every six weeks. >>> coming up, the 12-year-

i mean i can speak to that a little bit because i was recently talking about the question of doug emhoff as second gentleman and whether he was getting more press coverage for instance as because he's a man or is it because he's the first second gentleman and usually we think of these spousal roles with this sort of social functions. i think those are gendered female, but they don't have to be but part of it is going to be thinking more expansively about the role of a spouse and more egalitarian visions marriage so eventually there will be a first gentleman and i think he will do similar things. but it is going to bend how we think about the roles in men and women. anyone else who would like to speak to that? okay. next question. i think would be very helpful to our viewers. it's a question from nancy. what are your favorite books on the topic of first ladies? they can either be biographies or books about the first ladies. i think a lot of our audience would like to have a reading list after this symposium. so if you could share some of your favorite books that you've read that would be

it's the first on first interview with doug emhoff, he'll open up about his wife as vice president, and how he sees his role in washington. get a look at that conversation tonight on "nbc nightly news" and we'll have more tomorrow morning on "today." >>> in the meantime, thomas llamas is up you with us. good morning. >> all eyes here on the mayoral race this morning. the votes are still being counted. former police captain eric adams has jumped out to an early lead in the crowded democratic primary. still, it could be weeks before a winner is declared in the decide's first major contest to use rank choice voicing. meantime, andrew yang conceded the mayoral race last night after early results showed him running in fourth place. and a founder of the anti-crime group won the republican mayoral primary. >>> and we want to turn to sports now. the nba playoffs and the moment fans couldn't believe a dramatic finish in last night's suns/clippers game. phoenix was down by one with under a second to play. let's roll that clip. >> crowder looking, throws it, alley-oop! oh, and he puts it down! he

>> a three day -- are you talking about the secretary i'm emhoff letter? >> yes. thank you. >> i'm a believer in commanders, they have had opportunity to give best military advice both to you and and to the secretary of defense. there's going to be a position coming forward. i trust commanders. commanders are going to implement these types of things and at the same time there's going to be decision made on what's the best way to get after that and once that decision is made since i have had my chance to give my best military advice i will follow that decision. >> thank you. i appreciate your position on it. as a five-time commander i agree with you. right now we're involved with poland with the enhanced forward presence mission there. i worry about the baltics. i'm the chairman of the baltic security caucus, i think that's the most vulnerable area when it comes to nato and russia. what more can we do to improve deterrents for the baltic states? >> i don't think so man, one thing i think we can do and the chief, i think, alluded to this a little bit in his discussi