the fire was only half of the deadly event that ruptured the seacat family of kingman texas.ing, apparently both the suicidal work of vashti seacat. because it occurred in the small barrel county, it triggered a call to the k b eye, the statewide kansas bureau of investigation. who special agent dave falletti welcome the chance to hear would happen from a brett seacat himself. brett was in law enforcement himself and understood that agent falletti needed to hear the whole story. >> we interviewed him for a seven and a half hours. just two cops talking to each other. >> seemed to be forthcoming? >> yeah, very forthcoming. >> i just wanna talk to you about what happened. i know it's been a terrible time for you. >> the agent was about to discover that brett was dealing not just with grief but with the every burdened of guilt, do it took a while to get to that part of the story. >> usually when we interview people i want them to start at the very beginning and we did. >> brett told him the story about how he met vashti in high school and how he was smitten from the very first mo

nbc's cal perry is in kingman, arizona. i know you've been talking to some of these ranchers.'re being forced to do. >> reporter: look, this is a water issue. earlier in the week we showed you lake mead, the largest reservoir in the united states. it's bottoming out, at 35% capacity. it's downstream, places like arizona, that have to curtail the water they're using. they also have to curtail the way they're living because they are running out of water. what is happening is across the western u.s., people are selling their cattle to auction because they cannot keep them alive. take a listen to what emmett and laurel told me yesterday. >> if there's not a decent rain within the next couple of weeks, period, we have to sell. we already have 200 ready to go. >> we're hopeful that the monsoon -- there's been a good monsoon in arizona so far and it's working itses way up this way. we're hoping and praying to god that the monsoon will continue and we'll be able to stay in business with the cattle that we have. >> reporter: this region of arizona relies on those monsoons, craig. we ha

here in kingman, arizona, there's an auction house that went from selling one day a week cattle, theseo two days a week. the meat goes to brokers, then to the supermarket. as i said, this is a seasonal thing. people want to hold onto their cattle to make the cattle fat. every pound you're able to sell, you make more money. with no water in the ground, the cows are unable to maintain their weight, their losing weight, and ranchers across the country are cutting their losses and unloading that cattle, geoff. >> cal perry, appreciate you as always. >>> voting rights advocate met with vice president kamala harris in the last hour on the fight for federal voting rights legislation. >>> marijuana is legal in 18 states but because of federal laws, researchers at university of colorado boulder admit there's so much we still don't know about its health effects. >> more than half the states made it legal in some way, yet the scientific literature could really fill this notebook. >> we feel the same way. there are risks, there are benefits. what are they? >> what they're doing to bypass legal bar

they told the great kingman, san francisco mayor london breed says mask mandate citywide, so it wouldo longer vary of the possibiliy of implementing some sort of vaccine mandate, even for workers that aren't workers with the city. she said yesterday that an announcement could come later this week. right now they're coordinating with other bay area health officers. garcia and ali. i know reported that someone was given a disposable mask when they didn't have one right before they went into the store. have you been there long enough to maybe see someone who says i don't want to mask up? what happens in that case, you know, we've been out here all morning. the store has been open since about eight o'clock this morning. we have not seen that happen. in fact, that one gentlemen, we showed you at the very beginning of the story who kind of absent mindedly just walked in without his mask. you know, he was quick to put it on once they gave it to him. he wasn't even thinking about it, so it really isn't that big of an issue. you hear in san francisco, at least not from what we've seen so far.