maggie vespa has the latest. >> reporter: days after authorities say robert crimo iii carefully planned an attack, his father speaking out for the first time, saying he spoke to his son 13 hours before the shooting adding, that's why i guess i'm in such shock, like did he have a psychiatric break or something he sponsored his son's application needed to buy guns because he thought he would need them at a shooting range crimo bought five weapons, including the one used at monday's shooting and another later found in his car his father telling the post his son bought everything on his own and they're registered to him. adding, i didn't do anything wrong. they are not ruling out the possibility that crimo's father could face charges though no determination has been made about his responsibility. meanwhile, the community is only beginning to process the attack. highland park police and fire chief say many of their staff were in the parade their families lined the sidewalks. >> we had a couple firefighters. they knew their families were right there where the shooting was happening. so they d

we're hearing new firsthand accounts from heroes on the ground here's maggie vespa. >> reporter: days after authorities say robert crimo iii carefully planned an attack on a fourth of july parade, his father speaking out for the first time, telling the "new york post" he talked to his son 13 hours before the shooting, adding, "that's why i guess i'm in such shock, like, did he have a psychiatric break or something? the father saying he sponsored his son's application for the i.d. card needed to buy guns because he thought he would use them at a shooting range. in the year since, prosecutors say crimo bought five weapons, including the one used at monday's shooting and another later found in his car his father telling the "post" his son bought everything on his own and they're registered to him, adding, "i didn't do anything wrong. tonight, officials are not ruling out the possibility that crimo's father could face charges, though at this point no determination has been made about his liability. ♪ meanwhile, this community is only beginning to process the trauma of monday's attack. >>

here's maggie vespa with that. >> police! how many people are in there? >> reporter: another american mass shooting with a rare twist. after authorities near indianapolis say a good samaritan, armed with a handgun, shot the gunman and ended the chaos. >> many more people would have died last night if not for a responsible, armed citizen. >> reporter: investigators tonight naming the good samaritan as elijah dicken, a 22-year-old indiana man who is declining to speak publicly they say the good samaritan was legally carrying a hand gun at the greenwood park mall with his girlfriend when around 5:00 p.m. sunday the 20-year-old gunman entered the food court armed with two semiautomatic rifles and a handgun. investigators say he first went to the restroom and stayed for an hour, stashing his phone in a toilet, then emerged and started firing >> we heard loud gunshots. >> reporter: they say the gunman killed three including victor gomez and injured two, among them a 12-year-old girl >> seeing somebody laying on the ground and i grabbed my kids and we ran. >> re

here's maggie vespa. >> reporter: anthony schmitz's love of cars is all about perspective. at 14, he is waiting to see the world from the driver's seat. in the meantime, focussing his love through a lens -- a vintage surf scene, church parking of the past, a classi fuelling up. on his iphone he captures auras of eras and tricks the eye, manipulating the miniature, transforming it into life size. his parents' home -- oh, my goodness -- now a warehouse for his muses. >> 1908 ford model t right there. >> reporter: 3,000 of them >> so you know every single one what's that one? >> yeah. '56 ford sun liner >> what about the one next to it? >> same. >> up here >> '57 chevrolet bel air. >> reporter: that colossal capacity for details stems from his super power. >> what do you like about having autism? >> not much. i like having a talent i wouldn't probably be all over the internet if i didn't have it ♪ i'm unstoppable ♪ >> reporter: this seattle-area boy born with autism is a smash hit on social media. >> facebook, 142,000 tiktok about 600,000. >> reporter: he sells books and calen

frequent severe weather emergencies around the world we have it all covered tonight beginning with maggie vespa in hard hit kentucky. >> reporter: in the heart of appalachia, hundreds of rescues and harrowing loss tonigh at least 19 people confirmed dead in this week's sweeping flash flood. kentucky's governor says six victims are children >> there's still a lot of people out there, still a lot of people unaccounted for. we're going to do our best to find them all. >> reporter: in the town crews with cadaver dogs search for bodies the local sheriff, his own family among the dead. >> the first confirmed victim that we identified was my great aunt, my grandfather's sister, so the first notification that i made was to my mother. >> reporter: nell howard was 82. >> how do you deal with that? >> i sat down in my hallway last night about 12:30 and cried for an hour. >> reporter: hours away in beaver dam, shelley wilson waits in agony for news on her dad. >> i don't know if he's out there suffering somewhere and needing help >> reporter: dennis stacey is 72 and one of countless missing. >> i just wish

at least one person is dead maggie vespa is there for us tonight >> that's crazy. it's an island >> reporter: tonight stunning images of the latest american city to get slammed with severe weather across st. louis, historic rainfall an flash flooding. >> we've got stalled out cars here. >> reporter: forcing rescue after rescue. >> i have several people trapped on a roof. >> reporter: roughly 100 people trapped in these apartments evacuated by boat. >> i was terrified because it is so high. >> reporter: more than 9 inches of rain falling since midnight shattering records set in 1915 and turning highways and roads into raging rivers. >> it was so dangerous with the water, we had to pull them out we couldn't even get our trucks >> reporter: authorities confirming one person trapped in their car has died and in suburban st. peter, the water surged into an animal shelter. staff scrambled, saving mos of the animals, but devastated to learn 10 puppies drowned. reporters from our affiliate ksdk, out covering the chaos, were rescued by firefighters when fast moving water fl

here's maggie vespa. ♪ >> reporter: decades into her grammy winning career, it was amy mann who neededaving. music had morphed into torture. you thought your career could be over >> well, yeah. i mean, i couldn't listen to music. i couldn't play music. i couldn't interact with music i remember turning on the radio and some song, and it was lik so distorted i couldn't tell what key it was in. >> reporter: her life also muted by headaches and dizziness. walloping mann months into the pandemic. the diagnosis, vestibular migraines spurred by stress. >> they have a lot of different medications. nothing really helped. >> reporter: desperate, she turned online one tip, daily journaling to calm the brain. mann went further, sketching moments from the mundane, her past to the intimate, her health. >> the pictures are like the music, and the captions are like the lyrics and, so, you're combining a visual with a narrative and think about how to best fit it in four panels >> reporter: outside panels, mann paints, mostly past presidents here martin van buren. politics really stresses people out. >>

maggie vespa has more. >> reporter: in a swath of the south submerged, total devastation and the death toll expected to climb. >> we've got so much damage, bridges gone, the whole roadway is gone. >> reporter: the city of hazard, kentucky devastated after torrential rain spurred sweeping flash floods and mudslides >> everybody knows everybody around here. everybody tries to help, but when it comes this fast, anti-nothing you can do. >> reporter: eight people killed, including an 81-year-old woman. >> we probably have not seen the worst of it. sadly, we believe that we will lose kentuckians, and a lot of kentuckians will probably lose most of what they have >> reporter: recovery efforts complic complicated by the storm's strength, knocking out power to 25,000 people and wiping cell coverage rescuers scour an assisted living facility for the stranded this give you an idea of how fast and strong the waters were moving there's a power pole snapped in half look at all this this is just debris on the side of the road. it looks like a tornado hit. the sinister system wreaking havoc. repeated

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>> maggie vespa in chicago tonight, thank you. >>> now to the new criminal investigation just launchedo those deleted secret service text messages that the january 6th committee has been demanding. it comes as the committee is set to hold another primetime hearing tonight. here's kristen welker. >> reporter: tonight, as the january 6th committee prepares to roll out what amounts to its closing argument for now against former president trump, the department of homeland security's inspector general revealing a criminal investigation has been launched into deleted text messages the committee requested from the secret service, two sources familiar with the matter telling nbc news. the secret service has said there was no malicious action in the destruction of the messages, saying it was part of a preplanned maintenance on all phones, though acknowledge agents had been asked three times to preserve their data. that, the backdrop to tonight's high-stakes hearing where the committee plans to recreate 187 minutes of the attack when they say mr. trump waited nearly three hours before delivering

let's go live to nbc news correspondent maggie vespa in highland park. maggie, what are they telling you? >> reporter: well, mika, good morning. they are open upping like we haven't heard before. the police officers and the firefighters here in highland park, they were marching in the parade. they were waving to people. the chief was handing out baseball cards when the shooting started and their families were lining the sidewalks. so now new this morning, they are opening up to us. and then also this morning we're hearing from the family of the man who confessed to this shooting. that family has a message for this community which is so shattered by this violence. >> we're very sorry. >> reporter: this morning an apology to the victims and their families in highland park. the suspected shooter's uncle who lived with his nephew minutes from the scene of the july 4th massacre saying he was shocked when he heard the news. >> i i couldn't believe it. it is very hard. no sleep. and -- >> you haven't gotten any sleep? >> andpy whole life changed. >> and back in

we always do. >> maggie vespa in hazard, kentucky. >>> mick mulvaney testified before the january 6th many for more than two hours today. >> how about that for a start? >> you asked to come in or did you volunteer to come in? a subpoena, or no? >> i was asked to come in. >> mick mulvaney resigned on the night of the capital insurrection. at the time, he was serving in northern ireland after mr. trump replaced him as a chief of staff with mark meadows. as he was leaving, he told reporters he hasn't spoken to anybody from the trump white house days in a long time, as he put it. mike pompeo now confirms he is also in talks with the january 6th committee to possibly testify. today he told foxnews he is still trying to figure out whether he will do it. >>> in the meantime, the january 6th chairman says the committee has finalized a system to share evidence and witness transcripts with the justice department for its ongoing criminal investigation. >>> speaker pelosi gears up for a potential trip to taiwan. china's president with a stern warning today. the threat he delivered it to the unite

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joining us now, nbc correspondent maggie vespa in highland park, illinois, and including who worked as a consultant to the fbi counterterrorism division is a national analyst. what more do we learn about the lives lost in this horrific shooting? >> jose, everyone at nbc news has spoken to something we think a lot of americans can relate to saying they never thought it would them. across the country, other communities, happens in other places, people had obviously a lot of people came to the fourth of july parade wanting to have a nice time like katie goldstein who you talked about. she lost her mom the day before, she had gone to the movies and gone to dairy queen just to kind of get out of the house and have some fun and came to the fourth of july parade. her daughter told lester she was waving at every single float that went by when her daughter kasie heard the gunfire. listen to what she said unfolded from there. with you heard kasie saying she had an amazing mom, 22 years with her mom who was there at the parade with her when they heard the gunfire. both of them started running. ka

nbc news correspondent maggie vespa has more. >> reporter: mounting anger and a march to the mayor'souse demanding justice for jayland walker, the man shot dozens of times authorities say by eight officers in akron, ohio. >> it is hard to see that a young black man was gunned down. >> reporter: the mayor declaring a state of emergency after more protests police appearing to deploy tear gas on a crowd enraged at new body cam video of monday's deadly shooting. the family attorney said authorities told him an estimated 90 rounds were fired leaving jay land walker with 60 wound on his body. they say the 25-year-old was unarmed when he was killed. >> in this case, there was an attack on my client. that was an attack. >> i understand the public's demand for information now. >> reporter: the 7-minute clip shows walker's last moments beginning with a high-speed chase. they tried to pull him over for a traffic violation which was not shown on tape but he sped off and allegedly fired at them. >> a shot came out the door. >> reporter: police say you could see the flash from the gun from a secur

maggie vespa is in garrett, kentucky, with the very latest. what does it look like there?lie, good morning. so you could see the water is receding which is good news in the short-term but we do have a chance of showers moving in one against today which has everybody on eighth. and you could see how bad this was 24 hours less than that ago. and this is debris piled up here in garrett. a couple of updates, president biden just approved the disaster declaration freeing up federal resources for people who need it and the death toll here has gone from eight up to 15 and he notes that will include children, it could include entire families. again, everybody here just waiting on aid and waiting in a lot of cases to come back to homes and see the devastation and the damage and waiting on the aid for the president for those who have lost so much. >> this is terrible. this is something i never thought i would dream of seeing. >> reporter: across kentucky, the depth of destruction from historic flash flooding is coming into sharper focus. as it a climbing death count. >> we've alread

here's maggie vespa. >> reporter: tonight, the first of seven emotional good-byes in highland park. jackie sondheim, stephen straus, and nicolas toledo all laid to rest today toledo's family paying an emotional visit to the town's makeshift memorial as this whole community continues to grieve. >> we're just sorry. we're just sorry >> reporter: paul crimo is the suspect's uncle. >> very hard for me, i'm very heartbroken. >> what do you want to say to your nephew if he was listening >> nothing nothing. >> reporter: tonight we're learning new details on accused gunman robert crimo iii's home life. according to police reports, from 2010 to 2014, officers responded to the crimo family home nine times for domestic disputes, mostly between his parents. in 2019, police were called after a family member reported crimo threatened to "kill everyone." the attack on monday left seven dead and dozens wounded, including 8-year-old cooper roberts, shot in the chest and in serious condition. the boy, who loves baseball, now paralyzed from the waist down. >> sounded like the end of a fireworks displa

we begin with maggie vespa.nd a warning, there are disturbing images. >> reporter: nearly one week after jayland walker's death and facing growing community pressure, officials in akron, ohio, officials releasing the body camera footage >> i won't mince words. the video you're about to watch is heartbreaking. >> reporter: it shows a harrowing police chase, followed by a hail of bullets. an estimated 90 rounds fired by eight akron, ohio, officers, killing and leaving 25-year-old jayland walker with 60 wounds to the body according to authorities [ sound of gunfire ] >> my youngest is 25 years of age as well and i cannot imagine what life would be like without my son. >> reporter: the approximately seven minutes of raw video released alongside a second narrated clip gives new insight into what preceded the shooting early monday morning. police say they tried to pull walker over for a traffic violation and an equipment violation which is not shown on tape but he took off at high speeds and walker firing at them poli

nbc's maggie vespa has more. >> reporter: akron a city on edge tonight. people here are demanding justice for jayland walker as the city is now releasing video to shed light on his violent last moments. we'll warn you, some of the video you're about to see is disturbing. overnight, outrage in ohio as protests continued with what appeared to be tear gas dispersed into the crowd according to wkyc. and a community in pain after watching the moment eight akron police officers fired an estimated 90 rounds, according to authorities. harrowing body cam video shedding new light on what led to the barrage of bullets that killed 25-year-old jayland walker. >> the video you are about to watch is heartbreaking and very tough to take in. >> reporter: the approximately seven-minute video begins with a high speed chase. police saying officers had tried to pull walker over for an unspecified traffic violation but he fled. seconds later, a gunshot from walker's car. police say you can see the flash from the gun in this security video. the video then shows walker running f

his diagnosis comes just a day after he traveled to massachusetts for a climate change event maggie vespa has more. >> reporter: as the commander in chief battles his own case of covid, americans coast-to-coast are coming to terms with yet another summer surge >> it seems like everyone is getting it in some form or another. >> i've gotten all the boosters and the shots. >> reporter: the u.s. passed a jarring binge mark more than 90 million cases since the pandemic began they're up roughly 16% deaths up 28%. the highly-contagious ba.5 sub variant accounting for nearly 80% of all new infections. do we know what it is about their variant that make it is more infectious? >> there are mutations that make it more likely to get into the lower part of your respiratory tract which is why we may see more hospitalizations. >> reporter: this new wave is prompting a possible return to restrictions and now, focus is shifting toward back to school. in san diego, masking up is now required in summer school, a rule that could last into the fall new york's governor this week held off on requiring them for

he was unarmed at the time of the shooting maggie vespa has details >> reporter: community pressure, officials in akron, ohio releasing the body camera footage. >> i won't mince words the video you're about to watch is heartbreaking >> it shows the harrowing police chase followed by a hail of bullets and fired by eight akron, ohio officer, killing and thieving 25-year-old jayland walk were 60 wounds to the body, according to authorities >> my youngest is 25 years of age as well, and i cannot imagine what life would be like without my son >> reporter: the approximately seven minutes of raw video released alongside a second narrated clip gives new insight into what preceded the shooting early monday morning police say they tried to pull walker over for an unspecified traffic violation and an equipment violation which is not shown on tape. but they say he took off driving at high speeds, and walker fired at them. police saying you can see the flash from the gun from this security camera. >> 21 shots fired. that changes the nature of the contact. >> reporter: authorities say walker later

joining us now live from akron, ohio, maggie vespa. maggie, good morning.ive us the latest on what's happening on the ground there? >> reporter: you can hear their construction equipment off- camera here. we have cruise apparently putting up concrete barriers here in downtown akron overnight after we saw protests overnight outside city hall just behind the camera here in front of the police department just down the street. fourth of july celebrations remaining canceled here in akron because the tension is just so high. people demand justice for jaelyn walker. authorities tried to said new light on his final violent moments that they sent a warning that the video you are about to see may be disturbing. overnight, outrage in ohio as protests continued with what appeared to be teargas into the crowd according to wky see. and the community in pain after watching the moment eight akron officers fired an estimated 80 rounds. harrowing body cam video shedding new light on to what led up to the broader bullets that killed 25-year-old, jaylen walker. >> the video yo

maggie vespa is there now. maggie, we know there was a peace march scheduled after the press conference. what are you seeing? >> sure, well reverend, as you can see, this is happening right now. people have been going around several blocks marching and yelling. when we want? justice. when we wanted? now. also saying, jalen walker, he just heard it over number again. that was the 25-year-old, who early monday morning was shot and killed by akron police. the thing that is really interesting, hear the numbers to this story. police confirming, eight akron police officers firing roughly 90 rounds, excuse, me 60 times. 25 years old. those, 60 wounds, obviously fatal, the 65-year-old darling of his injuries. in akron ohio, later today, police released body camera video, including those moments where he was shot and killed. it was just a barrage of bullets, as expected. they also say, they released details of what led up to the shooting, say they pulled him over for a traffic violation, saying that he said he shot at th

maggie vespa joins me and paul butler. maggie, what do we know at the officers involved? are they concerned about more protests today? >> reporter: chris, no more plans of protest that we have heard today but city officials remain on edge because the city is still under a state of emergency with a 9:00 p.m. curfew planned. the eight officers are on paid leave, standard procedure in this case and the identitied not being released. people said they want more transparency from the city and the names to be released as soon as possible why they're horrified by the shear magnitude of bullets fired at him. police say he ran from the car wearing a ski mask and found a gun in the car. given the 90 shots and roughly 60 wounds to the body by 8 officers people horrified saying they can't get past the numbers and the police response. take a listen. >> i want them to make a change in the way that they do the procedures as far as stopping. for a traffic stop? really? you have to gun him down? get his license plate and run it and then pick it up later. you didn't have to chase him down t

maggie vespa, thank you. >>> the looming change of power in the uk.attled british prime minister boris johnson is set to step down making the race to replace him on. keir simmons has been covering this story for us. he's live in london with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. the morning after the day before and britain's so crucial to president biden's alliance against president putin has a thumping headache. prime minister's long good-bye leaves the united in a state of paralysis. the "daily mail" says, what the hell have they done? >> reporter: new pictures of boris johnson embracing his wife and children inside downing street before walking out for a history-making speech. >> i'm immensely proud of the achievements of this government from getting brexit done to settling our relations with the continent for over half a century. >> reporter: wife kari holding their baby while watching. america's closest alley descending into uncertainty. president biden saying u.s./uk relations remain strong, but his statement barely concedin

state of ohio has taken over the independent investigation into this deadly shooting craig. >> maggie vespa akron thank you. >>> the school district's police chief in uvalde is stepping down from his position following the elementary school shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers >> reporter: pete arredondo was criticized for his response to the massacre in may and then the superintendent put him on administrative leave since june 22nd but the community wanted him out of this recently elected city council position as well now arredondo is resigning this morning, uvalde school district police chief pete arredondo is off the city council. arredondo writing in a letter, it is in the best interest of the community to step down to minimize further distractions. arredondo had been criticized repeatedly for his handling of the robb elementary shooting in may that left 21 dead. >> a meeting about a massacre that happened. >> reporter: community frustration boiled over at last week's city council meeting where arredondo was nowhere to be seen. >> we are demanding answers. show your face an

nbc's maggie vespa is live in highland park this morning with the latest. good morning to you, maggie. >> reporter: craig, good morning. in the hours after inflicting pure terror along this parade route. investigators say the suspect telling them he drove to wisconsin where he considered carrying out another mass shooting at a fourth of july celebration. and the suspect's father talking about his conversations the night before the shooting. overnight the father of the gunman speaking out, saying the night before he and his son discussed the recent mass shooting in denmark. adding his son called the shooter an idiot. police say the suspect, robert crimo iii, legally purchased the firearm in the shooting and four others after passing four background checks in 2020 and 2021. earlier in 2020 his father sponsored his firearms owner identification card. telling "the new york post" he did so because he thought his son was going to the shooting range. adding he bought everything on his own and they're registered to him. authorities say the gunman considered a second

maggie vespa, we can't talk about these victims enough.need to understand their lives, the loss, literally right down the street there was a mother and a daughter watching the parade together. tell us about them. >> reporter: katie goldstein had this conversation with lester last night, telling us she was at the parade with her moment. one of the tros striking details is she had just lost her moment. so they we're trying to cheer themselves up and have time together, cassie, the daughter, telling lester she heard the gunshots, she's running alongside her mom, she sees her mom get shot in the chest and go down. she institute right away. she bent down and told her, i love you, but i have to keep going. unimaginable horror, again alongside her mother. at the same time she also really wanted everyone to know about how her mom will be remembered. here's a part of what cassie told lester about her mom. take a listen. >> i want to share how she was before she died. she was waving to the floats, every float that went by, she waved to them. i did e

maggie vespa explains what the video shows. >> reporter: the 7-minute clip shows walker's last momentsrs tried to pull walker over for an unspecified traffic violation not shown on tape but allegedly fired at them. >> had a shot come out of the door. >> reporter: police say you can say the flash of the gun from a security camera. walker ran from the car wearing a ski mask. they fired tasers but miss jd that fatal hail of bullets. the officer said they thought walker was reaching for a gun and found it in the car. walker had recently lost his fiancee. >> good morning. what is it like in the community there this morning? >> reporter: yeah. jose, the calm after the storm. it feels like. then again police and city officials planning for more protests and there's a mandatory curfew at 9:00 p.m. and businesses cleaning up from damage from nights of protests over the weekend. i want to show you conversations we had in downtown akron. what is this like to have akron in the news like this? >> you don't think it could happen here. kind of thing. but it does. and it is disappointing. >> what did

maggie vespa is live for us at chicago's o'hare international with the latest. maggie? >> he katie good morning. we've been talking for weeks now for headaches about hairlines. this feels like a migraine for american hairlines. basically a glitch in the airline schedule the platform, allowing pilots to -- essentially drop flights is back. they had to schedule vacations or days, off this was a free-for-all for, but was resulting, in 12,000 flights across the month of july, having no pilot, or no first officer. at least for a day or so, until this glitch was caught. the american airlines confirmed having suspended the platform, they're investigating the clutch, they also say they have restored most of those flights. should not impact them. this is the latest in the series of hotspots of this travel chaos. just this week in particular, we had severe storms up and down the east coast. resulting in major stops. we've had pilots picketing, most recently in atlanta, accusing delta airlines of overbooking flights and exhausting the ranks of pilots that they have. especially in

>> maggie vespa reporting for us tonight. >>> another world when week for the us economy ending with more bad inflation numbers. the expenditure price index rose 64%, the biggest jump since 1982. uses that as it may measure inflation, the white house says the u.s. is not in a recession yet, but some consumers already acting like we are. doing what they have two, even if it means picking up side hassles in order to make mincemeat. but some believe could be on the horizon, here is nbc's emilie ikeda. >> reporter: a twice a week ritual, selling plasma. >> originally, it has become a recess study. >> reporter: two thirds of americans are going through savings because of skyhigh prices. >> we should be having a nice savings, but everything is going up, and -- >> reporter: workers wages have increased but not at the same pace of historic levels of inflation. you numbers today show prices would pay up 6-point a project year after year, and the biggest spike since 1982. what is the bottom line for this week? >> buckle up, and get ready. >> reporter: small businesses have witnessed recession

maggie vespa has details. >> reporter: a state of emergency in missouri, state and federal aid beingpatched to help the people of st. louis, a city soaked by record rainfall and deadly flash floods. this mother barely escaping with her daughter from rapidly rising waters in their home. >> there was that panic of how do i get to the roof. >> reporter: more than 9 inches pouring down in 24 hours tuesday, crushing records set more than a century ago. the view from above, breathtaking. >> the road is completely flooded out here. >> reporter: streets and highways submerged in minutes. stranding drivers and killing one person trapped in their car. >> we had approximately 8 1/2 foot of water that developed in a low lying area. >> reporter: crews rescued hundreds of people. >> ten people trapped on a roof. >> reporter: some unable to leave their homes. >> that is the only road out of this area and it is impassable at the moment. >> reporter: the flood water so high it caused roofs to collapse at one metro link train station. flood waters receding as quickly as they came. a daunting cleanup i

but first, nbc's maggie vespa joins us live. ie, good morning >> reporter: hoda, good morning, from, as you said, basically round two of showers and storms hitting a still soak st. louis. this time with lightning we've been seeing flashes throughout the morning thankfully at this point no reports of any major repeat flooding just yet, but this is definitely not helpful for people here still reeling from yesterday's historic and deadly rain event this morning a state of emergency in missouri. state and federal aid dispatched to help the people of st. louis, a city soaked by record rainfall and deadly flash floods. this mother barely escaping with her daughter from rapidly rising waters in their home >> there was that panic of are they going to get too high how do i get to the roof >> reporter: more than 9 inches pouring down in 24 hours tuesday crushing records set more than a century ago. the view from above breathtaking >> roads completelflooded out here >> reporter: streets and highways submerged in minutes. >> look at that fen

nbc news correspondent maggie vespa has the latest. >> what do we want? >> justice. >> mounting anger and a march to the mayor's house demanding justice for jayland walker, the man shot dozens of time authorities say by eight officers in akron, ohio. >> a young black man was gunned down. >> the mayor declaring a state of emergency, after more protests, police appearing to deploy tear gas on a crowd enraged at new body cam video of monday'seadlshooting. the family attorney says authorities told him an estimated 90 rounds were fired leaving jayland walker with authorities say roughly 60 wounds on his body. they say the 25-year-old was unarmed when he was killed. >> there was an attack on my client. >> i understand the public's demand for information now. >> the seven minute clip shows walker's last moments beginning with a high speed chase. police say officers tried to pull walker over for an unspecified traffic violation which was not shown on tape, but he set off and allegedly fired at them. >> there was a shot. >> police say you could see the flash from

nbc's maggie vespa joins us now from jackson, kentucky. what's the situation on the ground there, especially with this flood watch? >> especially given that forecast, lindsey, rescuers as you can imagine are working as fast and as hard as humanly possible. going house to house. this is an incredibly rural area, there can be miles in between. also trying to find houses that were frankly, swept away by the fast-moving floodwaters. and officials get, no rescuers can't, know where those houses were taken to. this really is just a chaotic effort. but is being bolstered by these hardworking first responders. we had national guard members here for the first three states, kentucky of course, west virginia and tennessee. plus we had many first responders, many of whom their own homes damaged or destroyed in these floodwaters. we are showing boats drones trying to get help. search for the missing, in this case too often to recover the. dad just stole standing at 26, the governor saying in a press conference earlier today the absolute expect that to

maggie vespa, nbc news, akron, ohio. >>> we are also following a major development from uvalde, texas. school district police chief pete arradondo has resigned from his other job on the city council. he was in charge of the handling of the deadly shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers. he has experienced criticism for the delayed response taking down the shooter. what did arradondo say about his decision to step down? >> we should say he had just been elected before the massacre hachld as you said, just after he was recently sworn in, he is now resinning. he issued a statement saying it is in the best interest of the community to step down to minimize further distractions. he adds, the mayor, the city council, and the city staff must continue to move forward to unite our communities once again. that coming from school police chief peter arradondo who will no longer be a part of the uvalde city council. there had been a lot of harsh criticism first because they decided to swear him in after the massacre happened and then weeks went by until he issues this statement and he no

let's go to nbc's maggie vespa, who is in kentucky. that seems like a tragically apropos name, lost creek, but how are things changed on the ground last 24 hours? >> it's a feeling of chaos frankly on the ground, has been escalating day-by-day, hour by hour. you should video of those rescues. we were told yesterday close to 300 rescues had been reported. that is not counting all the volunteers who are randomly showing up on their own, with their own boats, and for readers, and drones, trying to find loved ones, or neighbors, or people have just heard about who need saving and really remote parts of the area. specific to the death count that you just updated, coming from the governor today. tragic numbers again. 25, expected to keep rising. the governor also noted, in that 25, at least six children, and they're not counting kentucky corridor, set of the six children, four of them are siblings. so for kids from one family. here on the ground, gut-wrenching stories of loss frankly. unimaginable loss unfolding here on the ground in kentuck

nbc's maggie vespa reporting for us from akron. thank you so much.highland park, illinois, for more on the victims of yesterday's mass shooting just outside of chicago, as well as those now being called heros for their actions to save lives at a fourth of july parade. >>> plus, u.s. senator of illinois, majority chip dick durbin will join our conversation. "morning joe" is coming right back. conversation when moderate to severe ulcerative colitis persists... put it in check with rinvoq, a once-daily pill. when uc got unpredictable,... i got rapid symptom relief with rinvoq. "morning joe" is coming right "morning joe" is coming right back check. and when uc got the upper hand... rinvoq helped visibly repair the colon lining. check. rapid symptom relief. lasting, steroid-free remission. and a chance to visibly repair the n lining. check. check. and check. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tb. serious infections and blood clots, some fatal; cancers, including lymphoma and skin cancer; death, heart attack, stroke, and tears in