marissa parra has that story. >> reporter: in the moments after a miraculous rescue, gratitude hits this mother like a wave >> we cannot thank the coast guard rescue and everybody. we just want to say thank you so much. >> reporter: this was her son charles gregory just hours before the 25-year-old seen hugging his knees, lone and lost at sea for almost two days after a fishing trip gone wrong >> he lost his engine. when he got swept out to sea at some point his vessel capsized. he lost all his survivor equipment including his phone which he would have been able to use to call out to us. >> reporter: the clock was ticking. he had no food, no water, and his boat was on the brink of sinking. forced to tread the florida ocean for as long as his body and the sharks would let him. >> any kind of marine life would be a concern. >> reporter: rescuers desperate for a sign of life finally spotted a sight for sore eyes early saturday morning there was the 25-year-old waving at them from a boat half full >> we didn't want his legs to give out underneath him based on the fact that he had been out th

jose. >> marissa parra in miami, thank you. >>> we are back in a moment with a shocking moment of anirline pilot striking a parking gate with an ax why he says he did it. >>> we're back with a major train derailment in oklahoma take a look at this dash cam video in a town of moore, you can see on the left-hand side, the cars begin to topple over. from above, you can see the extent of the accident 22 cars went off the rails officials said the cargo was not a threat to the surrounding community. police confirmed a mechanical issue was the cause of the derailment nobody was injured >>> and now to some shocking video out of denver. a united airlines pilot reaching his breaking point while waiting at a parking lot he apparently got so frustrated he used an ax to chop down the gate george solis has the latest. >> reporter: it's hard to look away an ax wielding airline pilot waging war on a parking lot gate cameras capturing the bizarre moment at denver international airport, when united airlines pilot, kenneth jones, still in uniform, hacks away at the gate over and over again more than 20

marissa parra has details. >> reporter: multiple fatalities from a shooting. >> our own neighborhood.> reporter: the mayor racing to the scene. >> it's just so awful that they have got to deal with this type of thing time and time again. and we've got to find some -- some better way of dealing with this violence. it's just heartbreaking. >> reporter: police and s.w.a.t. teams seen running down surrounding streets. students asked to stay in place at nearby edward waters university as a precaution, as yet another community is left looking for strength in each other, with little answers to a tragedy seen all too often. >> i'm emotional. it's unjust that we can't -- we can't even walk on the sidewalks. we're not safe in any stores. >> marissa is with us now. we just got an update on the death toll? >> reporter: yes, so, the press conference just began within the last few minutes, jose, and what they said is that three people are dead, that is not including the shooter, but of course, still so many questions, including, what prompted all of this? hopefully some answers will be coming swift

back to you. >> nbc's marissa parra is also in florida on the ground in tampa.ok over my shoulder here, you can see people lining up to pick up sand bags. in terms of how residents are responding, it depends on the family. i'm going to take you to some of what we have heard on the ground from people we spoke to in the last couple of hours, people picking up sandbags, ready for idalia. >> tampa and hurricanes, i'm not used to that. my job let me off early to come get sandbags, and prepare, and would have got water, and everything. you just want to be safe. we used to always have to vacate because we live by the island. >> reporter: so what i have found just walking around here is it's a combination of people who are prepping their homes as they get ready to flee the area and some people choosing to hunker down. either way officials across the state, officials especially in the counties that are most impacted, including the tampa area, further north as you get closer to the path of idalia, asking people to evacuate if we can. there are some evacuation orders that

i want to bring in nbc news correspondent marissa parra who is in tampa.od morning, what are you seeing there? >> reporter: if you were to look over here, it's hard to tell whether i'm joining you from the streets of downtown tampa or tampa bay because tampa bay has completely overtaken streets here. if you were to look a little further over here, what you're going to see is a car that tried unsuccessfully to drive through these flooded streets. it was just last night, in fact, maybe even earlier this morning, that we saw cars driving through here. this is bay shore boulevard. this is a pretty normal place, a pretty average place to drive through in downtown. but as you can see, lots of flooding here. this person inside this car needed to be rescued. they tried to drive through an area they shouldn't. authorities kept asking people don't drive through flooded roads. otherwise we'll have to come and rescue. we have heard of several rescues in the area happening. we know of at least a couple in the peninsula, clearwater and st. petersburg. we know that st. p

nbc's marissa parra was following this from miami. so how did it go?porter: well, for all intents and purposes, chris, it was a success. this was the third successful space flight for virgin galactic in just three months. we want to take you to some of the footage today. you're seeing the mothership, the spaceship, the rocket deploying from the mothership right there. that happened not that long ago, just a couple of hours ago, and the flight in total is about an hour. they just released the statistics on this. now, what happens is that rocket ship then reaches a certain altitude, and then they experience, everyone on board that you're seeing strapped in there, experiences three to four minutes of weightlessness. that is what it is all for, and we just talked about how this is now the space race for commercial space flight, chris, so what you're going to hear from is the mother/daughter duo, this is really special, the first mother daughter duo to make it to the edge of space, and what this trip meant for them. listen for yourself. >> i'm hoping to giv

are banned teachers love the policy students not surprisingly hate it what are parents saying marissa parra has the answer. >> reporter: at montgomery, alabama's carver high the morning rush to school is now a morning rush to scroll. >> power your phone off. >> reporter: new this year middle and high school students now forced to lock away phones before the bell rings. when do they get it back >> 2:45. >> reporter: 2:45. >> right >> reporter: principal gary hall pushed for the policy and the pouch to enforce it. >> they were texting, tweeting, you name it while classes were going on >> reporter: here's how it works at the beginning of the day students put their cell phones in these pouches. once it's locked i is really hard to get back open. they can keep it with them they just can't open them they're sealed this unlocking magnet the only thing designed to free them. it's not completely foolproof. >> we found a lot of cell phone cases with no phones. >> reporter: for students -- >> show of hands, who doesn't like the pouch? >> reporter: it's a painful adjustment >> i got to have my phone. >

joining us now with more is nbc news correspondent marissa parra here in biscayne bay, florida.e've been talking about heat all summer long, right? we've been talking about the dangers of it, not just trying to stay cool but what we really haven't talked about as much is the cost of it, really the dollars and cents behind it all. we're talking about records being broken from coast to coast. we spoke to energy companies in some of those states affected like texas, like florida, specifically florida power and light, which is the main one down here in florida, and they've talked about how they have already seen their peaks this summer. the thing is they both said they're seeing those peaks much earlier in the season than unusual. so as they're struggling to meet the demand, as people try to crank up the air-conditioning, try to get their houses, their apartments to a comfortable setting, so too are consumers struggling to keep up with the cost of it all. they estimated earlier this year that consumers would be spending 12% more on their utility bills this year compared to last. so

families going to the store live in fear of being gunned down because of the color of their skin marissa parra is in jacksonville tonight. >> reporter: in jacksonville tonight a community grieves over lives tragically lost. >> this is tough this is home. >> reporter: angela carr, jerrald gallion, and aj laguerre were shot and killed saturday after a gunman old fire at a dollar general store. >> pretty sad what happened >> it is really sad. >> the fbi identifying this as a hate crime. >> he hates a group of people and decided he wanted to kill them. >> reporter: the gunman was a 21-year-old identified and penned writings detailing what he thought about the black race and what he planned to do. today florida's governor calling the violence unacceptable >> targeting people due to their race has no place in the state of florida. >> reporter: authorities released these short clips. at the dollar general store here he is seen wearing a tactical vest armed with two guns one of them hand drawn with swastikas. >> my lord can't even go to the dollar store. >> reporter: his day of horror witnessed by sho

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joining me now, marissa parra, who's in tampa for us. welcome, idalia is in the rear view for folks in tampa, what are you seeing where you are right now? >> i will tell you, i have been out here since about 3:00 in the morning, and it has been, i will start first with what we saw around then. at that time, the water was just below my knees. we saw several vehicles stranded, including that white one over there, which seems silly when you look at it now. that person inside of it driving it, had to be rescued and that is not the only car around here. we've seen several instances of cars that needed rescuing, and people that needed rescuing, not just in tampa. here's an example of someone. this is a great example happening right here. these waters have receded quite a bit. it's still difficult to drive through. she's shaking her head i think in agreement, and so you have a lot of waters that have been flooded and a lot of streets number just here in tampa. this is bay shore boulevard, by the way, a main thoroughfare for those who don't know

marissa parra has the latest >> reporter: in the moments after a miraculous rescue, gratitude hits this mother like a wave >> we cannot thank the coast guard, the fire rescue and obviously everybody. we just want to say thank you so much. >> reporter: this was her son, charles gregory, just hours before the 25-year-old seen hugging his knees, lone and lost at sea for almost two days after a fishing trip gone wrong. >> he lost his engine, when he got swept out to sea at some point his vessel capsized. he lost all his survivor equipment including his phone, which he would have been able to use to call out to us. >> reporter: the clock was ticking, he had no food, no water and his boat was on the brink of sinking forced to tread the florida ocean for as long as his body and the sharks would let him. >> any kind of marine life would be a concern. >> reporter: rescuers desperate for a sign of life finally spotted a sight for sore eyes early saturday morning, there was the 25-year-old waving at them from a boat half-full. >> we didn't want his legs to give out underneath him based on the fakd

nbc's marissa parra is at the center where the dragon spacecraft launched this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. i don't know if it's ever going to get old watching that. cruise 7 took off just a few hours ago as part of spacex's eighth crew flight with nasa. they reach add max speed of 280 miles per minute. this morning also marked the first time in a single launch that each owner represents a different space agency onboard. you're going to see four different crew members. they were shaking hands, cheering after liftoff. there's one from the european space agency, one from japan, another from russia, and all of them under the command of nasa's own jasmine mabelli. >> i would like to welcome you to orbit. not a bad day to spend a day in the office. >> we may have four crew members onboard from four different nations, but we're a united team with a common mission. >> reporter: now, while this mission has highlighted unity beyond borders, there have been a global race to the moon this week. russia's attempt to land a robotic spacecraft last sunday was a cra

. >> nbc's marissa parra explains why. >> reporter: deep in the marshes of south florida, the everglades burmese pythons, but finding nocturnal creatures skilled at hiding doesn't come easy. tina and gary petty are up to the task. they're new to the hunting field. they're also married and this is date night, a shared love that started with an instagram post. >> i was like, what is this? >> reporter: this is a nonprofit called the swamp aprils and their mission, they say, is to serve veterans through serving the wilderness. they bring veterans south to join the growing ranks of florida's python hunters. experts say getting the invasive species out is crucial. >> they are eating our native birds, reptiles and mammals. we have seen significant declines in many different mammal species. >> reporter: where hunting pythons is clearly helping the environment, we wanted to know how this is helping veterans. so we took to the swamp with the idea maker himself, tom rayhill. >> this is kind of filling a need hard to fill in civilian life afterwards. >> yeah, especially when they come out. i've had

joining us now from tampa, florida, nbc news correspondent marissa parra. e can see the water coming over the barricades there. give us a sense of the latest conditions there in tampa and how much worse things could get. >> yeah, so just to give you a lay of the land right now, as you mentioned we are in the tampa area, now this specifically called davis island and people in the tampa area are used to seeing flooding. we're talking about a very vulnerable area to surges, but the interesting thing about where i am right now if we were to pan the camera over there, you'll see we're outside tampa general hospital. this is tampa bay's only level one trauma center. you'll see over there those are called aqua fences. that is the barrier. that is the last line of defense for this hospital. they're supposed to be remaining operational throughout hurricane idalia, and this is something important to remember because what we're on is an island. the only way on or off if we turn the camera back around, the only way on or off here is through these bridges. as you can tel

nbc news correspondent marissa parra has more on the dramatic rescue of the man missing for nearly two in the moments of a miraculous rescue grate did i tud hits this mother like a wave. >> we cannot thank everybody. we just want to say thank you so much. >> this was her son charles gregory just hours before. the 25-year-old seen hugging his knees alone and lost at sea for almost two days after a fishing trip gone wrong. >> he lost his engine. when he got swept out to sea. his vessel got capsized. he lost everything. >> reporter: the clock was ticking. he had no food, no water. >> at any time marine life would be a concern. >> rescuers desperate spotted a sight for sore eyes early saturday morning. there was the 25-year-old waiving at them from a boat half full. >> we didn't want his legs to give out underneath him. >> loaded on to a guernsey on land, charles gives his parents a frantic weak sign he's okay. >> there's a god out there. i grave up hope. i should never give up hope. >> we are certainly glad he's okay. >>> still ahead here, a historic exit from the world cup from the world

>> marissa parra, in west palm beach. marissa, i hope you will join us later in the show as you have more important. i want to bring it now congress men robert garcia of california. congressman, thanks for being with us. i want to take us into parts. because there is access to weapons in this case. we know that the gunman had both a handgun and an ar-style rifle. there is also the hate and the ideology of hate that is permeating our society. one easier to little slip than the other, congressman. >> yeah, i mean, look. this is a community's worst nightmare. i was mayor of the city for years. i know what this does, this shuttering this community. it is just horrific. we are sitting here watching this happen over and over and over again. without any sort of action at the federal level by the congress. and it is, as a freshman member, this hopelessness that we're all feeling is shameful. we should be ashamed of our u.s. congress for not taking zero action, when we know that the solution to this is limiting guns. it is limiting

marissa parra has the latest. >> reporter: the conditions in tam are kind of unique, here for about 24 hours and from my observations, the people who were most concerned, the people who wanted to leave have largely already done so, yesterday we saw the mad rush to the stores the mad rush to get those sandbags in place before they left, and today, i would say it seems like the people who are left are the ones who are relaxed about this storm, people going on bike rides. i see people running and going on walks. when i talk to them, they say tampa has been able to avoid hurricanes in the past and not in the direct path of idalia right now. the big concern here is the storm surge. we're looking at 4 to 7 feet of storm surge, so behind me you can see tampa bay and on the other side of that is tampa general hospital, this is the region's only level 1 trauma center. where the people have the most serious injuries are taken. now this place is supposed to remain operational throughout the storm so people if they do get injured would be taken here, but remember, this is on an island, so they hav

let's begin this hour with nbc meteorologist bill karins and marissa parra. bill, time out the next 24 to 48 hours. >> reporter: we'll see a tropical storm going into a hurricane and major hurricane in 40 hours of time, developing rapidly and we're trying to get the word out in western florida to get out of the way, especially people who are in rvs or mobile homes or low-level areas with houses with one level in them because that's the issue. by the time we get towards landfall, 120, 125, getting very serious, the storm will likely undergo rapid intensification during the day tuesday. notice tampa is on the south side on this, tallahassee is on the west. our computer models are in line of those two. the big bend area of florida, this is a very swathy low-lying area, probably the least populated area of all of florida, a major hurricane with doing the lease amount of damage that's where you would it want to likely hit. any slight shift will make a huge difference especially with storm surge the west coast of florida is shallow the waters's going to pile up, 7

. >> marissa parra, important information, thank you for that. that's going to do it for us this hour. joining us for "chris jansing reports" every weekday 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. our coverage continues now with "katy tur reports" ♪♪ >>> good to be with you, i'm katy tur. is d.a. fani willis moving faster than initially expected. one of the witnesses being called to testify just posted on social media, quote, change of plans. i'm going to court today. they're moving faster than they thought. george chidi, a local journalist who uncovered the fake elector plot had said he was scheduled to testify tomorrow. does that mean we might something out today? we know the grand jury is meeting. we know willis is presenting her election interference case. and we know that multiple witnesses are likely inside. what we do not know yet is when we will know. indictments aren't usually sealed in georgia, so we would likely find out the moment it is filed. who exactly is going to be charged, if they are charged? is it one person or multiple? the initia

. >> marissa parra, thank you. >>> joining us on the phone, cedar key, florida, city commissioner sue coleson. thanks for joining us. we understand it's a barrier island. talk to me about what you experienced there. i know it was really bad. >> they are out now, our eoc director and our police chief assessing what they can assess. we have a lot of flooding. we still have surge in progress. we can't do a lot of research. the bridges are closed at this time. there will be no oncoming traffic. we know that highway 24 was inundated with water, which is the road preceding the bridges to get to cedar key. right now, there's no entry because the bridges have to be assessed for safety first. >> how many people live in cedar key? >> approximately 800. >> was the area under a mandatory evacuation? >> we had quite a few left. during the evening, as things got very hairy and scary and it was cat 4 being predicted, which i don't -- i don't know what we were when it came, that sealed the fate for a lot of people. they just left. we are fortunate to have gotten quite a few off the island. hopefully

. >> marissa parra, important information, thank you for that.ow with "katy tur reports" ♪♪ >>> good to be with you, i'm katy tur. is d.a. fani willis moving faster than initially expected. one of the witnesses being called to testify just posted on social media, quote, change of plans. i'm going to court today. they're moving faster than they thought. george chidi, a local journalist who uncovered the fake elector plot had said he was scheduled to testify tomorrow. does that mean we might something out today? we know the grand jury is meeting. we k

msnbc news correspondent marissa parra has the latest. >> a dollar general store in jacksonville, florida has become a crime scene after a shooting spree it local sheriff's office coles racially motivated. they say a white man turned at gun on three black people, killing them, before turning pink on himself. they detailed it manifested that was sent to local law enforcement as well as local media, even his, unparalleled in his desire to kill black people. using the n-word several times. this press conference was illuminating and disturbing. they also could help swastikas draw on guns that this trigger was carrying on his body. still so many questions and native answering but nonetheless a community left grieving for yet another gun violence tragedy. >> all right, nbc news correspondent mrsa parra, thank you for that. let's bring into the conversation jim kavanaugh, msnbc terrorism analyst who's joining us on the phone. also with me, eddie glug junior, msnbc political analyst and chair of the african american studies department at princeton university. jim, i'll start with you. authorities

williere >> marissa parra in jacksonville on just a terrible morning there. you. >>> that racially motivated shooting comes 60 years after martin luther king jr. led a historic march on washington for civil rights thousands gathered at the lincoln memorial on saturday to renew his mission for justice and equality, adding modern calls to action, including an end to violence against minority groups and attacks on voting rights dr. king's son and granddaughter spoke at the rally >> let's not give up, let's not give in, let's not give out. >> my generation will be defined by action, not apathy. >> the day was billed as a continuation, not a commemoration, by organizers and ended with a march to the mlk memorial tomorrow is the 60th anniversary of the "i have a dream" speech on the steps of the lincoln memorial >>> days after the firstal. >>> days after the republican presidential debate candidates are on the campaign trail with florida governor ron desantis and entrepreneur vivek ramaswamy. the two contenders closest to donald trump in the polls though still trai

. >> joining me now from jacksonville's and receives marissa parra. what is the latest on the investigation and how the community is coping with this? >> well, ali, just a couple of things here. you can imagine it is a heavy morning here in jacksonville. the president of the united states has been briefed on this as well as the attorney general merrick garland. we know this is being investigated as a hate crime. the federal civil rights investigation has been opened. some of what you mentioned from of the sheriff's office here in jacksonville, some of those details have been so disturbing to people who live around here. we are talking about something that was racially motivated and clearly planned out. just on the other side of the camera, we are in a residential neighborhood. it's predominantly black. many of the people i have spoken to this morning say that this is the dollar general that they frequently go to. in fact, one of them claims that they know one of the victims here who have not been publicly identified, by the way. we want to get to some

joining us now live from tampa is nbc news correspondent marissa parra. good morning.e, good morning. so, we are currently in what's called zone a, the mandatory evacuation area in tampa and you'll see why in just a moment because if you look over there, this is what happens when a car tries to drive through the evacuated zone. you can see tampa bay has completely washed over onto the road. this is a main road that we saw cars driving through even last night with ease. there were many cars that were driving through here, but obviously this is now the water is taking over a lot of the roads and this is something we have seen throughout the morning as we ourselves have been trying to assess the situation. if you look further down over there, that sort of yellow building, that is tampa general hospital. that is the only level one trauma center in the tampa bay area. so what we have here is -- it's on an island. the only way to get there is by a bridge. there are a couple of bridges and what we have found is the water level is rising on that island and so we were over ther