now, as our matt bradley reports, scientists at the san diego zoo are hoping to reverse the alarming declines using some pretty fascinating new tools. >> reporter: at the san diego zoo, it's not just about protecting endangered animals. here they're trying to give them new life, their cells frozen in time. how long can that last? >> indefinitely. >> reporter: really? think of the frozen zoo as jurassic park meets noah's ark. >> we may be able to change the game to prevent extinction. >> reporter: he stores dna from over 10,000 different animals. this small room one of the most biodiverse places on earth. >> we may be able to genetically rescue some species that have had their gene pools shrink to gene puddles. >> reporter: the mission is crucial. global populations of vertebrae have dropped. extinction resousand times hig than they would be without humian interventi intervention. the urgency came in march when a northern white ryan know, the last male of his subspecies, died. is this one of the last assess minutspecimens of ? >> it is. this is probably the last specimen of his skin c

matt bradley, nbc news. >>> back in this country, a heat emergency is building in the south and west. some 73 million people from the florida panhandle through the southwest and all the way to california and oregon are all under heat alerts. triple-digit temperatures and record breaking temps are forecast over the next several days. anothe m people are at risk for severe storms in parts of the northern plains and also in the southeast. >>> picture this. you think you are having a private back of an uber or lyft, but it turns out you are being recorded and the video streamed live online. that is what happened to passengers in one missouri ride share car raising new questions about how far your expectation of privacy extends. nbc's david gura has more. >> we need some content. we haven't had content -- it's been a few weeks since we've had good content. >> reporter: a missouri man is no longer driving for uber and lyft after he reportedly filmed hundreds of passengers without their knowledge. >> you haven't missed a thing. >> reporter: "the dispatch" identified the man. he is 32 and the

matt bradley, nbc news, london. >>> back in the u.s., president trump hailed america's heroes on this fourth of july as he considers who he will nominate to the supreme court. the president plans to make his announcement on monday. nbc's peter alexander has the latest on those thought to be the top candidates. >> happy fourth of july. >> reporter: tonight president trump celebrating america's independence with service members and their families. >> thank you for keeping america safe, strong, proud, mighty, and free. >> reporter: building suspense around his supreme court pick that could spark more fireworks. >> these are very talented people, brilliant people. i think you're going to really love it. >> reporter: the president relishing a second opportunity to put his stamp on a more conservative court, narrowing his list to seven candidates with two appeals court judges seen as leading contenders. brett kavanaugh and amy coney barrett. kavanaugh, a veteran of george w. bush's white house, who clerked for retiring justice anthony kennedy, drawing support from establishment republicans.

matt bradley, nbc news, san diego. >> i like the intention there, but 99% of all species that have ever earth are extinct now. >> we have ourselves to blame, but we can also maybe do phillip mena. >> i'm frances rivera. we leave you with the incredible fireworks display in paris celebrate >>> breaking news, one-on-one win helsinki. president trump and vladimir putin preparing to meet face-to-face amid escalating tension between the u.s. and russia. we're live with what to expect from this morning's summit. >>> the light at the end of the tunnel. when will the boys rescued from the flooded thai cave last week finally leave the hospital? >>> king of the grill. where you can find the best burger in america according to the experts at trip advisor. >>> and the best deals of amazon >>> good morning. i'm philip mena. >> i'm frances rivera. we beg

matt bradley, nbc news. >>> back in the united states an amazing story of survival. it happened at an airport not far from austin. a vintage plane tried to take off with 13 people on board. take a look at that. but then the dc-9 went off the edge of the runway and caught fire. remarkably, everyone survived the crash. eight people were hurt. most with minor injuries. >>> regardless of the emergency, every moment counts for rescuers and other responders, and that is where a new enhanced 911 system comes in. it's now available in hundreds of communities. nbc's blake mccoy tonight on how it works. >> i'm going to die here. >> reporter: these were among kyle plush's final words. the teenager was pinned behind a seat in m cincinnati-area high school this april, unable to breathe. >> i probably don't have much time left. tell my mom that i love her if i die. >> reporter: he suffocated, waiting for police to find him. >> as a mother who has experienced tremendous loss, i urge you to go to smart911.com and sign up right now. >> reporter: smart 911 is now part of cincinnati's

matt bradley has more. >> reporter: espionage and intrigue once again striking this sleepy corner ofvestigators saying british nationals dawn sturgis and charlie rowley, who fell ill last saturday, were poisoned. >> following the detailed analysis of those samples, we can confirm that the man and woman have been exposed to the nerve agent novichok. >> reporter: the latest victims of the same deadly nerve agent believed to have been used four months ago against former russian double agent sergey skripal and his daughter seven miles away in the town of salisbury. british counterterrorism officials said there's no evidence the couple were specifically targeted, but they couldn't say how the pair were poisoned but the couple did visit a park in salisbury the day before. the pair remain in critical condition as police cordon off places they visited. sam hobson was with the couple when they fell ill. >> he got up and started acting weird. he said he felt he'd been poisoned. >> reporter: hobson said rowley was sweating profusely, rocking back and forth, had pinpoint pupils before he collaps

nbc's matt bradley is outside the hospital where the rescued boys are being cared for. matt what do you know now? >> well, what you're mentioning about the weather, ali, that's been constant this whole time. it's monsoon season here. so bad weather, rainy weather, that's just always in the forecast. and so far, the d-day weather they were talking about two days ago here in thailand, that's kind of held. there's been a lot of rain, but it's just consistent with the kind of monsoon season we've seen. so right now we're waiting for about 20 hours before we're going to be hearing, again, about this third round of rescues. that's when rescue divers are going to be going into the cave and trying to extract those last four boys and that soccer coach that 25-year-old man who was the guy who led them into the cave to begin with more than two weeks ago. now what we're hearing here at the hospital is that those eight boys who have been rescued so far, they're doing remarkably well. they're actually feeling good. they're talking. none of them have needed any real invasive or advance

matt bradley explains what it will take to get jobdone. >> it's a rescueti opera that captivated notust thailand but many around the world. 12 boys and their soccer coach are in fact alive more than a week after they disappeared inside a partially flooded cave. rescuers were quick to point out the rescue is far from over. >> i would say that like everyone had a tough time here. the rescue workers, the volunteers, the military, you had obviously, it is a multinational rescue effort. >> the question is should have they try on evacuate the boys immediately? supplying the boys and their coach with food and water could be dangerous but experts say actually extractin them from the cave would be far more risky. that's because it would meangu ing these mostly teenagers who are untraineou divers t dark narrow passage ways underwater but that's the next t . now the thai government is celebrate that theoung soccer team was found alive and they're thanking people who came fromor around the to help them. >> wow! invirginia, monument avenue in richmond is lin with statues. a year long study finds

joining us is nbc news correspondent matt bradley. nice to have you with us. ed, matt. what are you getting on the ground there? >> reporter: that's right. the anticipation here, louis, is sky high because this road has been open, this road behind me has been open all day. i have been here since earlier this morning, and now the police have come and cordoned off the area right behind me. they've actually set out orange cones along the street behind me. they've even cleared it of cars. some of the cars they actually had to tow away, these stubborn vehicles that wouldn't move and didn't have drivers. so they're really preparing for what would be a very hasty arrival, coming from right off my left shoulder here there's an improvised helipad. what they do is they've been rushing the boys from the helipad after arriving from the cave mouth, all the way down the street behind me and to the hospital. this is where the eight boys who have been rescued in the past three days are recovering right now. we are going to hopefully start to see the last batch. but, remember,

nbc's matt bradley has the latest on the investigation from london. g. >> reporter: good morning, frances and phillip. it seems that the question here that everybody had was just answered by britain's counterterrorism force. they're housed here at new scotland yard behind me. they said this their hypothesis that they're working on is that these tua tacks were linked. the novichok attack that a stacked the skripals, the former russian double agent in march and his daughter, and this one that was just recently this past weekend in the salisbury area that afflicted this couple, those two, they now believe, were linked. they believe that this couple in salisbury might have infected themselves somehow by picking up some object that was smeared with residue from the substance that afflicted the skripals back in march. now, this could bring up a new round of diplomatic recriminations between britain and russia, but it could also lead to a lot of questions from among the british public because back in march, british medical officers and police said that that w

. >> i'm joined by nbc correspondent matt bradley. the second poisoning here, what do we know about this in particular. . >> well, we just got some breaking news, steve, from right behind me the counterterrorism unit. they said that they now believe that this couple actually came into contact with part of this novichok poisoning. they believe it sounds like they came into contact with a residue from the previous poisoning. that was four months ago, steve. kind of hard to believe this stuck around for so long. we know this couple the day before they reported feeling ill, that they had been walking around as you mentioned nearby salisbury, about seven or eight miles from where this couple live in nearby amesbury. so it's quite likely they came into contact with this poison there in salisbury, maybe at a park, maybe they picked something up, but steve, as you know, that's going to create a whole raft of new questions for the british authorities. why was this area not scrubbed clean like the british officials said it was in march and like

nbc's matt bradley with the incredible story. >> reporter: that's france's most notorious convict escaping in a hijacked helicopter, literally flying the coop. fellow prisoners cheering as he flees. nearly 3,000 cops now hunting for the bank robber and convicted murderer redoine faid. even french officials called the escape spectacular. a team of three maed il airport and forced him to land in the prison yard. men in black are seen running across the yard moments before that daring flight. the getaway chopper later found burned out, the pilot still alive. faid, well known for his love of hollywood gangster thrillers, including michael mann's "heat," saying he would watch scenes dozens of teams for tips. it isn't even faid's first jailbreak. he used explosives to bust out of another prison in 2013, an action movie escape now with a sequel. >>> we're back in a moment with a new king of l.a., starring lebron james. >>> back now with one of the biggest sports headlines of the year. nba superstar lebron james leaving his hometown cleveland cavaliers again, this time to join the l.a. lakers. nbc

nbc's matt bradley is live in thailand with the latest on their condition., good morning. >> good morning, frances. as you mentioned, those eight boys are in the hospital that is right behind me here. i told you a ltlreleased. we're about four hours into what authorities here are hoping ise those boys and their soccer coach. s actuallople n spending time with three navy s.e.a.l.s and a doctor who have been squatting with them, sitting with them, sleeping with them and waiting and making sure they're okay until the last boy and their coach are out of that cave. now there is 19 divers who are going to be part of this rescue operation that started a little more than four hours ago, and as i mentioned, this has actually been going a lot faster. it took 11 hours to rescue the first four boys. it took nine hours to rescue the second four boys. authorities are hoping to do it very fast again for this third attempt. however, because there are more, because there is actually nine people in this cave now, they're expecting it might take a little bit longer. but we're going to know in a couple of ho

matt bradley, nbc news, london. >> let's get a peek at the forest with bill karins. >> i'd love to stop talking about the heat advisorynumbers. heat advisory from areas of montana throughout the ohio valley ander ir new england. we've shrunk it a little bit. but this cold front coming down from the north will eliminate the northern half from our summer heat wave. temperatures today willdr begino already. so some of the heat numbers today kansas city will feel like 99, chicago will feel like 100. columbus, ohiol will fike 100. memphis today feeling like 100. here'she good newss we head towards the weekend. that cold front makes it all the way to charlotte. it will be in the low 80s this weekend. new york city looks perfect, ydetroit, too, v enjoyable days ahead. that's a look at the big weather story of the day. now here's a closer look at your day ahead. >>> so with the showers and storms we'll keep it a little cooler today, but still super humid in the ohio valley and areas of the north east today. a taste of the beautiful canadian air into bismak and fargo and duluth with highs in upp

matt bradley has more on their recovery. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. what we're talking about is the quarantine the boys are going through in the hospital, it is important as far as the doctors are concerned. it comes against the fact they have really not had any really serious problems with health. and that's remarkable considering the ordeal that they went through in these past, more than two weeks. the latest batch who came out, they were in that cave for more than 17 days it's both to protect the boys because doctors believe their own immune systems have probably been diminished by the o to pro rest of us out here because doctors are suspicious that they might havetracted diseases while they were in that cave. especially if they came into contact with any bats or rats. now, the boys in interviews with doctors said they didn't come into contact with any animals. that's what we're understanding. but they are still talking all the precautions they possibly can. as you mention, the families are having to go through this wrenching jurassic park a on top

now as matt bradley reports scientists at theoo san diego are hoping to reverse alarming declines. >>the san diego zoo i its not just about protecting endangered animals here they are trying to give them new, li their cells frozen in time. >> how long can that last? >> indefinitely. >> think of the frozen zoo as jurassic park meets noah's arc. >> we may be able to t change game to prevent extinction. storing frozen dna from over 10,000 imals. the small room one of the most bio diverse places on earth. the mission iscrucial. global populations decline about 60% since 1970. scientists say human activity like poaching and pollution has the driven extinction rates 1,000 times higher than they would be without human intervention. the urgency to protect came in march. >> is this one of the last specimens of him? >> it is. it's probably the last specimen we fro here of his skin cells. >> reporter: dr. barbara durant and her team hope to jump start through a complex method of a fertilizatioer they are reprogrammed into cells capable of fertilizing a northern white rhino egg. >> thise is the f

nbc's matt bradley has more from london. >> reporter: espionage and intrigue, once again striking the sleepy corn earn of england. investigators say british nationals don sturgis and charlie rattly who fell ill last saturday were poisoned. >> following the detailed analysis of those samples, we can confirm that the man and woman have been exposed to the nerve agent. >> reporter: the victims of the same deadly nerve agent believed to have been used four months ago in the attempted assassination of former russian double agent sergey skripal and his daughter. seven miles away from the town of salisbury. british counterterrorism officials say there is no evidence theere specifically targeted, but they couldn't say how the pair were poisoned. but the couple did visit a park in salisbury the day before. the pair remain in critical condition as police cordon off place they visited. sam hob son was with the couple when they fell ill. >> they got up and started acting weird. he said he thought he'd been poisoned. >> reporter: he said he was sweating profusely, rocking back and forth and had pi

matt bradley, nbc news. >>> back in this country, a heat aergency is building in the south west. some 73 million people from the florida panhandhrough the southwest and all the way to california and oregon are all under hea alerts. triple digit temperatures and record breakingre temps forecast over the next several days. another ten million peopl are at risk for severe storms in parts of the northern plains and >>e southeast. picture this. you think you are having a private conversation in the back of uber or lyft but it turns out you are being recorded and the video streame liv online. that is what happened to missouri ride ne share car raising new questions about how far your expectation of privacy extends. ga >> we haven't had content in a couple of weeks since we had good content. >> reporter: a missouri man is no longeng drivior uber and lyft after he reportedly filmed hundreds of passengers without their knowledge. >> you having missed a thing. >> reporter: the dispatch identified the man. he is 32 and the paper says he had thousands ofwe folrs on his streaming service watc

msnbc's matt bradley is outside scotland yard for us in london.alled the poisoning deeply disturbing and said police will leave no stone unturned as they investigate, but they also say the area is now safe, which they didn't say right after the first poisoning, so what are we deducing from any of this? >> reporter: actually, they did say that after the first poisoning. they said that the people can now walk around, they're safe, everything is fine. that's what they said again this weekend. so the question is after all of the diplomatic fracas and about diplomats being expelled and relations between russia and the uk and all these other countries, the question is going to be can they brutrust the brih government when they say they have expunged the agent. four months later we have another near-death experience from this couple so that's really troubling for a lot of the people of salisbury. they're not going to necessarily believe when the british government says again this area is safe. so this is going to be yet another scandal upon other scandal

nbc's matt bradley with the incredible story. >> reporter: that's fran's most notorious convict escapinga hijacked helicopter, literally flying the coop. fellow prisoners cheering as he flees. nearly 3,000 cops now hunting for the bank robber and convicted murderer redoine faid. even french officials called the escape spectacular. a team of three masked and heavily armed commandos kidnapped a pilot from a nearby airport and forced him .to land in the prison yard men in black are seen running across the yard moments before flight.arin the getaway chopper later found burned out, the pilot still alive. faid, well known for his love of hollywood gangster thrillers, including michael nn's "heat," saying he would watch scenes dozens of teams for tips. it isn't even faid's first jailbreak. he used explosives to bust out of another prison in 2013, an action movie escap now with a sequel. >>> we're back in moment with a new king of l.a., sg lebron james. king of l.a., starring lebron james. (burke) at farmers, we've seen almost everything so we know how to cover almost anything. even a "cactus ca

the team members are recovering in a neighborhood hospital matt bradley is live in thailand with the latest there matt >> reporter: hi there, yes, this was a rescue operation that really defied the odds it wasn't so long ago that all of us really believe that there was a possibility that these 12 kids and their soccer coach could have perished in that cave but this was a huge rescue operation. we're talking about more than a thousand rescuers, divers from across the world, an international team of more than a dozen divers who were actually leading the people who were getting them out of the cave and i want to draw attention to the hospital behind me this is where these 12 boys and their coach are now con have convolessing they are in isolation to protect themselves from pathogens in the air that could affect all of us and to protect the rest of us from what they may have contracted in the cave some scientists are worried there could have been fungal or bacterial pathogens that could have infected them and could infect the rest of us if they came into contact with bats or rats in the

matt bradley joins us live from the hospital. att, last, you and i talked, the boys were in isolation chambers at the hospital. what do we know about the condition? >> reporter: well, we know that the boys were previously rescued, they're doing remarkably well considering the circumstances. they were trapped for 16, 17 days. they have no serious medical conditions. some of them suffered from hypothermia but being really closely monitored. that's what's important. they're not being allowed to really even touch their parents. you can imagine how wren ching that would be. if you thought your child might die, now told you can see them but can't touch them. that's what's going on in the hospital behind me. they're being told that they can actually see some of the patients, evacuees from a couple days ago. but the ones just rescued, they can only look at them from behind glass. our understanding from a press conference just now is that the boys who were just rescued, are in the same state. more or less healthy. surprisingly so. and we e

. >> matt bradley, thank you so much for that. joining me now, our contributor dr. natalie azar and gary, let me start with you and pick up on a point that we just heard from matt. this is not new now and they have gone in there before so presumably they know what the challenges are and with the water and certain circumstances have change. does that go well for the last group that's still waiting to be rescued? >> well, it does. the experience counts for a lot. to be honest with you, it is still a dangerous operation. with torrential rain falling, we know that and obviously we don't know the condition of these boys. they may know more of details. we have not been given specific details on what kind of shape these boys were in. what do you see as the biggest obstacle in getting the five out. >> again, the rain and rising water may increase the water and washi washing sediments and etcetera, it is not a certainty of getting out but the previous successes does very well. for a lot of us that spend a lot of time in caves as you have, as you watch the video that came out

. >> matt bradley, what about the boys that are still in that under water cave?t is the timeline right now for when they expect to be able to get them out? are they confident they will be able to get them all out? >> reporter: kewell, confidences key here, we have seen this done twice now, this is no longer an unprecedented operation. on sunday, this was something the most experienced divers, they had never seen anything like there before, and it was a daunting challenge. but now they have done it twice, now they're taking a break, a 20-hour pause to refill the oxygen tanks that they have set throughout the cave system, to kind of tighten and strengthen that guiden line that allows them to guide themselves out of that cave system and then they will rescue the remaining four boys and their coach. >>> well, you were looking, you probably notice i was off for the last two weeks and while i was not looking, a lot happened. so let's recap. monday june 25. harley-davidson cited the eu's reciprocal car riffs, announced they were moving overseas. and tuesday june 26, a 2

. >> with us now is matt bradley live in thailand. and here in studios dr. erwin r redliner. matt, let's start with you. we've had four more rescues today. what's the next thing that happens? >> reporter: well, we don't really know. we just heard a press conference from one of the officials leading the rescue effort. he said that unlike some of the previous couple of days, they're actually going to need about 20 hours in order to prepare for the next round of extractions. remember, this has been going in a set of different rounds. on sunday we had four boys initially taken out. today there were four boys taken out. and we're waiting another 20 hours for a lot of the equipment to get upgraded for the oxygen to get pumped into the caves to make it safer, but once that happens, a lot of the officials are saying they think this is going to go very fast. that's because they've had success in pumping water out of the caves and they've built what's called a ware. it's like a little temporary dam outside the mouth of the cave. that's helping a lot of the seasonal monsoon rains from ge

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nbc's matt bradley joins us from london. he's outside scotland yard. what do we know about this contaminated item? >> well, like you just said, craig, they just got a new piece of breaking news, that was counterterrorism officials, housed right behind me in new scotland yard, they said they believe this couple picked up an item probably in salisbury where they had been shopping and walking around the day before. remember, as you said, salisbury was the location of the poisoning of the scrikripals ba in march. we can assume these two cases were, in fact, connected. but that's going to raise another round of questions for the british government. why wasn't this whole area scrubbed clean as british officials said it was back in march and said it was again just today and yesterday? craig. >> as far as a connection between the two cases at this point, matt, what are officials saying about that? >> officials have said repeatedly they want to keep an open mind. because all of this is so new. at the same time, they've made the point, and it's a very clear poin

i want to go live to nbc's matt bradley. he's just outside the hospital in northern thailand where these boys are. some are already there and others are headed. matt, what do we know about their condition? >> well, stephanie, what we're hearing right now is actually they're in extraordinarily good health. i mean this is just the outcome that everybody here was waiting for. i'm surrounded by the whole -- it seems like the whole global press corps and everybody is just so moved. we're pretty cynical, jaded bunch, but everybody is just so happy. but we have to remember that there are still four thai navy s.e.a.l.s, one doctor and four s.e.a.l.s, who are still trapped in that cave. and while it's easy to dismiss that because they're highly trained in cave diving. remember, the only fatality we've seen in the past two weeks has been a highly trained thai navy s.e.a.l. so this story is not over, stephanie. but what's next for these kids, most are either here at this hospital behind me or they're headed here now. they're going to be

eight boys have now been brought out safely, and nbc news's matt bradley is live in thailand. > thanks. you know, what we're seeing in the next 20 hours is what we're hoping will be the last stage of this rescue mission. now, so far we've had two stages they're kind of breaking it up into parts on sunday we saw the first four boys being rescued today we saw the second group of four boys and still left in that cave are four more boys and that 25-year-old youthful soccer coach, all waiting to get out and very anxious to leave. the problem is now that the workers, the rescue workers, they have to refurbish the line that's connecting them that's allowing them to guide themselves out of the cave they have to refill those oxygen tanks that they've placed throughout the cave system, and then that's going to take probably 20 hours. that's a little longer than it took in between the other missions, but we're already starting to see the pace picking up now, it's very important to note that this is no longer an unprecedented mission. when they started this on sunday, this was seen as so i

all the children, their coach, and all the divers are out of that cave in thailand let's go to matt bradley i thailand for the latest. snoo it wasn't so long ago that people like you and me -- really the tide has turned, and everybody came out alive except for a thai navy seal a former petty officer he died, and he is being remembered here as a hero. the king has come in and paid for his funeral arrangements now these boys and their coach are conval esing in this behind me they're going to be in quarantine for probably the next week, and they're going to be recupera recuperating most of them are doing remarkably well health-wise, but their parents won't be able to embrace these children not until they're out of this quarantine really they won't be able to see the public until they're out of hospital in about a week's time. egts so dpraet to be reporting on a story like this, one that is so inspiring, and one that just defied the odds and brought so many people together. tyler, i hope that people are watching and hope they're continuing to watch how this unfolds with these boys and their coa