matt bradley has more on the legend of the loch ness monster. >> reporter: it's fascinated generationss minds. but this weekend the loch ness monster is getting another close-up. and this time i joined the hunt. it's being called the biggest nessie quest in 50 years. for this region of scotland, the legend of the loch ness monster is still kind of a big deal. but organizers are hoping that this weekend will excite a new generation of nessie hunters. >> it's about tradition. and for a very selfish reason, i don't want the loch ness mystery or the interest itself to diminish. >> reporter: it will be hard for nessie to hide from this high-tech hunt. they're launching drones overhead, scouring the surface while also listing the low. so we're dropping a hydrophone, which is an underwater microphone 60 feet. we're going to be doing some audio testing to find out what noises exist down there. and they're using sonar to map the lake, which has a depth of nearly 800 feet. >> nessie herself decided to swim under the boat right now, we are going get to see a real mystery. >> reporter: somewhere i

joining us is matt bradley. matt, what happened in the courtroom this morning?lly know because like so many of those trials involving opposition figures, this was a closed door proceeding. apparently not even navalny's parents who haven't seen their son in person for more than a year were allowed to attend. the results from today were not a surprise to anyone, least of all to navalny himself. prosecutors had already called for navalny to spend two decades more in jail, in addition to as you said that 11-year prison sentence he's already serving. he released a statement on telegram yesterday saying that the sentence will be a long one, will now be serving more than time than many murderers and rapists and said the main purpose was to intimidate. and the list of charges against him looked like they were trumped up. he was accused of promoting terrorism, funding extremism and the unique charge of rehabilitating naziism. that's a criminal charge only put on the books in the past ten years and that russian human rights groups say is particularly vague and designed ju

let's go to nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley. dict this kind of thing. this was really the missing piece, though. this is a big deal. four weeks after he dashed across the border, north korea has finally acknowledged that they even have private king, ask we heard from the pentagon that they're focused on private king's safe return. it sounds like regardless of the circumstances of his running across the border. this gives us a tiny glimpse of what we might be able to expect. the north koreans have said their investigation into king is continuing, and the north korean experts that i've been speaking to, the north korea experts i've been speaking to say this investigation period, right now, that this is a crucial moment because the best that king can hope for if he hopes to return to the states soon is that the north koreans investigate him and determine that he's somehow not useful to them or he's a liability for them. for example, if they decide that he's mentally unstable. then they could just deport him immediately, and that's w

matt bradley joins us now with the latest. what else do we know about king's status in north korea today and for the u.s. side of things, the efforts to get back look like? >> reporter: ellison, we don't know a whole lot of what's going on with his status in north korea. this was the missing piece. four weeks after he dashed across the border to north korea. because of their extreme isolation, pretty hard for pentagon or us journalists any statement contributed to king. even if he stands up and speaks directly straight on the camera like i'm doing now, no way we won't know those comments are coming under durress or torture. this gives us a tiny glimpse of what we might be able to expect from king. their investigation into king is continuing and the experts i've been speaking to this investigation period, this is the crucial moment. the best that king can hope for if he hopes to return to the states any time soon is that the north koreans investigate him and they determine he's not useful to them or he's a liability, for exampl

nbc's matt bradley is following this story. matt, what's the latest? >> well, it's all still a bit murky, and everything we know so far, it all comes entirely from ukraine's intelligence agency, which is the sbu, and nbc has been unable to verify if most of this information, but according to ukrainian intelligence, this woman was a local resident of a small city in the southern region of mykolaiv. one of the most contested regions in the war. according to ukrainian intelligence, she has been seen traveling around mykolaiv, taking photos of potential targets like electronic warfare systems, and the sbu said the suspect had been seen seeking information about president volodymyr zelenskyy's itinerary in mykolaiv. this came last month. all of this was done to prepare for an air strike that would target mykolaiv, its military assets and presumably president zelenskyy himself which is thought to have been the target of russian assassination attempts since the war began in february of 2022. that's why ukrainians are calling this an attempt to kill the presid

matt bradley in our london bureau and also with us former army infantry officer clint watts.is woman and the info she allegedly gave the russians? >> all a bit murky so far. everything we know comes entirely from ukrainian's intelligence agency. nbc has been unable to verify most of the information. but according to ukrainian tlens, this woman was a local resident in the small city of mick leia. according to ukraine intelligence she had been seen traveling around taking photographs of electronic warfare systems and ammunition warehouses. they said the suspect had been seeking information about the details of president volodymyr zelenskyy's itinerary. all of this was done to prepare for some attack on mykolaiv. president zelenskyy is thought to have been the target of since the war began in 2022. that's why ukrainians are calling this an attempt to kill the president, basically an assassination. the sbu says this woman was caught red-handed. not photographing these installations, but detained while passing on information she collected on to her russian handlers. like i said, t

nbc's matt bradley joining us live from london.ory for spain, a team that had to overcome a lot. >> it would be the first time any england team had won the world cup since the 1960s. epg land was ranked higher than spain going into this tournament. england had just won the women's european championship last year, and they had to beat spain to do it. there was a lot of expectation that england was going to take the day. spain's side had been suffering from a lot of drama. a lot of the spanish players had actually been on a strike for much of the past year demanding a new coach. while that strike was unsuccessful, it's not only about the lack of training and playing during the strike, but it left a lot of distrust between the players and the coaches and among the different players. one of the top spanish players was out for an injury for much of last year. this really was a remarkable win. it surprised a lot of people, and it really goes to show that the spanish team wasn't going to be left out. >> matt bradley, thanks so much to you

joining us now is nbc's matt bradley. what more have we learned this morning?ky. everything we know so far comes entirely from ukraine's intelligence agency, the srkts bu, and as you mentioned, nbc has been unable to verify most of this information, but according to ukrainian intelligence, this woman was a local resident of a small city in the southern region of mykolaiv. that's been one of the more contested regions in this war. again, according to ukrainian intelligence she had been seen traveling around mykolaiv taking photographs of what they said were potential targets like electronic warfare systems and ammunition warehouses, and the sbu said that the suspect had been seeking information about president volodymyr zelenskyy's itinerary in mykolaiv ahead of his visit, and now all of this was done to prepare for some kind of air strikemykolaiv, its assets and presumably president zelenskyy itself who's thought to have been a target of russian assassination attempts since this war began all the way back in february of 2022, and that's why the ukrainians are c

matt bradley is following that story for us. what more can you tell us, matt? >> reporter: well, chris, the short answer is i can't tell you very much because like so many of these trials, especially involving opposition figures, this was a closed door proceeding and even apparently navalny's parents who haven't seen their son in person for more than a year, even they weren't allowed to attend. this was actually the fact that this is being done in secret is among a list of things that u.s. state department condemned when they condemned this ruling earlier today. the frultsz today, they weren't a surprise to anyone, least of all to navalny himself. the russian judicial system rarely acquits those accused and prosecutors had already called for navalny to spend two more decades in jail, so in addition as you said the nine-year sentence he's serving. he released a statement yesterday through his organization saying that the sentence will be a long one. he knew this was going to happen. he's going to be serving more than a lot of rapists and murderers in russia and

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nbc's matt bradley has the latest for us.nk, managed to break through the main russian line. this is a massive network of trenches, barriers, mine fields, what can you tell us? >> reporter: this might be the first time the ukrainians have penetrated or broken through such a line. they have been pushing back russian front lines regularly since russia invaded ukraine in 2022. ukraine has chalked up victories in kharkiv and the southern city of kherson. that was last year. today's victory vindicates a ukrainian offensive against the russians that started months ago, and so far had been pretty underwhelming, it hadn't really yielded any great gains, despite, and this is a crucial thing, being armed with western weapons. that's a lot of the pressure that's being put on kyiv to make in fresh assault work, and the assault has managed to free some of the land around the ukrainian villages. according to the "wall street journal," the ones who broke this story, this was done by ukrainian parachutists, and they were dropped in a forward

nbc's matt bradley joins us now. this tragedy is shining a light on a housing crisis in that city.eah, housing crisis among other other crises. this fire, chris, is likely to become an indictment of the state of downtown johannesburg, and south africa. this is one of some 700 quote, hijacked buildings. that's what authorities called them, right in the center of the city's commercial district. this used to be a buzzing area in what is still the richest city in africa. but south africa's economy has been decreasing, and companies that once inhabited these offices spaces have left. at the same time, there's been a huge influx over undocumented migrants in the past decades, that's caused buildings like this one to become so overcrowded. we are hearing from government officials urging their own governments to take action to stop these actions from happening in the fear. here's what he said. >> it's a wake up call for us to begin to address the situation of housing in the inner city, that a building like this, which i'm told used to be a home for abused women and children, at least it ex

nbc's matt bradley is covering the story for us. what do we know about what happened there?the fire has been controlled, the building is still smoldering and rescue workers are still going through the painstaking process of searching this entire five-story building for survivors. and for bodies. now, this was a real tragedy, jose. at least 73 people died. and that number is likely to go up including now, according to some sources at least a dozen children. that number has gone up from seven earlier in the day. the fact there were so many homeless people there meant the entire building was a warren of tents and living areas for squatters and that's why it's been so difficult for rescue workers because the building, it hadn't been maintained. the fire escapes were apparently no longer functioning, nobody knows how the fire started, but it is thought since it is winter and the building is off the electrical and gas grid, perhaps people were cooking or heating for themselves over these open fires and that might have set off this terrible blaze. now, one of the things that caused

. >> reporter: matt bradley nbc news, scotland >> when we come back, riding waves to recovery the surfingtructors in maui helping kids who lost their homes to the wildfires. >>> there is good news tonight about finding solace in the sea and the surf mentors in maui helping children there get on to the path to healing. here's steve patterson. >> reporter: much has been said about the calm that comes just from feeling the sky kiss the sea fitting that in its darkest hour this small stretch of sand in west maui is where the community is starting to come back. >> this is the first time all of the families in west maui will have been in one place since the fire so i just expect a lot of joy. >> in lahaina, a skate and surf after school program was established until the wildfire took it all away this woman's home was destroyed and she says she is lucky she and her children made it out alive but she soon noticed not without scars. >> my 3 1/2-year-old always wants to talk about the fire >> reporter: that is when she knew her life's work had to continue now once again an escape from maui kids, to

we get more tonight from matt bradley. >> reporter: you could hear the screams coming from inside theerno. a fearsome fire engulfing a five-story building in johannesburg, killing at least 74 people overnight, including 12 children. the building had been abandoned and was filled with an estimated 200 homeless squatters. witnesses say exits out of the building were blocked. the massive blaze to forced some to do the unthinkable. >> just to hit the window and throw their daughter outside. >> reporter: tonight the government facing fierce criticism. >> it's a wake-up call for us to do ow best in the situation of housing. >> reporter: the reforms will come too late for these homeless victims, for whom there was no place left to go but the streets, and now nothing left to feel but despair. and tonight south africa's president pledged to root out the criminal gangs that had taken control of that abandoned building and to launch an investigation into what exactly caused that deadly fire. lester? >> all right, matt, thank you. >>> back in this country, americans are struggling with the rising

matt bradley is following the latest developments, matt, what do we know about those victims and thee this building? >> reporter: the real tragedy of this, 74 people were killed, 12 children were among them, but they were almost all of them homeless and they were populating this building in sort of homeless squats and that's one of the reasons why it was such a major challenge for rescue workers to make their way in and save those who had been surviving, this was a tent city inside a derelict building. lot of them were undocumented migrants. we're seeing a confluence of different problems besetting all of south africa converging right here on to this tragedy and that's why this probably not the last we're going to hear from this. lot of political action in south africa in the coming weeks and months if not years. guys? >> matt, any sense in terms of how this fire initially started? >> reporter: we don't know. there hasn't been any real statements divotly showing, the fact is, this was a derelict building populated almost entirely by homeless people squattersers speculation has been f

nbc's matt bradley is following this story for us. so matt, what do we know at this point?now as many as a dozen children. so that number is likely to go up, both numbers are likely to go up including the dozens who have been injured. this fire is thought to still be smoldering. officials have said that they've contained the blaze. they're working through this five-story building. this building is homeless sort of settlements. basically this was an abandoned corporate building this the center of johannesburg. it was taken up by homeless people. they're not all just homeless, they're also a lot of undocumented immigrants from outside of south africa. they're squatters, and they had essentially a tent city inside this building, which is one of the reasons why it was so quick to light up and why it's so difficult for authorities to make their way through the building with all of this burned out debris. and that's why the casualty rates were so incredibly high. now, ryan, this is going to draw attention to a lot of pervasive issues in south africa that have beset the country fo

>> matt bradley, thanks so much to you. it was amazing indeed. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." thanks for being with us. follow us on social media @mitchellreports. "chris jansing reports" starts right now. >>> good day. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. it's a storm southern california won't soon forget. this is the kind of power and destruction we saw. check this out. floodwaters gushing mud and debris onto the roadways. it looks like oil. it is not that, folks. now as what's left of hurricane hilary churns through the western u.s., l.a. dealing with unprecedented rain. roads blocked, neighborhoods inundated. flood watches still in effect from the southern tip of california all the way to the u.s./canadian border. californians expanding their disaster vocabulary to include a new word, hurriquake. >>> in hawaii, an official number of those still missing, and it's bad. while the 114 confirmed dead, just a handful have been identified among those. a few hours from now president biden will me

nbc's matt bradley joins us with the latest.an and will strike targets within russia. and the first time they've hit a russian port. what can you tell us? >> yeah. we've been seeing this all week. for the last couple months we've been seeing drones over moscow, really kyiv, taking the war not to russia's doorstep but right inside their home and that should be something that should be rattling a lot of folks in the kremlin, the architects of this war. this is the first time they've hit a russian port. this is the first time they've hit a port on the russian mainland. they've hit ships around crimea, that russia annexed in 2014. despite that asterisk here, this is an important step because that port that was struck in the city, is a huge facility, and it actually -- russia had seen it as a backup to ports the crimea getting attacked by the same types of maritime drones you're seeing in the videos that are playing on your screen now. the russians had been moving ships to this port in order to keep them safe. this goes to show that