i'm richard lui. >> i'm phillip mena.g up onved a shk >>> nobody knows how things turn out, but certainly this was a great day. this was a very legendary, very historic day >> president trump takes a historic step into north korea, but will it be enough to make strides at the negotiating table? >>> a fiery plane crash claims ten lives on a texas runway this morning. new details on the investigation into what went wrong >>> a rebirth of the birther movement the growing backlash after donald trump jr. questions senator kamala harris' race. catalog. why bad blood with the buyer means she cannot just shake it off. "early today" starts right now >>> very good morning to you, i'm richard lui in for frances

richard lui at msnbc headquarters right here in new york city. we're following breaking news, tropical storm barry has off the chart amounts of water some watchers are saying takes pummels the coast with moisture and lots of that. the worry for more than 60 million people here now flooding, dangerous storm surge, home foundations swept away, contaminated water supplies, mandatory evacuations. all that happening right now. and it could be days before the now tropical storm decides, well, to leave. the storm with a category 1 just hours ago, sustained 70-mile-per-hour winds and leaders send out warnings to the residents now. >> i also want to caution everybody, this is just the beginning. i ask everyone to stay vigilant and be safe. >> stay in your homes and off the road. as we've seen in the past, many of our streets can quickly become flooded. >> do not let your guard down. we have a lot more water coming towards us. the winds have shifted. >> again this evening asking you to stay off the streets, being prepared to shelter in place. >> and here a

my voice is gone. >> that's richard lui.hillip mena keep it here the news continues >>> stepping across that line was a great honor. a lot of progress has been made. a lot of friendships have been made and this has been in particular a great friendship. so i just want to thank you. it was very quick notice and i want to thank you. >> president trump steps across the dmz and into the history books. but now the question is can the administration turn show into substance by striking a deal with north korea >> on the runway, a fiery plane crash kills ten people at a texas airport. we'll have the latest from the investigation. >> danger lurking at the beach, a florida family's dire warning after losing a loved one to a flesch-eating bacteria >> and the nba free agency period opens up. it is nothing but nets ho

thanks for waking up with us i'm richard lui. >> i'm phillip mena.ws continues on nbc and >>> a very good monday morning to you, the first day of july. taking a live look outside, hazy look at san francisco this morning, but we're expecting a sunny holiday week for both san francisco and inland. good morning to you and thanks so much for joining us. i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. let's head over to meteorologist kari hall. you've been tracking the weather for us. what can we expect today? >> it will be foggy at the coast and sunny inland and that's what's helping to keep us cool across the bay area. it will be a nice one. a live look outside in walnut creek as we get startedit the u 50s to start and a slow climb as we eventually make it into upper 70s, and for the south county.

i'm richard lui. you can follow me on twitter, instagram, and facebook. for now i turn it over to reverend al sharpton and "politicsnation." >>> good evening and welcome to "politicsnation." tonight's lead, the state of louisiana remains on high alert as tropical storm barry makes landfall, downgraded from a category 1 hurricane, but still slay slated to unload. massive amounts of rain falling, sustained winds on a region still recovering from hurricane katrina. we'll have the latest on the storm and we'll talk to our reporter on the ground in louisiana shortly. >>> but first, politics. president trump defends his outgoing labor secretary alex acosta as the ripple effects of billionaire financier jeffrey epstein on child sex trafficking charges shook the white house this week. with acosta resigning. my colleague, joy reid, joins me later in the show with her take on the scandal. and just when donald trump decided he wasn't a fan of the man, he called, quote, a terrific guy once upon a time. robert mueller's congressional testimony turnover russia probe pu

"early today" starts right now good morning i'm richard lui in for frances rivera >> and i'm phillip mena. the family of edward gallagher is feeling relieved this morning. the navy s.e.a.l. has been aquit of multiple war crimes >> they look like -- yeah, freedom. >> gallagher was charged with the 2017 murder of a prisoner in iraq a military jury found him not guilty on all but one count. nbc's steve patterson has this report >> reporter: vindication for a navy s.e.a.l >> tears of joy. >> absolute joy. >> emotion absolute euphoria. >> reporter: the jury acquitting chief edward gallagher of six of the seven charges against him including premeditated murder. >> huge victory. huge weight off the gallaghers >> reporter: but finding him guilty for code of military justice ba humy the decorated s.e.a.l. was charged with an array of war crimes stemming from a 2017 tour of duty in iraq. the most serious, shooting an unarmed citizens and the murder of an unarmed isis detainee. over the two-week trial prosecutors called members of gallagher's own field team who described a man unhinged, testify

. >>> each richard lui live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. the president launches an attack on elijah cummings. he called him a brutal bully and he also called his district a rodent and rat-infested mess. what did the president mean by this? >>> to stop military money being used for the wall, the democrats say the fight isn't over. >>> the heated campaign between joe biden and cory booker is heating up. >> people's records shouldn't be on the attack, and i found his attacks on me ridiculous. >> i'm going to start this hour for you with a border and not only supreme court decision from less than 24 hours ago, but also now what has become a bit of a hullabaloo today. the president attacks one of his influential critics, representative elijah cummings, saying cummings is a brutal bully. this is possibly in response to cummings jabbing the president's homeland security chief. you fe >> you feel like you're doing a great job, right? >> i feel like we're doing our level best. >> what does that mean? what does that mean when a child is sitting in th

i'm richard lui at msnbc world headquarters here in new york. this hour for you, president trump accused of reaching a new low telling a group of progressive democratic congresswomen to "go back and help fix the crime invested places from which they came." those targeted with a fierce response pulling no punches. congresswoman cortez tweets you are angry because you can't conceive of an america that includes us. congresswoman tialb renewed her call for him to be impeached. this comes as immigration raids in major cities set to happen later today. >>> tropical storm barry continues to dump heavy rain in louisiana and mississippi as the flooding threat persists. >>> first up, this hour is about fear for many communities nationwide. who will be knocking on the door is the question they're wondering. can my family leave the house today and in the coming week? immigrants legally and illegally here in the united states worry that family members will be arrested and deported. then this today. president trump attacks four progressive democratic congress

i've richard lui in for frances rivera >> and i'm phillip mena. a stark new look at the human cost of the border crisis. democratic lawmake painting a grim portrait of the dire conditions at two detention centers in texas a congressional delegation who d ured the facilities he firsthand from migrants stories about overcrowding and gradation. nbc's tracie potts joining us now from d.c. with the very latest tracie, good morning we're hearing there is somefe reli on the way. >> reporter: yes, there is help on the way, fep. $4.6 billion the congress has approved and the president has signed off on. this is humanitarian aid at the border it's what is a's happening insi that'sght the attention of lawmakers including those from the hispanic caucus tour two of those facilities in texas. >> when we went into the citl, was clear that the water was not running. there was a toilet, but there was no running water for people torink in fact, one of the women said that she was told by an agent to drink water out of the toilet. >> reporter: take a look at this twe

richard l richard luis. you are a home town guy from bakersfield, california. what are people telling you? >> i'm born and raised here. bakersfield is about 90 minutes from there. the downtown has been wiped out. if you've lived in california, you've lived through earthquakes. the strongest one i've been through was northridge. this was not as intense. any time you get into the six range, that is intense. more than two hours away, buildings in los angeles were shaking. we are fortunate for the size of the earthquake and the amount of damage we are seeing currently. what do you think the emergency or the earthquake mode, if i can use the term, is. the status of that. if you feel like if something big does happen, that the south land is ready? the fortunate part is we lived through these before. we lost a california highway officer going off the bridge because they couldn't see that. you are never fully prepared. it is not like the weather person can warn you. it just hits. the units and first responders have trained. the first thing you've got to check is that y

richard lui at msnbc headquarters right here in new york city.storm barry has off the chart amounts o

because being poor black is different than being poor white, and getting access to capital with richard lui personifies that it's different for blacks than whites. how would you deal with the race wealth gap and the race economic gap? >> we really can't have this conversation without talking about the historical roots of wealth inequality in our country. we are a nation right now that has savage inequalities. for every 106ds wealth in a white family, it's $1 of wealth for a black family. what a lot of people forget is a lot of the things that allow families to build up wealth over the years through home ownership, through the gi bill and more, in many ways blacks were excluded from many of these opportunities with red linings and other policies' designs. we have to deal with racial wealth inequalities in our country. if we don't speak to this problem, it will persist. in fact, the racial wealth gap over the last two decades has gotten wider and it has not closed. and so a lot of the policy ideas that i have don't just address poverty in general, but they also specifically get at this issue.

. >>> i'm richard lui in the msnbc newsroom. following some breaking news.rveying the damage from its largest earthquake in 20 years. the 6.4 quake struck about 125 miles east of bakersfield, but could be felt as far away as los angeles. authorities report minor injuries and light infrastructure damage. >>> and in the nation's capital, rainy conditions for the president's fourth of july event currently under way. that's it for us. now back to "the last word." >>> when we finish this luncheon, i hope you'll stick around a little while. we're having a tag sale upstairs, and everything must go. >> that was president ronald reagan's last speech as president, the day before the next president took the oath of office. on the eve of donald trump's campaign rally in washington, paid for by the american taxpayer with the reluctant involvement of the u.s. military, it's worth remembering once again it was not always this way. before washington republicans became trumpists, the political figure they claimed to love the most in american history was ronald reagan. you ne

i'm richard lui. i'll see you this hour at 4:00 eastern. now i turn it to reverend al sharpton and "politicsnation." >>> good evening and welcome to "politicsnation." tonight's lead, easy target. i woke up this morning thinking about tonight's show, how legitimately surprised i was that this week where president donald trump dodged any new bullets from robert mueller. the campaigner in chief had not leaned into his emerging strategy of telling his nonwhite opponents to go back to their birth places, but this morning the president began his weekend by unloading on the majority-black middle class baltimore district led by elijah cummings, calling the 7th district the most dangerous, dangerous, rat and rodent infested mess. in the midst of it all, calling cummings a bully. this week cummings led the house oversight committee vote to subpoena sensitive white house communications, this after cummings led the grilling of trump's acting homeland security head over conditions facing detained migrants on our southern border. but today's attack marke

. >>> i'm richard lui with your top stories.mp stirring up new controversy with a tweet saying that a group of congresswomen of color should go back to their quote broken and crime-infested places from which they came. this tweet provoked a wave of condemnation from the targets. alexandria ocasio-cortez saying, trump cannot conceive of an america that includes us. >>> barry has now weakened to a tropical depression, but forecasters warn of continuing dangerous flooding ahead. now back to "on assignment: made in china." >>> i've been coming to china for years. and with each trip i'm astonished at how quickly it's changing. not long ago, they had no subways. now you buy your ticket with your phone. the mobile internet is everything here. and it's everywhere. cheap smartphones and super-fast internet speeds mean this is now a connected nation. but there is also a dark side to all this technology. while it makes it easy for people to navigate their way through china's sprawling mega cities, this is also a country where no one is eve

i'm richard lui at msnbc world headquarters here in new york.hing a new low telling a group of progressive democratic congresswomen to "go back and help fix the crime invested places from which they came." those targeted with a fierce response pulling no punches.

richard lui is back. >> i am back. good to see you, kendis. have a good sunday. major developments for you. good day to you on a sunday. a lot of action in the 2020 race. getting rating to it. eight democratic candidates on the trail today. new hampshire a popular spot, as you might expect. but south carolina is the real hot spot. top rivals, joe biden and kamala harris are holding a combined five different events a day after the former vice president apologized for remarks about two segregationists senators. that apology getting lots of reaction. >> i think it is fair to talk about the fact if you're dealing with a racist or segregationist as he was, you have to call them out. he has now apologized for not doing that at the time and apologized for his past statements on bussing. >> i first want to say thank you. you know, we are at a point in our country where we need our leaders to be able to speak towards race issues without falling the law defensive bur posture or shifting blame. i can't believe he said i should apologize. >> democrats also continuing to purs

i'm richard lui, live from msnbc headquarters in new york city. following breaking news today, tracking tropical storm barry, making its way across louisiana, carrying with it, quote, off-the-chart amounts of moisture according to the director of the national hurricane center. flooding is the main concern for officials across the gulf coast with scenes like this in myrtle grove, louisiana, where water is flowing over the top of the levees. so far more than 120,000 people across the area are without power and the number is changing hour-by-hour. joining me from plaquemines parish, nbc's mariana at tense i don't. you've been showing us the water going over the levees. it appears things have changed brac based on the water coming from the sky. >> reporter: the water has overtopped the levees in plaquemines parish. what we're noticing now is because of the rainfall, because of the flooding and the storm surge, this water is moving to my right towards the highway. that is highway 23. the only way in and out of this area, leaving these communities essen

. >>> i'm richard lui.tch allege story out of gilroy, california about an hour-and-a-half south of california. this is a garlic festival. police are responding to a popular festival where tens of thousands of people attend. the reports here are of an active shooting. it is now being said to involve potentially ten, 11 victims. again, gilroy, california. about an hour-and-a-half south of sfraerns and at the moment it's 7:34 p.m. reports are this happened in the last, two, three hours. crews are being sent moments ago to the fwil roy garlic festival in santa clara county, the organizers, themselves, you can get a sense from this video. it is a large food festival in the united states, outdoors about 80 degrees today, normally a very festive gathering of folks who like garlic. now, witnesses are saying, speaking to our local affiliate there, kntv, they saw at least one gunman wearing camouflage at the last half hour of the event. again, that would be ten about 5:30 to 6:00 p.m. local time. >> that is pacific t

i'm richard lui live in new york city. following breaking news on tropical storm barry. it's been downgraded from a hurricane, but hang on a second. still large concern for the gulf coast, lots of rain, flooding for days, up to 20 inches of rain expected through sunday across parts of louisiana. this is just some of the video we've been seeing of water flowing over the top of levees in louisiana today. there have been reports of floods forcing people to scramble to roof tops. nbc's jay gray has the latest from new orleans. >> reporter: barry, the first hurricane of the season, didn't maintain that status for long. a category 1 storm for just a few hours before quickly dropping back to a tropical storm. >> although barry has slowed, it's also intensified. >> reporter: there is a significant danger right now across the strike zone. mandatory evacuations ordered this afternoon inter rebon parish, while the rush is to get cattle to higher ground. some areas brace are for what could be another 20 inches of rain. >> going to be a long several days for our state. i know the peo

. >>> hi, i'm richard lui following breaking news this hour.n california experienced its strongest earthquake in 20 years this morning. it hit 125 miles east of bakersfield. local law enforcement report multiple injuries, as well as gas leaks and some property damage. and in a rainy washington, d.c., president trump spoke at a fourth of july event that featured a large amount of military hardware on the ground and in the air. that's the latest from msnbc. for now back to the democratic debate. >>> we believe have the technical difficulties fixed. >> never say that. >> never say never. but we will march forward here. and i will lean forward here a little bit. senator warren, we're going to get to the question here. parkland, florida, it's just north of here in broward county. use know, it has created a lot of teenaged activism on the gun issue. it has inspired a lot of you to come out with more robust plans to deal with guns, including a assault weapons ban. but even if you're able to implement that, what do you do about the hundreds of millions

richard lui is back. >> i am back. good to see you, kendis. have a good sunday.for you. good day to you on a sunday. a lot of action in the 2020 race. getting rating to it. eight democratic candidates on the trail today. new hampshire a popular

. >>> each richard lui live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. and he also called his district a rodent and rat-infested mess. what did the president mean by this? >>> to stop military money being used for the wall, the democrats say the fight isn't over. >>> the heated campaign between joe biden and cory booker is heating up. >> people's records shouldn

the news continues right now with my colleague, richard lui.y hour ahead. >> a busy day. thank you so much, kendis, for that. >>> we are following breaking news as kendis said from coast to coast this hour including some big breaking political news. after weeks of defiance following an outcry over remarks where he appeared to praise two segregationist senators, this just in to msnbc -- former vice president joe biden just a short time ago said the words "i'm sorry." we're going to dig into that and see what may have brought him to say that again just this afternoon. >>> we'll start with breaking news out of florida. in what you're looking at right now, dramatic images from the scene of an explosion in plantation, florida. it happened at a shopping center called the fountains right next door to an l.a. fitness gym. the plantation police department says that 21 to 22 people were injured, two of them seriously. here's plantation police public information officer joel gordon just a few minutes ago. >> when we arrived, we found patients scattered al

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i'm richard lui in for alex today. >>> let's get straight to the campaign trail because so much is happening now. our road warriors are covering every moment of what has been happening this holiday weekend. with pete buttigieg and mike member with former vice president joe biden. let's get to you first, mike. in terms of the apology and what we're seeing has happened is being accepted following the vice president in south carolina. >> reporter: yeah, richard. well, this two-day trip that the vice president is continuing here today is all about reinforcing what has been a strength for his campaign, and that is his depth of support with african-american voters. he started the morning at a church service. he's about to arrive here at a local restaurant where he's going to have lunch with some of his local endorsers who have endorsed his campaign. he really has strong establishment support in south carolina, especially among black leaders. and now what's interesting, richard, two weeks may seem like a lifetime in politics sometimes and it did feel like a lifetime for a lot of biden campaign advi

. >>> hi, i'm richard lui with your hour's top stories.nt display in new york city featuring 70,000 fireworks lit up the night sky. >>> president trump spoke at his salute to america celebration in washington despite criticisms that the event was politicizing a holiday. >>> a 6.4 magnitude quake in california caused fires and prompted a hospital evacuation. for now, back to "dateline." >>> welcome back to "dateline extra." i'm craig melvin. as sarah's loved ones laid her to rest, her husband ryan sat in a jail cell, charged with her murder. the couple's family and friends were convinced he was an innocent man. but investigators weren't buying his story. soon a surprising ally would bolster their case, a family member rethinking an incident that may not have been so innocent after all. had trouble been brewing in the seemingly happy marriage? here again is dennis murphy. >>> sarah was wonderful. the most loving person. she was just a great person. >> sarah widmer had been a daughter, a wife, a loyal friend in her brief life. but in death, t

. >> i'm richard lui. southern california is recovering from the strongest earthquake in 20 years.de quake hit this morning about 125 miles east of bakersfield. a few people suffered minor injuries. in washington on lookers braved the rain to hear president trump speak and see more than a dozen fly overs. it was all part of the president's salute to america fourth of july event. that's the latest from msnbc. now back to the democratic debate. e democratic debate >> welcome back from miami. josÉ is going to lead off the questioning in this round. >> thank you very much. senator harris, last month more than 130,000 migrants were apprehended at the southern border. many of them are being detained, including small children in private detention centers in florida and throughout our country. most of the candidates on this stage say the conditions of these facilities are abhorrent. on january 20th, 2021, if you are president, what specifically would you do with the thousands of people who try to reach the united states every day and want a better life through asylum? >> immediately on jan

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luis sandoval. the next day melanie mavec whose father richard pollack paid it forward, donating to christopher heitz probably the biggest smile on my face, was for me to go back out in the yard and play catch with him. >> it was nice to put a face to what i did. i couldn't save my dad, but i was able to save you, and that means so much. >> thank you so much. >> reporter: it seems some like july got more than just a kidney. >> did you used to like sweets? because i never had a sweet tooth before. and after surgery. >> sweets is my middle name. >> reporter: but all of them got a second chance. >> what a wonderful thing you did. >> reporter: mola lenghi, cbs news, chicago. >> and that is the "overnight news" for wednesday, july 3rd. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later in the morning. we've got the morning news, and of course "cbs this morning." the guys will be right here at this set where i'm sitting right now. for now that's it from the broadcast center in new york city. i'm david begnaud. i'll see you later on tonight on the cbs evening news. >>> this i

luis sandoval. the next day bethany's kidney went to melanie mavec, whose father richard pollack paid it forward, donatinghristopher heitz. >> that probably was the biggest smile on my ten-year-old's face, was for me to be able to go back out in the yard and play catch with him. >> it was nice to put a name and a face to what i did. i couldn't save my dad, i was able to save you, and that means so much to me. >> thank you so much. >> reporter: it seems some, like julia bauchwitz, got more than just a kidney. >> did you used to like sweets? because i never had a sweet tooth before? after surgery-- >> sweet tooth is my middle name. ( laughter ) >> reporter: but all of them got a second chance. >> what a wonderful thing you did. >> reporter: mola lenghi, cbs news, chicago. >> begnaud: thinking of how proud hannah's dad would be to see what she did. that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. i'm david begnau oh thaphenomenal!, that's unfair. that's so unfair. c'mon jay-bo. let's go. let's go. woahh! try my $4.99 bbq bacon double cheeseburger combo. only at jack in the box. ♪ ♪ this is how driving should feel.

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