our ron allen reports. >>> will today's jobs report tighten tighten or ease interest rates "early today" startsright now. >>> good morning, i'm cori coffin >> i'm phillip mena. we begin with the brutal heat wave 45 million people are under heat alerts out west. residents asked to conserve energy as they try to keep cool or else there could be rolling blackouts. and there are fast-moving wildfires. >> reporter: face ing a series wildfires, most and california and 40 million americans across the west are suffering through unbearable heat. >> with the heat coming up, it's hard to be at home >> reporter: states all above 100 degrees. >> the heat is too much for me >> reporter: with heat killing more americans than any other extreme weather event, highs are breaking records, soaring 20 degrees above average. >> i've never dealt with something this hot before. >> reporter: the sustained and extraordinary heat wave is expected to last nearly a week outside los angeles, where fires raged before sun rise, several firefighters were treated for heat exhaustion as overnight lows hovered in the 80s.

dedicated to baseball pioneer jackie robinson and his legacy, which stretches far beyond sports ron allen >> reporter: jackie robinson, forever remembered for breaking baseball's color barrier in 1947. the new museum proudly displays his uniform and bat and a lot of historic sports memorabilia. but his widow, rachel robinson, now 100, insisted the museum focus on her husband's work beyond the playing field, which she has said was more important to both of them >> she wanted us to talk about jackie's dogged commitment to his community and to first-class citizenship being available for all americans. >> reporter: della britton helped design the museum this is jackie robinson and martin luther king. they were close. >> they were close, yep. >> reporter: there's robinson's army uniform, where he became one of only a few black officers and faced a court-martial for refusing to move to the back of a military bus, 11 years before rosa parks. >> as a black man, i find it quite discouraging to look around and find how little has been done to lift minorities from the depths of poverty. >> reporter:

. >> ron allen joins us from outside trump tower, a block or two away. reaction on the street? are people aware of all of this swirling around the former president and his properties, including that one? >> reporter: they are aware of it, yes, andrea. people we have been speaking to are cheering. this is not a trump friendly part of new york state or new york city. people here that we have talked to are elated something is finally happening after all these investigations that have been going on for some time. we have been hearing more from the trump side of things. there's a tweet from donald trump junior. i think we can put it on the screen. this is all about politics, weaponizing her office to go after political opponents. eric trump has a tweet that says, the attorney general is not working for the attorney general's office, she works for the dnc, 49 days before her election. it's true there's an election coming up. she's running for re-election here. she at one point was thought to be -- had said she was going to run for governor but changed her mind after a brief campaign.

ron allen, ryan reilly, thank you. >>> new developments in the mississippi welfare scandal involvingtball hall of famer brett farve. the former director of the state welfare agency pleading guilty in federal court today. nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent kim delaney is following that for us. walk us through what happened in court and why this plea is so significant. >> reporter: pretty straightforward plea hearing, aaron, the former welfare director john davis acknowledged that he was pleading guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit fraud and theft. the real significance here is that he is cooperating with the federal investigation, and you know, when the fbi investigates a complex white collar crime, they move the food chain and try to get people to flip on those who are higher. the only person higher than john davis is the former governor phil bryant who denies wrongdoing, has not been charged, and claims he did not know that this was welfare money, even as he was helping get some projects that brett favre desired. and the other question of course is brett favre.

i'm hallie jackson, along with tom winter, ron allen in new york, and business investigations reporter david enrich is with us, a new book out "sefrtds of the damned" and care line polici and former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst paul butler. let's get to some of the questions at 3:00 eastern, 12:00 pacific, the reaction from donald trump himself and number two, our team working the sources and what it means to the southern district of new york and what it could mean, and number three, looking ahead to the legal implications for the former president and his adult children. and we have the attorney general who wants mr. trump and his businesses to pay back $250 million, that they say he got illegally by inflating his assets. assets like mar-a-lago, which they say was valued at more than $700 million more than they think it is actually worth. ten times more. as far as value. his building on park avenue. 50 million more. his seven springs property in westminster, the list goes on. including valuing his trump tower apartment at more than any apartment in new york has ever sold

and isn't bc's ron allen reports, the museum's mission goes way beyond sports. >> jackie robinson forever breaking baseball's color barrier in 1947. the new museum proudly displays his uniform and that and a lot of his stories for us from a billion. his widow, rachel robinson, now 100 insisted the museum focus on her husband's work beyond the playing field. which she has said it was more important to both of them. >> she wanted us to talk about jackie's dog commitment to his community and to first classes and shipping available for all americans. >> she helped design the museum. >> this is jackie robinson and martin luther king. they were close. >> they were close. yep. >> robinson's army uniform. where he became one of only a few black officers and face a court martial for refusing to move to the back of a military bus. 11 years before rosa parks. >> as a black man, i find it quite discouraging to look around and find how little has been done to lift minorities from the depths of poverty. >> after baseball he started a bank and ran a construction company that built affordable housing. >>

>> allen weisselberg, ron liebermann and matthew calamari. >> where would the committee find more informationon this? do you think we need to review his financial statements and his tax returns in order to compare them? >> yes, you would find at the trump work. >> michael cohen will join me onset right here in just a moment to discuss what he witnessed in the trump organization. you might have heard there, he mentioned a guy named allen weisselberg, that is the longtime chief financial officer of the trump org. you might remember that just last month, that individual that you see there pleaded guilty to financial fraud. as part of a separate investigation by the manhattan district attorney office. that same office issued a statement today, announcing its investigation into the trump organization's ongoing. new york attorney general james also said that she is sharing information with the irs and southern district of new york, which is where federal prosecutors could conceivably bring criminal charges if deemed appropriate. to be very clear, even though this is a civil investigation. filing a

allen. cbs news, t. >> reporter: and florida governr ron desantis says the state has0 linemen and 7000 national guard troops on standby to help with e recovery once the storm moves t. we want to bring in first alertt jessica burch on this storm. this is a catastrophic storm. nw the winds are even bigger. >> i mean when we are talking at the wind, that is how we breakdn categories and hurricanes. 157ms per hour winds would mean it is a category 5 hurricane. current conditions we are sitting at 155. you see how we are flirting flirting with upper numbers. mu, as we look, this is about a 35 s per hour gap right there with that eye. so it is a very strong very strong system just making landfall there. we are keeping a a close eye on the weather center. > >> the storm ratched up its int. how does that happen? rapid intensification. that is the study of stronger storms when ty become a major storm category 4 or 5. a lot of things played into this. the sea surface temperatures are well above average. allowing it to fuel thg system once it popped off cuba.r that, wind shear would destroy e system right now. but we

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here's correspondent ron allen. >> reporter: a killer caught on camera.ing video released by the philadelphia police department shows the moment leading up to the shooting death of 17-year-old tarn johnson, who was walking a dog. according to police, the suspected shooter and driver appear to be lying in wait for johnson and a friend to pass by. the driver gets out of the car, follows the girls and appears to hide behind other vehicles. the gunman jumps out, opening fire on the northeast philly street. six shots were fired, hitting this parked car, this home window and finally fatally hitting johnson. >> after she was struck, tried to run from the gun fire, as did her companion and at some point she collapsed. a dark challenger car. police saying 164 minors shot so far, on track to pass last year's number and the gun violence causing too many deaths. philadelphia's homicide rate up 3%, on pace to surpass last year's record breaking number of murders. and no signs of letting up. that's why the department has ordered mandatory overtime. >> traditionally if