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NOW" COVERAGE CONTINUES WITH HALLIE JACKSON RIGHT NOW WE'RE COMING ON THE AIR OF A TRIPLE THREAT OF INTENSE WEATHER TONIGHT WITH THE EYE WALL OF HURRICANE BERYL, WE'RE JUS LEARNING, BRUSHING THE COAST O JAMAICA IN THE LAST COUPLE O MINUTES. EXTREME HEAT THREATENING MILLIONS ACROSS THE U.S. OVE THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND, AND A DANGEROUS FIRE THAT COULD BE GETTING WORSE OUT IN CALIFORNIA. WE ARE LIVE COAST TO COAST AND IN THE CARIBBEAN IN JUST A MINUTE >>> PLUS, THE DAMAGE CONTROL T KEEP THE DAM FROM BURSTING OPE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN IN WHAT COULD B THE MOST CRITICAL WEEKS OF HIS PRESIDENCY THE NEW CALLS FROM AN ELECTE DEM ECRAT FOR HIM TO STEP ASIDE. WATCHING THE PRESIDENT'S SPEEC LIVE TO SEE WHAT HE WILL SAY >>> AND THE FDA INVESTIGATIN HOW MUSHROOM-INFUSED CHOCOLATE MAY HAVE KILLED SOMEBODY >>> PLUS, WHY TOM HANKS' SON WANTS EVERYBODY TO PUMP TH BRAKES ON -- >>> HOW MUSICIANS ARE GETTIN PRICED OUT OF THE CITY THE BUILT THANKS TO TONS OF TOURIS AND A NASHVILLE BOOM THAT'S LATER IN THE SHOW >>> I'M HALLIE, AS WE'RE COMIN ON THE AIR, WE ARE LEARNING THAT THE EYE WALL OF HURRICANE BERY IS HITTING JAMAICA'S SOUTHER COAST, WHICH PUTS THE COUNTRY ON THE MOST DANGEROUS SIDE OF THE STORM AS WE SPEAK. WANT TO SHOW YOU WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WITH VIDEO COMING INTO US THIS IS TOUGH TO SEE HERE. AND YOU'RE LOOKING AT, IN FACT SOME PEOPLE -- NOT THE RIGHT VIDEO THERE, BUT WE WILL SHO YOU, IN FACT, SOME OF THE OTHE VIDEO WE'RE SEEING DESTRUCTION ACROSS PARTS OF TH CARIBBEAN AS THIS STORM HA TURNED DEADLY. WE'RE EXPECTING IN JAMAICA A STORM SURGE OF SIX TO NINE FEET. AT LEAST SEVEN PEOPLE HAVE BEE KILLED SO FAR. THE JAMAICAN PRIME MINISTER IS DECLARING THE COUNTRY A DISASTER AREA AND ORDERING SOME FOLKS T EVACUATE OUR TEAM ON THE GROUND WAS DRIVING AROUND KINGSTON. YOU SEE STREETS NEARLY EMPTY A CURFEW IN PLACE FOR THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS WITH ANOTHER BIG QUESTION, THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS, WHETHER BERYL WILL MAKE LANDFALL I MEXICO OR SOMEWHERE ALONG TH COAST OF TEXAS MEXICO'S BEEN GETTING MORE THA 100 TEMPORARY SHELTERS READY THEY'RE SHUTTING DOWN SCHOOL TOMORROW AND FRIDAY. HERE AT HOME, A DIFFERENT KIND OF DANGEROUS WEATHER IS GETTIN READY TO HIT THE U.S DANGEROUSLY HOT TEMPERATURES AND A BLISTERING HEAT WAVE 110 MILLION OF US SET TO SIT I A HEAT WARNING OR WATCH ACROSS 21 STATES DURING THE FOURTH OF JULY HOLIDAY MORE THAN 130 RECORDS COULD BE SET THROUGH NEXT WEEK, AND THA COULD MAKE A BAD SITUATION WORSE IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WHERE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAVE BEE FORCED TO EVACUATE LOOK AT THIS, THAT BIG WILDFIR BURNING THROUGH OROVILLE YOU SEE THE SMOKE UP THERE I THE SKY AS OF A FEW HOURS AGO, THIS THING WAS 0% CONTAINED. BILL KARINS HAS OUR FORECAST I WANT TO START WITH SAM BROCK IN KINGSTON, JAMAICA THE EYE WALL BRUSHING THE SOUT COAST, WHAT ARE YOU SEEING, SAM? >> Reporter: YEAH, SO RIGHT NO HALLIE, THE EYE WALL, OBVIOUSLY, BERYL AT LARGE HERE IS 60 MILE TO THE WEST OF KINGSTON. WE KIND OF LUCKED OUT AS THE WIND HERE STILL PICKING UP WE'RE GOING TO GET ANOTHER GUS COMING THROUGH RIGHT NOW THESE ARE THE OUTER BAND WE'RE FEELING AS IT'S MOVED TO OUR WEST, IT'S GENERATING WIND AROUND THAT IS A REMINDER ABOUT HOW I COULD HAVE BEEN. BECAUSE KINGSTON WAS WITHI ABOUT 50 OR 60 MILES WITHIN TH CORE OF BERYL. THERE WERE QUESTIONS FROM TH NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER ABOU WHETHER OR NOT IT WAS GOING TO PASS BY THE SOUTHERN PORTION O JAMAICA OR GO OVER IT. IF IT WENT OVER OR CLOSE ENOUG TO KINGSTON, YOU WOULD HAVE HA A SITUATION WHERE PEOPLE WER LOOKING AT HURRICANE FORCE WINDS THAT COULD HAVE DONE DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS HERE INSTEAD, WE DODGED THAT BULLET AS WE WERE HAVING THES CONVERSATIONS WITH FOLKS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE GOING TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES OR NOT, THE MAYOR OF KINGSTON WAS POSTIN VIDEO TO TWITTER SHOWING HIS EFFORTS TO CONVINCE PEOPLE T LEAVE WHERE THEY WERE AND GET ON A BUS. NO ONE WANTED TO GO. SOME OF THESE AREAS NEAR THE AIRPORT, THAT'S WHERE WE DID OUR LIVE REPORT WITH YOU YESTERDAY NOT FAR FROM THAT, THAT WAS AN AREA WHERE IT'S A HIGHWAY, AND THE WATER -- COMING RIGHT OVER THE HIGHWAY. THANKFULLY, NOBODY WE'RE AWARE OF WAS HURT. THE OFFICE OF EMERGENC MANAGEMENT HAS NOT BEEN OVERLY COMMUNICATIVE, BUT THE SEVEN DEATHS WE HAVE CONFIRMED, OTHE PARTS OF THE CARIBBEAN OBVIOUSLY, VERY SOBERING JUST THE SHEER INFLICTION OF THAT LEVEL OF DAMAGE AND DESTRUCTION, THERE IS NO SIGNS OF COMMUNICATION FROM TH GOVERNMENT TO THIS POINT WE'RE SEEING THAT RIGHT NOW. JUST RIGHT NOW SOME BENDIN TREES. >> YEAH. >> Reporter: GUSTS COMING IN 30, 40 MILES AN HOUR, NOTHIN LIKE WHAT WE WERE HEARING 24 HOURS AGO. >> TALK TO US ABOUT WHAT ELS YOU'RE SEEING AS FAR AS IT RELATES TO WHAT YOU JUST MENTIONED, SAM WHEN WE TALKED 24 HOURS AGO, YOU WERE SORT OF SURPRISED IT SEEMS LIKE THE SITUATION HA CHANGED, AT LEAST TO A DEGREE. WE SAW SOME OF THE VIDEO FRO YOUR TEAM, EMPTY STREETS IT FEELS LIKE PEOPLE ARE MAYBE RESPECTING THE CURFEW. IS THAT WHAT YOU NOTICED >> Reporter: YEAH, THERE WAS DEFINITELY FEWER PEOPLE THAN ONE WOULD TYPICALLY EXPECT, DOWNTOWN KINGSTON ON A NORMAL WEDNESDAY OR TUESDAY OR WHAT HAVE YOU. I HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH FOLKS WHO CLAIM THAT THEIR BIGGEST CONCERN -- AND I TALKED TO TWO WOMEN, A MOM AND HER NIECE LEAVING A MARKET WITH BIG BAGS OF FOOD, I ASKED IF THEY WER CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR HOME AND SAFETY, NO AND NO. THEY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT THEI COMMUNICATION AND HAVING ELECTRICITY FOR FOLK WHO IS NEED IT, LIKE VULNERABLE POPULATION AND HOSPITALS AND CARE CENTERS THEY SAY IT DOESN'T TAKE MUCH TO GO OFFLINE OUR HOTEL DID GO OFF, BUT WE HAVE A GENERATOR MANY PLACES DO NOT WE GOT A SENSE OF URGENCY FROM THEM TAKE A LISTEN TO WHAT THOSE ETWO WOMEN TOLD ME. >> BEEN THROUGH THIS >> Reporter: HOW DOES IT USUALLY GO >> JUST HOW IT GOES. I'M RIGHT HERE >> NOT EVERYBODY CAN AFFOR GENERATORS NOT EVERYBODY CAN AFFORD SOLAR SO FOR THE ONES THAT LIVE IN THE INNER CITY LIKE US, WE JUST HAVE TO PRAY THAT THE WATER AND THE LIGHT DON'T GO OUR WAY >> AND FLASHLIGHTS >> Reporter: WE DO KNO ACCORDING TO THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT THAT ABOU # 0 PEOPLE WERE EVACUATED AN TAKEN TO A LOCAL SHELTER I DID REACH OUT TO THE KINGSTO PARISH DISASTER COORDINATOR TO FIND OUT HOW MANY THEY HAV OPEN IT WAS 20 PLUS SHELTERS EARLIE TODAY. THE MAN TOLD ME THEY WERE NO FULL, BUT THAT COULD BE CHANGING AT THIS POINT IN TIME. >> SAM BROCK, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT. SAM, TO BE CLEAR FOR OUR VIEWERS, YOU ARE IN A SAFE LOCATION AND YOUR CAMERA PERSO IS IS IN A SAFE LOCATION, JUST SO WE CAN CONFIRM THAT >> Reporter: 100%. THEY'RE BEHIND A WALL WHER THEY'RE NOT AFFECTED BY THE RAIN AND WIND I STAND OUT AND GET RAINED ON. >> APPRECIATE YOU. LET ME BRING IN LIZ OUT THERE IN CALIFORNIA WE TALKED ABOUT THE FLOODING THE RAIN, THE WIND IN JAMAICA. DIFFERENT SITUATION AT HOME WITH THAT HEAT MAKING IT VERY DIFFICULT TO FIGHT THIS WILDFIRE WHERE YOU ARE. LOOKING BEHIND YOU RS IT'S DEVASTATING. WHEN IT LOOKS LIKE SNOW, YOU KNOW IT'S A BAD ONE. >> Reporter: HALLIE, FOR SURE. THIS IS A MASSIVE FIRE HERE. FIREFIGHTERS ARE BATTLING IT DURING TRIPLE DIGI TEMPERATURES LAST UPDATE FROM CALFIRE, TH FIRE HAS GROWN TO MORE THA 3,500 ACRES. IT IS 0% CONTAINED AND YOU CAN SEE THE DESTRUCTIO THAT IT HAS DONE RIGHT HERE. THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL HOME DESTROYED. THIS ONE NEAR THE CITY O OROVILLE YOU CAN SEE THE FIRE PLACE NOW EXPOSED, THESE TWO CARS BURNED TO A CRISP THIS AWFUL DESTRUCTION THA WE'VE SEEN THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN THI COMMUNITY EVACUATED YESTERDA AND OVERNIGHT JUST BEFORE TH JULY 4th HOLIDAY IT'S A VERY SCARY SITUATION HERE AS WELL, HALLIE, BECAUSE OF TH FACT WE ARE BATTLING THIS DURING TRIPLE DIGIT TEMPERATURES AS WELL, AND ALL OF THAT IS A CONCERN AS THESE FIREFIGHTER CONTINUE TO TRY AND GET AHOLD OF THIS PLACE >> IT'S NOT THE ONLY ONE I MEAN, IT'S ONE OF AT LEAST A DOZEN BURNING ACROSS THE STATE THERE. WALK THROUGH WHAT IS NEXT AN HOW STRESSED THOSE FIRST RESPONDERS MAY OR MAY NOT BE >> Reporter: YEAH, SO THIS I ONE OF SEVERAL FIRES, AS YOU MENTIONED, ACROSS THE STATE AN THE WESTERN REGION RIGHT NOW YOU MENTIONED IT EARLIER I THINK THE LATEST UPDATE IS 120 MILLION PEOPLE ARE UNDER HEA ALERTS HERE IN CALIFORNIA, 4 MILLIO PEOPLE ARE UNDER WHAT'S CALLED A RED FLAG WARNING THIS IS WHEN THERE'S CONDITION THAT MAKE FIRE DANGER EXTREMEL HIGH HIGH HEAT, LOW HUMIDITY, STRON WINDS. AND THOSE WINDS, I FEEL THEM RIGHT NOW. THIS IS THE TIME OF DAY THEY ARE STARTING TO PICK UP. IT MAKES IT EVEN MOR CHALLENGING FOR FIREFIGHTERS HERE'S WHAT A SPOKESPERSON FOR CALFIRE HAD TO SAY ABOUT HOW THIS HEAT IS MAKING IT SO HARD FOR THE CREWS ON THE GROUN HERE >> ANYBODY WOULD KNOW THAT IT' TOUGH TO DO THINGS OUTDOORS WHEN IT'S WARM. SO THINK ABOUT THE FIREFIGHTER THAT ARE DOING THAT BUT THEY'R DOING DIFFICULT, ARDUOUS WOR WEARING LONG SLEEVE COATS, HELMETS, AND REALLY HEAVY WARM CLOTHING SO IT DOES MAKE IT A CHALLENGE >> Reporter: AND WE KNOW THA EIGHT FIREFIGHTER, HALLIE, WER INJURED FIGHTING THIS FIRE, SOME FROM HEAT-RELATED ILLNESSES. IN ANTICIPATION OF THE FIR DANGERER HERE, PG&E, THE ELECTRIC UTILITY, HA PREEMPTIVELY CUT OFF POWER T THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ACROSS THE STATE RIGHT NOW. THIS IS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASUR THAT THEY'VE DONE IN RECEN YEARS TO TRY TO MITIGATE FIR DANGER, BUT OF COURSE NO POWER DURING A HEAT WAVE BRINGS IT OWN SET OF CHALLENGES FOR SO MANY PEOPLE, HALLIE. >> NO KIDDING. LIZ WATCHING ALL OF IT, I KNOW FOR THIS HOLIDAY WEEK. WE BRING IN BILL KARINS NOW. WE TALKED ABOUT THOSE RECORD THAT ARE GOING TO BE SET KNEELS LIKE THERE'S NOT A LOT OF RELIEF IN SIGHT FOR FOLKS. >> NO, THIS ISN'T YOUR NORMA JULY HEAT WATCH. JULY IS THE HOTTEST MONTH JUST ABOUT EVERYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY. WHEN YOU BREAK A RECORD IN JULY, YOU'RE TALKING ALL TIE RECORDS EVER RECORDED AT THESE LOCATIONS. NOW WE'RE UP TO 120 PEOPLE WE JUST ADDED THE WASHINGTON D.C., AREA TO THE HEAT ADVISORY. THIS IS HOT AND HUMID FROM ARKANSAS TO MEMPHIS DOWN THROUGH THE MISSISSIPPI, AND THEN THIS IS DRY HEAT AND JUST EXTREMELY HOT THROUGHOUT AREAS OF THE WEST WHERE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE DOZENS AND DOZENS OF RECORDS BROKEN A WE HEAD THROUGH THE WEEKEND AN THROUGH THE SOUTH. IT'S JUST ENDLESS THE HUMIDITY TO SEE 115 A FEW PLACES WILL FEEL LIKE IN THE AFTERNOON LET'S TALK SPECIFICS THIS HAS BEEN TODAY. WE'RE 110 FROM FRESNO UP T REDDING. HOTTEST DAY IN TWO OR THRE YEARS FOR INTERIOR CALIFORNIA. SACRAMENTO IS ABOUT 110 THROUG SATURDAY PALM SPRINGS ABOUT 120 FOR THURSDAY, FRIDAY, INTO SATURDAY. THAT HOT WEATHER CONTINUE INTO THE SOUTH. THE ONE TO WATCH, LAS VEGAS. THE HOTTEST TEMPERATURE EVER I LAS VEGAS IS 117 DEGREES THEY HAVE A CHANCE, THEY'R FORECAST TO TIE THAT ON SUNDAY AND POSSIBLY SET THEIR ALL-TIM EVER RECORDED HOTTEST DAY ON MONDAY THIS IS NOT YOUR AVERAGE HEA WAVE THIS IS EXCEPTIONAL. >> WELL, WE SAY IT A LOT SUMMER'S HOT, THIS IS UNUSUAL. WHAT'S ALSO UNUSUAL IS THE EARLIEST CATEGORY 5 HURRICAN THAT WE'VE SEEN ON RECORD IN THE ATLANTIC THAT'S WHAT WE GOT WIT HURRICANE BERYL, NOW A CAT 4 YOU SAW THE LIVE SHOT THERE, BILL, WHAT'S YOUR SENSE OF WHERE THIS GOES? >> FOR EVERYONE CONCERNED ABOU JAMAICA, DON'T JUDGE FROM TH KINGSTON AREA. IT'S 140 MILES FROM THE WESTER TIP TO THE EASTERN TIP THE STORM WAS FURTHER AWAY WHE IT WAS NEAR THE EASTERN TIP. NOTICE HOW IT'S BEEN GAINING T THE NORTH AND NOW IS RIGHT ALONG THE SOUTH COAST. THERE IS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF DAMAGE BEING DONE AS SPEAK ON THE SOUTH COAST BECAUSE THEY'RE IN THAT NORTHERN EYE WALL POSSIBLY SEEING WIND GUSTS 120 TO 140 MILES PER HOUR. THAT'S WHERE THE DESTRUCTION I GOING TO BE. THE SUN IS SETTING WON'T SEE PICTURES TONIGHT START TO SEE THEM TOMORROW EVERYONE'S LIKE JAMAICA, THE GOT BRUSHED, THEY WERE FINE. TOMORROW ALL OF A SUDDEN WE MA SEE THINGS DESFROIED AND B LIKE, OH WAIT. THAT'S WHERE THE STORM IS WORS FROM BLACK RIVER TO ROCKY POINT, LOCATED RIGHT HERE THAT'S WHAT WE'RE WATCHING AS FAR AS WHERE WE'RE GOING WITH THIS AS WE HEAD THROUGHOUT THE EXTENDED FORECAST, THE CAYMA ISLANDS, THEN THE YUCATAN, AND EVENTUALLY WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT SUNDAY NIGHT I NORTHERN MEXICO OR SOUTHER TEXAS. WE'RE NOT RULING OUT DIREC IMPACTS IN TEXAS WE'RE GOING TO PREPARE FOR IT. RIGHT NOW IT LOOKS LIKE A STRONG TROPICAL STORM OR A CATEGORY 1 HURRICANE. NOT THE BEAST IT IS NOW. I'VE TOLD YOU MANY TIMES, I'LL TELL YOU THE ENTIRE HURRICAN SEASON, INTENSITY FORECASTING IS LESS THAN UNTIL. USUALLY WE KNOW WHERE THEY'R GOING. BUT A LOT OF TIMES THESE STORM DON'T BEHAVE AS WE EXPECT. >> BILL KARINS, LOTS TO WATC FOR YOU OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS THANKS FOR BEING WITH US >>> BACK IN WASHINGTON A LOT O DEVELOPING NEWS WITH YET ANOTHER PUBLIC CALL NOW FOR TH PRESIDENT TO STEP ASIDE OFF TH PRESIDENTIAL TICKET FROM A SITTING DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKER. AS PRESIDENT BIDEN IS JUST ABOUT AN HOUR FROM NOW SET TO MEET WITH DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS AT THE WHITE HOUSE. YOU'VE GOT THIS ARIZON CONGRESSMAN BECOMING THE SECON HOUSE DEMOCRAT TO SAY, HEY PRESIDENT BIDEN SHOULD DROP OUT. THAT'S WITHIN THE LAST HOUR. EVEN AS THE PRESIDENT'S TELLIN HIS STAFF HE'S NOT GOING TO. HE SAYS NO ONE IS PUSHING ME OUT, ACCORDING TO AN OFFICIAL ON THE LINE HE SAYS, I'M NOT LEAVING THE WHITE HOUSE, THE CAMPAIG PUSHING BACK ON REPORTS THAT PRIVATELY THE PRESIDENT' TALKING TO AT LEAST ONE ALLY ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT TO EVEN STAY IN THE RACE WITH HIS CHIEF OF STAFF TELLIN THE TEAM TO TUNE OUT THE INTENSE NOISE AS THE PRESIDENT FACES THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE OF HIS TER YET POLITICALLY, ALL TRIGGERED BY WHAT'S BEING PANNED AS DISASTROUS DEBATE PERFORMANCE. >> THE PRESIDENT IS CLEAR EYED AND HE IS STAYING IN THE RACE. >> THERE ARE A NUMBER OF RUMOR FLOATING OUT THERE THE PRESIDENT IS IN THIS RACE TO WIN IT. >> OUTSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE, THIS VIEW, WE LOVE YOU, JOE, AND YOUR CANDIDACY, FROM A KEP COUPLE DEMONSTRATORS. BEEHIND THE SCENE THERE HASN'T BEEN A HUGE PUSH TO CLOSE RANK AROUND PRESIDENT BIDEN IN VIGOROUS WAY YOU'VE GOT DAMAGE CONTROL IN FULL ON MODE ALL THESE CALL, STAFFS GOVERNORS, ET CETERA, LUNC BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT TODAY. THAT'S INTERESTING CONSIDERING SOME OF THE SPECULATION IS SHE WOULD TAKE THE TOP OF THE TICKET IF BIDEN DROPS OUT I WANT TO START WITH MONICA ALBA WITH THE LATEST IN THE WHITE HOUSE. IN THE LAST 20 MINUTES OR SO THE PRESIDENT WRAPPED UP A EVENT AT THE WHITE HOUSE, DI NOT TAKE QUESTIONS FRO REPORTERS, MONICA. TALK US THROUGH WHAT HIS NIGHT LOOKS LIKE AND WHETHER THIS GOES IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS >> I THINK THAT MEETING WITH DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS IS GOING TO BE CRITICAL, HALLIE. UNFORTUNATELY FOR US, IT I TAKING PLACE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. IT WILL NOT BE ON CAMERA THE GOVERNORS WE'VE BEEN I TOUCH WITH AT LEAST INDICATE THAT MEANS HOPEFULLY THIS WILL BE A CANDID CONVERSATION WHERE THEY MAY HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT THEY WANT TO RAISE TO THE PRESIDENT ABOUT HIS CURREN THINKING, ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED ON THE DEBATE STAGE, AND ABOU REALLY JUST THEM WANTING TO HEAR DIRECTLY FROM HIM WHAT THE DEA IS AND WHAT IS HAPPENING THE LAST FEW DAYS AND WHAT THE PAT FORWARD LOOKS LIKE SOME OF THOSE GOVERNORS INCLUD PEOPLE WHO VERY LIKELY WILL WANT TO RUN FOR THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET IN THE FUTURE, SOME OF WHOM AR BEING SPECULATED AS BEING KE PLAYERS SHOULD PRESIDENT BIDEN DECIDE TO STEP DOWN, WHICH FOR NOW HE IS REALLY SAYIN COMPLETELY EMPHATICALLY THAT H WILL NOT DO THAT AND ON THIS CAMPAIGN CALL THAT HE DID TAKE PART IN, WHICH I THINK TELLS YOU A LOT TOO, HALLIE, BECAUSE HE WASN' SUPPOSED TO BE ON IT THE VICE PRESIDENT AS WELL HE SAID THIS REALLY FRANKLY, H SAID, NO ONE IS PUSHING ME OUT AND I'M NOT LEAVING. AND HE PLEDGED TO STAY IN UNTI NOVEMBER, TO BE THE NOMINEE, AND HE PLEDGED TO WIN. THAT WAS AT LEAST HIS MESSAGE TO CAMPAIGN STAFF IN WILMINGTON WHO ALSO HAD BEEN RAISING SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT THE NEX COUPLE OF DAYS ARE GOING TO LOOK LIKE >> WHAT'S ALSO INTERESTING HERE, MON, AS WE TALK ABOUT THAT EVENT, WHO WAS IN THE ROOM FOR THAT, HUNTER BIDEN NOT UNUSUAL TO SEE A FAMIL MEMBER OF A PRESIDENT AT A EVENT. I THINK ABOUT THE EASTER EGG ROLL, WHATEVER, YOU CAN SE HUNTER BIDEN THERE ON THAT VIDEO, BUT IT DOES TAKE ON MAYBE A NEW SIGNIFICANCE TAKEN YOU REPORTING OVER TO LAST COUPL DAYS HUNTER WAS IN MEETINGS, OR A LEAST WAS AT THE WEST WING RATHER THAN, FOR EXAMPLE, TH RESIDENCE. PERHAPS AN INDICATION OF THI SCHISM THAT'S BEEN SORT OF PERCOLATING BETWEEN CAMPAIGN STAFF, FAMILY MEMBERS AS THI CRISIS HAS BEEN ALL CONSUMING. >> WHILE YOU'RE RIGHT TO NOT HUNTER BIDEN IS AT CERTAIN EVENTS, AND WE WERE TOLD HE WA GOING TO BE HERE SPECIFICALL BECAUSE HE NORMALLY JOINS HI FATHER FOR THE FOURTH OF JUL CELEBRATIONS WE'RE GOING TO SE PLAY OUT PUBLICLY TOMORROW, AN LIKELY HE WILL BE QUITE VISIBLE, I THINK IT IS SIGNIFICANT THAT AFTER OUR REPORTING YESTERDA THAT HE WAS TAKING PART IN SOM EYEBROW RAISING CONVERSATION WITH SOME SENIOR STAFF WHO I THE WORDS OF ONE OF THEM ESSENTIALLY THE RESPONSE WAS WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING THAT WAS VERY UNUSUAL TO SOM PEOPLE WHO HAD OBSERVED THIS BEHAVIOR THE WHITE HOUSE CONFIRMED SINC RETURNING ON MONDAY, HUNTE BIDEN HAD ACCOMPANIED HIS FATHER AT LEAST IN ONE INSTANCE THE CONFIRMED SPECIFICALLY TO SPEECH PREP SESSION AHEAD OF REMARKS ON THE SUPREME COURT DECISION ON PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY BUT OVERALL THE CONTEXT OF THI IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU POINTED TO THE FACT THAT HIS IMMEDIAT FAMILY IS NOW TAKING A MOR ACTIVE ROLE, IT APPEARS, I EITHER SOME OF THESE CONVERSATIONS OR IN SOME OF TH FRAMING OR DECISION MAKING DOE SUGGEST THAT THEY ARE REALLY THE ONES THE PRESIDENT TURNS TO AN LEANS ON MOST HEAVILY IN THESE ECONSEQUENTIAL MOMENTS >> DOING AN INCREDIBLE JOB REPORTING ON THIS WITH SO MUCH BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. RYAN NOBLES IS DOING THE SAME. MONICA TALKS ABOUT THA GOVERNOR'S CALL THAT'S GOING T HAPPEN IN A BIT. PRIVATELY, OF COURSE IT'S A PHONE CALL. THE CONCERN FROM SOME THAT THE HAVE NOT HEARD FROM PRESIDEN BIDEN DIRECTLY WHERE HAS IT BEEN? NOW TOO LITTLE TOO LATE, NEARL A WEEK AFTER THE WIDELY PANNED PERFORMANCE, NOW THE PRESIDENT IS SPEAKING PUBLICLY I WONDER IF THAT'S COMING UP O ANOTHER CALL HAPPENING AS WE SPEAK RIGHT NOW WITH DEMOCRATI LEADERS. >> THE HOUSE DEMOCRATI LEADERSHIP IS HAVING A CAL RIGHT NOW BETWEEN SIX OR SEVEN OF THE HIGHEST RANKING MEMBERS WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE FRANK CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT' HAPPENED HERE. >> IS THIS NORMAL? >> ABSOLUTELY NOT. THIS CALL TOOK PLACE BECAUSE O THE SITUATION THAT THEY FIND THEMSELVES IN, AND THAT'S AN IMPORTANT POINT YOU MAKE IT COMES AT THE SAME TIME THAT YOU SEE HOUSE DEMOCRATS TALKIN ABOUT THIS SITUATION ONLY TWO OF THEM SPECIFICALL SAID THEY THINK THE PRESIDEN SHOULD STEP DOWN, BUT YOU'D BE HARD PRESSED TO FIND AN ELECTE LEADER RIGHT NOW GIVING A FULL THROATED ENDORSEMENT O PRESIDENT BIDEN STAYING IN THE RACE I TALKED TO MIKE QUICKLY, AN ILLINOIS CONGRESSMAN, SOMEON WHO'S BEEN A LONG SUPPORTER OF BIDEN, SAYS HE ADMIRES PRESIDENT BIDEN, BUT LISTEN TO HIS ASSESSMENT OF WHERE THINGS STAND RIGHT NOW. >> SO THE REASON HE TALKS ABOU JUST NOW LEADING UP TO THI DEBATE ARE FRANKLY THE NORMA RIGORS OF BEING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF GREATER CONCERN IS CAN HE HANDLE THAT? THE POLLING AT BEST SHOWS HE STAYED WHERE HE WAS. WELL, HE'S GOT TO MOVE UP IN THOSE POLLS, AND HOW DO YO CONVINCE VOTERS WHO SAW WHAT THEY SAW THURSDAY? >> AND I'M HEARING THIS A LOT. YOU KNOW, THE WHITE HOUS CLAIMING THAT THE POLLS REALLY HAVEN'T SHIFTED ALL THAT MUCH. MAYBE THEY'VE GONE DOWN A LITTLE BIT. THEY WERE LOSING TO BEGIN WITH NOW THEY PUT THEMSELVES IN A EVEN MORE DIFFICULT POSITION >> THE OTHER PIECE OF THIS TOO YOU KNOW, THE CONSTERNATION THINK FROM SOME OF THE FOLKS THAT YOU'VE TALKED TO IS ABOUT THE DOWN BATTLE RACES. WHAT THIS MEANS, IF PRESIDEN BIDEN DOES REMAIN AT THE TOP O THE BALLOT, DOES IT DRAG DOW THE BALLOT AND THIS IDEA -- YOU KNOW, ARIZONA CONGRESSMAN, HIS DISTRICT, THIS IDEA, AS YOU AN I TALKED ABOUT YESTERDAY, THAT LLOYD DOGGETT SAYS TEN TO ON THEY DON'T WANT PRESIDENT BIDE ON THE TOP OF THE TICKET THIS IS A -- THIS WILL ALL BLO OVER THIS IS A MEDIA, WHATEVER, THERE'S A QUESTION MARK. >> I MEAN, THEY ALL CARE ABOUT THE COUNTRY. THEY CARE ABOUT THE PRESIDENT. THEY CARE ABOUT THE PARTY. BUT THEIR SELF-PRESERVATION IS THEIR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY. I THINK THAT'S A FAIR ASSESSMENT OF ALL POLITICIANS WE'VE KNOWN FOR SOME TIME, THE FRONT LINERS, THE GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS IN THE MOS COMPETITIVE DISTRICTS, WER REALLY CONCERNED BY WHAT THE SAW ON THE DEBATE STAGE. IF IT COULD GO EITHER WAY AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET, YOU ARE TIE TO THE DIRECTION OF WHERE TH TOP OF THE TICKET GOES IF THEY END UP IN A SITUATIO WHERE PRESIDENT BIDEN IS STILL THE NOMINEE, THEY CANNOT RUN AWAY FROM HIM. THAT'S WHY I DON'T THINK YOU SEE TOO MANY OF THEM COME OU PUBLICLY SAYING WHAT THEY'RE SAYING PRIVATELY >> ALTHOUGH TWO OF THEM IN SOM OF THE MOST COMPETITIVE, VULNERABLE DISTRICTS, THEY THINK TRUMP'S GOING TO WIN I WILL SAY , IT'S A HOLIDAY, FOURTH OF JULY THIS STORY MAY NOT GO AWAY TOMORROW >> THEY ARE GOING TO HEAR FROM THEIR CONSTITUENTS IN A BIG WA OVER THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS. THAT COULD DECIDE HOW THIS END UP GOING >> BUSY WEEK FOR YOU, APPRECIATE IT >>> POLITICAL DRAMA OVERSEAS TONIGHT. BRITAIN ELECTS A NEW PARLIAMEN AND PRIME MINISTER, WHO WILL BECOME THE LEADER OF ONE O AMERICA'S CLOSEST ALLIES THE CENTER LEFT LABOR PART EXPECTED TO WIN BIG. MAYBE WINNING ITS BIGGES MAJORITY EVER AND TOSSING TH CONSERVATIVES OUT OF POWER AFTER 14 YEARS THE LEADER OF WHICHEVER PART WINS WILL END UP LEADING THE COUNTRY, MEANING THE LEADER HEAD MAY BECOME NEXT PRIME MINISTER SANCHEZ IS JOININGUS NOW BRING US UP TO SPEED FOR THOSE OF US, YOU KNOW, TEL ON A FRIEND, MYSELF HERE, WH HAVE BEEN IMMERSED IN UNITED STATES POLITICAL COVERAGE, HOW DID BRITAIN GET TO WHERE IT IS AT THIS POINT WHERE LABOR IS O THE BRINK OF THIS TOMB INSTEAD OF RISE? >> SO HALLIE, WE ARE IN THE LAST 24 HOURS OF THIS LIGHTNING FAS COME FAIRED TO THE UNITED STATES SIX-WEEK BRITISH ELECTION, 2 HOURS FROM NOW WE WILL HAVE PRETTY GOOD SENSE WHO IS GOING TO WALK THROUGH THAT FAMOU BLACK DOOR OF TEN TOWNING STREET AS BRITAIN'S PRIME STER. AND AS YOU SAID, THE POLLS ARE TELLING A VERY, VERY CONVINCIN STORY THAT IT IS GOING TO BE THE LEADER OF THE LABOR PARTY. WHAT WE ARE FINDING IS NOT S MUCH THAT THERE IS OVERWHELMIN SUPPORT FOR LABOR, OVERWHELMIN ENTHUSIASM FOR ARMOR AS MUCH A PEOPLE HERE ARE EXHAUSTED AFTE 14 YEARS OF CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT, THE LAST EIGHT O WHICH HAVE BEEN AN UNPRECEDENTED -- YOU'LL REMEMBER THE 201 BREXIT REFERENDUM WHEN PEOPL HERE VOTED TO LEAVE TH EUROPEANDOWNON SINCE THEN YOU HAVE HA CONSERVATIVE PRIME MINISTERS FORCED TO RESINE, THAT INCLUDE BORIS JOHNSON, FORCED OUT OF OFFICE AFTER BREAKING HIS OW RULES. LIZ TRUSS' POLICIES NEARLY CRASHING THE BRITISH COMPANY AND SO PEOPLE ARE TURNING TO STAR MER HE IS SEEN AS CAPABLE. HE IS SEEN AS COMPETENT, AND H IS SEEN AS A SAFE PAIR OF HANDS, HALLIE >> LET'S SAY IT DOES END U BEING PRIME MINISTER STARMER WHAT WOULD THAT MEAN FOR THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UNITED STATES >> SO TRULY INSTINCT STARMER IS A SEN TRIRS HE IS SOMEONE WHO SUPPORTS NATO. HE IS SOMEONE WHO SUPPORTS WESTERN SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE. EVERY INDICATION IS IN TERMS O PERSONALITY, POLITIC, POLICY, HE WOULD BE VERY COMPATIBLE WIT PRESIDENT BIDEN. BUT SIX MONTHS FROM NOW YO COULD HAVE A PRIMARIER STARMER SITTING ACROSS THE STABLE FROM A SECOND-TERM -- WE ASKED DOES H HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO STAND UP TO DONALD TRUMP IF HE TRIES TO TAKE THE UNITED STATES OUT O NATO, IF HE TRIES TO CUT WESTERN SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE. THIS LABOR OFFICIAL TOLD U STARMER WILL STAND UP FOR WHAT HE BELIEVES IN HE WILL KEEP THE WEAPONS HE WILL KEEP THE MONEY FLOWING TO UKRAINE HE HAS ALREADY SPOKEN A NUMBER OF TIMES IN THE LAST YEAR TO JAKE SULLIVAN. AND IF HE DOES WIN, WE EXPECT IT ON FRIDAY ONE OF HIS FIRST PHONE CALLS WILL BE WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH APPRECIATE IT. >>> COMING UP HERE ON THE SHOW THE HOLIDAY TRAVEL NIGHTMARE WAITING FOR YOU IF YOU HIT THE ROAD RIGHT NOW SORRY. WHERE TO EXPECT THE BOTTLENECKS. >>> AND THE NEW NINE-DIGIT DEA FOR LeBRON, WHO'S MAKING I OFFICIAL THAT HE AND HIS SON WILL BE LAKERS MORE ON THAT NEXT. A SAFER PLACE? >> NBC NEWS DAILY, WEEKDAYS FROM 12:00 TO 4:00 ON "NBC NEWS NOW." >>> SO AS WE SPEAK RIGHT NOW THIS HOUR, WE ARE IN THE MIDDL OF WHAT AAA DESCRIBES AS THE PEAK OF THE HOLIDAY TRAVEL RUS FOR THE WHOLE WEEK AND IT IS A RECORD SETTER, FOLKS. UP 5% FROM LAST YEAR WITH NEARLY 71 MILLION OF US HEADING OUT O TOWN AT THE AIRPORTS, HALF A MILLIO MORE THAN LAST YEAR, WITH TH TSA SCREENING 2.5 MILLION FOLK JUST YESTERDAY BUT A LOT OF THOSE TRAVELERS MAY BE HEADING INTO ROUGH WEATHE WITH, AS WE TALKED ABOUT SUFFOCATING HEAT AND INTENSE STORMS IN MULTIPLE PARTS OF TH COUNTRY. WE'RE FOLLOWING ALL OF THIS FROM ONE OF THE BUSIEST AIRPORTS IN THE WORLD, ATLANTA ALL RIGHT, IS IT A MESS, IS IT NOT SO BAD, WHAT'S THE DEAL? >> Reporter: HALLIE, ONE OF TH THINGS THIS AIRPORT PRIDES ITSELF ON IS NOT JUST BEING TH WORLD'S BUSIEST BUT ALSO BEING THE MOST EFFICIENT THINGS SEEM TO BE GOING WELL TODAY. THE TSA ADMINISTRATOR TELLS US THE BUSIEST TIMES AT THE AIRPORT ARE BETWEEN 5:00 AND 7:00 IN THE MORNING AND 4:00 AND 7:00 P.M. IN THE EVENING SO IT DOES FEEL LIKE THINGS AR PICKING UP JUST A LITTLE BIT IN ADDITION TO ATLANTA, IF YOU ARE HEADING OUT TO EITHER TH DENVER OR THE DALLAS-FORT WORT AIRPORT, THOSE ARE ALSO EXPECTED TO ROUND OUT THE TOP THREE A FAR AS THE BUSIEST AIRPORT DURING THE JULY 4th HOLIDA TRAVEL PERIOD. BUT THE TSA SAYS, LISTEN, WE'R PREPARED FOR IT. OUT OF THE TOP TEN BUSIEST TRAVEL DAYS ON RECORD EVER EIGHT OF THEM HAVE BEEN IN 2024, SO THEY SAY THAT THEY'VE BEE PREPARED FOR THIS. IT SEEMS LIKE EVERY SINGLE HOLIDAY WE'RE EXPERIENCING WE'RE JUST BREAKING RECORDS. SO THEY'VE ACTUALLY MOVE VOLUNTEER TSA AGENTS TO OTHE AIRPORTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY WH AREN'T AS NECESSARILY EQUIPPED FOR THESE HIGH VOLUME OF PASSENGERS JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA O DELAYS RIGHT NOW, WE'VE HA ALMOST 3,000 FLIGHT DELAYS TODAY, BUT COMPARED TO YESTERDAY IT WAS ALMOST 5,000, SO THINGS ARE LOOKING PRETTY GOOD SO FAR HALLIE >> OKAY, WHAT ABOUT THIS IDE THAT'S GOTTEN A LOT OF ATTENTION THIS WEEK IN PARTICULAR, WIT PEOPLE HEADING OUT FOR JULY 4t BUT DOING THE WORK FROM HOME THING, THE IDEA OF QUIET VACATIONING, WHAT'S THAT ABOUT WHAT'S THE VIBE? >> Reporter: YEAH, SO THIS I KIND OF A COOL, INTERESTIN PHENOMENON AS YOU MENTIONED, WORK FROM HOME HAS GIVEN US A LITTLE BIT MORE FLEXIBILITY AND MORE THAN HALF OF GEN Z AND MILLENNIAL WORKER THAT WERE POLLED SAID THAT THE WERE QUIET VACATIONING, WHIC MEANS THAT THEY'RE WORKING AWA FROM THEIR HOMES BUT WITHOUT REALLY REQUESTING THE OFFICIAL PAID TIME OFF. A LOT OF THEM SAID THAT THEY FEEL THIS PRESSURE TO CONSTANTLY BE PRODUCTIVE AND AVAILABLE AN THEY ALSO EXPRESSED SOME KIND OF ANXIETY AND NERVOUSNESS WHEN ASKING FOR PAID TIME OFF AND SO A LOT OF THE EXPERTS THAT THIS POLL SORT OF SURVEYED SAI THAT THAT CAN BE KIND OF A RED FLAG WHEN IT COMES TO WORKPLAC CULTURE. YOU WANT YOUR EMPLOYEES TO FEE EMPOWERED TO ASK FOR TIME OFF, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THAT CA ACTUALLY MAKE THEM FEEL MORE LOYAL TO THE COMPANY THAT THEY WORK FOR AND ALSO MORE PRODUCTIVE BUT I THINK ONE THING WITH THI SPECIFIC HOLIDAY THAT MADE THINGS A LITTLE BIT MORE INTERESTING WAS THAT JULY 4t FELL ON A THURSDAY, SO A LOT O PEOPLE SAID, HEY, WHY NOT TAKE THAT FRIDAY AWAY FROM HOME EET AND EXTEND IT INTO A LITTLE BI OF A LONG WEEKEND, HALLIE? >> LIVE FOR US IN ATLANTA, DOING THE OPPOSITE OF QUIE VACATIONING, I GUESS, AS WE AL ARE. >>> TONIGHT IT'S THE COST OF LIVING HITTING ONE HOT SPO HARD WITH AMERICA'S MUSIC CAPITAL MORE POPULAR THAN EVER THANKS TO NASHVILLE DESTINATION CONCERTS BACHELORETTES, WHILE THAT MAY BE GOOD FOR TOURISTS, LOCALS AR FEELING THE PINCH, SPENDING MORE ON, WELL, EVERYTHING JUST TO GET BY OUR KATHY PARK REPORTS >> Reporter: NASHVILLE BUILT ITS FOUNDATION ON MUSIC, BUT THESE DAYS IT'S BECOMING HARDER AN HARDER EFOR MANY MUSICIANS T LIVE THERE AS MUSIC CITY HAS TRANSFORMED INTO ONE OF TH NATION'S FASTEST GROWING BOO TOWNS, WITH A RECORD 16. MILLION VISITORS LAST YEAR ADDING NEARLY 90 PEOPLE A DAY TO ITS POPULATION, AND IT'S NOT JUST PEOPLE, AMAZON, ALLIANC BURN STEIN, AND SOON ORACLE WILL BE CALLING NASHVILLE HOME. >> 18 YEARS AGO WE HAD MOR PEOPLE THAN WE HAD JOBS. NOW WE HAVE MORE JOBS THAN W HAVE PEOPLE. >> Reporter: EXPERTS SAY COMPANIES ARE DRAWN TO TENNESSEE'S BUSINESS FRIENDL ENVIRONMENT, RELOCATING FROM EXPENSIVE AND DENSE LOCATIONS. ANOTHER PERK NO STATE INCOME TAX FOR WORKERS. >> IF IT WASN'T FOR THE CITY, WE WOULDN'T BE AS SUCCESSFUL AS W ARE. >> Reporter: BRIAN FUENTE, A SINGER TURNED ENTREPRENEUR LAUNCHED AEROBUILD, A COMPAN THAT BUILDS MOBILE BUSINESSES. >> LOT OF CRAFTSMANSHIP GOES INTO EACH ONE. >> Reporter: 30% OF THEI WORKFORCE IS MADE UP O MUSICIANS. >> THE PRODUCTION TEAM ONL WORKS FOUR-DAY WORKWEEKS, SO O THE WEEKENDS THEY'RE PLAYING MUSIC. >> Reporter: IT'S A MODEL THAT HELPED STRIKE A BALANCE FO EMPLOYEES LIKE DUSTIN, A SINGE WHO STRUGGLES TO KEEP UP WIT THE HIGH COST OF LIVING. >> HOUSES ARE BOUGHT AND YOU GET AN EVICTION NOTICE YOU KNOW, IT'S HARDER TO LIV HERE AS AN ARTIST THAN IT USED TO BE, I FEEL LIKE AND I'VE ONLY BEEN HERE SI YEARS. >> Reporter: ACCORDING TO A RE FIN ANALYSIS, A FAMILY NEEDED TO EARN ROUGHLY $129,000 A YEAR T AFFORD THE MEDIAN PRICE HOME WORTH $478,000 >> IT HAS BECOME UNAFFORDABLE. >> Reporter: JALEN RAYMER IS FEELING THE CRUNCH TOO AFTER MOVING HER COWBOY HATS AND BOOTS BUSINESS FROM NEW YORK CITY TO NASHVILLE IN 2020. >> YOU WANT TO TRY IT ON TODAY >> Reporter: CORPORATE EVENT AND TOURISTS HAVE HELPED HER SHOP THRIVE. >> THEY'RE READY TO GIDDIUP AN HAVE A GREAT TIME DOWN I NASH-FITS. >> Reporter: SEEING EVEN MOR GROWTH WITH THE POPULARITY O COUNTRY MUSIC. >> JOLENE, JOLENE. >> YOU CAN SEE THE REDEVELOPMENT, BUT IT'S HECTIC >> Reporter: A CITY SOARING TO NEW HEIGHTS BUT ON THE WAY U FEELING THE GROWING PAINS. >> A FEW OF MY FAVORITE SPOT HAVE HAD TO DISAPPEAR BECAUSE OF THE GROWTH I KIND OF MISS THE CHARM >> Reporter: YOU THINK CIT PLANNERS UNDERESTIMATE NASHVILLE'S GROWTH >> I THINK IT WOULD BE A RAR PERSON THAT TOLD YOU THE EXPECTED THE GROWTH TO BE LIKE THIS >> KATHY PARK IS JOINING US NOW. I MEAN, BEEN TO BROADWAY NASHVILLE'S A FUN SPOT IT'S ALSO SUPER POPULAR NOT JUST ALL YEAR ROUND BUT FOURTH OF JULY, BIG MUSIC CELEBRATION. TALK US THROUGH THAT PIECE O IT >> Reporter: YEAH, SO HALLIE NASHVILLE HOSTS ONE OF THE LARGEST FOURTH OF JULY FIREWORKS SHOWS IN THE COUNTRY THIS YEAR HEADLINED BY CHRIS YOUNG. EVERY YEAR THEY SEE MORE THA 200,000 SPECTATORS WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBERS FOR LAST YEAR, $11 PVPT 6 MILLION IN VISITOR SPENDING ALONE ORGANIZERS ANTICIPATING A BI TURNOUT TOMORROW WEATHER IS ALWAYS A WILD CAR WITH OUTDOOR EVENTS. BUT A LOT OF FOLKS ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. >> KATHY PARK, THANK YOU VER MUCH GOOD TO SEE YOU. >>> THE FIVE THINGS OUR TEAM THINKS YOU SHOULD KNOW TONIGHT DELTA APOLOGIZING TODAY AFTER FLIGHT WAS DIVERTED BECAUS PASSENGERS WERE SERVED FOOD THAT HAD GONE BAD SPOILED FOOD THE PLANE WAS GOING THROUG DETROIT TO AMSTERDAM, ENDED UP IN JFK AIRPORT IN NEW YORK UNEXPECTEDLY FIRST RESPONDERS TREATED A DOZEN PASSENGERS NOT CLEAR HOW MANY PEOPLE AL TOGETHER ENDING UP EATING TH BAD FOOD, BUT DELTA SAYS IT' LOOKING INTO IT. >>> NUMBER TWO, PEOPLE TAKIN OZEMPIC AND WEGOVY MAY HAVE AN INCREASED RISK OF DEVELOPING A DEBILITATING EYE CONDITION THA CAN MAKE YOU GO BLIND, ACCORDING TO A NEW STUDY A LOOK THROUGH THE MEDICAL RECORDS OF PATIENTS WHO HA DIABETES OR WERE OVERWEIGHT. RESEARCHERS THINK THEY NEED TO DO MORE STUDIES, BUT THERE IS LINK HERE. PEOPLE WITH TYPE II DIABETES ALREADY HAD A HIGHER RISK FO THIS >>> NUMBER THREE, RECALLIN NEARLY A MILLION POWER ADAPTER BECAUSE OF A SHOCK HAZARD. IF YOU THE REST FIRST GENERATION SOUND MACHINE, IT'S SOLD O AMAZON, TARGET, ET CETERA, LOO INTO THIS. NEARLY A DOZEN REPORTS OF TH PLASTIC COVERING AROUND THAT ADAPTER COMING OFF THE COMPANY SAYS CUSTOMERS SHOULD UNPLUG THIS RIGHT AWAY, STOP USING THEM, GET IN TOUC FOR A FREE REPLACEMENT >>> BOB'S STORES IS SHUTTING DOWN IT FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY. WATCH OUT FOR LIQUIDATION SALES. BOB'S HAS BEEN IN BUSINESS FOR 70 YEARS >>> NUMBER FIVE, LeBRON JAME AGREEING TO A TWO YEAR, GE READY FOR THIS, $104 MILLION MAXIMUM CONTRACT WITH THE LAKERS THAT ALSO INCLUDES A NO TRAD CLAUSE IT'S GOING TO BE HIS 22nd NB SEASON AND IF YOU'RE LIKE WHY WOULDN' HE WANT TO GET TRADED? WELL, HIS SON, OF COURSE BRONNY, WAS JUST DRAFTED BY TH LAKERS THEY WILL BECOME THE FIRST FATHER/SON DUO IN NBA HISTORY TO PLAY ON THE SAME TEAM. >>> LATER ON IN THE SHOW, MORE AND MORE FOLKS HAVING TROUBL GETTING AN EMERGENCY RESPONDER ON THE PHONE IN AN EMERGENCY WE'RE BREAKING DOWN TH COUNTRY'S GROWING 911 OUTAGE ISSUE. >>> AND HOW A WAITRESS CHASING SOME DINE AND DASHERS ENDED UP IN A UNTIL IT STARTS TO SPARKLE IT'S SPARKLING IT'S HAPPENING >> IT'S HAPPENING. >>> TONIGHT A SLOGAN COINED BY THE SON OF A HOLLYWOOD STAR HA TURNED INTO A GLOBAL CALL TO ACTION FOR FAR RIGHT EXTREMISTS. ACCORDING TO A NEW REPORT OU TODAY, WE'RE TALKING AT TE HANKS, TOM HANKS SON AND THE SONG WHITE BOY SUMMER. 2021 AT THE TIME, CRINGE JI, PROFANITIES, SLURS SINCE THEN THE PHRASE HA MORPHED INTO A SLOGAN FOR WHIT SUPREMACISTS, ANOTHER HATE GROUP ACCORDING TO THE GLOBAL PROJEC AGAINST HATE AND EXTREMISM HANKS POSTING THIS ON INSTAGRAM, HE SAYS WHITE BOY SUMMER WAS CREATED TO BE FUN, PLAYFUL ANYTHING ELSE THAT IT HAS BEEN TWISTED INTO IS DEPLORABLE AND I CONDEMN IT ELLIS JOINING US NOW HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? HOW DID SO-CALLED WHITE BO SUMMER END UP COOPTED BY WHITE SUPREMACISTS AND OTHERS? >> IT SEEMS CATCHY FOR WHITE SUPREMACISTS, JUST LIKE THE TERM WHITE LIVES MATTER, IT SEEMS CATCHY AS YOU POINT OUT THAT THIS GROUP, THE GROUP CALLED TH GLOBAL PROJECT AGAINST HATE AN EXTREMISM, WHICH WAS FOUNDED B FORMER MEMBERS OF THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER, WHIC THEY'RE ABOUT TRACKING WHAT' GOING ON IN THIS COUNTRY AS FA AS HATE AND ANTISEMITISM I CONCERNED. AND THEY NOTICED THAT THERE WERE THOUSANDS OF POSTS USING A SLOGAN THAT APPEARED O SOMETHING CALLED THE TELEGRAPH APP THIS YEAR. ASSOCIATED WITH WHITE SUPREMACY. AND CHET HANKS, HE BECAM DISTURBED ABOUT IT, AND HE PUT OUT THAT POST TODAY THAT THI WAS NOT SOMETHING THAT H CONDONES HE POINTS OUT AT THE END OF TH MUSIC VIDEO HE HAS A SHIRT - AND I THINK WE HAVE A PICTURE OF HIM WEARING THE SHIRT -- ON TH BACK IT SAYS STOP HATE T-SHIRT HE'S TRYING TO SAY CLEARLY THERE HE'S NOT IN FAVOR OF WHAT WHIT SUPREMACISTS ARE DOING WIT THIS >> THIS IS ALSO NOT THE FIRS TIME THAT SOMETHING THAT WAS NEVER INTENDED TO BE, YOU KNOW A FLAG FOR EXTREMIST GROUP ENDED UP COOPTED, LIKE A SLOGAN, PHRASE, IMAGE, WHATEVER, FOR SOMETHING THAT WASN'T IT INTENDED MEANING >> IT'S REALLY TRUE. THERE'S A PHRASE CALLED PEPE THE FROG, IT WAS A COMIC BOO CHARACTER THAT WHITE SUPREMACISTS LATCHED ON TO THE CREATOR WAS SO INCENSED BY IT, HE TOOK IT DOWN AN BASICALLY KILLED, IF YOU WILL, THE CHARACTER ITSELF THAT DIDN'T STOP PEOPLE FROM CONTINUING TO USE IT THERE'S ALSO CELTIC CROSS USED BY WHITE SUPREMACISTS. IT SEEMS IN SOME MORE THERE' LITTLE PEOPLE CAN DO TO STOP THIS AS MUCH AS THEY TRY, IT SEEMS TO BE SPREADING AND WHAT'S MORE DISTURBING T SOME PEOPLE, IT SEEPS TO B MOVING INTO CONSERVATIVE EVENTS, EVEN LIKE THAT BANNER THAT YOU SHOWED AT YOUR INTRO INTO ME WHERE A GUY WAS RAISING A FLAG THAT SAID WHITE BOY SUMMER, THAT FLAG WAS PRESENTED AT CONSERVATIVE RALLY IN DETROI JUST LAST MONTH. DONALD TRUMP WAS A KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT THAT EVENT ALONG WITH SEVERAL MEMBERS OF - CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS O CONGRESS, INCLUDING J.D. VANC AND MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE >> ELLIS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. NBC NEWS COVERS HUNDREDS O STORIES EVERY DAY, AND BECAUSE IT CAN BE TOUGH TO READ OR WATCH OR LISTEN TO THEM ALL, OUR BUREAU TEAMS HAVE DONE IT FO YOU. THIS IS WHAT'S GOING DOWN IN THEIR REGIONS IN A SEGMENT W CALL THE LOCAL OUT OF OUR SOUTHERN BUREAU I FLORIDA, OFFICIALS HAV RECOVERED THE BODY OF A BOATER WHO WENT EOVERBOARD AFTER CRASH WITH A BARGE THIS MORNING. POLICE AND THE COAST GUARD SEARCHED FOR HOURS ONE OTHER PASSENGER ON THE BOA WAS HURT IN THIS ACCIDENT. >>> ALSO OUT OF OUR SOUTHERN BUREAU, LOOKING FOR A GROUP WH ATTACKED A WAITRESS WHO SAYS SHE WAS PULLED INTO A LAKE AFTER THEY REFUSED TO PAY THEIR BILL SHE RAN UP TO THE DOCK AFTER THEY ORDERED FOOD AND DIDN'T PAY. THERE SHE IS THEY TOOK OFF. AS THEY DID, ONE OF THEM PULLE HER INTO THE WATER POLICE ARE TREATING THIS AS AN ASSAULT CASE >>> OFFICIALS ARE LOOKING FOR AN ENDANGERED RODENT FROM SOUTH AMERICA SPOTTED IN A PARK IN COLORADO THIS IS THE PATAGONIAN MARA, I IS DEFINITELY NOT NATIVE T COLORADO OFFICIALS THINK IT MIGHT B SOMEBODY'S ESCAPED PET >>> TONIGHT NEW SCRUTINY ON SERVICE THAT COULD BE LIFE SAVING THOSE WIRELESS NETWORKS THAT CONNECT OUR EMERGENCY CALLS WHEN WE'RE IN TROUBLE NETWORKS IN THE SPOTLIGH RECENTLY FOR BIG OUTAGES REMEMBER THAT MASSIVE AT&T ONE BACK IN FEBRUARY LASTED LIKE HALF A DAY THIS IS BECOMING A GROWING CONCERN FOR 911 CALL CENTERS THEY SAY, ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY. IN TONIGHT'S BREAKDOWN, OU BRIAN CHUNG TAKES A CLOSER LOOK. >> Reporter: IN AN EMERGENCY YOU KNOW TO CALL 911 - >> 911, WHERE IS YOUR EMERGENCY? >> Reporter: -- BUT WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU CAN'T THAT NIGHTMARE SCENARIO RECENTLY PLAYING OUT SEVERAL TIMES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. >> MASSIVE NATIONWIDE CELLPHON OUTAGE >> WHAT IF I CAN'T CALL 911, WHAT DO I DO NOW AND THAT'S WHAT CAUSES M SLEEPLESS NIGHTS >> Reporter: JUST LAST MONTH 911 EMERGENCY SYSTEMS WERE DOW ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS FOR HOURS AND IN APRIL AN INSTALLATION O A LIGHT POLE CUT OUT SERVICE LEADING TO ISSUES CALLING 911 IN AT LEAST THREE STATES. A NATIONWIDE OUTAGE CUTTING AT&T SERVICE FOR THOUSANDS OF CUSTOMERS FOR ABOUT HALF A DAY AT&T APOLOGIZED TO CUSTOMERS AND SAID IT WAS IMPLEMENTING CHANGES TO PREVENT A REPEAT. >> SO AS SOON AS THE CALL COME IN, IT SHOWS UP ON THIS MAP. >> Reporter: TONY ROSE IS TH DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY SERVICES IN CHARLES COUNTY MARYLAND, WHILE NOT IMPACTED B THOSE MAJOR EVENT THIS IS YEAR HE'S NOTICED PROBLEMS BECOMING MORE FREQUENT. >> BECAUSE WE'VE TRANSITIONED TO OLD TECHNOLOGY -- THE OLD COPPER PHONE LINE SYSTEM -- TO THIS NEW IP NETWORK WORLD THAT WE LIV IN, RIGHT, WITH SMART DEVICES. >> Reporter: SO WHERE ARE THES PROBLEMS COMING FROM >> COULD BE HUMAN ERROR. IT COULD BE A CYBERATTACK. IT COULD BE A MECHANICAL FAILURE. >> BUT EITHER WAY ARE OUTAGE ACROSS THE BOARD INCREASING IN YOUR VIEW? >> YES >> Reporter: AUTHORITIES ARE TAKING A LOOK AS WELL. IN ADDITION TO AN INVESTIGATIO INTO THE FEBRUARY AT&T ISSUE NEW YORK STATE SAID IT WOULD PROBE THE TELECOM PROVIDER A WELL VERIZON WIRELESS WILL PAY OVER $1 MILLION FOR AN OUTAGE I 2022, PUTTING PRESSURE ON TH COMPANIES TO IMPROVE >> IT'S INVESTMENT ON THE PART OF THE CARRIERS TO ENSUR GREATER NETWORK RELIABILITY. >> Reporter: ROSE SAYS FAMILIE NEED TO PLAN FOR EMERGENCY SITUATIONS WHERE YOU CAN'T REACH 911. AMONG THE RECOMMENDATIONS, ANOTHER CARRIER, THE SOS FEATURE IF AVAILABLE, WHICH BASICALL USES ROAMING OR SATELLITES I CERTAIN EMERGENCIES. DON'T CALL 911 JUST TO TEST IF IT WORKS THAT COULD CLOG UP RESOURCES ROSE SAYS JUST LIKE DIALLING 911 HAS BECOME AN INSTINCT, SO SHOULD PLANNING FOR THE WORS CASE SCENARIO WHEN YOU CAN >> TYPICALLY WITH A HURRICANE, YOU HAVE AT LEAST 72 HOURS O NOTICE THAT IS IS COMING IN A 911 DISRUPTION OR CARRIER DISRUPTION, THERE'S NO NOTICE. >> BRIAN IS JOINING US NOW SO INTERESTING, BRIAN, TALK TO US ABOUT WHETHER THERE'S COLLABORATION NOW BETWEEN TH GOVERNMENT, THE CARRIERS, TH CALL CENTERS, ET CETERA. >> TONY ROSE, HE'S IN CHARLE COUNTY, HE WAS SAYING THAT HIS COUNTY IN ADDITION TO A NUMBER OF OTHER EMERGENCY CALL CENTER IN OTHER COUNTIES IN THE REGION, THEY GET TOGETHER ON A REGULAR BASIS WITH THE CARRIER THEMSELVES AS WELL AS OTHE OFFICIALS IN THE GOVERNMENT TO TALK ABOUT THESE TYPES OF ISSUES AND JUST GENERAL HYGIENE AND MAKING SURE THEY CAN PREVENT THIS FROM HAPPENING IN THE FUTURE AT&T TELLS NBC NEWS IN THA FEBRUARY 22nd INCIDENT IT TRIE TO PRIORITIZE GETTING BACK U FIRST NET, A COMMUNICATION CHANNEL FIRST RESPONDERS USE T TALK TO EACH OTHER BUT AGAIN, THERE'S MUCH NEEDED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE OVERAL INFRASTRUCTURE SO MAYBE CONGRESS CAN ADDRESS WITH DOLLARS THE EFFORT TO TURN THE 911 SYSTE INTO SOMETHING MORE MODERNIZED SOMETHING WHERE YOU COULD EVEN TEXT IT. THIS IS AN ALL TEAM EFFORT HERE, HALLIE >> BRIAN CHUNG, THANK YOU. >>> STILL TO COME HERE ON TH SHOW, THE MUSHROOM CANDY PEOPL SAY IS MAKING THEM SICK. NOW POSSIBLY TO BLAME FO SOMEBODY'S DEATH OUR MEDICAL EXPERTS ARE ALL OVER THIS ONE WE'VE GOT THE UPDATE ON WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW NEXT BIG >>> WE'RE LEARNING TODAY THE FDA IS INVESTIGATING A DEATH THA MIGHT BE LINKED TO NOW RECALLE MUSHROOM CHOCOLATES WE TOLD YO ABOUT. PEOPLE WERE GETTING REALLY SIC AFTER EATING THIS CANDY FROM THE BRAND DIAMOND SHROOMS, SOM PEOPLE AT LEAST THROWING UP, HAVING SEIZURES, BLACKING OUT. 48 PEOPLE HAD SEVERE SYMPTOM AFTER EATING THE CANDY 27 ENDED UP IN THE HOSPITAL. SO THE MANUFACTURE PROSESE PREMIUM BLENDS DID NOT RESPOND TO OUR REQUEST FOR COMMENT, BU THE FDA IS INVESTIGATING APPARENTLY A DEATH HOW DID THIS GO SO WRONG APPARENTLY >> YEAH, I KNOW, YOU KNOW, THE FDA AND THE CDC ARE BOTH INVESTIGATING AND SENDING OUT LOT OF HEALTH ALERTS ABOUT THESE PRODUCTS THE COMPANY, THE MANUFACTURER, HAS BASICALLY SAID THAT TH COMPOUND THAT IS IN THES PRODUCTS THAT IS MAKING PEOPLE SICK IS THIS THING WHICH PROBABLY IS NOT FAMILIAR TO MOST PEOPLE IT IS DERIVED FROM A CERTAIN YOU KNOW, FAMILY OR GENUS OF MUSHROOMS AND CAN BE VERY TOXI AND EVEN FATAL AT HIGH, HIGH DOSES. IT CAN CAUSE CHANGES I BEHAVIOR, IN MOOD, I PERCEPTION, IN COGNITION IT'S SCARY, RIGHT? BUT I MEAN, THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS AGAIN WHERE THIS INDUSTRY IS NOT NECESSARILY REGULATED AND SO WHETHER OR NOT THIS WAS INTENTIONAL OR ADULTERATED, THINK THE FDA IS GOING TO LET US KNOW >> WHAT ABOUT -- MUSHROOM IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT YOU FEEL LOT ON THE ALGORITHM, MUSHROOM THIS, MUSHROOM THAT, COFFEE, E CETERA, WHAT ABOUT OTHER PRODUCTS THAT ARE NOT THIS THA ARE OUT THERE, SHOULD PEOPLE HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT THOSE TOO OR NO REASON FOR THAT YET >> I DON'T KNOW. THAT'S THE THING, IT'S ONE O THOSE THINGS WHERE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE DON'T KNOW AND YOU KNOW, THERE WAS JUST A RECENT ARTICLE IN THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE THESE EXPERTS HAVE REALLY BEEN CALLING FOR STATE AND FEDERA REGULATORS TO TAKE A VERY CLEA STANCE ON FIST OF ALL WHETHER OR NOT IT'S LEGAL TO SELL ANYTHIN WITH THIS COMPOUND IN IT AND I IT IS DEEMED TO BE LEGAL THERE NEEDS TO BE THINGS LIKE MAXIMU DOSE AND, YOU KNOW, CHILDPROOF PACKAGING AND THINGS LIKE THAT HALLIE, I ALWAYS SAY TO OU VIEWERS AND TO PATIENTS ALIKE, YOU KNOW, IT IS A LITTLE BIT O LIKE THE WILD, WILD WEST, AN YOU KNOW, BUYER BEWARE IN TERM OF THESE KINDS OF PRODUCTS WHAT YOU SEE ON THE LABEL IS NOT NECESSARILY WHAT IS IN THESE THINGS AND THIS IS A LESSON REALLY, REALLY THAT HAS BEEN LEARNED THE HARD WAY FOR THE DOZENS OF PEOPLE WHO'VE BECOME ILL AND EVEN HOSPITALIZED AN UNFORTUNATELY WITH THIS ON DEATH THE FDA WILL B INVESTIGATING TO SEE IF IT'S RELATED TO THIS PRODUCT. >> GOOD WORDS OF WISDOM. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >>> STILL AHEAD, IS PLANT-BASE MEAT -- WHY YOU MAY NOT SEE IT AT YOUR FOURTH OF JULY BARBECU TOMORROW PRETTY BAD. >>> KRISTEN WELKER HOSTS MEE THE PRESS EVERY SUNDAY ON NBC. >>> IT IS THE KICK-OFF TO TH FAMOUS NATHAN'S HOT DOG EATING CONTEST TODAY, STARTING WITH A WEIGH-IN AHEAD OF THE MAIN EVENT TOMORROW WE'VE SEEN SOME OF THE CONTENDERS THERE, BUT NOTICEABLY MISSING, THIS GUY, THE MAN SYNONYMOUS WITH THIS TRADITION JOEY CHESTNUT, 16 HOT DOG EATING TITLES UNDER HIS BELT. BUT HE'S NOT COMPETING BECAUSE OF HIS ENDORSEMENT DEAL WITH A NATHAN'S COMPETITOR, A PLANT-BASED FAUX MEAT COMPANY. VEGAN MEAT SEEMS TO BE STRUGGLING LATELY. THINK ABOUT IT, ARE YOU HAVING IT AT YOUR FOURTH OF JUL BARBECUE WE CRUNCHED THE NUMBERS. >> Reporter: CHAMPION EATER JOEY CHESTNUT MADE HEADLINES THIS SUMMER FOR SIGNING ON AS A AMBASSADOR FOR ALT MEAT COMPAN IMPOSSIBLE FOODS, TAKING HIM OUT OF CONTENTION FOR THE NATHAN'S EATING COMPETITION HE'S WON IN THE PAST MORE THAN A DOZEN TIMES. BUT IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN IF OTHER CUSTOMERS GET IN ON TH PLANT-BASED BARBECUE ACTION THIS HOLIDAY. THE PANDEMIC PROVIDED A BI BOOST TO THE PLANT-BASED MEA CENTER, BUT IT'S NOT BEEN ON THAT'S SUSTAINABLE DUE T VARYING CHALLENGES FOR INDUSTRY. THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE WHICH IS A NONPROFIT THINK TANK TRACKIN THE INDUSTRY OUTLINES TASTE, TEXTURE, AND PRICING AS THRE KEY HURDLES TO OVERCOME IN ITS LATEST REPORT OF 2023 TRENDS NOW, OVERALL PLANT-BASED MEA AND SEAFOOD SALES, IT SAYS, WERE DOWN 13% OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS AND UNITS SOLD DROPPED 26% T 215 MILLION, THE INDUSTR REPORTS. BEYOND MEAT IS LOOKING FOR ANOTHER ISSUE, HEALTH PERCEPTION THAT THE SECTOR HAS FACE LAUNCHING A NEW, HEALTHIER BURGER IN STORE THIS IS SPRING IT FEATURES FEWER INGREDIENTS, 20% LESS SODIUM, AND 60% LES SATURATED FAT. THE COMPANY SAYS IT'S MADE WIT AVER CADO OIL. THE CATCH IS IT WILL REMAIN IN A HIGHER PRICE TIER, BUT THE CEO TOLD ME THE COMPANY WA CONFIDENT THAT THE HEALTH METHOD IT HAS WILL HELP TO BOOST SALES. THE COMPANY'S STOCK IS DOW AROUND 20% PLUS YEAR TO DATE >> WE DO BELIEVE BECAUSE THE PRODUCT HAS SUCH A STRONG VALU PROPOSITION THAT IT'S NOT GOIN TO BE AN ISSUE FOR CONSUMERS WE WERE PROBABLY THE LAST IN THE CATEGORY TO DO ANY PRICING, YE WE HAVE NOW THE MOST PREMIUM PRODUCT. SO WE FEEL VERY GOOD ABOUT IT. >> BEYOND JUST THE BARBECUE, PLANT-BASED MEAT COMPANIES HAV FACED CHALLENGES IN RESTAURANTS, SEEING LACKLUSTER DEMAND AT FAST FOOD COMPANIES LIKE McDONALD'S IN THE U.S. WHILE SEEING SUCCESS EOVERSEAS. BUT PANDA EXPRESS AND BEYOND MEAT ANNOUNCED TODAY A RETURN OF BEYOND'S ORANGE CHICKEN TO ITS MENUS IN THE FACE OF STRON DEMAND FROM ITS FANS, HALLIE >> OUR THANKS TO KATE ROGERS FOR THAT REPORTING THAT DOES IT FOR US FOR THIS HOUR I'LL FIND YOU TOMORROW OVER ON NIGHTLY NEWS FILLING I LESTER HOLT ON THIS HOLIDA WEEKDAY. MORE COVERAGE AHEAD ON NBC NEW NOW PICKING UP RIGHT NOW PICKING UP RIGHT NOW >>> COMING ON THE AIR WITH TRIPLE THREAT OF INTENSE WEATHER, THE EYEWALL OF HURRICANE BERYL SLAMMING PAST JAMAICA IN THE NEXT HOUR, EXTREME HEAT THREATENING MILLIONS ACROSS THE U.S. THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND. DANGEROUS FIRE COULD BE GETTING WORSE IN CALIFORNIA. WE ARE LIVE COAST-TO-COAST AND THE CARIBBEAN. >>> HUGE DEMOCRATIC DONOR THE LAST COUPLE MINUTES CALLING ON PRESIDENT BIDEN TO STEP OFF THE 2024 TICKET AS THE WHITE HOUSE AND CAMPAIGN SCRAMBLE TO KEEP THE DAM FROM BUSTING UP AND MORE. REPORTS ARE SENT OUT TRACKING THE LATE BREAKING DEVELOPMENTS AND WHAT COULD BE THE MOST CRITICAL WEEK POLITICALLY OF THE BIDEN PRESIDENCY. >>> ANOTHER HISTORIC ELECTION, THIS ONE IN THE UK WITH MILLIONS GETTING READY TO HIT THE POLLS TOMORROW. WHY DO CONSERVATIVE IN POWER NOW COULD LOSE IN A LANDSLIDE. WE TAKE YOU TO LONDON. >>> GREATEST GOOD FOR THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND, RECORD NUMBERS OF PEOPLE ON THE ROAD AND IN THE SKY. IN TONIGHT'S ORIGINAL, HOW MUSICIANS ARE GETTING PRICED OUT OF THE CITY THEY BUILT THANKS TO TONS OF TOURISM AND NASHVILLE BOOM. >>> I'M HALLIE, THIS IS THE LAST HOUR, LET DEAN AT THE EYEWALL OF HURRICANE BERYL, THE CENTER OF THIS MONSTER CAT 4 STORM IS SIMON PAST THE SOUTH COAST OF JAMAICA THAT PUTS THE COUNTRY ON THEM IS DANGEROUS SIDE OF THE HURRICANE. WE WANT TO SHOW THE WIND AND RAIN REALLY STARTED TO PICK UP WITH THE EXPECTATION STORM SURGE COULD BE 6 TO NINE NEXT WEEK. THE STORM HAS TURNED UGLY KILLING SEVEN PEOPLE ACROSS THE CARIBBEAN. THE JAMAICAN PRIME MINISTER DECLARING THE ISLAND A DISASTER AREA, ORDERING SOME FOLKS TO EVACUATE. THE STREETS, OUR TEAM ON THE GROUND DRIVING AROUND, THEY ARE PRETTY EMPTY, RELATIVELY. CURFEW AND PLACE THE NEXT HOUR. THE NEXT BIG QUESTION, WHETHER BERYL MAKES MENTAL IN MEXICO OR SOMEWHERE ALONG THE COAST OF SOUTHERN TEXAS. MEXICO HAS BEEN GETTING MORE THAN 100 TEMPORARY SHELTERS READY, THEY SHUT DOWN SCHOOL TOMORROW AND FRIDAY. HERE AT HOME, A DIFFERENT KIND OF DANGEROUS WEATHER IS GETTING READY TO HIT HEARTS OF THE U.S. EXTREMELY HOT TEMPERATURES, UNUSUALLY HOT TEMPS AND BLISTERING HEAT WAVES, 110 MILLION PEOPLE SET TO SIT IN HEAT WARNING OR WATCH ACROSS 21 STATES DURING THE FOURTH OF JULY HOLIDAY. 130 RECORDS WILL BE SET NEXT WEEK. THAT COULD MAKE A BAD SITUATION WORSE IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE EVACUATED BECAUSE OF THIS MASSIVE WILDFIRE IN AREA NEAR ORVILLE. SMOKE IN THE SKY, YOU CAN SEE HOW THICK IT IS. A FEW HOURS AGO, IT WAS 0% CONTAINED. LIZ KREUTZ IS THERE AND METEOROLGIST BILL KARINS HAS THE FORECAST. STARTING WITH SAM BROCK LOOKING AT JAMAICA AND DESTRUCTION OF OTHER PARTS OF THE CARIBBEAN, HOW ARE THINGS GOING WHERE YOU ARE? >> Reporter: WE KNOW IT HAS BEEN ORDERING APOCALYPSE WITH SOME OF THE OTHER ISLANDS OF THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE CARIBBEAN. WE GOT UPDATE FROM CARIBBEAN DISASTER EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY, THEY CITED UNION ISLAND, PART OF SAINT BENNETT'S ON THE GRENADINE, 98% OF THE BUILDINGS ARE BADLY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED ON THAT ONE ISLAND. SIMILAR IMAGES COMING OUT OF GRENADA AS WELL. WE CAN SEE THE POTENTIAL FOR FORCE AND DESCRIPTION BERYL IS ABLE TO LEVEL IN JAMAICA. NOT NECESSARILY EXPERIENCING ANYTHING ON THAT SCALE. THIS IS QUITE LUCKY BECAUSE WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW, A FEW MILES FROM THE COASTLINE. THIS THING WAS 50, 60 MILES TO THE SOUTH, A LITTLE BIT CLOSER AND WE WOULD HAVE ENDED UP WITH HER KEEN STRENGTH WINS. INSTEAD, WE PEAKED AT 81 MILE AN HOUR GUSTS NEAR THE JAMAICA AIRPORT. WE CAN SEE THE RAINFALL COMING DOWN, POUNDED IN THE LAST COUPLE ARE SO RAINFALL MEMBERS ARE STARTING TO ELEVATE, FIVE TO SIX INCHES IN SOME PLACES, THE BIGGER RISK FOR THAT GETTING 10 NIGHTTIME AND ALL OF THE RAIN CONTINUES. YOU HAVE HIGHER RISK FOR LANDSLIDES AND MUDSLIDES AND AS THE WATER SATURATES THE GROUND, IT BECOMES MORE DANGEROUS AND PROBABILITY AS NIGHT SETS IN. PUBLIC OFFICIALS ARE LOOKING AT THAT, TRYING TO GET AS CLOSE AS THEY CAN, OUT OF HARM'S WAY AND INTO SHELTER, THE PRIME MINISTER DECLARED THE ENTIRE ISLAND A DISASTER AREA, JUST TWEETED OUT A COUPLE HOURS AGO, 500 PEOPLE TAKEN TO SHELTERS. IT DOES NOT SOUND LIKE A HUGE NUMBER, GIVEN THE FACT JAMAICA HAS A POPULATION OF ALMOST 3 MILLION PEOPLE, BASED ON CONVERSATIONS WERE HAVING A PEOPLE ON THE GROUND WHERE THEY DID NOT WANT TO LEAVE OR GO ANYWHERE ELSE, 500 TO VICTORY UNDER THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES. >> ONE OF THE THINGS BILL KARINS MENTIONED NOT LONG AGO, THE IDEA WE SHOULD NOT BASE EXPECTATIONS OR PERCEPTIONS OF THE HURRICANE UPON WHAT YOU'RE STANDING IN FRONT OF HIM, BECAUSE OF THE GEOGRAPHY OF JAMAICA, IT IS POSSIBLE TOMORROW MORNING WE WAKE UP TO SEE POTENTIALLY PRETTY INTENSE DESTRUCTION ALONG THE SOUTH COAST. IS THAT SOMETHING YOU HAVE HEARD FROM THE FOLKS YOU'RE TALKING TO LOOKING AT THE TRACK OF BERYL? >> Reporter: THAT IS ABSOLUTELY A POSSIBILITY. I THINK TO GO FURTHER EAST OF WHERE WE ARE, THE EASTERN EDGE OF JAMAICA, DEFINITELY HEARING REPORTS OF THINGS DAMAGED, THE CHURCH HAD A GIANT CONCAVE HOLE IN IT. IT IS NOT OVER YET, VERY FAIR POINT, PRETTY VICIOUS OUTER BAND. I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH THE BUSINESS OWNER EARLIER TODAY, SOMEONE COMING OUT HERE, HAS OWNED THE FAMILY BUSINESS, A GROCERY STORE, FOR 70 YEARS. IT HAS HELPED HER LOVED ONES, INCLUDING BOTH OF HER SONS, GO TO COLLEGE IN THE UNITED STATES AND SHE WAS REALLY WORRIED IT MAY NOT BE FUNCTIONAL, THAT COULD BE BAD DAMAGE, FLOODING WHEN SHE GETS BACK TOMORROW. SHE PUT FOR ME IN PERSPECTIVE HOW IMPORTANT IT IS THAT DOES NOT HAPPEN. HERE IS A LISTEN. WHAT ARE YOUR GREATEST FEARS AS WE AWAIT THE LANDFALL OF THE STORM? >> I'M MORE AFRAID FOR MY EMPLOYEES, WE ARE LIKE FAMILY. THEY ARE FAMILY. I THINK THEY WILL SURVIVE, THEIR HOMES MAY NOT. >> Reporter: SHE MENTIONED SOME OF HER EMPLOYEES ARE LIVING IN BUILDINGS THAT ARE HAZARDOUS, NOT STRUCTURALLY SOUND. THE WIND IS NOT EXACTLY WHAT WE EXPECTED, IT COULD'VE BEEN REALLY BAD, NOT OVER YET. WE ARE GETTING ANOTHER POUNDING OF RAIN AS I TALK TO YOU RIGHT NOW. >> DEFINITELY NOT DRY, SAM BROCK, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. APPRECIATE IT, BE SAFE, YOU AND YOUR CREW. LET ME BRING LIZ KREUTZ FROM CALIFORNIA IN A VERY DIFFERENT KIND OF ELEMENT, DIFFERENT SHEET. TALK US THROUGH IT. >> Reporter: THE HEAT IS BRUTAL FOR THE FIREFIGHTERS, HEAT WARNING FOR ALL ACROSS THE STATE RIGHT NOW AND RED FLAG WARNING CONDITIONS, 4 MILLION PEOPLE IN CALIFORNIA UNDER RED FLAG WARNING, THAT MEANS CONDITIONS RIPE FOR FIRE. HIGH HEAT, LOOKING COMMITTEE, STRONG WINDS STARTING TO PICK UP. THIS IS THE TIME OF DAY WE START TO SEE IT. HERE'S WHAT A CAL FIRE SPOKESPERSON TOLD ME ABOUT THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE THEY'RE FACING AS THE CREWS TRY TO GET CONTROL OF THIS FIRE. >> ANYBODY WOULD KNOW IT IS TOUGH TO DO THINGS OUTDOORS WHEN IT IS WARM TO THINK ABOUT THE FIREFIGHTERS DOING THAT. THEY ARE DOING DIFFICULT ARDUOUS WORK WEARING LONGSLEEVED COATS, HELMETS AND REALLY HEAVY WARM CLOTHING SO IT DOES MAKE IT A CHALLENGE. >> Reporter: WE ARE TOLD EIGHT FIREFIGHTERS WERE INJURED FIGHTING THE FIRE. SOME OF THEM FROM HEAT RELATED ILLNESSES, HEAT STROKE, HEAT EXHAUSTION, THAT TYPE OF THING. YOU CAN SEE THE DESTRUCTION BEHIND ME ON THE STREET WHERE SEVERAL HOMES BURNED. YOU CAN SEE THE EXPOSED BRICK OF THE FIREPLACE, THE CARS BURNED TO A CRISP, SOME OF THE DESTRUCTION FROM THIS FIRE. TENS OF THOUSANDS IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, NEARLY 30,000 PEOPLE HAD TO EVACUATE FROM THIS AREA AHEAD OF THE JULY 4th HOLIDAY BECAUSE OF THIS FIRE. >> VERY DIFFERENT NOTE ON JULY 4th, SOME PLACES ACROSS THE STATE HAD TO CANCEL PLANS BECAUSE OF THE HEAT. >> YEAH, THEY HAVE SOME OF THE BAY AREA SPECIFICALLY, THE CITY OF ANTIOCH AND THE EAST BAY WAS A TRIPLE DIGIT TEMPERATURES, THEY CANCELED THE FOURTH OF JULY PARADE BECAUSE OF EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING. THE BAY AREA IN NAPA COUNTY, THE TOWN OF ST. HELENA, RIGHT IN THE HEART OF WINE COUNTRY, CANCELED THEIR TRADITIONAL JULY 4th FIREWORKS BECAUSE OF THE FIRE CONCERN OF IGNITING FIREWORKS DURING THE RED FLAG WARNING CONDITIONS. >> LIZ KREUTZ LIVE IN ORVILLE, THANK YOU. BILL KARINS, WE WILL BRING YOU INTO THIS, HOT, HOT IN CALIFORNIA BUT NOT JUST, VEGAS AND OTHER SPOTS WITH UNUSUALLY HOT HEAT, EVEN IN JULY. >> I WAS CURIOUS, LIZ IS WEARING THE JACKET, I WONDER WHAT THE TEMPERATURE IS. I NOTICED REALLY WARM, IT IS 105 . I DON'T KNOW HOW, I WOULD BE A PUDDLE ON THE GROUND. LET ALONE THINKING OF THE FIREFIGHTERS OUT THERE IN THE FLAMES AND THE HEAT FIGHTING THAT IN ALL OF THEIR GEAR, CAN YOU IMAGINE? NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART. 105 TODAY, ONLY GETTING HOTTER FIGHTING THE BRUTAL CONDITIONS AND FIGHTING THE FIRES AT THE SAME TIME. VEGAS INCHING UP TO 113. THE NUMBER TO KEEP TRACK OF THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS FOR VEGAS IS 117. THEY HAVE REACHED THAT A COUPLE TIMES, NEVER IN THE HISTORY EXCEEDED IT. YES, A LOT MORE PAVEMENT IN VEGAS THAN THERE EVER WAS, IT CONTINUES TO GROW. THIS WILL BE OUTSTANDING. MAC CAN EASILY THE WARMEST THREE DAYS THE RECORDED, MAYBE THE WARMEST EVER COMING UP THIS WEEKEND. LET'S TALK ABOUT IT, PALM SPRINGS, WE MENTIONED YOU GOING TO THE 120 MARK IN THE SACRAMENTO SOLID FOR THREE OR FOUR DAYS AROUND 110 AND THEY ARE NOT ALONE, INTERIOR SECTIONS OF CALIFORNIA, RIGHT ON THE COAST, BRUTALLY HOT, VERY WARM IN EL PASO, TYPICAL, EXCEPTIONAL FROM THAT DESERT SOUTHWEST ALL THE WAY THROUGH CALIFORNIA. IN VEGAS, 117 THE HOTTEST EVER SO 115, SATURDAY, 117 COULD TIE THE RECORD, SUNDAY AND MONDAY 118. THIS IS THE HOTTEST THREE DAYS ANYONE, SINCE RIBBON RECORDING WEATHER, HAS EVER EXPERIENCED IN LAS VEGAS. THAT IS BAD. WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THE HEAT NOT STOP, SINCE THE END OF MAY. >> YEAH, THAT IS THE PROBLEM. YOU HAVE DONE THE SHOW ENOUGH, IN THE WINTER WE SAY, IT IS ALWAYS COLD IN WINTER, IT ALWAYS SNOWS. WHEN IS IT UNUSUAL? SAME THING WITH THE SUMMER, ALWAYS HOT IN SUMMER, AS YOU POINTED OUT, IT IS EXTREME. THE OTHER THING UNUSUAL IS LOOKING HOW STRONG AT THE TRACK OF BERYL GOING PAST THE SOUTH COAST OF JAMAICA, WHAT IS THE EXPECTATION? >> WHEN I LOOK AT THIS, I NOTICED CATEGORY 4, A LOT OF US KNOW THE KIND OF DAMAGE CATEGORY 4 STORM CAN DO AND WE SEE THE PICTURES, SAM NOT LOCATED FAR FROM THE STORM, 80 MILES AWAY, THE CORE OF THE HURRICANE, YOU WANT TO AVOID THE 30 OR 40 MILE CIRCLE AROUND THE CENTER BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE THE DESTRUCTION TAKES PLACE. UNFORTUNATELY, WOBBLED ITS WAY ALONG THE COAST AS THE SUN STARTS TO SET. LOSING THE PICTURE OF THE SATELLITE IMAGE, THIS IS WHERE THE 140 MILE AN HOUR WINDS ARE, WHERE THE DESTRUCTION IS TAKING PLACE. THE EASTERN HALF OF THE ISLAND, POWER OUTAGES, DOWNED TREES, WIND GUST UP TO 81 IN KINGSTON. THERE WAS A STORM BUT NOT KNOCKED THE ROOF OFF TYPE STUFF THEY ARE HAVING NOW AND THE STORM SURGE AT SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE COAST OF JAMAICA. TONIGHT, THE STORM HAS PASSED THE CAYMAN ISLANDS AND WILL GO TOWARD THE YUCATAN. RESILIENT STORM, IT PEAKED AT 165, SUPPOSED TO BE DOWN TO 130 RIGHT NOW, MAYBE 125, IT STAYED AT 140. STRONGER THAN ANY FORECAST MODELS OR FORECASTERS THOUGHT IT WOULD. IT LOOKS LIKE IT COULD GO TO AREAS OF THE UCATAN SOUTH OF TELLING, MOST LIKELY AS CATEGORY 2 OR CATEGORY 1 SO THAT WILL BE MORE IMPACTFUL THAN THEY WERE THINKING. THE MILLION-DOLLAR QUESTION, ONCE IT GETS OVER THE WARM WATER AND THE GULF OF MEXICO, WHAT IS LEFT OF IT? DOES IT HAVE ENOUGH TIME AND IS THE WIND FAVORABLE ENOUGH AT THE UPPER LEVELS IT CAN SPIN ITSELF BACKUP? THAT IS THE QUESTION. IT LOOKS LIKE SOUTH TEXAS OR NORTHERN MEXICO, SOMEWHERE BETWEEN BROWNSVILLE AND CHICO. IF WE GET LANDFALL IN NORTHERN MEXICO, WE HAVE STORM SURGE ISSUES AND HEAVY RAINFALL IN SOUTH TEXAS HERE IS THE SPAGHETTI LINE, NOT REALLY NOT SOUTH TEXAS YET. THE BIGGEST QUESTION IS, WHAT INTENSITY WILL BE WHEN IT GETS THERE? THE BIG DIFFERENCE IF IT BECOMES TROPICAL STORM. >>> IN WASHINGTON FOR ANOTHER EVENING OF LATE BREAKING ELEMENTS INCLUDING ANOTHER PUBLIC CALL FOR THE PRESIDENT TO STEP ASIDE FROM A SITTING LAWMAKER AND NOW FROM TOP TO CREDIT DONOR IN THE LAST COUPLE MINUTES. PRESIDENT BIDEN HIMSELF IN A FEW MINUTES, WILL MEET WITH DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS AT THE WHITE HOUSE AND VIRTUALLY. WE ARE LEARNING IN LITERALLY THE LAST COUPLE MINUTES, VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS WILL JOIN THE DISCUSSION AS WELL. HERE IS THE DEAL, SECOND HOUSE DEMOCRAT TO SAY THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN SHOULD DROP OFF THE 2024 TICKET, INTERVIEW WITH THE NEW YORK TIMES IN THE LAST HOUR. ALSO HEARING FROM THE COFOUNDER OF NETFLIX, BIG DEMOCRATIC DONOR WHO IS ALSO CALLING THEM PRESIDENT BIDEN TO STEP ASIDE, REED HASTINGS ACCORDING TO EMAIL . THE PRESIDENT TELLING HIS STAFF, CLEAR ON THIS TODAY, HE IS NOT GOING TO DO I AM RUNNING, NO ONE IS PUSHING ME OUT, HE SET ON THIS DISCUSSION, I AM NOT LEAVING, I'M IN THE RACE UNTIL THE END, HE SAYS THAT WE WILL WIN, ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL ONLINE. THE WHITE HOUSE AND CAMPAIGN ARE PUSHING BACK ON REPORTS THAT PRESIDENT TALKING A ONE HOUR ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT TO STAY IN THE RACE. STOP TELLING THE TEAM TO TO NOTE THE INTENSE NOISE THE PRESIDENT FACES THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE POLITICALLY OF HIS TERM YET, ALL OF IT TRIGGERED BY WHAT IS WIDELY PANNED AS THE DISASTROUS DEBATE PERFORMANCE. >> THE PRESIDENT IS CLEAR EYED AND STAYING IN THE RACE. >> THERE ARE A NUMBER OF RUMORS FLOATING OUT THERE, THE PRESIDENT IS IN THE RACE TO WIN IT. >> OUTSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE, WE HAVE THIS VIEW, WE LOVE YOU, JOE CAN END YOUR CANDIDACY. FURTHER DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NO REAL HUGE PUSH FROM LAWMAKERS ON THE HILL TO CLOSE RANKS AROUND PRESIDENT BIDEN GET NOW YOU HAVE DAMAGE CONTROL IN FULL ON MODE. ALL OF THESE CALLS, THE STAFF, CAMPAIGN STAFF, MEDAL OF HONOR CEREMONY, THE LUNCH BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS TODAY, THAT IS INTERESTING CONSIDERING THE SPECULATION SURROUNDING WHETHER SHE WOULD TAKE THE TOP OF THE TICKET IS PRESIDENT BIDEN DROPS OUT. ONE OF THE COMPLICATED FACTORS, NEW POLLING SHOWING SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN SLIPPING SINCE THE DEBATE. YOU CAN SEE IT CONCERNING THE TEAM COVERAGE. STARTING WITH MONICA WITH THE LATEST FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. A COUPLE MINUTES FROM THE HIGH PROFILE, HIGH STAKES, CLOSED DOOR IMPORTANT MEETING BETWEEN DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR AND PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT, TALK IS THROUGH THE EXPECTATION. >> Reporter: THE RS.20 GOVERNORS IN TOTAL IN ATTENDANCE, ABOUT HALF, I'M TOLD, 10 OR SO, WILL BE IN PERSON. THIS CAME TOGETHER QUICKLY SO IT IS NOTABLE THOSE WHO THOUGHT, IF I GET ON THE PLANE TO BE THERE, I WANT TO BE THERE TO HEAR DIRECTLY FROM THE PRESIDENT AND MAYBE SOME OF THEM ARE THINKING I WANT TO ASSESS FOR MYSELF WHATEVER THE PRESIDENT SAYS OR VICE PRESIDENT SAYS ABOUT THEIR POTENTIAL PATH FORWARD. THEY REMAIN TOTALLY DUG IN, THEY WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT AND THAT WILL BE THE MESSAGE, I'M TOLD, WE EXPECT THEY WILL CONVEY TO THE GOVERNORS. IT IS NOTABLE BECAUSE OF THE GOVERNORS WE EXPECT TO ATTEND, PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT AS BEING THE FUTURE OF THE PARTY ESSENTIALLY, PEOPLE WHO WANT TO RUN IN 2028 OR MAYBE BEFORE THAT WOULD BE IN THE MIX OR CONVERSATION SHOULD THERE BE A MAJOR CHANGE TO THE CURRENT TOP OF THE TICKET, THE WHITE HOUSE INSISTS AND THAT CAMPAIGN INSISTS THAT WILL NOT HAPPEN. THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF, HE SAID THAT DECLARATIVELY ON THE CAMPAIGN CALL, NOTABLE TO POINT OUT THE FACT THAT HE JOINED, I HAVE TO SAY, IT REALLY MEANT TO AMPLIFY THE MESSAGE THEY WANTED TO CONVEY TODAY FROM THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF, WHICH IS, NO ONE IS PUSHING ME OUT, I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE AND HE PLEDGED TO BE THE NOMINEE IN NOVEMBER AND PLEDGED TO WIN. THE VICE PRESIDENT EFFECTIVELY SAID, JOE BIDEN HAS BEEN FIGHTING FOR YOU GUYS FOR YEARS, IT IS OUR TURN, SHE SAYS IN HER WORDS, TO FIGHT FOR HIM. >> ONE OF THE THINGS DAYS AFTER THE DEBATE, NEARLY A WEEK OUT, YOU HEARD, OTHERS HEARD FROM THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN, THE IDEA TO GIVE IT A DAY, SEE WHAT HAPPENS. PRIVATELY WITH POLLING AND DONORS, STARTING TO SEE ESPECIALLY TODAY, THE POLLING AFTER THE DEBATE SHOWING PRESIDENT BIDEN SLIPPED. YOU ARE SAYING ON THE DONOR FRONT, REED HASTINGS COMING OUT AND SAYING, AS THE NEW YORK TIMES BRANDED IT, THE PRESIDENT SHOULD STEP ASIDE. HOW LONG IS THE WHITE HOUSE, THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN GOING TO GIVE IT, WHAT DO THEY THINK THE RIGHT TIMEFRAME IS? >> Reporter: INITIAL SENSE WAS A WEEK OR TWO BEFORE WE SEE THE FULL PICTURE FROM POLLING. TO YOUR POINT, WE ARE SIX DAYS HERE, THAT IS WHY THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN SENT AN EMAIL TO THE ENTIRE STUFF THIS MORNING AT WILMINGTON, TO LET THEM KNOW, GUYS, HEADS UP, BRACE FOR DIFFICULT POLLING THAT MAY COME TODAY, SPECIFICALLY THE NEW YORK TIMES POLLING THAT YOU MENTIONED SO THEY KNEW THAT WOULD LIKELY BE COMING AS THE FIRST WAVE AND THERE COULD BE OTHER POLLS THAT SHOW THE SHIFT IN THE RACE. AT THE SAME TIME, THEY CONTINUE TO INSIST, BIDEN CAMPAIGN OFFICIALS, INTERNAL POLLING SUGGESTS THE RACE IS VERY TIGHT AND COMPETITIVE, WITHIN THE MARGIN OF ERROR. KEY BATTLEGROUNDS, TRYING TO LEAN ON THAT MESSAGE. BILLY, I CAN TELL YOU MY SOURCES HAVE INDICATED THEY ARE STILL WATCHING THE POLLING CLOSELY AND THERE IS A MASSIVE SHIFT OR CHANGE, THE PRESSURE ON THAT EXTERNALLY WILL LIKELY BE SO GREAT IT IS NOT SOMETHING THEY CAN CONTINUE TO DISMISS LIKE TO HAVE BEEN SO FAR. >> MONICA ALBA DOING INCREDIBLE WORK AT THE WHITE HOUSE, EVERY DAY, DAY AND NIGHT, YOUR TIRELESS, THANK YOU. RYAN NOBLES JOINING US. YOUR TIRELESS TOO, FRIEND. ONE OF THE THINGS WITH MONICA, THE IDEA POLLING IS CRITICAL, CRITICAL TO THE PEOPLE YOU'RE TALKING TO. I WONDER IF IT IS LESS OF A MASSIVE SHIFT, IF ANYTHING, MAY BE MORE OF A DRIFT, DRIP DRIP, 1000 CUTS, A LITTLE HERE, IT WILL DRIBBLE OUT OVER THE NEXT COUPLE WEEKS. >> Reporter: ONE THING IS CLEAR, AT SOME POINT THE NEWS HAS TO START GETTING BETTER IT SEEMS AS THOUGH WITH EACH PASSING DAY, DEMOCRATS ARE TAKING THIS INFORMATION IN, TRY TO DECIPHER WHAT THE NEXT STEP IS FORWARD, THEY NEED SOME SORT OF POSITIVE INDICATION THINGS ARE HEADED THE RIGHT DIRECTION. SOMETIMES WE AREN'T TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION ENOUGH THAT HEADING INTO THE DEBATE, BIDEN WAS REALLY BEHIND, IT WAS WITHIN THE MARGIN OF ERROR BUT MOST OF THE POLLS SHOWED HIM TRAILING NATIONALLY AND A LOT OF KEY BATTLEGROUNDS. IT IS NOT GETTING BETTER, THE POLLS ARE NOT SHOWING THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER AS A RESULT OF THIS DEBATE. EVERYBODY I'VE TALKED TO, AND HAVE A COUPLE BIG MARKERS THERE WAITING TO SEE OVER THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS, THE MEETING HAPPENING RIGHT NOW WITH DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS, THOSE GOVERNORS FEEL BETTER COMING OUT OF THE MEETING, THAT WILL HELP. YOU HAVE THIS INTERVIEW HE WILL DO WITH ABC -- >> IS NOT A PIVOT POINT, SITTING DOWN WITH GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS ON ABC, START TO SEE THAT COMING OUT THEN, I CAN'T THINK OF A MORE HIGH PROFILE INTERVIEW, AT LEAST POLITICALLY? >> Reporter: I THINK THAT IS GOING TO BE THE MAKE OR BREAK MOMENT. I HAVE ONE DEMOCRATIC ADVISER SAY TO ME, THIS IS A MAKE OR BREAK MOMENT. IF HE DOES NOT COME OUT OF THAT INTERVIEW, IT CAN'T JUST BE UNSCATHED, KEEP THE PLAYING FIELD AS IT CURRENTLY STANDS, HE NEEDS TO FAR EXCEED THE EXPECTATIONS WE CURRENTLY HAVE FOR HIM, OTHERWISE THESE PERSISTENT CONCERNS THAT EXIST AMONG RANK-AND-FILE DEMOCRATS WILL ONLY CONTINUE AND WILL INTENSIFY WHEN THEY ARE BACK IN TOWN NEXT WEEK. >> YOU WILL BE IN WISCONSIN, CRITICAL BATTLEGROUND STATE ON FRIDAY, JULY 4th IS TOMORROW. YOU HAVEN'T SEEN, HOWEVER, YOU KNOW THIS, CLOSING OF THE RANKS BEHIND PRESIDENT BIDEN. YOU HAD PEOPLE COMING OUT, FORMER PRESIDENT OBAMA, FORMER PRESIDENT CLINTON TELLING PEOPLE TO CHILL OUT. THAT DID NOT STICK SO WELL. >> Reporter: MOST OF THE PEOPLE WE ARE TALKING TO, MOST OF THEM TALKING PUBLICLY, NOT TELLING HIM TO STEP DOWN BUT NOT GIVING INTENSE LEVEL OF SUPPORT THAT WOULD INDICATE THEY FEEL COMFORTABLE WHERE THINGS CURRENTLY STAND. I THINK THAT IS VERY TELLING RIGHT NOW, THE IDEA THERE OPENING THE DOOR TO THIS IDEA, HE MIGHT NOT BE THE NOMINEE IS NOT A PLACE JOE BIDEN WANTS TO BE IN. YOU HAVE JIM CLYBURN OPENLY ADVOCATING FOR KAMALA HARRIS IF HE WERE TO STEP ASIDE. NANCY PELOSI SUGGESTING THAT HE SHOULD TAKE TIME TO >> DOES HAVE A MEDICAL CONDITION? >> Reporter: THESE ARE ALL THINGS YOU WOULD NOT EXPECT TO SEE HAPPEN WITHIN THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. I THINK IT IS SAFE TO SAY, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS THE SAME REALM AS THE ACCESS HOLLYWOOD TAPE, COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ISSUES, NOT ON THE SAME MORAL PLANE, NOT TRAINED TO SUGGEST THAT, AT THAT TIME, YET REPUBLICAN LEADERS OPENLY QUESTIONING WHETHER DONALD TRUMP SHOULD BE THE NOMINEE. WE ARE IN SIMILAR TERRITORY RIGHT NOW AND THE PRESIDENT HAS A VERY, VERY SMALL WINDOW OF TIME TO TURN THAT CONVERSATION A DIFFERENT DIRECTION OR IS THIS COULD BE A LOST SITUATION. >> Reporter: SOME SAY THE DEMOCRATS UP TO CHILL, RALLY AROUND THE PRESIDENT. YOU SPOKE TO ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE TODAY. >> Reporter: I TALKED TO MIKE QUIGLEY FROM ILLINOIS. I THINK THAT EVERYBODY FEELS -- STUART STEVENS, YES, FROM THE LINCOLN PROJECT. >> NEVER TRUMPER. >> Reporter: RIGHT, HERE'S ALMOST ANNOYED BY THE WEIGHT DEMOCRATS ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT THIS. HE EVEN SAID THAT WHEN HE WAS A REPUBLICAN, THE REASON HE WON A LOT OF RACES WITH BECAUSE DEMOCRATS DID THIS, THE KIND OF THING, BED WEDDED A LITTLE BIT AND OVERREACTED TO THE POLLS. >> THERE ARE DEMOCRATS AS HAD PUBLIC I DON'T WANT TO SAY NAMES, THIS IS NOT BEDWETTING, THAT IS TOO DISMISSIVE. THIS IS REAL CONCERN. THE MORE DISMISS, THE MORE PEOPLE ARE ANXIOUS ABOUT THE CURRENT SITUATION. >> ARE YOU WORKING TOMORROW? >> Reporter: NO, I WILL ENJOY THE DAY. >> I'M SURE YOU WILL GET SOME TEXT MESSAGES, PROBABLY FOR ME. >>> NOT JUST POLITICAL DRAMA AT HOME BUT OVERSEAS IS OUT IN THE UK BECAUSE THERE CAN YOU CLINICAL LEADERS TONIGHT MAKING CLOSING ARGUMENTS BEFORE VOTERS GO TO THE POLLS TOMORROW TO ELECT A NEW PARLIAMENT. IN THE PROCESS, A NEW PRIME MINISTER, WHO WILL BECOME THE LEADER ONE OF AMERICA'S CLOSEST ALLIES. POLLS SUGGEST IT BE A LANDSLIDE, THE CENTERLEFT LABOR PARTY EXPECTED TO WIN BIG, MAYBE THE BIGGEST MAJORITY OF AND TOSSING THE CONSERVATIVES OUT OF POWER AFTER 14 YEARS. THE LEADER OF WHICHEVER PARTY WINS IN THE LEADING THE COUNTRY, LABOR HEAD KEIR STARMER LOOKING TO BE BRITAIN'S NEXT PRIME MINISTER. RAF SANCHEZ JOINS US NOW, BRING US UP TO SPEED, FOR THOSE OF US TELLING ON A FRIEND, MYSELF, IMMERSED IN UNITED STATES POLITICAL COVERAGE, HOW DID BRITAIN GET TO WHERE IT IS AT THIS POINT WHERE LABOR IS ON THE BRINK OF THIS HUGE RISE? >> Reporter: WE ARE IN THE LAST 24 HOURS OF THIS LIGHTNING FAST, COMPARED TO THE UNITED STATES, SIX WEEKS REDDISH ELECTION, 24 HOURS FROM NOW, WILL HAVE A PRETTY GOOD SENSE WHO IS GOING TO WALK THROUGH THAT FAMOUS BLACK DOOR OF 10 DOWNING STREET AS BRITAIN'S MINISTER. AS YOU SAID, THE POLLS ARE TELLING A VERY, VERY CONVINCING STORY, IT WILL BE KEIR STARMER, THE LEADER OF THE LABOR PARTY. WHAT WE ARE FINDING IS NOT SO MUCH THERE IS OVERWHELMING SUPPORT FOR LABOR, OVERWHELMING ENTHUSIASM FOR KEIR STARMER AS MUCH AS PEOPLE HERE ARE EXHAUSTED AFTER 14 YEARS OF CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT. THE LAST EIGHT, OF WHICH, HAVE BEEN PERIOD OF UNPRECEDENTED POLITICAL CHAOS IN THIS COUNTRY. YOU WILL REMEMBER THE 2016 BREXIT REFERENDUM WHEN PEOPLE HEAR VOTED TO LEAVE THE EUROPEAN UNION. SINCE THEN, YOU HAVE HAD FOUR CONSERVATIVE PRIME MINISTERS FORCED TO RESIGN, THAT INCLUDES BORIS JOHNSON FORCED OUT OF OFFICE AFTER BREAKING HIS OWN COVID LOCKDOWN RULES ATTENDING ILLEGAL PARTIES AT DOWNING STREET. LIZ TRUSS, ONLY IN OFFICE 44 DAYS, HER POLICIES NEARLY CRASHING THE BRITISH ECONOMY. PEOPLE ARE TURNING TO STARMER WHO IS SEEN AS CAPABLE AND COMPETENT AND SAFE HANDS. >> LET'S SAY IT IS PRIME MINISTER STARMER , WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UNITED STATES ? >> Reporter: REALLY INTERESTING, STARMER IS A CENTRIST, SOME WHO SUPPORTS NATO AND WESTERN SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE, EVERY INDICATION IS IN TERMS OF PERSONALITY AND POLITICS, IN TERMS OF POLICY, HE WOULD BE VERY COMPATIBLE WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN. SIX MONTHS FROM NOW, YOU GET UP PRIME MINISTER KEIR STARMER SITTING ACROSS THE TABLE FROM SECOND TERM PRESIDENT TRUMP, WHO HAS VERY DIFFERENT VIEWS ON THAT. WE SPOKE TO LABOR'S CAMPAIGN CHIEF EARLIER AND WE ASKED HIM, DOES KEIR STARMER HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO STAND UP TO DONALD TRUMP IF HE TRIES TO TAKE THE UNITED STATES I WOULD NATO, CUT WESTERN SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE? THIS LABOR OFFICIAL TOLD US, STARMER WILL STAND UP FOR WHAT HE BELIEVES IN, HE WILL KEEP THE WEAPONS, HE WILL KEEP THE MONEY FLOWING TO UKRAINE. HE HAS ALREADY SPOKEN A NUMBER OF TIMES IN THE LAST YEAR TO JAKE SULLIVAN. IF HE DOES WIN, WE EXPECT IT ON FRIDAY, ONE OF HIS FIRST PHONE CALLS WILL BE WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN. >> SO INTERESTING, RAF SANCHEZ, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. APPRECIATE IT. >>> COMING UP? DO YOU THINK OF FOUR-DAY WORKWEEKS NICE NIGHT? WHY GREECE IS GOING THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION, FOURTH PERSON TESTED POSITIVE FOR THE BIRD T TO DO WT SOMEBODY ELSE IS DOING. >> YOU JUST SAVED ME 40 BUCKS. >> THAT IS A GOOD IDEA. >>> NATIONAL TRIP TO THE NEXT BACHELORETTE, THE LOCALS HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT IT, TONIGHT'S ORIGINAL, THE FIRST TO SPEAK RIGHT NOW IN THE COURSE OF THE HOUR, IN THE MIDDLE OF WHAT AAA DESCRIBES AS THE PEAK OF THE HOLIDAY WEEK TRAVEL RUSH. GUESS WHAT, THIS WAS A RECORD SETTER. UP 5% FROM LAST YEAR WITH 71 MILLION OF US HEADING OUT OF TOWN AT THE AIRPORTS, 500,000 MORE PEOPLE AT THE TSA SCREENING 2.5 MILLION FOLKS YESTERDAY. A LOT OF TRAVELERS MAY BE HEADED TO THE ROUGH WEATHER WE TALKED ABOUT, THE INTENSE HEAT AND STORMS. I WANT TO BRING PRIYA SRIDHAR WHO IS FOLLOWING THIS FROM THE WORLD'S BUSIEST AIRPORT, ATLANTA. TALK TO US ABOUT THE DELAYS SO FAR, ARE PEOPLE IN A GOOD MOOD OR ARE THEY -- >> Reporter: OVERALL, I THINK EVERYONE IS PRETTY HAPPY, IT IS SUMMER AND A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE TRAVELING TO SOMEPLACE FUN, PERHAPS A HOLIDAY WITH HER FAMILY, WORKING FROM HOME, TAKING THE KIDS ON SUMMER BREAK. AS FAR AS DELAYS, THINGS ARE LOOKING BETTER THAN YESTERDAY. SLIGHTLY OVER 3000 DELAYS NATIONWIDE COMPARED TO YESTERDAY , THAT WAS CLOSER TO THE 5000 NUMBER SO THINGS ARE LOOKING PRETTY GOOD. AS FAR AS WHERE THE DELAYS ARE COMING FROM, THE ORIGIN AIRPORTS ARE THE USUAL SUSPECTS, CHICAGO O'HARE, NEWARK, WHICH REPORTED, THE FAA REPORTED THERE THEY WERE HAVING A SHORTAGE OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS CONTRIBUTE TO THE DELAYS THERE. WE ANTICIPATE ALSO ATLANTA AND JFK. AS FIRST FLIGHT CANCELLATION, BUT A SIGNIFICANT ARE DUE TO HURRICANE BERYL, I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE TALKING A LOT ABOUT. THE AIRPORTS IN KINGSTON AND MONTEGO BAY ARE COMPLETELY SHUT DOWN SO THOSE FLIGHTS HAVE BEEN CANCELED. THE FAA SAYS THAT ONLY 1.4% OF ALL THE FLIGHTS IN 2024 HAVE BEEN CANCELED, WHICH IS ACTUALLY AT EIGHT 10 YEAR LOW. >> WHAT ABOUT WHERE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SHARE, WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST FOURTH OF JULY HOTSPOTS? >> Reporter: I WAS DYING TO KNOW THIS, LITTLE BIT OF SURPRISE, DOMESTICALLY, IT LOOKS LIKE THE TOP DESTINATIONS TO TRAVEL FOR JULY 4th IS SEATTLE, WASHINGTON FOLLOWED BY ORLANDO, FLORIDA, ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, HONOLULU, HAWAII, AND MIAMI, FLORIDA. INTERNATIONAL TRAVELER, VANCOUVER, CANADA WITH FOUR EUROPEAN DESTINATIONS, LONDON, ROME, DUBLIN, AND PARIS, FRANCE. A LOT OF PEOPLE, RECORD-BREAKING TRAVEL. DOMESTIC AIRFARE IS DOWN 18% SINCE LAST SUMMER SO THE AVERAGE PRICE OF THE DOMESTIC TICKET RIGHT NOW IS $263. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE PRIORITIZING TRAVEL, QUIET VACATIONING, AS WE WERE TALKING ABOUT BEFORE. DECIDING TO GO SOMEWHERE FUN AND NEW. >> PRIYA SRIDHAR , ATLANTA IS FUN AND NEW, FOR YOU AND ME, THANK YOU SO MUCH, APPRECIATE IT. >>> IN-DEPTH REPORTING ON A TOPIC WE'VE BEEN WATCHING, TONIGHT THE COST OF LIVING HITTING ONE HOTSPOT HARD, AMERICA'S MUSIC CAPITAL MORE POPULAR THAN EVER THANKS TO THE NATIONAL DESTINATION CONCERTS, THE BACHELORETTES. ALL OF THAT EXPLOSIVE GROWTH MAY BE GOOD FOR TOURISTS, LOCALS SAY THAT THEY ARE FEELING THE PINCH, SPENDING MORE AND EVERYTHING JUST TO GET BY. KATHY PARK'S REPORTS. >> Reporter: NASHVILLE BUILT ITS FOUNDATION ON MUSIC BUT THESE DAYS, IT IS BECOMING HARDER AND HARDER FOR MANY MUSICIANS TO LIVE THERE AS MUSIC CITY HAS TRANSFORMED INTO ONE OF THE NATIONS FASTEST GROWING HOMETOWNS WHERE RECORD 60.8 MILLION VISITORS LAST YEAR. ADDING NEARLY 90 PEOPLE A DATE TO THE POPULATION AND IT IS NOT JUST PEOPLE, AMAZON, ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN, AND SOON, ORACLE, WILL BE CALLING NASHVILLE HOME. >> 18 YEARS AGO, WE HAD MORE PEOPLE THAN WE HAD JOBS. NOW WE HAVE MORE JOBS THAN WE HAVE PEOPLE. >> Reporter: EXPERTS SAY PEOPLE ARE DRAWN TO TENNESSEE'S BUSINESS FROM THE ENVIRONMENT, RELOCATING FROM EXPENSIVE AND DENSE LOCATIONS. ANOTHER PERK, NO STATE INCOME TAX FOR WORKERS. >> IF IT WASN'T FOR THE CITY, WE WOULD NOT BE AS SUCCESSFUL AS WE ARE. >> Reporter: RAN FUENTE, A SINGER TURNED ENTREPRENEUR, LAUNCHED ARROW BUILD, A COMPANY THAT BUILDS MOBILE BUSINESSES. >> A LOT OF CRAFTSMANSHIP INTO EACH ONE. >> Reporter: 30% OF THE WORKFORCE IS MADE UP OF MUSICIANS. >> THE PRODUCTION TEAM WORKS FOUR WORKDAYS, ON THE WEEKEND THEY ARE PLAYING MUSIC. >> Reporter: IT IS A MODEL THAT HELPED STRIKE A BALANCE FOR EMPLOYEES LIKE DUSTIN, A SINGER WHO STRUGGLED TO KEEP UP WITH THE HIGH COST OF LIVING. >> HAS A BOT, YOU GET THE EVICTION NOTICE, IT IS HARDER TO LIVE HERE AS AN ARTIST TRAVELING SIX YEARS. >> Reporter: ACCORDING TO AT THE LATEST ANALYSIS WITH HOME PRICES, A FAMILY NEEDED TO EARN $129,000 A YEAR TO AFFORD THE MEDIAN PRICED HOME WORTH $470,000. >> HAS BECOME UNAFFORDABLE. >> Reporter: ALSO FEELING THE CRUNCH AFTER MOVING HER COWBOY HATS AND BOOTS BUSINESS FROM YORK CITY TO NASHVILLE IN 2020. CORPORATE EVENTS AND TOURISTS HAVE HELPED HER SMALL SHOP THRIVE. >> READY TO GO DOWNTOWN AND GIDDYUP AND HAVE A GREAT TIME DOWN IN GNASH-VEGAS. >> Reporter: SOME SAY THE HEARTBEAT OF NASHVILLE IN THE BROADWAY DISTRICT, SEEING MORE GROWTH WITH THE POPULARITY OF COUNTRY MUSIC. >> IT IS GOOD TO SEE THE REDEVELOPMENT A LITTLE HECTIC. >> Reporter: THE CITY SOARING TO NEW HEIGHTS BUT ON THE WAY UP, FEELING THE GROWING PAINS. >> A FEW OF MY FAVORITE SPOTS HAVE HAD TO DISAPPEAR BECAUSE OF THE GROWTH. I KIND OF MISSED THE CHARM. >> Reporter: YOU THINK CITY PLANNERS UNDERESTIMATED NASHVILLE'S GROWTH? >> IT WOULD BE A RARE PERSON THAT WOULD TELL YOU THE EXPECTED THE GROWTH TO BE LIKE THIS. >> KATHY PARK IS JOINING US NOW. I'VE BEEN TO BROADWAY, NASHVILLE IS A FUN SPOT, SUPER POPULAR, NOT JUST, ALL YEAR- ROUND, ESPECIALLY FOURTH OF JULY, BIG MUSIC CELEBRATION, TALK TO US ABOUT THAT. >> Reporter: NASHVILLE HOSTS ONE OF THE LARGEST JULY 4th FIREWORKS SHOWS IN THE COUNTRY, THIS YEAR HEAVEN BY COUNTRY MUSIC STAR CHRIS YOUNG. EVERY YEAR, THEY SEE OVER 200,000 SPECTATORS. LOOKING AT THE NUMBERS LAST YEAR THE EVENT GENERATED $11.6 MILLION IN VISITOR SPENDING ALONE. ORGANIZERS ARE ANTICIPATING ANOTHER BIG TURNOUT TOMORROW. OF COURSE, WEATHER IS A WILDCARD WITH OUTDOOR EVENTS. A LOT OF FOLKS ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. >> KATHY PARK, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >>> LET'S GET TO TO THE FIVE THINGS OUR TEAM THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT NUMBER ONE, DELTA APOLOGIZING TODAY AFTER A FLIGHT WAS DIVERTED BECAUSE PASSENGERS WERE SERVED FOOD THAT HAD GONE BAD. THE PLANE WAS GOING FROM DETROIT TO AMSTERDAM AND LANDED UNEXPECTEDLY IN JFK, NEW YORK. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT SAYS THAT FIRST RESPONDERS TREATED A DOZEN PASSENGERS, IT IS NOT CLEAR HOW MANY PEOPLE INTO THE EATING THE SPOILED FOOD. >>> A FOURTH PERSON TESTED POSITIVE FOR THE BIRD FLU. THE CDC SAYS THE PERSON WORKED AT A DAIRY FARM IN COLORADO WHERE THE COWS HAD ALSO TESTED POSITIVE. THE PATIENT HAD EYE SYMPTOMS BUT RECOVERED AFTER TAKING MEDS. >>> RECALLING NEARLY 1 MILLION POWER ADAPTERS BECAUSE OF SHOCK ISSUE. THE FIRST GENERATION SOUND MACHINE, IT IS LIKE AMAZON, TARGET, BUY BUY BABY. A DOZEN REPORTS PLASTIC COVERING AROUND THE ADAPTER COMING OFF. UNPLUG IT IF YOU'VE GOT IT, THE COMPANY SAYS HE WILL GET A REPLACEMENT. >>> NUMBER FOUR, BOB'S STORES IS SHUTTING DOWN FROM THE DISCOUNT CLOTHING COMPANY, THEY RECENTLY FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY. WATCH FOR THE LIQUIDATION SALES SOON. THEY HAVE BEEN IN BUSINESS 70 YEARS. >>> NUMBER FIVE, LeBRON JAMES AGREEING TO TWO YEAR, WAIT FOR IT, $104 MILLION MAXIMUM CONTRACT WITH THE L.A. LAKERS. HE ALSO WANTS TO KNOW TRADE CLAUSE, WHY? 22nd NBA SEASON, THINK ABOUT IT, HIS SON WAS DISTRACTED BY THE LAKERS, HE WANTS TO PLAY WITH HIS SON, THE FIRST FATHER SON DUO IN NBA HISTORY TO TAKE THE SAME COURT TO >>> LATER IN THE SHOW, TOM HANKS AND HIS CRINGEY SONG TAKING ON A NEW MEANING, OUTRIGHT CO-OPTED WHITE BOY SUMMER AND WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT IT. >>> NEW JOB AHEAD OF THE OLYMPICS IN >> MY HOUSE IS NO LONGER HERE BUT WE ARE HERE. >> NOW IS RAW. NOW IS REAL. >>> LET'S BREAK DOWN WHAT WE KNOW. >>> NEWS FOR THE GENERATION OF NOW IS NBC NEWS NOW. >>> FIRST RESPONDERS NOT RESPONDING, WE BREAK DOWN THE 911 BREAK DOWN. FIRST, TONIGHT, RECORDING BY THE SON OF A HOLLYWOOD STAR TURNED INTO A GLOBAL CALL TO ACTION FOR FAR RIGHT EXTREMIST GROUPS, ACCORDING TO A NEW REPORT OUT TODAY. TALKING ABOUT CHET HANKS, THE SON OF TOM HANKS, THE SONG IS WHITE BOY SUMMER, CAME OUT A COUPLE YEARS AGO, 2021, AT THE TIME CRINGEY AND SOME PROFANITY AND SLURS, SINCE THEN, THAT PHRASE, WHITE BOY SUMMER, TURNED INTO A SLOGAN FOR WHITE SUPREMACIST AND OTHER HATE GROUPS, OPENING THE GLOBAL TRAGIC AGAINST HATE AND EXTREMISM. CHET HANKS POSTING THIS ON INCIDENT, THE WHITE BOY SUMMER, HE SAYS, WAS TRADED TO BE FUN AND PLAYFUL, ANYTHING ELSE IT WAS TWISTED INTO TO SUPPORT HATE OR BIGOTRY AGAINST ANY GROUP OF PEOPLE IS DEPLORABLE AND I CONDEMN IT. REHEMA ELLIS IS JOINING US NOW. HOW WOULD THIS HAPPEN, HOW DID WHITE BOY SUMMER AND UP CO OPTED BY WHITE SUPREMACIST AND OTHERS? >> Reporter: IT IS CATCHY FOR WHITE SUPREMACIST, JUST LIKE THE TERM, WHITE LIVES MATTER. AS YOU POINT OUT, THIS GROUP, THE GROUP CALLED, THE GLOBAL PROJECT AGAINST HATE AND EXTREMISM, FORMED BY MEMBERS OF SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER, THEY ARE ABOUT TRACKING WHAT IS GOING ON IN THIS COUNTRY, AS FAR AS HATE AND ANTI-SEMITISM IS CONCERNED. THEY NOTICED THOUSANDS OF POSTS USING THE SLOGAN THAT APPEARED ON SOMETHING CALLED, THE TELEGRAPH APP THIS YEAR, ASSOCIATED WITH WHITE SUPREMACY. CHET HANKS, HEAP -- HE PUT OUT THAT POST TODAY, THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT HE CONDEMNS. IN FACT, HE POINTS OUT THE FACT, THE END OF HIS MUSIC VIDEO, HE IS A SHIRT, I THINK WE HAVE A PICTURE OF HIM WEARING THE SHIRT, ON THE BACK OF THE SHIRT IT SAYS, STOP HATE, T-SHIRT. HE IS TRYING TO SAY CLEARLY THERE, HE IS NOT IN FAVOR OF WHAT WHITE SUPREMACIST ARE DOING WITH THE SLOGAN. >> IT IS NOT THE FIRST TIME SOMETHING NEVER INTENDED TO BE A FLAG FOR EXTREMES WAS CO OPTED, EXPLOITED AN IMAGE OR WHATEVER THAT WAS NOT INTENDED. >> Reporter: IT IS TRUE. THERE IS A PHRASE CALLED PEPE THE FROG, CARTOON CHARACTER WHITE SUPREMACIST LATCHED ONTO. THE CREATOR TOOK IT DOWN AND KILLED, IF YOU WILL, THE CHARACTER. THAT DID NOT STOP PEOPLE FROM CONTINUING TO USE IT. THERE IS ALSO HELP THE CROSS, THAT IS BEEN USED BY WHITE SUPREMACISTS. AT SOME MEASURE, THERE IS VERY LITTLE PEOPLE CAN DO TO STOP THIS, AS MUCH AS THEY TRY, IT SEEMS TO BE SPREADING. WHAT IS MORE DISTURBING TO SOME PEOPLE, IT IS MOVING INTO CONSERVATIVE EVENTS, EVEN LIKE THE BANNER YOU SHOWED WHERE SOMEONE WAS RAISING A FLAG THAT SAID, WHITE BOY SUMMER. THAT FLAG WAS PRESENTED AT A CONSERVATIVE RALLY IN DETROIT LAST MONTH. DONALD TRUMP WAS THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT THAT EVENT ALONG WITH SEVERAL MEMBERS OF, CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS INCLUDING J.D. VANCE AND MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE. >> REHEMA ELLIS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >>> NBC NEWS COVERS HUNDREDS OF INTERNATIONAL STORIES EVERY DAY. BECAUSE IT CAN BE TOUGH TO READ OR WATCH OR LISTEN TO THE MALL, OUR TEAMS AROUND THE WORLD HAVE DONE IT FOR YOU. HERE IS WHAT THEY'RE WATCHING IN SEGMENT WE CALL THE GLOBAL. IN SIERRA LEONE, BAN -- BILL BANNING CHILD MARRIAGE SIGNED INTO LAW, CRIMINALIZES MARRYING A GIRL UNDER 18 YEARS OLD. OFFENDERS FACE UP TO 15 YEARS IN PRISON, A FINE OF $4000 OR BOTH. WITNESSES TO CHILD MARRIAGE WILL FACE PRISON TIME OR FINDS. A THIRD OF GIRLS THERE MARRIED BEFORE ADULTHOOD. OUT OF GRACE, NEW LEGISLATION SPREADING CONTROVERSY TO MAKE PEOPLE WORK MORE. SIX DAY WORK WEEKS, IT AFFECTS EMPLOYEES AND BUSINESSES THAT PROVIDE ROUND-THE-CLOCK SERVICES. THE REPORTEDLY HAVE THE OPTION WORKING TWO MORE HOURS PER DAY OR EXTRA EIGHT HOURS SHIFT TO THE REGULATION THAT GLOBAL TREND OF COMPANIES EXPLORING SHORTER WORK WEEK. >>> THE OLDEST MEMBER OF K-POP SUPERGROUP BTS IS SET TO BE OLYMPIC TORCH BEAR AT THE GAMES. HE IS 31 AND WILL REPRESENT SOUTH KOREA WITH THE RELAY. IN A STATEMENT, HE HOPES TO SPREAD A MESSAGE OF HARMONY. MANDATORY MILITARY SERVICE LAST MONTH. >>> TONIGHT, NEW SCRUTINY ON A SERVICE THAT COULD BE LIFESAVING, THE WIRELESS NETWORKS THAT CONNECT OUR EMERGENCY CALLS WHEN WE ARE IN TROUBLE. NETWORKS SPOTLIGHTED RECENT OUTAGES FROM THE BIG ONE FROM AT&T IN FEBRUARY THAT LASTED HALF A DAY, THIS IS BECOMING A GROWING CONCERN FOR 911 CALL CENTERS. THEY SAY THAT ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY AND TONIGHT'S BREAK DOWN, BRIAN CHEUNG TAKES A CLOSER LOOK. >> Reporter: IN AN EMERGENCY, KNOW TO CALL 911 BUT WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU CAN'T? THAT NIGHTMARE SCENARIO RECENTLY PLAYING OUT SEVERAL TIMES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. >> NATIONWIDE CELL PHONE OUTAGE. >> WHAT IF I CAN'T CALL 911, WHAT DO I DO NOW? THAT IS WHAT CAUSES MANY SLEEPLESS NIGHTS. >> Reporter: LAST MONTH, 911 EMERGENCY SYSTEMS WERE DOWN ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS FOR HOURS. IN APRIL, INSTALLATION OF A LIGHT POLE CUT OUT SERVICE LEADING TO ISSUES CALLING 911 IN THREE STATES. THE MOST NOTABLE THIS YEAR, NATIONWIDE OUTAGE IN FEBRUARY CUTTING AT&T SERVICE FOR THOUSANDS OF CUSTOMERS FOR HALF A DAY. AT&T APOLOGIZED TO CUSTOMERS AND SAYS THAT IT WAS IMPLEMENTING CHANGES TO PREVENT A REPEAT. >> ESSEN IS A CALL COMES IN, WHICH IS ON THIS MAP. >> Reporter: DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY SERVICES IN CHARLES COUNTY, MARYLAND, WHILE NOT IMPACTED BY THOSE MAJOR EVENTS THIS YEAR, HE NOTICED PROBLEMS BECOMING MORE FREQUENT. >> BECAUSE WE TRANSITION FROM OLD TECHNOLOGY, THE OLD COPPER PHONE LINE SYSTEMS, TO THIS NEW IP NETWORK WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN, WITH SMART DEVICES. >> Reporter: WHERE ARE THE PROBLEMS COMING FROM? >> IT COULDN'T BE HUMAN ERIC, CYBER ATTACK, MECHANICAL FAILURE. >> Reporter: EITHER WAY, OUTAGES ACROSS THE BOARD INCREASING IN FREQUENCY IN YOUR VIEW? >> YES. >> Reporter: I-35 TAKING A LOOK AS WELL. IN ADDITION TO FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION INVESTIGATION, THEY WOULD HELP AS WELL. THE FCC SAID VERIZON WIRELESS WOULD PAY OVER $1 MILLION FOR 911 OUTAGE IN 2022 THAT PREVENTED HUNDREDS OF CALLS FROM COMPLETING PUTTING PRESSURE ON THE COMPANIES TO IMPROVE. >> ON THE PART OF THE CARRIERS TO ENSURE GREATER NETWORK RELIABILITY. >> Reporter: HE SAYS THAT FAMILIES NEED TO PLAN FOR EMERGENCY SITUATIONS WHERE YOU CAN'T REACH 911. AMONG THE RECOMMENDATIONS, A LANDLINE, WI-FI, USING A PHONE WITH ANOTHER CARRIER OR THE SOS FEATURE ON SELECTIONS OF AVAILABLE WHICH BASICALLY USES ROAMING OR SATELLITES IN EMERGENCY. >> WORST-CASE SCENARIO IS KNOW WHERE THE CLOSEST FIRE STATION OR POLICE STATION IS AT. >> Reporter: WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T IS CALLED MINE WANT TO TEST IF IT WORKS, THAT COULD CLOG UP RESOURCES. JUST BY DIALING 911 HAS BECOME AN INSTANT, SO SHOULD PLANNING FOR THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO WHEN YOU CAN'T. TYPICALLY WITH A HURRICANE, YOU HAVE 72 HOURS OF NOTICE COMING. 911 INTERRUPTION OR CARRIER DISRUPTION, THERE IS NO NOTICE. >> IT IS SO INTERESTING, TALK TO US ABOUT WHETHER THERE IS COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT, THE CARRIERS, THE CALL CENTERS, WHERE DOES THAT STAND? >> Reporter: TONY, HAVE YOU HEARD FROM CHARLES COUNTY AND HE SAYS THAT HIS COUNTY, IN ADDITION TO OTHER EMERGENCY CALL CENTERS AND OTHER COUNTIES IN METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON REGION GET TOGETHER ON A REGULAR ASUS WITH THE CARRIERS THEMSELVES AND OTHER OFFICIALS IN THE GOVERNMENT TO TALK ABOUT THESE TYPES OF ISSUES. GENERAL HYGIENE, MAKING SURE THEY PREVENT THESE TYPES OF OUTAGES FROM HAPPENING IN THE FUTURE. AT&T TELLS NBC NEWS, THE FEBRUARY 22nd INCIDENT, TRY TO PRIORITIZE GETTING UP FIRST MET, COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL 1st RESPONDERS USE TO TALK TO EACH OTHER. THERE'S MUCH NEEDED QUESTIONS ABOUT OVERALL INFRASTRUCTURE SO MAYBE CONGRESS CAN ADDRESS WITH DOLLARS SPECIFICALLY INTO NEXT GEN 911, EFFORT TO TURN THE 911 SYSTEM INTO SOMETHING MORE MODERNIZED WHERE YOU COULD TEXT IT WHICH WOULD BE IMPORTANT FOR ACCESSIBILITY FOR THOSE THAT MIGHT HAVE DISABILITIES. THIS IS ALL TEAM EFFORT HERE. >> BRIAN CHEUNG, THANK YOU. >>> STILL THE COME, THE MUSHROOM CANDY PEOPLE SAID WAS MAKING THEM SICK >>> KRISTEN WELKER HOSTS MEET THE PRESS EVERY SUNDAY ON NBC. >>> WHIRLING TODAY THE FAA AND THE FEELING OF DEATH THAT MIGHT BE LINKED TO THE RECALLED MUSHROOM CHOCOLATES WE TOLD YOU ABOUT. PEOPLE WERE GETTING REALLY SICK AFTER EATING THE CANDY FROM THE BRAND DIAMOND SHRUUMZ-BRAND , SOME PEOPLE , THROWING UP, HAVING SEIZURES, BLOCKING OUT. 48 PEOPLE HAD SEVERE SYMPTOMS AFTER EATING THE CANDY, 27 ENDED UP IN HOSPITAL. THE MANUFACTURER DID NOT IMMEDIATELY RESPOND TO REQUESTS FOR COMMENT. THE FDA IS INVESTIGATING A DEATH. HOW DID THIS GO SO WRONG, APPARENTLY? >> Reporter: I KNOW, THE FDA AND CDC ARE BOTH INVESTIGATING AND SENDING OUT A LOT OF HEALTH ALERTS ABOUT THESE PRODUCTS. THE COMPANY, THE MANUFACTURER HAS SAID THE COMPOUND IN THE PRODUCT MAKING PEOPLE SICK IS THIS THING CALLED -- NOT FAMILIAR TO MOST PEOPLE, DERIVED FROM A CERTAIN FAMILY OR GENUS OF MUSHROOM AND CAN BE VERY TOXIC AND EVEN FATAL AT HIGH, HIGH DOSES. IT CAN CAUSE CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR, MOOD, PERCEPTION, COGNITION. IT IS SCARY BUT ONE OF THOSE THINGS THIS INDUSTRY IS NOT NECESSARILY REGULATED SO WHETHER OR NOT THIS WAS INTENTIONAL OR ADULTERATED, I THINK THE FAA WILL LET US KNOW. >> MUSHROOMS ARE ONE OF THOSE THINGS YOU SEE ON THE ALGORITHM OR WHATEVER, COFFEE, ET CETERA, WHAT ABOUT OTHER PRODUCTS OUT THERE THAT ARE NOT THIS, SHOULD PEOPLE BE CONCERNED ABOUT THAT OR NOT YET? >> Reporter: THAT IS THE THING, ONE OF THOSE THINGS WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE DON'T KNOW. RECENT ARTICLE IN THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MEDICINE, EXPERTS CALLING FOR STATE AND FEDERAL REGULARS TO TAKE A CLEAR STAND, WHETHER OR NOT IT IS LEGAL TO SELL OR MANUFACTURE ANYTHING WITH THIS COMPOUND IN IT AND IF IT IS DEEMED LEGAL, THERE NEEDS TO BE THINGS LIKE MAXIMUM DOSE AND CHILDPROOF PACKAGING AND THINGS LIKE THAT. I ALWAYS SAY TO OUR VIEWERS AND PATIENTS ALIKE, THOUGH WILD WILD WEST, BUYER BEWARE IN TERMS OF THESE KIND OF PRODUCTS, WHAT YOU SEE ON THE LABEL IS NOT NECESSARILY IN THESE THINGS. THIS IS A LESSON LEARNED THE HARD WAY FOR THE DOZENS OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE BECOME ILL AND THE FDA WILL BE INVESTIGATING TO SEE IF IT IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE PRODUCT. >> DR. NATALIE AZAR, THANK YOU. >>> STILL AHEAD, IS PLANT-BASED MEAT PHASING OUT? WHY YOU MAY NOT SEE IT AT YOUR FOURTH OF JULY BARBECUE TOMORROW >>> IT IS A KICKOFF TO THE FAMOUS NATHAN HOT DOG EATING CONTEST TODAY STARTING WITH THE WAY IN AHEAD OF THE EVENT TOMORROW. YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE CONTENDERS, THE SKIES MISSING, THIS MAN IS SYNONYMOUS WITH THE TRADITION, JOEY CHESTNUT, 16 HOT DOG EATING TITLES UNDER HIS BELT CANNOT COMPETE THIS YEAR BECAUSE HE TIED ENDORSEMENT DEAL WITH A COMPETITOR, PLANT- BASED COMPANY. EVEN WITH HIGH PROFILE COMPANIES, VEGAN MEAT SEEMS TO BE STRUGGLING LATELY. THINK ABOUT IT, ARE YOU HAVING ANY ON YOUR FOURTH OF JULY BARBECUE? CRUNCHED THE NUMBERS AND WE HAVE MORE. >> Reporter: CAMPAIGN EATER JOEY CHESTNUT MADE HEADLINES A SUMMER FOR SIGNING ON AS AMBASSADOR FOR ALTERED MEAT COMPANY AND POSSIBLE FOODS TAKING OUT OF POSSIBLE CONTENDER FOR THE NATHAN'S HOT DOG EATING COME PETITIONS THAT HE WON IN THE PAST MORE THAN A DOZEN TIMES. IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN IF CUSTOMERS GET IN ON THE PLANT- BASED ACTION THIS SUMMER. THE PANDEMIC PROVIDED A BIG BOOST TO THE PLANT-BASED SECTOR BUT NOT ONE THAT IS SUSTAINABLE DUE TO VARYING CHALLENGES FOR THE INDUSTRY. THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE, NONPROFIT THINK TANK TRACKING THE INDUSTRY OUTLINES TASTE, TEXTURE, PRICING AS THREE KEY HURDLES TO OVERCOME WITH THE LATEST REPORTS OF 2023 TREND. OVERALL, PLANT-BASED MEAT AND SEAFOOD SALES WERE DOWN 13% OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS AND UNITS SOLD DROPPED 26% TO 215 MILLION, THE INSTITUTE REPORTS. AND MEET LOOKING TO SOLVE ANOTHER ISSUE, HEALTH PERCEPTIONS THE SECTOR IS FACE LAUNCHING THE NEW HEALTHIER BURGER IN RETAIL STORES THIS SPRING THAT FEATURES WE ARE INGREDIENTS, 20% LESS SODIUM, 60% LESS SATURATED FAT. THE COMPANY SAYS IT IS ALSO MADE WITH AVOCADO OIL. THE CATCH IS, IT REMAINS A HIGHER PRICE. YET EVEN BROWN SAID IN MAY AFTER IT WAS LAUNCHED, THE COMPANY IS CONFIDENT THE HEALTH MESSAGE IT HAD HELP BOOST SALES. THE COMPANY STOCK DOWN 20% PLUS YEAR TO DATE. >> WE BELIEVE THERE SUCH VALUE, NOT AN ISSUE FOR CONSUMERS, PROBABLY THE LAST INTO THE CATEGORY TO DO PRICING, YET WE HAVE THE MOST PREMIUM PRODUCT SO WE FEEL VERY GOOD ABOUT IT. >> BEYOND BARBECUE, PLANT-BASED MEAT COMPANIES FACE CHALLENGES IN RESTAURANT, LACKLUSTER DEMANDS THAT MAJOR FAST FOOD COMPANY LIKE McDONALD'S IN THE U.S., WHILE SEEING SUCCESS OVERSEAS. PANDA EXPRESS AND BEYOND MEAT ANNOUNCED TODAY RETURN OF BEYOND ORANGE CHICKEN TO THE MENU IN THE FACE OF STRONG DEMAND FROM ITS FANS. >> THANKS TO KAT

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Published: Thu Jul 04 2024