I'M FRANCES >> WE WILL SEE RIGHT BACK HERE TOMORROW >>> GOOD MORNING >> THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE THIS MORNING. RIGHT NOW ON 'MORNING NEWS NOW' HAZARDOUS HAZE. MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE WAKING UP TO CLOUDY SKIES AGAIN. THE SMOKE FROM WILDFIRES IN CANADA EXTENDING INTO THE U.S. EXTENDING ACROSS SEVERAL STATES. >>> IT IS CRAZY. IT IS AFFECTING US. THAT YOU SMELL IT. >> THIS MORNING AS FIREFIGHTERS IN CANADA CLOSE IN ON THE FLAMES, WE TAKE A LOOK AT WHERE WE CAN EXPECT A BREAK FROM THIS. WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE JUST AHEAD. >>> NOTIFIED NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN ONE OF THE INVESTIGATIONS INTO FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. THIS MORNING THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS FACING A POSSIBLE INDICTMENT. SOURCES SAY FEDERAL PROSECUTORS HAVE TOLD TRUMPS'S LAYWERS THAT HE IS THE TARGET OF A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION. WE WILL BRING YOU THE LATEST INFORMATION WE HAVE. AND WHAT IT COULD MEAN FOR HIS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. >>> PAIRS FOR THE POPE. POPE FRANCIS IS RECOVERING IN THE HOSPITAL AFTER UNDERGOING INTESTINAL SURGERY YESTERDAY. WE TAKE YOU TO ROME FOR AN UPDATE ON HIS CONDITION. >>> MAKING WAVES TO AN AVID FISHERMAN IS DOING HIS PART FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. JOE TAKES US TO OHIO FOR A FIRSTHAND LOOK AT HOW HE AND SOME OF HIS FRIENDS ARE WORKING TO CLEAN UP ONE OF OHIO'S ICONIC RIVERS. >> I DID NOT ADD TO THE TROUBLE BY FALLING IN. IT WAS ALL GOOD. >>> WE BEGIN WITH THE HAZY AND DANGEROUS AIR THAT IS ENVELOPING HUGE PARTS OF THE COUNTRY AND THE IMPACT IT IS HAVING. >> 100 MILLION PEOPLE ARE AT RISK BECAUSE OF POOR AIR QUALITY FROM THE WILD FIRE SMOKE . THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE OUTSIDE IN NEW YORK THIS MORNING. YOU CAN SEE THE WHOLE CITY ENVELOPED BY A HAZE. LOOK AT THIS TIME LAPSE VIDEO. STARTING AT 11:00 YESTERDAY MORNING, YOU CAN SEE THE MANHATTAN SKYLINE DISAPPEAR BEHIND AND ORANGE FOG. DURING THAT TIME, NEW YORK RECORDED THE WORST AIR QUALITY IN THE WORLD, AMONG MAJOR CITIES. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? AN AIR QUALITY INDEX HIGHER THAN 150 IS CONSIDERED UNHEALTHY. HIGHER THAN 300 IS HAZARDOUS. FROM NEW YORK CITY YESTERDAY, IT HIT 342. IN SOME PARTS OF THE COUNTRY WERE EVEN HIGHER THAN THAT. SMOKE AND CLOUDY SKIES ARE NOT ONLY HAVING AN IMPACT ON OUR HEALTH, IT ALSO CAUSE THE FAA TO ISSUE GROUND STOP YESTERDAY EARLY PAUSING ALL FLIGHTS INTO LaGUARDIA AND SLOWING THE TRAVEL INTO NEWARK AND PHILADELPHIA AND THIS MORNING, THAT SMOKE IS STICKING AROUND. WE HAVE FULL COVERAGE AHEAD AND WE WILL TALK WITH OUR CLIMATE REPORTER AND OUR METEOROLOGIST, ANGIE LASSMAN WILL TELL US WHEN WE CAN EXPECT A BREAK. LET'S BEGIN WITH OUR ABC CORRESPONDENT AT PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. THE AIR-QUALITY COST THOUSANDS OF CANCELLATIONS AND WE HAD MORE THAN 20,000 DELAYS YESTERDAY INCLUDING WHERE YOU ARE IN PHILADELPHIA. WALK US THROUGH THAT >> Reporter: I DON'T THINK ANYONE OR ANYTHING CAN REPLACE THE IMAGES OF THE ORANGE SKY IN NEW YORK YESTERDAY. IN PHILADELPHIA THE AIR IS STILL HAZARDOUS WHEN YOU WALK INTO THE AIRPORT YOU CAN SEE PEOPLE WEARING MASKS BECAUSE THEY ARE TAKING SAFETY PRECAUTIONS. NOT MANY DELAYS AT PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL THIS MORNING. THAT IS GOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE TRYING TO TRAVEL. MANY FLIGHTS WERE DELAYED, OR CANCEL. PHILADELPHIA SAID FLIGHTS COULD RESUME BUT AIRLINES AND AIRPORTS ARE MONITORING CONDITIONS BECAUSE THE SMOKE IS VERY DENSE. THIS IS ALIVE PICTURE OUTSIDE PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL THIS MORNING. IT DOES NOT LOOK NEARLY AS BAD AS IT DID YESTERDAY BUT THAT HAZE IS THERE AND THERE IS SMALL IS SMOG AND YOU CAN FEEL IT IN YOUR EYES AND YOUR LUNGS AND HEALTH OFFICIALS ARE URGING PEOPLE TO STAY INDOORS OR WEAR A MASK IF YOU'RE OUT. THE AIR IS NOT JUST HAZARDOUS FOR THOSE WITH HEALTH CONDITIONS, IT IS HAZARDOUS FOR ALL. THIS MORNING AT PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL, FLIGHTS ARE ON TIME BUT PEOPLE ARE BEING URGED TO GET HERE EARLY AND CHECK WITH THEIR AIRLINES TO MAKE SURE SOME OF THE DELAYS TO CONTINUE TODAY. >> FLYING IS SCARY FOR SOME FOLKS. IS THERE ANYTHING AIRPORTS ARE DOING WHAT CAN DO TO TRY TO MITIGATE SOME OF THESE TRAVEL ISSUES >> Reporter: THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO IS IF YOU HAVE YOUR AIRLINE APP TO SEE IF THERE ARE DELAYS THAT WILL CREEP UP. THE AIRLINES ARE DOING THEIR BEST TO MANAGE IT. THEY HAVE ADEQUATE STAFFING AND CREWS AND TSA TO GET PEOPLE IN AND OUT OF AIRPORTS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. UNFORTUNATELY, WITH CONDITIONS LIKE THIS, THERE IS NOT A WHOLE LOT YOU CAN DO. LOOKING AT THE MISERY MAP THROUGH AWARE, JFK SEEMS TO HAVE THE MOST CONGESTION IN THEIR AIRSPACE BUT IT IS EARLY IN THE DAY AND WE MAY SEE THAT MAP TURN MORE RED, ESPECIALLY IF THE SMOG DOES NOT LIFT THROUGHOUT THE DAY. >> FOR FOLKS TRAVELING TODAY, WHAT SHOULD THEY EXPECT? OTHER ANY TIPS FOR WHAT THEY SHOULD DO? >> LIKE ANYTHING ELSE, GET HERE ON TIME AND DON'T LEAVE ANYTHING TO CHANCE. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO CATCH A FLIGHT. YOU COULD BRING A BAG OF THE CARRY-ON. IF YOU HAVE PRE-CHECKED, GO THROUGH THAT TO TRY TO MITIGATE AS MUCH OF THE TIME CONSTRAINTS YOU MAY HAVE GETTING ON A FLIGHT , ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE A CONNECTING FLIGHT AND IF YOU'RE FLYING IN AND AROUND THE NORTHEAST TODAY, KEEP HIS PHONES HANDY AND WATCH THE AIR QUALITY CONDITIONS AND ANY OTHER DELAYS THAT MAY RAMP UP. THE EXPECTATION IS SOME OF THE FOG AND SMOKE SHOULD LIFT THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND HOPEFULLY CONDITION START TO IMPROVE BECAUSE IT IS NASTY. NO OTHER WAY TO PUT IT.>> THANK YOU SO MUCH. IF YOU'RE FLYING TODAY OR YOU WANT TO GO OUTSIDE AND WALK, THE QUESTION IS HOW MUCH LONGER WILL THIS LAST? >> LET'S CHECK IN WITH ANGIE LASSMAN. GOOD MORNING. >>> THE SHORT ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION IS BY THE WEEKEND, WE WILL SEE MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS. WE HAVE A COUPLE DAYS WERE IT WILL BE HAZY AND DANGEROUS AS FAR AS AIR-QUALITY. BUT WE WILL SEE IMPROVEMENTS IN TIME FOR NEXT WEEK. AS WE TALK ABOUT ALL THE RECORDS WE BROKE YESTERDAY WE WERE SEEING RECORD LOW AIR QUALITY YESTERDAY IN NEW YORK. SINCE RECORD STARTED BEING TAKEN. WE CAME UP ON TOP OF THE WORST AIR QUALITY ACROSS THE WORLD. DETROIT ALSO MAKING IT ONTO THE TOP FIVE AT THE FIFTH WORST. DO WE SEE IMPROVEMENTS TODAY? NOT IN THOSE AREAS SPECIFICALLY BUT AS WE WAIT THROUGH THE NEXT FEW DAYS WE WILL SEE BETTER CONDITIONS. 100 MILLION PEOPLE IMPACTED FROM THE SELF HEALTHY AIR. THIS IS SPECIFICALLY FROM THE WILDFIRE. WE HAVE 120 MILLION PEOPLE IMPACTED BY POOR AIR QUALITY. SPECIFICALLY WHEN IT COMES TO THE WILDFIRE SITUATION, WE ARE DEALING WITH IT COMING IN AND MOVING APART. IT WILL BE WORSE FOR PHILADELPHIA TODAY. WASHINGTON, D.C. COULD SEE THAT AIR-QUALITY. WHEN WE ARE TALKING HAZARDOUS THAT MEANS DANGEROUS FOR EVERYBODY. NO MATTER HOW MUCH TIME YOU SPEND OUTDOORS. TAKE PRECAUTIONS OR STAY INDOORS. HERE ARE SOME OF THE LATEST AIR- QUALITY NUMBERS. ALLENTOWN COMING IN AT 312. PHILADELPHIA, 298. EARLIER TODAY THAT NUMBER WAS IN THE 300s AND INTO THE FOR HUNDREDS OVERNIGHT. IF YOU'RE TRYING TO GET OUTDOORS AND YOU WANT TO CHECK THE NUMBERS, YOU CAN GO TO AIR NOW.GOV AND GET THE NUMBERS. THIS WILL BE SOMETHING WE WILL DEAL WITH TODAY. THIS IS 5:00 THIS AFTERNOON. SMOKE IS AROUND BUT THE HEAVIEST STRETCHES THROUGH PARTS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND OVER THE GREAT LAKES, DEALING WITH HAZY SKIES. DETROIT, FRIDAY AT 5:00 P.M. , YOU ARE IN AND OUT OF THAT. BY THE TIME SATURDAY ROLLS AROUND, WE WILL SEE IMPROVEMENTS. IT WILL BE BETTER THAN THE SKIES WE SAW YESTERDAY. >> NO ONE WANTS A REPEAT OF THAT >> IT WAS VERY SCARY OUTSIDE >> THE FIRES ARE STARTING TO GET UNDER CONTROL BUT IT TAKES TIME AND WE WILL SEE THE WEATHER PATTERN MOVE OUT AND SHIFT THE WINDS WHICH IS IMPORTANT. >> IT IS HARD TO PREDICT WHAT WILL HAPPEN THIS YEAR BUT WE EXPECT THIS TO BE A BAD WILDFIRE SEASON FOR CANADA AND WE COULD HAVE THIS EXPERIENCE PERIODICALLY THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER >> WE ARE OFF TO A RECORD- BREAKING START. THE REASON IS MANY FIRES STARTED FROM LIGHTNING BUT THEY ARE DEALING WITH A HEAT DOME, WHICH IS SOMETHING YOU SEE OFTEN WITH CLIMATE CHANGE. IT IS A STOCK HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM THAT KEEPS IT REALLY WARM >>> THEN THERE WERE IN THE 70s. THAT CREATES THE CONDITIONS WHERE THE SMOKE, BAD AIR QUALITY, PARTICULATE MATTER CANNOT GO ANYWHERE AND IT IS HANGING OVER OUR CITIES, MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO GO OUTSIDE >> WHAT DOES THAT MEAN IN TERMS OF TRYING TO CUT GLOBAL EMISSIONS. HOW MUCH IMPACT DOES THAT HAVE? TELL US THE LATEST >> WE ARE IN A STAGE WHERE WE CONTINUE TO HAVE EXTREMELY HIGH GLOBAL EMISSIONS YEAR AFTER YEAR. CERTAIN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, THE U.S. HAS DROPPED ITS EMISSIONS IN THE LAST 10 YEARS OR SO AND SO IS EUROPE. ON A GLOBAL SCALE EMISSIONS ARE STAGNANT OR STILL GOING UP YEAR AFTER YEAR. IN ORDER TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE FROM PROGRESSING, WE NEED GLOBAL EMISSIONS TO GO TO 0. THAT IS A HUGE ASK AND A HUGE PROJECT. BUT THERE IS PROGRESS. WE ARE SEEING MORE GROWTH OF CLEAN ENERGY AND WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO PUSH THAT FORWARD. I WILL SAY THAT I REPORTED ON THE ORANGE SKIES OVER SAN FRANCISCO A COUPLE YEARS AGO AND WHAT I SAW AFTER THAT IS IT ACTIVATED A LOT OF PEOPLE. IT CAUSED SOME TECH PEOPLE TO SAY I MAY GO INTO CLEAN ENERGY AND FORGET ABOUT SOFTWARE ENGINEERING FOR A WHILE AND I WONDER IF IT WOULD DO THE SAME THING ON THE EAST COAST IF PEOPLE SAY, I DON'T WANT THIS FOR MY CHILDREN, WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO AND HOW SHOULD I CHANGE MY CAREER AND CHANGE MY LIFE TO TRY TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE MORE.>> THE CLIMATE CHANGE TRIAL IS MAKING IT TO TRIAL IN THE STATE OF MONTANA AS YOUNG PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THIS. WE APPRECIATE YOU BEING WITH U . >>> THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE HANDLING OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS BY FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP IS HEATING UP THIS MORNING AND THERE ARE NEW INDICATIONS THAT TRUMP COULD FACE AN INDICTMENT. HAD A MEETING WITH FEDERAL PROSECUTORS ON MONDAY TRUMP'S ATTORNEYS WERE TOLD THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS A TARGET OF THE INVESTIGATION. TWO SOURCES BRIEFED ON THAT MEETING TELL NBC NEWS A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE DECLINED TO COMMENT ON THE LATEST REPORT. TRUMP'S HANDLING OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS CAME UNDER INVESTIGATION LAST YEAR AFTER THEY WERE DISCOVERED AT HIS MAR- A-LARGO HOME. 184 OF THEM WERE MARKED AS CLASSIFIED. ON SOCIAL MEDIA YESTERDAY THIS IS HE SAID HE WAS NOT TOLD HE WAS INDICTED AND HE SAID HE HAS DONE NOTHING WRONG. GOOD MORNING, WALK US THROUGH THIS. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A TARGET IN AN INVESTIGATION LIKE THIS? WHAT ARE THE LIKELY NEXT STEPS? >> IT IS NOT GREAT IF YOU ARE DONALD TRUMP. WE SAW INDICATIONS OF THIS AND BUILDING UP TO THIS. YOU CAN SURMISE THIS FROM THE FACT THERE IS AN OPEN GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION INTO WHO THEY ARE INTERVIEWING. THIS WAS ANNOUNCED BACK IN NOVEMBER TO APPOINT A SPECIAL COUNCIL TO LOOK INTO ALL OF THESE ISSUES SURROUNDING DONALD TRUMP AFTER DONALD TRUMP MADE HIS PRESIDENTIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. IT IS NOT INCREDIBLY A SURPRISE BUT IT IS CLEAR WE ARE GETTING TO A PIVOT POINT IN THIS INVESTIGATION. AS WE SEE INDICATIONS THAT THE INVESTIGATION HAS SHIFTED TO MIAMI. THAT IS SOMETHING WE ARE ONLY NOW LEARNING IN THE PAST COUPLE DAYS. FOLLOWING THE TESTIMONY BY ONE OF TRUMP'S AIDS BEFORE THE GRAND JURY. THE SPECIAL COUNCIL INVESTIGATION INTO THE DOCUMENT ISSUE SPECIFICALLY HAS MOVED DOWN TO FLORIDA AND IS AT A PIVOT POINT. WE SAW INVESTIGATION UNFOLDED IN D.C. BUT IT IS EASY FOR FEDERAL PROSECUTORS TO SUPPORT ALL THAT INVESTIGATION AND PRESENT IT BEFORE A GRAND JURY BY HAVING AN FBI AGENT COME IN AND SUMMARIZE THE TESTIMONY THAT HAPPENED IN D.C., OR BUT PRESENTING A FEW NEW WITNESSES. THEY CAN CATCH UP TO SPEED QUICKLY AND THAT WOULD ELIMINATE SOME OF THE JURISDICTIONAL QUESTIONS THAT YOU WOULD SEE IF THE CASE WAS BROUGHT IN D.C. BECAUSE MOST OF THE ALLEGED ACTIVITY HAPPENED IN FLORIDA. THAT WOULD SIMPLIFY THE PROCESS AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE SEEING >> THERE ARE TWO FEDERAL INVESTIGATIONS JACK SMITH IS INVESTIGATING THE MAR-A-LARGO DOCUMENTS AND ALSO INVESTIGATE JANUARY 6th AND SOURCES SAY FORMER TRUMP WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL STEVE BANNON HAS BEEN SUBPOENAED BY A FEDERAL GRAND JURY IN WASHINGTON. WHAT MORE CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THIS CASE? >> IT MAY FEEL LIKE DIJ@ VU FOR VIEWERS BECAUSE THEY HEAR STEVE BANNON SUBPOENA AND IF YOU REMEMBER, LAST YEAR WE SAW SITUATION WHERE CONGRESS, THROUGH THE JANUARY 6th COMMITTEE HAD SUBPOENAED DAN IN ANY STIFF ARMED THAT INVESTIGATION AND AS A RESULT WAS CONVICTED ON TWO CHARGES OF CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS AND WAS SENTENCED TO FOUR MONTHS IN FEDERAL PRISON WHICH IS BASICALLY PENDING APPEAL AT THIS POINT. HE IS LOOKING THROUGH APPELLATE ISSUES. THIS IS THE JACK SMITH INVESTIGATION AND IT IS TOUGH ARE TO RESIST THE SUBPOENAS WANT TO GET IN FRONT OF A GRAND JURY AS YOU HAVE SEEN WITNESSES COOPERATE BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T COOPERATE WITH A FEDERAL GRAND JURY. I THINK WE WILL SEE STEVE BANNON EVENTUALLY COME IN HERE AND HE IS A KEY WITNESS TO A LOT OF THESE JANUARY 6th ISSUES UNDER INVESTIGATION BY JACK SMITH.>> THANK YOU SO MUCH. >>> THE POPE IS RECOVERING AFTER SURGERY. DOCTORS SAY THE 86-YEAR-OLD IS IN GOOD SPIRITS AND SHOULD MAKE A FULL RECOVERY. OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT IS IN ROME AND JOINS US WITH THE LATEST. GOOD MORNING. WHAT ARE WE HEARING FROM DOCTORS ABOUT SURGERY AND HOW HE IS DOING THIS MORNING >> THE VATICAN ISSUED A STATEMENT IN THE LAST HOUR SAYING FOLLOWING THE SURGERY, LAST NIGHT THE POPE HAD A QUIET AND RESTFUL NIGHT AND HE MANAGED TO SLEEP WELL AND HE IS ALERT AND BREATHING. THE MEDICAL STAFF SAID POSTSURGERY EXAMINATIONS ARE GIVING GOOD RESULTS. THE VATICAN SAID THE POPE IS AWARE OF THE MANY MESSAGES OF AFFECTION AND CLOSENESS. AND HE IS GRATEFUL FOR ALL THE PRAYERS. >> THIS IS JUST THE LATEST HEALTH ISSUE THAT POPE IS FACING. WE TALKED ABOUT THIS YESTERDAY AND WE HAVE BEEN COVERING THIS BECAUSE HE HAD BRONCHITIS AND PART OF HIS COLON WAS REMOVED AT THE SAME HOSPITAL. IS THAT BACKDROP HAVING AN ISSUE ON HOW THEY ARE TREATING HIS RECOVERY?>> LAST NIGHT WAS THE NIGHT THE DOCTOR THAT PERFORMED THE SURGERY ON THE POPE MET WITH JOURNALISTS OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL AND HE WAS VERY CLEAR THAT HE SAID THE POPE HAS RECOVERED FULLY FROM THE PREVIOUS HEALTH PROBLEMS THAT HE HAS HAD. FIRST OF ALL IN 2021 THE SURGERY HE HAD, AFTER AN INFECTION AND HE IS FULLY RECOVERED. AND THEY ALSO EXPECT HIM TO FULLY RECOVER FROM THE SURGERY BECAUSE THEY SAID IT WAS SUCCESSFUL AND AS WE SEE FROM THE STATEMENT THIS MORNING HE SEEMS TO BE RECOVERING FAST AND FINE. >> IN A STATEMENT THE VATICAN SAID THE SURGERY SHOULD NOT HAVE ANY IMPACT ON THE POPE'S ABILITY TO TRAVEL. WHICH SEEMS LIKE GOOD NEWS SINCE HE HAS SEVERAL INTERNATIONAL TRIPS SCHEDULE. WHAT IS THE SCHEDULE LOOKING LIKE FOR THE SUMMER? >> THE NEXT BIG THING IS LISBON. HE WANTS TO GO THERE TO ATTEND THE WORLD YOUTH DAY, AN EVENT HE CLOSE ABOUT. THE ITINERARY WAS PUBLISHED AND IT SEEMS LIKE THE SURGERY IS NOT AFFECTING THAT. THERE IS A TRIP IN SEPTEMBER AND HE IS SUPPOSED TO GO TO MONGOLIA >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. >>> COMING UP ON 'MORNING NEWS NOW'. A MAJOR LEAGUE MOVE FOR SOCCER THREE. HE IS COMING TO AMERICA. WHAT A GOOD SIGNAL FOR THE FUTURE OF THE SPORT. >>> NEW DEVELOPMENTS OUT OF UKRAINE. PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY GETS A FIRSTHAND LOOK AT THE DESTRUCTION FROM THE COLLAPSE OF THAT CRITICAL DAM AND THE WIDESPREAD FLOODING IT >>> A WHITE WOMAN WHO FATALLY SHOT HER BLACK NEIGHBOR THROUGH A DOOR WILL FACE CHARGES INCLUDING MANSLAUGHTER. THE FAMILY OF THE VICTIM WHO WAS A MOTHER OF FOUR, IS CONTINUING THEIR CALLS FOR JUSTICE. >> Reporter: TONIGHT SUSAN IS BEHIND BARS, CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER AFTER POLICE SAY SHE KILLED HER NEIGHBOR, BY SHOOTING THROUGH HER FRONT DOOR. >> WE HAVE ARRESTED 58-YEAR-OLD SUSAN FOR THE KILLING OF OWENS. >> SHE WAS KILLED IN FRONT OF ONE OF HER CHILDREN ON FRIDAY. THAT INCIDENT COMING AFTER LONG- STANDING NEIGHBORHOOD FEUD, ACCORDING TO POLICE. WITNESSES SAY IT ESCALATED WITH THE DISPUTE OVER AN iPAD. LEAVING A FAMILY MARVELOUS. >> I AM GRATEFUL FOR AN ARREST. VERY DISAPPOINTED THAT IT TOOK FOUR DAYS. WHEN IS IT OKAY IN AMERICA TO SHOOT SOMEONE BEHIND A LOCKED DOOR? >> Reporter: SOME COMMUNITY MEMBERS ARE OUTRAGE THAT SHE WAS NOT ARRESTED EARLIER >> YOU KNOW WHO DID IT >> Reporter: JUST FOUR HOURS LATER, POLICE MAKING THE ARREST, EXPLAINING THE LEGALITIES OF THE STAND YOUR GROUND LAW CAUSED THE DELAY. >> MY DETECTIVES CANNOT COMPLETE AN INVESTIGATION WITHOUT GETTING ALL SIDES OF THE STORY. AND THAT NIGHT, ALL WE HAD WAS ONE PERSON STORY AND THAT WAS THE SHOOTER'S STORY. >> Reporter: DETECTIVES SAY IT DID NOT JUSTIFY HER ACTIONS. THE FAMILY NOW CALLING ON THE STATE ATTORNEY TO CONSIDER INCREASING THAT CHARGE TO MURDER. >> WE WANT HIM TO ZEALOUSLY PROSECUTE THE KILLER OF AJ OWENS, JUST LIKE HE WOULD DO IF THE ROLES HAD BEEN REVERSED AND YOU HAD A BLACK WOMAN SHOOT A WHITE WOMAN THROUGH A LOCKED METAL DOOR AND KILL HER IN FRONT OF HER CHILDREN. >> Reporter: THE FAMILY WAS SHATTERED BY THIS UNIMAGINABLE LOSS. >> YOU MAY LOOK AT HER AND SAY, SHE DID NOT HAVE MUCH. SHE HAD IT ALL. SHE HAD LOVE. SHE HAD COMPASSION. >> Reporter: HER CHILDREN NOW GRAPPLING WITH GUILT OVER THE MOMENTS SURROUNDING THE MOTHER'S DEATH. ONE OF THEM HAD TOLD HIS MOM ABOUT THROWING A ROLLERSKATE AT THEM AND SWINGING AT THEM WITH A UMBRELLA. >> AND HIS SOUL AND IN HIS HEART , IT IS HIS FAULT BECAUSE HE WENT HOME AND TOLD HIS MOTHER WHAT THIS WOMAN DID TO HIM. OUR 12-YEAR-OLD BLAMES HIMSELF FOR THE DEATH OF HIS MOTHER. GRANDMA, GRANDMA, I COULD NOT SAVE HER. I TRIED TO GIVE HER CPR. >> THE GRANDMOTHER OF HIS CHILDREN SO SHE QUOTE PRAISE THAT GOD GIVES HER THE STRENGTH, THE WISDOM AND THE ABILITY TO RAISE THOSE CHILDREN AS HER DAUGHTER WOULD HAVE WANTED. >>> IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS. UKRAINE IS REELING FROM TUESDAY'S CATASTROPHIC DAM COLLAPSE WHICH FLOODED LARGE AREAS OF THE COUNTRY SOUTHERN REGION. >> PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY VISITED THE AREA TO SURVEY THE DAMAGE AND DISCUSS EMERGENCY OPERATIONS . THE TRIP COMES AS THE FIRST REPORTED CASUALTIES AT THIS PARTICULAR DISASTER BEGIN TO EMERGE. OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT JOINS US NOW WITH THE LATEST. GOOD MORNING. WHAT IS THE SITUATION ON THE GROUND RIGHT NOW >> Reporter: WE ARE SEEING AN ENVIRONMENTAL AND A HUMANITARIAN DISASTER UNFOLDING ACROSS SOUTHERN UKRAINE RIGHT NOW. AND THAT IS BECAUSE THIS RIVER IS THE LIFELINE OF THIS REGION BUT AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THIS DRIED OUT MARINA BEHIND ME, WATER LEVELS HAVE FALLEN DRAMATICALLY IN THE TWO DAYS SINCE THAT EXPLOSION. AND THAT IS BECAUSE THE WATER THAT SHOULD BE IN THE RESERVOIR UP HERE, IS RUSHING THROUGH WHAT REMAINS OF THAT AND IT IS FLOODING ONTO THE STREETS . UKRAINIAN AUTHORITIES SAY THEY EVACUATED ABOUT 2000 PEOPLE FROM THE WEST BANK OF THE RIVER WHICH THEY CONTROL. BUT THEY ARE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT CIVILIANS ON THE RUSSIAN OCCUPIED EAST BANK WHO THEY SAY HAVE BASICALLY BEEN LEFT TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES. THE UKRAINIAN MILITARY HAS BEEN USING DRONES TO DROP INDIVIDUAL BOTTLES OF WATER TO STRANDED CIVILIANS ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE RIVER. IT SEEMS ALMOST REMINISCENT OF HURRICANE KATRINA. FAMILIES ON THE ROOFS OF THEIR HOMES, LOOKING FOR HELP. PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY WAS DOWN IN THE AREA EARLIER TODAY AND HE IS CALLING FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO STEP UP AND HELP PEOPLE. THIS IS NOT A TRIP WITHOUT RISK. UKRAINIAN AUTHORITIES ARE SAYING RUSSIAN FORCES CONTINUE TO SHOW THE CITY, EVEN AS THESE EVACUATION EFFORTS ARE UNDERWAY. >> WHEN WE HEAR THAT AREA WE THINK OF THE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT. DO WE KNOW HOW SAFE IT IS? >> Reporter: THAT IS THE BIG QUESTION RIGHT NOW. THIS IS THE LARGEST NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN EUROPE AND IT IS UNDER RUSSIAN CONTROL. BOTH RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN AUTHORITIES ARE SAYING THE SITUATION IS STABLE. EVEN WITH THESE DIMINISHED WATER LEVELS, THERE IS STILL ENOUGH WATER TO KEEP THE REACTORS AT THE PLANTS COOL. BUT AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, IN THE CITY, IN THE SHADOW OF THE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, PEOPLE TAKE THIS VERY SERIOUSLY. YESTERDAY, THERE WERE NUCLEAR DISASTER DRILLS. YOU HAD FIRST RESPONDERS AND HAZMAT SUITS PREPARING FOR WHAT THEY WOULD DO IF THERE WAS A MELTDOWN AT THE PLANT. THE HEAD OF THE IAEA IS EXPECTED TO VISIT THE PLANT IN THE COMING DAYS SO WE MAY GET A BETTER PICTURE THAN. >> WE KNOW UKRAINE AND RUSSIA HAVE BEEN BLAMING EACH OTHER FOR THIS AND WE GOT THE FIRST REACTIONS FROM PRESIDENT PUTIN FOLLOWING A PHONE CONVERSATION WITH HIS TURKISH COUNTERPART. WHAT DID HE SAY AND WHAT IS THE LATEST ON THE INVESTIGATION? >> Reporter: PRESIDENT PUTIN SAID THIS WAS A BARBARIC ACTION. HE SAID THERE NEEDED TO BE A THOROUGH INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION. AND THERE IS IRONY THAT UKRAINE SAYS IT WAS PRESIDENT PUTIN'S FORCES WHO BLEW UP THE DAM AND THEY DID IT TO STOP UKRAINIAN TROOPS CROSSING THE RIVER, AS PART OF THIS LONG AWAITED COUNTEROFFENSIVE. THE U.S. HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO SAY DEFINITIVELY IN PUBLIC, WHETHER OR NOT RUSSIA WAS RESPONSIBLE. U.S. OFFICIALS ARE SAYING THE EVIDENCE DOES APPEAR TO LEAN TOWARD RUSSIAN RESPONSIBILITY. PRESIDENT BIDEN IS HOSTING THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER AT THE WHITE HOUSE LATER TODAY. IT IS POSSIBLE WE MAY HEAR MORE ABOUT THIS FROM THIS LEADERS LATER ON >> THANK YOU. >>> MORE INTERNATIONAL NEWS. BREAKING NEWS IN FRANCE. >> OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT JOINS US WITH DETAILS. >> Reporter: GOOD MORNING. A KNIFE ATTACK IN A FRENCH ALPINE TOWN HAS LEFT SEVERAL PEOPLE INJURED AND AMONG THEM, A FEW CHILDREN. FRINGES INTERIOR MINISTER SAID THE ASSAILANT HAS BEEN APPREHENDED BY POLICE. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS QUOTING AN UNNAMED INTERIOR MINISTRY OFFICIAL SAID FOUR CHILDREN AND TWO ADULTS WERE WOUNDED TO TWEET TODAY THE FRENCH PRESIDENT MACRON SAID THE ATTACK WAS ABSOLUTELY COWARDLY. 37 CHINESE MILITARY AIRCRAFT FLEW OVER TAIWAN'S AIR DEFENSE ZONE IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC EARLIER TODAY. THE SHOW OF FORCE PROMPTED TAIWAN TO ACTIVATE ITS MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS AND TO SCRAMBLE AIRCRAFT AND SHIPS. WHEN THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT DID NOT COMMENT ON WHAT APPEARED TO BE A MILITARY EXERCISE, BEIJING HAS CONDUCTED FLYOVER DRILLS OVER TAIWAN, WHICH IT CONSIDERS TO BE A BREAKAWAY PART OF ITS OWN TERRITORY. WHILE NEWS OUT OF COSTA RICA AND WHAT LOOKS LIKE A MASHUP BETWEEN JURASSIC PARK AND THE BIBLE. A CROCODILE AT A ZOO APPEARS TO HAVE THAT SPECIES FIRST EVER RECORDED VIRGIN BIRTH. IN 2018 A FEMALE AMERICAN CROCODILE PLAYED 14 EGGS IN HER ENCLOSURE AFTER SHE HAD BEEN LIVING AT THE ZOO IN ISOLATION FOR 18 YEARS. THAT IS NORMAL. WHAT IS UNUSUAL IS THAT ONE OF THE EGGS CONTAIN A FULLY FORMED, STILLBORN, BABY CROCODILE. SCIENTIST IT DETERMINE IT WAS REPRODUCTION WITHOUT THE GENETIC PUNCH VISION OF MALES. THAT IS A PHENOMENON THAT HAS BEEN OBSERVED BEFORE IN SEVERAL OTHER SPECIES, BUT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IT HAS BEEN SEEN IN A CROCODILE. >> I DON'T KNOW HOW TO RESPOND TO THAT. >> YOU JUST BLEW MY MIND. >>> COMING UP. REPUBLICAN RIVALRY. FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND HIS FORMER VP MIKE PENCE TRADING BLOWS AS THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE HEATS UP. WE WILL HAVE THE LATEST FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. >>> HOUSE ON HOLD. CONTROVERSY ON CAPITOL HILL AFTER A PROTEST FORCES LAWMAKERS TO CANCEL ALL PLANNED VOTES THIS WEE >>> WE HAVE BEEN HEARING FROM FORMER VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE AFTER HE BECAME THE LATEST PERSON TO OFFICIALLY JUMP INTO THE 2024 GOP PRESIDENTIAL RACE. >> DURING A SPEECH IN IOWA HE DID NOT HOLD BACK TALKING ABOUT HIS ONE-TIME BOSS, FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. WE HAVE MORE ON THE GROWING CANDIDATES COMPETING FOR THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION. >> Reporter: FORMER VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE OF FORMALLY JUMPED INTO THE 2020 FOR PRESIDENTIAL RACE AND TOOK HIS SHARPEST SHOTS AT HIS FORMER BOSS YET. HE WAS FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S RUNNING MATE. MIKE PENCE THROWING HIS HAT IN THE 2024 RING AND TAKING DIRECT AIM AT HIS FORMER BOSS >> WE CANNOT EXPECT TO UNITE THE NATION AROUND AN AGENDA OF A POLITICS BASED ON GRUDGES. AND GRIEVANCES >> Reporter: PENCE UNLEASHING HIS SHARPEST CRITICISM YET AT THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S ACTIONS ON JANUARY 6th WHEN HE REFUSED TO OVERTURN ELECTION RESULTS. >> THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE TO KNOW THAT ONE DAY PRESIDENT TRUMP ALSO DEMANDED THAT I CHOOSE BETWEEN HIM AND THE CONSTITUTION. NOW VOTERS WILL BE FACED WITH THE SAME CHOICE. I CHOSE THE CONSTITUTION. AND I ALWAYS WELL. >> Reporter: MIKE PENCE EMBRACING TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ACHIEVEMENTS. >> I WAS PROUD TO STAND BY DONALD TRUMP EVERY SINGLE DAY WHEN WE MADE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.>> Reporter: QUESTIONING ON ISSUES LIKE ABORTION. >> HE TREATS IT AS AN INCONVENIENCE, EVEN BLAMING OUR ELECTION LOSSES IN 2022 ON OVERTURNING ROE V. WADE. >> Reporter: FORMER VICE PRESIDENT FACING AN UPHILL CLIMB . POLLS SHOW TRUMP WITH A LARGE LEAD, WITH ANOTHER GOP CANDIDATE WITH THE COVENANT CANDIDATE DOUG BERGEN JUMPING IN. IOWA VOTERS WEIGHING IN ON MIKE PENCE. >> HE WAS MORE CRITICAL OF TRUMP THAN HE NORMALLY IS. HOW DID YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT? >> I DON'T REALLY CARE FOR THAT. >> WHEN YOU ARE RUNNING AGAINST SOMEONE THAT IS AHEAD, YOU HAVE TO TREAT THEM ON >> Reporter: WHILE IN HIS SPEECH, MIKE PENCE REFERENCING TRUMP SAID SOMEONE WHO PUTS HIMSELF OVER THE CONSTITUTION SHOULD QUOTE, NEVER BE PRESIDENT. LATER IN AN INTERVIEW HE ALSO SAID THAT HE WOULD ABSOLUTELY SUPPORT WHOEVER THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE IS, WHICH COULD VERY WELL BE FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP >> THANK YOU. >>> THIS MORNING THE REPUBLICAN LED HOUSE IS IN TURMOIL AND BECAUSE OF THAT ALL HOUSE BUSINESS HAS COME TO A HALT. >> GOP LEADERSHIP HAS CANCELED VOTES FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK BECAUSE OF THE ONGOING PROTEST FROM A HELD FULL OF HOUSE MEMBERS WHO ARE UPSET OVER THE DEBT DEAL SIGNED BY PRESIDENT BIDEN. FLORIDA CONGRESS AND MATT GAETZ TWEETED, HOUSE LEADERSHIP COULD NOT HOLD THE LINE, NOW WE HOLD THE FLOOR. CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT JOINS US NOW. WE TALKED ABOUT THIS YESTERDAY AND WE TALKED ABOUT THEM BLOCKING A PROCEDURAL VOTE ON A BILL ABOUT GAS STOVES. WHERE THINGS STAND WITH THINGS CANCELED THIS WEEK? >> Reporter: IT MAY SEEM LIKE NO BIG DEAL THAT THE HOUSE GETS TO GO HOME A FEW DAYS EARLY. EXCEPT, HOW THE HOUSE WORKS. THEY LITERALLY ARE COMPLETELY PARALYZED FROM DOING ANY KIND OF GOVERNING, ANY KIND OF LEGISLATING BECAUSE OF THESE 10 OR SO MEMBERS THAT BLOCKED THE RULE ON THE GAS BILL LEGISLATION THAT BLOCKS LEADERSHIP FROM PUTTING ANY PIECE OF LEGISLATION ON THE FLOOR AND TRYING TO GET ANY WORK DONE. THEY WERE IN THE SPEAKER'S OFFICE ALL DAY LONG YESTERDAY. McCARTHY WAS HOLDING MEETINGS WITH HIS LEADERSHIP TEAM. TRYING TO CONVINCE THESE MEMBERS TO STOP BLOCKING THE ROLE VOTE LETTING THEM TO PROCEED AND GOVERN AS THEY WERE ELECTED TO DO. HERE'S WHAT McCARTHY TOLD US AFTER BEING AT AN IMPASSE WITH THESE FOLKS. >> I LIKE THE CHALLENGE. I HAD A CHALLENGE FROM DAY ONE. WITH A SMALL MAJORITY. PEOPLE'S STRONG OPINIONS. [ AUDIO NOT UNDERSTANDABLE ] >> Reporter: MAJORITY LEADER SCALISE WHO SERVES ALONG WITH McCARTHY SAID THIS IN MANY WAYS WAS SOMETHING THEY EXPECTED. THEY HAVE A NARROW MAJORITY AND IT HAS BEEN SHAPING UP TO BE REMINISCENT OF THE SPEAKER FIGHT McCARTHY HAD IN JANUARY WITH 15 ROUNDS OF VOTES. >> IN ADDITION TO THE TENSION BETWEEN REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS, WE ARE SEEING DIVISIONS IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. THE REPUBLICAN MEMBER OF CONGRESS WAS QUOTED AS LABELING THESE REPUBLICANS AS THE DYSFUNCTION CAUCUS. COULD MORE MODERATE REPUBLICANS TRY TO TURN TO CERTAIN DEMOCRATS TO GET LEGISLATION MOVING >> Reporter: UNFORTUNATELY THAT WOULD NOT HELP. THAT IS THE FEAR MODERATES ARE HAVING. IF THEY ARE GOING TO WORK ON LEGISLATION, ESPECIALLY BIPARTISAN LEGISLATION, WILL THE REPUBLICAN CONSERVATIVE COLLEAGUES EVEN ALLOW THEM TO DO THAT? THAT IS ONE OF THEIR FEARS. ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE POLITICS. SOME OF THEM ARE IN DISTRICTS THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN WON. AND THE NEED TO SHOW THEY CAN WORK FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. OTHER MODERATES SAID THIS WAS A DISTRACTION. EVEN MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE, NOT A MODERATE, WHO TOLD ME YESTERDAY THAT THE MAJORITY NEEDS TO LEGISLATE AND THIS IS NOT HELPING. >> QUICKLY, HEARING HAD BEEN SCHEDULED WHETHER TO HOLD FBI CHRISTOPHER WRAY IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS WAS CANCELED BY THE COMMITTEE LATE LAST NIGHT. WHAT HAPPENED? >> Reporter: OVERSIGHT CHECKED HOMER WAS ABLE TO REACH AN AGREEMENT WITH THE FBI FOR THE BUREAU TO TURN OVER THE DOCUMENTS THEY HAVE THAT IS UNVERIFIED WHICH IS WHY THE BUREAU WAS HESITANT TO TURN IT OVER IN THE FIRST PLACE. BUT THEN VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN ALLEGEDLY HAD SOME KIND OF INTERFERENCE WITH A FOREIGN AGENT. THIS WAS NOT VERIFIED, WHICH IS WHY THE FBI HAS BEEN SO HESITANT TO TURN THIS OVER BUT THEY AGREED TO DO IT TO AVOID THAT CONTEMPT VOTE THAT WAS PLANNED FOR TODAY. EVEN THE OVERSIGHT PANEL, EVERY MEMBER WILL GET TO SEE THE DOCUMENT >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. >>> COMING UP. COMING TO AMERICA. SOCCER GREAT LIONEL MESSI SAYS HE IS HEADING TO MIAMI. >> MORE ON THE MOVE AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE SPORT. >>> WELCOME BACK. ONE WEEK INTO PRIDE MONTH WE ARE TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT THE IMPACT OF ANTI-LGBTQ LEGISLATION. IT IS HITTING CLOSE TO HOME FOR ONE FORMER FLORIDA LAWMAKER. FORMER STATE REPRESENTATIVE SAYS SHE SEES THE CURRENT CONVERSATION AROUND TRANS YOUTH LEGISLATION THROUGH A DIFFERENT LENS COMPARED WITH MANY OF HER FORMER COLLEAGUES BECAUSE SHE HAS A TRANSGENDER SON. FOR A PLUMBING SPECIAL, PRIDE 2023 OUT FRONT I SPOKE WITH BOTH OF THEM ABOUT HOW THEY ARE STAYING HOPEFUL THE FACE OF ADVERSITY. >> SOMETHING YOU SAID BACK IN 2019. YOU SAID YOU HOPE FOR THE GOP THAT THE PARTY WAS BECOMING MORE TOLERANT AND MORE ACCEPTING WHEN IT CAME TO THESE ISSUES. I HAVE TO ASK, FOR YEARS LATER, HAS THAT HOPE FADED? >> IT HAS NOT FADED BECAUSE FOR A LONG TIME I WAS IN THE HOPE BUSINESS AND I AM IN THE HOPE BUSINESS. THERE IS A DAILY JOB STORIES ABOUT WHAT IS APPARENTLY THE NUMBER ONE THREAT TO OUR AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE WHICH IS, TRANS YOUTH. I AM LOOKING AROUND AND I THINK, WE DON'T FEEL THAT WAY. OUR SON IS A TRANSGENDER MALE AND I DON'T THINK WE ARE BLINDED BY OUR LOVE WE SEE ALL OF OUR CHILDREN IN THE SAME WAY. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. BECAUSE WHAT IS THE ALTERNATIVE? HOMELESSNESS, DRUG USE, KIDS GETTING KICKED OUT OF THEIR HOMES. EVEN CONTEMPLATING SUICIDE. WHAT WE SEE IS, HE HAS WONDERFUL VALUES OF KINDNESS AND LOOKING OUT FOR OUR COMMUNITY. WE CANNOT ASK FOR A BETTER KID. I WISH THAT MY PARTY AND OUR COMMUNITY AND EVERYBODY'S FAMILY WOULD LOOK AT THEIR CHILDREN IN THE SAME WAY. NO MATTER WHAT THEY ARE GOING THROUGH. IT IS APPALLING. THIS IS A LOW POINT FOR MY PARTY. I AM SAD. WE BETTER GET OUR ACT TOGETHER.>> I CAN SEE IT BRINGS A SMILE TO YOUR FACE TO HEAR YOUR MOM TALK ABOUT YOU IN SUCH GLOWING TERMS. I HAVE TO SAY IS SOMEONE WHO FOCUSES ON TRANSGENDER POLICY, THIS DAILY TO YOUR MOM IS TALKING ABOUT, THIS YEAR WHAT HAS IT BEEN LIKE FOR YOU? >> IT HAS BEEN HEARTBREAKING FOR MYSELF BUT SO MANY TRANSGENDER PEOPLE TO FEEL LIKE NOW THERE IS A TARGET BEING PUT ON OUR BACKS. ESPECIALLY FOR TRANSGENDER YOUTH , FOR OUR KIDS, WHO ARE REALLY BEING SINGLE-HANDEDLY TARGETED FOR ALL THIS NEGATIVE LEGISLATION. I WILL SHARE THAT I WAS VERY FORTUNATE THAT MY FAMILY ACCEPTED ME. >> THANKS TO YOU. YOU CAN SEE MORE OF THAT INTERVIEW AND MANY OTHER CONVERSATIONS WITH LEADERS IN THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY DURING OUR PRIDE 2023 OUT FRONT SPECIAL. STREAMING TONIGHT AT 10:30 P.M. EASTERN RIGHT HERE ON NBC NEWS NOW. LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. >>> ONE OF SOCCER'S GREATEST EVER PLAYERS IS COMING TO AMERICA. >> ARGENTINA'S LEONEL MESSI HAS ANNOUNCED HIS NEXT MOVE AFTER DECIDING TO LEAVE FRANCE. AN INTERVIEW WITH TWO SPANISH PAPERS, HE SAID HE WILL JOIN ANALYST TEAM MIAMI. THE MLS TWEETED QUOTE, THE GOAT IS COMING. MILLIONS OF MLS FANS ALL OVER THE WORLD WELCOME YOU. LET'S GET MORE ON THIS STORY. IT IS GREAT TO HAVE YOU WITH US. THIS IS HUGE NEWS. A SHOCK MOVE. WHY DID HE CHOOSE MIAMI? >> IT IS A SHOCK AND IT IS COMPLICATED. ON THE EMOTIONAL SIDE OF THINGS EVERYONE EXPECTED HIM TO GO BACK TO BARCELONA. BARCELONA HAS A COMPLICATED FINANCIAL REALITY RIGHT NOW, THERE WAS NO GUARANTEE THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO REGISTER HIM IF HE SIGNED DUE TO THIS ISSUES AND ON THE OTHER SIDE, FINANCIALLY THE BIGGEST OFFER WAS COMING FROM SAUDI ARABIA. REPORTS THAT ALSO WAS AS HIGH AS $1.6 BILLION FOR A THREE- YEAR CONTRACT. NO ONE WAS EXPECTING HIM TO TURN AND PIVOT TO THE UNITED STATES. BUT HE SAID HE WANTS TO TRY THE U.S. MAYBE HAVE A MORE RELAXED DAY TO DAY LIFESTYLE IN THE U.S. VERSUS BARCELONA OR PSG. AND HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR MY FAMILY TO ENJOY LIFE A LITTLE BIT AS WELL. >> WE KNOW BARCELONA WANTED HIM BACK IN THE ISSUED A STATEMENT AT DOING WHAT YOU SAID, HIS DECISION TO QUOTE COMPETE IN A LEAGUE WITH FEWER DEMANDS, FURTHER AWAY FROM THE SPOTLIGHT AND THE PRESSURE HE D BEEN SUBJECT TO IN RECENT YEARS. I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IF THAT IS PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE. WHY DID BARCELONA NOT GET HIM? >> IT IS PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE. IT SHOWS THE RELATIONSHIP THAT EXISTS BETWEEN LIONEL MESSI AND BARCELONA. HE LEFT THAT CLUB AT A TIME HE DIDN'T WANT TO GO. THEY FOUND THEMSELVES IN HUGE FINANCIAL ISSUES AND HE HAD TO LEAVE THEY COULD NOT RE-SIGN HIM AND GUARANTEE THEY COULD REGISTER HIM AS A PLAYER. THE FACT THEY FEEL SNUBBED, I THINK IS A LITTLE SILLY, CONSIDERING THE HISTORY OF HOW THEY LET HIM GO IN THE FIRST PLACE. IT COMES DOWN TO THE FINANCIAL REALITIES THAT BARCELONA FACES. THEY DID GET A FINANCIAL PLAN APPROVED BUT THEY STILL CANNOT SAY TO HIM FOR SURE, THIS IS WHAT WE CAN PAY YOU AND WE CAN GUARANTEE YOU THAT YOU WILL PLAY . WITHOUT THOSE GUARANTEES AND KNOWING THAT LIONEL MESSI SAID IF I GO TO BARCELONA I MAY BE GIVING THEM MORE ISSUES FINANCIALLY AND HAVING TO FORCE SALES OF PLAYERS TO PLAY. HE DID NOT WANT TO DO THAT TO THE CLUB HE LOVED SO MUCH SO WE WENT TO MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER. >> INTO MIAMI IS NOT DOING WELL. HOW MUCH OF A WIN IS THIS FOR THEM?>> A HUGE WIN. THIS IS A TEAM AT THE BOTTOM OF MLS. RANK LAST IN ATTENDANCE IN MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER. NOT THE CASE. TICKET PRICES ARE THROUGH THE ROOF AND GAMES ARE SELLING OUT. IT IS A REAL CHALLENGE THAT MIAMI FACES. HOW DO YOU BUILD UP A TEAM AROUND THE GREATEST PLAYER THAT IS EVER PLAY THE GAME, AND DO IT IN A FEW MONTHS UNDER THE RESTRICTIVE ROSTER RULES IT WILL BE A CHALLENGE. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH >>> COMING UP, IT IS NOT YOUR ORDINARY FISHING TRIP. >> I WILL TAKE YOU TO OHIO IN A KAYAK WHERE AN AVID FISHERMAN IS SHOWING OFF HIS CATCH OF TRASH. I WILL EXPLAIN WHY >>> >>> WELCOME BACK. TUPAC SHAKUR HAS BEEN HONORED WITH A STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME A FEW DAYS BEFORE WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HIS 52nd BIRTHDAY. FRIENDS, FAMILY AND FANS CAME TOGETHER TO REMEMBER THE LEGACY OF THE ARTIST WHO WAS MURDERED IN A DRIVE-BY SHOOTING IN 1996. HIS SISTER SAID TODAY WE ARE NOT JUST HONORING A STAR IN THE GROUND, WE ARE HONORING THE WORK AND THE PASSION HE PUT INTO MAKING HIS DREAMS COME TRUE. THAT IS COOL. >> FOLKS ARE HAPPY ABOUT THAT. >>> THIS MORNING I WANT TO TAKE YOU TO CLEVELAND AND INTRODUCE YOU TO A YOUNG MAN, AN AVID FISHERMAN WHO REALIZED HE WAS REALLY AND MORE TRASH THAN FISH SOME DAYS. HE TURNED HIS KAYAK INTO A MAKESHIFT RBG TRUCK, BUILDING A PROGRAM THAT HAS ATTRACTED QUITE THE FOLLOWING. >> WE ARE IN CLEVELAND, OHIO. IT HAS ITS PROBLEMS BUT EVERY DAY WE ARE TRYING TO MAKE IT BEAUTIFUL. >> Reporter: BEAUTY RUNS THROUGH WATER. NAVIGATED BY KAYAK AND HE COMES THE RIVERS BANKS FOR TRASH >> HOW ABOUT ONE OF THESE? >> Reporter: OUR SEARCH DOES NOT TAKE LONG. >> WE HAVE BEER CANS, A COUPLE OF WATER BOTTLES. AND BIG CHUNKS OF STYROFOAM. >> Reporter: THIS CLEANUP IS MORE THAN THE OCCASIONAL VOLUNTEER PROJECT. IS THE FOUNDER OF AN ORGANIZATION CALLED TRASH FISH, HE IS OUT HERE AT LEAST FIVE DAYS A WEEK AND OFTEN HE IS NOT ALONE. >> I FEEL REALLY MOTIVATED TO HELP THE ENVIRONMENT >> Reporter: WITH HEALTH FROM SOCIAL MEDIA HE RECRUITED A SCHOOL OF TRASH FISH TO HELP >> THERE IS NO MONEY IN PICKING UP TRASH, BUT WITHOUT US I THINK THIS RIVER SYSTEM IS WORSE OFF. >> Reporter: IT HAS A NOTORIOUS PAST FROM DECADES AGO. KNOWN AS THE BURNING RIVER THAT WAS SO POLLUTED WITH OIL AND WASTE, IT CAUGHT FIRE MORE THAN A DOZEN TIMES. SUCH ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS LED TO THE CREATION OF THE EPA IN 1970, SHORTLY AFTER THE CLEAN WATER ACT. FLAMES ARE NO LONGER A CONCERN. TRASH IS. THE CUYAHOGA FLOWS DIRECTLY TO LAKE ERIE AND THAT IS WATER FOR 12 MILLION PEOPLE. >> THIS SECTION OF THIS RIVER IS THE LAST CHANCE WE HAVE TO STOP THIS BEFORE IT GETS INTO OUR DRINKING WATER. >> Reporter: HE REDIRECTS SOME OF THAT STUFF -- >> 30 POUNDS OF BASKETBALLS. >> Reporter: IN HIS GARAGE. >> THIS IS MY COLLECTION OF WHAT I THINK IS INTERESTING STUFF I PULLED OUT OF THE RIVER OVER THE LAST COUPLE YEARS. >> Reporter: HE HAS SOME BALLS, TOYS, AND A COUPLE YEARS AGO THIS DECADES-OLD ITEM. >> IT TELLS ME ALL THE PLASTIC WE PUT IN THERE TODAY WILL BE THERE IN 50 YEARS AND BE THERE IN 100 YEARS AND PROBABLY IN 1000 YEARS. RE/MAX HE BRINGS THESE ITEMS TO A SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT. AEROSOL CANS WHICH LOOK LIKE MODERN ART >> WHEN THIS IS UP IN THE RIVER AND HE GETS PUNCTURED, UNDERWATER ALL THAT COMES OUT AND THIS IS WHAT IT SOLIDIFIES AS >> Reporter: HE FINDS TINY PIECES OF PLASTIC. THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ALMOST ALL PLASTIC PRODUCTS. WE FIND THEM ALL OVER EVEN A PLASTIC SODA BOTTLE. BUT LIKE A DROP IN THE OCEAN, BIT BY BIT EDDIE AND HIS TRASH FISH ARE MAKING WAVES IN CLEANING UP THE RIVER. HOW AMAZED ARE YOU BUY WHAT YOU SEE IN THE WATER? >> I CANNOT MAKE UP STUFF WE FIND >> Reporter: SINCE HE STARTED IN 2015 THEY HAVE REELED IN NEARLY 100,000 POUNDS OF TRASH >> I THINK EVERYBODY DOES THEIR PART AND YOU CAN STRIP AWAY AT IT >> PICKING UP A BAG OF TRASH FEELS GOOD AND I SEE THE DIFFERENCE WE MADE ESPECIALLY OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS. THIS RIVER LOOKS VERY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT IT DID WHEN WE STARTED THIS >> Reporter: THAT IS WHAT KEEPS EDDIE FISHING FOR TRASH. DOES THIS FEEL LIKE A LIFE'S WORK NOW >> IT IS AT THIS POINT. I DON'T THINK I INTENDED FOR IT TO BE WHEN I FIRST STARTED DOING THIS BUT IF YOU ARE OUT HERE EVERY DAY SEEING WHAT I SEE AND YOU KNEW THE PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY, YOU WOULD WANT TO BE OUT HERE EVERY DAY >> Reporter: BUT NOT EVERYONE IS. >> MAYBE THEY ARE SMARTER THAN I AM OR DOING SOMETHING SPECIAL. >> HE SAID HE WOULD LOVE TO BELIEVE THAT A DAY WILL COME WHEN HE DOES NOT NEED TO DO THIS, HE IS NOT OPTIMISTIC THAT WILL HAPPEN ANYTIME SOON. IS PREPARED TO BE OUT ON THE RIVER AS LONG AS HE HAD NEEDED. HOW CAN ALL OF US HELP? EVEN IF WE DON'T GO OUT? TRY TO REDUCE YOUR TRASH ALWAYS LOOK FOR THE MORE SUSTAINABLE OPTION. AMAZING WHAT HE IS DOING. >> GREAT JOB. ALL OF IT. SOME OF THAT STUFF. THOSE PEPSI CANS? THAT'S UNBELIEVABLE. >> THAT DOES IT FOR THIS HOUR OF MORNING NEWS NOW. >>> HI, EVERYONE HERE >> RIGHT NOW ON MORNING NEWS NOW, MASKS ON. MILLIONS FROM THE MIDWEST TO THE EAST COAST ARE WAKING UP AGAIN TO AN UNHEALTHY DOSE OF SMOG AND SMOKE. THOSE DEVASTATING WILDFIRES IN CANADA BURN TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ACRES AND WE ARE FEELING THE IMPACT HUNDREDS OF MILES TO THE SOUTH. IN THE U.S., PROFESSIONAL SPORTS POSTPONED AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES AND CANCELED SOME BROADWAY SHOWS. IN WASHINGTON, THE WHITE HOUSE WAS SHROUDED IN SMOKE WHILE INSIDE THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SAID IT'S TAKING ACTION. WE HAVE MORE ON THAT IN THE ONGOING TRAVEL MELTDOWN. >>> NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SPECIAL COUNSEL PROBE INTO FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S HANDLING OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS. SOURCES TELLING NBC NEWS THE TRUMP LEGAL TEAM WAS TOLD BY FEDERAL PROSECUTORS THAT HE IS A TARGET OF THE INVESTIGATION. THE LATEST ON WHAT IT MEANS AND HOW IT COULD AFFECT HIS RUN FOR THE WHITE HOUSE. >>> NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE JANUARY 6 INVESTIGATION AND THE TRUMP ALLY NOW ORDER TO TESTIFY IN THAT PROBE. >>> PEOPLE PROGNOSIS. POPE FRANCIS IS RECOVERING FROM A SUCCESSFUL THREE HOUR ABDOMINAL SURGERY AT THE VATICAN TELLING NBC NEWS THAT THE NIGHT PASSED WELL. THE LATEST ON HIS CONDITION AND HOW IT COULD AFFECT HIS BUSY SCHEDULE THIS SUMMER. >>> AND THE COUNTDOWN IS GONE ON FOR THE 2024 SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES IN PARIS. LATER IN THE HOUR WE WILL TAKE YOU INSIDE THE SHINING BEACON AT THE HEART OF THE CITY. THE EIFFEL TOWER. AS IT PREPARES TO GLOW ON THE WORLD STAGE. THAT'S GOING TO BE QUITE THE SPECTACLE. VOLLEYBALL RIGHT IN FRONT OF IT. LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT. >>> MORE ON THAT WE BEGIN WITH THIS DANGEROUS SMOKE FROM THE CANADIAN WILDFIRES THIS MORNING MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ARE FACING ANOTHER DAY OF HAZY SKIES AND POOR AIR QUALITY. >> THE FAA ISSUED A GROUND STOP AS LaGUARDIA AIRPORT HAS LOW VISIBILITY. THESE INCREDIBLE IMAGES ARE TELLING THE STORY OF MAJOR CITIES COMPLETELY SMOTHERED IN SMOKE AND THIS MORNING THE WHITE HOUSE IS TAKING ACTION PICK WE HAVE FULL COVERAGE INCLUDING A LOOK AT WHEN WE CAN EXPECT A BREAK. THAT IS JUST AHEAD BUT WE START WITH CORRESPONDED IN BROOKLYN. >> Reporter: THIS IS AN IMPROVEMENT COMPARED TO YESTERDAY. THAT HEAVY HAZE CONTINUING IN NEW YORK CITY. YOU CAN SEE I HAVE MY MASK IN HAND AS OFFICIALS ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO TAKE PRECAUTIONS AND DOCTORS PREPARE FOR INFLUX IN PATIENTS AS THESE CONDITIONS LINGER. THIS MORNING AS MILLIONS ARE WAKING UP TO SMOKEY CITYSCAPES FOR A THIRD DAY IN A ROW, THE WHITE HOUSE IS STEPPING IN. PRESIDENT BIDEN EXTENDING SUPPORT TO CANADA ORDERING ALL AVAILABLE FIREFIGHTING EFFORTS TO CONTAIN EARLY-SEASON WILDFIRES RAVAGING THE COUNTRY AND SENDING UNPRECEDENTED PLUMES OF SMOKE INTO THE U.S. NEW YORK CITY'S ICONIC SKYLINE BECOMING ALMOST UNRECOGNIZABLE THROUGH THE DAY YESTERDAY TAKING ON AN APOCALYPTIC-LIKE HAYES. A STARTLING COMPARISON TO EARLIER THIS WEEK. >> IS ONLY GETTING WORSE. >> Reporter: TODAY AIR-QUALITY ALERTS ARE IMPACTING MORE THAN 100 MILLION PEOPLE ACROSS 16 STATES. CAUSING MANY TO REACH FOR THOSE PANDEMIC ARABESQUES. >> IT'S GOT ME COUGHING A LITTLE. >> Reporter: FROM THE MIDWEST TO THE NORTHEAST AND INTO THE MID ATLANTIC, THE HEAVY HAZE TRIGGERING A DOMINO EFFECT OF FLIGHT AND TRAVEL DELAYS. >>> EVENTS INCLUDING TWO MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL GAMES WERE CALLED OFF WEDNESDAY AS SCHOOLS IN SEVERAL CITIES CANCELED OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES AND GOOGLE ADVISED EMPLOYEES TO STAY HOME FOR THE CURTAIN COMING DOWN ON SOME BROADWAY SHOWS. NEW YORK CITY HAS RECORDED THE WORST AIR QUALITY IN THE WORLD TWO DAYS IN A ROW. THE HUI OR MEASURE OF POLLUTION SPIKING ABOVE 400 AND WELL INTO THE HAZARDOUS ZONE. AND HUI OF 150 IS EQUIVALENT TO SEVEN CIGARETTES A DAY. >> CONCERNING BECAUSE WE DID NOT EXPECT TO SEE IT. >> HOW QUICKLY PEOPLE START BILLING SYMPTOMS? >> VERY QUICKLY. >> Reporter: MEDICAL EXPERTS SAY SYMPTOMS COULD HIT MORE VULNERABLE POPULATIONS ESPECIALLY HARD FOR YOUNG CHILDREN AND SENIORS AND EXPECTANT MOTHERS AND THOSE WITH RESPIRATORY CONDITIONS. THE MASKS DO ANYTHING IN THESE SCENARIOS? THE SHORT ANSWER IS YES. THEY DO HELP AND FOR THAT REASON NEW YORK STATE IS GIVING OUT 1 MILLION FACE COVERINGS TODAY. >> THANK YOU. >>> FOR MORE ON THE IMPACT THIS HAYES IS HAVING ON AIR TRAVEL LET'S BRING IN OUR AVIATION CORRESPONDENT TOM CASTILLO FROM REAGAN INTERNATIONAL. AFTER A DAY OF DISRUPTIONS YESTERDAY, WE HAVE SEEN A GROUND STOP AT LaGUARDIA THIS MORNING. THOSE AREN'T NECESSARILY UNCOMMON, BUT BECAUSE OF THIS. WHAT CAN YOU TELL US? >> Reporter: YOU FLY INTO WASHINGTON AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK OR EVERY TWO WEEKS. HAVE YOU EVER SEEN WASHINGTON LIKE BEST? LOOK AT THE HAZE BEHIND ME ON THE TOWER. WHEN YOU LAND AT WASHINGTON YOU CAN LOOK ACROSS THE RIVER AND SEE THE LINCOLN MONUMENT AND THE JEFFERSON MEMORIAL AND THE CAPITOL. HE CAN'T SEE ANY OF IT. IT'S LOST IN A CLOUD OF SMOKE. AS FOR LaGUARDIA, WE DID HAVE A GROUND STOP THIS MORNING. THEY LIFTED THAT. HOWEVER, THEY ARE PAUSING FLIGHTS INTO LaGUARDIA FROM THE MID ATLANTIC, MUCH OF THE MIDWEST, SPECIFICALLY OHIO, AND THE NORTHEAST. A SIGNIFICANT DELAY IN OPERATIONS AT LaGUARDIA BECAUSE OF THE SMOKE. WE HAD A TOTAL OF 5500 FLIGHT DELAYS YESTERDAY BECAUSE OF THE SMOKE. ABOUT 160 CANCELLATIONS. LOOK AT WHERE WE STAND RIGHT NOW. THE AIRPORTS TODAY AFFECTED. WE EXPECT GROUND STOPS AND GROUND DELAYS. THAT WAS THE NUMBER YESTERDAY. THAT IS NOT ACCURATE. THAT IS A GLOBAL NUMBER AND NOT A NATIONAL NUMBER. THE NATIONAL NUMBER IS 5500 DELAYS. ABOUT 162 CANCELLATIONS FOR FLIGHTS AFFECTED TODAY OR AIRPORTS AFFECTED TODAY. ALL OF THE NEW YORK CITY AIRPORT SO WE HAVE NO WORK AND LaGUARDIA AGAIN. SLOW OPERATIONS. JFK AND TETERBORO, WHICH IS THAT COMMUTER, PRIVATE AIRPORT ON THE HUDSON RIVER IN JERSEY. AND AS YOU WORK AWAY SOUTH, PHILADELPHIA EXPECTED TODAY. WE DO EXPECT SLOWER OPERATIONS FOR BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON. WE EXPECT TCA, REAGAN AND EVEN CHARLOTTE AIRPORT DOWN SOUTH WILL BE IMPACTED BECAUSE OF THE SMOKE AND THE RIPPLE EFFECT FROM THE VARIOUS DELAYS AND CANCELLATIONS AT OTHER HUBS. >> THANK YOU. >>> LET'S GET A LOOK AT YOUR FORECAST? >> METEOROLOGIST ANGIE LASSMAN JOINS US . >> GOOD MORNING. THE AIR-QUALITY ISSUES AS SMOKE CONTINUES TO DRIFT IN. THIS IS YESTERDAY. YOU CAN SEE HOW MUCH OF THAT HAZE AND THAT ORANGE COLOR YOU SEE ON THE MAP WORK ITS WAY THROUGH PRESS OF NEW YORK AND INTO PHILADELPHIA. WE SAW BOSTON AND WASHINGTON, D.C. DEALING WITH DIFFICULTY AND AIR-QUALITY. WESTERN NEW YORK WAS OFF THE CHART. LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WE BEEN WATCHING THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS HAS BEEN FAIRLY STAGNANT IN KEEPING WIND OUT OF THE NORTH, HELPING THAT SMOKE MAKE IT THE LINE INTO PARTS OF THE NORTHEAST AND THE MIDWEST. THAT WILL RELEASE AND MOVE FURTHER AWAY AND PICK UP THE WIND. WE WILL HAVE A SHIFT OUT OF THE SOUTH CLOSER TO THE WEEKEND AND THAT WILL MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE WITH AIR-QUALITY. IN THE MEANTIME IT WILL BE DIFFICULT TO BREATHE IN MANY SPOTS. 98 MILLION IMPACTED FROM THIS UNHEALTHY AIR CORRELATED TO THAT WILDFIRE SMOKE. MANY PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE DEALING WITH OZONE, AS WELL. THAT'S MORE TOWARD THE PLANES. 98 MILLION PEOPLE INCLUDED THROUGH THE DAY TODAY. NEW YORK, WASHINGTON AND NORFOLK ARE INCLUDED IN THIS. DETROIT LOOK UP TO HAZY CONDITIONS AND NOTICE WHERE THE WORST OF IT IS. STRETCHING THROUGH PARTS OF PENNSYLVANIA. PHILADELPHIA AND HARRISBURG ARE INCLUDED IN THIS. ALL THE WAY UP TO SCRANTON IS WHERE THE WORST CONCERNS ARE PICKED THAT IS HAZARDOUS AGAIN TODAY. YOU CAN SEE WHERE THE AIR- QUALITY INDEX NUMBERS ARE COMING IN NOW. 301 IN ALLENTOWN. RANGING INTO THE VERY UNHEALTHY CATEGORY AT 185 IN NEW YORK. IT WILL BE A DIFFICULT DAY SO TAKE THE SAME PRECAUTIONS AS YESTERDAY. BUT WE HAVE POSITIVE IMPROVEMENTS COMING IN TIME FOR THE WEEKEND. INTO THE AFTERNOON TODAY THERE WILL BE SOME SMOKE AROUND FOR NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON BACK TOWARD BUFFALO, PITTSBURGH, AND DETROIT. BUT LOOK AT TOMORROW AT 5:00. IMPROVEMENTS IN NEW YORK INTO BOSTON. NOTICE UPSTATE NEW YORK IS LOOKING BETTER. WASHINGTON AND PHILADELPHIA AND PITTSBURGH AND DETROIT YOU WILL STILL BE IN IT TOMORROW, AND THAT WILL STRETCH INTO PARTS OF THE MID-ATLANTIC YOU WILL NOTICE THAT HAZE. INTO SATURDAY WE ALL START TO SEE MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS. IT WILL BE BETTER. WE WILL HAVE NICER CONDITIONS FOR US TO ENJOY OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES INTO THE WEEKEND. AND A NICER DAY OVER THE WEEKEND FOR THE NORTHEAST AND THE MIDWEST AND MID-ATLANTIC. WE WILL SEE A SEVERE RISK THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE COUNTRY AND COOL CONDITIONS ON THE COAST. SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL WORK THE WAY TO THE EAST AND WE GET INTO THE NEXT WORKWEEK WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NORTHEAST. BY THAT TIME IT WILL BE WELCOME. WE WILL BE FINE WITH IT. >> WE WILL TAKE RAIN OVER SMOKE ANY DAY. THANK YOU. >> WE WILL HAVE MORE COMING UP IN THIS HOUR AND WE WILL CHAT WITH OUR MEDICAL TEAM ABOUT HOW THE POOR AIR QUALITY COULD IMPACT YOUR HEALTH. THE SYMPTOMS TO WATCH FOR AND HOW YOU CAN PROTECT YOURSELF IS JUST AHEAD. >>> THIS MORNING THERE ARE NO INDICATIONS OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP COULD BE FACING ANOTHER INDICTMENT. A FEDERAL GRAND JURY IN FLORIDA IS MEETING THIS WEEK AND SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH'S INVESTIGATION INTO THE TRUMP HANDLING OF CLASSIFIED MATERIAL. TWO SOURCES BRIEFED ON THE MEETING TELL NBC NEWS THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S LAWYERS WERE TOLD IN A MEETING WITH SMITH THAT TRUMP IS A TARGET OF THE INVESTIGATION. FOR MORE ON THAT WE ARE JOINED BY AN ATTORNEY AND LEGAL EVANGELIST. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. WE WANT TO POINT OUT TWO THINGS. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS DENIED ANY WRONGDOING AND HE HAS NOT BEEN TOLD HE IS BEING INDICTED FOR EXPLAIN TO US WHAT A TARGET IN THE CASE MEANS? HOW OFTEN DOES A TARGET IN AN INVESTIGATION EVENTUALLY BECOME INDICTED? >> QUITE OFTEN A TARGET OF AN INVESTIGATION ULTIMATELY BECOMES A DEFENDANT IN AN INDICTMENT. HERE I WOULD LIKE IT TO A TRAIN LEAVING THE STATION AND THE DEFENDANT NOW HAS THE CHOICE TO GO IN AND SPEAK TO THE GRAND JURY DIRECTLY TO TESTIFY HIMSELF , OR COULD SPEAK WITH THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND PROSECUTORS INVOLVED. IT'S ALMOST LIKE AN INVITATION. PROSECUTORS AT THIS POINT WANT MORE INFORMATION. THEY WANT ALL THE INFORMATION PRIOR TO BRINGING THE INDICTMENT. PRANCER TO BRINGING THE CHARGES. IF TRUMP DECIDE YOU ARE MEMBER OF THE TEAM WENT TO COME DIRECTLY INTO TESTIFY OR SPEAK WITH THE PROSECUTORS, THAT COULD POSSIBLY HELP HIM AT THIS MOMENT. BEYOND THAT, IT'S ALMOST LIKE AN INDICTMENT IS LOOMING IF HE DOESN'T STOP IT. IT'S PROBABLY GOING TO HAPPEN. >> THAT'S THE CLASSIFIED DOCUMENT CASE. SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH IS INVESTIGATING JANUARY 6 AND ACCORDING TO SOURCES FORMER TRUMP ALLIE STEVE BANNON WAS SUBPOENAED BY A FEDERAL GRAND JURY. BENNETT'S ATTORNEY DECLINED TO COMMENT BUT WHAT INFORMATION IS SMITH LOOKING TO GET FROM FANNIN AND HOW WILL THIS PLAY OUT? >> IT'S POSSIBLY HERE THE PROSECUTORS WILL BE WORKING MULTIPLE ANGLES AT THE SAME TIME. FIRST WHETHER OR NOT STEVE BANNON HIMSELF HAS ANY CRIMINAL LIABILITY AND DUE TO HIS LEVEL OF CENTRALITY AND THIS ENTIRE INVESTIGATION AND THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO AND AFTER THE JANUARY 6 INCIDENT, IT'S POSSIBLE HE COULD BE LOOKING AT CHARGES HIMSELF. HOWEVER, WHEN QUESTIONED BY THE JEN GRAND JURY IT'S LIKELY HE WOULD PLEAD THE FIFTH. IF THAT IS THE CASE THE PROSECUTOR COULD DECIDE, ARE THEY GOING TO OFFER HIM IMMUNITY IF THEY WANT FULL COOPERATION? THAT IS THE NEXT STEP. WILL HE PLEAD? WILL THERE BE IMMUNITY INVOLVED? IF THE PRIMARY AND ONLY TARGET IS TRUMPED, IT SEEMS LIKELY THEY WOULD WANT FULL INFORMATION FROM FANNIN AT THIS POINT BECAUSE HE IS ONE OF THE CENTRAL FIGURES WHO HAS INTIMATE INFORMATION OF TRUMP'S STATE OF MIND OF WHAT HE WAS THINKING AND HOW PREMEDITATED ANY OF THIS WAS. >> IF TRUMP WERE TO BE INDICTED AND ONE OF THESE INVESTIGATION , DOES ONE ESSENTIALLY IMPACT THE OTHER? WHAT ARE THE LEGAL RAMIFICATIONS OF FORMER PRESIDENT POSSIBLY FACE AS WE NEAR A DECISION? >> THEY DON'T NECESSARILY IMPACT EACH OTHER AND THERE IS A WIDE VARIETY OF CHARGES THAT COULD BE BROUGHT. AND IN MULTIPLE JURISDICTIONS. AT THIS POINT IT'S UP TO THE DISCRETION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. AND ULTIMATELY IN THE HANDS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL HIMSELF. HOWEVER, I WOULD SAY THIS IS NOT JUST A LEGAL STORM. THIS IS A LEGAL TORNADO. HAVING TO BATTLE ONE INDICTMENT IS ENOUGH BUT WHEN THINGS ARE BREWING ACROSS THE COUNTRY, HE IS IN FOR A VERY STRESSFUL NEXT YEAR. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. >>> POPE FRANCIS IS RECOVERING AFTER A THREE HOUR OPERATION ON WEDNESDAY TO REPAIR A HERNIA. DOCTORS SAY THE PONTIFF MADE IT THROUGH THE SURGERY WITH NO COMPLICATIONS. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT MEGAN FITZGERALD IS OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL IN ROME AND JOINS US WITH THE LATEST. >> Reporter: GOOD MORNING. THE VATICAN SAYS THE POPE IS DOING WELL. NO COMPLICATIONS. HE SLEPT WELL AND LONG OVERNIGHT FOR HE WILL REMAIN IN THE HOSPITAL FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AS HE CONTINUES HIS JOURNEY TO RECOVERY. THIS MORNING, POPE FRANCIS IS WAKING UP IN A ROME HOSPITAL RECOVERING FROM INTESTINAL SURGERY AFTER BEING TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. THE VATICAN SAY THERE WERE NO COMPLICATIONS >> THE ANESTHESIA WAS WELL TOLERATED BY THE POPE. NOW HE IS AWAKE. HE IS FINE AND HE IS ALREADY AWAKE. >> Reporter: BUT YOU WOULD NOT KNOW BY WATCHING THE POPE HAS BEEN IN SPAIN FOR THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS. SMILING AND WAVING HOLDING AUDIENCE BEFORE HEADING TO SURGERY ON WEDNESDAY. IT'S THE LATEST IN A STRING OF HEALTH ISSUES PLAGUING THE PONTIFF FOR IN 2021 HE SPENT 10 DAYS IN THE HOSPITAL HAVING 13 INCHES OF HIS COLON MAC REMOVED. THE POPE COMPLAINED OF BAD LONG- TERM SIDE EFFECTS OF FROM GENERAL ANESTHESIA. THAT EXPERIENCE CAUSING HIM TO OPT OUT OF SURGERY FOR A PAINFUL KNEE ISSUE, WHICH IS WHY SOME BATACLAN ANALYSTS BELIEVE THE SURGERY WEDNESDAY -- >> THIS IS THE FASTEST THE POPE HAS AGREED. THAT MEANS IT WAS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. REMEMBER POPE FRANCIS SUFFERING FROM PSYCHOTIC A, AILMENTS THAT HAVE CAUSED THEM TO USE A WHEELCHAIR AND CAME. THE 86-YEAR-OLD HOSPITALIZED IN MARCH FOR BRONCHITIS. SHORTLY AFTER BEING DISCHARGED, HE WAS PRESIDING OVER PALM SUNDAY AND EASTER SUNDAY MASS. >> THE POPE WAS A TROOPER AND IS DETERMINED TO SERVE THE CHURCH. HE HAS A HEALTH HISTORY THAT'S A LITTLE COMPLICATED BUT IS DETERMINED TO CONTINUE WITH HIS AGENDA. REMAKE THE HEALTH CONCERNS NOT SEEMING TO SLOW POPE FRANCIS DOWN. THE PONTIFF EVEN BAPTIZING A BABY WHILE RECOVERING IN A HOSPITAL IN MARCH. DOCTORS SAY POPE FRANCIS WILL BE CLEAR TO TRAVEL ONCE HE RECOVERS. THAT IS GOOD NEWS BECAUSE HE HAS A JAM-PACKED SCHEDULE IN AUGUST WHERE HE IS EXPECTED TO VISIT PORTUGAL AND MONGOLIA. >> THANK YOU. >>> COMING UP. CONTINUING COVERAGE OF THOSE DEVASTATING CANADIAN WILDFIRES AND THE IMPACT THAT SMOKE AND SMOG IS HAVING ON THE PLANET. AND TODAY IT'S WORLD OCEANS DA . >>> NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE HIGH-PROFILE DISAPPEARANCE OF NATALEE HOLLOWAY. THE SUSPECT IN THAT CASE IS BEING HANDED OVER TO THE FBI INVESTIGATING ANOTHER CASE EVERYTHING AND EVEU ARE TALKING ABOUT. ONLY ON TODAY. >>> BACK WITH AN NBC NEWS EXCLUSIVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT BY CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM ON GUN CONTROL WHICH COULD HAVE A NATIONAL IMPACT. OUR CORRESPONDENT SAT DOWN WITH GOVERNOR NEWSOM AND HAS THIS REPORT. >> WHY A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AND WHY NOW? >> BY NOW IS EVIDENT BUT A LOT OF THESE LAWS ARE BEING ROLLED BACK BY THE FEDERAL COURTS. >> NOT: FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT. >> THIS IS AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS. >> Reporter: SINGH IS FED UP WITH THE CONGRESS AND ABILITY TO ACT, CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR NEWSOM IS PROPOSING SOMETHING NEVER DONE BEFORE AND GUN CONTROL. HAVING STATES WORK TOGETHER TO PASS A U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ON GUNS THAT WOULD IMPLEMENT FOUR MEASURES TO RAISE THE MINIMUM AGE FOR BUYING A FIREARM TO 21. MANDATE PERSONAL BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR REQUIRE A REASONABLE WAITING PERIOD FOR GUN PURCHASES AND BANNED THE SALE OF ASSAULT RIFLES TO CIVILIANS. TO ACHIEVE THIS HE NEEDS TWO THIRDS OF STATES TO PROPOSE THE SAME AMENDMENT THAT WOULD TRIGGER CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION WHERE THREE QUARTERS OF STATES WOULD HAVE TO VOTE YES FOR IT TO PASS. >> MORE THAN HALF OF THESE LEGISLATURES ARE CONTROLLED BY REPUBLICANS. HOW WILL THIS HAPPEN? >> THE CONSTITUENCY DEMANDS IT AGREEMENT RECENT FOX NEWS POLL FOUND MOST AMERICANS ARE IN FAVOR. >> IS THAT A PARENT OUT THERE THAT DOESN'T THINK ABOUT THESE THINGS. >> Reporter: YOU KNOW WHAT THE CRITICS WILL SAY. CALIFORNIA HAS SOME OF THE STRICTEST GUN LAWS IN THE NATION AND IN THE FIRST MONTH OF THE YEAR, 18 PEOPLE WERE KILLED. THAT'S WHAT THEY WILL SAY. >> CALIFORNIA'S GUN DEATH RATE TODAY IS 73% LOWER THAN TEXAS. THESE FEDERAL JUDGES WANT TO TURN AMERICA INTO TEXAS. WE CANNOT LET THAT HAPPEN. >> Reporter: THE 19th AMENDMENT GAVE WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE AND IT TOOK 40 YEARS. DO YOU THINK THE 28th AMENDMENT IF PASSED WILL HAPPEN IN YOUR LIFETIME? >> I HOPE SO. IF YOU DON'T START, IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. >> JACOB JOINS US NOW BUT WE NEED TO THINK BACK TO OUR POLY PSYCH CLASS TO SEE HOW THIS WORKS BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T SEEN A PRACTICALLY HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE FOR SO LONG AGO AS YOU POINT OUT, TO GET THE AMENDMENT OFF THE GROUND CALIFORNIA WE NEED TO BE JOINED BY TWO THIRDS OF OTHER STATES. HAS GOVERNOR NEWSOM SHORT OF SUPPORT? >> IT NEVER HAPPEN IN THE WAKE GOVERNOR NEWSOM IS TRYING TO DO IT. PROPOSING A CONSTITUTIONAL AND THEN OUTSIDE OF CONGRESS. HE SAID NOT YET WHEN IT COMES TO SHORING UP SUPPORT BUT IT'S HIS FIRST LINE OF BUSINESS. THIS WILL BE AN UPHILL BATTLE, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU NEED TO CONVINCE MORE OF THE STATES OF REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED LEGISLATURES TO GO ALONG WITH IT. >> JACOB, THANK YOU. >>> AND NOW ONE OF THE MOST HIGH PROFILE MISSING CASES PERSONS IS BEING EXTRADITED BACK TO THE U.S. THIS MORNING JORAN VAN DER SLOOT, THE PRIME SUSPECT IN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF NATALEE HOLLOWAY WAS TRANSPORTED FROM A PRISON IN LIMA, PERU, TO THE AIRPORT. HE'S FACING EXTORTION AND WIRE FRAUD CHARGES RELATED TO HER DISAPPEARANCE. HERE IS MORE. >> Reporter: THIS MORNING 35 YEAR-OLD JORAN VAN DER SLOOT, THE PRIME SUSPECT IN NATALEE HOLLOWAY'S DISAPPEARANCE NEARLY TWO DECADES AGO , IS BEING HANDED OVER TO THE FBI. HE IS FACING FEDERAL WIRE FRAUD AND EXTORTION CHARGES IN ALABAMA FOR PROMISING INFORMATION TO NATALIE'S MOTHER ABOUT HOW HER DAUGHTER DIED AND WHERE HER BODY WAS LOCATED FOR AUTHORITIES SAY HE ASKED FOR A QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS, BUT WAS GIVEN $25,000 IN AN FBI STING OPERATION. GANDER SLITS LAWYER CLAIMS HIS CLIENT WAS TRICKED INTO IT. ALLEGATIONS THE HOLLOWAY FAMILY TELLS NBC NEWS ARE UNTRUE. JORAN VAN DER SLOOT IS CURRENTLY 28 YEAR SENTENCE FOR THE MURDER OF A WOMAN IN PERU, STEPHANY FLORES. HE WILL BE FLOWN FROM LIMA TO BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, BY AMERICAN AUTHORITIES WHERE HE COULD FACE A JUDGE AS SOON AS TODAY. >> YOU ARE TO BE ARRAIGNED ON THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM. THE OTHER IS THE DECISION WILL NEED TO BE MADE ABOUT WHETHER TO KEEP HIM IN CUSTODY PENDING TRIAL. THAT WOULD SEEM TO BE A FOREGONE CONCLUSION. >> Reporter: THE MOVE TO THE U.S. HAPPENED DESPITE A LAST DITCH EFFORT BY JORAN VAN DER SLOOT'S LAWYER TO FIGHT HIS SURRENDER AFTER ORIGINALLY ENTERING TO IT . JOYCE VANCE, A FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY, SIGNED THE ORIGINAL INDICTMENT IN 2010. >> BECAUSE THERE IS NO WAY OF PROVING BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT THAT SHE IS DEAD, THERE IS NO WAY TO CHARGE THIS CASE AS A MURDER. IT WILL BE JUSTICE AND IT WILL MATTER. >> Reporter: 18-YEAR-OLD NATALEE HOLLOWAY VANISHED DURING HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION TRIP TO ARUBA IN 2005. AUTHORITIES SAY JORAN VAN DER SLOOT AND SEVERAL OTHERS WERE WITH HER THE LAST NIGHT SHE WAS SEEN ALIVE HER REMAINS HAVE NEVER BEEN FOUND BUT TODAY, ALONG AWAIT FOR RECKONING FOR HER FAMILY IS ONE STEP CLOSER TO REALITY? >> HE FACES EXTORTION CHARGES IN THE U.S. AND THEN JUSTICE IS NOT BEING SERVED. >>> INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES ARE STARTING WITH THE LATEST FROM THE DAM BREACH IN UKRAINE. >> MATT BRADLEY JOINS US WHAT THE LATEST. GOOD MORNING. >> Reporter: GOOD MORNING. THE DESTRUCTION OF THAT COULD HAVE A CATASTROPHIC EFFECT ON THE SEARCH FOR LANDMINES. THIS COMES AS A WARNING FROM THE RED CROSS. LANDMINES DISLODGED BY FLOODING POSE RISKS FOR CIVILIANS AND THE RESCUE WORKERS WHO ARE TRYING TO EVACUATE PEOPLE FROM THE FLOOD ZONE FOR RUSSIA AND UKRAINE HAVE BLAMED EACH OTHER FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE KAKHOVKA DAM THIS WEEK, WHICH BREACHED EARLY TUESDAY AND FLOODED LOW-LYING REGIONS AROUND THE DNIEPER RIVER. ABOUT 3000 ARE NEARLY 3000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN EVACUATED FROM THE REGION. FIVE PEOPLE HAVE DIED BECAUSE OF THE FLOODING ACCORDING TO RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES . >>> AND IN AFRICA, SENEGAL SAID IT WILL TEMPORARILY CLOSE ITS OVERSEAS CONSULATE IN FRANCE, ITALY AND THE UNITED STATES FOLLOWING POLITICAL PROTESTS AGAINST THE POPULAR OPPOSITION LEADER. PROTESTS IN THE CAPITAL BROKE OUT LAST WEEK. >>> THE CONSULATE BUILDING MILAN WAS THE WORST HIT ACCORDING TO THE SENEGAL FOREIGN MINISTRY. THE ITALIAN NEWS AGENCY SAID DOZENS OF PROTESTERS LOOTED THE CONSULATE ON MONDAY AND SENEGAL'S FOREIGN MINISTRY SAID MACHINES FOR MAKING PASSPORTS AND NATIONAL IDENTITY CARDS WERE DESTROYED. THE OPPOSITION LEADER WAS SENTENCED LAST WEEK ON CHARGES OF CORRUPTING YOUTH SO HE HAS NOT BEEN ARRESTED. THAT CHARGE WAS IMMORAL BEHAVIOR AGAINST A PERSON YOUNGER THAN 21. >>> AND YOUR BIG GREEK DIVERS THAT HE'S LOCATED THE REMAINS OF A LONG-LOST PURCHASE SUBMARINE THAT WENT MISSING DURING WORLD WAR II. THE VETERAN GREEK DIVER WHO SPECIALIZES IN THESE FINDS THAT HE LOCATED THE HMS TRIUMPH IN AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION UNDER THE AGING AND SEE PICK THIS UP AT BEEN DECLARED MISSING IN JANUARY 1942 WITH 64 PEOPLE ON BOARD, BUT THE SEARCH FOR THE SHIPWRECK HAS BEEN GOING ON SINCE THE LATE 1990s.'S PINNACLE DISCOVERY. THANK YOU. >>> COMING UP HERE COVERAGE OF THE AIR-QUALITY NIGHTMARE IMPACTING MILLIONS OF AMERICANS. >> WE WILL CLEAR THE AIR AFTER THE BREAK ON HOW THIS SMOG CAN AFFECT YOUR HEALTH WE HAVE OUR DOCTOR ON CALL NEXT. >>> STAY. >> EVERY NIGHT IT'S YOUR NEWS PLAYLIST. TOP STORY WITH TOM LLAMAS STREAMING WEEKNIGHTS AT 7:00 ON NBC NEWS NOW. >>> BACK WITH BREAKING NEWS. CONSERVATIVE EVANGELIST AND MEDIA MOGUL PAT ROBERTSON HAS DIED FOR LONGTIME RELIGIOUS LEADER AND ACTIVIST GALVANIZE THE MODERN CHRISTIAN RIGHT AND CULTIVATED A MASSIVE NATIONAL FOLLOWING. HE CREATED THE CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK AND FOUND THE CHRISTIAN COALITION WHICH HAS BECOME ONE OF THE CORNERSTONES OF THE MODERN REPUBLICAN PARTY. PAT ROBERTSON REGULARLY DREW CRITICISM FOR HIS STATEMENTS ABOUT THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY AND OTHER MINORITY GROUPS. HE WAS 93 YEARS OLD AND THEY WILL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THIS AND BRING LATEST AS IT COMES IN THROUGH THE MORNING. >>> RETURNING TO COVERAGE OF THE IMPACT THE SMOKE FROM THOSE CANADIAN WILDFIRES IS HAVING IN SEVERAL STATES. >> 120 MILLION PEOPLE ARE AT RISK DUE TO AIR QUALITY TODAY WITH 100 MILLION DUE TO THE WILDFIRE SMOKE. NEW YORK CITY IS ONE OF THE WORST HIT AREAS AIR-QUALITY ADVISERS ARE IN PLACE FOR ALL FIVE BOROUGHS. WE HAVE OUR NBC MEDICAL FELLOW JOINING US TELL US ABOUT THE IMPACT ON OUR HEALTH AND HOW CONCERNED SHOULD WE BE WHEN SPENDING ANY TIME OUTSIDE? >> IT WILL DEPEND ON WHO YOU ARE. FOR MOST PEOPLE WHO HAVE HEALTHY IMMUNE SYSTEMS AND NOT A LOT OF CHRONIC CONDITIONS THIS WILL BE A TRANSIENT SOURCE OF IRRITATION. I THINK A LOT OF US HAVE FELT THAT WALKING AROUND. YOU HAVE ITCHY EYES AND MAYBE YOUR THROAT AND EYES ARE ITCHY. FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LUNG CONDITIONS LIKE ASTHMA, MAYBE YOU SMOKE OR YOU HAVE COPD OR YOU COULD BE PREGNANT OR OVER THE AGE OF 65. WE WORRY ABOUT THESE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY COULD DEVELOP BREATHING PROBLEMS. IF THERE'S A LOT OF SMOKE AND POLLUTION IN THE AIR, YOU COULD SEE THAT EXACERBATE INFLAMMATION IN THE LUNGS CAUSING BREATHING PROBLEMS WHICH WILL ULTIMATELY LAND YOU IN THE HOSPITAL. >> YOU MENTIONED THE SYMPTOMS PEOPLE MAY BE EXPERIENCING BECAUSE OF THE AIR POLLUTANTS FOR HOW DO YOU KNOW IF IT'S SERIOUS? >> GREAT QUESTION. THE SYMPTOMS WILL DEPEND ON WHO YOU ARE BUT FOR MOST PEOPLE THEY WILL SEE IRRITATION. THE HEADACHES AND IRRITATED EYES. THE THROAT MAY BE SCRATCHY. YOU MAY HAVE DIFFICULTY BREATHING. AND THAT'S THE BIG SYMPTOMS. IF YOU START TO DEVELOP THAT'S, CALL YOUR DOCTOR OR HEAD TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM. IF YOU FIND YOU CAN CATCH HER BREATH AND MAYBE YOU'RE HAVING CHEST PAIN ARE GASPING FOR AIR, THAT IS THE RED LIKE. >> AND IT SOUNDS LIKE SO FAR IT'S BEEN OKAY IN TERMS OF HOSPITALS IN NEW YORK? >> WE TALKED TO THE MAJOR HOSPITALS IN THE CITY AND THEY HAVE NOT SEEN THAT SPIKE IN EMERGENCY ROOM VISITS FOR ASTHMA OR FLAREUPS LIKE THAT FOR WE DID TALK TO A PULMONOLOGIST IN NEW JERSEY WHO SAID A LOT OF HER PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC DISEASES ARE HAVING SOME TROUBLE AND SHE HAS HAD TO HAD SENT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM. OVERALL SPEAKING WE HAVE NOT SEEN A BIG SPIKE. THE HOSPITALS HERE TELL US THEY ARE PREPARED SHOULD THAT HAPPEN. >> MAYBE DUST OFF THOSE MASKS. >> THIS N95 IS DESIGNED TO PROTECT FROM SMALL PARTICLES FROM SMOKE FROM GETTING INTO YOUR NOSE AND MOUTH AND YOUR BLOODSTREAM AVOID USING THE SURGICAL MASKS OR CLOTHS MASKS. THEY ARE DESIGNED TO PREVENT THOSE TINY PARTICLES. IF YOU WANT TO BE EVEN MORE PROTECTED AT HOME, A HEPA FILTER RANGE FROM 50 TO $1000 CAN PREVENT THOSE LITTLE, FINE PARTICLES FROM CIRCULATING IN YOUR HOUSE. >> I HAVE THE FAN IN THE FILTER GOING LAST NIGHT BECAUSE WE LIVE HIGHER UP AND IT FELT LIKE WE WERE GETTING MORE SMOKE BECAUSE OF WHERE WE LIVE. >> YOU COULD SMELL IT AND OUR APARTMENT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. >>> THIS YEAR DRAG QUEENS UP IN THE FOCUS OF ANTI-LGBTQ LEGISLATION AROUND THE COUNTRY WITH SOME LAWMAKERS PUSHING TO RESTRICT PERFORMANCES. ONE SUCH LAW IN TENNESSEE WAS DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL BY A FEDERAL JUDGE. FOR IN DEPTH SPECIAL, PRIDE 2023 , I SPOKE ABOUT THIS LEGISLATION WOULD TWO DRAG SUPERSTARS. ONE A POLITICAL ACTIVIST AND ANOTHER ATV PERSONALITY AND ACTOR. >> WHEN WE HEAR FROM LAWMAKERS WHO ARE PROMOTING ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATION ON LEGISLATION AIMED AT DRAG PERFORMANCES WE HEAR THEM SAY IT'S ABOUT CHILDREN AND PROTECTING CHILDREN. WHEN YOU HEAR THAT, WHAT IS YOUR RESPONSE? >> IT IS NOTHING TO DO WITH PROTECTING CHILDREN. ESSENTIALLY AS A DRAG QUEEN I AM JUST AS DRESSED UP AS A DISNEY PRINCESS AT DISNEYLAND. AND IT'S NOT IMPACTING CHILDREN AT ALL. WHAT IT IS IS TRULY COMING FOR TRANS INDIVIDUALS WHEN THEY DO THIS ANTI-DRAG LEGISLATION AND IT'S CRAZY TO ME. >> WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE KEY TO COMBATING THE NARRATIVE AND TO GETTING PEOPLE TO FEEL MORE COMPASSION FOR THE LGBT CUTE COMMUNITY AMID ALL THE LEGISLATION WE'VE SEEN THE PAST FEW YEARS? >> I REALLY THINK, I RELATE IT TO PEOPLE WHO REALLY DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND DON'T KNOW HOW YOU LIVE AND JUDGE YOU BASED ON THAT. THEM NOT KNOWING YOUR. >> A LOT OF IT IS PEOPLE BEING UNEDUCATED. PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF WHAT THEY DON'T KNOW. >> ON TOP OF THAT, WE ARE PEOPLE. WE GO THROUGH THE SAME THINGS ANY HETEROSEXUAL OR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL YOURSELF -- WE HAVE GONE THROUGH THE SAME THING, IF NOT MORE. AND PEOPLE ASK ME, WHAT IS TRACK TO YOU? DRAG IS TOTAL LIBERATION WHEN WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PERFORM OR TO BE IN FRONT OF PEOPLE, THAT IS OUR OPPORTUNITY TO RELEASE WHATEVER IS GOING ON. AND WE SHARE EVERYTHING WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH ON STAGE THROUGH PERFORMANCE. DRAG IS LOVE. AND HAT'S THE MESSAGE. >> TUNE INTO OUR SPECIAL TONIGHT FOR MORE ON THIS TOPIC AND OTHERS IMPACTING THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY. IT'S CALLED PRIDE 2023 OUT FRONT AND STREAMS AT 10:30 P.M. EASTERN RIGHT HERE ON NBC NEWS. >>> COMING UP. A SHOCK TO THE WORLD OF GOLF. >> BE PUBLIC BACKLASH FROM BOTH GOLFERS AND ANALYSTS SURROUNDING THAT SURPRISE HIGH PROFILE MERGER OF THE PG NEWS FOR THE GENERATION OF NOW. NBC NEWS NOW. >>> WE ARE BACK WITH MORE ON THAT SHOCK MERGER IN THE GOLFING WORLD. THIS MORNING THERE IS GROWING BACKLASH TO UNITE THE PGA TOUR WITH ITS FORMER BIT IS BITTER RIVAL, L.I.V. GOLF. THERE ARE ALSO UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW THIS WILL WORK. HERE IS THE LATEST. >> IT'S HARD FOR ME TO NOT SIT UP HERE AND FEELS SOMEWHAT LIKE A SACRIFICIAL LAMB. >> Reporter: GOLF SUPERSTAR RORY McILROY AMONG THOSE SURPRISED BY THIS WEEK'S STUNNING SHIFT IN THE SPORT. THE PGA TOUR ANNOUNCED IT PLANS TO PARTNER WITH SAUDI ARABIA'S PUBLIC INVESTMENT FUND CREATING A NEW FOR-PROFIT COMPANY, ALONG WITH THE PGA EUROPEAN TOUR. >> IT'S A MONUMENTAL CHANGE TO THE ENTIRE STRUCTURE OF THE SPORT. >> Reporter: PROFESSIONAL GOLF HAS CHANGED AFTER THE PAST TWO YEARS AFTER THE L.I.V. TOUR DISRUPTED THE GAME. POACHING BIG NAME PLAYERS FROM THE PGA WITH HUGE PAYCHECKS. TRIGGERING LAWSUITS AND FEELING ANIMOSITY AMONG TOP PLAYERS AND FANS. THE PGA COMMISSIONER JAY MONAHAN OFFERING THIS REASSURANCE. >> I SAY THE LOYALTY WILL BE REWARDED. >> Reporter: WHEN YOU HEAR COMMISSIONER MONAHAN SAY THAT LOYALTY WILL BE REWARDED, PRACTICALLY, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? >> HE HAS A BLANK CHECK BOOK NOW TO MAKE THESE PROBLEMS DISAPPEAR. >> Reporter: RORY McILROY, A FOUR-TIME MAJOR CHAMP IN THE MOST OUTSPOKEN CRITIC ADDRESSING THE TENSION THAT NOW EXIST. >> THERE HAS TO BE CONSEQUENCES TO ACTIONS. THE PEOPLE THAT LEFT THE PGA TOUR IRREPARABLY HARMED PICK WE CAN'T JUST WELCOME THEM BACK IN. THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. >> Reporter: THE NEW PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT IS PENDING LITIGATION AND COMMISSIONER MONAHAN IS FACING CRITICISM BE ON THE GOLF COURSE. VICTIMS OF 9/11 PROTESTED L.I.V. GOLF -- AND ALLEGED TIES TO TERRORISM SAY MONAHAN BETRAYED THEM. >> I DID NOT COMMUNICATE TO VERY IMPORTANT CONSTITUENTS, INCLUDING THE FAMILIES OF 9/11 AND I REGRET THAT. I REALLY DO. >> Reporter: WITH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS EXPECTED TO BE INVESTED IN THE FUTURE OF GOLF, EVEN McELROY BELIEVES ULTIMATELY IT WILL BE GOOD FOR THE SPORT. >> AT THE END OF DAY MONEY TALKS. >> THANK YOU FOR THAT REPORT. WE ARE WAITING FOR ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS LIKE WHAT PENALTIES WILL L.I.V. PLAYERS PAY VERSUS HOW PGA MEMBER LOYALTIES COULD BE PAID BACK. WE DO KNOW GOLFERS WILL BE PLAYING FOR MORE MONEY THAN EVER BEFORE AS A RESULT OF THIS DEAL. >>> ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ROBOTS ARE HARD AT WORK ON AMERICA'S FARMS. AND IT'S NOT JUST NEW COMPANIES JUMPING ON BOARD. OLD-SCHOOL AGRICULTURAL BRANDS ARE JOINING THE AI MOVEMENT. OUR TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDENT JACOB WARD HAS MORE AS PART OF OUR AI REVOLUTION SERIES. >> Reporter: OKAY. YES. IT'S A KILLER ROBOT WITH AN AI BRING BUT HEAR ME OUT. IT KILLS THE WEEDS. ON A 2000 ACRE ORGANIC FARM IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA, THIS ONE $.2 MILLION MACHINE DOES THE WORK OF 30 PEOPLE 24 HOURS A DAY. >> THE MACHINE IS THINKING. IT'S LEARNING AND UNDERSTANDIN . >> Reporter: WHAT A IS GREAT AT TELLING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THINGS. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SHARD AND A WEED AND KILLING THE WEEDS WITH LASERS. THE CEO INVENTED A SYSTEM THAT FRIES THE WEEDS TO SMALL FOR A HUMAN HAND TO GRASP. THESE BURSTS LAST MILLISECOND. THE FIELD SMELLS LIKE BURNT POPCORN. >> THE TRICK IS THE LASERS DISRUPT THE CELLULAR CYCLE WITHIN THE PLANT WITH HEAT ENERGY. >> Reporter: IT TAKES A RACK OF SERVICE TO RECOGNIZE 40 CROPS AND 80 TYPES OF WEEDS. >> THIS MACHINE HAS MORE COMPUTER POWER THAN 24 TESLAS. ESSENTIALLY A MOBILE DATA CENTER. >> Reporter: THE FARM OWNER SAID THE LASER READER WILL PAY FOR ITSELF IN A SINGLE YEAR AND SOLVES A SINGLE PROBLEM WHICH IS FINDING WORKERS. >> WERE NOT GETTING THE INFLUX OF FOLKS WHO WANT TO COME INTO THE FIELD. ON THE JOB BEHIND US WERE SOMEONE IS MAKING GOOD WAGE, IT'S EASY TO FIND THAT PERSON. >> Reporter: LABOR UNION SAID THEY WANT TECH TO MAKE THE WORK EASIER AS LONG AS WE DON'T SIMPLY TOSS PEOPLE ASIDE AFTER DECADES OF BRUTAL LABOR. >> TO THE EXTENT AUTOMATION CAN MAKE LIFE BETTER FOR FARMWORKERS AND MAKE THOSE JOBS LESS PHYSICALLY DEMANDING IN SAFER AND MORE DIGNIFIED, WE WELCOME IT. THE CONCERN IS AUTOMATION WILL ALLOW EMPLOYERS TO BASICALLY DISCARD THEM. >> Reporter: AI IS SPREADING THROUGH FARMING. THERE IS THE BROCCOLI BOUGHT OUT BY OREGON COLLEGE STUDENTS TO HARVEST THE VEGETABLES AND JOHN DEERE IS PLOWING AHEAD WITH SEVERAL TECHNOLOGIES. FOR PAUL IS ABOUT MORE THAN JUST ZAPPING WEEDS. >> THE DATA THAT COMES FROM THESE IMAGES WILL BE INCREDIBLY VALUABLE FOR FARMERS TO PREDICT WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE BASED ON PAST ACTIONS. >> Reporter: NOT JUST KILLING WEEDS, BUT HARVESTING THE FOOD THAT WE CAN USE TO MAKE CROPS BETTER. >> IF YOU TALK TO A FARMER THEY WILL TELL YOU IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT THE DATA, BUT THE INSIGHT YOU CAN GET FROM THE DATA. >> Reporter: THEY EXPECT AI WILL ALLOW ROBOTS TO WORK IN FIELDS AND FACTORIES IN ENTIRELY NEW WAYS. >> JAKE WARD, NBC NEWS. >>> GAME STOP IS MAKING MAJOR CHANGES TO ITS TOP BRASS. >> WE HAVE THAT AND OTHER MONEY NEWS. GOOD MORNING. >> Reporter: GOOD MORNING. GAME STOP HAS FIRED THE CEO AND APPOINTED RYAN COHEN AS EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. THE COMPANY DID NOT PROVIDE A REASON FOR THE FIRING PIN THE GAME SHOP SHARES DROPPED 20% IN TRADING ON THE NEWS AND: TOOK A STAKE IN GAME STOCK IN 2020 AND WAS NAMED TO THE BOARD IN JANUARY 2021 ON THE WITH TWO OTHER FORMER EXECUTIVES. THE CEO OF CANVAS TELLING CNBC DESPITE THE COMPANY MAKES EARNINGS REPORT HE IS COMPETENT -- ESPECIALLY PROFITABLE. THE CEO SAID CAMPBELL SOUP SALES HAVE BEEN BETTER THAN BEFORE THE PANDEMIC, ESPECIALLY AMONG MILLENNIAL CLIENTELE, MANY OF WHOM ARE GETTING OLDER AND STARTING FAMILIES. THEY OWN SEVERAL WELL-KNOWN FOOD AND SNACK LINES INCLUDING PEPPERIDGE FARM, SNYDER'S OF HANOVER, V-8 AND PREGO. >>> TWITCH IS REVERSING COURSE WITH ITS NEW BRAND OF CONTENT GUIDELINES ONE DAY AFTER THE ROLES WERE ANNOUNCED THE NEW RULES WERE SET TO GO INTO EFFECT JULY 1 AND WOULD HAVE RESTRICTED HOW ADS COULD APPEAR ON THE PLATFORM, BUT TWITCH CONTENT CREATORS WANT HAPPY AND TWITCH WALKING THE CHANGES BACK SAYING THESE GUIDELINES ARE BAD FOR YOU AND BAD FOR TWITCH AND WE ARE REMOVING THEM IMMEDIATELY. >> THANK YOU. >>> HAWAII'S KILAUEA VOLCANO IS ERUPTING AGAIN. THE VIDEO SHOWS A LOT ABOUT SPEWING FROM A CRATER AT THE SUMMIT. GEOLOGIST SAY THEY HAVE BEEN ON ALERT FOR WEEKS BECAUSE OF INCREASED SEISMIC ACTIVITY IN THE AREA. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS DO NOT BELIEVE THERE IS ANY THREAT TO THE PUBLIC AT THIS TIME BUT WILL KEEP AN EYE ON POTENTIAL HAZARDS. >>> TODAY IS WORLD OCEAN DAY AND MEANT TO BE A DAY OF AWARENESS AND ACTION AROUND THE WORLD'S LARGEST BODIES OF WATER IN THE CREATURES WHO LIVE IN THEM. >> ACCORDING TO WORLD OCEAN DAY.ORG, LAST YEAR MORE THAN 140 COUNTRIES CELEBRATED THE DAY THROUGH VARIOUS EVENTS AND ACTIONS WE ARE JOINED BY JEFF CORWIN, BIOLOGIST AND HOST OF AUCTION TRACKS. GOOD TO HAVE YOU WITH US. HAPPY WORLD OCEAN DAY TO YOU. THE NEWS TODAY IS THE AIR- QUALITY ISSUES THAT WE LARGELY SEE ON LAND BECAUSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE CANADIAN WILDFIRES, BUT TALK ABOUT HOW IS THE CLIENT CHANGING CLIMATE IMPACTING THE OCEAN? >> GOOD MORNING TO YOU BOTH. I'M ACTUALLY, THIS IS MY BACKYARD. I LIVE ON A LITTLE ISLAND OFF NEW ENGLAND AND I THINK ABOUT THE CHALLENGES WE FACE WITH THE OCEANS EVERY DAY HERE CLIMATE CHANGE IS HAVING A BIG IMPACT ON OUR OCEANS. FOR EXAMPLE, THE SMOKE THAT IS DRIFTING AND MEANDERING FROM CANDIDA, THAT I HAVE RIGHT HERE IN MY BACKYARD, THAT ACTUALLY ENTERS THE OCEAN FOR WE KNOW OUR OCEANS ARE WARMING BECAUSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE. THERE BECOMING MORE ACIDIC. THE BAY OF MAINE IS THE WARMEST BODY OF WATER THAT IS WARMING UP IN A PLANET. BECAUSE OF THAT IT IS CAUSED OUR NATIVE COD FISHERIES TO CRASH. THAT IS THE EXAMPLE AND IMPACT FROM CLIMATE CHANGE, NEVERMIND THE OTHER CHALLENGES WE FACE IN PROTECTING OUR PLANET'S OCEANS? >> I KNOW YOUR TEAM HAS CAPTURED QUITE A BIT OF DRAMATIC VIDEO. AND ONE WE WILL SHOW WHEN A MOMENT. THIS SHOWS SOME OF THESE ISSUES WE ARE FACING IN OUR OCEANS. THIS IS THE NORTH ATLANTIC WHITE WHALE ENTANGLEMENT FOOTAGE. TELL US ABOUT THIS. DESCRIBE TO US WHAT IS IN THIS VIDEO, AND HOW CLIMATE CHANGE AND POLLUTION IS IMPACTING THE SEA CREATURES. >> YOU ARE LOOKING AT VERY DRAMATIC FOOTAGE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE. PARTNERS INCLUDE THE NATIONAL ORGANIC ACID NEVER -- NOAA. THIS IS THE PRICE WE ARE PAYING. THIS IS THE NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALE. THE NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALE IS ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE. ONLY 340 INDIVIDUALS SURVIVE. THE ONLY PRODUCE 11 SURVIVING OFFSPRING THIS YEAR. WHAT IS IMPACTING THEM? THEY MIGRATE, LITERALLY, THEY MIGRATE THEIR WAY UP FROM THE SOUTH TO THE NORTH. THERE IS A MARINE MAMMAL RESCUE CENTER OF THE CAPE AND THEY HAVE BEEN INCREDIBLE RESEARCH BOAT KNOWN AS THE SONG OF THE WHALE. THEY, AND LOCAL RESEARCH PARTNERS, HAVE DETECTED THESE ANIMALS ARE GETTING ENTANGLED BY GHOST NETS AND FISHING GEAR. TALK ABOUT PLASTICS. WE COLLECTIVELY HAVE PUT, AND THIS IS A MIND-BOGGLING FIGURE. 363 BILLION POUNDS OF PLASTICS INTO THE OCEANS. SOME OF THIS PLASTIC, LIKE NETS, ENTANGLE THESE WHEELS TO GET TO THE BAY OF MAINE AND THEY CAN'T BE BECAUSE THE ECOSYSTEM IS CRASHING. THE OTHER CHALLENGE THEY FACE IS AS THEY ARE MIGRATING UP NORTH, THEY ARE GETTING HIT BY BOATS AND CONTAINER SHIPS. ALL OF THESE FACTORS ARE DRIVING THE SPECIES TO EXTINCTION. YOU MENTIONED FISHING. AROUND THE WORLD WE CONSUME ABOUT 150 MILLION TONS OF FISH EVERY YEAR. >> A DAY LIKE THIS IS A DAY TO RAISE AWARENESS SO WE CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT WE CAN DO DIFFERENTLY. WHAT ARE YOUR TOP TIPS FOR PEOPLE TO MAKE THE WORLD BETTER AND MAKE CHANGES? >> FOR EXAMPLE, WITH THE NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALE, WE HAVE STATE OF THE ART STRATEGICALLY DEPLOYED LOBSTER GEAR THAT CAN MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE. CHANGING THOSE SHIPPING LANES JUST A LITTLE BIT WILL GIVE THESE WHALES THE SPACE THEY NEED . PRODUCING PLASTICS WILL MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE. AND WE SEE RECOVERY WORKS. THIS WATER BEHIND ME AT ONE TIME FACED INCREDIBLE CONSERVATION CHALLENGES. IT'S NOT ONE OF THE CLEANEST BODIES OF WATER ON THE PLANET BECAUSE OF GOOD REGULATION AND CONSERVATION. IT'S NOT TOO LATE FOR AT THAT MOMENT IS NOW TO SAVE OUR PLANET OFFICE OCEANS AND CREATURES LIKE THE NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALE BEFORE WE LOSE THEM. >> A GREAT EXAMPLE BEHIND YOU THAT WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. >> I'M GOING TO GO FISHING IN ABOUT 10 MINUTES? >> GOOD LUCK. WE WISH YOU THE BEST. >> THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU ARE DOING. >>> COMING UP, OUR COUNTDOWN TO THE PARIS SUMMER OLYMPICS GAMES COMING UP NEXT YEAR. >> BEACON SYNONYMOUS WITH PARI . WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE EIFFEL TOWERCLOSE IT. YOU GOT TO SEE THIS. STAY TUNED NOW WEEKNIGHTS AT 8:00 EASTERN 5:00 PACIFIC ON NBC NEWS NOW. >>> THE WRESTLING WORLD IS MOURNING A LEGEND TODAY AFTER IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT WWE HALL OF FAMER HOSSEIN KHOSROW ALI VAZIRI HAS PASSED AWAY. YOU KNOW HIM AS THE IRON SHE CAN ONE THE MOST POPULAR RETROS OF THE PRE-POP 80s . HE WAS BORN IN IRAN BEFORE MOVING TO THE U.S. AND JOINING WHAT WOULD BECOME THE WWE. IN RECENT YEARS HE BECAME A SOCIAL MEDIA STAR WWE TWEETED THE IRON SHE BECAME A CULTURAL PHENOMENON TRANSCENDING AROUND A PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING TO BECOME A POP-CULTURE ICON. HE WAS THE EPITOME OF AN 80s BAD GUY BACK IN THOSE DAYS OF WRESTLING. HE MASTERED THE CAMEL CLUTCH IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING. >> I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THAT. >>> AND THE COUNTDOWN TO THE 2024 OLYMPICS IS ON AND ORGANIZERS IN PARIS ARE GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND TO MAKE THE GAMES AS SPECIAL AS POSSIBLE THEY ARE GETTING HELP FROM A CERTAIN LANDMARK. OUR CHIEF INTERNATIONAL TERRACE BONDED KERR SIMMONS IS JOINING US FROM PARIS WITH A INSIDE LOOK AT THE SURPRISING THING SET UP AHEAD OF THE GAME. GOOD MORNING. >> Reporter: GOOD MORNING. DID YOU KNOW THE EIFFEL TOWER USED TO BE READ? THIS COLOR IS THE COLOR THAT GUSTAF IFILL DESIGNED IT LIKE THE MOST. AND WE HAD A CHANCE TO MEET HIS GREAT, GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER WHO TOLD US WHY SHE IS SO PROUD ABOUT THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EIFFEL TOWER AND THE STATUE OF LIBERTY. >> Reporter: RISING MORE THAN 1000 FEET ABOVE THE CITY OF LIGHTS, AT NIGHT, ILLUMINATING THE PARIS SKYPE, THE EIFFEL TOWER IS ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC SITES IN THE WORLD. AND THE CENTERPIECE FOR THE OLYMPICS. IT WILL TOWER OVER THE EVENTS JUST AS IT DID THE LAST TIME BULIMICS WERE HERE 100 YEARS AGO. >> ABC NEWS WAS GIVEN ACCESS TO THE TOWER AND AN INCREDIBLE INSIGHT INTO IFILL HIMSELF WHO DESIGNED HER AND HELPED DESIGN ANOTHER BEACON. THE STATUE OF LIBERTY. THIS IS HIS GREAT-GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER. >> LOOK AT THIS. AS WITH SO MANY MODERN IDEAS, THE TOWER WAS NOT INITIALLY WELCOMED BY ALL PARISI AND >> IT WAS A SYMBOL OF POWER. >> Reporter: SHE IS MORE THAN 130 YEARS OLD SO IT TAKES A LITTLE TLC TO KEEP HER FUNCTIONING. >> THERE'S A LOT OF PAINTING. LOOK AT THIS JOINT. THERE ARE GUYS UP HERE. WE HAVE TO PAINT IT EVERY SEVEN YEARS TO PROTECT THE IRON. >> Reporter: THIS IS THE EIFFEL TOWER PRESIDENT AND HELPED MAKE PARIS MAKE OLYMPIC HISTORY AGAIN. >> THERE WAS A LIVE BROADCAST AND RADIO AND THE ANTENNA WAS THE EIFFEL TOWER. >> BENEATH THE TOWER EVER OPPORTUNITY TO SEE HOW THE ELEVATORS WORK. >> Reporter: WHAT COMES UP, MUST COME DOWN. THEY ARE HYDRAULIC POWERED USING WATER TAKING 100 TRIPS UP AND DOWN EACH DAY. IN THE 19th CENTURY THIS WAS AN ENGINEERING FEAT. HELPING FOLKS AVOID THE STAIRS. THERE ARE A LOT OF THEM BUT AMAZINGLY EIFFEL PREFERRED THEM . >> HE WOULD CLIMB THE STAIRS UP HERE EVERY DAY. >> HE HAD HIS OFFICE HERE. AND HE WENT EVERY DAY TO WORK. >> Reporter: SHALL WE MEET YOU ARE GREAT-GREAT-GRANDFATHER? THIS OFFICE IS STILL HERE TODAY. THIS IS AMAZING. >> MY GRANDFATHER WAS A VERY ACTIVE MAN. HE WAS A SWIMMER. >> Reporter: AND SPEAKING OF ATHLETES, THE TOWER WILL BE A FOCAL POINT OF THE OLYMPICS PICK SEVERAL EVENTS TAKING PLACE AT THE BASE. JUST DOWN THERE THE BEACH VOLLEYBALL. THE CENTERPIECE OF THE PARIS GAINS, LIKE HER AMERICAN COUSIN, THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, REPRESENTS A MESSAGE FROM THE PAST ABOUT BELIEVING IN THE FUTURE. ABOUT THE POWER OF HOPES AND DREAMS. FOR 24 YEARS THE EIFFEL TOWER WAS THE TALLEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD, SURPASSING THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT, WHICH MAKES IT THE PERFECT PLACE TO WATCH SOME OF THOSE OLYMPIC EVENTS. IF YOU DO GET TO COME HERE TO PARIS, REMEMBER YOUR SUNGLASSES AND ALWAYS BE ARMED WITH A GLASS OF ROSE. >> I WAS IN PARIS AND THAT THE TWO THINGS I DID AND I HAD ON ME ALL THE TIME. >>> THAT DOES IT FOR THIS HOUR OF MORNING NEWS NOW. THE NEWS CONTINUES
