>> MORE AND MORE SOCIAL MEDIA APPS OUT THERE. >> THANKS FOR BEING WITH US. WE BRING BEGIN WITH THE EXTREME WEATHER SWEEPING THE COUNTRY. >> IN THE NORTHEAST, TORRENTIAL RAINS FLOODED THE STREETS FORCING MORTAL MILLIONS TO BRING THEIR FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATIONS AND DOORS. AND OUT WEST THE SCORCHING TEMPERATURES ARE NOT RELENTING. FIREFIGHTERS IN WASHINGTON ARE BATTLING A MAJOR FIRE. A LEVER THREE WARNING WAS ISSUED FORCING DOZENS TO EVACUATE. 250 ACRES HAVE BEEN BURNED. TO THE CELL SOUTH MILLIONS REMAIN A HEAT ADVISORY AND IT'S ALREADY A RECORD-BREAKING SUMMER FOR HIGH TEMPERATURES. AND UNITED NATION OFFICIALS SAY COULD BE HERE TO STAY WITH EL NINO RETURN TO THE U.S. ALL THE SEVERE WEATHER HAVING A MAJOR IMPACT ON TRAVELERS LOOKING TO GET HOME AFTER WARM HOLIDAY WEEKEND FILLED WITH CELEBRATIONS AND ALL THREE NEW YORK AIRPORTS BROUGHT TO A HALT YESTERDAY BUT THE STORMS RAGED ON. GET THE LATEST ON THE STORMS IN THE HEAT WITH MICHELLE GROSSMAN. >>> GREAT TO SEE YOU. TRAVEL HOME COULD BE BUMPY AS WE ARE LOOKING AT ROAD CONDITIONS THAT COULD BE AFFECTED AND WE ARE UNSETTLED ONCE AGAIN WATCHING THE CHANCE FOR SEVERE STORMS AND YOU CAN ALREADY SEE STORMS ON THE RADAR AND AT THIS HOUR LOOKING AS STORMS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE COUNTRY THROUGH KANSAS, MISSOURI AND THAT WILL BE THE BULL'S-EYE THROUGH THE RUST OF THE DAY BUT ALSO IN THE SOUTHEAST TYPICAL STORMS POPPING UP WITH DAYTIME HEATING. WE WILL BE WATCHING BOTH OF THOSE THROUGHOUT THE DAY IN ADDITION TO THE HEAT BUT WE WILL SEE LIGHTNING, HEAR THUNDER IN PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL PLAINS. AND REAL HEAVY DOWNPOURS. IF YOU'RE TRAVELING ON THE ROADWAYS, WE WILL SEE FLOODED ROADWAYS AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. 29 MILLION PEOPLE AT RISK WITH WINDS GUSTING OVER 60 MILES PER HOUR. AN ISOLATED TORNADO OR TWO ESPECIALLY WHERE YOU SEE THE YELLOW COLORING AND IN CHICAGO A BIG HUB FOR THE AIRLINES, YOU CAN SEE SOME STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS AS YOU HEAD OUT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. TOMORROW, LOOKING AT THE RISK, NOT MOVING ALL THAT FAR BUT WE'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT THE CENTRAL PLAINS AND REALLY THE SAME SCENARIO WITH WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MILES PER HOUR, LARGE HAIL AND HUGE TORNADOES POSSIBLE. BIG RAINFALL AMOUNTS FROM 2 TO 3 INCHES AND WE COULD SEE 2 INCHES PER HOUR. A SUMMERLIKE STORM THAT DROPPED A LOT OF RAIN IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME. IN THE CAROLINAS YOU CAN SEE SOME RAIN BUT ALONG THE GULF COAST STATES IN THE SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL PLAINS. BECAUSE WE ARE EXPECTING HEAVY DOWNPOURS EXTENDING FROM GREEN BAY BACK TO THE ROCKIES AND ALSO SOUTHERN PART OF THE MID- ATLANTIC INTO THE CAROLINAS. TODAY TALKING ABOUT SEVERE STORMS, SHOWERS AND HUMID IN THE SOUTHEAST AND THE CAROLINAS AND MORE RECORD HEAT AND LOOKING AT 29 MILLION PEOPLE IMPACTED BY HEAT ALERTS WHETHER IT'S A HEAT ADVISORY OR EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING. TEMPERATURES ONCE AGAIN INTO THE TRIPLE DIGITS WITH RECORD- BREAKING TERRITORY ONCE AGAIN. TUCSON AND PHOENIX HOT, PORTLAND WELL ABOVE NORMAL AND IN MEDFORD 12 AND IT COULD CERTAINLY BE TIED IF NOT BROKEN. 106 IN EL PASO AND HOT IN THE SOUTHEAST. TAMPA TODAY AT 96 AND THAT COULD BE A RECORD BREAKER AS WELL. >>> WHERE LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE VICTIMS THIS MORNING FROM THE MASS SHOOTING IN PHILADELPHIA. FIVE PEOPLE KILLED AND TWO OTHERS INJURED AND POLICE SAY MAN WEARING BODY ARMOR OPENED FIRE OR NBC NEWS CORRESPONDENT HAS THE LATEST. >> THE 40-YEAR-OLD SUSPECT IN COURT AND A NUMBER OF CHARGES ARE EXPECTED TO BE ANNOUNCED, MULTIPLE MURDER CHARGES AND WEAPONS CHARGES. THE SHOOTERS TARGETED VICTIMS AT RANDOM IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND THEY SAID THE SUSPECT WAS WEARING A SKI MASK AND TAXABLE YEAR IN AIR 15 STYLE RIFLE, HANDGUNS AND WENT INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND LOADED AS MANY AS 50 ROUNDS ON PEOPLE AND AMONG THE INJURED TWO TWIN TODDLERS AND ONE SHOT IN THE LEG AND THE OTHER EYE INJURIES FROM SHATTERED GLASS AND TODAY WE'RE LEARNING MORE ABOUT FIVE VICTIMS KILLED INCLUDING A 15- YEAR-OLD, HIS MOTHER SPEAKING OUT SAYING SHE DEMANDS JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY AND YESTERDAY DURING A NEWS CONFERENCE, THE POLICE COMMISSIONER CALLED THE SHOOTING UP ORIENT BUT ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR A MOTIVE. INVESTIGATORS TRYING TO SPEAK WITH WITNESSES AND FIND VIDEO AND POLICE SAY VIDEO FROM A TRAFFIC CAMERA IS NOW PART OF THEIR INVESTIGATION THAT APPEARS TO SHOW WHAT MAY BE THE GOVERNMENT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AS HE OPENED FIRE. A LOT OF DETAILS TO LEARN FROM THIS PARTICULAR SHOOTING. YESTERDAY, OFFICIALS NOTED THERE WAS A SECOND SUSPECT WAS APPREHENDED AT THE SCENE AND OFFICIALS SAY THAT PERSON WAS LET GO AS IT DOES NOT APPEAR AT THIS TIME THAT THEY WERE SHOOTING AT THE SUSPECT AND WHAT APPEARS TO BE A CASE OF SELF-DEFENSE AND TODAY WE EXPECT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SHOOTING SUSPECT, AND NAME HAS BEEN FLOATING THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA AND OFFICIALS WILL NOT BE RELEASING IT UNTIL THE SUSPECT IS FORMALLY CHARGED. THAT ARRAIGNMENT IS EXPECTED TO HAPPEN SOMETIME THIS MORNING OR LATER TODAY AND WE WILL BRING YOU THE DETAILS AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE. >>> LET'S TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THIS WITH THEIR NBC NEWS NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST. IN THE PHILLY CASE THE POLICE SAY THE SUSPECT WORE A BULLETPROOF VEST AND HAD A POLICE SCANNER WITH HIM. TALK ABOUT THE CHALLENGES THAT OFFICERS FACE WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO STOP THE SUSPECT IN THE SHOOTING LIKE THIS. >> SO MUCH DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE WOULD SEE 20 YEARS AGO, SHOOTERS THAT ARE ARMED EVEN TO A GREATER DEGREE THAN THE ACTUAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, WEARING BODY ARMOR WHICH LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS USUALLY ARE WEARING BUT NOT IF THEY ARE OFF-DUTY. THEN THEY HAVE THE COMMUNICATION OF THE OFFICERS WERE TRYING TO APPREHEND THESE INDIVIDUALS. YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT NIGHTTIME SHOOTING, MOVING SHOOTING AND AS YOU CAN SEE FROM SOME OF THE CRIME SCENES, EXTENDED AREA OF GROUND WITH PEOPLE THAT ARE OBVIOUSLY TERRIFIED THAT ARE TRYING TO DEFEND THEMSELVES AND IT IS SUCH A CHALLENGING ENVIRONMENT FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT COMPARED TO ANY OTHER TIME IN OUR NATION'S HISTORY. >> IT WAS A DEADLY WEEKEND ACROSS THE COUNTRY. I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT ANOTHER SHOOTING IN FORT WORTH, TEXAS, MONDAY NIGHT. THREE PEOPLE KILLED AND EIGHT OTHERS INJURED MIRROR HOLIDAY GATHERING. SEVERAL VICTIMS FOUND IN A PARKING LOT. FOR POLICE, WHAT OTHER CHALLENGES THEY FACE WITH THE SHOOTING AS IT IS SUCH A BIG PUBLIC GATHERING? >> VERY CONSISTENT IN RECENT YEARS AND HOW DO YOU PREPARE IN TERMS OF PHYSICAL SECURITY WHEN YOU JUST DON'T KNOW, IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT A VULNERABILITY WE CAN GO BACK TO THE TRAGIC SHOOTING IN VEGAS FOUR YEARS AGO AND THESE SITUATIONS ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO FULLY PROTECT AND AFTER THAT, YOU DON'T KNOW WHO THE SHOOTER IS AND YOU LOOK AT THAT FOOTAGE AND COMPARED PHILADELPHIA, TWO VERY DIFFERENT SCENES. IN THE OTHER PLACE WE HAVE NIGHTTIME AND SOMEWHAT BUSY CITY STREET AND IT IS VERY DIFFICULT FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT, THEY DO NOT HAVE THREAT INTELLIGENCE AND DO NOT PREEMPTIVELY KNOW ABOUT THE SHOOTER. IT'S DIFFICULT RIGHT NOW FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT TO STAY AHEAD. >> ON THAT, IT IS SUMMER AND A TIME WHEN PEOPLE GET TOGETHER AT LARGE EVENTS WHETHER OUTDOOR CONCERTS OR PARADES. WHAT IS THE BEST ADVICE WE CAN ALL GET FROM YOU TO REMAIN VIGILANT AND TO STAY SAFE BUT ALSO ENJOY SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE WANT TO ENJOY THIS SUMMER? >> IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING. IT'S ALWAYS CRITICAL. JUST GETTING A TIP A FEW SECONDS OR MINUTES OF A WEIRD INDIVIDUAL IN THE CASE OF PHILADELPHIA, A RANDOM PERSON SHOWING UP IN BODY ARMOR WALKING DOWN THE STREET AND THOSE TIPS ONE REPORTED ARE INVALUABLE AND SECONDS CAN RESULT IN MANY LIVES BEING SAVED. OBVIOUSLY EVERYONE SHOULD ENJOY AN EVENT AND FEEL GOOD ABOUT LAW ENFORCEMENT WHICH ARE VERY PROFESSIONAL BUT AT THE SAME POINT IT SEEMS MORE TIMES IN TERMS OF HER RESPONSE . >> WE APPRECIATE YOUR EXPERTISE. >>> TURNING TO THE MIDDLE EAST, ISRAEL SAID IT ENDED ITS MILITARY ASSAULT ON THE REFUGEE CAMP ON OCCUPIED WEST CAMP. >> IN GAZA THEY FIRED ROCKETS TOWARD ISRAEL WHICH WERE SHOT DOWN AND PALESTINIANS ARE EMERGING FROM HOMES TO SURVEY THE DAMAGE AND DESTRUCTION LEFT BEHIND. AT LEAST 12 PALESTINIANS WERE KILLED AND MORE THAN 100 INJURED WHEN ISRAEL DESCRIBED AS THE COUNTERTERRORISM OPERATION AND A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE UN OFFICE OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS RAISED CONCERNS. >> DAMAGED STRUCTURES IN WHICH PEOPLE WERE LIVING AT THE CAMP AND SURROUNDING AREAS AND DUE TO DAMAGE TO INFRASTRUCTURE, MOST OF THE CAMP IS CURRENTLY WITHOUT DRINKING WATER AND THE ESTIMATION INDICATES MOST OF THE CAMP IS ALSO WITHOUT ELECTRICITY. FACILITIES SUSTAINED DAMAGE. >> JOINING US NOW TO DISCUSS IT IS THE PROFESSOR FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AND ALSO AUTHOR OF THE BOOK, THE ONE STATE REALITY, WHAT IS ISRAEL AND PALESTINE? AS WE HEARD FROM THE ONE THERE ARE CONCERNS OVER THE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN THE CAMP RIGHT NOW AND THE FOOTAGE OF THE AREA DOES NOT LOOK GOOD. A LOT THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN BEFORE WE GET TO CLEANUP AND RECONSTRUCTION AS THE VIOLENCE CONTINUES BUT WHAT DOES USUALLY HAPPEN IN A SITUATION LIKE THIS IN TERMS OF WHO IS GOING TO GO IN THERE AND HELP? >> THERE'S ALWAYS A DISASTER BECAUSE THERE IS NOT HELP THAT GOES TO THE CIVILIAN SECOND HURT AND MUSTER IN THE THOUSANDS AND MAYBE TENS OF THOUSAND TWO GET AFFECTED IN GENERAL. BECAUSE THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY WHICH HAS -- IS SUPPOSED TO TAKE CARE OF THE PEOPLE THERE IS BANKRUPT AND INCAPABLE OF ADDRESSING THE ISSUES THAT ARE AT HAND AND THE ISRAELI AUTHORITY HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT CIVILIANS AND IT HAS BEEN PART OF THE PROBLEM IN THIS CASE AND IS NOT GOING TO TRY TO HELP AND A LOT OF THE HELP WILL COME SOMETIMES FROM LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS AND A MUNICIPALITY WHICH IS ALSO NEARLY BANKRUPT BUT A LOT OF INTERNATIONAL AID AGENCIES PARTICULARLY ONE THAT HAS BEEN AN AGENCY CHARGED WITH HELPING PALESTINIAN REFUGEES OVER THE YEARS AND IT IS UNDER STRAIN AND MIKE GO BANKRUPT AND STARTED UNDER THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WHEN THEY WITHDREW THE AIDE AND PUT IT ON THE BRINK OF GOING OUT OF BUSINESS AND BIDEN RENEWED SOME OF THE AIDE BUT STILL IT IS IN BIG TROUBLE. YOU'VE GOT ALL THIS DEVASTATION AND EVEN ASIDE FROM DEALING WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS THAT YOU HAVE TO HOUSE AND FEED AND YOU'VE GOT THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT IS DEVASTATING, WATERLINE, SEWAGE LINE, ELECTRIC LINES AND ROADS AND HUNDREDS OF HOMES THAT COULD HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY THIS. WHO IS GOING TO TAKE CARE OF THAT AND YOU CREATE A NEW GENERATION OF DESPERATE PEOPLE, YOUNG CHILDREN WHO ARE WATCHING THIS AND ARE RENDERED HOMELESS. THIS IS A LAYER UPON LAYER OF HUMANITARIAN DISASTER AND THE POLICY IS ALREADY UNDER MILITARY OCCUPATION, WE ALWAYS LOOK AT IT WHEN THE GUN IS FIRED BUT WE HAVE A MILITARY OCCUPATION, A GUN IS ALWAYS PRESENT AND THE WHOLE ENVIRONMENT EVERY SINGLE DAY IS TRAGIC FOR PEOPLE. I THINK IT IS CHALLENGING . >> WE KNOW THE U.S. IS A MAJOR ALLY OF ISRAEL BUT THE GROWING CRITICISM ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF TAXPAYER MONEY FUND TO THE ISRAEL MINISTRY -- MILITARY AND WHAT KIND OF ROLE SHOULD WE SEE? >> THE UNITED STATES HAS -- NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS THE ECONOMIC AID AND THE MILITARY TECHNOLOGY GIVEN TO ISRAEL OVER ANYBODY ELSE AND OBVIOUSLY MOST COMES FROM THE U.S. AND THAT HAS BEEN REALLY INDEPENDENT AND THE U.S. CAN BE CRITICAL OF THE ISRAELI SETTLEMENT WHICH IS CONSIDERED TO BE WAR CRIMES ON INTERNATIONAL LAW BUT THERE HAS BEEN NO TIE IN BETWEEN THE AIDE AND WHAT ISRAEL DOES ON THE GROUND AND THAT'S WHY A LOT OF PEOPLE INCLUDING IN THIS BOOK YOU MENTIONED IN A RECENT ARTICLE, CALL THE U.S. ENABLERS BECAUSE ESSENTIALLY THERE ARE NO CONSEQUENCES SO THE FAR RIGHT IN ISRAEL IS NOT GOING TO BE AFFECTED BY WORDS OR GIVEN BY A STATEMENT FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT WHEN THE AIDE GOES AS USUAL. >> THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. >>> TOMORROW THE TREASURY SECRETARY IS SAID TO BEGIN A MAJOR VISIT TO CHINA TO SPEAK WITH SENIOR OFFICIALS AND IT WILL FOCUS ON ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL ISSUES AND COMES LESS THAN A MONTH AFTER ANTONY BLINKEN TRAVELED TO THE COUNTRY. THE AUTHOR OF THE COLLAPSE OF CHINA AND THE GREAT U.S. TECH WORK WITH AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS ON THE VISIT. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. TELL US WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE MAIN OBJECTIVE. WE ARE NOT EXPECTING MAJOR BREAKTHROUGHS BUT WHAT IS THE PURPOSE FOR THIS VISIT TO BEIJING? >> FOR THE BIDEN MINISTRATION IT'S TO REESTABLISH COMMUNICATIONS WITH CHINA AND THOSE COMMUNICATIONS HAVE BEEN ERODED BECAUSE CHINA HAS BROKEN OFF A NUMBER OF THE CHANNELS IN THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WANTS TO PUT THEM BACK TOGETHER SO THEY ARE DOWNPLAYING EXPECTATIONS OF THE RESULTS AND THIS IS TALKING ABOUT TALKING. >> HOW MUCH DO YOU THINK THIS VISIT AS WELL AS THE VISIT FROM SECRETARY BLINKEN WILL DO ANYTHING IN TERMS OF RESETTING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE U.S. AND CHINA, IS THERE HOPE? >> THIS IS REALLY UP TO CHINA WHETHER THEY WANT TO HAVE COMMUNICATIONS WITH US OR NOT AND ARE OFFICIALS ACTUALLY MAKE LIFE MORE DIFFICULT FOR THE U.S. BECAUSE CHINA HAS BEEN ENGAGED IN BELLIGERENT AND HOSTILE ACTIVITIES AND IT SHOULD BE THE CHINESE TRYING TO MEND RELATIONS . WE THINK WE ARE RESPONSIBLE BY TRYING TO TALK BUT THE CHINESE SEE IT COMING TO THE CHINESE CAPITAL, ACKNOWLEDGING SUBORDINATION AND SO THIS IS JUST FITTING THEIR ALREADY INFLATED SENSE OF SELF IMPORTANCE AND I DON'T THINK IT'S WORKING. AND WE HAVE SEEN OVER THE COURSE OF DECADES THAT IT HAS NOT WORKED. >> THIS MIGHT BE A STUMBLING BLOCK AND SOMETHING YOU TWEETED ABOUT EARLIER THIS WEEK. YOU SAID CHINA'S DIRECT AND CONTINUOUS SUPPORT OF THE RUSSIA WAR EFFORT IN UKRAINE MAKES THEM COMPLICIT IN A BARBARIC ACT OF THE RUSSIAN FORCES AND CLEARLY THE U.S. AND CHINA AREN'T DIFFERENT SIDES AT THE ROOT OF THIS AND WHAT IMPACT DOES THAT HAVE ON THE DISCUSSIONS AND ON HOPE OF REPAIRING A RELATIONSHIP? >> THE BIDEN MINISTRATION HAS PUT A LOT OF EFFORT TO GETTING CHINA TO BACK AWAY FROM IT SUPPORT WITH RUSSIA AND I THINK CHINA WOULD BE PROVIDING MORE ASSISTANCE IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE EFFORTS OF WASHINGTON BUT WE KNOW THE CHINESE HAVE SUPPLIED LETHAL AID AND WE KEEP ON WARNING ABOUT IT AND DO NOT IMPOSE THE SANCTIONS FOR DOING SOMETHING THAT THE CHINESE KNOW THAT WE KNOW THEY ARE DOING AND WE NEED TO START IMPOSING SOME COST
