the terrifying shooting spree, but the gun violence this weekend was not limited to philadelphia. three people were killed in fort worth, texas, another lost their lives in shreveport, louisiana, and nine were injured in a drive-by shooting in our nation s capital. we re live from philadelphia. this country needs to re-examine its conscience and find out how to get guns out of dangerous peoples hands. also this hour, a scorching day for most of the country after the world marked the unofficial hottest day on record yesterday. and later, suspected cocaine in the white house, the new steps in the investigation on how exactly the illegal drug ended up inside the west wing. we re going to begin this morning with the devastating outbreak of gun violence and the frantic search for answers in multiple communities including philadelphia, where the suspected philadelphia mass shooter appeared in court for the first time since five people were gunned down. no cameras or phones wer
un-redacted affidavit the government used to get a search warrant for trump s mar-a-lago club last year. full disclosure nbc news is part of a group of organizations that sued to get this affidavit un-redacted, and now it is out. it is not totally un-redacted, but it is way, way less redacted than the original version, so we have been comparing and contrasting the two as fast as we can. again, this thing just came out two hours ago, but the thing that jumped out at us immediately was this, the newly un-redacted sections of the affidavit give us a much better understanding of what the government could see on the surveillance footage it got from mar-a-lago. there s fun details we didn t have before like how the cameras were motion activated. but really it s what the cameras couldn t see that sticks out. on july 6th of last year the trump organization provided the fbi with the hard drive containing the footage of four cameras. all four of those cameras were in the basement hallw
general of louisiana and missouri allege the white house worked with social media companies to suppress freedom of speech. how damaging could this be for the white house? constitutional law expert jonathan turley here to weigh in just ahead. sandra: begin america reports on this monday afternoon with a major wake-up call from our nation s report card. the fed revealing decline in children s test scores in the country, biggest drop we have seen in decades. it follows the devastating closures due to covid that kept millions of children out of the classrooms. hello and welcome, everyone. sandra smith in new york. great to start the week with you, john. john: good to start with you too. 15 days to the midterms, on average, fourth grader math dropped five, eighth graders plunged eight. sandra: reading scores dropped three points since the pandemic started, the decision to close schools and along with parents rights have made education a key issue in the midterm elections.
are we using power tools? will: i get the power tool thing. i want someone to show us, this is what i want some tips on, how about cleaning the pumpkin out? everybody shows you how to to make the designs, my least favorite art e part, the kids don t like the part of scooping rachel: really? my kids love that. will: getting it scraped so there s no strings on the edges. everybody likes to do the cutting and the designs, nobody likes the actual manual labor rachel: i bet if you went online, you could find the hack yesterday there was a hack about opening it from the bottom up. will: yes. rachel: i m going to try that this year. kids do love it. will: they don t finish job. i guarantee you sean finishes the job. todd: so this is what i have to look forward to with the little ones? will: you re super excited, and you will do rachel: most of the work. will: 70% of the work. todd: sort of like yesterday. yesterday all about the ponies, i can t wait we take her to the
by the attorneys general of louisiana and florida which accuses the biden administration of pressuring social media companies to take down conservative content. yesterday on the fourth of july a trump appointed federal judge sided with those republicans attorney general issuing an injunction of federal agencies like the fbi and the department of health and human services contacting social media companies about posts they think should be taken down. the trump appointed judge claimed there was, quote, evidence of a massive effort from the white house to federal agencies to suppress speech based on its content. the biden administration is appealing the ruling, but for now that decision effectively blocks the federal government from asking sites to take down online misinformation of issues like whether vaccines work. they do, or whether or not the 2020 election was stolen. it was not. the judge did make exceptions to allow the federal government to contact social media companies about thin