good morning, everyone. and welcome to your new day. it is sunday, august 21st. i m amara walker. good morning. amara. i m boris sanchez. thank you for spending part of your morning with us. it is a brand-new week. and there is plenty to get to, including this extreme weather threat across the southern plains. more than 12 million people under flood watches as they wake up today. yeah, officials in moab city, utah, blocked off streets, closed down hiking trails, and have told people to avoid certain areas due to this rushing water. and yesterday search and rescue crews were out looking for a missing person in utah s zion national park. rangers say hikers were being swept off their feet by flash flooding on the virgin river. allison chinchar is here with more. hi, allison. how long is this threat expected to last? a couple of days. the system is going to ever so
why we re doing the weekend bash this weekend, because we still have another weekend. maybe it s a reminder to go visit your county fair or state fair, check it out. as you pointed out on the kitchen table podcast, squeeze every drop of summer if out that you can. i think that s what we re doing. rachel: sean is actually back in wisconsin enjoying this last week with the kiddos, and then he has to will: you know, obviously, school really interferes with the idea that summer should go on, but in your mind, when is summer over? rachel: after labor day. pete: agreed. rachel: and school should not start until after labor day. i m going to run on starting school in september, after labor day, and for the state of new jersey, i m going to bring back plastic bags. pete: really? where are you running? rachel: i don t know, but i like plastic bags. [laughter] i just want everyone to know i am not ashamed to say, i like
chief in london, ontario. because he is going after somebody who spotted a trans person on this is not this is a strategy. this is an infrastructure that is based entirely on harassment, because they ve given up on democracy. i want to thank you for coming in this morning to talk to us about this. particularly worrisome organist allen. ben collins, nbc news senior reporter. straight ahead, the latest on the war in ukraine as russia s invasion enters month number six this week. plus the latest on the investigation involving the former president and their effect on the upcoming midterm elections. another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning. i m ali velshi. it s sunday, august 21st. it s day one 79 of russia s war in ukraine. a war that none of us imagined
thanks for watching the katie phang show. i ll be back next saturday and sunday at 7 am eastern live on msnbc. you can also catch original episodes on the msnbc hub on peacock every thursday and friday. don t forget to follow the show on twitter, instagram, facebook and tiktok. ali velshi is up next. good morning. it s sunday, august 21st. i m ali velshi. probable as it may seem, donald trump is actually receive a huge boost and support in the days since the fbi searched his mar-a-lago estate. and recovered boxes of classified information that properly belong to eunice s government. his political action committee has seen a spike in donations. raising millions just days after the fbi served him a search warrant for the washington post. recent polls have been shown trump widening his lead over
cost of pens and papers and notebooks and all of that that went up. back to school sticker shock as inflation sent the price of school supplies soaring. the impact it is having not only on parents, but also on business owners and teachers. how some people in california are making money by having their front yards ripped out. it is sunday, august 21st, welcome to a new week. we re so grateful you re waking up with us. good morning, amara. good morning, boris. happy sunday. and we begin this morning with the extreme weather threat across the southwest and southern plains. more than 12 million people