flights and now mountains of misplaced luggage. tom costello will explain the latest headache facing summer travel. it is just horrible traveling this summer. it is hard to get a flight that is not canceled. and the new comments from senator joe manchin as he now claims that he has not written off any of president biden s agenda. okay. we ll figure that out. but first, emotions running high still in uvalde, texas. after a tense school board meeting last night, parents are demanding answers after release of a scathing new report calling the shooting response at robb elementary school a systemic failure. nbc news correspondent sam brock joins us live from uvalde. sam, good morning. what are the families saying today? well, mika, good morning. look, this system was structured in such a way that the meeting was so that participants could vent frustration and feels for about 45 minutes. it lasted more than three years with young kids asking the grown-ups, what are you doing righ
firefighters that are fighting this blaze and then, of course, battling this heat. we re talking about a country that is not prepared for heat like this. the infrastructure is breaking down in certain locations, we re seeing that, where there s damage to runways at airports, seeing train tracks buckling. remember a lot of people in this country live without air conditioning which is why there s been such a concern for the public s health and safety. you can see people here doing everything they can to try and escape the heat, going to lakes, going to ponds, buying fans. but we know that not everybody is able to afford that and to do that which is why we saw top government officials meeting over the weekend for an emergency meeting to make sure ducks were in a row to care for schools, for example, that are still in session and without air conditioning. the elderly, nursing homes. but this is an issue that we re seeing all across southern europe, this heat wave that is just gri
response to the robb elementary mass shooting. and we re looking closer at the state of president biden s agenda amid more dismal polling with the midterms less than four months away. we ll discuss with senator lujan. we are going to begin with the major new developments in the investigation into the january 6 attack. nbc news has now confirmed the names of the two star witnesses who are expected to testify during thursday s primetime committee hearing according to a source familiar with the plans. they are sarah matthews and matthew pottinger who is a former member of the national security council. both worked in the trump white house and both resigned in the wake of the attack on the capitol. thursday will be the first time either will have spoken publicly to the committee. committee chairman bennie thompson is also revealing more of the panel s future plans which include likely releasing a scaled back report of its findings followed by a final report. each potentially in
the national archives has called for an investigation into how and why the messages were wiped. it sent a letter to the secret service just a short time ago asking for a report within 30 days if it is determined any information wasn t properly deleted. the committee is gearing up for the next hearing. former white house press secretary sarah matthews and former deputy security adviser matthew pottinger will appear before the committee. both have already testified behind closed doors. this time they ll do it publicly. the committee has already played snippets of their taped interviews recalling the events that unfolded inside the white house on january 6th, particularly their reaction to donald trump s repeated attacks on his vice president as rioters were calling for mike pence s hanging. we all talked about at that point how it was bad and the situation was getting out of hand. we thought the president needed to tweet something and tweet something immediately. we all got a
party you probably not want to hear this forecast from election experts political analysts he posted this tweet last week projecting that republicans would gain a hefty 20 to 35 seats in the house in november midterm election. ouch. exactly the kind of defeat that president obama was called special lacking. republicans are already planning for that victory, full control of congress. what are they going to do? i ll tell you this. it s not gonna be health care policy or tackling prices. conservative think tankers on eastern shore of maryland trying to find ways to investigations into the biden administration. that s right. they re already looking for excuses to launch congressional probes according to axios, that retreat was painful at a heritage foundation by the conservative partnership institute and by the american accountability foundation, which apparently is run by the trump administration. alumni. yes, the accountability foundation. any such thing as accountability w