good morning, 11:00 a.m. eastern, i m jose diaz, picking up another hour of coverage on nbc. president biden traveling in milwaukee this hour. stop one of a battleground blitz, he will also be heading to pennsylvania, where the senate race is critical for control of congress. more on his message in moments. plus, travel headaches this labor day, as millions of americans take to the roads, and air. i woke up to a text message saying my flight was canceled. they were steady. what you need to know on the busiest labor day since before the pandemic. right now, u.s. immigration policy is in the spotlight. nine people, including a pregnant woman, lost their lives in the waters of the rio grande as they tried to cross into the united states. what is happening at our border? we begin this hour with the unofficial kickoff of the final sprint of the 2022 midterm campaign. president biden is now on his way to milwaukee, wisconsin, where he will take part in labor day festivi
rolling out a new lawsuit to protect abortion access. why that is a significant moment for this administration. we ll go live one-on-one with one of the top homeland security advisers on that drone strike that killed a top al qaeda leader. we have a lot to get to in the next 60 minutes. let s start off in washington. with our team of responds following every move as voters are voting. vaughn hilliard is in phoenix, and shh keel kweel brewster is out there. we have so many people looking at arizona. this is a thing that everyone will be talking about tonight. is dlt dth going donald trump going to be able to sweep in arizona? s tell me what you re seeing on the ground. reporter: the polling right now indicates that kari lake, finchom for governor and attorney general are top front runners. but the big question is from both camps on every one of these campaigns i have talked to is there are a lot of questions about who ultimately shows up here in this final 24 hours. there
post-roe society, as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. it s good to be back here, we have got a lot to cover. it has been exactly three weeks, three weeks since the faa searched donald trump s florida home, and tonight we know the justice department has completed its review of all of the documents that were seized by the fbi. doj lawyers say a limited number of the items recovered potentially contain attorney client privileged information. the judge is now considering a request from trump s legal team to now appoint a neutral special master to see if any documents are covered by executive privilege. over the weekend, judge alene cannon, a trump appointee, signaled preliminary support for a third party to review the cover documents, our own kelly o donnell has more. today, the doj told the court that the initial sorting of documents has already been completed. the trump team pushed back. we had a lot of proble
we begin with a blistering and dangerous heat wave and a stranglehold across the western united states. millions of people are sweltering this weekend. more than 40 million are under heat alerts as temperatures soar 15 to 20 degrees above normal. for the fifth day in a wroe, electric companies in california are asking customers to turn off unnecessary lights and appliances in order to save electricity during the late afternoon and evening hours. cnn s chris winn reports from los angeles. reporter: across the west, the scorching heat is showing no signs of cooling off this holiday weekend. our ac at home can only do so much when we re in these triple digits. reporter: in glendale, california, residents are seeking refuge at the galleria shopping mall, taking advantage of the free air conditioning. getting out to the mall and just getting out of the house to get some sort of cool release is nice. reporter: california is in the midst of its longest heat wave of the yea
vulnerable are other u.s. cities? i ll speak with fema administrator deanne criswell next. plus, rematch? president biden gives a stark warning to americans ahead of the midterms. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism. as we learn more about donald trump s handling of classified material, three ex-advisers to the former president will join us. hello, i m dana bash and the state of our union is hitting the campaign trail. happy labor day weekend. the unofficial end to summer and kickoff to campaign season. president biden is heading to key midterm states tomorrow, two of them, he s visiting wisconsin and pennsylvania, after he warned americans that his predecessor, former president trump posed a threat to the future of american democracy. today we re going to test how that speech and other top issues like the economy, education and abortion are resonating in the midterm campaigns. we re going to get the view from both candidates in a race that co