the airport and an off-duty police officer is also in line. you can see this woman trying to push past. a california cop on vacation with his family had just taken his shoes off at security when he saw the scuffle and jumped into action and tackled her to the ground. i thought typical justin. he s always on duty. couldn t be prouder of him. he s always a cop. and he definitely did the right thing. gretchen: as for the woman, she is now facing assault charges. steve: that is awesome he jumped right over that barrier. brian: and put his hand up so they don t shoot him. steve: good idea. it is a rainy day in portions of the east. maria molina is dispatched out to the street by the wall. that s right, by the wall. we will have more details on that later this morning. but we want to talk about the rain because it is impacting portions of the mid-atlantic early this morning in cities like
puts a picture of each person in his mind, but can you imagine i mean, aside from the fact he s honoring our military members, he s also an amazing memory guy, to be able to write all these names down over the course of eight to nine hours. brian: it started may 1 of last year. it took him ten months to memorize the names. that number keeps growing. the wall keeps growing and he s here today. steve: that wall was completely blank at midnight and he has been out in 30-degree weather doing that since midnight. i really hope it doesn t rain cause i wonder whether or not it is rainproof he s using. or maybe it s like a dry erase board. whatever it is, it s quite an ordeal. he is trying to raise money for wound warriors and his story comes up shortly. gretchen: another law enforcement tragedy in mississippi. a detective is shot dead during an interrogation. decorated homicide detective
nearly a third of the improved seeds that go to farmers. why is that important? it s important because it is helps them produce more food when it doesn t rain and avoid needing food aid and have the dignity to keep kids if school and to keep climbing out of poverty. it s incredible. we need morban knows to just keep trumpeting and insisting on results and we ll get there. raj shah, thank you so much. it s always a pleasure. the president meets a real socialist. what s the new french president going to say about afghanistan? that coming up, plus our exclusive interview with bono on the renewed call for action against hunger in africa. this is andrea mitchell reports, a special report only on msnbc. hey dad. see how the carrots i grow make that new stouffer s steam meal so tasty. actually, the milk from my farm makes it so creamy, right dad.
you want to know how they got to this? what they did is they ve used historic rain today the a you know, precipitation, and they ve looked at places where it rains a lot and the 4th of july parade is likely to be canceled, and guess what? there were fewer republicans where the parade was canceled. places where it doesn t rain as much, more republicans. you getting the theme here? seattle, oregon, you have a lot of rain, a lot of liberals. arizona not as much rain, little more conservative. gretchen: i hope ahh those parents were paying a bunch of money for their kids to go to harvard didn t contribute to that study, their money i mean. any way it seems crazy. good to see you, trace, see you in a bit. they were prohibited from using the words god or jesus in funeral services. now a group of veterans families are suing and a member of congress is joining their fight. congressman ted poe joins me moments away.
epicenter, fields parched, withering and bone dry. i ve never seen it like this. reporter: tommy merchant works for the u.s. department of agriculture. it is just crunching below our feet and everything and you can just look right here. these cracks in the ground, we shouldn t have this time of the year. this is our wet season. reporter: these fields will yield no corn and be plowed next week to be used for feed. mcgony will plant cotton, but is not optimistic. we have to plant it in the next two to three weeks for the insurance purposes. and then if it doesn t rain, it will be, you know, it will be a total loss. reporter: financial losses are hard to predict. they re expected to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. it is extraordinarily dry at this point. the crop losses are going to be tremendous and we probably won t see a change in the pattern because these droughts become self-reinforcing. it is unlikely that much changes in the summer. reporter: with no sign