from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with new developments from the fallout from the fbi search of mar-a-lago. a federal judge in florida is now signaling that she is inclined to grant a request from donald trump s lawyers to appoint a special master in the case. the hearing is set for thursday. a new reaction today after the director of national children s told chalk lawmakers in the house oversight intelligence committees that her office would conduct a risk assessment of republican mar-a-lago materials. democratic lawmakers in both chambers of congress expressed concerns over the former president s handling of documents. the thought that he had put our national security, and those who serve to protect us at such risk is extraordinary. i m deeply alarmed at what we are learning. it is not about whether donald trump broke the law, but that he could be putting our national security at risk, he could be
employers slowing hiring, 315,000 jobs hired in august. the unemployment rate rising just a touch to 3.7%. in minutes president biden set to address this jobs report. we ll bring you those remarks live when they begin. we are also following breaking news. a federal judge has just unsealed a detailed inventory of what the fbi removed from donald trump s florida home last month. and it reveals a number of classified documents were in there, stored in lots of boxes, 30-some-odd boxes. and in those boxes were also mixed in other random documents, press clippings, even clothing and gifts. let s begin with john harwood, who s live at the white house. we re moments away from hearing from the president on the economy. as we wait for that john, this jobs report we got earlier this morning, what does that tell us about where things stand? reporter: well, it s good news, erica, and i think president biden will welcome it. why do i say good news? well, first of all, 315,000 jobs is
agenda, are we going to have success, are we going to be able to match bringing down the price of gasoline, when you down the price of other things continuing to create jobs. that is the challenge. that is what we have to deliver. on 90 million americans from the plains to the northeast remain under heat alerts at this hour. former vice al gore is once again sounding the alarm on climate change. comparing climate deniers to delay law enforcement reaction to the uvalde school massacre. confronted with this global emergency, what we are doing with our inaction and failing to walk through the door and stop the killing is not typical of what we are capable of as human beings. we do have the solutions. and i think these extreme events that are getting steadily worse and more severe are really beginning to change lives. well, back to capitol hill now in the january six committee which has completed the season finale of its hearings. they do say there is more to come after the
temperatures are considered cool. phoenix ended its record-busting heat streak yesterday after more than a month above 110. 108, though, still considered dangerous. residents, though, enjoying the break, such as it is. in california, where the largest wildfire of the year is growing, the heat interacted with wind gusts to cause what are called fire whirls. that s essentially tornadoes of smoke and in florida, scientists are scrambling to save coral reefs by taking them out of the atlantic ocean. with water now as hot as a hot tub, shocked experts describe coral shedding dead skin, a kind of melting. one scientist who found a thicket of dead coral off the coast telling the new york times, quote, it just felt like, oh, my god, we re in the apocalypse. nbc news meteorologist bill karins is here. bill, is the heat subsiding at all? what do the days ahead look like? slowly from july to august,