ground. and down to the wire. with nine days until default, where negotiations stand right now as the white house and capitol hill race to strike a deal. plus, a ground breaking new agreement to manage an incredibly precious but endangered resource. the three states working together to ensure the colorado river doesn t go away. also back in court. any minute, former president trump expected to appear virtually in court for the first time since he pleaded not guilty to felony accounts of falsifying business records last month. we ll have a live report from outside the courtroom. our reporters are following all the latest. i want to start in new york. ron allen is there. ron, what s the plan as we know it for today? reporter: well, this begins around 2:15, very shortly. as you said, mr. trump will appear virtually. he is not required to be here. most of this is going to be about a protective order. an order designed to protect the evidence and integrity of the case. it spec
is under a flash flood emergency after 4 to 6 inches of rain fell overnight leading to two rescues and reports of submerged cars and roads. meanwhile 77 million people there southern california to miami are under heat alerts today. yesterday phoenix hit 19 condition secretary could you difference days above 110 degrees. and breaking a 49 year old record. and in florida at this hour, a vigil is being held for a 30-year-old, a former in homestead, his family says he died from heat stress earlier this month while working. continuing now to a critical hearing where a federal judge will hear a challenge to the biden administration immigration response in a case that could reshape for people seeking
immigrant community. gabe, you talked with a number of undocumented workers. their advocates. what did they tell you? reporter: hi there, chris. good afternoon. this is something that s been building out the last couple of weeks. since the governor signed that sweeping illegal immigration crackdown, which his team views as one of the strongest crackdowns in the country, and cracking down on illegal immigration. not legal immigration. however, many migrant advocates and some undocumented workers we spoke with here in miami and in south florida in homestead where there are many migrant workers, they say there s a growing fear among the immigrant community even more so now than during the trump administration. we spoke with one migrant advocate and i told her many of the governor s supporters support this crackdown. also acquiring hospitals that
people. the inspectors also discovered there were only four temporary showers in the entire facility. to be shared by 756 migrants. the details follow reports of horrifying conditions at other detention centers for children in the area. now a regular stop for 2020 contenders on the campaign trail. joining me now nbc news correspondent cal perry who spent most of last week in a facility in homestead, tracking the candidates who came through. but of course cal the focus since then has shifted to this facility in clint that julia ainsley has been reporting about and that we ve now seen some candidates start to visit as well. we re really shifting the focus to the border itself. that facility as you said in west texas in clint has been the focus of so much attention, so too just across the border in the city of juarez, mexico
convening in miami, a number of them have been making an issue while they re taking this trip here, making an issue of the conditions in one facility that s not far from miami. it s in homestead, florida. beto o rourke, jay inslee have gone or are going. elizabeth warren said tonight that she is going to homestead migrant detention facility tomorrow ahead of tomorrow night s debate in which she will she told a crowd in miami tonight they should come with her on that trip. do you think it makes a difference for you to do these congressional visits like the one you just described for these presidential candidates to show up, to bring people with them? i feel like the more this stuff gets exposed, the more dug in the trump administration gets on the idea that they actually think this is the way this ought to be done. rachel, i would say it s absolutely imperative that more members of congress visit these facilities. as a matter of fact, the legislation that we re voting on in just a f