reporter: that right, lester. it will be a busy travel season. aaa saying it could be one of the busiest fourth of julys ever nearly 50 million americans expected to hit the roads and the skies. the cdc says the risk is low if you re vaccinated lester tom llamas tonight, thank you. make a plan when and where to get vaccinated, visit plan your vaccine.com for more. let s turn now t the showdown on a voting bill tonight in the senate president biden unable to win bipartisan support for the election overhaul he called a top priority. garrett hakke is at the capitol with late details for us. reporter: in a defeat for president biden senate republicans blocking a democratic voting bill that would have overhauled the country s election system they don t even want to debate it because they re afraid they want to deny the right to vote, make it harder to vote, for so many americans. reporter: dubbe the for the people act, it includes a requirement states
it s say small percentage. if you have travel plans to go to alaska, to go salmon fishing, it s not necessarily going to ruin your trip. the main concern is the long-term threat that this poses. four to five years from now when those fish that died would have come back to spawn their eggs, they will no longer be there. is this going to have big economic impacts four to five years from now rather than just in the short term? and it all comes back to these incredibly warm temperatures across portion of alaska. alaska, yes, setting one of its record hottest julys on record. here the yukon river and the koyukuk, focusing on the salmon die-off. alaska had the warmest july on record beating the previous by about 6.5 degrees above average. looking at august so far, obviously the month is not done yet. we re averaging at this point about 8.2 degrees above the average. in fact, six of the last nine days have set record high temperatures. here s the thing, it s not just the heat, though, we re d
talk about, not even close to the last tweet we will talk about. yeah, i m going to take you up on that. i think you might be right there. matt and chris, thank you both for joining me. happy fourth. speaking of fourth everybody, what is more important than celebrating our country s independence? having good weather. msnbc meteorologist bonnie snyder standing by. there s a lot of people out there waiting to grill. they re on their boats, at the beaches, they re just enjoying a beautiful day while we re here in studio talking to each other. we are, but we re bringing some good news to everyone because unlike fourth of julys in year s past, generally speaking, this is going to be a nice one for most of the country. there was rain earlier on that s pushed through dallas. a lot have dissipated. that is good news, we re watching out for improving conditions in the forecast. we re going to talk about that and of course if for our weather going forward, we ll be looking for those storms
well, you surely have seen donald trump slamming polls that have him trailing hillary clinton, again claiming that the democrats are rigging the polls. joining me now for a reality check on trump s poll numbers, mark murray, msnbc s senior political editor. it is striking the trend lines, what they say about where they started and where we are now. just how stable and consistent the race and donald trump s numbers have been. our nbc wall street journal poll going back to 2015 and the contest. hillary clinton has always enjoyed a double digit or near double digit lead minus the months of may, june and julys is donald trump won the republican nomination. as you look at his favorable and unfavorable ratings, high negatives with latinos, women, suburbans, independents. the numbers we saw a year ago,
security has been tight and not overwhelming and not too much more than what i have seen on previous julys. so far the biggest threat is the weather. back to you. thank you. stunning new revelations about the undocumented iment grant accused and killing a woman on the san francisco waterfront. the suspect was not supposed to be in the country at all. he has seven proir felony convictions and deported five times and never turned over to federal agents because san francisco is a sanctuary city. he was arrested after a random killing of 32-year-old catherine stienly as she walked with her father. why wasn t this guy behind bars? that is a question that a lot of people are asking. the family is in mourning this holiday weekend and federal authorities say the tragic loss