voter drop box. it is a location in arizona, two people, to thugs addressed in tactical gear intimidating voters dropping off their early ballots. now, if you re trying to pull up these images, if you find these images, these individuals dressed in basically masks and bulletproof vests looking like they are out for a hunt or out to commit some crimes. if you finals him it is chilling or outrageous, or obviously an attempt at voter intimidation, then you are correct on all fronts. there is a significant contingent of people in this country whose brains have been poisoned by donald trump s big lie of a stolen election. that has become trump and his allies, they have pushed the completely invented idea that ballot boxes, particularly dropbox is where people go to bring their mail in ballots or their signed ballots, that they are inherently fraudulent tools used to steal the election away from donald trump and from the right and proper owners of this nation, which are of course t
of water until the water ran out. and after spending their day like this in 90-degree temperatures, many were turned away from the distribution event at hawkins airfield. the director of the state emergency management says seven distribution sites will be set up by thursday. in the meantime, people turned to stores where the shelves are nearly bare. it s very frustrating. it s very frustrating to have to fight for some water, you know what i m saying. you got to mess around and buy five cases of water just to stay hyd hydrated. reporter: it s just kind of scary. we don t know when anything s going to get done. you come in the store and it s empty. water we re talking about. let s back up and talk about how we got here. moderate flooding in jackson, mississippi, crippled the city s largest water facility. national guard troops trained for the devastation of hurricanes, they ve been deployed, but this is not a disaster, some once in a lifetime storm. american citizens i
showdown with donald trump over those classified documents that were seized from his club mar-a-lago. the department of justice has given judge alien cannon until tomorrow to decide whether to restore their access to the classified material. if she refuses, doj lawyers say they will go to the 11th circuit court of appeals. judge cannon temporarily blocked the doj s access to the documents until a special master was assigned. on tuesday, the department told a judge any delay in the case will cause quote, irreparable harm to the government and the public. meanwhile, the january 6th congressional committee has been busy gathering new evidence. the committee subpoenaed secret service for records after learning some agency text messages from january 5th and sixth went missing. today, one panel member told our nicole wallace they are now getting a lot of new information. do you have new evidence that was not at your disposal at the time of the last public hearing and it, numerato
number of text messages, radio traffic, that kind of thing. it s thousands of exhibits. tech messages from january 5th and sixth? primarily. but the trenches we ve received have been significantly. we might get a closer look at those messages, because on september 28th, we believe we will be resuming those public hearings. we heard that from the committee earlier today. what that, let s get smarter with the help of tights lead off panel. joins us, nbc news correspondent, moderator of washington week on pbs. former federal prosecutor glenn kirschner, he has tried hundreds of cases in his 30 year career. and former u.s. attorney joyce vance. she spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor. she is now a law professor at the university of alabama. joyce, to you first. what exactly is the justice department looking for in terms of what they want judge cannon to do? well, what doj has asked judge cannon to do is to release the classified documents that were seized at mar-a-lag
time off of work, not only will you not get paid, you actually could get fired. and that is precisely what is happening today in the rail industry. bernie sanders laying out the major issue that could have rail workers own strike by midnight tonight. we ll have the very latest on the negotiations and the massive impact that a strike could have on the economy. plus, the january 6 committee is sifting through thousands of pieces of new evidence. the where it came from and what members are saying about its significance. also ahead, federal welfare money, a college volleyball stadium, and brett favre. we ll explain how they re a connected and why it doesn t look good for the nfl hall of famer. thank you for starting your day with us. we ll begin with the 11th hour negotiations to avoid a railroad strike that is threatening the u.s. economy. workers could walk off the job as early as tomorrow if rail carriers and unions fail to reach a deal. amtrak has already suspended long d