soon. plus, all eyes on florida where a grand jury in the trump classified documents case heard from another witness today. the washington post reporting that if trump is indicted, a majority of the charges will be brought in florida. so what does that mean? and ukraine gaining background around bakhmut around the chief of russia s private army admits there will be major russian losses in ukraine. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the hazardous air now choking more than 75 million americans. it s an unbelievable situation. these are live pictures of new york. thick smoke from wildfires burning hundreds and hundreds of miles away is now smothering the city. you got more than 8 million people affected just there. and it is way bigger than new york, philadelphia, pittsburgh, syracuse, all of them, the images you see there, 75 million americans are suffering from the hazardous haze. it is so bad particularly in new york city that the air quality index th
people limiting outside activity especially for anyone with underlying medical conditions who might have trouble breathing. video from the space station 240 miles up showing the extent of the smoke from wildfires billowing in the atmosphere. the mostly cloudy smoke is expected to stick around and the possible danger for many. listen. the levels that people if they were to be outside especially if they are exercising breathing faster, they are going to be inhaling particulates at concentrations the normal smokers would inhale. dana: dr. saphier joining us in a moment with more on the hazards to your health and what you need to know. our meteorologist is reporting from new york city time square. good morning. over 9 million acres on fire in canada. many of those fires uncontrolled right now. it has really prompted a lot of the smoke to continue to billow over the border. a blocked weather pattern in place across the country right now. big ridge of high pressure out to t
southern border after the lifting of title 42. we will have the very latest from the border as the biden administration defends its actions. we have been planning for this moment, for the end of title 42, for more than a year and a half. not only have we ve been planning, we haven t executing those plans. surging resources, personnel, greater facilities capacity, and so much more. a crucial few days ahead of president biden hints that we may be close to a debt ceiling breakthrough that could over a government shutdown. a moment of remembrance this hour. it will be one year since the buffalo super mining shooting. we will have that live. we are watching a crucial election overseas as turkish president arrow on may be on the verge of a historic loss. plus, donald trump may have opened the door for a whole new level of legal trouble. we ll be looking at that a had. we begin with 1000 border with the number of migrants taken into custody by border patrol continues to drop as
that title 42 is not an immigration policy it was actually implemented as a public health measure to try to stop the spread of communicable disease. the ending of title 42 is appropriate because we are now beyond the pandemic and it has officially ended. the biden administration does have challenges at the border because all that title 42 did was effectively dismantle our asylum process and create a bottleneck at the southern border. the lifting of that, obviously, means that we are going to see greater numbers of people coming to the border. the biden administration is doing everything that they can with the resources that they have to try to address the challenges there but that is fundamentally not going to stop until we do something legislatively, until we pass a legislative solution that overhauls our broken immigration system and it is on congress to do that. this week the republicans introduced their child deportation bill which is in and for not going to fix what
a bit after the end of title 42. we re live with what migrants tell nbc news could be behind it. cleanup is underway after deadly weekend weather across the plains. at least 55 tornados have been reported in the region since friday. one texas community taking a direct hit. we re just a little more than two weeks away from june 1st, the day the treasury secretary warns the u.s. will run out of money to pay its bills, and right now there s no deal on the debt ceiling in sight, details on tomorrow s critical meeting. the race for 2024 heating up in iowa, florida governor ron desantis swoops in to fill in the gap left by former president trump after he canceled a rally in des moines. and a year after the deadly mass shooting at a buffalo supermarket, we ll hear how the community is healing with the help of a very special teen. none of us knew what we were getting into. there is no plan when someone comes to kill you with an ar-15. and we begin with the very latest on th