migrants arriving on its shores. charles watson is standing by with more on that, but first, lucas tomlinson live at the white house with a preview of the president s trip. reporter: jon, a short time ago the white house says president biden called new house speaker ken mccarthy to congratulate him on his victory, but the border a growing issue perhaps that s one of the reasons the president s making this trip tomorrow to the southern border. the most extreme republicans continue to demagogue this issue and reject solutions. i m left with only one choice, to act on my own, do as much as i can on my own to try to change the atmosphere. reporter: the president s in delaware today. he has never gone to the border as president or in the eight years he served as vice president, jon. and ahead of this trip to el paso tomorrow, president biden outlining new plans here at the white house late this week to crack down on migrants crossing the border illegally. this new parole pla
in terms of generationally did not prepare us for the work that needs to happen today. that s the critique i was making about trading on individual success without a sense of social responsibility. who are your parents? my parents are both retired professionals. one was a school teacher and administrator of the chicago public schools for 35 years and my father recently retired was photojournalist. he worked for johnson johnson publishing in the early days, charlotte observer, news day, for past 20 years, new york times staff photographer. are they retired from new york. my mother always lived in chicago. my parent were divorced when i was young. my father lived in new york for over 30 years. what is your lineage? the famous part of my lineage, the part i know as opposed to distantly, i m great-grandson of the founder of elijah mohammed founder of nation of islam. my mother never converted but very much formative to my early years my first cousins aunts and unc
are at the world famous schomburg center for research in black culture. why is the world famous? because it is the most important repository to study black history founded 90 years ago. and who is pearl? he is the founding cureateer. he migrated from puerto rico and found a job on wall street working in a mail room. he worked hard and brought any rare or unique books you could find that were by or about black people eventually becoming famous for this collection. people would go to his home in brooklyn to see the library, borrow from the library, people like langston hues and hurston eventually. it arrived 90 years ago and made up the core of what is a 10 million item collection at the schomburg center for research in black culture. how did it end up at this location? because this was the settlement zone, ground zero, for what came to be the negro mecca of the world. harlem usa four blocks over. most people today think about harlem in relation to the apollo or the b
the entire 16000 skweet has collapsed so we ll be doing an extensive digging operation to get down and try to locate not only the origin of the fire, the cause of the fire, and any of the unaccounted for victims. reporter: crews will have to shore up what s left of the home, a multimillion dollar castle overlooking the south river in annapolis before they can go in. the atf has mobilized its national response team. up to 20 agents will be here. this will be an extended operation. we ll talk about days, not hours to get this done. our coverage of this heartbreaking fire continues on the nbc washington app. you can also read some of the messages of condolence for the family. breaking news in a high-profile disappearance and murder of a teenaged girl in maryland. there is a new promise to appeal today, big decision in the case of phylicia barnes. today a judge dismissed all charges against michael johnson the ex-boyfriend accused of killing barnes. her body turned up i
i don t think he will really reconsider. i don t think he probably can at this point, other people will and you re find out at the polls whether or not the other people are right. you he is really on a course that has to stay. joined by msnbc hallie jackson, katy tur, and robert costa. i have to talk to, let s see, hallie jackson right now. what is the cruz team thinking when they put out the word, the statement by sanford that trump is a truther, that he somehow has been charging that bush was involved in 9/11. bush was never a truther. what is this statement all about? that s coming from mark sanford here. while he is endorsing ted cruz, i m not sure that s something you re seeing out in the cruz campaign. it s not a line of attack that ted cruz has pursued. he has pursued a lot of them. this hasn t been one in particular. sanford talks about not just his concern with a potential trump candidacy, but also, why he is for ted cruz and why he is is backing him up. this