new report this morning that accuses the secret service of deleting text messages related to the attack on the capitol after they were requested by oversight officials. and new reporting that all but confirms that donald trump will run for president again. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, july 15th. we have the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. good to have you both on board this morning. joe, we re going to be looking at, obviously, what is going on abroad with president biden and his meeting with abbas, but let s begin with the secret service, accused of deleting text messages that could be critical to investigating the eve events of the insurrection. how could they be deleted? the dhs inspector general writes, after his office requested full electronic records for an evaluation of the capitol attack, the secret service deleted a significant number of text messages from january 5th
Indicted on federal hate crimes charges. this as that store finally reopens. nbc news correspondent emily aketa has details. reporter: ten taken in this supermarket, the heart of the neighborhood. this has been a center of community. hundreds and hundreds of people shop here. reporter: now, two months later, the supermarket is reopening following a complete makeover with a new sign, products, and a memorial to honor the victims. an attempt to ease the pain of a community still reeling from what officials call a racially motivated massacre. the suspect was indicted on federal hate crimes charges and could face the death penalty. it s been difficult. reporter: the produce manager barricaded herself in a back room during the attack. i haven t had a good night s sleep since this happened. it s a nightmare. reporter: she knows the value
Deaths aren t rising as quickly, and the white house credits the high booster rate, and treatments and testing. and what lies ahead is of greater concern with estimates of 100 million infections by fall or winter. if we don t get ahead of this thing, we re going to have a lot of waning immunity this. virus continues to evolve. and we may see a pretty sizable wave of infections, hospitalizations, and deaths this fall and winter. and to piggyback on emily s point. growing evidence that people who have had omicron, just a month or two ago, could be getting sick again. from the sub variants. we ll have a lot more on that in the week ahead. still ahead, a long shot makes an historic run in the kentucky derby. and sunday was all about getting even with the nba and nhl playoffs. a lot of highlights next on way too early. t of highlights xtney t of highlights xtney too early. emerge tremfyant®. with tremfya®,
His family were home. at least 31 people are now confirmed dead after an explosion at a luxury hotel in cuba on friday. rescue workers searched over the weekend, for more bodies, they believe, remain trapped in the rubble. the hotel was preparing to reopen its doors after being closed for two years, when an apparent gas leak ignited. four children and a pregnant woman are among those who have been reported dead. covid-19 cases are once again rising nationwide, with new sub variants posing challenges to vaccines. and how concerned should we all be. nbc news correspondent emily aketa has the details. covid is making a comeback with the number of cases surging more than 50% in the last two weeks. it feels like groundhog day, for so many of us during this pandemic. all but one state, seeing an increase in infections. even as numbers are likely
As for the president s former white house doctor, now the congressman from jackson, ronny jackson, the committee wants to know about encrypted communication between members of the oath keepers, on the day of january 6th. they said jackson needs to carry because of quote critical data to protect. not clear what the data is. the committee would like to find out. all three congressman have predictably declined to cooperate. as covid cases rise again in just about every state, hospitalizations are starting to go up as well. this, as health experts are also keeping an eye on new variants emerging abroad. nbc news correspondent emily aketa has more. covid infections are climbing coast to coast and it s not just the number of cases, hospitalizations in parts of the country are starting to pick up, too. the cdc now urging residents in 56 high-risk counties to mask up. two-thirds of those areas are in the state of new york.