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Growing up having multiple jobs, experiencing every level, socioeconomic level in our country. spending multiple years in corporate america. kristen welker is at the white house this afternoon. good day to you, my friend. is what we saw this morning a prelude to wednesday s debate? reporter: i think it s a little bit of a prelude, alex. i ll be curious to see if there isn t more sparring between donald trump and ben carson. of course, you saw a little bit of that this past week. they are the two top candidates in the gop field. the other thing i ll be looking for is to see if donald trump puts some meat on the bones of the policies he s been talking about. you heard him there just say the answer to reforming campaign finance, for example, is to put good people in positions of power. that s not really a policy position. so i think voters are going to want to hear some more specifics from donald trump. we are entering into the fall campaign season. and so some of this heated ....
That a bit later. developing in northern california, state of emergency in lake and napa counties as the so-called valley fire explodes in size. this wildfire burning about 100 miles or so north of san francisco has now charred more than 40,000 acres in less than 24 hours. and it is forcing thousands to flee their homes. nbc s gadi schwartz is in middletown, california, for the latest. gadi, it is just awful. i cannot believe the pictures you re providing. reporter: yes, alex, looking behind me, the devastation here is utterly unbelievable. the fire is still burning. this is what s left of an apartment complex, a building right here. you see there is some type of play structure. that s one of the only things that s really standing. as we pan over, this was the apartment complex. you see some cars still intact inside of the parking lot. but everything else has basically been destroyed. this was a multiple a ....
Bounty. the long-lasting quicker picker upper. welcome back to weekends with alex witt. former tennis star james blake is calling for more action in the manner that he was mistakenly arrested. he said one of the next steps should be firing the plain clothes police officer seen on surveillance video right there taking him down outside of a new york city hotel on wednesday. nbc s kristen dahlgren has the story. basically i m okay. the emotional stars are a little more take a little more time to heal. reporter: james blake has faced tough opponents on the tennis court. but last wednesday he was tackled by an undercover police officer while he was standing outside a manhattan hotel. what goes through your mind after that? are you scared? i was very scared. never once was there officer stated, i m officer so-and-so, ....
The to make arrangements for that. do you think i have any chance of getting an interview with the president? i have no idea. joining me is patrick gavin, a former reporter for politico. seriously, patrick, i was cracking up. your first day of the journey you start by calling the white house comment line. that kind of is the point, i kind of want to do it the way anybody would do it who doesn t necessarily have some great connection, which is google the white house and that s the number that comes up. and just see what happens. that s kind of what the goal of the experiment is. just sort of see how the process works, can anybody do it, do you have to know somebody who knows somebody, do you have to be rich. every day we ll post a video and do some research and make some phone calls. this will be fun to follow. what do you plan on asking the president if you get this ....
Never a name given. reporter: police thought blake was a suspect in a credit card theft ring. look at this badge, it s in my pocket here. it shows i was a player with the u.s. open. i have nothing to do with whatever you guys are looking for. reporter: blake said he was handcuffed for ten minutes. he doesn t blame racial profiling, but said it was excessive force. it was completely unnecessary, whether i was a criminal or not. reporter: the officer in the video is now on modified duty, awaiting an investigation. he was already facing two pending excessive force lawsuits. when you hear about a history of complaints against this officer, what do you think? it makes me wonder why he was out on the street and given this position to begin with. reporter: both new york mayor bill de blasio and william bratten have apologized and agreed to meet with blake. i m lucky to be in a position i m in. i also talked to a lot of people in the last few days who had similar situations hap ....