the president coming before the cameras this evening for a rare solo news conference, under pressure to prove he still is up to the job on the heels of hosting the nato summit. but several of his closest allies telling nbc news they now believe his chances of beating donald trump are zero. one biden campaign official saying, quote, he needs to drop out. he will never recover from this. all of it as the president prepares to sit down for our exclusive one-on-one interview on monday. also tonight, deadly floods in the northeast. beryl s remnants slamming vermont, washing out roads, sweeping away apartment buildings. more than 100 rescued. and extremely dangerous heat. more than 50 million on alert. in texas, some 500,000 expected to be without hour into next week. hospitals running on generators. the scare at a new york city beach, shut down after sharks are sighted in the water. the random shooting spree in charlotte that left one dead. the two teens now in custody. th
flood warnings again today. in cranford, new jersey, stunning video showing water right there, just rushing right into the home in the basement, plowing down that wall. in nearby passaic, new jersey, the search continues after two college students still missing were swept into a storm drain. their car can be seen sitting atop a railing above the storm drain. and across louisiana, the situation is becoming increasingly desperate as temperatures soar and food and fuel run short. in jefferson parish, a man was shot and killed while waiting in line at a gas station. cnn has team coverage on the ground, as the cleanup continues. we ll check with nadia romero in new orleans in a moment. but first, evan mcmorris santoro is in paterson, new jersey. evan, what s the situation? reporter: well, fred, you mentioned that video out of cranford of that water rapidly filling up that basement. that s what happened here in paterson, as well. the passaic river runs through this town, it flood
1 million nearly hired last month. the infrastructure bill is a critical next step. what is indisputable now is this, the biden plan is working, boo biden plan produces results and moving the country forward. brand new reporting on how the big lie is stoking security concerns for lawmakers heading home. we begin the hour, though, with the biden white house and its kitchen sink you might call it covid scramble. today s jobs numbers are proof the economy is ready to soar, yet the new covid numbers raise the clear threat of another pandemic cliff. team biden now urgently looking for new tools to boost vaccinations and today, word it is now considering what you might call a hardball approach to federal funding. if you want your check, do more to get shots in arms. let s check in with our white house correspondent jeremy diamond at the white house on this important day. jeremy? yeah. john, we heard president biden take a victory lap as he was talking about this record jobs n
interview that ray gaufve to th wall street journal. he is feeling this for a long time. that this is a plague is a word they often use or an epidemic of ransomware attacks we see growing by the day. it is an extremely luke tough practice that cyber criminals around the world have undertaken. and it s extremely disrupt you have. particularly when it hits critical infrastructure like we ve seen in the past few weeks. would the russian ransomware attacks against the colonial pipeline and jbs foods and he thinks that americans are understanding now how deep will you important this is. and how serious this is. that when they go to the gas station, they mute be impacted there. when they try to get a hamburger, they may be impacted there. so what ray is saying as with after 9/11 when the country was very much on the lookout for terrorist groups around the world, potential attacks here in the country, that the country now needs to deal with that threat in a same aimilar way. we
senator marco rubio weighing in. watch. people immediately start thinking about extraterrestrials and little green men, we are not at that stage. they are flying over military installations, we don t know what they are and we need to know what they are. this is outnumbered and i m emily compagno. i m here today kelly, kayleigh mcenany, julie banderas, morgan ortagus and on the virtual center seat, radio talk show host larry elder. an intelligence report on ufo sightings is expected to be released from three weeks from today. this is senior officials are worried that china or russia could be extremity with hypersonic technology. these ufos were spotted as far back as 2,000 for an encounter two navy jets off the coast of san diego. it is also newly released video of mysterious objects forming near a navy ship in 2019. does a whole fleet of them. oh, my gosh. the wind is 120 knots to the west. emily: morgan, i d like to start with you on this. of the over 120 incid