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0 jaw-dropping developments. thank you, dan. appreciate it. we are nearing the top of the hour right here on msnbc as we continue to watch these live pictures coming from the city of kabul. a city that is right now encircled by the taliban. by some reports, the taliban have been spotted within the streets of the city. there are reports that negotiations are taking place within the presidential palace there in the capital city. it s not clear if ashraf ghani who is taking part of those negotiations. also, we got word on that power will be transferred to a third-party, a temporary third-party soon. and we also know from our courtney kube s reporting there is gunfire in the kabul region. it s not characteristic of an all-out offensive. reports are there will be a peaceful transition there of at least temporary power here. we do know that the u.s. is going to be sending another battalion there to get troops out of the embassy, to get people also safely to the airport and get them out o ....
So there are still dozens of individuals that must be recovered here from this site as this recovery enters the third week, lyndsay. vaughn hillyard, incredible hearing you describe the trucks on the highway there. vaughn, thank you for your reporting. all right, we re going to get back to our top story, the new space race. we re going to head right now closer to space port america. our tom costello who in essence is in the bubble, as they say. what a beautiful backdrop there in space port, america. tom, of course, is our aviation and transportation correspondent. tom, you just spoke with richard branson some five days ago, highly anticipating this launch. give us a sense of what sort of emotions you get or sense he s going through right now. reporter: first of all, i talked to him on monday. we had an exclusive sit-down interview with him. he was just bursting with excitement and pride as he showed us a firsthand walk about ....
If they re going to put those protections into federal law. the president expected to layout his next steps on that plan when he speaks tuesday in philadelphia in a speech that a source familiar describes as focusing on protecting the sacred constitutional right to vote, lyndsay. josh lederman, thank you for that update. we want to continue the conversation and bring in voter latino president and c.e.o. lisa kumar. it s such a pleasure to talk to you this morning. many latino voters and activists testified about the new restricted bill and how it will impact the community. let s listen to some of that. nothing but a wray to silence the black, brown and young vote that showed up last fall. it limits the voice s of some of the most vulnerable members of our community. it is unfortunate we are spending a special session on legislation that will continue to disenfranchise and neglect people with disabilities, ....
Stage tuesday set to give a big speech on voting rights. mean whiles dozens appeared to oppose voting restrictions bill and democrats are weighing their options. joining us with the latest nbc news correspondent josh lederman. josh, good morning. reporter: good morning. democrats are saying that all options are on the table, but those options are quite limited at this point, lyndsay, with beto o rourke, the former congressman and voting rights activist saying that one possibility could be for democrats to actually leave the state of texas to try to deny the quorum needed to have this vote. that s similar to what democrats did at the end of the regular legislative session, but that tactic could be a stalling measure, but unlikely to prevent a vote from going forward in the long term on this voting measure, which includes many of the same restrictive voting elements that were in the original measure, including a ban on 24-hour voting. ....
Unaccounted for. and nbc reporter vaughn riddle yard has been busy in surfside following this for us. vaughn, i feel it s interesting ever since it went from a rescue to a recovery, i do feel like we re getting updates that have higher and higher death tolls now. reporter: yeah, that s right, lyndsay, it s accurate. just in the last six days here since the demolition, there are now that total is up to 86. before the demolition, it stood at just 24, which speaks to the acceleration of this here. mayor burke had said yesterday, the mayor of surfside here, that this they expect this recovery effort to end sooner rather than later, that it is going quicker than anticipated. to give you an idea, initially that rubble mound in some areas of the building were three, four stories high. he says that s now down to either ground level or below ground level to where those garage the garage is. we actually just saw yesterday ....