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saying his symptoms are improving. meanwhile, the latest january 6 hearing is still sending shock waves to capitol hill. where donald trump refused to declare the election over or condemn the rioters. we ll take a look at how this could play into november s narratives and beyond. also, nearly one-third of americans are under heat advisories. 210 million people will face scorching temperatures over 90 today. the heat wave expected to last well into the weekend. we start at the white house. dealing with president biden s positive covid diagnosis on two fronts. medical and political. less than two hours ago, the white house physician said the president s symptoms have improved. the white house eager to show this is not a crisis and the president is continuing to keep a busy schedule while getting treatment. they just sent out this picture showing the president speaking by phone with his national security team. this picture also sent out in a tweet this morning showin ....
Careful how you do this so you do not undermine or blow terrorism investigations. So we cant just be very clumsy and rush to judgment and do something that actually harms our ability to do terrorist investigations. More from chuck todds sitdown with the House Speaker and the latest from capitol hill. Thats still ahead this morning. We begin with the latest on the orlando nightclub shooting. The focus now squarely on the wife of gunman omar mateen. Today there are new details about what she saw and heard in the weeks leading up to the attack and those Text Messages she sent back and forth with her husband while he was carrying out the killings. Nbcs Ayman Mohyeldin has been on the ground in florida. He joins us now. We have the headline here. Texts exchanged between omar mateen and his wife as this was playing out. What el ....
His capture. he has been held on the uss new york in international waters. from the jackson clarion-ledger. a marine seriously injured after jumping on a grenade to save his fellow marines on the blast is the youngest living person ever to receive the medal of honor. nbc peters alexander has his story. reporter: kyle carpenter shouldn t be alive. returning to university of south carolina this fall. i ve been given a second chance to enjoy life. reporter: he is 24 now but marine corpsal carpenter was just 21 when he earned the medal of honor. that is him in afghanistan helmand providence where a grenade exploded while he and another marine was standing guard. i felt like warm water is poured over me which is my blood. after that i thought how devastated my family would be ....
laugh or anything. what? nobody talk to him! what happened? can we look or ask? no. it was dangerous. it was something he was doing and he had an accident. is that why he is wearing glasses? yeah, no. are those protector glasses? don t make hif laugh. are you okay, mark? let me stand my zen-like state. you have, like, five broken ribs? are you good? i m fine. thank you for asking. don t laugh or cough. what happened? how did you break five ribs? a little tumble. when was that? over the weekend. i m good, though. i m heavily medicated. that is always wonderful! good for you! how did that work out for you? we all have something in common. wait until i start talking about the japanese tie in the world cup and then you ll see enthusiasm. let s do it. we have got a lot of stories to get to this morning. we really do, mika. including a dire situation in iraq where the obama administration must decide to send more u.s. troops ....