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significant shift. jacqui: it would be, a year ago i asked the white house about russia using the weapons. jen psaki said we have seen the reports, if that were true it would potentially be a war crime. jack a war crime. see how the white house explains the shift in thinking. tom cotton applauding the move, saying it s long pastime we give ukraine equal access to the same weapons that putin is using. mike: first to america s crime crisis. jacqui: a heartbreaking story out of our nation s capital as a former afghan interpreter for the u.s. army who served for nearly two decades assisting americans in afghanistan was senselessly shot and killed while working as a lyft driver. he escaped the taliban less than two years ago, moving his family to what he thought was safety. mike: the father of four was killed monday shortly after dropping off customers. security video capturing four suspects running from the scene. jacqui: do we have any idea of leads here? t ....
long. it s been a rough start to the summer season, and we re seeing the worst of it now shifting. a lot is going to go where you have a lot of friends, heading toward the west coast. so far most of the suffering has been throughout the south, texas, a hot fourth in areas of the northeast, and today the hottest has been in the areas of south florida, miami feels like 105 degrees. the problem with miami is it s been very humid too, and hasn t had time to cool off. last week at one point, up to 15, 16 million. we re down to 14 million. a few spots in florida, and now we re focusing the dangerous heat into the southwest. you re going to start to hear wild numbers coming out of the desert areas as we head through the week next week. it looks to peak somewhere around wednesday or thursday. today, 111 in phoenix, a little bit warmer than it should be. normally it should be 106 this time of year. they ve had six days in a row above 110. just in the back of your mind, the rec ....
for example, during the pandemic what happened was all of a sudden everybody started to learn the phrase supply chain. a year ago no one knew what the hell anybody was talking about when you said supply chain but now they all know, and we lost access to these these semiconductors in which new automobiles in the united states need 30,000 of them just to build a new automobile and we didn t have them. so we started investing here and what happened was when we encouraged the investment through the chips and science act and now we have an enormous investment in the united states, over $200 billion in long-term investment in semiconductors. we are rebuilding the economy of the united states with those semiconductors. it s not designed to hurt china. the only thing i did say with regard to china, there are certain extremely sophisticated semiconductors that we have built that are useful for nuclear and or other weapons systems. those we are not selling. we are not exporting ....
encouraged the investment through the chips and science act and now we have enormous investment in the united states. over $200 billion in long-term investment in semiconductors. and rebuilding the economy of the united states with those semiconductors. it s not designed to hurt china. the only thing i did say with regard to china, there are certain extremely sophisticated semiconductors that we have built that are useful for nuclear and/or other weapon systems. those we are not selling, we are not exporting to china or anyone else. and so that s the context in which this has all occurred. in the meantime, creating thousands of jobs and bringing back a sense of pride and dignity to so many towns in the country where all of a sudden over the last three decades we found out that factory had 600 people shut down. and the soul of the community was lost and so i made sure when the semiconductors were coming back that they were not just going to go to the coast, they would ....
. hello, and thank you for being with us. it s 10:00 eastern i m ana cabrera reporting from new york all eyes on the white house this hour as president biden prepares to welcome the president of south korea, from nuclear submarines to the fallout from that intel leak, the two leaders are already making news. look at all the pomp and circumstance as they prepare if the big arrival. we ll be checking in there in a moment this all comes on the heels of biden s 2024 launch. his team just released its first campaign ad of this election cycle this morning, and we re live in a key swing state getting reaction to biden s bid and a potential biden/trump rematch. parts of the midwest staring down potentially historic flooding as the mississippi river swells to dangerous levels we ll have a live look at emergency preparations underway, a woman whose family is canoeing to work describes the situation. we have been told there s a possibility the gas is going to get shut off it ....