i will ensure trump is never again near the oval office. >> we want transparency for the american people. >> the message is we have to make it easier for passengers. >> we learned some hard lessons over the last three years. ♪ ♪ good morning. welcome to "sunday today" on this august 21st. i'm willie geist. this morning, there are concerns inside ukraine and around the world about the fate of europe's largest nuclear power plant, where fighting between russian

and ukrainian forces risk a potential catastrophe. this week marking six months since vladamir putin's military invaded ukraine, with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy now saying ukraine is returning, thanks in part to the united states. we'll have the latest in a live report from ukraine. then our sunday focus on a defining moment this week for the republican party, as congresswoman liz cheney officially is run out of office for the sin of defying former president trump. so what is the future of the party and the country if there is no room for a republican named cheney? plus, our sunday spotlight on the booming popularity of trade skls, as a growing number of students choose the clear path to a job over an expensive four years of college. and later, a favorite sunday sitdown with the talented and hilarious jane krakowski on a

career from playing cousin vickie in "vacation" to stealing scenes in "30 rock" and the job that changed her life. >> we flew out coach and flew out first class. warm fresh cookies and all, which was a first for me. >> a sunday sit down with jane krakowski. but let's beginning this morning in ukraine, where that country's military is trying now to gain control of russian held crimea, among concerns about a crisis that europe's largest nuclear power plant. josh letterman is in central ukraine with the latest. josh, good morning. >> reporter: willie, good morning. president putin has called crimea a sacred place. russia annexed crimea in 2014 and used it to attack ukraine. but now ukraine is putting russia on the defensive.

explosions rocking the skies over russian occupied crimea, the local governor says crimea's air defenses were activated again overnight after a drone targeted the naval headquarters. president zelenskyy predicting crimea will be liberated. he says, you can literally feel it in the air. as fierce fighting continues across the south and east, ukrainians still fearing nuclear catastrophe, with reports of shelling near two nuclear power plants. in moscow, russian authorities confirming the daughter of a putin ally was killed in a car bombing. meanwhile, there's fresh hope for hungry nations relying on ukrainian grain. four more ships set to depart, carry 3g 3,000 tons of food. the u.n. secretary-general touring a grain ship on saturday. >> it will be the largest cargo ever coming out of ukraine after the war has started.

>> reporter: this morning, ukrainians bracing for what could be a brutal week. ukraine's independence day on wednesday, coinciding with the six-month anniversary of the war, zelenskyy warning russia may be planning a vicious attack that way. as ukrainias parade burnt out russian tanks through the streets. >> heavyweight champion of the world, ukraine. >> reporter: the fighter known as the pride of ukraine, dedicating his victory to ukraine's armed forces and his country. an adviser to zelenskyy is responding this morning to that car bombing that killed a putin ally's daughter, denying that ukraine was involved. saying that ukraine, unlike russia, is not a terrorist state. willie? >> josh letterman starting us off this morning in ukraine. josh, thank you so much. here at home, the justice

department has until thursday to provide a redacted copy of the affidavit used to justify the fbi's search of former president trump's florida home. mr. trump is threatening to sue the agency over that search, as his allies call for a fight against the fbi. nbc's monica alba is at the white house for us this morning. monica, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the former president is teasing several responses to the ongoing investigation into his handling of classified materials after losing in 2020 and leaving the white house. including one option that his legal team is hinting could come hours from now. this morning, former president trump considering a major legal motion related to the fourth amendment. claiming his rights were violated in the search and seizure of classified documents from his mar-a-lago trump. his lead attorney indicating their team may ask for a special master to review and return the evidence if appointed and approved by a court. >> one of the benefits of the

special master, if the master agrees with this, we can stop doj in their tracks when it comes to inspecting these documents. >> reporter: the justice department has until thursday to file its proposed reactions for the affidavit central to the investigation into mr. trump's handling of top street material. a judge will decide whether that version might be released to the public. all while mike pence tells the associated press he never took classified documents from the white house. this comes as he weighs his own political future. >> my family and i will do as we've always done, that is reflect and pray on where we might next serve. >> reporter: mr. trump telling a group of republican lawmakers the presidency was "hell" as he continues to mull his own timeline to announcing a white house bid. one source saying he will wait

until after the midterm elections, to avoid overshadowing the party's candidates. and there's another open question here, willie. mr. trump is still considering releasing surveillance footage of the fbi search, with a doj saying their hope would be that any video would obscure faces or identities of agents involved, given the current threats against law enforcement. willie? >> worried for good reason about their safety. monica, thank you so much. chuck todd is nbc's political director. good to see you, even by the standards of these last six or seven years of rhetoric, it's been pretty extreme in the last week with supporters of donald trump, including senior members of the united states senate, effectively calling for war with the fbi and now the irs, saying that 87,000 irs agents with

ar-15s are coming to kick in the doors of small businesses wrchlt does this lead us? >> we couldn't feel in a more unsettling situation. there's been one -- one, i guess you want to call this a positive development. this is how i would classify it. right now, it's translating into intense interest and energy in the midterms. so we got this new poll coming out today. we asked on a scale of 1 to 10 your interest in the election. the number of people saying 10 in the month of august of an election year is the highest we've ever recorded in the month of august. in fact, it's higher now than it was in october of '18 or october of '14. the point is, all of this uncomfortable energy has energized everybody. you look in our poll, rural voters, who are president trump's strongest supporters geographically, have never been more fired up. it's hard not to look at it as a

response from mar-a-lago. at the same time, women outnumber men in 1 to 10 when it comes to interest in the election, all driven by the dobbs decision. this is an angry electorate, for different reasons. >> you have a lot of irresponsible people driving that rhetoric and anger. let's hope it doesn't lead somewhere dark. later, chuck is joined on "meet the press" by these three guests. at least 20 people were killed after islamic militants stormed a hotel in mogadishu. it took somali forces 30 hours to overtake the militants linked to al shabab.

one person is missing this morning after being swept up in flash floods at utah's zion national park as millions in the southwest remain under threat of flooding again today. >> reporter: flash floods, sudden and dangerous, sweeping across the southwest. at utah's zion national park, several people swept away by the torrent. this man clinging to a log as he's carried downstream. his life, saved by good samaritans on the river bank. >> i just knew to run parallel with him down the river. i tried to reach out and snag him. >> reporter: but still missing, this graduate student. the park service saying more than 20 zion search and rescue team members are searching for this missing person. in arizona, this school bus

teetering perilously on a flooded road. nearly 30 kids taken to the safety of other vehicles through fast-moving water. >> they're going to put them in the back of the truck. >> reporter: roughly 10 million people now under flood alert across the southern united states. heavy rains have poured down on one of america's driest regions for weeks. death valley reopen thing weekend after flash flooding stranded a thousand tourists and caused millions in damage earlier this month. from high temperatures t >> thank you in baseball, 42-year-old st. louis cardinal slugger albert pujols continues his hot streak as he plays the final season of his hall of fame career. last night he hit two more home runs, which is 692 for his career he needs five more to go to

third place on the all-time home run list and he past the legendary stan musial, another st. louis icon, for number two in total bases in major league history the three-time mvp has been on a role over the past month, with seven home runs and a live look right now in san francisco. we have got breezy winds this morning, and we are going to be seeing another warm afternoon. by 11:00, 12:00, temperatures in san francisco will climb into the mid- to upper 60s. the inland areas can expect temperatures in the 80s by 1:00. in addition, we are monitoring the breezy winds and low clouds and inland, you can expect the return of 90s heading into monday. straight ahead, the highs and lows of the week, including a happy update on the

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where the cheney family is an institution, had made clear they were furious with the congresswoman for her relentless criticism of former president donald trump and his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. still, it was an extraordinary political moment, as the party of lincoln reminded the country it is now the party of trump. nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali has our sunday focus. >> reporter: liz cheney lost the battle tuesday night in wyoming. >> she won. i called her to concede the race. >> reporter: but she's still hoping to win the war. >> i will do whatever it takes to keep donald trump out of the oval office. >> reporter: tuesday's results crystallizing the hold trump has over the party, gop voters embracing candidates who have embraced the election lie -- >> the election was rigged and stolen. >> reporter: and underscored the contrast between the party today and the one that cheney's father, dick, led 20 years ago. >> we're so prud of liz.

>> reporter: some political scores have been settled this year. >> usa! usa! >> reporter: not just cheney, who was still a top 2022 target. but of the ten who voted to impeach trump, only two survived. >> look, my opinion is, bye, liz. won't really miss you. >> reporter: gone for the most part is the centrist middle. evidenced by policy -- >> you don't hear much about limiting government. republicans don't even talk about that in deficits anymore. >> reporter: as much as persona. conservatives taking on a new meaning recently. >> some of the voters i talked to when they say you're not conservative enough, they mean you're not pro trump enough. do you still fit this that party in >> well, and if it is that, if

the republican party chooses to go in that direction, i think they leave behind a lot of americans. >> reporter: the alaska senator, one of seven senators who voted to convict trump, advanced in her primary tuesday night, hoping to be a proof point that trump's ire is not a political kiss of both. >> we cannot afford any more rinos of ds in office. >> reporter: but not all republicans seeing the upside. >> there's probably a greater likelihood the house flips than the senate. >> reporter: senator mitch mcconnell throwing shade on problematic candidates recruited in trump's image. >> senate races is a different candidate quality. >> reporter: all sure to culminate in the presidential primary, foes and friends positioning themselves around them -- >> if there was an invitation to

participate, i would consider it. >> reporter: to ron desantis campaigning in arizona. >> i call it big desantis energy. >> reporter: to cheney herself. >> are you thinking about running for president? >> that's a decision i'll make in the coming months. >> and ali joins me live. good morning. good to see you. we heard mcconnell there lamenting the quality of some of those trump-backed republican candidates. what is the potential electoral impact this year with a party aligned with the former president? >> reporter: trump's sway in primaries has always been strong. but the concern is whether those candidates are electable in a general election, where you're campaigning to win more than just the gop party faithful. it's no secret, mcconnell doesn't like trump, but it's less about how trumpy or not these republicans are and more pennsylvania, those are where outsider

are trailing their democratic in large part, because of the quality of candidate running there. candidates pushed by trump. willie? >> many of those hand picked by donald trump. thanks so much. speaking of electability, congratulations on your new book out this tuesday called "electable, where america hasn't put a woman in the white house yet." i can't wait to read it. we'll talk to you much more about that. looks great. coming up next here, a sunday sitdown with tony winner jane krakowski on a prolific career that's taken her from a soap opera to broadway, and to tv classics like "alley mcbeal" and "30 rock." and the man who revolutionized medicine with the invention of the mri machine. and our photo of the week. a striking image of lake mead in arizona near the hoover dam,

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prop 27 has strong protections to prevent minors from betting. prop 26? no protections for minors. prop 27 helps every tribe, including disadvantaged tribes. prop 26? nothing for disadvantaged tribes vote yes on 27. good morning. thank you for joining us on this august 21st. i'm kyra clapper. wildfires have burned 15 acre so far. and crews have battled the fires from the air and the ground late into the night. they have managed to stop the fire from growing now, but evacuations are still in place. check this out, it is time lapse video from alert wildfire camera. you can see how much smoke the

fire put out growing in matter of minutes. we spoke to a group of friends vacationing across the lake from the fire, and they shared this video with us when they first saw the smoke on the sky. >> we looked out on the dock, over it was shocking. it was pretty mellow trip up until this, and i have never seen anything like this before. >> and new details this morn on a deadly shooting at a popular east bay park. richmond police say they have solid leads, but they have not made any arrests after a gunman shot and killed a person at southside community park happening before 3:00 yesterday afternoon. the park is on south 6th street and virginia after knew. and police are asking anyone with information to contact the police department. and check out this chaotic scene near the highway 87 santa

teresa boulevard. you can see the cars doing doughnuts on the highway, and some were frustrated and others feared for their safety, and when police showed up, the drivers took off. we will check in with meteorologist vianey arana for the sunday forecast. >> we will get some cooling today before we warm right back up. so, right now, if you are going to be out and about in the city, it is going to be breezy, and some periods of low clouds and fog through the entire day of the coastline, and this is a look at the area where we will be climbing into mid-60s and a mix of sun and clouds until 1:00, and meanwhile enter into the interior where we will be in san jose, and the conditions will climb into upper 80s.

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stop ignoring me! this is an actor announcement. >> the show's over, so you're not technically an actor any more. >> how dare you, you rotting pair. i will not being an actress when the earth stopping spinning. >> that is jane krakowski, as the self-absorbed actress on "30 rock" which ran for seven seasons on nbc. that memorable role on the classic show earned her four emmy nominations. krakowski and tina fey teamed up

again on "kimmy schmidt" where she played another hilarious narcissist. she has been working steadily on tv, the movies and on broadway since she was a teenager. most recently on the hit musical comedy series. we got together last summer on a new york city roof top for a sunday sitdown. ♪ ♪ >> hi, willie. >> hi, jane, how are you? >> i'm good. >> good so see you. >> great to see you. my hero. >> jane krakowski was born to perform. the new jersey native made her broadway debut at just 18 years old. ♪ ♪ she was still a senior in high school when she skated onto the stage in "starlight express." and by then, she already was an emmy nominated soap opera star,

and cousin vickie in the classic 1983 movie "vacation." >> i'm steady and i french kiss. >> well, everybody does that. >> yeah, but daddy says i'm the best at it. >> so what was that like to have a lot of high profile stuff happening at that age while you were still in high school? >> exhilarating, i guess. when i look back, it doesn't seem like it was fast. >> acting is in her blood. her parents were active members of their local theater, where young jane often tagged along. >> from the time i was in a crib, i was backstage at this community theater. and i've had many of those shows, i've come to be in on broadway. those moments are the moments where i think, wow, how did this even happen? like how did i see my dad and my mom be in a show in community theater and now i'm opening on broadway? those days are never lost on me. i'm so thankful for the support

and creativity that my parents infused into our lives as a child. and still loving it now. like, this many years later. i've been in this business a long time. can you believe it? >> there are bunch of great roles you're associated with on tv. did you feel your life changing? people know who you are. >> i sum this up as the whole experience. we flew out coach and flew back first class. warm fresh cookies and all. which was a first for me. what is do you hear about the most. alley mcdeal," 30 rock." >> don't be so dramatic. >> if i can see new jersey, it can see me. >> jacqueline is an incredible character. and you said you enjoy finding the humor in monsters. >> i don't know necessarily monsters, but i think i love finding a sense of humor in flaws in people.

and they can be flaws in all of us. i love heightening them to a place of humor. >> you'll need to be here by 6:00 every morning to get buckley up at school, and get me up at 10:00, but don't wake me up. >> even though the characters are flawed, i have radical compassion for them all. that's something i am so happy i infuse in my characters. i think we're at a time in life where we should all have radical compassion for everyone we neat on a day-to-day basis. >> amen. she's busier than ever, shooting a new season of the apple tv plus series, the musical parody based on classical broadway shows. where do you fit into that story? >> i play countess von blurken.

>> should you be driving and singing? ♪ ♪ >> i loved that it is a loving parody of musical theater, but has such a whitey, humorous sensibility tacked on to it. it's sort of like, you'll like this show whether you like or hate musicals, because both sides are represented. >> and recently, rapping another apple tv plus series "dickinson," a modern take on the life of emily dickenson by she plays the poet's mother. >> i feel like each other the show finessed its way into something special and beautiful. it's been really interesting, because the show lives on many levels. it can be completely funny, and then the next minute be heartfelt and beautiful and poignant. >> someone who loves you, someone worthy of you, should. make you feel sick. that's not what love is. >> and then we're twerking to a

rap song. ♪ ♪ >> for all of her success on screen, krakowski is most at home on stage. with three tony nominations and a win in 2003 for her performance in "nine." ♪ ♪ when they call your name, does it all come back, the parents taking you to the creator in the crib, that whole road that got you to that stage? >> when they called my name, i went blake. >> jane krakowski. >> i think i had a moment, an out of body experience. don't play my speech on the show. it's so not good. thank you so, so much. >> i think generally speaking, you were not a jaded person, you don't take all these things in your life and career for

granted. >> not a step. as a mom of a 10-year-old, i hope my son can find what he loves to do and i can nurture it and say go and he can find that for himself, too. it's a -- you have a life well lived, don't you? it's a life well lived when you can get to do what you love to do for your whole life. >> and you're doing it. >> oh, thanks so much, guys. >> this was great. i mean, she's pulling in the branding from the show. >> if there was a mic, i would drop it. >> that was an unconventional mic drop. >> i'm not exactly conventional. >> maybe not the smoothest of mic drops, but a mic drop nevertheless. her two series both are streaming on apple tv plus, with season two expected next year.

don't forget to subscribe to the podcast to hear the full interview with jane krakowski. she's just a blast. you can find that on apple podcasts or wherever you get yours. next week, a favorite sunday sitdown with one of the biggest stars on the planet. drinking a pint and talking music with ed sheeran, and waking up to breezy winds around the coastline. and in san francisco we have low clouds and temperatures in the 60s, but if you are in interior, it is going to be cooler this afternoon and expect the highs to be in the upper 70s, and the same in san jose. brief cooling today with the wind and slightly cooling by the middle of the week before we heat back up again. ahead on "sunday today," our

highs and lows of the week, including the bear who became a viral star after a batch of trippy honey really mellowed her out. we'll check in on her. up next, the growing number of high school graduates who are turning away from four-year colleges in favor of trade schools that prepare them for an economy overflowing with jobs. ubrelvy helps u fight migraine attacks. u won't take a time-out. one dose of ubrelvy quickly stops migraine in its tracks within 2 hours. do not take with strong cyp3a4 inhibitors. most common side effects were nausea and tiredness. ask about ubrelvy, the anytime, anywhere migraine medicine. you know that show i was telling you about? yeah i was so close to the stage when i saw her and she... she pulled me in. wasn't expecting that. it was literally... literally the greatest thing i've ever seen... scene... it was such a scene, but i looked pretty hot... so hot. i mean the look on his face... face it! you really missed out on the best time... time of our lives.

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>> reporter: at a refurbished firehouse in new york city, jessica is learning how to build a wall. she's a student at nontraditional employment for women, training women for jobs in construction. but it's not what the 22-year-old had planned after high school. did you want to go to college or did you think that was a path everyone takes? >> i thought the first generation in my family, i would be the first generation to graduate college. >> reporter: but instead she took a job in retail after leaving college and then learned about this training, and now she's considering a job as a sheet metal worker. as we're having this conversation, your eyes are lighting up, you are smiling ear-to-ear. >> i'm really excited. >> reporter: it's a similar story for this woman. first a year of college and a retail job, now an apprentice carpenter. >> when i was in high school, it was what college are you going to? did you get your admissions letter yet?

and i never thought to go into the trade, because it wasn't a conversation that i had with anybody. >> reporter: after decades of societal pressure to go to college, a growing number of students are looking for alternative career paths. especially ones that don't carry significant loan debt. last spring, college enrollment dropped nearly 5% from a year early, and attendance is down more than 9% compared to prepandemic levels. is going to a trade school now considered an alternative to going to college? >> it is, and it should be even more so. it's the other four-year degree is what we're saying. you're earning while you're learning. >> reporter: in 2021, more than 500,000 apprentices were learning skills like carpentry and plumbing and i.t. and health care. up 66% from ten years earlier. nationwide, there are more apprenticeship programs supported by federal aid from republican and democratic administrations. >> the first thing is a great

attitude. >> reporter: kids under 18 are interested in these careers. here in atlanta, there are the math and english classes, but also construction. as early as ninth grade, students learn about carpentry, plumbing and masonry. >> this is the kind of program that needs to be in every single high school in america. it's one of those that can give students just another way of looking at what possibilities are out there. >> reporter: many students and parents, along with employers, still worry about not having a college degree. do we put too much pressure on kids to go to college? >> absolutely. it's the big default. it's almost as if you don't go to college, there is a stigma. there are plenty of jobs right now that can't be filled that pay $70,000, $80,000 a year to start. not requiring a college degree. college is not for everybody. the sooner that we realize that, the better off this country is going to be. >> thanks to this program, from the very beginning to the end,

it's just pushing me to where i want to be. >> reporter: for "sunday today," stephanie ruhle, new york. >> thank you very much. you can see more of the series "kids under pressure" all week across the outlets of nbc news. this week, we highlight another life well lived. we take for grant it today that we can walk into a doctor's office and lie down in or just step into a machine that sees clearly into our bodies. but that concept was revolutionary when a doctor conceived of it a half century ago. in 1974, dr. raymond demadan received a patent for a scanner that would become the mri machine. an essential medical tool that can diagnose cancer and look into patient's brains, lungs, and bones without exposing them to radiation. a native of new york city, who studied the violin at the julliard school before turning

to science, he used magnetic resonance imaging to produce vivid imaging superior to x-rays or ct scans. he performed his first scan in july of 1977, and his company sold its first commercial scanner in 1980. to protect his patent, he sued corporations like johnson & johnson and general electric when they entered the market with their own versions of his machine. in 1988, president reagan awarded him the national medal of technology. the next year, he was inducted into the national inventor's hall of fame. that first scanner he built was sent to the smithsonian. he protested vigorously in 2003, when a pair of other doctors won the nobel prize in medicine for their contributions to mri

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it is time for the highs and lows of the week, and our first high goes to the miraculous recovery of a 12-year-old ballplayer at the little league world series in pennsylvania. this morning, easton is talking and walking six days after suffering fractures to his skull and face after falling out of the top bunk of a bunk bed. he's received an outpouring of support from across the country, including from his baseball hero, los angeles dodgers star mookie betts.

praying for you and thinking of you and hope to see you soon. >> easton's team from the snow canyon little league played its first game on friday, and his spot in the lineup was filled by his little brother. with easton cheering from his hospital bed, he stepped to the plate to a standing ovation. snow canyon lost the game, but they're not done yet. they have a win or go home game later today. easton's dad said it is a miracle he survived that fall and he're so glad he's on the mend this morning. the first low is to the nasty slide at a major league game that came off of the diamond. the los angeles reporter was excited when they traveled to play milwaukee. he could finally take a ride down the slide just over the

outfield wall. the mascot takes a slide every time the home team hits a home run. but david is no bernie the brewer. >> here we go. holy crap!crap! >> cut to cast on arm. a trip to the average room revealed two fractures in his right wrist and six cracked ribs after that slide. dodgers third baseman justin turner, who was injured before that trip to the e.r., later tweeted this photo, complete with a commemorative chalk outline and two words that will follow him back to los angeles, holy crap.

that brewers tradition, much better when bernie the crewer would slide into a vat of beer. the best of the best among business in the front, party in the book. the usa mullet championships where americans of all ages stake their claim to our nation's finest mullet hairstyle. let's meet some of the youngest contestants for best in show. in the kid's division, we have a boy with a mullet as cool as his name. oh, yeah, this is epic. that's his name. going for the triple threat, that's business, party, and a mh axle bowden. and landry's mom got fancy with the clippers. and rustin doesn't look old enough to have that much glorious hair. well, this morning, we are pleased to announce the champion in the 2022 kid's division.

he is, emmett bailey of wisconsin. yeah, just bringing the heat right there. congratulations, young man. and wisconsin just showing out, winning in the teen division on the strength of this mullet from caden kershaw, closing the deal obviously with that nice feathering up top. just tremendous work, fellows. you have made 1990s billy ray cyrus and andre agassi very proud. the final low goes to a brown bear in turkey experience, after getting into some hallucinogenic honey. the bear cub is just fine after a bad trip on something called deli bal, a honey native to the region that can induce intoxication and hallucination. turkish officials helped the bear to a veterinarian where she recovered quickly, and is now in

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good morning. it is sunday, august 2 # 1st, 7:00 on the dot, as we are taking a look outside with the sun shining over san jose. a beautiful way to start what should be a lovely day. warm out there though. thank you for starting your sunday with us. i'm kira klapper. we are going to go to developing news right now in the north bay where a wildfire has forced evacuations in clear lake about 40 miles north of santa rosa. these flames ignited last night and burned abo