. >> reporter: congressman josh harder has been working to create incentives to pay crews a living wage and to hire more staff and try to retain them. >> this is because we have a stake in it. we need to make sure that these fire crews are staffed because this fire season is going to be devastating. >> well, brown says one simple way to help would be to reclassify federal firefighters to boost their pay. right now they are classified as forestry technicians. >>> with the drought emergency only getting worse, marin county's falling well short of its water conservation goals. the marin independent journal is reporting the water district is considering fines of up to $1,000 or more severe water restrictions. they imposed the mandate a month ago, but the report says customers slashed their water use by less than 10%. >>> in butte county, lake oroville is getting ravaged by the drought. dozens of houseboats are sitting on cinder blocks. state officials say if levels continue to drop, they'll have to shut down the hydropower plant for only the second time in history. >> they're projecting by

to vote. >> josh lederman. >>> tomorrow you have a bipartisan group of senators, who are set to release the smaller set of infrastructure proposals. and followed by chuck schumer saying lawmakers will in fact debate and vote for the for the people act on tuesday, despite republicans promising earlier this week that the legislation is dead on arrival. that was mitch mcconnell saying that. we're on capitol hill with more. lay it out for us we're likely to hear some details on this bill tomorrow, but can expect it to be presented to the white house as well. do we know where biden stands on this latest deal? >> reporter: yasmin, the white house is projecting optimism, but we'll get more details tomorrow of what this latest bipartisan group of negotiators are going to come up with, and we'll hear biden weigh in from there. right now the likeliest option seems to be on a two-track playing field. on the one hand, they want to work out with shall bipartisan group of lawmakers, that's expected to be a roughly $1 trial won package with about $600 million in new spending for hard infrastructure, t

the canaan partners cove harder -- partners cofounder josh friedman expressed some concern about the impact of policy. ♪ >> as i look at the markets today, i think some of the most important characteristics are that there's been a frenzy of acquisition driven in part by these low interest rates, so you have private equity with a dominant presence in the market, spac's facilitating public options. so you are in a transaction rich environment, one in which none of the participants are in business with the sole goal of buying and selling companies. when they are doing this in a hasty way and using aggressive lenders who are dying to give the money, there are always two kinds of opportunities for the market. one is at the point where those acquisitions take place. people need capital, and that is not always an efficient process, not always a need to process, but sometimes there's a lot better risk return then simply buying commodity high-yield product, if you will. the other thing that happens when you get an aggressive market as people make mistakes, but it takes time for those mistak

>> josh, thank you >>> in florida a driver accidentally plowed his truck through a pride parade killing one man and injuring another this happened in wilton manner in ft. lauderdale. they're members of a ft. lauderdale gay men's chorus. the driver accelerated unexpectedly hitting two victims before driving through traffic and crashing into a fence. the 77-year-old suffers from a walking ailment and was actually chosen to drive the lead vehicle in the parade this year. officials say it was unintentional. no charges have been filed >>> the body of a fourth tuber was found in a north carolina river after a group on a recreational float went over a dam. police identified 7-year-old isaiah crawford after a 911 call alerted them to a body in the dan river. four rescued on thursday and three others found dead that same day rescuers continue to search for a 35-year-old who is still missing. >>> several people were hurt in two separate hot air balloon incidents in colorado. according to officials, three people were taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries after a balloon crash lan

what are you hear being this josh? >> we are really at the epicenter alex of this national fight that democrats say is an effort by republicans to make it harder for people to vote but that republicans say is really about election integrity. safeguarding our elections after all of the chaos of the 2020 election. here in texas, republicans tried to pass one of the more extreme voting restrictive measures that we have seen across the country. democrats only able to block that by staging a dramatic walk-out of the state legislature a few weeks ago that denied a quorum. now the texas governor, greg abbott, a republican, he is so upset about that that he is withholding pay to state legislators because he says, they are not going to show up for work, they are not doing their job. now democratic lawmakers telling msnbc they plan to sue the governor over that. i spoke just a bit ago to beto o'rourke who has been crisscrossing the state in more than 20 cities so far trying to rally support for federal voting rights. >> what is

you're reducing tax burdens and we're all working harder and paying your taxes. it's unsustainable. >> josh barrow and adnan, thank you. >>> what's next for infrastructure talks after the president and senate republicans were unable to strike a deal. >>> plus nbc's jacob soboroff joins us with now the biden administration is struging to locate families as they try to reunite those separated under donald trump. >>> the next hour of "morning joe" kicks off that very issue, immigration and the biden plan to tackle it. >>> lester holt sat down with vice president kamala harris for an exclusive interview. and when he was asked why she hasn't visited the border yet, you could tell she didn't quite have an answer prepared. >> do you have any plans to visit the border? >> i -- at some point, you know, it -- we are going to the border. we've been to the border. so, this whole thing about the border, we've within been to the border. we've been to the border. >> you haven't been to the border. >> and i haven't been to europe. >> well, that escalated quickly. that's right. h