To get us back to precovid levels . Our live report from wall street coming up. And our team this morning is spreading out across the country and around the world, with new reporting on every single front. We want to start in florida, though, with nbcs mike memoli in coconut creek, monica alba in tampa, and Steve Kornacki at the big board. We have our expert in florida politics, politico Senior Writer mark caputo. Mike, ill start with you, as we see our team lined up around the country. Biden is in the air headed to from are for his fourth trip as the democratic nominee but interestingly, our new poll shows he has a narrow lead but one within the margin of error. Reporter theres no state that biden has been to more than florida other than pennsylvania so that gives you a sense of just how important this is both terms of dictating an outcome. Biden team thinking this is a state we might get a fairly quick count and if the lead that he has now in our marist poll holds up a fourpoint lead
But before we get to that one, i want to turn to one about the Opioid Crisis. Today a lot of new developments this morning with just a few hours to go. President trump expected to declare this a Public Health emergency. A real step forward in an attempt to try to stop an epidemic that kills 142 americans every day. Let me stop and put this into context for you here. This is the equivalent of a 9 11 every three weeks. Think about that. This is the president previewing todays announcement. Listen. Were going to be doing a very, very important meeting some time in the very short, very near future on opioids. In terms of declaring a National Emergency, which gives us power to do things you cant do right now. So, hans nichols is at the white house in the Briefing Room there. Ive been on the phone and i know you have been working about it, too. Talking about what this Public Health emergency does and, also, by the way, what it does not do. Tell us what the details are. It doesnt allocate any
Robert mueller headed to the hill. Jerry nadler spoke literally seconds ago about this. We want to take you there live. Lets listen in. inaudible . I think this will be the last question. I think given the nature of what he has to say, what was in the report, he will be a very compelling witness. Thank you very much. Chairman jerry nadler speaking very briefly with reporters there. Lets just set the stage there. We are working to get Kelly Odonnell, who is live on capitol hill. Julia ainslie, this is all developing overnight. Word that Robert Mueller will appear three weeks from today in front of two committees in open session, right . Reporter thats right. July 17th Robert Mueller will speak in open session. Thats surprising. I have to eat my own words because i didnt think this day would come. Rocket mueller stood here and gave a statement and said my report speaks for itself. And it seemed that was the last we were going to hear from him before he stepped out of the public eye. Now