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Harris, our country will be badly worse off. For the sake of our nation we have to go with donald trump. Donald trump has been demonized. He s been sued, he s been prosecuted, and he nearly lost his life. We cannot let him down, and we cannot let america down. Donald trump s former rivals for the republican nomination showing loyalty to him last night at the republican national convention. We ll have more of their speeches and a live report from milwaukee straight ahead. Plus we ll have a look at president biden s pitch to a key voting block he needs this november to hold onto the white house. And we ll bring you the fallout from democratic senator bob menendez s corruption conviction as high profile members of his own party call on him to resign. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, july 17th. I m jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And we ll begin this morning with day two of the republican national convention where a pair of donald trump s
Hospitalizations in the u. S. Hit alarming heights not seen since the winter surge announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt substituting tonight and reporting from new orleans, tom llamas. Good evening. I m tom llamas in for lester we are coming to you tonight from an american city in crisis and a region in need of help hurricane ida causing catastrophic damage. The view from above just a glimpse of the actual pain felt on the ground families in la place, louisiana running from ida s surge overnight, and today pulled from their homes in boats hospital staff caring for sick patients as parts of their buildings came apart in grand isle, ida s force and surge captured on camera in realtime and now a cleanup under way so people have some place to stay and tonight you ll meet the nurse who cared for dozens of babies in a nicu unit, unable to see her own children to help infants in need of all of this as new orleans faces a new type of disaster no power anywhere in the city at le
Hello and welcome. We begin in afghanistan, where the us embassy in kabul is asking american citizens in the country not to travel to kabul airport. The warning came just moments after similar advice issued by the british foreign office, which included the warning of a high threat of a terrorist attack. The pentagon says about 10,000 people are currently at the airport, as the scramble to leave the country is gathering pace before the deadline for evacuation flights. Graham satchell has this report. Day after day for more than a week now distressing pictures of afghans that couple airport desperate to leave. Now a new warning from the american government is saying there is a high threat of attack here. The advice is don t travel to the airport which means a hugely difficult operation to get people out has just got worse. Latest figures from the ministry of defence show that more than 11,000 people have so far been evacuated to the uk. 0f far been evacuated to the uk. Of those, almost 7
Schools, as one board meeting spirals into a shouting match homeland security s new national terrorism and the threat of violence leading up to the 20th anniversary of 9/11. News on new york governor andrew cuomo. What is now happening with the impeachment probe now that he is stepping down. Tropical storm warnings up in florida as fred takes aim, and 78 million under a brutal heatwave, and the dire record. July the hottest month ever murder hornets are back where the first live one was spotted in the u. S. This year and music legend tony bennett his farewell to the stage. Announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone an america that became weary of war is tonight witnessing from afar the raw and ugly reality of what the u. S. Has left behind in the wake of its withdrawal from afghanistan, a vacuum filled by a resurgent taliban. Its fighters have now ensnared the country s most important cities except the capital of kabul, grabbing territory, and now a hig