the city. new york mayor adams is warning tomorrow will be even worse. doctors are telling people to limit their time outdoors, especially if you have respiratory issues and the smoke has caused hundreds of flight delays. this is a look at the night aware misery map, what they call it, it shows the number of delays and cancellations that travelers are dealing with as the smoke gets thicker it will back this up, domino effect across the country. we will track the smoke and give you updates and we will tell what you to expect from air quality and stay safe. the clashes between parents and school boards across the country over what some sblooef a controversial curriculum that includes pride month theme materials that are boeing shown to students in elementary school including in kindergarten. matt finn has the reaction from the parents an update on three parents arrested outside a school board meeting in l.a. county. good evening. good evening trace and had three people arrest
taylor budovich served in all incompassing role, how, he s ahead of the trump-aligned super pac maga inc. so what did jack smith s team want from him? he testified for about an hour, a source familiar told nbc news that among the questions he was asked was one about a past public statement on behalf of donald trump. that the former president did not retain classified documents, the source tells us jack smith s team wanted to know how he knew that. in other words, did someone tell him that, misleading him. and if so, who was that, or was he guessing. for his part, budowich tried to frame the questions react tifl publicly right after he appeared privately. we ll tell you what he said in a moment. the question we have now is that it? budowich with that decision. and hurt from mark. meadows and testimony from 24 secret service agents. joining me nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian and in florida, nbc legal analyst lisa aruba. lisa, let s start in florida.
soon. plus, all eyes on florida where a grand jury in the trump classified documents case heard from another witness today. the washington post reporting that if trump is indicted, a majority of the charges will be brought in florida. so what does that mean? and ukraine gaining background around bakhmut around the chief of russia s private army admits there will be major russian losses in ukraine. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the hazardous air now choking more than 75 million americans. it s an unbelievable situation. these are live pictures of new york. thick smoke from wildfires burning hundreds and hundreds of miles away is now smothering the city. you got more than 8 million people affected just there. and it is way bigger than new york, philadelphia, pittsburgh, syracuse, all of them, the images you see there, 75 million americans are suffering from the hazardous haze. it is so bad particularly in new york city that the air quality index th
i looked and i seen the sun this morning, bright red. oh, my god, what s going on? when you look high up the buildings, looks pretty rough. looks way different from now than yesterday, way different. completely agree. i feel i have a blocked nose as well. slightly irritated. a little concerned about my kids going outside, but so, for once i ll actually let them stay on their devices. sandra: begin with the smoky skies that have become an air quality emergency for millions of americans and officials are warning things may only get worse in the coming hours and days. hello, welcome everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. john, hello. john: if you have some masks left over from covid, might want to dig them out. smoke is blanketing the eastern u.s. triggering air quality alerts in big cities like new york and philadelphia, and more than a dozen states. outdoor activities have been canceled at schools across the region and tens of millions of americans are advis
4:00 in new york with the skies above us are hazy from those canadian wildfires. we are all under air quality warnings. we re going to get to that story later in the broadcast. but we begin with what is shaping up to be a white knuckle day for the disgraced twice impeached now indicted legally liable for sex abuse ex-president thank foss fast-moving developments in special counsel jack smith s investigations, plural, into donald trump. today, a federal jury in miami is back in action hearing witness testimony as part of the special counsel s investigation into whether the ex-president mishandled classified documents. or obstructed government efforts to retrieve those documents after leaving office. and it was not just any witness, it was one of trump s closest aides. a former trump spokesman who have as super pac. saying that prosecutors weres partially interested in taylor budowich, after sending boxes of material from his private home to the national archives, trump left a