northeast. the heat index, the feel-like reading topping 100 degrees in new york city, philadelphia to washington. and in boston tonight, the sixth day of record temperatures above 95 degrees. at this hour, the threat of storms and flooding. ginger zee tracking it all. president biden and the major bipartisan victory tonight. signing the $280 billion bill increasing the manufacture of chips here in the u.s. we hear fromnmerican manufacturer ready to go. the major headline on monkeypox. the government planning to turn one vaccine shot into five shots, able to reach more people. steve osunsami at the cdc. the war in ukraine, and tonight, the explosion rocking a russian air base in crimea. were the ukrainians behind it? the alarming images captured by a hudz who believed his wife, a dermatologist, was poisoning him. what authorities are now saying. the company. gas prices falling. and economists now say online prices are falling, too. the first decline in more than two
how long will it take for the u.s. to catch up? cbs s meg oliver reports, it s easier said than done. reporter: how complex is it to make these microchips? it is extremely complex. duncan: and moving on, tennis great serena williams serves up a surprise announcement, saying she s ready to focus on her family. i can t do this forever. sometimes you just want to try your best tohe ments with norah o don evening news from the nation s capital. duncan: good evening, and thank you for joining us. i m jericka duncan in for norah. tonight, there are new details about the unprecedented f.b.i. search of former president donald trump s florida home. what we re learning about the investigation that s focused on his potential mishandling of what could be classified material. sources tell cbs news that the f.b.i. was met by trump s attorneys, along with the secret service. it is the first time in american history that a search warrant has been issued on a former president, and
host of the beat, ari melber joins us this morning. joe. you know, ari melber, over the past several years, we have been a constitutional republic run by people who have little respect for the rule of law. a former president with his henchman who didn t think twice about breaking the law, didn t think twice about breaking constitutional norms or calling for the arrest of their political opponents, whether it was hillary clinton in 2016 or joe biden in 2020. in 2016 with chants at national conventions for doing far less than donald trump did when he was president of the united states. and then in 2020, donald trump is president of the united states, ordering his attorney general to arrest his political opponents. and i ve heard it. i know you have. so many people, good democrats and independents and republicans asking the same question. is this guy above the law? well we wake up this morning, and we have an inkling. perhaps a belief that in the early morning hours of augus
former president. donald trump revealed the news last night saying fbi agents were at the mar-a-lago residence earlier in the day and cracked the safe. the fbi did not dispute it carried out a search warrant at the resort. the justice department and the fbi field offices declined to comment. a source familiar with the matter tells nbc the search was tied to allegedly classified information he took with him from the white house and trump said the search was politically motivate jd the former president was at trump tower in new york city. nbc news learned he will have dinner tonight with a group of republican house members. joining us now is nbc news senior national correspondent kerry sanders. ken delandian, barbara mcquaid and chuck rosenberg. ken, what more do we know about this search and the investigation? jose, sources are telling nbc news that this stemmed from a referral made by the national archivings to the justice department when they retrieved 15 boxes of presiden
judge permitting them to enter. the search by a large uniformed team ununiformed team, excuse me, took hours and included getting into trump s safe. mr. trump who announced the search in a statement on his website railed against it claiming prosecutorial misconduct and political persecution. he was in manhattan at the time in preparation for an upcoming deposition, part of the civil investigation by the new york state attorney s office into his organization s finances. the former president s lawyer was at the scene in florida and called it an unannounced raid to seize paper. white house officials tell nbc news they had no prior knowledge and justice department officials are refusing to comment. we have the story completely covered throughout this hour, including a deep dive with legal experts and historian michael beschloss, as well as the political fallout. we begin with nbc s kerry sanders, ken dilanian, ryan reilly and josh daucey. we did hear from donald trump during