intervening. a federal judge ruled yesterday that arkansas s ban on these horrific procedures l. thenstitutiona so now we have the state sanctioned mutilation of children because that s exactly what our founders intended. this truly unfathomable, unfathomable ruling comes as texas governor greg abbott, he signed a bill banningr abbott oriented performances and the presence of minors otherwise peo known as drag shows for kids. but the left, they are doubling downr . npr celebrated san francisco s appointment of a so-called drag laureate. when you win a nobel priz e, you become a nobel laureate. the country also has a poet laureate. many states have poet laureates, and now there is a le drag laureate. npr s chloe veltman recently joinedat the country s first drag laureate on her inaugural public appearance, unfurling a pride flag outside san francisco city hall, rancis getting d arcy drawings ready for hecor first officialpearance appearance as san francisco drag laureate is
on scene or close to being on scene. retired us navy captain armon joins us with the latest on search and rescue but first to matt finn on how crews are working to find the source of underwater noises that have been detectd the. matt good evening. good evening trace. the u.s. coast guard says a canadian surveillance plane picked up some type of underwater sounds yesterday and again today. but a coast guard captain says they cannot confirm reports that those sounds were happening in 30-minute intervals and also could not confirm those sounds were banging or tapping. the coast guard captain says the recordings were turned over to the u.s. navy for analysis and underwater robots were sent to the area where those sounds came from. an ocean science expert, who s assisting the coast guard said the noises sound like banging but could have come from various sources including a nearby ship. tonight some of the world s best data analysts are determining whether the sounds might have
we continue the programme in the capital of khartoum where there s messed with him and amongst the prisoners is a former sudanese logician wanted for alleged crimes against humanity. he was being held in the capital and is facing charges by the international criminal court. he was a key player in the sudanese government brutal response to two long running and unresolved wars. he was serving a sentence alongside former others year, students former president who is no being reportedly held at the military hospital. the former un were negative for sedan told me he is not surprised about what is happening in the country. the signals have been there for some time and quite honestly they have been there all the time since the genocide in darfurfor 20 years ago, and yes i know these characters and i recall about this time the sharing the star between the two in the presidential palace in 2003 when i was a un coordinator and as security minister he not only masterminded that incident
there s no way around it, that s just the best one. believe me, i ve tried it every which way, and it really doesn t get better than pete butt. but this would have never happened under my administration. people are saying i made the trains less safe. not true, okay? not true. i did a lot for trains. i made them bigger, faster, less safe perhaps, but yeah, perhaps you did. perhaps. saturday night live s take on donald trump s recent trip to east palestine, ohio. meanwhile, president joe biden says he doesn t have plans to visit the town devastated by the train disaster, and we ll have his comments on why. plus, the first lady seems to have given away the president s plans for 2024. we ll play for you what she said. also ahead, a weekend of deadly russian strikes in ukraine brings more attention to the debate over supplying ukrainian forces with fighter jets. and a new report from the department of energy on the origins of covid. good morning. welcome to morn
standing by their man despit his criminal indictment in new york and multiple other loomin investigations new nbc news polls out today show the former presiden leading the pack of 2024 gop presidential hopefuls. with 46% support the republican voters florida governor ron desanti trails behind trump by 1 points no other republican had double digit support in the poll. the long and short of, i trumpism is here to stay both in the form of go candidates transformin themselves in his image. trump s whole over the base. no matter how hard som republicans urged gop voters against a. at the end of the, day we won a winner republicans want someone who could win in november of 24. donald trump is a loser. he hasn t just lost once, he lost our house seats in 2018 he lost everything in 20 we should have 54 u.s. senator right now. we don t because of hi message. donald trump s positioning himself to be a four-time lose in 2024. we need candidates that can win! the gop base seems unf