everybody knows greg doesn t have fans. happy tuesday, everyone. happy tuesday slept for everyone except greg, sick as a dog, or so he claims. if that were true, i would be there taking pictures. you can never be too sure with greg. i sent an intern to check on him and we now go live outside his house. it looks like greg left everyone out of the basement tonight. anyway, to the monologue. he s probably heard, an international tanis to go to the star has been banned from the u.s. open. because he s famously not vaccinated against covid-19. the disease that the multi-vaccinated first couple keeps packing to go. regularly one of the best tennis players ever. he is won 21 grand slams or is brian stelter calls it, when he goes to denny s, and appetizer. he took to twitter making the announcement and thanked his fans for love and support. he says he will keep a positive spirit and wait for an opportunity to compete again. with draconian covid restrictions still in place, who knows
a tragic irony unfolding in mississippi where just days ago record rains inundated the jackson area yet tonight that city finds itself in desperate need of usable water after failure of the main treatment plant. governor tate reeves declaring a state of emergency, saying the city cannot produce enough water to meet other critical needs and imploring residents to not drink this water tonight officials are struggling to distribute bottled water to the estimated 180,000 people affected as we reported last night, the jackson area has suffered water infrastructure issues for years most recently, boil-water notices have been in effect. the crisis now worsened by the recent floodwaters, and it is raining there again tonight. nbc is in jackson. reporter: tonight, a race to distribute water in jackson, mississippi. cars lined up for miles outside distribution centers full of locals hoping for water who left empty-handed after the supply quickly ran out. the water that they are giv
what the hell is the matter with us? i m not joking. think about it. what are we doing? president joe biden gives a fiery and impassioned speech in pennsylvania, vowing to ban assault-style weapons while calling out republicans for criticism of fbi following the search of mar-a-lago. we ll have much more of the president s remarks just ahead. meanwhile, there are several new developments in the justice department s investigation into the former president, including this picture from the doj, showing some of the documents seized. we ll walk you through everything that s happened overnight. also ahead, qanon and dangerous conspiracy theories. that s how donald trump spent his time yesterday on his fledgling social media platform. we ll explain how it is part of a growing trend for the former president. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, august 31st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we ll begin with that breaking news overnigh
welcome to the programme. we start in pakistan. a third of the country is underwater that s according to the country s climate change minister, who called the devastation caused by extensive flooding a crisis of unimaginable proportions. at least a thousand people have been killed and 33 million are affected. that s one in every seven pakistanis. let us have a look. provinces like sindh and balochistan in the south are the worst affected, but mountainous regions have also been badly hit. our correspondent pumza filhani sent this report. a moment of quiet in the middle of chaos. inside a crowded hall, families that have been displaced by the floods in northern pakistan have found temporary refuge. for many, it was a narrow escape. translation: our houses have collapsed because of the floods. we had a home and it was enough for us. now, all our belongings are buried under 12 to 13 feet of water. when i left with my children, i saw my house collapse. the rivers are swellin
character into the atlantic, it looks fairly insignificant at the moment but it will start to push towards iceland over the coming days and started to develop a bit further, bump into the area of high pressure that is dominating at the moment, combine forces with low pressure in france to particularly bring a greater chance of heavy and thundery temples. a scattering of heavy, potentially thundery showers particularly across wales and northern ireland, sunshine in between, pretty windy conditions across the northern half of the uk, parts of north east england and scotland where it will stay dry. showers will try to spread north and east valley erratically, there are still areas where we will avoid some of the rain but maybe on sunday the potential for significant rain pushing across south west wales and ireland. where you cease in china between it will feel warm, but some will stay dry. where you see sunshine in between. isolated showers, if you are a boat in the south coa