Georgia where a grand jury meets today to investigate whether trump tried to overturn the election in that state. Meanwhile, in pennsylvania, the search for answers after a home explodes near pittsburgh killing five people including a teenager. And a 3yearold Migrant Child dies while riding a bus from texas to chicago. Its the first death texas has announced since it started Busing Thousands of migrants to cities across the country. This morning Fulton County, georgia, District Attorney willis is expected to begin presenting her case to a grand jury outlining Donald Trumps alleged efforts to overturn bidens 2020 victory in that state. Tomorrow the grand jury will hear from former Lieutenant Governor jeff duncan and journalist george chidi, both who have been asked to testify. The former president has spent this morning and the weekend slamming the d. A. And her case saying he didnt tamper with the election. Joining us now nbc news correspondent Blayne Alexander who is right outside the
owned by rupert murdoch has agreed to pay the equivalent of more than a 3 quarters of a billion dollars for its reporting of false claims of vote rigging in the 2020 presidential election. graham statchell reports. joe biden takes the lead in pennsylvania. trump is now trailing. the 2020 american election, one of the closest and most contentious in us history. in district after district there were recounts and for some conservative commentators a narrative started to emerge. we don t know how many votes were stolen on tuesday night, we don t know anything about the software that many say was rigged, we don t know, we ought to find out. fox news, owned by rupert murdoch and backers of donald trump, questioned the credibility of the election. they echoed and reinforced donald trump s view that this was. a rigged and stolen election. the focus of attention, the machines used to count the votes and dominion, the company that made them. we talked about the dominion software, i k
we have teams on the ground as we prepare for the eventual landfall. we are in florida, and carlos suarez is in tampa in gulfport, and carlos, as we ve been discussing, tampa, that is where the real worry is because they re worried about storm surge and a lot of the residential areas there are vulnerable. reporter: that is exactly right, jim and poppy. the concern is the forecasted five to ten foot storm surge with hurricane ian. we are in gulfport. that is about a half hour drive outside of tampa where a number of businesses right before the barrier islands have already boarded up. they have their plywood out and sandbags in place. other business owners, they re about to start doing that right now. in fact, mike jackson, you own a shop out here. you ve got your sandbags almost in place but you have to start doing some work out here. we have to board up the windows and try to cover up these windows an the door. we still have to sandbag our door after we put some spray foa
john berman is off. hurricane ian now churning in the caribbean with 75 mile an hour winds. the storm s path is uncertain and that has all of florida preparing for a major hurricane. people are waiting in long lines outside of stores. they are looking to stock up on supplies while they can. essential items like bottled water flying off store shelves. residents are prepping homes and business bes for the heavy rain, strong winds and storm surge expected to come their way. ron desantis already declaring an emergency for the entire state activate ing the national guard and a hurricane watch has been issued along the west coast of florida including the tampa bay area. carlos swau resident is watching preparations. we have chad myers standing by in atlanta. let s start with carlos who are is live for us near a sandbag distribution center. tell us about some of these preparations. reporter: good morning the storm preparations are well underway. schools have been closed through
mar-a-lago than it initially on. review trump records. highly political. never happened before. president biden is expected to announce $10,000 in student loan debt cancellation. forgiving federal college student loan debt will cost between 300 million and a trillion dollars. a blatant attempt to buy votes. cost savvy couples pitching nights out cheap rental trucks. one celebrating one year anniversary rented a u-haul. brian: ocean city, new jersey, up until 4:00 in the morning. someone left the lights on. bill is going to be through the roof. you are looking at what the world looks like right before the sun shows itself as the sun. you are looking at somewhat of a dark orange which leads to a lighter yellow. steve: why was everybody up until 4:00 in the morning? brian: because it was tuesday and it s the summer. and we are closing out a summer where no one seems to be working besides us, no one seems to be working this week. katie: curious about how many