One of the deadliest russian Missile Strikes since the start of the war. Otherwise trapped under the rubble. Prime Minister Netanyahu asking for forgiveness after six hostages are murdered in gaza. Protesters still demanding a Cease Fire. Also ahead, the final sprint of the 2024 campaign. Vp harris on the trail, courting unions and making a rare Campaign Appearance with President Biden. Well break down the latest polling showing how this tight race that has changed. And how it could be a Dog Fight Right to the finish. Good morning, it is 10 00 Eastern, 7 00 a. M. Pacific, im Ana Cabrera reporting from New York. We begin with the Breaking News out of ukraine. President zelenskyy confirming that a russian Missile Strike killed at least 41 people and injured 180 more making it one of the deadly strikes since the war began. The ukrainian officials say the attack in the central town of poltava hitting a military Training Facility and a nearby hospital. Nbc news international correspondent K
Voting later this month. It means a good portion of you have made up your mind, but there are some still left deciding out there and we know that because the polling is changing. Harris is inching ahead nationally and in key battlegrounds including Sun Belt states so who are those folks and how much change is still possible in these next furious few weeks . Joining us now at the big board, Nbc News national political correspondent, the one and only, steve kornacki. So where are we today, steve . Look at it from two vantage points. Nationally, this is the average of the national polls coming out of that Labor Day weekend. Harris, 48, trump, 45. Threepoint advantage for the democrats. Theyre happy to be ahead and in a different position than they were when Joe Biden was their candidate. He was basically trailing Donald Trump all year. But for republicans, theres solace in these numbers, too, because Donald Trump is no stranger to this kind of a set up. Labor day. Being a little behind. T
Lake berryessa safe again and in the meantime napa county deputies want to make sure that people stay away. Napa counties, Lake Berryessa might seem like the ideal place to cool off an escape this weekends scorching temperatures but because of the hennessy fire. The lake is off limits through labor day the areas surrounding the lake. The infrastructure and some places the roadway itself. Suffered some pretty some pretty significant damage. A county under sheriff John Crawford says deputies will be patrolling the lake to keep people away. The closure is for safety and will allow hundreds of crews to remove trees clear around roads and put in new utility poles and lines all that work needs to happen without visitors flocking to the lake theres just a lot just a lot of things that need to be. Taking care of cleaned up repaired. Before people can really safely come back and recreate a late various, the head of the fire is the largest of the lnu complex fires, its burned more than 310,000 a
Weekend hot and dry temperatures exceeding 100 a lot of the east bay portions of county as well little part like San Francisco to the and also along the coastline, not to are in a little bit. Were looking at excessive heat advisory, but this is an excessive heat warning and just about all the entire bay area for the weekend temperatures thus far come into the 60s we got some 50s up to the north bay feeling pretty good to start 61, san jose. Most readings inland are actually ahead of the ball game or only trailing a little bit around the coast. And up to the north bay a little bit as well not having a lot the way of winds just a minor little breeze here going on here is the breakdown word, 84 by 11 by 2 oclock 99. Again with numbers topping off well beyond 100. Well take a closer inspection of those temperatures coming up in just a bit marty. All right dave and we want to continue our coverage of this hot Holiday Weekend by taking a look the way to some cities are helping people stay co
What has motivated you to write this. Who is the intended audience and what purpose . I became interested in the leftward drift of the Democratic Party because it seems to me to be quite radical. Not just for the Democratic Party before the country. I had been a democrat in my College Years and shortly thereafter. I became more conservative over time before becoming a republican joining breitbart and so forth. Even then i have an empathy for the utopian thinking that left does. Im not a utopian myself but i do think that Many Democrats and they went to make the world better and what struck me about the direction of the Democratic Party is it is taking the party in such an extreme direction it risks falling over the cliff pulling the rest of the country with us. To see that leftwing government mismanaged the country and with the lessons of that experiment experience very prominent to guiding politics and i see the american left making some of the same mistakes whether identity politics