Forgive him. A lawyer for nfl Star Rashee Rice says hes cooperating with police after reports his car was involved in a major crash. Authorities asking for help i. D. Ing the man in this video. And hes young and driven. The Gamer Turned Nascar star who just claimed his first major checkered flag. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening and welcome. Breaking tonight, a pair of closely watched Abortion Rulings late today by floridas supreme court. The conservative Majority Panel opening the door for a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. A point at which some women dont know they are pregnant. But in a separate ruling the court will leave it to florida voters to decide whether To Restore Abortion Rights when they go to the polls in november. Senior Legal Correspondent Laura Jarrett starts us off tonight. Reporter tonight floridas highest court paving the way for a strict abortion ban to go into effect, while also sending the issue back to the voters th
Our team in d. C. Breaking down the barrage of updates in that case. Floridas sixweek abortion ban set to go into effect until voters make the final decision in november. How the state Supreme Court ruling fits into the growing national battle. Financial aid chaos. Colleges warning recent glitches are slowing the Financial Aid process, as we inch closer to gr graduation, what it means for students who want to go to college in the fall. And as we all get ready to watch the eclipse, scientists are gearing up to measure it. We get a sneak peek at nasas sp experiments for the event. Early today starts right now. Good morning and thanks for joining us, im jessica layton. We begin this morning in gaza where seven aid workers, including an american, have been killed by an apparent israeli airstrike. They all belong to the world central kitchen. Thats a charity that has delivered aid to gaza via boat. Our team in gaza says they saw victims with british, australian and polish passports all bein
Wicked weather this week between heat and rain storms and winds in excess of 100 mile per hour in texas, houston, where at least seven are confirmed dead. And hundreds are still without power. Katie, how do things look there now . A new shift of workers have arrived this morning and their work is underway after some cleanup crews worked through the night and theyre trying to board up a lot of the shattered windows in some of the Downtown High Rise Office Buildings and hotels. And you can see the work is cut out for them and there are a lot of windows theyre going to have to take care of, all of this damage, caused by the strength of 100 mile per hour straightline winds that hit right in downtown houston. The cleanup and power Restoration Efforts are likely to take weeks, not days. More than 500,000 people in Harris County here are still waking up in the dark. Its a huge concern as we enter the stretch of 90 degree days coming up. Weve been speaking with a lot of people on the ground be
New concerns at the southern boerd after nbc learns a suspected isis member entered the u. S. And liverd lived freel nearly two years. A graduation six decades in the making. A 100yearold vietnam vet finally gets his College Diploma. Its thursday, may 2nd. Early today starts right now. Sgla glad you are up early with me. Im Frances River eaa. Activists are trying to get universities to divest from israe israel. A tent city currently, lapd antiriot forces are deployed on campus in an explosive situation that we are following closely this morning. Lets turn to nbcs Gadi Schwartz live in los angeles with the latest. Good morning. Reporter hey, good morning, frances. Actually, right now were hearing screams of do not en engage. It looks like theres some kind of altercation between counter protesters and people that are here in support of the sol darts encampment thats just down the way. This is one of the first skirmishes that weve seen. Weve seen a few counter protesters kind of checking
Know were going to have a very heated conversation here. You dont agree with . All of my views and i cannot be more for it. Im excited as well and while i dont agree with everything in the book, found it to be a really fascinating of so many working class people. You did just tremendous reporting for it. So lets get right into first. You start with an easy question. What inspired you to write this . After doing your first book about the news industry, the media, and how that had changed from a working class profession, an elite profession . I see how this follows logically from that, but could you tell us more about process of actually writing this book . Absolutely. So in my first book, bad news how woke media is undermining democracy, what i found was was that the main characteristic of our news media, which is suffering from just historic lows and trust was not that it was polite sickly partizan, but that it was made up of the over credentialed college elites. A class divide has com