starts now. good evening. we re following breaking ne. the u.s. and british military have launched strikes against targets in houthi controlled yemen, according to two u.s. officials. this comes after the iranian-backed militant group has launched a series of attacks on commercial ships in the red ahich has stoked fears of a wider conflict in the region already reeling from the israel/hamas war. we have a lot to get to. this is obviously a huge development in the region. you re looking at a map right there. the challenge has been that the houthi attacks have caused ships that would normally go through the suez canal to have to go around the horn of africa, meaning it takes a lot longer to get there. there have been some limited military strikes that have killed some houthis that were involved in this blockade. the houthis launched this blockade in protest to the killing of palestinians in gaza. so that is just the setup, the background to what s going on. the houthis are an
face. just last, week we learned of another phone call from donald trump urging election officials to reject the will of the american people. that detroit news reports the call made just days after the election. of the call, the news outlet reports trump pressured two republican canvassers in michigan not to certify the 2020 presidential election. nbc news has not heard or verified the audit reports. president biden won michigan by nearly 155,000 votes in a fair and free election. but for donald trump, accepting defeat, not an option. instead, he discouraged his supporters to show up at he encouraged his supporters to show up to the capitol on january 6th, and you know what happened next. a deadly insurrection. and donald trump s all hands on thick effort to derail american democracy failed but we cannot let down our guard. a new column from the deli piece rates the fact that didn t work should not give us a false sense of security regarding the potential danger that someth
first later at westminster abby. i want to head now to matt who s in london for us. and covering the lead up to september 19th. matt, talk to us. we know, as i mentioned, the queen s coffin arrived in edinburgh today. take us through the six hour journey and what we can expect in the days leading up to her funeral. it really was quite emotional, yasmin. it lasted for six hours and princess and was there the entire. time you saw as the people of scotland and tourists and others who are gathered around the root of their coffin, it was traversing through the scottish highlands, we had a glimpse of some of the fantastic country sides up there. it did not go direct from balmoral to edinburgh. it went up to inverness, the highest was from the most northern of all of the cities in scotland. the only city in the scottish highlands. and then attacked south to where it went to autumn barrow, to hollywood house, that is the only real state residents. of course, the queen died in balmo
politics nation. the focus on scotus. afua right now the conservative members of the supreme court are signaling that this court will not be moved by the times in which we live, but driven by history regardless of how distant. and yesterday, as expected, the court issued its five for conservative majority decision to overturn roe v. wade. in doing so, up ending 50 years of federal protections for abortion rights. in response, this weekend, our cities are erupting in protest. here in new york, los angeles, atlanta, and in washington, where abortion rights supporters and opponents have surrounded the supreme court for the second day. but also they re protesting in more than a dozen red states, cleared by the decision to enact trigger laws banning abortion. six of which have already done so in the days since the decision. three others set to join them in the next few weeks. well gun advocates in those states and elsewhere are hailing another of the courts decisions, this week, t