that s why i and so many people i grew up with have cancer, and why for the longest time delaware had the largest cancer rate in the nation appear to i have cancer, joe biden said, and i got it from growing up in delaware. and with that, biden left the stage, taking no questions about his condition. what kind of cancer does joe biden have? what is his long-term prognosis? and does delaware really that bad? parts of it are not beautiful, that is true, but can an entire stay to be a carcinogen? at this point we can t say. we are hearing were tonight that biden may have misspoken, rattled by the stress of his diagnosis. it is likely that it is in fact not cancer joe biden is battling, but dementia. the simple mistake. we will get an update from marc siegel in a moment. but no matter what is wrong with joe biden, and something clearly is, it has not prevented him from working to amass more power in any american president has ever had. biden approaches power the way that j.b. pr
mass shootings are shining a spotlight on the issue of mental health. our manual including dr. janette nesheiwat is standing by to discuss. in detroit, a police officer had been shot and killed. fox news cameras capturing this group of hundreds of migrants crossing legally into texas wednesday. crews tell us the sweltering heat is not slowing things down at the southern border. we begin with what we are learning about monday s tragic parade massacre. matt finn tracking the latest development. good evening. police revealed that the alleged fourth of july parade shooter, robert crimo iii was considering a second attack. police say he shot and killed seven people in highland park, illinois, and injured nearly 40 others using more than 80 rounds from a smith & wesson rifle. prosecutors say that gun fell out of his bag at the scene and in helped investigators identify him. authorities say crimo iii fled wearing women s clothing and makeup to conceal his tattoos. crimo drove to m
the new wearable technology aimed at saving lives and serena williams back on the court. inside her return to wimbledon. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening a rapidly shifting patchwork of abortion laws tonight as the battle in the wake of roe v. wade s demise spills from the chambers of the u.s. supreme court to state courtrooms across america. tonight abortion rights supporters in more than a half dozen states putting up legal challenges, trying to block abortion bans. many of the new laws designed to automatically go into effect following the court s decision including louisiana, where a judge temporarily halted enforcement of that state s trigger law. over the weekend in cities across the country thousands marched in protest to the supreme court s decision to end a constitutional right to abortions today senate minority leader mitch mcconnell savoring the court s decision after years of work. but new polling suggesting the decision is
constitutional protections for abortion that women have had for nearly 50 years. and now leaving it up to states to decide whether abortion should be legal within their borders. at least 26 states are either boysed to or have already banned abortion. the ruling cheered by anti-abortion supporters after decades fighting but a broad majority of americans disagreeing with that ruling. in a cnn poll conducted weeks ago, 66% of americans did not want the supreme court to completely overturn roe v. wade. cnn has reporters on ground covering this seismic decision. let s go first to cnn s joe johns outside of the u.s. supreme court where i know it is very noisy and a lot people there. what are you seeing? reporter: it is noisy, fred. and we have seen a lot of clanting, a bit of confrontation because there have been people here on both sides of this issue. yelling at each other. it is largely peaceful. talking to people in the crowd, you get a real sense of what brought them and the
it s confusing. justice samuel alito said this issue is going back to states. we know that 26 states will soon, if they haven t already banned abortion. some of those states had these laws on the books before roe. those went back into effect. others has trigger laws. laws that would be triggered to go into effect if roe were to go down. each state, the trigger law goes into effect at a different time. that s why we re seeing confusion nationwide. there s one other fascinate thing going on. just a couple of hours ago, planned parenthood staid it was going to state court in utah because it was going to challenge utah s trigger law by saying that it violated the state s constitution. the reason i keep emphasizes the word state is this is no longer in the federal arena. e everything is happening in the state and that will be a big lawsuit to watch. it s really changing the legal terrain. that is fascinating. wh a twist. what let s take a look at that. i do not have a positi