to vote, unsiege right now in many state legislatures nationwide. we have reporters out in the streets on this historic day. it is just one of the major stories we are following this hour. we are also tracking hurricane ida as it takes aim at louisiana, and we are keeping a close eye on afghanistan where the u.s. launched a deadly response to the recent suicide bombings at the airport. more on all of that in just a moment. we begin this hour with breaking news and a sea of voting rights marches across the country under way right now. i m going to show you a live look at the crowds in washington, d.c. right now tens of thousands of people flooding the streets in more than 40 cities, all to commemorate the 58th anniversary of the historic 1963 march on washington, to call on congress to pass federal legislation to protect voting access. nbc s josh letterman among the rally crowd at d.c. s national mall. we can hear the speaker loud and clear behind you.
track tornadoes, that takes us into the evening. by tomorrow, a concern for the neve nor easter, some of those low lying roadways will be susceptible, especially during times of high tide. some of the snowfall totals, northern new england and maine, maybe as much as five to eight inches of snowfall, some spots picking up close to a foot of snow. those winds, damaging threat here, 40 to 50-mile-per-hour gusts from philadelphia, new york to boston and nantucket, but not just in the morning, alex, on into the evening, with driving cold rain. alex, back to you. let s go to the first 100 days now, new remarks, a british prime minister ahead of their scheduled face to face meeting in washington later this week. with a good day to you across the pond, lucy, what more can
organization that is helping us defend europe and all the allies that are defted by nato. she sai that she will challenge his comments about women and minorities, she has criticized him for that in the past. and just yesterday, some 80,000 people protested here in london. she was asked today whether she ll raise women s rights with mr. trump and here s what she said to that. first of all, i have already said that some of the comments that donald trump has made in relation to women are unacceptable, some of those he himself has apologized for. when i sit down, i think the biggest statement that are will be made about the role of women, is that i will be there as a female prime minister, prime minister of the united kingdom. so it doesn t sound like she ll be raising that in person, but may is expected to fly to washington attend of the week, the talks will be at the
and those numbers, they were huge, were they what you expected? i just want to make that note, with half a million in washington, d.c., and not one arrest? definitely. i was not completely surprised. i expected there to be a lot more folks to come in. people don t necessarily know the ins and outs of organizing sometimes so they think they can just show up and not necessarily give notice before hand and that turned out to be true. so it was great that people came in whether they gave prior notice or not and just bared their all. and i do want to say that it is important that we are clear that this protest around the world is great. and we have to support what s going on in terms of resistance. yeah. but it is very jarring that when we think about black lives matter and we think about other groups that protest a lot of times there isn t as much
raquel, i want to get a comment that madonna made at the d.c. rally. and here s that. yes, i m angry, yes, i am outraged, yes, i have thought an awful lot about blowing up the white house. but i know that this won t change anything. we cannot fall into despair. okay, so a trump administration official reacted saying, quote, comments like these are absolutely unacceptable and had they been said about president obama, the main stream media would be an uproar. the trump administration welcomes a robust discussion surrounding the nation s women and families. and we have reached out to mad don donna s rep for a response.