postponing all public facing royal duties. we ll go live to london. the state of emergency in california as crews race to save people and pets from flash floods triggered by a monster storm with up to 8 trillion gallons of rain expected to fall. the dramatic new images just coming in. the growing pr disaster for boeing. first it was a mid flight blow out. now it s misdrilled holes. what the faa is saying today about those 737 max planes. plus, will the fifth time be the charm? secretary of state antony blinken returns to the middle east with hopes for a new gaza truce that could lead to the release of hostages. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments and we begin with nbc s meagan fitzgerald who is outside buckingham palace with the breaking news on the king s health. what do we know at this hour? reporter: chris, according to buckingham palace, we understand that as the king was undergoing treatment about a week and a half ago for a benign
him multiple times with a large knife in broad daylight on the upper east side. attacker still at large. bill: los angeles smash and grab robbers pummeling retailers clearing out a store as the staff appeared customers look on in disbelief. dana: a bad weekend for gun violence. 39 people shot and killed across the country. garrett tenney is live in chicago. good morning. good morning to you. let s start with the stabbing in new york city. police are still looking for that suspect dressed in all black wearing a mask who got off of an e-bike, pulled out a knife and with no provocation started attacking a 29-year-old man carrying a brown paper bag. this happened thursday afternoon. the victim was slashed multiple times in the back and arms. police say the victim did not know the attacker and they re still looking for that suspect. this comes after chilling video was posted on social media showing an individual shouting obscenities on a new york city subway and grabbing a w
to rush in immediately and take down the gunman. he was set to take his place on the city council tonight. we ll tell you what the town s mayor is saying about that. and the latest in the debate over gun reform. more on what the key players are thinking and saying ahead of a senate meeting that is scheduled for today. along with joe and me today, we have former aide to the george w. bush state departments and white house, elise jordan. and the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. the white house bureau chief at politico. the senators led by chris murphy and john cornyn of texas will hold a meeting tonight. many issues should be held at the state level, but they said mental health, background checks, and red flag laws are something congress can address. after spending four hours with families on sunday in uvalde, the president returned to the white house and expressed hope that republicans will go for reform. he also discussed the limitations of his power on this issu
ago, stabbings, all the things we associate with the 1980s in new york city. how do you make the subway system in this city safer? exactly what we are doing. we were criticized for going in and removing the encampments, removing the homelessness, the feeling of disorder, but we knew it was the right thing to do. first week, only 22 people took us up on our offers to leave and live in a decent environment. now, we re up to over close to 1,000 people that took us up on that. also, police officers there, omnipresence is the key. we re going to continue to evolve, to get more and more officers out of desk duties and into the subway system to deal with the feeling of disorder. then zero in on those who are impacting our quality of life. we stop going after people who jump the turnstiles. wrong thing to do. we caught a person that was carrying a loaded firearm when he jumped the turnstile.
knife-wielding attacker who slashed a man on new york s upper east side. police have released video of the incident happening midday thursday near the entrance to the subway. the person with the knife dressed in black with face concealed gets off an e-bike. attacker chases the victim into the street. the victim did not know the person who slashed him multiple times in the back and arms. it is not clear what if anything proper joked the stabbing or entirely random. cops are asking for the public s help in locating two people who assaulted a 42-year-old man friday afternoon on the platform of a brooklyn subway station. the video shows the victim being struck by unidentified men. an earlier incident may have led to the assault. mayor eric adams under pressure promised there will be more cops where they are needed. we want to continue to evolve to get more and more officers out of desk duties into the subway system to deal