this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening like breathing fire 50 million people in the west from california to montana suffering under heat alerts and temperatures not just a little bit hotter than normal but pushing 15 to 30 degrees above average. a relentless heat wave now more than a week in smashing records. at 116 degrees yesterday sacramento recording its highest temperature ever in fact, over a million northern californians have experienced temperatures of 110 or higher a danger to people, the crippling heat also leaving the region s power providers and customers on tenterhooks. officials imploring californians tonight to conserve electricity use during peak demand hours, hoping to avoid rolling blackouts. miguel almaguer is there and has the very latest reporter: tonight across california, the lights are on for now. on the brink of blackouts again as power demand reached an all-time record high overnight, slivers of the golden state plunged into dark
good to be with you. i m katy tur. it s the economy, and/or is it the economy or, in other words what if everyone is deciding on multiple issues or one issue? with five days to go, who is still out there deciding? with that in mind, there are a lot of conversations happening both in private and in public about just what the democratic party is pitching to those still deciding. voters in the final days before the election, the midterms, and from the sound of it, the internal worries are that that pitch is wrong. for example, president joe biden spoke about the threats to democracy last night, some big name dems were openly wondering who he was talking about, former obama aide david axle rod says two former bernie sanders campaign managers, saying that if you really want to persuade the really persuadable, rewrite the speech and focus on the cost of living. after the guts of the address in which the president made an impassioned warning about what political lies are doing to
it. president joe biden canceled an appearance in florida this week ahead of the storm. brian: we have been buying that for the last two years anyway. we have fox team coverage senior meteorologist janice dean tracking ian we start with nicole valdez in tampa. nicole? good morning. we just learned nearly every county in the state of florida is now under a state of emergency that includes not only hillsborough county but the city of tampa, specifically. where i m standing is actually bayshore boulevard. this is an area notorious for flooding. especially when many of these storms make it to shore here. storm teenage mutant ninja turtle absolutely top of mind here for many who live in the tampa bay area. you will see the signs that people are taking this seriously. as you look at just the line of cars that go on for miles. this is the scene just yesterday all across tampa bay, what was a beautiful weekend turned into really getting down to work for many who know how seriousl
potential 2024 presidential contenders which is like winning first place at an ugly baby contest. but here s how bernie cele celebrated. yeah. it s amazing he can still move so quickly. but he gets plenty of exercise running between as many houses. because he had three houses. [light laughing] you didn t know that. that s why you didn t laugh. i understand. we will edit that out. 43% of respondents said they had a somewhat favorable view towards sanders but 41% said they had an unfavorable opinion and the rest asked, what s that smell? [light laughing] i do the math and that is usually for kat s benefit but she s on her honeymoon. i think we have tape of that. to be young and in hate. so what s to say about politics when the oldest, harriest, most left-wing person is the most popular candidate? and it s not hillary? she is hairy. in a one piece, she looks like george the animal steele. it was for you, tyrus. nice. i think we have footage of him. how could you laugh at t
to restart the military drills? reporter: well, both president biden and president yun of south korea agreeing to begin discussions to expand these military drills between the united states and south korea. now this marks a dramatic shift from president biden s predecessor former president trump who not only scaled back but moved to scrap the exercisesal together, calling them too costly and provocative as he pursued this grand bargain diplomacy with kim jong-un. president trump met three times with the north korean leader. but ultimately was not able to make any progress, any meaningful substantive progress toward the ultimate u.s. goal of denuclearization of north korea. now, president biden is really re-setting u.s. foreign policy as it relates to north korea during this five-day trip to south korea and japan. what we re seeing from president biden is a move toward a much more traditional u.s. foreign policy. senior administration officials have told me is a careful appr