jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. hi, jacqui. hey, gillian, good evening to you. u.s. officials revealed today that the u.s. has not formally requested a phone call with chinese president xi jinping despite president biden saying yesterday that they expected to be talking soon. we re learning that they re hoping that secretary of state antony blinken will first be able to smooth things over and make contact with his chinese counterpart at the munich security conference next week. but, if no meeting ends up happening, it will be a telling sign of where u.s.-china relations stand. chinese spy balloon lifted from the ocean store from south carolina. quantico. we learned a lot already from the balloon by surveilling it while it was flying over the country. we re going to learn even more, we believe, by getting a look at the guts inside it. but u.s. officials are warning we may not learn much more about the three likely harmless objects sho
five people killed when an air ambulance crashed in heeno. what we have learned about the passengers and the investigation as the company temporarily grounds its fleet. brutal fighting as ukraine battles russian forces in the east. entire towns evacuated as russian tanks open fire on residential buildings. vladimir putin labels it an existential struggle. and reports of another american killed in the fighting. plus, the warning to china. one of president biden s top advisers saying china will pay real costs if it sends military aid to russia. dozens of migrants drowning off the italian coast when their boat crashed into rocks. more than 150 people crammed into the rickety ship on that dangerous journey. rough weather slowing down the search for victims. the student loan showdown, the supreme court to decide if president biden has the power to forgive student debt for tens of millions of borrowers. the strong opinions on both sides. a standing ovation for wnba star b
and then just told these people to deal with it. so, primetime sent summer, our producer, out to see how they are dealing with it. how has this chemical contamination impacted your life? it s been absolutely terrible. it s uprooted me and my six children. it s making me move out of my house. people don t know if it s safe to drink their water. they are saying yes but then we have fish kills everywhere. i have a well so i worry in six months, you know, what could happen to my water. what have you noticed about the environment since this has happened? it s dirty. there s a lot of dust flying around. that creek is dead. there is not a fish in there. there s not a salmon der. there is no frogs. dead snakes. i don t know where the birds all went but we don t see any birds in our place? do you feel safe. no, i don t. no i don t feel safe i would be a fool to say that i feel safe right now. my throat has been burning, horrible cough, sneezing. congestion.
2024. right-wing candidate dan kelly was part of wisconsin s fake electors plot. he will face off against a left leaning judge janet per se what s per se when it s as wisconsin voters know what s on the line. everywhere we go the turnout that we get from people around the state wanting to talk about this election, wanting to share how concerned they are about the state of wisconsin going forward, how important this racist to them. i have people coming up to me in tears saying we are praying that you win this race. we are praying that we get control of the supreme court back. it s not just wisconsin we have our eye on. in virginia, democrats are sending these states first black woman to congress. jennifer mcclelland swept a special election for the u.s. house nearly 75% of the vote. joining me to discuss both of these key races, ben winkler, chair of the wisconsin democratic party. political reporter nathan mcdermott, and i must nbc contributor eugene daniels, coauthor of
and professor of medicine nyu medical center in fox news contributor dr. marc siegel. now, we began with stunning new comments for transportation secretary pete buttigieg about the tucked stomach train spill in ohio. he is downplaying even though dangerous chemicals released in the air and a crash site about fearing for their lives. ohio governor mike to whine assuring residents the water is safe to drink and telling them the incident does not qualify for a fema response. people are still scared and pete buttigieg s attitude with the initial response, remember, it took him ten days to address it and he focused on lots of other things diversity and construction tweeting about electric cars and skipped the town hall in ohio where fuchs at the crash site share their growing health concerns. now, here he is shrugging off the disaster. it has involved a lot over the years but clearly more than needs to be done. because while this horrible situation has gotten particularly a high