This is the cbs morning news for wednesday, july 29th 20156789 good morning. Im Alison Harmelin in for annemarie green. Its the kind of stifling heat that takes your breath away. Heat advisories are posted from oklahoma to alabama. It will feel like triple digit temperatures across the south and into the northeast. In new york city the temperature is six days of 90 degrees or higher. Today is expected to be 95. Officials say blackouts are inevitable. We serve 3. 2 million metered customers that represents 9 million new yorkers throughout new york city and westchester every day. We will get pockets unfortunate unfortunately of people who might lose power and our crews are working in the heat to try to get the power back on as soon as they can. Many cities have hit the 90degree temperatures so far this year but not this many. It was so hot in north dakota that an interstate buckled. Eric fisher of our boston station says leaf should be on the way. Now that heats on the movie into the nor
Before. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight from washington. Good evening. You may have thought youd heard it all regarding the prison escape and manhunt involving two killers last month in new york but it turns out there was a lot more. Today as Joyce Mitchell the prison worker who helped them bust out, appeared in court to plead guilty to her crimes nbc news obtained a detailed at times salacious and eyeopening statement she made to state police about the plot the supplies the weapons, and the plan to kill her husband the night of the escape. Nbcs john yang was in court today in upstate new york. Reporter with a tearful signature Joyce Mitchell accepted a plea deal today, admitting she smuggled hack saw blades drill bits chills padded gloves glasses with lights and other tools into the prison for convicted killers richard matt and david sweat who, the d. A. Says used them to escape. Shes been very anxious, very depress
Nightly news begins right now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight from washington. Good evening. You may have thought youd heard it all regarding the prison escape and manhunt involving two killers last month in new york but it turns out there was a lot more. Today as Joyce Mitchell the prison worker who helped them bust out, appeared in court to plead guilty to her crimes nbc news obtained a detailed, at times salacious and eyeopening statement she made to state police about the plot the supplies the weapons, and the plan to kill her husband the night of the escape. Nbcs john yang was in court today in upstayed new york. Reporter with a tearful signature Joyce Mitchell accepted a plea deal today admitting she smuggled hack saw blades, drill bits chisels, padded gloves glasses with lights, and other tools into the prison for convicted killers richard matt and david sweat who, the d. A. Says used them to escape. Shes been very anxious, very depressed,
Coming out, first love and a daughters relationship with her father. It is the first ever Broadway Musical to feature a lesbian protagonist. From home fun home is based on the memoir by the pioneering graphic novelist Alison Bechdel who will join us for the hour. Made the emotions i was trying to get that in the book and in my own self i feel like when i talked about making it proper funeral for my father i wanted to fully grieve him in a way i had not been able to. His life was a trout in these lies. Amy and we will speak to Jeanine Tesori and lisa kron who just made history as the first allfemale writing team to win a tony award for a musicals score. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In ohio, a grand jury has indicted a university of Cincinnati Police officer on murder charges for shooting sam dubose, an unarmed African American man. Police officer ray tensing fatally shot dubose on july 19, after pulli
Triple crown winner american pharaoh got the Royal Treatment arriving in new jersey. Racings biggest star did the version, the horse version, of the red carpet for reporters. Then he was loaded into a deck. There you go. And the van you see, its decked out and escorted by new jersey troopers to the racetrack. American pharaoh is running on sunday in the 1. 75 million haskell invitational. Kansas city chiefs safety eric berry back on the practice field, just eight months after getting the shocking news that he had cancer. Berry says that he felt chest pain. This is after a game in november. Turns out, he had hodgkins lymphoma. The 26yearold pro bowler says he was pushed to the physical limit after months of undergoing physical therapy, but it paid off, because in june, he was declared cancerfree. Now to the nfls deflategate controversy, the Players Union making good on their promise to file a lawsuit in federal court. That lawsuit seeks to have tom bradys fourgame suspension thrown out.