nightly news with lester holt. good evening from houston where i am on assignment working on a story for a future broadcast but our top story tonight, the flooding catastrophe in kentucky where officials say at least 19 people have died including children with a toll expected to climb. authorities are not even sure how many people are still missing with fresh concern about more life-threatening flash floods this weekend. urgent rescues in boats and from helicopters continue with crews saving hundreds already. the governor telling me on thursday it s by far the worst flooding disaster in his lifetime 6 more inches of rain are expected in parts of the already devastated region. northeast tennessee, southwest virginia and west virginia also in the storm zone. all of it accentuating a climate crisis that is causing more intense and frequent severe weather emergencies around the world we have it all covered tonight beginning with maggie vespa in hard hit kentucky. reporter: i
ramping up his violent rhetoric ahead of the midterms. how should democrats respond? i will put that question to nikki freed, who ran to take off desantis for governor. and, to spank are not to spank? we ll tell you about the school district bringing back physical punishment to deal with unruly kids. all that and more is coming up. and good saturday morning to you! i am kenny fang. where staying on top of breaking news this morning into the justice department probe into donald trump. and the handling of classified documents at the florida home. we begin with trump s legal team that filed a new court document late last night. in its pursuit of a quote special master. to oversee the review of evidence seized from mar-a-lago. trump s team did not elaborate on what exactly it hope the party would filter out. but it did allege that the newly released redacted affidavit, has more questions than answers. and provides no information that allowed why trump to understand that the
hours after a redacted copy of the affidavit was unsealed. it s not proof of the time, instead it represents the doj is believed that it has probable cause that a trump has been committed. trump s legal team filed a document late last night, to get a special master the editorial boards of major newspapers, the railway in. we ve got the new york times editorial saying donald trump is not above the law. the washington post editorial board says the trump affidavit shows the mar-a-lago search was hardly capricious. the wall street journal editorial board as, the mar-a-lago affidavit, is that all there is? a bit earlier today sheila jackson lee told msnbc have the classified documents in question could be a national security risk. when you think of the names of the sources of individuals who were securing important information through human deeds, human activities, if that was exposed, not only with these individuals be in jeopardy, where they snow in posted in countries aroun
whether the parkland school gunman, who killed 17 people, should get the death penalty. after being closed by the kremlin in the early days of war, russia s last remaining independent tv channel makes a defiant return to the airwaves. and could you soon be allowed to get wed in your back garden? a change in the law is set to give couples more say over wedding venues and ceremonies in england and wales. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. europe is facing another day of brutal heat and the reality of a fast changing climate. in france, several towns and cities recorded their highest ever temperatures on monday. the uk experienced its warmest ever night last night and is expected to register a0 degree plus temperatures for the first time later today. the met office here has an extreme weather warning in place for large parts of the country. and wildfires are having a devastating impact across the continent, with spain and portugal being parti