trump following soon after. going head to head tonight in a showdown filled with political land mines that could be hazardous to both campaigns. we will have full team coverage with live reports from atlanta. a detailed review of the last showdown. a look back at presidential moments with michael beschloss. the supreme court releasing that idaho abortion case, similar to restrictions in six other states that was mistakenly posted online yesterday, confirming the court will not decide yet whether hospitals have to provide emergency abortions preserving the current federal requirement they do for now, but sparking a furious dissent from justice sotomayor. a damage settlement overturned, meaning years of negotiations have to start over. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we are just hours away from what could be a turning point. until now, it has been a closely fought race between president biden and former president trump. that could change tonight. t
i ll see you back here tomorrow for more supreme court decisions and post debate analysis. chris jansing picks up your coverage right now from atlanta. good morning. it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m chris jansing in for jose diaz-balart, and large here at georgia tech, the site of pretty intense georgia tech matchups, but all the media assembled here waiting for matchup with pressure about as intense as anything we ve seen in a presidential debate. in just a few hours donald trump and joe biden will go head to head for the first time in four years. tonight s face-off marks a critical opportunity for both candidates to shake-up this stubbornly static race between two men in an all-out war for a second white house term. and tonight tonight they mark the most important battle. new polling from just the past 24 hours continues to show a race with no clear leader. poll after poll after poll within the margin of error, so tonight the opportunity to break out not
reporting that the court mistakenly posted its opinion yesterday on a major abortion case in idaho based that s right. that was really a shock development yesterday. and actually the high court did confirm that a document was inadvertently posted to the court s website, and this was reviewed by bloomberg news and this was involving the case about abortions and idaho. and according to that document that was uploaded and we should caution this could change depending on what officially comes down from the high corporate and this was a 6-3 opinion you had three conservatives siding with three liberals and it essentially allows for abortions to happen in the state of idaho. in the case of medical emergency these not just when a woman s life is at risk. and so that is what the idaho abortion ban initially allowed for was just when a woman s life was at risk of doctor could perform that abortion. so that law is essentially on hold for now. and just to put this in perspective, when
it is good to be back with you in this second hour of chris jansing reports. at this hour, breaking news. a supreme court document on a closely watched abortion case gets posted early by mistake. what it says about procedures when the life of the mother is at risk. the destructive flooding sweeping through south dakota and other parts of the midwest. entire neighborhoods under water after record rain. in minnesota, a home teetering at the edge of a failing dam collapses into a river. unbelievable footage there. also ahead, an nbc news investigation. the search here in the u.s. for more than 50 migrants with ties to an isis smuggling network. and a legal saga that began more than a decade ago. wikileaks founder julian assange with a clenched fist to clears as he steps off the plane a free man. our nbc reporters are following all the latest developments. we start with the supreme court and this document that was not supposed to be posted today on emergency abortions. ms
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