Night, stopping such a coward. As the indicted front runner backed down from the debate, guess which candidate has a bait plan to defend him onstage. California faces its first ever Tropical Storm watch in the history of the state, as a catastrophic effects of Climate Change range on. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. The Department Of Justice is requesting severe penalties for five members of the farright gang, the proud boys, convicted on some of the most serious charges weve seen in connection with the january 6th attack on the capitol. Not to be clear, this is the second group of Violent Conspirators in the Capitol Attack that the doj has successfully prosecuted. Over the past year, prosecutors secured convictions of six members of another group, the oath keepers. On the rare and serious crime of Seditious Conspiracy. The groups founder and leader, Elmer Stewart rhodes the third, the guy there, you see there. Hes now serving an 18year prison sente
sent to congress and federal agencies. in the 200-page disclosure, he portrays a chaotic reckless environment that allows too many staffers access to central controls and sensitive information without adequate overnight. it s not just a story about recklessness, he also says they tried to cover up vulnerabilities. c . this is in the hands multi u.s. government, law enforcement agencies and today for the first time, by whistle-blowers speaking out. ready? yes. why are you coming forward? all my life, i ve been about finding places where i can go and make a difference- reporter: this is peter zackco, until january of this year, he was head of security at twitter, but now he s a whistle-blower. and he says that twitter security problems are so grave, they re a risk to democracy. i think twitter is an extremely important platform. reporter: he s handed over the combination about law enforcement agencies including the fcc, ftc and the department of justice. may
that work? what happens to that environment if you jump six inches of water in 24 hours? it immediately, almost immediately runs off. it s not like the nice topsoil we get east of the rockies. it is very hard, compacted sand. it doesn t absorb water. so the water runs off, but i have friends in palm springs, the coachella valley, mountains they are in for some of the worst flooding that area has ever seen, and the storm is lifting northward towards las vegas. eventually into wyoming and idaho, there could be significant flooding there. but i never thought in 1 million years that the first state to be impacted by a tropical system would not be florida, texas, louisiana, it s california. it s just mind-blowing. and i think a lot of meteorologists feel the same
stretching out a little bit at least not that bull s-eye that we had over dallas yesterday for so long where it just would not stop raining. here s what it looks like for the next couple of days. a couple hours we ll see the rainfall shift off to the east, and you see it sliding that way. yesterday, it was all across texas. all across northern texas. look at this whiplash, extreme to exceptional drought in almost every place that it rained. flooding, drought, flooding, whiplash. jo john. all right, chad, chad myers, thank you. and joining to us talk about this is bill weir, our chief climate correspondent. this is such an extraordinary circumstance because they re getting a summer s worth of rain. but they did have this drought, as chad was saying yesterday, it basically makes the ground a ton of bricks. it doesn t absorb water. basically, houston itself is basic a little concrete bowl as