temperatures 90 degrees or above. while in california nearly a dozen wildfires burning. homes under threat. the new tropical system we re tracking. al roker has it all. also tonight, new details in the apparent random shooting at a michigan splash park. nine wounded including an 8-year-old boy. the news on his condition. just ten days to the first debate. the biden campaign launching a new ad blitz labeling donald trump a convicted criminal. while at mar-a-lago mr. trump taking a meeting with speaker mike johnson. prime minister netanyahu disbanding israel s war cabinet. and after that raid to rescue hostages hamas was holding in a our neporting camp the deadly toll it took on the camp s children. the u.s. surgeon general s call to action. should social media come with warning labels for children like tobacco? and countdown to paris. superstar katie ledecky and the top competitors swimming for a spot on team usa. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester h
welcome back. 12:00 p.m. eastern, 9:00 a.m. pacific. i m in for andrea mitchell. we begin with a major shake up in israel. netanyahu announcing today he is dissolving the war cabinet, which has been responsible for managing the war effort for more than eight months. this comes as israel s military says it will pause fighting along the route in southern gaza for 11 hours a day to allow humanitarian aid in for the millions of desperate palestinians. netanyahu reportedly disagreeing with this pause calling it quote, unacceptable. the idf says it struck targeting after hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets in israel on friday. joining us now, raf sanchez in tel aviv. let s start with you. why did the israeli prime minister dissolve the war cabinet and what does it mean? reporter: primarily because those centrist opposition figures who joined his government a week after the october 7th attack in a show of national unity have now walked out of the government. they left with a p
you cannot tell. president biden releasing a statement, calling on congress to ban. president biden at the g7 summit in italy today. ukraine and the u.s. since our independence. with much of the attention focused on what he said about his son hunter s felony gun conviction. i am extremely proud of my son hunter. he has overcome an addiction. had said he would not pardon his son but tonight he went further. do you plan on your son s sentence? a congressional pep rally for the likely gop nominee speaking to lawmakers behind closed doors. it is a show of hands for anyone in the room who hung out with a felon today. i am with them 1000%. they are with me 1000%. i think it must be so humiliating for them. and all of that happens in just one week. good evening, once again. i am stephanie and we are now 144 days away from the election. this week, president biden was on the world stage meeting with allies as his son was found guilty on federal gun charges. d
unfounded allegations of corruption in his 2020 election loss to joe biden. for many months now he s been spreading baseless lies about an election that hasn t happened yet. yesterday the twice impeached and recently convicted ex-president took this grievance campaign to detroit, a city that was crucial to president biden s victory in and 2020. and the city where trompe l oeil is made baseless claims of election fraud. lanes that have credited, what have disenfranchised city voters, many of whom are black. that is all in the past apparently. in a span of just a few hours, trump attended a pair of events in the motor city. first, he participated in a roundtable discussion at a predominantly black church during which his campaign formally launched black americans for trump. and outreach group that seeks to cut into biden s lead among that demographic. then, he appeared at an event hosted by the right-wing organization turning point usai. and yvette largely attended by hard-line
and an update on her cancer battle, saying she s making progress but not out of the woods yet. her plans to make a public return this weekend. president biden meeting with the pope on the sidelines of the g7. also jimmy fallon, chris rock, whoopi goldberg at the vatican for a star-studded event. california s crumbling coastline and the families who fear their homes will be washed away. and our exclusive access to the hidden secret beneath the ruins of pompeii, newly discovered after nearly 2,000 years. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome. we have made it to the end of the week, and it has been a disastrous one for millions in south florida who have been hit with relentless rain for four straight days now. a flood watch still in effect in many areas this evening after storms brought more than 20 inches of rain to the region, leaving roads underwater, cars submerged, and hundreds of homes flooded. first responders carrying