Say that certainty is needed by states to repair the nations infrastructure. We want to return to you turn to all of you and say what are your infrastructure needs. If you live in the Eastern Central part of the country dial in 202 7488000. Mountain specific dial 202 7488001. If you want to join the conversation on twitter or go to facebook. Com. You can also send an email. The phone lines are open and we will begin with the Washington Times. The highway funding bill stuck in limbo as the august recess quickly approaches. Kevin mccarthy shut the bill to a sixmonth bill. Saying even if the other changer gets it done chamber gets it done this week it would be impossible for history is to study a thousand page deal before the house leaves thursday night. The majority leader announced that his side are a past a fivemonth road bill and last night they introduced a threemonth extension. Senate negotiators barreled forward anyway saying that congresss reliance on shortterm patches has passed
York, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Help is coming from as far away as the east coast to fight wildfires in the west. An epic season of destruction that reached a new milestone today. 7 million acres torched this summer so far. Across several states right now its an all hands on deck effort. Soldiers, even jail prisoners enlisted to join the foot with so many homes lost and so many others at risk. One of the worst fires continues to burn in chelan, washington, which is where National Correspondent mcll almaguer leads us off on this busy tuesday. Reporter these are the conditions firefighters are facing on the front line. Flames shooting closer and closer to homes in washington state. The National Guard has moved in, bracing for a monster day tomorrow. Winds expected to kick up dramatically. There are still hundreds and hundreds of house as that could be in the line of fire. Reporter the air attack key. Dozens of drops every hour. Four helicopters have been ma
Mayor promised to take action against them. Mark santia is in times square right now. Mark . Reporter sibila, those topless performers are out in times square causing a lot of people to talk. Today it was a mayor talking, breaking his silence, calling their act, quote, wrong. Turning heads, drawing a crowd, and stirring up conversation. Hello. Reporter mayor de blasio talking tough today about topless performers in times square. I think its wrong. Its wrong. Reporter the mayors message is falling flat. Beautiful. Gorgeous. I have to take a picture with her. Reporter Tony Richardson posed and gave a few a dollar donation saying this is art. This is expression of art. Reporter as far as visually accosting children, lets get real. Theyre going to leave it anyway. I think its okay. Reporter Rodrigo Rodriguez and his family are visiting from mexico. His father says there are bigger issues the big apple should be focusing on an amelia agrees. Its fun. Compared to a regular job, its different
A shark and seal on full display. Early today starts right now. Good morning. She says quote theres nothing to worry about. But even as Hillary Clinton dismisses as partisan, theres new word from the fbi that could impact the investigation. They say they may be able to recover some of the data that was wiped before the server was handed over. Clinton got a little testy yesterday defending herself. Yeah, Hillary Clinton went on the offensive blaming on the controversy on republicans. After the town hall meeting, she addressed the questions. Whether it was a personal account or a government account i did not send classified material and i did not receive any material that was marked or designated classified which is the way you know whether something is. Clinton says she set up the personal server out of convenience but experts say the private email server wont have the same protection. It was designed to be a way of sharing information and not protecting information from being shared. R
News World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Help can summing from as far away as the east coast to fight wildfires in the west. An epic season of destruction that reached a new milestone today. 7 million acres torched this summer so far. Across several states right now its an all hands on deck effort. Soldiers, even jailed prisoners enlisted to join the fight, with so many homes lost and so many others at risk. One of the worst fires continues to burn in chelan, washington, which is where National Correspondent Miguel Almaguer leads us off on this busy tuesday. Reporter these are the conditions firefighters are facing on the front line. Flames shooting closer and closer to homes in washington state. The National Guard has moved in, bracing for a monster day tomorrow. Winds expected to kick up dramatically. There are still hundreds and hundreds of houses that could be in the line of fire. Reporter the air attack key. Dozens of drops ever