fiery speech to follow up a debate that many democrats called a disaster. can his direct attacks now on donald trump quiet the talk about his future on the ticket? plus, what the polling reveals about the democratic names floated to take his spot. our steve kornacki is standing by with the numbers. and the debate question that donald trump did not want to answer, his response when asked if he would accept the results of the next election. the supreme court siding with a january 6th rioters, that could upend cases, including one against former president trump. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin in battleground, north carolina, where president biden s demeanor was completely different than the debate stage last night. nbc s mike memoli is reporting from raleigh. the president, he sounds rearing for a fight. reporter: yeah, that s right, chris. i mean, we started this debate series of events with a lot of people wondering whethe
Shooter. All right. Some s point theres very disturbing information about this shooter. Ou allison and holly, goodol morning to you. Long is believed to have actedct alone but the quigg question remains why did he target lawetw enforcement outside of a baton rouge gas station. S long was from kansas missouri. Ir he was a former marinene sergeant who served in iraqraq receiving several medals. Edals. He had no official ties to any extremist groups but we do buted know through his social media s posting that long was angry ang about the recent killings of alton sterling, the black man, shot to death by white policehip officers in baton rouge. Rs now heres what long wrote on his Facebook Page on july 8thly i swear to god, io gd love this city but i wonder ifof this city loves me he. In uniform i get nasty hateful f looks and out of uniform somerms consider me a threat. E at. Ive experienced so much in my short life and these last las the core. And then theres these youtube videos that are
And a few storms popping up. Greater cleveland getting ready for more heavy showers throughout the day. Our major concern is a flood watch in effect for northeast ohio. Through sunday evening at 8 pm we have a few storms already starting to pop up. Offshore, we are not expecting any wet weather to slice into our viewing weather until 9 a. M. 9 a. M. Widespread rain will track in from the north flooding is the major concern. Earlier this week we were talking about in moderate drought for northeast ohio. We are starting to just make up the difference here. So the soil and plants are dicey right now. Temperatures are 80 degrees or Greater Cleveland. The air is already making its way in today back to mid 80s. Good morning akron at 77 degrees and 74 four Ciscoe Morris county this is the last day will we will talk about the heat and sticky humidity that is definitely playing a big part in producing these storms we have seen all week. Look at our daytime highs. 87 by 11 00, but our team is on
Meteorologist janessa webb. First it is muggy and then we will be affected why some rain. Tomorrow i can promise you Better Weather but we are tracking severe storms. We have already seen round one. We started to see a line form out toward toledo. It has tracked toward the east affecting most of our viewing area with widespread rain. Some of these goalie washer cells this morning you are probably noticing some minor flooding on our roadways continuing to slide to the east. Right now affected is medicine and mentor with some madison and mentor with northern Geauga County with a few isolated raindrops. The brunt of the moisture definitely some minor flooding out toward geneva on the lake across 90 east. This is moving fairly quickly here. Then we will see kind of a dry slot forming right now. You can see the brunt of this moisture continues to that toward the north throughout the afternoon providing us with more wet weather throughout your saturday afternoon. Temperatures are still very
Pressure is building into the region for the weekend. However, it willl be chilly today and cold tonight as colder air settles into the area. Dry and chilly for saturday. Then we will warm things up on sunday. The weather looks great from sunday into early wednesday. We will warm up quite a bit next wednesday ahead of a cold front. We will see some more showers and possibly thunderstorms next wednesday evening. It looks different from last wednesdays system, but stay tuned for updates. Good morning, Hampton Roads. Lets check this morning, the tragedy is really starting to sink in in the wake of a deadly tornado in waverly. But people are stepping in to the storm victims. Weve seen an outpouring of support for people who lost their homes in the storm. These images from chopper 10 really show the destruction. Even though itll take some time before everything is back to normal for the victims, cleanup is well underway so many helping hands are already working hard to help the community mo