New york, this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight lester holt. Good evening. Few things have rattled the world quite like the prospect of iran developing a nuclear weapon, which is why all eyes this week have been glued on a small city in switzerland where today nearly around the clock negotiations with iran and how to curb its Nuclear Program finally produced the framework of a deal. One that president obama quickly proclaimed would ensure iran will never be able to develop a bomb. But then theres the issue of what iran gets in return and whether any deal will hold. Our team has it covered. We begin with Andrea Mitchell in lausanne. Andrea. Reporter good evening, lester. Its been 18 months of tough negotiations ending with an allnighter that still left several key issues unresolved. But tonight the United States could be entering a new era in its relationship with iran. And president obama is telling critics this will make our world safer. After marathon talks that almost broke do
Continueing to scope the river through air by boat wine land. Looking for any survivors. Looking for any potential bodies. Reporter president obama says he spoke with Governor Greg Abbott to express his condolences and assured the governor he can count on the federal government to help with requests for assistance. We will expedite those requests to make sure that both search and rescue operations where necessary but also recovery operations occur as efficiently and as quickly as possible. Disaster declarations in dozens of texas counties tonight. Forecasters are predict morgue wet weather. Very hard to pre hen the magnitude of this flooding flooding. It is historic. Chief meteorologist Scott Williams has that part of the story. Youve lived in texas and ive lived in texas and iain has lived in texas. We would agree this is some of the worst flooding not caused by a Tropical Storm or a hurricane in recent years. Take a look at the video. You can see people are still missing after this d
Of our winds are out of the south, thats where the warm air comes f and we will pump it in all day long, 88 degrees our High Temperature, warm, with a chance of pop up thunderstorms, toward evening say, for most of us, here in the philadelphia area, about 5 00 6 00. Theyll get started. Seventy muggy degrees overnight tonight. That is your wednesday forecast, and feels like a tuesday, because yesterday felt like a monday, on account of the holiday. Right, bob kelly . Thats right. Were all ready hump day. Pretty good shape on the majors like 202 422 and the schuylkill expressway. The big problem is on the pennsylvania turnpike, heres the latest. It is an overturned tanker, on the westbound lanes of the pa turnpike right before the exit for philly bensalem. So anyone, coming from say the new jersey side, you come over connector bridge, or coming out of bristol headed west in toward route one only the left lane is open. The driver, the tanker, transported to the local hospital were waiting
Like a thursday. Well, no. But when you realize it is friday then will fowl like friday, then you will be happen. I early friday. Early dismissal for the week. Oh, like that. I need a diagram of this. Weve got the flow chart going. Lets get to the numbers today. It is going with a seven out of ten. A lot mulling year muggier and second every all thunderstorms in the forecast for later in the afternoon. Just like bus stop buddy no jacket required today. Just polo shirts good idea. Kind of cloudy throughout this morning, 72 degrees, relative humidity oh, 81 . Southerly breeze at 9 miles an hour, that flag looks so good blowing in the wind. Weve got satellite and radar showing nothing around except few clouds. Temperatures warmer than yesterday, 71 in allentown, 72 in reading same for philadelphia, little cooler at the shore with mid 60s for Atlantic City and wildwood and all of the towns inbetween. As we get toward evening when the thunderstorms pop up. But before that happens, we will g
Zooming in a little closer around the philadelphia area, were watch something activity kind of bubble up moving toward the palmyra area also around bustleton. Bensalem looking at downpours developing went still have some very heavy rainfall right now towards sections of carbon and monroe countyies in the poconos. The general idea all of this activity is moving on off to the northeast at about 35 Miles Per Hour. So if it holds together it will be moving toward the i95 core car over the next hour or so heres 7 00 oclock. Then diminishing rapidly once it moves towards sections of south jersey but we need the rainfall it looks like the highest amounts will be north and west. Once again the timing for this activity now through about seven, 8 00 oclock. The main threats will be some damaging wind as well as downpours. Well talk much more about the heat as well as more storms on the way later this week. Back to you. All right, scott, thank you. That storm system causing some trouble for air t