Health of the first lady. Its september 5th, this is today. Covid positive. Dr. Jill biden comes down with the virus after spending the long Holiday Weekend with her husband. The first lady now recovering at their home in delaware. The president back at the white house being tested and monitored. Well have the latest and the potential impact on the major trip just days away. Gridlock. A mass exodus one way at burning man, after severe flooding let to chaos at the popular festival. Making it out. The line of cars and suvs. Stretching for miles as people who made it share their stories. September scorcher. 45 million americans facing a postlabor day heat wave. Recordhigh temperatures. Stretching all the way to new england. Al has your full forecast. New twist. Convicted killer Alex Murdaugh seeking a new trial. Just ahead, what were learning about the mystery evidence that his attorneys say they have just discovered. Close calls. With millions of kids heading back to school this week, a
Antony blinken is meeting this morning with ukrainian president vladimir zelensky. Blinken arrived in kyiv early tuesday, local time, on an unannounced Diplomatic Mission to reassure ukraine it has american support as it fights back increasingly intense russian attacks. His visit comes less than a month after Congress Approved a long delayed foreign assistance package that sets aside 60 billion in aid for ukraine. During this mornings meeting, blinken told zelensky the new Weapons Package is already arriving and more is coming, stressing, quote, thats going to make a difference. Zelensky, in turn, thanked the u. S. For the latest Weapons Package. Fierce battles are taking place near the border in eastern and northeastern ukraine, with outgunned and outnumbered ukrainian soldiers trying to push back the significant Russian Ground offensive. Speaking sunday, blinken said, quote, if putin thinks he can outlast ukraine, outlast its supporters, he is wrong again. Us Secretary Of State Anton
Program this purports to be tom friedman. [laughing] tom ace young but it still looks like hes accelerating in reverse in that photo. Tom has spent his life getting out into the world doing the research and speaking to people and every station of life, in every walk of life, and around the planet. The result is something quite different from the cynicism and snark and aggression we encounters often today in todays media universe. What we get instead is a pair of rarities, insight and wisdom. They are the products of real reporting and serious reflection. A themselves, all too rare. Those qualities can be found in his previous bestselling books and youes can find them again in toms latest. Thank you bring late. When the editor in chief of bloomberg and the former editor of the economist wrote his review of his book for the New York Times he rightly observed it is hard to think of any other journalist who has explained as many complicated subjects to so many people. Among the central sub
The it goes into her background and the challenges they face. And studio 57 will help us reveal the 60th annual grammy nominations. Looking forward to that. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. These allegations are completely false. Im going to take off some gloves and show the truth. Senate candidate roy moore talks tough. Tempers start to go boil over around the moore campaign. People got physical outside the event. Leandra english, not Nick Mulvaney is in charge of the cip. The Consumer Financial protection bureau. Im going in there tonight and ill be here. They call her pocahontas. President trump is getting backlash about a comment he made about Elizabeth Warren. He thinks somehow hes going to shut me up with that, and its just not going to happen. A volcano on the indonesian island of bali continues to spew ash into the air stranding tourists. The lava and the molten rock has reached the summit. A ring was ripped off Virgin Atlant
On whether the 70yearold moore back in his early 30s aggressively pursued at least eight teenage girls. One was 14, another, alleged moore tried to assault her. Attack ad from moores democratic opponent, questioned moores moral fitness. Will we make their abuser a u. S. Senator . Moore was emphatic last night. I do not know any of the women nor have i engaged in Sexual Misconduct with any woman. Reporter that seems to contradict what he said on Sean Hannitys ray show, they talked about Debbie Wesson gibson. Claiming moore kissed her when she was 17. You know her, but you never dated her ever . Its that what you are saying . Know her, but i dont remember going out on dates. I knew her as a friend. Since the scandal broke, recent polls show, democart doug jones has chipped away moores lead. But the moore culture war, antiabortion rights, antilgbt rights, pro gun rights, transfixes supporters like sandy ivy. He is a christian man. I believe he is true. Theyre so devoted to moore they may