goes down in california. dozens of emergency personnel responding after reports the pilot ejected. late details coming in. news on what brought down prigozhin s plan. sources tell abc news it was likely a bomb planted before takeoff. what we re learning. saved by a note. a kidnapped woman s quick thinking and help of a good samaritan leads authorities to the victim and suspect. what was her desperate plea. the new vaccine booster ready in just weeks for tens of millions of americans. covid cases and hospitalizations on the rise. already spoiling the start of the school year for some. the heart-stopping new images tonight of that cable car and the daring rescue in pakistan. and america strong tonight 60 years after the march on washington, a look back and a look ahead. mary: good evening, and thank you for joining us on a busy friday night. i m mary bruce in for david. we begin tonight with deadly storms striking from michigan to the northeast. at least eight
dead. more than a half dozen tornadoes striking the midwest. hundred of thousands without power. tropical storm flank lynn franklin churning in the atlantic. high surf and rip current dangers along the east coast. what the hurricane hunters saw when they flew through franklin. and another possible storm threatening the gulf of mexico. rob marciano timing it all out. former president donald trump and the mugshot seen around the world. his campaign now quick to use the image to raise money. and what president biden is now saying about that photo. aaron katersky reporting. the maui fires tonight. for the first time, officials making public the names of the 388 people still unaccounted for. officials combing through the devastation as the first wrongful death lawsuit is filed against the power company. a marine corps fighter jet goes down in california. dozens of emergency personnel responding after reports the pilot ejected. late details coming in. breaking news tonight
high-ranking commander of an iran-backed militia accused of directly planning and participating in attacks on u.s. forces. our report from iraq. also tonight, the urgent search for five u.s. marines missing after their helicopter vanished in california. the remote area where the aircraft was found. the fiery police standoff in pennsylvania. two officers shot and the home erupting into flames. israeli prime minister netanyahu rejecting hamas latest cease-fire demand. is there still room for negotiations? chaos on capitol hill. senate republicans killing the border deal they had demanded after the house gop failed to impeach the homeland security secretary. the stunning moment a democrat rushed from the hospital to cast the deciding vote. six months after the lahaina wildfires, nbc news investigates. how did one small neighborhood suffer so many deaths? the killer whales trapped in the ice off japan and the good news about them tonight. and two giants of the musi
what is next for the republican party? the rnc chair offers to step aside. what did she do to get sideways with donald trump? secretary of state tony blinken is in israel right now for hostage talks. where he says the deal with ho mass sthamas stands right now. what will you watch? the game? the ads? you don t have to wait to see them. which are making the biggest impact. kate and sara are out. i m john berman with rahel sol solomon. this is cnn news central. this morning, the republican party chair seems on her way out. ronna mcdaniel offering to step down at ton the end of february. this week, he met donald trump at mar-a-lago. after that meeting, she offered to resign. the situation is fluid. there s questions this morning. who will replace her? how will this impact the party? how did she get sideways with donald trump? cnn has all of the answers for us from washington this morning. what do we know? this is a stunning revelation. we look back at when donald trump f
reinforced it. white house correspondent peter doocy has our lead story tonight. good evening, peter. shannon, good evening. officials here are telling us the mistakes we have seen president biden make this week on camera are normal, and they have nothing to do with the special counsel s findings of a president with a poor memory. no one in this building would say that what we saw in this report about his memory. peter: just days after mistaking him with a now dead predecessor, president biden met with the german chancellor olaf sholls swing and miss leaving it up to the vice president to clean up a special counsel report that challenges president biden s mental acuity. the comments that were made by that prosecutor gratuitous, inaccurate, and inappropriate. white house officials believe the special counsel was pressured to be tough. republicans in congress and elsewhere have been attacking prosecutors who aren t doing what republicans want politically. democrat