using former top gun pilots to train the next generation. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone, this is what scientists have been telling us the future looks like, except it is now temperatures far above what was once considered the summer norm, inflicting misery and creating a health danger for millions living under record heat from california to western europe as well as parts of asia and africa in this country, the torrid conditions setting more new records. dallas hitting 109, as did oklahoma city. dodge city, kansas, setting a new record at 107 across the pond, the usually temperate uk hitting an all-time record high, 104 degrees, bending and breaking train rails that s how hot it was. fires near london prompting a tweet from the mayor, warning fire units are under immense pressure, please be safe our team in place at home and abroad to cover it all first, sam brock from dallas reporter: canvassing the country tonight, an
frankly, lester, through most of the country. dylan, thanks for that update. amid triple-digit heat, a major fire broke out at the famed hoover dam, sending up a huge cloud of black smoke with fire crews quickly extinguished the fire in a transformer. officials said there were no injuries and no risk to the power grid the dam on the arizona-nevada border is one of the tallest in the u.s now to ukraine, and new u.s. intelligence warning russia is laying the groundwork to permanently keep the territory it recently grabbed in ukraine by annexing it. richard engel joins me richard, there could be major consequences if russia follows through with that kind of a plan. this is not just a symbolic step. when other countries, the united states, invaded iraq, it was not to take iraq forever and make it part of the united states this is what russia is doing. it is fighting a war of occupation and annexation so, by taking this territory, annexing it, making it part of russia, russia will s
iconic american motorcycle manufacturer harley-davidson is celebrating 115 years in the business this weekend. and for the very first time in its history, the milwaukee-based company is shifting some of its production offshore. the change came in june after president trump rolled out new tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. those tariffs, along with others, proposed for foreign automakers prompted a retaliatory move by the eu, which as you can imagine, raised motorcycle tariffs from 6 to 31%. according to president trump, many harley owners are angry about the production move, and plan to boycott the company. nbc s vaughn hillyard is outside the harley-davidson museum in milwaukee. and i saw your earlier call richard by my name, so if you want to call me richard.
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let s concede that planned parenthood does a lot of good for young women and minority women and low income women in particular. what about this issue? does that wipe out that they may be committing a violation of law? i think we have to wait for the courts to figure that out. what court is going to do it? the white house and everybody else is saying there is the only people who should be investigated are the ones doing the videos. there is clear illegality in the videos. planned parenthood may provide to 2.1 million women fragmented health care. they don t do mammograms. they don t offer prenatal. they do not do mammograms. i said they do pap smears. they do help a lot of hold on hold on. you are not going to monologue over me richard. they help a lot of women who