Order including alvin bragg and his own family. That ruling came in an order last night following a filing from alvin Braggs Office and in the wake of repeated attacks and ongoing ones by trump on the judges daughter. The kind of stuff so completely nonsensical and baseless and Out Of Bounds that most normal criminal defendants would not contemplate launching attacks like this. But donald trump is no ordinary criminal defendant, is he. Next expresident. With just two weeks to go before he goes on trial. He was intent on turning the proceedings into a circus. To benefit him politically, because he knows that winning the white house may be his only way out of his now many legal trev ails. The judge dismisses the claim that hes exercising his First Amendment right to free speech when he charges the judges daughter, and that is judge talk for a lie. This pattern after tacking Family Members of presiding jurists and attorneys assigned to his cases serves no legitimate purpose. It merely inj
Anger. Could that turn florida blue . Its still a long shot but it does give dems another opportunity to say look, voters, this is what happens when you let the other guys win. And while dems have this opportunity, republicans are hoping for their own opportunity on an issue they think they have the upper hand. Let us start with abortion. Joining us now, Washington Post National Reporter covering abortion, Car Caroline Kitchened matt dixon. You guys have done a lot of reports on whats happening in florida. Matt, this ruling, talk to me about the political underpinnings of it. Yeah, its a huge win for democrats here in florida who havent had a win in a decade or more. The Biden Campaign released a memo yesterday first given to nbc news that sort of said theyre going to build their florida strategy around the issue of abortion and really tieing it to yesterdays twopart rulings. So democrats are really hoping this is going to sort of put floridas Battleground State again. It hasnt been in
Reporter four mothers, four dead daughters. There is sorrow, of course. When they killed her, they killed me. Reporter and a measure of solidarity to have each other, especially priscilla and herlinda. Now that we know whats happened to our daughters, i know sh we will still be friends until the end. Because shes walking in the same shoes i am. Reporter we ask them about Julissa Trapp. This case was solved because of her. To me, shes an angel in disguise. An angel that carries a badge and a gun. Reporter their own guardian angel, who brought all of them answers. But how, the moms wonder, did two men who were supposed to be under supervision by parole officers who were being tracked in real time via gps ankle bracelets how could they have committed the terrible crimes they were charged with . How could this happen . How can this happen . Why were they not being monitored . Reporter but but it was definitely a hard question to get from the mothers themselves as well. Why wasnt it caught
[ screams ] mass hysteria at one of new york citys biggest train stations after an incident involving a taser sends commuters fleeing fearing a terror attack. The stampede leaving scores injured and shaken this morning. And the last jedi. The force is strong for star wars fans celebrating the 40th anniversary of the film franchise. A bittersweet celebration as fans remember one of their favorite princesses, today, saturday april 15th, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im sheinelle jones. Glad to have you with us. Im craig melvin. Dylan dreyer with us as well. A lot of folks on this easter weekend concerned about the weather. Most years easter doesnt end up being that great weatherwise. This year, across the country, looks pretty nice. Good news this morning. Well talk about that coming up in just a bit. First, lets get to our top story this morning. In north korea a show of mil
88 degrees. That is nine degrees above the average high for this time of year and about 10 degrees away from tying the record high already. You can see numbers here, around belmont 82 degrees. To the north, San Francisco seeing 79 degrees. Around downtown San Francisco were seeing 80s before noon here. And into the north bay, you also have temperatures in the mid80s. Very dry conditions, too. High fire danger today. That is an issue were also having to contend with. And around the trivalley right now, one spot that could get close to 100 degrees later on, seeing temperatures in the low to mid80s. About 89 degrees already in seminole. The coast and San Francisco today, likely the hottest day of this heat wave. When significant cooling will arrive, well have that for you coming up in the forecast in a ounty. Nutes. While we wait for that cooldown, rob, the heat is no doubt playing a major role in verdalng a fire in sonoma county. A dozen homes are stilley v still evacuated while they try