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plus, tennis superstar serena williams, her major announcement about her future on the court. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening i m tom llamas in for lester tonight we are getting new information on that hours-long search of former president trump s mar-a-lago residence in florida with heightened security, we see it right here, flanking the compound nbc news reporting the search was tied to classified materia trump allegedly took from the white house when he left in 2021 the former president claiming in a statement that the fbi broke into a safe, calling the search, quote, unannounced republicans raising questions tonight about the timing, pointing the finger at attorney general merrick garland for executing the search with less than 100 days until the november mid-terms, and fueling talk of trump s potential bid for president in 2024. we have team coverage tonight. kelly o donnell starts us off from bedminster, new jersey, where the form
group of agents saying it was, quote, unannounced. which is what normally happens with search warrants, by the way. and that they broke into a safe. now he wasn t there and they carried out the search. but i want to turn right away to cnn correspondent, randi kaye, who is actually in palm beach county. i ll stay with us tonight cnn s chief white house correspondent, kaitlan collins. caitlin i want to begin with you here. because, look, a search on the former president s home is absolutely extraordinary. and now we know it is about the handling of classified documents. what is happening right now? what is it all about? it certainly is remarkable. if these events are unfolding in the way that the former president is saying that they are and the statement it does seem to be a pretty huge escalation of what we already know. that there was an investigation underway and to whether or not he mishandled potentially classified information when he left the white house. now, when it c
florida has been search by the fbi. trump confirmed that himself tonight. three sources tell or sara murray and kristen holmes it was related to the handling of presidential documents including classified documents, those documents may have been brought to mar-a-lago when donald trump left the white house. house. in order to get a search warrant, prosecutors have to establish probable cause. at that a crime was committed. so, this is a very big deal. make no mistake about. it former president trump, has already blasted the move claiming as he often does, political persecution and a witch hunt. in a statement released tonight he says quote, these are dark times for our nation, as our beautiful home mar-a-lago in palm beach, florida, is under siege. rated in occupied by a large group of fbi. agents nothing like this has ever happened to a president of united states before. after working at cooperating with the relevant government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home, was
northeast. the heat index, the feel-like reading topping 100 degrees in new york city, philadelphia to washington. and in boston tonight, the sixth day of record temperatures above 95 degrees. at this hour, the threat of storms and flooding. ginger zee tracking it all. president biden and the major bipartisan victory tonight. signing the $280 billion bill increasing the manufacture of chips here in the u.s. we hear fromnmerican manufacturer ready to go. the major headline on monkeypox. the government planning to turn one vaccine shot into five shots, able to reach more people. steve osunsami at the cdc. the war in ukraine, and tonight, the explosion rocking a russian air base in crimea. were the ukrainians behind it? the alarming images captured by a hudz who believed his wife, a dermatologist, was poisoning him. what authorities are now saying. the company. gas prices falling. and economists now say online prices are falling, too. the first decline in more than two