flights are stopped there also. bill: air quality alerts for tens of millions of americans. the hardest hit areas as of this hour on your screen. a lot in southeastern pennsylvania. we mentioned philadelphia. they grounded flights there and in new york as well where air quality is down right bad. times square yesterday engulfed in an orange haze. amazing pictures from gotham city. new york seeing its worst air quality in recorded history, wow. dana: here is the current air quality forecast. detroit, pittsburgh, boston, washington in the thick of it. philadelphia declaring a code red. the smoke engulfing cities. bill: yesterday new york city they go from hazy to dispopeian in a matter of hours. we watched it happen. pollution catching even seasoned new yorkers a bit off guard. it seems apocalyptic. could see it rolling from the office window. we were on the 80th floor of our building. you couldn t see anything. i thought the world was burning and i thought someth
of mar-a-lago. but they chose to do that only in recent weeks, which tells us a lot. it tells us they are near a decision to bring possible charges against the former president. obviously, jack smith, the special counsel, works under attorney general merrick garland, who could at the last minute decide to intervene. but what this tells us a lot and the reason why you see the trump lawyers very concerned is that this signals that the special counsel is heading towards an indictment and the question is when that indictment might come, who else might be under it, and certainly the former president should believe that, you know, at this point he has the option to go to the prosecutors and say he wants to speak to the grand jury to present his own evidence and to try to persuade them at the last minute that they should not bring that case. we do not expect that donald trump will do that, jake. no, we don t. katelyn, the special counsel s enlisted a second grand jury, this one in
of classified documents after he exited the white house. plus, the latest from outside the federal courthouse in miami where that second grand jury is a key part of this investigation. and tens of millions of americans are still under air quality alerts as officials urge people to put on their masks because wildfire smoke from canada is continuing to blanket this country. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. i want to begin right here on the roof of 30 rock with msnbc host lindsey reiser covering the smoke-filled skies. you have the same mask on i had on walking to work this morning. i think the governor of new york is making a whole lot of those available. tell us the latest. reporter: and, chris, i m sure you felt it too, itchy eyes, scratchy throat, my nose has been stuffy the past 24 hours. things are better in the new york city area. normally the air quality index should be around 50. yesterday, chris, in the peak of the orange haze
currently serving an unrelated murder sentence for 28 years. he arrived yesterday at the airport in birmingham. you can see several f.b.i. agents escorting him from the plane. he was held at hoover city jail overnight. new video shows him arriving at the federal courthouse earlier this morning. van der sloot allegedly tried to sell natalee s mom false information on the location of her daughter s body in exchange for a quarter million dollars. beth holloway s attorney says emotions are law. she is basically overwhelmed by whole situation. she had a whole spectrum of emotions. on the one hand she was ecstatic that van der sloot was on u.s. soil, u.s. authorities, u.s. justice system. but it is still like pulling a scab off an old wound. always pain there and it s a painful reminder of what she has been through. julie: jonathan serrie joins us with the latest. i remember that you were part of that early team that went down to aruba. when i first arrived on the island in 2
norah: new reporting tonight from our team. dangerously bad air still affects millions of americans are to wildfires in canada. this weekend enter early next week a system will come through, direct the smoke away from the u.s. in the eastern part of the country, ukrainian troops have stepped up offensive operations around the beleaguered city of bakhmut, which was only recently taken by russian troops. the main suspect in the disappearance of u.s. teenager natalee holloway has been arraigned in an alabama court. norah: playing with plastic. the shocking new data. america s old nearly $1 trillion in credit card debt. speak of the bear wandered into a northeast d.c. neighborhood and showed up a little before 7:00 and got rather comfortable in the tree. this is a bear in a tree, and i was like, praise god. roderick duncan says real change never happens overnight. will get you, man. homeless? homeless, he had to be. ready kept coming ba