nightly news with lester holt. good evening from houston where i am on assignment working on a story for a future broadcast but our top story tonight, the flooding catastrophe in kentucky where officials say at least 19 people have died including children with a toll expected to climb. authorities are not even sure how many people are still missing with fresh concern about more life-threatening flash floods this weekend. urgent rescues in boats and from helicopters continue with crews saving hundreds already. the governor telling me on thursday it s by far the worst flooding disaster in his lifetime 6 more inches of rain are expected in parts of the already devastated region. northeast tennessee, southwest virginia and west virginia also in the storm zone. all of it accentuating a climate crisis that is causing more intense and frequent severe weather emergencies around the world we have it all covered tonight beginning with maggie vespa in hard hit kentucky. reporter: i
activities on january 6, 2021, and in the days that preceded and needs to hear from him on the record as they note other former white house counsels have done in other congressional investigations. there are, of course, privilege arguments about him coming forward and testifying about exchanges with a then-sitting president of the united states, who was his client, so it s unclear whether he will comply with the subpoena. but tonight a lawyer familiar with cipollone s thinking tells cnn he will probably agree to a tr transcribed interview limited to specific topics to avoid attorney/client issue. what we do know is there was tuesday s stunning testimony from cassidy hutchinson, a former aide to then-chief of staff mark meadows. she alleged cipollone had very serious concerns about donald trump s actions on january 6th. mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure we don t go up to the capitol, cassidy. keep in touch with me. we re going to get charged wit
the news continues. let s hand it over to sara sidner and cnn tonight. all right, thank you, anderson. i m sara sidner. and this is cnn tonight . a major development tonight following the bombshell testimony from the trump former white house aide. the january 6th committee has subpoenaed pat cipollone to compel him to testify. he s long been considered a key witness by the committee, but he s resisted speaking further with the panel after sitting for a closed door interview back in april. the committee claims its investigation has revealed evidence cipollone repeatedly raised legal and other concerns about then-president trump s activities on january 6, 2021, and in the days that preceded and needs to hear from him on the record as they note other former white house counsels have done in other congressional investigations. there are, of course, privilege arguments about him coming forward and testifying about exchanges with a then-sitting president of the united states
wondering what will the front pages say in another 49 years? will we be in the same conversation? one difference between 1973 and today is real time data. searches for abortion were especially high this week in areas like madison, wisconsin, kansas city, missouri, and salt lake city, utah. areas where the procedure is now banned. this weekend google searches for the question, can i get an abortion are over indexing in those states where it is now illegal. missouri, wisconsin, kentucky, arkansas, oklahoma all the top of the google trends data. axios reports that the top queries related to abortion right now include, is it illegal? abortion banned states, and abortion pill. searches for abortion pill are highest right now in red states including some that have already banned abortion and others likely to follow. so this data is important. it provides an insight into what people are searching for in the privacy of their own homes and it is buttressed by local reporting showing i
focus. the january 6th tour taking pictures of hallways, tunnels and staircases inside the capitol complex, clearly not normal tourist fare and there s more. the committee has also released video of that same man you saw there near the capitol on january 6th issuing violent threats against house speaker nancy pelosi. senate majority leader chuck shumer and other democratic members of congress. we re coming in like white on rice for pelosi, nadler, schumer, even you, aoc. we re coming to take you out and pull you out by your hairs. how about that, pelosi? we re coming to take you out. we ll pull you out by your hair. we made the decision to play the video to you at all, not to amplify the threats, but to present the powerful evidence in the hands of the committee that refutes congressman loudermilk s previous forceful denials that he was not involved with tours of any insurrectionist in the run-up to january 6th. today loudermilk doubled down denying once again that he was