the home of the suspect who has now been arrested and is in custody. hello, welcome everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. rich, hello to you. rich: rich edson in washington for john roberts. this is america reports. major break as the suspect is set to make his first court appearance in less than an hour now. identified as rex heuermann, 59-year-old architect at a new york city firm. sandra: the news brings a sense of relief to residents of gilgo beach nearly 13 years after the body of a 24-year-old woman was discovered there. remains of nine more people have been found in the years since then. mary ellen o toole is a former fbi profiler will join us with details what we know. but begin with lauren green. good afternoon, sandra. the most intense investigation for a supposed serial killer on new york s long island for more than a decade. police joined by the fbi have been searching for a suspect in the gilgo beach murders. last night, they made an arrest. the suspect
donald trump in a defamation lawsuit. we ll explain why the doj is backing off its previous position. plus two months worth of rain in two days. vermont is just starting the recovery process from that disaster. we ll get an update from one of the state s top lawmakers. all right, good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, july 12th. i m sam stein in for jonathan lemire. we begin with the major developments out of the nato summit in lithuania. the alliance says it will invite ukraine to join but only when allies agree and conditions are met. the group did not give a time line or details on what those conditions might be. vague wording is in line with what president joe biden said last week, calling a pathway to membership for ukraine, quote, premature while it is at war with russia. as the new york times points out, it appears the president and like minded allies have prevailed over poland in baltic nations that wanted a formal invitation for ukraine t
impose criminal penalties for sitting, sleeping or lying outside on public property for homeless individuals who cannot obtain shelter. it held at the ordinances were unconstitutional and constituted cruel and unusual punishment under the eighth amendment. the matter came before the powerful 9th circuit court, which has jurisdiction for the western united states and all of california. the ninth circuit has been regarded as a progressive bastion, but president trump was able to appoint ten judges to the ninth circuit. it limited what idaho could do with regard to its homeless. this time a three-judge panel similarly ruled against a city s effort to regulate its homeless population. when grants pass then sought to have the matter considered by the entire circuit, it could not get the required vote from all a act tiff members of the bench. that s when all hell broke lose. the denial of a full review drew 16 dissents and many statements. as the oregonen reported, many who dissent
paul: welcome to the journal editorial report, i m paul gigot. the remaining presidential candidates are making hair closing arguments in new hampshire ahead of that state s first in the nation primary on tuesday with recent polls showing nikki haley in second place behind donald trump and ron desantis coming in a distant third. the former president is stepping up his attacks on haley as he looks to build on his win in iowa with a knockout blow in the granite state. here are trump and haley trading fire this week. the people behind nikki haley are pro-name testy, they re pro-china, their pro-open borders. don t kid yourself. pro-war and they re pro-biden. we don t want more of the same with the trump-biden thing. we don t want more 80-year-olds in d.c. we don t want for the more of the same where both of them are distracted by investigations and all these other things. paul: joining the panel, columnists dan dan henninger kim strassel andtorial board member kyle peat
tomorrow s contest is now out. if the trends in this poll hold, donald trump is going to pull off a win by an unprecedented margin for a republican or a democratic presidential candidate in iowa. this is the final nbc news des moines registry iowa pole ahead of tomorrow s caucuses. trump, his lead is down ever so slightly, by the way. this is what was in december, 51. now he is at 48. you can see that he has 28 point lead over his next closest competitor, nikki haley. nikki haley s first choice support, meanwhile, rose from 60 to 20 points. ron desantis support has slipped three points from last month, 19 to 16. vivek ramaswamy is an out below, heat remains below 10%. the current record margin of victory in the iowa republican caucus says for a non incumbent candidates is 13 points. that was set by bob dole in 1980. trump wins to more by anything remotely close to what these polls were predicted, he won t make history. that s an addition to the history that donald trump is al