Also hearing testimony on that case before a Second Grand Jury in d. C. And this hour in ohio, voters are voting on a state constitutional amendment that could make it harder to pass ballot issues including the right to an abortion. A big test in a critical election state. And its too darn hot for millions of americans continuing to feel the impact of blazing summer heat causing severe summer storms, storm damage. Flight cancellations across the midwest and again on the east coast. And good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington where u. S. District judge Tanya Chutkan has ordered a hearing no later than this friday on what is usually a standard order in the d. C. Circuit against the exposure of Grand Jury Testimony once they receive it from prosecutors. In a filing monday afternoon, attorneys for mr. Trump objecting to what as i say is usually a standard usually agreed upon agreement in the circuit. Writing the government requests the court assume the role of censor and impos
Special counsels investigation. The big question is how much will a judge allow him to say about his case . And those dangerous wildfires raging across hawaii right now. The coast guard says its already rescued multiple people who jumped into the ocean as an escape from those wild flames. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments, but i want to start right there, talking about maui, dealing with those terrifying wildfires. Maura barrett is following this story. What more can you tell us . Reporter well, chris, its really a dire situation. Just about 8 00 a. M. Right now in hawaii, so were finally starting to get some updates from officials, but unfortunately because were seeing thousands of people without power, down power lines on the roads, downed trees, theres a lot of issues with communication, in terms of firm details about how many injured there might be, and rescue efforts and Fire Fighting efforts is limited, due in big part to a massive category 4 Hur
it now sets stage for a bigger abortion fight in november s election. nbc s ali vitali is in columbus, ohio, for us. what are you hearing about the results of this vote, and what it might mean going forward? yeah, chris, a lot of eyes on this ohio vote in part because it was the most recent red state to have reproductive access on the ballot and have reproductive advocates celebrating a win. this comes against the backdrop of republicans really playing defense on this issue, issue 1 was on the ballot, really because of this november amendment vote that s still to come related to abortion. . in this case, republicans attempting to say they wanted to raise the threshold of what it would take to enshrine the protections in the constitution, and other changes in the constitution. they wanted to raise the threshold to 60%. ohio voters of course said no thank you. they want to keep it at a simple majority. that was an overwhelming result. 57% of ohio voters rejecting issue 1. nevertheless,
here. reporter: yeah, that s exactly right. even though, technically, voters are going to the polls today to vote on the rules how they change their constitution, in theory, they re actually voting ahead to the november amendment vote that you re talking about right there about abortion protections. this is something that ohio republican legislators had initially said we re good, no more august special elections. then when reproductive rights groups were able to get the requisite number of signatures that they needed to get the abortion right on the ballot in november, they said we re going to do one more special election and that s here today about the rules of changing a constitution. right now, all it takes is a majority. a 60% threshold. republicans, though, are not uniformly decided that this is the best strategy, though. but it is clear for all of them, abortion is the underpinning here. i want to pull up what the secretary of state himself, a republican, also running for