new charges and several warrants issued in the disturbing brawl on the dock in montgomery, alabama. a river boat cocaptain attacked by a boater. others joining the fight. authorities asked if there s evidence of a hate crime. a special election in ohio tonight. a high-stakes vote that could set the stage for a major abortion rights battle in the state come november. the republican-led effort to make it harder to change the state s constitution. the new study showing more potential health benefits for patients using the popular weight loss drug wegovy. and tonight s mega millions drawing. the billion dollar jackpot growing even bigger, now the largest in the game s history. good evening, and it s great to have you with us on a tuesday night. i m mary bruce, in for david.
they telling us the truth, are they real and going to support us. so while donald trump is doing this to motivate and mobilize his base, i think the burden on democrats is to make sure and i think joe biden has done this as president is to make sure that our core constituencies, young people, african americans in particular, are aware that it s these institutions that have been a source of political social and economic power. certainly seeing the proxy of that in ohio with this vote on an issue like reproductive rights that is a mobilizing factor for so many democrats. so, it s a play that donald trump always goes to, but democrats, i believe, have an opportunity to push back. i want to ask you more about that because we do of course have this special election in ohio tonight. but ron desantis first. obviously he has failed thus far
a motive has not been announced. president biden s transportation secretary visited the site of this month s toxic chemical train derailment in eastern ohio today. the trip by secretary pete buttigieg comes ahead wirthering criticism of both him and the president s response. we re also learning details about the accident itself today. senior correspondent mike tobin is in east palestine, ohio tonight. wheel bearings coming into focus as the ntsb releases preliminary findings of its february 3rd train wreck. bearings heated occupy 2015 degrees over 30 miles a critical stage. alarm alerted the engineer as the train was slowed and auto brakes kicked. in the wheelbarrows failed and the train derailed. this is 100 percent preventable. we call things accidents. there is no accident. the car was hauling pellets
that you made is we have to make sure we understand thatk and we govern that way when we take back this majority, we don t waste that. yeah, l i thinkau the popuo conservative playbook is what sb going to continue to grow thisot movement. i ve been saying it for a longse time. me i think we re going to see ts tomorrow night. congressman lahood, tom , great to see aboutl se now.tomo. a lot of eyes were on ohio tonight where former president trump just wrappedat a rally for republican senate candidate j.d. vance that was just minutes ago, but it was the big expectation of a big 20 , 20 four announcement that many were tuning in fo4 r fox is mar k meredith is in daytonh is for all the details. mark, what happened? apparently no announcement. look. ohappare, laura , there s a sliy announcement maybe just to stayt true to this point because bece as you were talking about,d the former president held a rally for about an hourrall and forty five minutes. he had a few thousand people b
yesterday, trump aides called a bunch of reporters saying, hey, you got to watch ohio tonight. it s going to happen tonight. it s going to happen tonight. of course it didn t. other republicans talked trump out of it saying look, just wait a little bit. wait a week. don t step on our night. mccarthy, did mccarthy talk him out of it. i don t know if mccarthy did. but those close to him did. there was leadership on the hill that said, hold off, don t do it tonight with the thinking being what could be the number one motivator for democrats to turn out today, donald trump declaring his candidacy for president. they got him to hold off a week. also at the ohio campaign rally. former president trump mentioned nancy pelosi for the second day in a row. as a reminder, here s what he said on sunday while speaking in miami. this was just a group of people where crazy nancy pelosi, by the way, how is she doing lately? how is she doing? and then last night, the former president was talking