Nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight from inside iran. Good evening from tehran, the capital of iran, a country economically isolated from much of the western world, and considered a military and geopolitical rival, some would even say enemy of the United States. I sat down with the countrys president for an exclusive and extremely rare interview today, and what he told me is already sending shockwaves through washington, d. C. Well get to that in a moment. But the other surprise in washington came from speaker of the house Kevin Mccarthy, announcing today that hes ordering an inquiry into impeaching President Biden. The order gives House Republicans license to investigate the president and his familys business dealings the white house calling the move extreme politics at under the circumstances worth. Mccarthy alleging corruption and abuse of power on the part of the president but does he have the evidence and the votes . Garrett haake starts us off tonight from capito
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The New York Times. We have the lightest development in the russia investigation. And get your motors running well take you live to the philadelphia auto show for a preview. But the big story on action news at noon. Another winter warmup in the weekend forecast. Going live outside as we check out the view from penns landing, our sky 6 hd landing taking a look at the afternoon. And we are heading for a warm break. David murphy is in the weather center. Reporter happy friday obviously its a nice start to friday. As you look at the weather center, we dumped the clouds after the sunshine yesterday and an area of pressure close by knocking the clouds out and knocking down the wind. Temperatures on the chilly side but above freezing, 38 in philadelphia. 35 in trenton and ill point out to you that yesterdays high already reached 35. And 36 in allentown unreading and winds are on the light side. As we go through the afternoon not a bad day. Maybe have you to walk the dog not a bad day. Im expe
That we should see an increase in the strength of these storms. Thats whats happening and thats why the severe thunderstorm watch has been extended into the philadelphia area and new jersey. The flood threat for tonight is actually less than it was yesterday but a lot of lightning and also a lot of high winds. Those are the main threats. But we still have some threat of some hail and even a tornado or two in parts of the area. Lets check in with meteorologist Sheena Parveen for more on exactly what to expect the next few hours. The reason why that watch is going so late is because of all the heat and humidity in place and thats what you really felt today. Temperatures still climbing through part of the area. Thats what will help fuel a lot of these storms as they move in tonight. 85 in philadelphia so we have gone up a couple degrees in the past hour. 85 degrees in reading, parts of delaware still at about the upper 80s and as we go into tonight, those temperatures will start to drop a