scrambling to cover the cost. and the swimmer defying the odds and inspiring america. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone when it rains it pours, but rarely like this tonight, an unraveling emergency continues to unfold across swaths of the southwest as severe flooding leaves several areas under water or caked in mud. in texas, arizona, and new mexico fast rising floodwaters triggered some harrowing rescues and shut down major thoroughfares. dallas coming off its second longest dry spell ever, 67 straight days without rain only to now be facing what weather experts say is a 1,000-year flood east of dallas, storm totals approaching 15 inches downtown dallas more than 12 1/2. at dfw airport 7.8 inches of rain falling in just 3 hours. now even as the weather system moves eastward, rain is still in the forecast for some hard-hit areas. miguel almaguer has a look at what they re facing reporter: the record rainfall in cities like
and ultimately leading to the mar-a-lago search warrant. nbc news has reached out to the doj, fbi, white house and former president trump spokesperson. we have not received responses yet. here is how jared kushner, the former president s son-in-law and white house advisor reacted. i m not familiar with what exactly the contents were. i think you have to be very careful with what you read and wait for the facts to develop. late yesterday in a move seemingly as political as legal, donald trump s attorneys filed a motion to block the doj from, quote, further review of seized materials until a special master is appointed. joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. nbc s mark caputo, kim wehle, former associate independent counsel in the white water investigation. glenn kirschner, former federal prosecutor and now an msnbc legal analyst. ken, i believe you have new reporting confirming what was reported by the new york times. walk us thro
in their schools ability to help students catch up with learning loss due to covid. even fewer say they feel very confident about schools having enough teachers and staff available to meet the needs of students and just 30% say they are pretty confident in active shooter preparations for the first time in two years breakfast and lunch won t be covered for everyone now that a federal pandemic-era program has ended, leaving schools and families scrambling to cover the costs. emilie ikeda explains. reporter: single mom jamie bunges has relied on free or reduced price lunches for her fourth grade son since he was in kindergarten what does that extra money mean for you? savings i can put it toward groceries or my gas tank reporter: she said paying for his lunch would cost her more than $1,000 a year i added it up and it was $118 a month and you do that times nine so it was over $1,000 a year so to me it was, oh, my gosh,
be adequately staffed this year. for the first time in two years, breakfast and lunch will not be covered for everybody now that a federal pandemic-era program has ended leaving schools and families scrambling to cover the cost. emily ak ket that explains. reporter: single mom jamie has relied on free or reduced price lunches to are her son since he s been in kindergarten. what does the savings mean to you? groceries, put it in my gas tank. i added it up and it was like $118 a month. you do that times nine. it s over $1,000 a year. oh, my gosh, i also have to buy groceries. reporter: it s a lot of money for families already tight on cash, especially those impacted by the end of the federal free school lunch for all program, a pandemic-era initiative that s now expired. when you heard that program was ending, what was your
recovery efforts from hurricane harvey. here s what some of our affiliates are covering. fox 35 in orlando. space x executes a new mission ahead of the incoming storm. it launched of space plane. this is the second time space x has launched a national security payload in the first time launching the x-37 b. fox 5, all public students in new york will be offered a free lunch. school starts today there, about three quarters of the city s 1.1 million students qualify for free or reduced price lunches there. many of those eligible do not receive them, often because parents neglect to fill out the required paperwork. live look at st. louis from our affiliate fox 2. big story there, the city plans to go after amazon s second north american headquarters. the company is searching for a