philadelphia do prepare to give an update any moment now. we ll go straight to that. also this hour, extreme weather in reeking havoc on picnics and parades as blistering heat and thunderstorms leave millions under a severe weather watch. we ll have the latest weather forecast of what you can expect today and on this busy holiday, about 15,000 hotel workers in southern california walked off their jobs further complicating travel plans. we ll explain why they re hitting the picket line. we ll start with the mass shootings that left two u.s. cities reeling with eight people killed. fort worth texas, three are dead and more than a dozen injured while in philadelphia, five were killed and two injured after a gunman wearing a bulletproof vest opened fire on a street. any moment, we re expecting an update from philadelphia s mayor. this is the live picture at the microphone. we re watching that. when it does happen and the police commissioner joins the mayor, we ll take you there
before that catastrophic implosion. a light fast repair just days after a fiery collapse. the major highway that millions rely on back open for business in philadelphia. and attorney general merrick garland commenting just a short time ago on those charges against president biden s son hunter. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with nbc news s ryan reilly on what we just heard from attorney general merrick garland. unexpected for the attorney general to talk about it. he doesn t answer a lot of questions. but what did he have to say this time? i think based on the allegations that had come out through the whistleblower, he felt responsibility to lay it out here. essentially what he said is he has not taken any action in regards to this hunter biden investigation. take a listen. mr. weiss, was appointed by president trump as the u.s. attorney in delaware and assigned this matter during the previous administration would be permit
tonight from excuse me, arkansas governor sarah huckabee sanders, former press secretary to donald trump, with an extended anecdote at the end there about how, on a trip with president trump now most felt like they were in the military. they were not in the military. other than that, it s kind of an american carnage speech from their huckabee sanders talking about how president biden surrendered his presidency, to the woke mob, and he has been hijacked by the radical left, and america s is having war waged on it by the left, a war that didn t seek. two things, on a factual basis, which is not where she is hanging. donald trump was known and it was reported extensively, and some of the most harrowing reporting in the atlantic reported it to the believe men and women who served in the military, who died, were quote, suckers and losers. he was especially disgusted by men and women who ve been injured, in the service of our country, something so cystic, i don t even l
dangerous winds and life-threatening temperatures to dozens of states heading into the holiday weekend. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. dana perino and bill hemmer have the day off. we re filling in. rich: i m rich edson. record low temperatures appeared hazardous weather. right now more than 240 million americans are under winter weather warnings, alerts or advisories from the canadian border to the south and rio grande along the gulf coast to florida and pacific northwest to the eastern seaboard. julie: madison is standing by with flight delays and cancellations. the reason i said wow. i was watching max gordon and his video shot while rich was talking starting us off outside buffalo. i watched a wave, oh my goodness. you have to be cold where the national weather service is predicting up to three feet of snow. max, your camera just blew me away. you are too close to that water, i m not going to lie. we ll try to stay as safe as possible today. a frigid
zelenskyy last week. that meeting comes at a critical juncture for the war amid new questions about the quantity and quality of u.s. support. and exactly what specifically makes the new mexico da so sure about the charges against alec baldwin, that could land him in prison for years. it wasn t that we were trying to charge him with a felony. it s that what his actions did matched the case law for involuntary manslaughter. but let s start exactly two years out from inauguration day, seeing the early contours of the presidential strategy, that the white house hopes will get joe biden back to the oval office for a second term. the goal to spotlight pooud s legislative achievements of the past 18 months and contrast that with what a white house spokesman predicted would be republicans divorce from reality political stunts. to that end, politico reports the administration is giddy that only soft of the biggest bomb throwers are now on the oversight committee believing they a