Suicide. And the investor immortalizing The Big Short for predicting the Housing Bubble would burst is back at it again. Why hes betting 1. 6 billion that the stock market will crash. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. We begin in hawaii with the growing questions about the role downed power lines may have played in those deadly wildfires. Nbcs dana griffin is live from maui. Some hawaiian residents are suing the Utility Company as videos emerge of what happened to the power lines during the high winds. Dana, what can you tell us . Reporter well, chris, i can tell you, we have seen a lot of videos on social media, one in particular that purports to show downed power lines and smoke, and that could have been the reignition of that fire after it was contained. Nbc news has not independently verified those videos yet. Were hearing reports from several people including one guy who says that fire started behind his home, and now there are concerns that that
Former u. S. President donald trump is on the Campaign Trail in South Carolina as he faces several indictments, still railing against the Special Counsel investigating him. More than 1,000 wildfires burning in canada right now. Well hear how those blazes are affecting an indigenous community. Simone biles is back. Her return to competitive gymnastics. Republican frontrunner donald trump was in South Carolina on Saturday Night complaining once again about the numerous criminal indictments hes facing and calling on republicans in congress to do something. Addressing the friendly audience, trump grossly understated the seriousness of the charges against him, take a listen. The fake charges put forth by the biden sham, we call it a sham indictment. I really believe hes mentally ill. But these are outrageous, and it is an outrageous criminalization of political speech. Theyre trying to make it illegal to question the results of an election. Hes also lashing out at his former Vice President
Watched our country take a great beating over the last three years full. Nobody thought a thing like this would be possible, we would not have russia attacking ukraine, we would not have israel being attacked, we had no inflation, inflation is destroying the middle class, it is destroying everything. President biden also addressed the Super Tuesday results. In a statement, he said Super Tuesday is also a crucial moment for former governor nikki haleys campaign which is hoping to slow down mr trumps momentum as the republican frontrunner. Tuesdays contest is the us president ial primary s largest prize with more than one third of the total delegates available expected to be awarded for both republicans and democrats. There has not been a call for the republican race in vermont. Our reporter Helena Humphrey has been going over all the Super Tuesday results at the touchscreen. We are looking at 90 of pre sinks counted right now what we can see as we have some 50 or nikki haley, donald tru
Subjecting her position in school, that she flunked out of college, which is not true. She graduated from an hbcu but what has been leaked is the fact she flunked out of school and someone other than her father moved her, the validity of which was never shown. All the while, she is facing these costs and has been able to continue to do the work unrelated to this case, which is shown in the fact that a land as murder rate and Violent Crime rates have decreased while she has been in office. What was shown through the testimony of all of the witnesses and the evidence that your honor heard was that there wasnt an actual conflict. The district failed the relationship that transpired from the relationship between her and mr. Wade and there was no evidence of a financial benefit she gained as it relates to the prosecution of this case and the ultimate outcome of the case. The corroboration of all of that our things your honor is aware of. She could have financially benefited from stretching
Practice. Joining us with the latest, monica alba. What more do we know about the president s exams today . Reporter today is what is known as partial physical because that is there are usually a couple components that go into it. And the president had what is more locally referred to as a complete physical in 2021 where he even had a colonoscopy, he had to hand over his duties for the momentto the vice president. We dont expect that today. He is at walter reed undergoing labs and some tests and we expect the white house and the president s personal physician will be able to put out a summary of how that went later today. This is really something where they continue to assess certain things that the president is constantly dealing with, certain medications that he is taking. Certain effects of a Stiffened Gate from a foot injury hes had in the past. Well be being look at all of that. And in his 2021 physical, he also had biopsy of a small lesion that could have potentially been skin ca