congress that her agency is conducting a damage assessment from the classified documents found at former president donald trump s home. reporter: top intelligence official avril haynes sent a letter to two chairs of committees in the house of representatives where she confirmed for the very first time that a damage assessment will be done of the documents that were recovered from mar-a-lago. let me read for you from this letter. she told the lawmakers, quote, that the department of justice and the office of the director of national intelligence are working together to facilitate a classification review of relevant materials including those recovered during the search. okay. that means they re going to do a review to figure out how classified these documents were. there s a few different levels of classification. and they re going to figure that out first. she went on to say, odni, that s the director of national intelligence, will also lead an intelligence community assessm
sitting. so she was pretty lucky. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. lower prescription costs, an historic national fight against climate change. senate democrats pass a scaled back version of the landmark legislation they ve chased for more than a year. it tooks months of negotiations and an exhaustive all nighter of whirl wind votes to reach a 50-50 split along party lines. vice president kamala harris then cast the deciding vote. the yeaj are 50. the nays are 50. the senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative and the bill as amended is passed. [ applause ] cnn s melanie skin oh na is on capitol hill. reporter: if there was going to be any hurdle, it was going to be house moderates in the democratic party. but we have actually already heard this evening from two key house democrats, mikie sherrill, and josh gottheimer, that they are indeed going to support this package even though it doesn t contain s
lucas pom tom lynnson at the white house tomlinson, and virginia republican lieutenant governor winsome sears. welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto and happy weekend. so far a happy and, thus far, calm weekend after the supreme court s historic 6-3 decision to essentially gut roe v. wade. let s go to alexandria hoff at the supreme court with how things are looking there. reporter: hi, neil. yeah, a few more protesters have arrived over past hour, several dozen now with chants breaking out. but this time yesterday, neil, when that decision came down, the most immediate and audible reaction came from the pro-life side. there were cheers and tears for what they saw as the recognition of life before birth, something they d been waiting over 50 # years to do. and as the department of homeland security warned of a night of rage, things did remain mostly calm. an american flag was burning here in d.c., similar symbolic symbolic of the anger after the court did undo roe v. wade.
and charlie people on edge after nearly half a dozen shark attacks in two weeks. first, president biden is on his way back to the u.s. after a visit to the middle east, and everyone is talking about that cozy, possibly calculated relationship that biden tried to show with the saudis from standing next to the crown prince in the class photo to fist bumping him when he arrived and kicked off meetingses with the saudi leaders meetings. white house claiming earlier this week biden wouldn t shake any hands because of covid. well, apparently that went out the window when biden touched down in israel, and this fist bump speaking of touching even looked worse than a handshake. the ceo of the washington post calling it, quote, shameful, and that it projected a level of intimacy and comfort thats to to mbs the unwarranted he has been seeking. the gas prices would actually fall in the coming weeks, if you believe that, the saudis say that s not exactly how the meeting
inspiring america. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone forecasters are using terms like heat dome and atmospheric rivers to describe what is driving extreme weather conditions across the country tonight, from dangerous rain and flooding to crippling heat many will see triple-digit highs in fact over the course of the next seven days, over 250 million americans can expect temperatures 90 or hotter. and while drought-stricken parts of the west can t seem to buy a drop of rain, too much of it has fallen in montana and wyoming. it s been wiping out bridges, roads, and literally carrying houses away. yellowstone park closed tonight a crushing start to the park s busy vacation season. from tornado sirens blaring in chicago to fires in the west, this is already shaping up to be a summer to remember our team is in place to cover it all, starting tonight with gadi schwartz. reporter: tonight, weather extremes as destructive as they a