the roof and steeple coming down. two congregations using this church. a miracle only one person was inside and survived. the school shooter s mother in court. ethan crumbley s mother on trial in michigan. tonight her messages about the day they bought the gun for their son and her post when her son went to the range. later called to the school amid concerns over their son. what prosecutors say they never told the school. their son opened fire hours later. tonight democrats and republicans working to address a crisis the president has signals he can working to tonight has donald trump told them to stop working on any solution signaling the race for president should come first. here in new york city, meanwhile, trump taking the stand in the civil defamation trial against him. already found liable by a jury. what trump declared today in that courtroom. erin is there. peter navorro sentenced to four months in prison. in philadelphia, the urgent hunt and police pleading for hel
july 4th holiday weekend, already this evening, those major airports slowing to a crawl. dangerous storms in the northeast causing a ripple effect tonight, stranding passengers across the u.s. a new round of storms now coming. flood watches also in the east at this hour. washington, d.c., up through philadelphia, new york to boston. and tonight, as we come on the air, the new warnings, the smoke from those canadian wildfires now set to return. already in chicago and the surrounding region. and tonight, new york s governor now warning it s coming back to parts of the northeast. also tonight, that audio recording of former president trump. abc news obtaining the recording, what trump can be heard saying about what he calls highly confidential secret information containing those potential plans to attack iran. trump saying, quote, this is secret information, look at this. a staff member later telling him, we have a problem. tonight, the new response from trump. pierre thomas i
video of him leaving rostov-on-don, where he had taken control of a key russian military facility. the kremlin says, he is now heading to neighboring belarus, wagner soldiers would not be prosecuted. again, all of this is from the kremlin and unverified by nbc news. new reporting from the washington post reads, quote, while putin seemed to avert his greatest prices crisis in more than 23 years as russia s supreme political leader, grief armed rebellion, presented the starkest evidence yet that his brutal invasion of ukraine could backfire. leading to instability at home and exposing his growing isolation from reality and weakness as a leader. joining us now from kyiv, nbc news correspondent kelly cobiella, nbc news white house correspondent and on capitol hill, and pc news correspondent julie adjuster. kelly, let s start with you. how is the kremlin trying to explain what s unfolded over the past 24 hours? well alicia, it s interesting. they re not trying to explain, it t
now, to new hampshire. nikki haley within single digits of trump in the polls. and haley says she will not debate unless donald trump is on that stage. ron desantis in haley s home state of south carolina today. rachel scott on what to watch for. this dangerous winter blast across the u.s. tonight, from texas to florida, up to the northeas the frigid temperatures moving in. new york city, philadelphia, at long last getting snow. the treacherous driving across several states. the national guard called in to help stranded drivers. and now the next storm we re already tracking at this hour. rob marciano here to time this out. in new york city tonight, we have just learned two nypd officers have been shot and wounded. the suspect possibly grabbing an officer s gun. the major turn tonight in the case of the alleged lock island serial killer, now charged with murdering a fourth woman. and for the first time tonight, you will hear from the daughter of one of his alleged victim
made an extraordinary contribution to move this country toward being a more perfect union. the film rustin is streaming now on netflix. please watch it. it s great. audra mcdonald and aml ameen, so honored to have both of you here today. thank you so much. thank you. thank you very much. that does it for us this morning. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. hello on this monday. it is 10:00 eastern. happy caucus day. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. all eyes on iowa with the official start of the 2024 election season. republican candidates all making their final appeal to iowans ahead of tonight s gop caucuses. the caucuses will be called to order at 7:00 p.m. local time, 8:00 p.m. eastern. the vote will be held by secret ballot. our final nbc news des moines register poll shows donald trump maintaining his nearly 30-point lead over the rest of the field with a tight race for second place. one major and potentially dangerous obstacle stands in t