An nbc news poll out a few hours ago puts Hillary Clinton just one point ahead of donald trump. The results are within the polls margin of error. Trump is hoping for a boost in the poll numbers during the Republican National Convention Taking Place right now in cleveland. But much of the talk this morning is about his wifes speech last night. And its similarities to a Michelle Obama speech. Nbcs tracie potts is live in cleveland with how the Trump Campaign is responding from the social media fire last night to all the rounds on the morning shows today. Tracie . Good morning. Were hearing a lot from them now. And Trumps Campaign chair says its crazy to think that you can do this with millions of people watching. You might hear some mike checks going on behind me, maybe lights flashing, the are getting ready for tonight when trump will officially get that nomination. Donald trump formally get the republican nomination today after dramatically introducing my wife, an amazing mother and in
Chaos. And a simple call about a strange find in georgetown brings out a military bomb squad. The left hand didnt know what the right hand was doing. Good evening. Im doreen gentzler. Tonight, the National Transportation safety board said its looking into communication problems between metro and d. C. Fire. Its also looking at the ventilation systems in both metro tunnels and the trains themselves. News4 transportation reporter adam tuss is live at the plaza station. Adam . Reporter thats right. Doreen. A whole lot of new information coming out of the backtoback meetings tonight and, yes, safety changes coming tomorrow with the metro system. So we wanted to know what were they doing now, the fierce urgency of now to correct the problem. Reporter fiery from our regions congressional leaders who are demanding answers so that riders can trust metro. When they get on metro tomorrow how confident are they going to be that they will be safe . Reporter tonight, news4 learned that metro will c
It. Today president obama is going to take his message to the people and give a speech here. During that speech the president will outline the key components and explain what it means for middle class americans. Now the speech isnt for several more hours. At 6 00 the white house is expected to release more information about the specifics of what the president will touch on during that speech that, again, will happen at 6 00 this morning. We will bring you those details coming up at 6 02. Reporting live, megan mcgrath, news 4. Eun, back to you. Meantime lawmakers this morning getting ready for a plan to pass a budget and avoid a government shutdown. Last week the republicancontrolled house passed the budget that virtually defunded the new Health Care Law. With that bill expected to fail, the house now drawing up a new plan that would instead raise the debt limit. That, though, could only delay some problems. Lawmakers have another deadline october 17 where the country could default on i
News day. And it was a busy news day dominated most of the late part of the day by a shooting incident that happened at l. A. X. , at Los Angeles International airport. A man reported to be a 23yearold from los angeles walked into terminal three and pulled out a rifle started firing at tsa employees. There were points he said things about tsa. He killed one tsa worker and wounded as many as three others before he himself was shot in the chest and taken into custody. Hes reported to be in Critical Condition in the hospital. Law enforcement sources tell the l. A. Times that authorities found a note next to the shooter in which he expressed, quote, his disappointment with the government. Nbc news reporting that the shooter sent a suicidal text to his family before entering the airport where he apparently started shooting. Again, though, the shooter is alive in Critical Condition and in custody. L. A. X. Is a mess in terms of Flight Cancellations and delays and thousands of passengers gett
Right now on Andrea Mitchell reports president obamas personal remarks about Trayvon Martin reverberating across the country this weekend as thousands rallied in more are than 100 cities. But are the divisions greater than ever . Joe scarborough spoke out today about what he calls the callus commentary. Come on whatever excuse there is to say this young black man had it coming to him, that is the defense. Because there is no defense for shooting down a young black man in a middle class neighborhood with skittles. Armed with skittles. This entire spectacle is depressing. The vultures are going to continue to circle around this young teenagers body. Make no mistake of it, they are. And they continue to try a young man and try to destroy his reputation for doing nothing more than walking through a neighborhood. A week after the verdict, will the 20 states withstand your ground laws take another look at the selfdefense statutes . A call this weekend from john mccain to review those laws, i