erie, pennsylvania. but one thing that i did find interesting was that the venue was not entirely full. that s not typical for donald trump s rallies. there were many people there last night, of course, but there were also many empty seats. donald trump took the stage around 6:00 p.m. and he gave a pretty typical 2024 stump speech. he went through his 2024 agenda items. he also went through his highlight reel of his time in office and he also spent a lot of time criticizing president joe biden and one thing that i want to point to is he called on republicans and made an apale to them to do more to investigate democrats and the biden family specifically. he also argued they need to do more with the information that they have already gathered through the committees investigations and said any republican who doesn t go forward with that should be primary. but he spent a time about his own legal trouble.
position, right. mike pence is trying to run on some of the accomplishments of the trump presidency. he will talk about the trump/pence achievements, things likes tax cuts, but trying to distance himself from, you know, january 6th and make clear that he did not look to try to block the certification of president biden s victory as president trump wanted. another new separate from the messaging it that mike pence is trying to straddle, he is just dealing with a crowded republican field and some of the other candidates are appealing to the very voters that he is trying to reach out to. i think in particular evangelical voters is a place he is comfortable with, has had a lot of time with, a lot of support with. senator tim scott is making an appeal there and there is a lot of interest there. so he is just separate even from president trump s nomination of this field among the other candidates there is just other people who are also making some of these plays. and as we look more broa
a tornado touching down yesterday afternoon in palm beach gardens, florida. flipping over cars, uprooting trees and ripping off parts of an apartment building. wind gusts hit 100 miles per hour. florida power and light says at least 7,000 people lost power, many have since had their electricity restored and also luckily state officials have not reported any injuries. the weather down it florida is clearing and you happen we re just hours away from another spacex launch attempt for the powerful falcon heavy rocket. poor weather conditions like that at cape canaveral scrubbed friday s launch and the falcon heavy sent into orbit for the sixth mission, three satellites on board and another type of spacex rocket exploded last week and that s been grounded but this liftoff set for 7:30 tonight eastern time.
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. let s just bring you an update from the us state arkansas. we have been reporting on a tornado that ripped through the state. the governor, sarah huckabee sanders, says at least two people have been killed. at least 2a others have been injured and tens of thousands have lost power. governor sanders has declared a state of emergency. arkansas is close to mississippi, which has just suffered its own tornado disaster. our reporter shelley phelps has more. oh, my god! it s coming our way, y all! ripping away building tops, uprooting trees and flipping over vehicles, the catastrophic tornado started moving through little rock on friday afternoon.
governor has declared a state of emergency in the state. our reporter has the story. oh, my god! it s coming our way, y all! ripping away building tops, uprooting trees and flipping over vehicles, the catastrophic tornado started moving through little rock on friday afternoon. this was the moment a weather presenter spotted it while live on air, giving warnings to locals. here it is and could be a strong tornado, ef2 or stronger. this is exactly what we didn t want to happen today. 0ver reservoir road at this time. 0ver reservoir road. we re gonna keep it here, we re gonna follow it. certainly looks like a tornado. oh, my goodness. siren wails 24 people are in hospital with injuries. debris lies scattered everywhere and more than 90,000 homes are without power. this man told cbs news what he saw. ..and through our window, i saw the there s the transformer back here that kind of blew up, i saw that, the lightning