americans a break. but tonight, lawmakers, including many democrats with serious reservations. cecilia vega at the white house. tonight, the new images, the moments that passenger plane landed in miami. the landing gear failing. the plane catching on fire and tonight, images from inside the plane. and how old was that plane? sitting in a new mexico desert for years, then brought back into service. gio benitez covers aviation. the dramatic rescue in ukraine. a u.s. nuclear scientist escaping from russian-controlled mariupol, hiding in that city for nearly four months. james longman from ukraine tonight. the devastating earthquake in afghanistan. more than 1,000 people killed. the 5.9 leveling villages. maggie rulli reporting tonight. after the school shooting in uvalde, the schumermarket shooting in buffalo, news tonight on that bipartisan gun safety deal. will there be enough republicans in the senate to get this through? and tonight, republican leaders in the house a
washington, and laguardia. more than 1,000 flights already canceled. the dark clouds already rolling in. here in new york city, obscuring the top of the empire state building there. powerful wind gusts and torrential rain in virginia. more than 100,000 customers already without power tonight. and of course this dangerous second heat wave continuing for millions. so, let s get right to senior meteorologist rob marciano tracking it all for us. hey, rob. reporter: hey, david. virginia hit really hard. richmond reporting a wind measurement of 60-plus miles per hour and these storms are moving north to south, so, they may get hit again. here it is on the radar scope. look at the watches. up through lexington and louisville. and that line crossing into ohio, that means business. the next couple of hours will be dicey. flood watches across new york and pennsylvania. the heat gets squeezed to the south. 101 in nashville, the first time in a decade you ve been that warm. 101 in mobile. these
win a senate seat there? well, it s possible. we re a year and several months ahead of the election. it s impossible to say what the conditions will be in the fall of 2020. but as greg was just suggesting, states evolve politically, partisanly. we have seen it many times. colorado and virginia hit their tipping point into the democratic column in 2008 and neither state has really moved away from the democratic party for very long since. so georgia is one of those states, georgia, texas, arizona. you can maybe add north carolina. there is going to be a year that s a tipping point year. and that s going to be a year when the state votes for the first time in decades for the democratic nominee for president and elects a senator or more. let s remember, though, that the senate seats today tend to go the way of the presidential election even when it s close. that s doubly true for a double
this is just amazing to look at. that tennis ball-sized hail hammering central and eastern pennsylvania. it shattered car windshields, broke windows in buildings all over the town of reading. emergency management officials say there is lots of damage but no serious injuries. my father in lowe says when you see the pock-marked cars, it s like a golf ball, it makes your car more aerodynamic, so he s been driving around with a hail pock-marked car for a few years. he just might be cheap. that may be it, too. doesn t have insurance. virginia hit with hail and torrential rains. tornado warnings later in the day sent people scrambling to find shelter in richmond. a lot of destruction reported throughout the state, trees down, streets and highways flooded, more than 20,000 homes without power. a lot of property damage also reported in upstate new york. thunderstorms packing ferocious winds and hail whipping through albany, schenectady and montgomery counties. many homes in the regio