attacked him with a hammer, inside their san francisco home. when officers arrived early friday morning, police say the intruder told them he was quote, waiting for nancy. the law enforcement is working to piece together a motive for this attack. also, in early stages of investigating whether certain online accounts followed the suspect. nbc news reports the suspect quote, appeared to operate a website in which he repeated a wide variety of posts, and almost all manner of modern conspiracist thinking. aliens, two people, communist, voter fraud, many other topics. so here we are once again, processing another act of political violence in this country. we still do not know an exact motive, we do know the power of lies and how they spread among political discourse. no further than the january 6th attack, to the u.s. capitol. that threat to our democracy remains clear and present. joining me now from san francisco for the latest on that attack, nbc news scott claude. scott, where
Young activists. For now i am yasmin use egan. I will be back next sunday at 2 pm eastern. , simone some bright bombt pm eastern , si greetings. You are watching symone. With just 16 days before election day the poll also shows a staggering level of polarization and even angle that is fueling look at this mean for both parties, especially in some of the tightest races . We are going beyond the beltway today. Two congressional candidates are joining me to discuss the final stretch of their races, an election where every seat counts and the Balance Of Power in the future of democracy. Plus, legal battles over the election and your Voting Rights. And early voting options like mailin ballots, all in the face of coordinated efforts to suppress them. And later, my Culture Critics are what she calls her story of 13 about her music video not to her Eating Disorder why they are talking about it i am symone and i have something to say. We are just 16 days away from the 2022 midterms. More than 7
seeing as the day concludes what is happening there on the ground. amen, authorities have been working on restoring the power, something that we have been discussing. we are learning more and more about the stories of those that survived. it is really interesting when we talk to some of those individuals who were here during the storm, some people might ask, why didn t they evacuate? the governor today talked about that. initially, over the weekend, before the hurricane hit, the projections had shown that the hurricane would go north into the tampa area. and it is crazy to think that some people, the governor said evacuated tampa, and came into this area because initially they didn t think the storm was going to come here. so some people might be thinking, why a lot of the residents stayed here during the storm, of course it slowly made its way here. we are just learning these stories. we have been working in this area right at the entrance of fort myers beach. there is a s
in ukraine, another new round of missile strikes as russian officials celebrate what they say is a new phase of the war, one that apparently focuses on killing civilians instead of soldiers. so what is this new phase? what does it mean for what s ahead? i ll ask barry mccaffrey in just a minute. and we have now learned that among the women accusing disgraced producer harvey weinstein at his trial in california is the governor s wife. we ll have the latest from the courtroom. but we start with the midterm races and growing alarm that decision makers may be letting winnable races slip away. that includes races in wisconsin, north carolina, pennsylvania, across the board, democratic candidates have spent way more on their own ads than the party ha has. while on the republican side, the bulk of the spending has come from the national party and outside groups. case in point, ohio, where jd vance has come up with just 10% of the cost of his ads compared to more than 80% for d
update on the aftermath of hurricane in, even in this early stage, experts believe ian will be one of the costly storms to ever hit the u.s. and potentially the deadliest. the death toll now stands at 77, 73 in florida, four in north carolina, more than 1. 2 million households still without power in florida, making rescue efforts that much more complicated. nbc s guad venegas is on the ground for us in fort myers, one of the hardest hit areas on the west coast of florida. guad, you have been there for a while. what are we seeing as we go 48 hours after this deadly hurricane made landfall? ayman, a lot of moving parts here. the governor speaking about the efforts to fix the power grid here. they want to make sure that people have power, but there is also the search and rescue missions taking place in fort by his beach and other islands. they re asking people and those areas, of fort myers beach pacific lee, not to evacuate. they were allowing some of them to go back. it s be