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trace: over the years the cold war thought and the shelters gathered dust. vladimir putin was quietly coming up with a plan, according to a former intel official who literally wrote the book on putin s destructive plots. sandra: she has been sounding the warning long before president biden said putin s nuclear threats were no joke, and she says there is something the president still does not understand about the russian strong man s mindset. brand-new at 2:00, she is here to tell us about it live. welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two on this friday afternoon. i m sandra smith in new york. great to see you, trace gallagher in for john roberts. we ll get to president biden s nuclear warning ahead, but top the hour with the issue at the top of voter s minds, their money, and it is a fox news alert. sandra: we are watching the dow at this hour, entering its final hours of trading for the day and the week, and the dow is off about 600 points, falling ....
spreading faster than before and celebrating the tough guy actor beloved for his roles on both sides of the law. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening in a summer of extreme temperatures, the worst wildfire of the year is choking the skies of northern california tonight smoke advisories posted in the bay area due to a rampaging wildfire more than 175 miles away near yosemite it s already sent thousands in the path of the fire to seek safer ground the oak fire broke out friday near the park and has destroyed several structures and breaking in texas tonight, grass fires have destroyed at least eight homes in balk springs and forced evacuations there. meantime, back in california crews doing all they can to slow that big blaze before it makes another dangerous run. drought conditions ensuring plentiful fuel for the fire. miguel almaguer is on the front lines for us tonight. reporter: this is what california s wildfire season looks and ....
grand jury investigating the capitol riot. tonight, we learned marc short, chief of staff to former vice president mike pence, has cooperated with the justice department s investigation into the attack. i can confirm that i did receive a subpoena for the federal grand jury, and i comply with that subpoena. that was my only appearance before the grand jury. nbc news reports, short testified on friday. he would be the highest ranking, former trump official, known to have testified before the grand jury. short was by pence s side as the mob overran the capital, and called to the vice president himself to be hanged. short also testified before the jan six committee earlier this year. the wall street journal and new york times reporting, pence s top legal adviser, greg jacob, has also spoken to the grand jury. he was also a witness at the january six hearing back in june. and today, the january six committee is out with new evidence. you remember last week, the panel rel ....
jacking up interest rates, raising bar owing costs. on thursday our first look at u.s. economic growth for the second quarter, another decline in gdp is expected. of course, two quarters of a loss in a row is a sign of a recession, so are we head there had? here is the treasury secretary. the labor market is now extremely strong. we are in a period of transition in which growth is slowly. we re likely to see some slowing of job creation, but i do i don t think that that s a recession. a recession is broad-based weakness in the economy. we re not seeing that now. we re not seeing that now, but here is this from someone who used to have that job, the former treasury secretary larry somers. i think there is a very high likelihood of recession when we ve been in in kind of situation before. recession has essentially always followed when inflation has been high and unemployment has been low. soft landings represent a kind of triumph of hope over experience, i think w ....
should be subpoenaed. the russian foreign ministry has now claimed responsibility for the attack. there is a major sense of urgency around getting that grain exported to the countries most dependent on ukraine s grain exports. it s monday, july 25th. 59 a.m. here in london, 5:00 a.m. in the u.s. west coast. where millions of americans across the country are seeing the impact of the growing climate crisis. a dangerous and scorching heat wave that s already responsible for several deaths. on monday temperatures hit as high as 102 degrees fahrenheit in parts of the northeast, with several cities sweating through their hottest days ever. both boston and philadelphia have extended their heat emergencies after seeing record high temperatures, and across the country close to 50 million people are under heat alerts today, in some areas the blistering heat even led to power outages. sunday new york s electric provider says it was working to restore scattered outages, and ....