problems? good luck. we are going to get back. we will get swag and use it for travel. fanti s office caught using public money as a piggy bank. this summer is the hottest on record. 2023 is said to be the warmest record on year with the hottest year on record. climate scientists literally caught cooking the books. plus, one of the oldest tails in greek mythology, the story of pandora. zeus was angry and ordered the creation of pandora to use as a weapon. historians described her as evil , hidden in beauty. pandora was beautiful, but inside she was artificial. a lifelike android sent to earth to punish humans for discovering fire. humans would be punished with zeus wrath for their dangerous discoveries. the idea of a beautiful cyborg coming from another universe to punish humanity has been engraved in the various cultures throughout the world. from ancient allegories to sci-fi books to the big screen. stop. ava, i said stop! but what if the digital revolution
was with the agency for more than a decade has just been indicted in connection with his actions on january 6th. the accusation that his comments encouraged rioters to kill the police. that s next. plus, exclusive new footage of the moment in davenport, iowa, the building suddenly collapsing. what we now know about the three people officials say are likely still trapped in the rubble. also, off the ledge, with the u.s. no longer on the brink of an historic collapse, president biden and washington are breathing a whole lot easier today. we ll hear from the president in just a few hours as he prepares to sign the debt ceiling bill into law. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments and we begin right here in washington just five hours away from president biden s speech with nbc news white house correspondent monica alba. monica, what s the goal tonight? reporter: i think for the president, chris, it s really to convey the severity of this issue,
the latest on the district s new security measures just ahead. plus, bracing for blackouts, a brutal heat wave blankets parts of the nation. people are cranking up their ac units, and it could be more than the power grid can handle. and we obtained surveillance video that shows a georgia election official escorting two trump operatives into an election office the same day the voting system was breached. let s begin in memphis. el eliza fletcher s body has now been recovered. gary, what are officials saying this hour? reporter: well, the accused kidnapper of eliza fletcher is now the accused murder of eliza fletcher. we were told this morning that a body that was recovered yesterday late in the afternoon behind a vacant duplex is indeed the body of the 34-year-old mother of two, wife, and schoolteacher. already before this happened, before the confirmation, a hearing was going to be held in the courtroom 13 here in the shelby county courthouse. an arraignment on the
firefighters struggle in the heatwave to tackle flames in greece, spain and italy. the former chancellor, rishi sunak, and foreign secretary, liz truss, will go head to head in the race to become the next british prime minister. and we talk to shanghai s blind masseures, struggling to cope in a post covid world. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news. joe biden used a visit to massachusetts to issue the latest stark warning on the threat posed by climate change. the us president is using executive powers to usher in measures including offshore windfarms and expanded flood control. with a heat dome now affecting 28 states, the us is the latest country to swelter with high temperatures. wildfires are still raging in europe in countries like spain, italy and greece. in france s southwest, president macron has been to see the devastation caused by a wildfire that forced almost 40,000 people from their homes. 0ur correspondent lucy w
using former top gun pilots to train the next generation. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone, this is what scientists have been telling us the future looks like, except it is now temperatures far above what was once considered the summer norm, inflicting misery and creating a health danger for millions living under record heat from california to western europe as well as parts of asia and africa in this country, the torrid conditions setting more new records. dallas hitting 109, as did oklahoma city. dodge city, kansas, setting a new record at 107 across the pond, the usually temperate uk hitting an all-time record high, 104 degrees, bending and breaking train rails that s how hot it was. fires near london prompting a tweet from the mayor, warning fire units are under immense pressure, please be safe our team in place at home and abroad to cover it all first, sam brock from dallas reporter: canvassing the country tonight, an