one days since the start of the pandemic. dr. fauci says you can enjoy a traditional thanksgiving as long as you take steps to keep your family and friends safe. how good does it feel to have all those people there? reporter: it s an emotional experience to be out here, not only for me, but for the people out here as well. just everybody in an incredibly good mood. people here taking in the parade. happy thanksgiving to you all. we have 15 balloon, many of them new. this is reasonable mcdonald, the fifth iteration, but the first time this particular balloon has made the parade. they have had 28 floats, thousands of people helping to get the balloon down the street. it is a perfect new york fall day today, and the balloon are as high as i have seen them in the many years i have covered this thing. it is great to see everybody out here, and amazing to you how it s all kicking off. interestingly enough, the people who have gotten the biggest applause as they ve been going do
uncertain future of the line 5 pipeline indian.of this critical infrastructure immune america s energy needs. we are following the impact of inflation on your wallet as the president was down on the need to spend trillions more of your taxpayer dollars and it turns out the democrats social spending plan would include a massive tax cut for the wealthy. todd: police in kenosha are bracing for unrest in their streets as the kyle rittenhouse trial cross to a close. reporter: kyle rittenhouse s defense team and prosecutors will be back in court today at closing argument on monday to go over jury instructions was a witness said joseph rosenbaum was part of last year s chaos during the protests in kenosha claiming he tried to push burning dumpsters into occupied police cars and became confrontational was once again the judge coming down on the prosecutor this time regarding his questions directed to the witness. is real america s voice have political bias or agenda or anything lik
impossible to separate donald trump s political fate from his legal one. trump today not knowing a victory lap over his major win in iowa, but spending the past several hours in a new york city courtroom. though he isn t required to be there at all. he isn t planning who hold a campaign rally in new hampshire until later tonight. why, you might ask? well, an nbc news entrance poll from iowa may provide a big clue. nearly two-thirds of republicans said he would still be fit to serve another term as president even if he s convicted of a crime. just 31% said it would make him unfit. so, the former president has been leaning into his court battles instead of shying away. using them as a platform, including a fund-raising platform. and as a political opportunity to show his supporters he s not afraid to fight. and that brings us to right now. the new trial involving e. jean carroll, the woman who trump was found civilly responsible of sexually abusing more than two decades ago. to
sky for tracking china suspected surveillance balloon as its sales across the united states. the pentagon says another balloon is making its way across latin america. the latest reaction from the white house and why the military hasn t shot it down plus cooperate or face more charges the manhattan da s office reported ultimatum to jail trump organization cfo allen weisselberg can prosecutors flip the longtime exec against his former boss later, ron desantis this week making his priorities crystal clear his government working to make access to guns easier, while making access to some books harder. we ll dive into his latest controversial proposals all of that more, that is coming up. a good hopefully warm saturday morning to you, i m kati phang thanks for starting your weekend with us. right now there s a balloon that the united states military says it is for chinese surveillance and it s still in the air over the united states four days after it was first spotted. so just how
we start this hour with a special report from ukraine, from the southern port of kherson, which is under increased bombardment from russian forces, and where today the maternity ward of a hospital was among the places being shelled. kherson is often called the gateway to crimea and because of its strategic importance, was one of the first places taken by russian forces at the start of the war. it was liberated last month, in a significant gain for ukrainian troops. but civilians are now living with a daily onslaught of russian shelling. our correspondent yogita limaye has spent the last four days in kherson, with colleagues imogen anderson, sanjay ganguly and mariana matveichuk, and they sent this special report. a warning, it contains distressing images. kherson is being pounded. this where one of more than a0 mortars fell in a single day. a city haunted by relentless attacks. another shell hit near by between a block of homes. as the firemen worked, we heard the sound of