Through southern california. Dozens of homes, even a Ski Resort destroyed as the flames forced thousands to evacuate. And francines fury, the storm swamping the gulf coast, flooding roads, forcing rescues, and the threat is not over for 14 Million people in its path. Our Nbc News reporters are following the latest developments. We begin with nbcs Mike Memoli in charlotte, north carolina, where the Vice President will kick off this new phase of her campaign. What are we expecting there, mike . Reporter well, chris, charlotte is a nascar town. And the way the campaign describes it she has been Revving Up for the past weeks, now she has to shift into gear. She had to choose a running mate, introduce themselves before the convention, and we know how much she prepared for the debate on tuesday. Now, because they view the debate as a huge success, they want to double down on the message she brought to the debate stage, talking about the need to change the pace, not look back to the trump adm
elections official in philadelphia and who was certainly the focus of some of the efforts by people associated with the former president trying to focus on this idea that there was fraud in center city philadelphia. commissioner schmidt, we had him on the show a lot. exactly. now he has been appointed. he s the secretary of the commonwealth now. in the case of maggie oliver, she was questioned in right weeks. th they re getting asked about the effects of the fraud claims and the threats they received, election officials all over the seven states that were the focus of some of the efforts by the former president and his allies, not only to claim fraud, but also to set aside the valid election results and try to replace them with donald trump essentially even though he had lost them. interestingly, even though this did seem to happen in all of these different battleground states, it s only georgia that there s a local investigation, in fulton county which contains part of
dismantling every system in place to address this with humanity and compassion. and new warnings from health officials as more states look to ease covid restrictions. this morning, dr. anthony fauci is saying, not so fast. even though the decline was steep, we absolutely need to avoid the urge to say, oh, everything is going great, which it is going in the right direction, but once you declare victory, that metaphor that people say, if you re going for a touchdown, don t spike the ball on the five-yard lane, wait until you get into the end zone. it all comes as u.s. vaccine efforts are picking up steam. yesterday the weekly average was brought to 2.5 million vaccines per day. joining me right now is white house principal deputy press secretary, karine jean-pierre, which is the most beautiful name in the world, we ll take it from there. the president is hitting the road to promote the details of the american rescue plan. does he feel he need to sell this more than he d
A recap of the days headlines and a look at whats in store for tomorrow. And others are not. The latest higher for the New York Times Editorial Board comes with impressive credentials, articles in the atlantic, Washington Post and the times magazine but also baggage of inflammatory and racist twitter posts which had a fierce backlash on conservative websites. Between 20132015, that white men are worse than goblins and bs, marking up the internet with their opinions like Dogs Blanking on fire hydrants. How much joy i get out of being cool to old white men. I do you to get on wikipedia and play things white people can take credit for, really hard. The times said in a statement her journalism and the fact she is a young asian woman made her a subject of frequent online harassment. For appear go of time she responded that harassment by imitating the rhetoric of her harassers. She sees this approach only
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different than what some of these bureaucrats and three-star germs think about it. reporter: four democrats voted for it, and four republicans voted against the bill that passed on the narrowest of margins. the speaker attacking democrats. so what they re doing is they re turning their backs on the military. that s wrong. reporter: even some republicans who backed the bill expressed frustration. if we want to show america that we can come together and that we care about women, we ve got to stop being ass holes to women. i think it s a missed opportunity. but par for the course given the national politics. reporter: democrats expect the senate the strip out the controversial provisions, but that would mean mccarthy would have to compromise on a final deal. something that risks angering the far right house freedom caucus which has in the past paralyzed the house and could call for a vote seeking mccarthy s ouster. the freedom caucus is not known for losing gracefully. rep