Good morning, everyone. So glad youre with us. It is a tuesday, full of news. Victor blackwell by my side. Good morning. Good to be back. Good to have you. Here all week. Five things to know for this tuesday, august 8th. New this morning, the east coast cleaning up after deadly storms, trees are down, roads are blocked. Hundreds of thousands of people without power. Already more than 300 flights cancelled. Happening today, the police chief in montgomery, alabama, is expected to reveal more information about that brawl that broke out on the citys river front. It started after a black dock worker was attacked by a group of white people. So far no arrests. But four warrants have been issued. Right now, Los Angeles City workers are on a 24hour strike. 11,000 workers including Sanitation Workers, engineers, life guards, all headed for the picket lines. They say its a fight for fair contracts. This hour, polls open in ohio as Voters Decide whether to make it harder to amend their state const
Now. I am writing myself a note. Its worth just put the 20 bucks in. Buy lottery ticket. Its tonight, right . Yeah. To do. I will do that. Maybe ill see you back here tomorrow morning. Would you come back if you won . Yes. Oh, okay. You not . No. A billion and a half dollars . Yes, i would. I like what i do. I like it too. But not when im a billionaire. I hear you, my friend, victor. Lets get to the powerful storms ripping across the east coast. Theyve been deadly. We know this morning at least two people have died, Hundreds Of Thousands of people, though, waking up to Power Outages this morning. Oh my god. That is a tree snapped in half in north carolina. While indiana residents are digging out after a tornado touched down there. Maryland state police say 47 people were rescued after being trapped in their vehicles for hours. Look at this. This is the people who were trapped between these power lines. Today already nearly 900 flights have been delayed. More than 300 cancelled. Here is
andrea mitchell is on assignment traveling with secretary blinken. right now, countdown to the caucuses. just one week today as the republican candidates for president make their final push in iowa. meanwhile, president biden is on the trail in south carolina where he ll be speaking at mother emanuel church, the scene of the horrific hate crime in 2015. his message today, the hate that fueled the killing of nine worshippers still rages. at the pentagon, demand for answers grows after lloyd austin failed to tell the white house for days that he had been admitted to the icu. and a critical piece of the alaskan airlines flight has been found as it blasted off the plane mid flight, taking passengers belongings with it. we begin this very busy hour with the race for the white house. we are now just seven days away from the very first primary contest of this high stakes election year. the republican iowa caucuses. while there is still time, so far, it s shaping up to be a 2020
the removal of from fox news, days after the company settled with dominion voting systems with more than three quarters of a billion dollars. that case gone to trial, carlson, likely, would ve been gone to testify about how the 2020 election lies were spread on scene. where at odds with what he was saying. offscreen carlson texted other staffers, that he passionately, hated former president, donald trump and that is ten years in the white house was a quote, disaster. he also used misogynists terms for sidney paul and rejected her conspiracies about the 2020 election, even though the false claims got repeated on news. his text messages, after the election, released by dominion attorney, also showed him disparaging fox leadership. whether his southern departure connected to the dominion, case or other lawsuits facing, fox or other reasons as a topic. we ll get into an intimate. fox said that it and carlson have agreed to part, ways and we re thankful for a surface, and said h
the window and goes! one of the all-time great lebron performances. 22 points, 20 rebounds and 7 assists. miami has won it and goes up three games to one! jimmy butler with the fourth most individual points in playoff game history. you denied it before. playoff jimmy, are you ready to it s not a thing. it s not. i just be hooping. good morning, everyone. especially to jimmy butler, unreal performance by him. i just couldn t even bereave that. but also that is not the breaking news this morning. we do have real breaking news this morning. as president biden is officially announcing he is running for re-election. the president launched his campaign with a video that took aim at republicans over abortion, social security and culture wars. around the country maga extremists are lining up to take on those bedrock freedoms. cutting social security that you paid for your entire life while cutting taxes from the very wealthy. dictating what healthcare decisions women ca