Reelection. And from new coke to diet coke plus. It s had its fair share of soda fails. Now comes another change. The question, whether coke fans will drink it up. It s way too early for this. Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that remembers joe biden pretty well who ran basically to the right of bernie sanders. I m kasie hunt on this thursday, july 15th. We ll start with the national news. The democrats worked to pass another spending proposal. He s pushing for a blueprint. Nbc news chief white house correspondent peter alexander has more. Reporter: president biden back on capitol hill urging senate democrats to unite around a massive $3. 5 trillion spending proposal. We are getting this done. We re getting this done. Reporter: focusing on social programs and climate change, democrats planning to go it alone on this package. That means they can t afford to lose a singerle vote. Progressives like bernie sanders who wanted even more new spending sounded satisfied. This
[the star-spangled banner] [the star-spangled banner] rachel: we go straight to a fox weather alert, four dead and dozens injured as we head into another weekend of severe weather. pete: tornadoes flattening homes, scattering tons of debris. will: 90 million americans are under severe storm warning with the possibility of more twisters. max gordon is live in little rock, arkansas, with the latest. max:scenes of destruction in little rock, arkansas after tornadoes struck yesterday afternoon. three people are dead. the governor has declared a state of emergency. the tornado in little rock struck at 2:30 in the afternoon as the twister tore through the city. the national weather service in little rock had to trade duties in the memphis office as the meteorologist took shelter. homes and businesses were ripped apart by the tornado. in the wake of the destruction emergency crews went into search and rescue mode. residents were told to stay away from the area damaged by the tor
unsealed and what will happen when mr. trump arrives in a new york city courtroom. just released, the names of the nine soldiers killed in the nightmare training crash of those two army black hawk helicopters. our inside look at a remarkable new treatment helping people regain their sense of smell and taste lost for years due to long covid. and the cinderella teams making it all the way to the final four announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening as we come on the air tonight, we are tracking those violent and damaging storms on the move in the south central part of the country right now including early concerns of mass casualties and tornado destruction in the little rock area the mayor there asking for the national guard to assist. tonight, severe weather alerts including tornado watches are in effect in several southern and midwest states larger cities potentially in the path tonight include memphis, st. louis, and des moines earlier the
caught on camera, and hospitals prepare for injuries. cars thrown and heavy damage to homes. the national guard called in. tens of millions at risk, the dangerous tornado emergency from the midwest to the mississippi valley. we re tracking it with our team in the storm zone. also tonight, new details about the historic indictment of former president trump. sources telling nbc news it contains around 30 counts of document-related fraud for his alleged role in a hush money payment to an adult film star. mr. trump calling the democratic d.a. s move a political persecution. what we re learning about when the indictment will be unsealed and what will happen when mr. trump arrives in a new york city courtroom. just released, the names of the nine soldiers killed in the nightmare traini crash of those two army black hawk helicopters. our inside look at a remarkable new treatment. helping peopeg their sense of smell and taste lost for years due to long covid. and the cinderel
canada and all around the world. i m kim bruun hoover. we begin with breaking news with what some call a once in a half century extreme weather happening right now in florida as we speak up to 20 inches of rain has fallen in parts of south florida in the past few hours with more in the forecast. well, that led to a flash flood emergency, the highest possible level of flood warning. so what you see here is the ford lauderdale hollywood international airport, which is partly underwater and closed until at least noon on thursday , the city of fort lauderdale has activated its emergency operations center and plans to issue a local state of emergency. officials also say airboats and high water vehicles will join rescue operations in the coming hours. for the latest, we go to meteorologist separately, ritz here in atlanta, who s keeping an eye on all of this? obviously relief folks in florida used to storms , but you know what we re seeing now so unusual. take us through what they