around 5:30 pm last night in a washington crossing area when emergency personnel arrived at the scene, finding several vehicles in high water and see bodies of two women in the man found outside of their cars. and this, morning officials confirmed two more people have died. i can say as a witness to that in my 44 years of not seen with approximately six up to seven inches of rain. when they wander came up, you came a very swiftly. we do not think that anybody drove into it, they were actively on that roe. the road was approximately 45 feet of water over the road. nbc s kathy parks will bring us live there on the flooding in just minutes. in the, meantime our crews are definitely on the scene. so we will have that for you very shortly. pennsylvania is one of the places under the northeast under flood alerts today, and we re giving you a look at hartford, connecticut as well as boston. those are just two cities that are also under tornado watch right now. nbc news meteoro
with a savvy funded liv golf. a new phase of sports watching has begun, the question is, what comes next? if you can t be, to delay it. that pretty much sums up donald trump s legal strategy right now. this week the former president and his lawyers asked a federal judge to indefinitely postpone his trial over his mishandling of classified information. in their filing they have the gall to argue that the case presents a serious challenge to both the facts and perception of our american democracy. american democracy, and they say that any trial during the presidential election will impact the outcome. now all of this is pretty ironic considering the defendant here is under investigation for trying to literally overthrow a democratic election but you have to be a lawyer to see through their argument. if the trial is delayed until after the election and trump wins, he could try to use the presidency as a shield from justice. either by directing his own attorney general to dismi
And we believe there are two people inside the car, the driver is a man according to reports on the scene and we ll go live to the scene as soon as something develops, you have to wonder, a stranded car and s.w.a.t. teams on the scene? live in america s newsroom. and back in d.c., less than half-hour away from what promises to be an interesting moment, on capitol hill this morning, the congressional back black caucus will speak to president obama about the agreement, about president s agreement, i should say with republicans, on the tax cuts and that has a lot of people fired up and may put the congressional black caucus at odds with this president. and, that is how we start a new hour of america s newsroom. welcome, we are so glad to have you with us on this friday morning in december, i m martha maccallum. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning, good morning, martha. friday indeed, and vice president joe biden, meanwhile, trying to make nice on the hill, meeting twice with leading