tornado, flipping a car in south carolina. our team across the storm zone, and al roker with the new track. also tonight, another alarming moment for mitch mcconnell. the senate gop leader appearing to freeze on camera for more than 30 seconds aides coming to his side it comes just weeks after a similar episode on capitol hill what his team says happened and rudy giuliani found liable for defaming two georgia election workers with false claims of ballot tampering. how those workers, a mother and daughter, are reacting announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome. almost 12 hours since it slammed ashore along florida s big bend region as a major hurricane, idalia is tonight a tropical storm, but forecasters warn still a dangerous force to reckon with as it works its way across southeastern georgia tracking up the carolina coast this morning, the fast-moving storm came ashore in florida with wind gusts of over 80 miles per hour, so po
our correspondents reporting live on the ground as it made landfall. catastrophic storm surge up to nine feet. widespread flooding, homes and roads underwater. the storm blamed for at least two deaths and forcing dozens of water rescues. hundreds of thousands without power tonight. one family at home with their baby when trees came crashing in. how they survived. we asked florida governor ron desantis what does he say to those now stranded? tonight, idalia now a tropical storm moving up the southeast spawning a possible tornado, flipping a car in south carolina. our team across the storm zone, and al roker with the new track. also tonight, another alarming moment for mitch mcconnell. the senate gop leader appearing to freeze on camera for more than 30 seconds. aides coming to his side. it comes just weeks after a similar episode on capitol hill. what his team says happened. and rudy giuliani found liable for defaming two georgia election workers with false claims of bal
trial will begin. special counsel smith wants january 2nd. less than six weeks before the iowa caucuses. trump questioned april 20, 2026. in georgia willis is focusing on mark meadows and his push to have the charges moved to federal court so he can assert immunity. but first. victor shokin says you accepted bribes. is that true? are you okay with your son accepting millions of dollars from russia, china and ukraine? dana: president biden ignored the questions. a new series of explosive allegations could be harder to deflect. i m dana perino. bill is off today and i have a fun partner today. good morning to you. great to kick off the week with you. i m sandra smith and this is america s newsroom. victor shokin is putting president biden and his son on blast. he says they accepted bribes and he was fired for investigating burisma, the ukrainian gas company where hunter was a board member. i do not want to deal in unproven facts. but my own personal conviction is that
and atlantic. plus, nearly 140 million americans face the excessive heat. here are tonight s headlines. the cleanup tonight after water fills the streets of southern california, causing roads to collapse. some cities getting a year of rain in just one day. there is not a whole lot you can do to stop the water. president biden visits maui, meeting with survivors as 850 people are still missing. structures that are burned have been burned completely. former president trump and 18 others also have a four days to surrender out of court in georgia after being indicted in the state last week. go, go! we are in ukraine. after a russian missile kills seven including a 6-year-old girl. our cbs news crew narrowly missing the blast. minutes before we arrived, it was hit by a massive explosion. we have been told a second round of assaults is on the way. we need to get out of here as fast as we can. a memorial is growing outside a store in california wh
and all around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom , reaction to donald trump s latest arrest and release mug shot as the former president is already fundraising off it. a look at whether this can help plolitically. plus no end in sight when it comes to the heat. we ll have a look at what parts of the u.s. will have to endure the sweltering temperatures a bit longer. and andy scholes joins me live to discuss simone biles comeback the at the u.s. championships. fresh off his arrest in georgia, donald trump is looking to delay the state s election subversion case, but two of his codefendants are pushing for a speedy trial. zid nee powell is the latest to make such a request. their trials could start as early as october and that isn t clear how it could exact that for trump. in a friday court filing, she served as a fake elector at the direction of the president of the united states. she s the latest to try to get their case moved to federal court. now tha