debate with donald trump. the calls for president biden to step aside growing louder. the emotional drama behind the scenes. the biden family zoom calls. and after his decision, the president immediately endorsing vice president kamala harris. tonight harris says it is her intention to earn and win this nomination. will the party rally behind her? the key endorsements already coming in tonight. donald trump and his campaign already pivoting to target vice president harris. the democratic national convention just 29 days away. 107 days until the general election. a special edition of world news tonight begins now. reporter: from abc new, this is a special edition of world news tonight with david muir. good evening and great to have you with us on this sunday night. a political earthquake in the race for president. we begin with president biden s historic announcement to drop out of the race. writer a letter to my fellow americans and posting it on social media. saying
rally site just hours before? protests outside the white house. democrats calling for president biden to drop out of the race. new reporting on what the clintons are advising him to do. the cyber outage chaos not over yet. more than 8,000 flights canceled or delayed today. surgeries postponed. when will it all be back on track? new allegations that israel is targeting health care workers in gaza. what our investigation reveals. terrifying new video. a suspect firing on police with a machine gun. [ gunfire ] how they caught him. the record-breaking hole in one today. you won t believe how long it is. and my sit-down with the living legend, santana, on how she changed music forever. it always for me is about energy and frequency. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening. moments ago former president trump and senator j.d. vance took the stage at a campaign rally together for the first time as running mates. that by itself is
place. should the president choose to bow out, with the pressure building among his party. now, recent ap polling finds that 65% of democrats do not believe the president should withdraw, undermining his assistance that only party elites and insiders are the ones that want him out. the official word from the campaign is there is no update to report. here s what the president s campaign manager had to say today on morning joe. we know that we ve slipped a bit from the debate, and we know that the president has to prove to the american people exactly what he believe, that he s in this to win this. he can do this. the mounting pressure from democratic lawmakers is showing no signs of subsiding as new mexico senator martin heinrich and nine more house democrats joined the public call for biden to step aside today. nbc news has just learned at this hour, as we speak, vice president harris is going to be holding a call with major democratic donors to address urgent, emerging
covid. tonight, reports he is now more receptive to discussions about whether he should stay in the race. and tonight here, we remember a comedy legend bob newhart. first tonight, president biden and the future of his campaign. covid forcing him off the campaign trail and into isolation at his home in rehoboth, delaware. following pressure from key allies to step aside, including chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, influential donor george clooney. and tonight, abc news now obtaining a four-page letter from congressman jamie raskin to the president, comparing biden to a star pitcher. what he tells the president. and if the president were to step aside, would it be kamala harris or could it be someone else at the top of the ticket? tonight, some of the other names that have made news. what mary bruce and jon karl have learned. tonight, five days after an attempted assassination that nearly took his life, donald trump will accept the nomination here in milwaukee for the thi
most complex tornados we ve ever seen in cinemas. just to be able to do that and make this film completely new to today, that was exciting. that was excellent. watching it is going to be like ride ago scary roller coaster. twisters will be in theaters nationwide starting tomorrow, co-stars, glen powell, daisy l edgar-jones, thank you all very much for coming on the show this morning. we appreciate it. that does it for us this morning, we ll see you tomorrow 6:00 a.m. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. right now on ana cabrera reports, a tale of two presidents, president biden now sidelined from campaigning by covid facing pressure from the highest ranks of his party to reconsider his bid as donald trump is set to address the rnc, after surviving a shooting while his running mate calls on the gop to unite. my message to you my fellow republicans is we love this country, and we are united to win. also ahead, shocking revelations about the hour leading