just one tablet an hour from manchester to london today instead of the usual three as an ava nti avanti workers ava nti workers refuse avanti workers refuse to work extra shifts. boiling over at the bridge. how it was the managers who were sent off in yesterday s fiery london derby between chelsea and tottenham in what proved a gripping encounter. coming to the end of the heatwave, through the week, temperatures will return to close to where they should be at the time of year and we are looking at some thunderstorms developing almost anywhere which could be torrential. it s monday the 15th of august. our main story. it s exactly a year since the taliban seized power in afghanistan, ending 20 years of us led military intervention. a turbulent 12 months in the country has seen an economic crisis and a huge reduction of women s rights, with girls largely banned from secondary schools. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet has been to see how the afghan people have ad
of you from msnbc roe headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we are beginning with this breaking news. hundreds on capitol hill as the federal government heads towards a, potential, shut down in just 12 hours. soon the house will vote on speaker kevin mccarthy s new plan to keep government open. we see those votes being cast, in fact, as we speak. however, mccarthy is leaning on democrats to support it admitting that there is no guarantee that his own caucus would do it. the house is going to actually government will not shut down. we will put a clean funding stopgap on the florida keep government open for 45 days did you get any assurances from any of the republicans about this? no, i have tried. well, a senate vote is also expected to get underway in the next hour. the impact of a potential shutdown will be felt foreign right across nonessential federal agcies. for almost 4 million employees and military, it would mean working withou
just in, the first guilty plea in the trump election interference case in georgia. a surprise arrest in the murder of rapper tupac shakur. why now after 30 years? the uaw expanding its strike against ford and gm as talks stall. fight over electric cars. and harry smith on whether a new grocery store could help feed one american town and heal old wounds. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and welcome. as we come on the air, a nightmare commute home is underway here in the nation s biggest metropolitan area virtually paralyzed today by flooding rains. new york city under a state of emergency tonight with 23 million people under flood watches across new york, new jersey, and connecticut. new york s governor saying this is not an ordinary rainfall calling it historic. numerous cars have been stranded on flooded urban streets and roads. some drivers in need of rescue. subways and suburban rail trains stopped after water flooded tracks and
years as a young adult in california, there were two female senators, senators dianne feinstein and barbara boxer, both elected in 1992 during the so-called year of the woman. i was 9 years old when that happened, too young to grasp what was going on, and not entirely aware of anita hill saga that prompted it so to me it was norm toll look to have washington and see two women representing my state. completely normal to see one of those women led by bipartisan or to see her lead the intelligence committee or see her held to account for egregious wrong doing after 9/11 or see her stand up to the chief to get an apology out of it. it was norm toll watch dianne feinstein work in washington, and i know you see this coming, but looking back at the unremarkability is precisely what makes it so remarkable. wasn t until i came an adult covering politics that i understood how hard she had to fight, sometimes against wings of her own party. today the flags around the capitol are flyin
but today a powerful moment of unity and silence. [ no audio ] dianne feinstein, the longest serving woman in the senate and a champion nor gun control and gender rights dies at the age of 90. the emotional tributes bridge a divided washington. the tension and the impact as any hope of averting a government shutdown is looking bleaker by the hour amid republican infighting. a key vote failing in the house today. and breaking in new york the state of emergency as torrential rains trigger flash floods, roadways and subways inundated. it is a nightmare for commuters. and the breaking news for michigan the uaw president called for an additional 7,000 autoworkers to go on strike. or nbc news reporters are following all the latest developments and we begin in washington with rare displace of raw emotion after the death of legendary senator dianne feinstein. ryan nobles is following this for us. what are you hearing today, ryan? reporter: well, chris, you were right, you d