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welcome to our viewers this thursday morning. i m christine romans. donald trump giving us a review of what his 2024 campaign will look like and sound like. the 45th president and republican frontrunner for the white house taking questions last night from gop primary voters at a town hall. trump wasted little time in airing his same old grieveness as. he repeated a core lie to kaitlan collins that he won the 2020 election. polls show that you were dominating the republican race but also under active federal investigation for trying to overturn the 2020 election results. your first term ended with a deadly riot at the capitol and you still have not publicly acknowledged the 2020 election results. why should americans put you back in the white house? because we did fantastically. we got 12 million more votes than we had as you know in 2016. i actually say that we did far better in that election. got the most that anybody has ever gotten as a sitting president of the united
trapped. alarming new findings about climate change. a new report says the melting of glaciers is off the charts can anything be done is the future of food grown in a lab? it s better for the climate, but what does it taste like? and back in the groove. with record sales rising, why so many are turning to turntables this weekend. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone facing an 11:59 p.m. eastern time deadline of its own choosing and a day of high drama, the u.s supreme court has just weighed in on another pivotal and consequential question in the nation s divide over abortion. the justices tonight deciding what s next for a texas court ruling that said the fda s 23-year-old approval of a commonly used abortion drug is no longer valid, a ruling temporarily paused from taking effect up until now. that has had the potential to impact medical abortions even in states where abortion remains legal. senior legal correspondent laura j
temporarily blocked a lowe court ruling that would have restricted the availability of mifepristone, one of two drugs used to induce a medicatio abortion, which is the mos common method of abortion in the united states. that means at least for th time being, mifepristone wil remain legal, and will be made available, according to curren fda regulations, where abortio is still legal it could be sent and receive through the mail, prescribed t patients by medica professionals over telehealt consultations, and can be used up to the tenth week o pregnancy. this is the first time that th supreme court has weighed in o the issue of abortion since th conservative majority decide to overturn roe v. wade less than a year ago. as is typical when the supreme court makes a ruling on an emergency appeal, the majority did not provide an opinion t explain that ruling. not to be know exactly how eac justice voted, except fo justices samuel alito an clarence thomas, spoke of whom noted in the o
steps? we ll break it down. the severe storm even a waterspout in florida. millions at risk heading into the weekend. charges against alec baldwin officially dropped and new details about the sgng that killed the rust cinematographer as production resumes. the new images from inside the film s montana set. an american killed in sudan as fighting rages on. plus, the latest from u.s. officials on other americans trapped. alarming new findings about climate change and a new report says the melting of glaciers is off the charts. can anything be done? the future of food grown in a lab? it s better for the climate, but what does it taste like? back in the groove with record sales rising, why so many are turning to turntables this weekend. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone. facing an 11:59 eastern time deadline, the supreme court weighed in on another pivotal and consequential decision in the nation s divide. deciding