new york. we have a lot of news to get to on this busy friday morning including a seismic development in the special counsel investigation into former president donald trump. his vice president, mike pence, appearing before the grand jury probing his former boss s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to a source familiar with the matter. this morning, new reaction including this from a member of congress who investigated the capitol attack. i think that the vice president has a lot of information. i have no doubt really that he answered the questions openly, honestly, and fully. plus, russia unleashing on ukraine overnight with the worst strikes in weeks. the death toll still climbing at this hour. we re on the ground in that war-torn country with a live report. and later, extreme weather, the iconic yosemite national park closing over fears a massive snow melt could lead to unprecedented floods. intense flooding also suspected to have caused this train dera
are in pennsylvania, aishah hasnie in georgia and alexis mcadams is following the new york governor s race. first to rich edson live for us in pittsburgh. rich. reporter: good evening, jon. well, i guess western pennsylvania s going to have to be big enough for two former prime ministers. first it was former president obama, now 40 miles away and about an hour from now you re going to get former president trump. he will be campaigning in latrobe, pennsylvania, for a number of republican candidates including dr. mehmet oz who s running for senate and doug mastriano who s running for governor here. he has supported oz since the republican primary. he was the one, the former president, babbed in that backed in that primary in mayment. oz has trained his campaign on crime and inflation. mortgage rates are through the roof. couples all over the commonwealth, new families are worried about crime in their communities, and they re worried about fentanyl in their mailboxes. it d
activity as well as people waiting for the queen s coffin to arrive here. all around us the crowds keep coming, the message of condolence for the royal family just keep piling up. this has been going on for six straight days and nights, but all of that just a precursor to what s to come. millions are predicted to come here to london. but because of capacity issues at westminster hall, officials say only about 350,000 people will actually be able to view the queen s coffin lying in state. officials say they will cut off the lines when they reach that limit. but those lines are already building here at the palace for the queen s coffin is expected to arrive a short time from now. and we are 23 hours away from the first mourners being allowed into the hall where the queen will lie in state beginning at 5:00 p.m. local time tomorrow. according to the london times, that wait could be up to 35 hours long. just a few minutes ago, the queen s coffin was carried on to a c-17 aircraft.
we ll dig deeper. in russia, the 29-year-old daughter of a putin ally whose father is known as putin s brain was killed in a fiery car explosion outside moscow with the kremlin accusing ukraine for being responsible for what russia is calling a contract killing. with ukraine celebrating its independence this weekend also marking six months since the russian invasion, i ll be talking to retired general david petraeus. and congress members jerry nadler and caroline maloney are locked in a bitter intraparty primary battle in new york city tomorrow thanks to redistricting. we ll discuss that race. and i ll take a look at the rise in anti-semitic groups across america after leafletting in a small new jersey town this weekend just days after similar leaflets were seen on long island, new york. joining me is ken delanian and brandon buck. you ve got the new nbc news poll with some major headlines. voters are angry, frustrated. they re saying for the first time that threats to
Trial. The prosecution star witness, Michael Cohen, back on the stand. Todays burning question, will cohen keep his cool when trumps lawyers begin what could be an intense Cross Examination, which could start any time today. Could his trademark temper flare under pressure . Yasmin vossoughian is outside the courthouse for us. Yasmin, take us inside right now. Whats happening . Reporter yeah, a lot happening so far, right . Were 30 minutes into this thing. We already got a lot. Were getting to the crux of this whole thing. Yesterday we heard a lot of incredible testimony from Michael Cohen. We got to the intent as to why essentially donald trump would have wanted to pay off Stormy Daniels. We talked about the january 16th and or 17th meeting, Michael Cohen is unclear about the date in which donald trump, Allen Weisselberg, Michael Cohen were in the room in trump tower saying were going to say Legal Services rendered, paying you monthly, 35,000 a month per the math done by Allen Weisselb