good morning. you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with president biden just hours away from what may be one of the most important moments of his political career later today, the president will face the white house press corps, holding a lengthy news conference for the first time since his shaky debate performance here on cnn. and this afternoon, top campaign officials are set to meet with senate democrats as some senators are hitting the panic button, worried that biden will lose to donald trump in november and possibly take the rest of the party with him. now another democrat on the senate side is speaking out, senator peter welch saying president biden should step aside for the good of the country. these sudden erosion of support comes amid a torrent of bruising headlines marking a brutal 24 hours for the president s campaign. one donor telling cnn, quote, everything is frozen top chicago donors in the meantime, halting a fundraiser usi
hospitalizations in the u.s. hit alarming heights not seen since the winter surge announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt substituting tonight and reporting from new orleans, tom llamas. good evening. i m tom llamas in for lester we are coming to you tonight from an american city in crisis and a region in need of help hurricane ida causing catastrophic damage. the view from above just a glimpse of the actual pain felt on the ground families in la place, louisiana running from ida s surge overnight, and today pulled from their homes in boats hospital staff caring for sick patients as parts of their buildings came apart in grand isle, ida s force and surge captured on camera in realtime and now a cleanup under way so people have some place to stay and tonight you ll meet the nurse who cared for dozens of babies in a nicu unit, unable to see her own children to help infants in need of all of this as new orleans faces a new type of disaster no power anywhere in
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collapse. our rescue teams are nonstop. doing all that we can. searching every area, every bit of hope to see if we can find a live victim. and this has become an international rescue effort. teams from israel and mention sew arriving to assist. crews are working, sifting through mountains of rubble. they dug a massive trench to aid in the search. one official describing what they are finding as horrific. but there are growing questions about why this building suddenly collapsed. cnn has learned that the condo association was warned in 2018 that repairs for the building could cost more than $9 million. some roofing repairs just recently begun. the governor saying debris is being moved into a warehouse for forensic analysis. we have team coverage on the ground in surfside, florida tracking the latest developments. wolf, let s go to you. there are significant developments, fred, unfold right now. i want to bring in ryan young. ryan has new information for us. we understan