donald trump called it an invasion. with less than two weeks left until the iowa caucuses, today trump and desantis published dueling op-eds in the des moines register. both cast immigration as the most pressing problem facing our country. both candidates promised that they and they alone can fix it. now, what both trump and desantis are advancing in these op-eds are neither actual fixes to our country s border issues, nor are they actual immigration policy, but they are the sort of plans you can tell people you have, and they are articulating them to the public. they want to let fewer brown people in. they want immigration to be as painful as possible. none of that addresses the root cause of migration and the actual problems with our immigration system, which are real. but it is a plan, and it is a plan around which republicans are largely unified. this is video from last friday of migrants including children and adults carrying children, attempting to cross a river at the
president to go to places where there has been tragedy and dove station. he has the first lady with him. it is the compassion of the presidency to deliver. he is known for being able to connect with people going through hardship so expect to see some of that today. but then also to be able to talk about federal resources that are being brought to bear in kentucky. money that s already been delivered but then also being able to talk about the legislation just passed by the senate that deals with climate and to connect it to the devastation from flooding and storms that kentucky experienced and the communities around the nation have in all kinds of weather related events and to say part of what washington and his administration are trying to do is to find ways to releigh the climate crisis by putting in new steps that will address some of that and so look for it to be part empathy and part policy as they visit kentucky today. of course just coming out of covid isolation and thi
Our next front today, partly cloudy skies will be common with high temperatures in the upper 60s and potentially lower 70s. Winds will be light throughout the day and pick up only to a 510 mph speed out of the west tonight. A fight erupts ending in gunfire, leaving a teenage boy morning. Right now, police are looking for his killer and they need your help. Cops were called out to a home Near Civic Center drive in North Las Vegas around 4 thirty yesterday afternoon. With reports of shots fired. They arrived to find the 18yearold boy dead. Police dont have a description to work with but they say somebody had to have witnessed it. Sot ann cavaricci, North Las Vegas police were in a residential neighborhood, there were a lot of people around here. So were hoping if they saw something or heard something theyll call us. Police say its crucial they get tips before too much time passes. If you have any information, call police. Could the Oakland Raiders be relocating to las vegas . Its here in
It does feel like the news is coming through a fire hose, but we have all got to pace ourselves and this is no time to check out and this is getting close enough to the election that we are starting to realize that whatever it is that the candidates, each of them, might want to focus on in terms of making their best case, whatever they feel like is their strongest ground to stooand on, events are overtaking them. What this election is going to be about is actually whats going on in the country right now. Not what either of the candidates might do or say. To that end, i would like to introduce you to kyle doshen. He is an icu nurse. He works in duluth, minnesota. Its just after midnight. I am just getting off a really busy shift in the covid19 i icu. Tonight i wtaking care of a couple of covid patients. Man, there seems to be no end in sight with this pandemic right now. There is no end in sight for this virus. There is no vaccine. There is no true therapeutic that destroys this virus l
Conversations with the president. A lot is going on now, but well start at the white house with nbcs hallie jackson. A lot of questions you and the press corps are hoping to ask the president before he departs in the hour, but i want to start with the ftax bill. What do we know about a signing today . Reporter first as i was walking out here, im told it was very likely hell be signing the tax bill before leaving for maralago. There are still questions about whether that will happen behind closed doors or not. You also have the president with the continuing resolution to keep the government open. And it sounds like that will happen behind closed doors. So what i can tell you from here at the white house this morning, a lot of questions about a lot of things. We set up our show to do the show from here today thinking we would be able to do that, and it turned out the president was going to be leaving for maralago at 10 00 a. M. Thats been pushed to 11 00 a. M. Traditionally, you know thi