Good evening, i am chris jansing. Special coverage of the assassination attempt on former president donald trump. Next hour, president biden will address the nation from the oval office with a critical question lingering in the minds of congress and the country. How could this happen? and at this hour, we do have some new information for you. A senior secret service source familiar with the planning of yesterday s event tells nbc news that the roof was a well known, highpriority vulnerability. It was identified just the day before during a security walk through. We have also just learned that there were two counter sniper teams on site, and that the counter sniper did not need approval to shoot. One source telling nbc news that prior protocols were not followed the fbi announces the alleged shooter, 20 rolled thomas matthew crooks , appears to have acted alone. This all provides new context for the shocking scene last night in butler, pennsylvania, already burned into our collective co
Texan who has a heart beat. Biden administration is helping a country secure a border with afghanistan. But is fine with the southern border being wide open. It should offend every american taxpayer spending millions of dollars in afghanistan to secure their border while the cartels control our border. Grew up military man way of life and i understand and i m so proud to say it led me who i am today. Steve: live from washington, d. C. , it is friday, september 3rd, because it s a friday, technically still the summer, today is our allamerican summer concert series and today that woman who is singing jessie james decker going to be singing three hours from right now on the channel you trust for your morning wakeup news. Ainsley: she has done so well with her life. She has written all these books. She has the commercials, weight loss commercials. Steve: south beach. Ainsley: she married a physical player and relate show and a singer. Brian: she looks really happy in the music videos. I ca
Streets, homes and, as you can see here, the subway. At least 13 deaths were reported in new york. Most of the victims were found in basements that flooded before rescuers could reach them. The streets of new jersey were filled with water. Look at this. These are rescue operations happening. This is happening in new jersey there in newark. Also, this is in boundbrook. We have live pictures up for you now. You can see just at the edge of flooded roadways there. We know in new jersey and pennsylvania, delaware as well, there are rescue operations happening. We have seen people stranded on roof tops. Crews are using excavators, rafts to pull people trapped in their homes. President biden outlined earlier the federal help that he s deployed across several states. And i want to express my heartfelt thanks to all of the first responders and everyone who has been working through the night, well into the morning to save lives and get power back. There s a lot of damage, and i made clear to the
19 or 20, that s the very best of it. Furtherwest, cloud, stilla 19 or 20, that s the very best of it. Further west, cloud, still a bit of drizzle here and there and that will still be there this evening. Overnight the cloud pushes back to the east, the cloud will thicken and we will get further rain and drizzle around, some mist and fog over the hills in the west. Yes, it will be a mild night and a lot milder than last night in the north east of scotland. The weather pattern today continues into tomorrow with high pressure to the south west of the uk, it never reaches us just yet. This is the airflow, this long the track means we are picking up the moisture and cloud and within the airflow every now and again we get these weather fronts thickening the cloud and bringing rain. That is what is happening overnight and tomorrow morning. We started dull and damp, some rain and drizzle around, the worst of it moves away during the morning but still some pockets of dampness left over here an