what she says about the jury after they sided with ex-husband johnny depp. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening the words of some of donald trump s closest legal and campaign advisers formed what the january 6th committee believes is a powerful narrative about the ex-president s false claims of a fraudulent and stolen election. day two of the hearings kept the focus on mr. trump witness after witness describing a president who ignored clear evidence of his election defeat, adopting baseless conspiracy that aides told him were completely nuts. his former attorney general bill barr saying president trump had become detached from reality another aide saying mr. trump took advice from an inebriated rudy giuliani to declare victory in spite of the results the committee focused today on establishing what it describes as the big lie, that it says mr. trump used to create a movement that ended in the riot of january 6th. garrett haake is covering th
florida s gulf coast. plus, the firing of james comey, called the biggest mistake in modern political history. what you did not see in the interview on last night s 60 minutes. now, a look at today s eye this is truly an eye wall, full force of force. tropical storm irma marches through florida. we re still getting heavy conditions here. even though irma s now downgraded to a tropical storm, don t sort of let your guard down. irma has spared virtually no one. there is flooding and extensive property damage but it will take days to understand the full impact. now is not the time to return just yet. they ve got a big clean-up effort under way. president trump has approved a major disaster declaration for the entire state of florida. this is a big monster. i think we re very well coordinated. september 11th, 16 years later. we remember what happened to the families who continue to grieve to this day. someone said you described the firing of james comey as
consecutive. y then i saw like a flashlight kind of going around and then less than five minutes later i saw police and emergency people show up. calvin: now, moments before, another attempted break-in was also reported in that neighborhood. lice now investigating if they are connected. local10 s terrell forney will have much more on this story coming up in a life report at 6:00. janine: it was back to the campaign trail today for most of the presidential candidates except for florida senator mar rubio. he ended his campaign after losing the primary yesterday, and only local10 spoke with him as he arrived home this morning. i m not doing any tv today. janine: local10 caaght up with marco rubio outside his west miami home after dropping his kids off at school. looking more look an ordinary dad rather than presidential candidate, he said little. thanks for coming out. janine: donald trump s win in the sunshine state last night was devastating enough for rubio to sus
ittle more than a month after president obama announced a historic diplomatic reboot with cuba and lifting restrictions on americans travelling to the nation, 8 senators and 4 democrats and 4 republicans introduced legislation to go to cuba and this is the first on the trade with cuba and president obama eased some restrictions last month it takes an act to lift the full embargo in place for 50 years, any bill that eases or lifts embargo faces stiff opposition from many lawmakers. meanwhile cuban president castro is sounding his own opposition to a more normal relationship with the united states so long as america quote blockade stays in place. he also renewed longstanding demands that the u.s. evacuate the guantanamo navel base on the eastern coast of the islands and u.s. leased the 45 square mile air from cuba since the early 20th century but since 1959 the communist government called the u.s. presence there illegal under international law because cuba insists the u.s. base
from the studio looking at the embarcadero to concede a fly ball in the wind in the light between five the to m.p.h. and breezy across their filled with the southwest winds at 2 to 5 mi. per hour if you will be in that area be prepared for bridge to conditions cattlemen down to 7 mi. santa rosa 5 half moon bay 6 mi. everywhere for the east we have a good visibility you should not see any delays be prepared and line areas. michelle apon: a handful of fifties this city 50 degrees and the sale 53 san jose 56 another mile start for today it will be on the slightly cooler side widespread across the bay area of if you are ready for work of the kids off to school before fred for mild to to once again the centers will continue to warm up into low to mid 60 s for bacon and locations. michelle apon: it will warm up into the upper 50s during that after know they add in his mid- 60s for bay coastal communities and we will talk about lower 70s the farther inland we go a different from