desperate search hundreds missing from the once-in-a-century flooding in europe this major highway, now a river. the president versus facebook. the tech company hitting back tonight after presidth misinformation online is costing lives. the misery due to delayed flights. the pilot shortage turning summer travel into a nightmare the shocking video of an attempted kidnapping how this mother s quick thinking rescued her son. and the power of flowers. how one doctor is embracing wedding season to help her patients announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening. i m peter alexander in for jose tonight nearly all 50 states are seeing a rise in covid infections, alarming health officials nationwide, and making the possibility of a prolonged pandemic a frightening reality. experts warn right now the risk for those who are not vaccinated is extremely high, leading many counties to re-up their restrictions in los angeles beginning at midnigh
so let s see what happens on august 23rd. donald trump says i m up by so much do i really need to do this. ron desantis expect everybody to be there governor christie is poking him, calling him a coward if he doesn t show up. everyone needs him there. one of the biggest prize surprises is one of the people that has not qualified yet is vice president mike pence e has not hit the 40,000 threshold with the 1%. he needs 40,000 separate donations. but governor desantis, i guess, is the first mini crisis. got the money. maybe overspent. not resonating like he thought, and has toe rejigger some of his lineup. has to super pacs and start going to hostile territory beginning today and then possibly two or three times after. steve: getting a clear picture of the status of all the candidates right now. over the weekend it was the filing deadline for how much they raised. your point about mike pence, he has only raised $1.2 million. ron desantis in the last quarter raised 20 million,
that actually what is spent more money than we spent this year we can t do that. we all know how big this deficit is for me also note inflation $6 trillion. we have to spend last. jon: meantime president biden taken part a second full day of g-7 talks in japan. by the administration appears to be doing an about-face on sending f-16 fighter jets to ukraine. after months of dragging its feet on a decision despite the urgent request. white house correspondent peter d.c. joins us from japan. let s start with the that talks what can you tell us? good jon prison by nyssa bristling at questions about a possible default while he is here in japan trying to conduct some diplomacy. ask these negotiations before. [inaudible] shush up okay? thank you. brand-new white house memo out within the last hour reads in part that remains a path forward to reach a reasonable bipartisan agreement if republicans come back to the table to negotiate in good faith. but president biden has been clear h
have our fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth with us. rick this has been rough so far. really has. three things, the storm surge that broke records in fort myers and naples as well by a lot by the way, three feet higher than we had ever seen from any kind of storm surge in the past. that obviously causing all that flooding right along the immediate coast. then we have the winds, actual verified winds of 140 miles an hour in cape corral. a lot of this wind was really prolonged because it s such a slow-moving storm and then you have the rainfall. because it s so slow we get rainfall that just continues to batter the state and we ll see big time inland flooding concerns. this made land fall in the exact same space that hurricane charlie came on shore in 2004 which is amazing to have two massive hurricanes or two strong hurricanes like this come on shore in the exact same spot, hard to imagine, because it came on so strong, it s still a category 2 hurricane after having
is up. we see contrast from before and after pictures. for example, fort myers, where the hurricane first hit last. 2.5 million people are without power. i can tell you specifically for florida power and light, we have just over 1.1 million customers across the state at the moment, that said, we ve been out and about throughout the storm, it s been safe to do so restoring power to our customers and we ve already restored power to 500,000 customers, but majority of lines are still above the ground and that will take time to assess. we ll use drones to figure out where biggest damage is and that will allow us to get power back on as quickly as possible. ainsley: ian is hitting central florida and we expect to hear from governor ron desantis 8:45 and will bring as it happens, meanwhile, live across the state. senior meteorologist janice dean is standing by and brandy campbell is back in orlando and fox weather correspondent robert ray is live. we are learning the sheriff in