Hello again. A State Of Emergency is in effect for maryland and virginia as Tropical Storm ophelia moves up the east coast. Power lines exploding in North Carolina where Ophelia Made Landfall this morning. Allison chinchar is tracking the storm from the cnn weather center. And brian todd is in alexandria, virginia. What is ophelia doing . Its still kind of chugging along, making its way akpcross North Carolina. Weve got outer bands stretching up to pennsylvania, new york, even massachusetts. The same winds right now are 50 miles an hour guesting to 65. The heaviest rain is really focused over virginia and North Carolina at the moment. Youve still got some pretty heavy bands, although the bulk is starting to push inland and away from the coastal areas. You have Flood Watches and Flash Flood Warnings in raleigh and off to the east. Theyve already picked up 23 inches of rain. Now youre going to get an additional 12 on top of that. It begins in the evening to spread more into the mid atlan
good afternoon. i m chris jansing live from msnbc headquarters in new york city. today another escalation in what is already a brutal 2024 presidential race. this time coming from hunter biden who says the right is trying to kill him in order to destroy his father. that accusation made in a rare interview after prosecutors filed a shocking new indictment. what his lawyer is saying and what this latest round of charges could mean as his dad tries to hold onto the white house. overseas, the u.n. calls the situation in gaza a, quote, spiraling humanitarian nightmare. people with open wounds and people stand in line for hours to use one shower or toilets. families who have lost everything sleep on bare concrete floors wearing clothes they have not changed for two month thes. the chilling new letter from the leading u.n. official on the ground who says they are, quote, hanging on by their fingertips. and the major controversy that just keeps growing after leaders of some of
single-company strike in u.s. history could be just a week away. u.p.s. and the teamsters back at the negotiating table today. the two sides haven t met since they walked away following a marathon session over the july 4th weekend. u.p.s. knows they need to pay our members. reporter: since then, the teamsters who represent 340,000 u.p.s. workers have taken to the streets for rallies and practice pickets. president sean o brien leading the charge. this will be our defining moment in the teamsters union. it will be the defining moment for labor. we have organized. we re strategized. now it s time to pulverize. reporter: both u.p.s. and the union say 95% of the contract is done, but the 5% left unfinished is the biggest piece of the pie. pay. stuff doesn t go anywhere unless we move it. we re the ones that are making all that money and we don t see it, any of it. reporter: part-time workers
that most people do not have high hopes. high expectations for anything positive to come from it, but you see russia and ukraine sitting at the negotiating table today right now. todd: interesting what is happening at the belarus. belarus saying they are going to help russia. we will see how that transpires with that fox & friends begins right now. [siren] carley: ukrainian delegation has just arrived on the belarus border. the main goal of those talks on ukraine s side would be an immediate cease-fire. ukrainians holding onto the capital city and fighting for their lives. this is our country, our choice, our freedom. new video appearing to show ukrainian drone taking out a russian missile system. we are fighting and we are becoming stronger and stronger from day to day. fallout is hitting russia s economy very hard. the ryu bell is under
focusing on the donbas region, after attempts to capture the capital failed. ukrainian and russian officials are meeting in turk why this morning, for another round of cease-fire talks. according to four anonymous sources who spoke with the financial times, the latest draft the the deal saw russia drop several core demands it made when the war first began. those include calling for the quote denazi-fication, and demillization of ukraine s government and legal protection for the russian language in ukraine. russia is also reportedly prepared to let ukraine join the european union if its military remains neutral. in exchange, sources say ukraine would have to abandon a push for nato membership, which we note, among those at the negotiating table today is a russian oligarch roman abramovich the