Ron desantis during his speech while former texas congressman will hurd received a chorus of boos in response to his criticism of the former president. Our bill melugin tracking all of this, he is in des moines with the details. Bill . Reporter molly, good afternoon to you. The iowa gop caucuses are still almost six months away, set for january a 15th. But all these gop candidates here in des moines last night making their pitch to voterser at the lincoln dinner. Before the dinner started, iowas very popular republican governor kim reynolds got on stage to speak. She has not made an endorsement yet, and its highly sought after by these candidates. Well get right into what they had to say starting with former President Trump. He got on stage and talked about having the most secure border in American History under his presidency. He talked about his Polling Numbers being better than ron desantis, and he slammed joe bidens Foreign Policy specifically on afghanistan. Take a listen. The mos
secretary of state and presidential envoy john kerry from windsor in a moment. this as we get more breaking news. the kremlin confirming putin met with prigozhin after that attempted revolt in russia. what we are learning about that meeting in moments. also ahead, extreme weather. absolutely wild and dangerous flooding turning deadly in new york. cars swept away. roads washed out. homes flooded, leaving people with nowhere to go. and new warnings that this storm system isn t done yet. later, massive manhunt for an escaped inmate with survivalist skills. how will police catch him? breaking news out of the uk this morning, where joe biden just wrapped his meeting with king charles following a sit down with british prime minister rishi sunak. and later this hour, he departs the uk for lithuania for a nato summit with the war in ukraine on their agenda. joining us now, josh letterman in london, and kelly is in ukraine. josh, what are we learning out of biden s two meetings
ittems to help tackle the rising cost of living crisis. the people of turkey have gone back to the polls for the second round of the turkish presidential election, with voting now under way in a presidential election run off between long time authoritarian leader, recep tayyip erdogan and his main rival, the secular opposition leader, kemal kilicdaroglu. here they are voting in the last hour. in the first round earlier this month, president erdogan won 49.5% of the vote just over 4% more than his rival. both candidates are chasing support from nationalist voters. these are the live pictures from istanbul, where reports say there s been brisk voting. people displaced by february s earthquake have been taken back home by bus to cast ballots. turnout among voters in the diaspora appears to have grown since the first round. 0ur middle east correspondent anna foster is following polls are open now right across turkey and they ll stay that way until five o clock local time this
as pressure mounts back home over the debt ceiling. stunning new video of a police pursuit caught on camera in iowa an officer injured after clinging onto the hood of a suspect s car. the first state in the nation to ban tiktok entirely. what does that mean? what happens if you cross state lines watching videos on your cell phones? the answers to all of your questions on cnn news central . shards of metal left behind in flames after ukraine said it shot down dozens of russian missiles overnight. this is what is left from one missile intercepted in the capital kyiv. ukraine said they stopped 29 of 30 cruise missiles overnight. the missiles rained down on a number of cities. in crimea, trains between the two cities are at a stand still after a freight train derailed. sam kiley is joining us from eastern ukraine. russia is now claiming that it hit a weapons depot, what are you hearing there this morning? reporter: so, sarah, i think the thing here is that we are worki
as trump ally push to release surveillance of the search. and mike pence today doubling down on defending the fbi. the emotional day in court. vanessa bryant, the wife of kobe bryant, breaking down on stand, describing her pain after first responders leaked photos of the helicopter crash that killed the nba legend and their daughter. reporter: after a summer of travel chaos, the department of transportation cracking down. our exclusive with secretary pete buttigieg, the ultimatum he s giving the airlines ahead of labor day. danger in the water. two shark attacks at the same beach on the same day. and uniting for ukraine. the music with a message inspiring america. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. we are reminded again tonight just how high the stakes are in the war in ukraine as focus turns to the state of the ukrainian nuclear power plant now in the hands of russian forces. ukraine official making some pretty disturbing claims