tournament would he consider pulling a tom brady and unretiring announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone hurricane fiona now a major category 3 storm and likely to get stronger as it sweeps across islands of the caribbean. days after puerto rico took a direct hit, that island s residents are facing difficult and harrowing days from long gas lines to limited access to drinking water more than 1.1 million power customers without electricity. 55% of the island territory has no running water. for many it s a flash back of the days of crippling misery that followed hurricane maria which struck puerto rico five years ago today, causing the deaths of 3,000 people that recovery still incomplete tonight, we re tracking hurricane fiona s destructive march as it bears down on the turks and caicos islands with sustained winds of 115 miles an hour. expected to become a category 4 storm by tomorrow as the atlantic storm season picks up speed gabe gu
warns its next target appears to be bermuda after lashing the turks and caicos islands. we re live in the caribbean in minutes. and new developments in the mar-a-lago investigation. the special master tasked with reviewing those materials seized from the former president s hom water on one of the trump team s key arguments. what it could signal about where the investigation goes next. we begin with the president s speech at the united nations happening this hour. joining me now is erin mclayoff lint in ukraine. ambassador william taylor is with us as well. and michael, let me get to you if i can can. we have a little guidance about the upcoming address. we do expect to hear the president respond to vladimir putin s nuclear threat. we are told that this is not going to be a tit for tat response. what do you expect to hear from the president? what makes this speech unique and significant? presidents give addresses to the united nations general assembly every year. it s an a
as vladimir putin announced a major escalation in the war in ukraine. this all happening overnight calling up reservists and threatening a possible nuclear response as he suffers major setbacks on the battlefield, and in the geopolitical landscape. plus, the latest in the trump documents case as it goes before the special master, the former president s attorneys refuse to back up their claim that trump declassified the documents before taking them to his club in florida. we ll have the reaction from the judge and it is quite telling. also, the attorney general of new york is set to make a major aa nounsa-of- announce. we ll discuss what that announcement might be. and new developments in the story of the migrants flown to martha s vineyard with some sent to the massachusetts island now filing a class action lawsuit against florida governor ron desantis. we ll have all of the details on that. with us, host of way too early, jonathan lemire. and former aide of the geo
to the evolving challenges of the pandemic. bill: the details of that review will be released next week. among the recommendations, share information faster, do a better job of translating it and prioritize public communications. the federal government we re talking about here, right? griff jenkins live from the white house with more on this. nice to see you. good morning. good morning. you put it correctly. it was a stunning admission and surprise that after years of contradictory and confusing information by their own account, over masks, vaccines, boosters, over social distancing in school, closures, they said they got it wrong and she wants to earn back the public trust saying this. for 75 years cdc and public health have been preparing for covid-19 and in our big moment our performance did not meet expectations. my goal is new public health action oriented culture at cdc that emphasizes accountability, collaboration, communication and timeliness. a far cry what she w
to protect. and i well understood the potential political consequences of abiding by my duty. tonight harriet hageman has received the most votes in this primary. she won. i called her to concede the race. this primary election is over. but now the real work begins. [ cheers and applause ] on the other side the woman who beat her, harriet hageman, spoke in trumpian terms about what this win means for her state. wyoming has drawn a line in the sand that if we put you in power you will be accountable to us, you will answer to us and you will do what is in our best interests. and if you don t we will fire you. donald trump also took a victory lapp that he d been waiting to make for more than a year, claiming he helped send cheney to the, quote, depths of political oblivion. but did he? you have to consider that question in the context of what surely is a fateful moment for the former president. despite federal and state investigations seeming to close in on every side, he