Economic agenda. The battleground state where she s making her pocketbook pitch. Meantime, prices and personal attacks. Donald trump s allies want him to focus on the former, but the former president keeps coming back to the latter. Plus, hurricane ernesto, a categorytwo storm now, bearing down on bermuda. The small island has rarely been hit with such a strong storm. How they re bracing for impact. And ahead, the battle over bronze. Romania s gymnast claiming her medal after it was stripped from u. S. Gymnast jordan chiles. Happy friday. It is 10:00 eastern, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. On the campaign trail, two competing vision for the u. S. Economy starting to take shape. Vice president kamala harris will lay out her plans today with the focus on cutting costs and cutting taxes for working families. She s going straight at this issue republicans saw as democrats hope to turn it into an asset. Former president trump is trying to steer the conversation to the economy. He
Was so severe he could end up killing someone. Valdo calocane s mother and brother told bbc panorama it was one of a series of missed opportunities that could have prevented the killings. Several countries are and equipment to greece where huge wildfires are burning on the outskirts of athens. Flames have been spreading for more than 2a hours in hot, windy conditions, forcing thousands from their homes. A man has been arrested after an 11 year old girl and a woman, aged 3a, were stabbed in leicester square in central london. The girl is being treated in hospital, while the woman suffered minor injuries. Police say they don t believe the victims knew their attacker. In the united states the latest polls are now suggesting kamala harris has a lead over donald trump in three battleground states that are key to winning the 2024 race for the white house. The new york times siena college poll published saturday shows harris with 50% support among voters in michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsi
85 days to election day and eight days to the democratic national convention. Today, vice president kamala harris is in san francisco for a political event. Donald trump also fundraising out west this weekend. As they hit the trail, president biden opens up for the first time detailing why he left the race and back to harris as the nominee in his place. It was a neck and neck race. Went down to the wire, but what happened was a number of my democratic colleagues in the house and senate thought that i was going to hurt them in the races. And i was concerned if i stayed in the race, that would be the topic. I can even say how old i am. It s hard to get out of my mouth, but things got moving so quickly. It didn t happen. And the combination was that i thought there was a critical issue for me still and it s not a joke, maintaining this democracy. Harris campaign officials picked up the raton and are running with it, hitting swing states to harness the renewed energy and enthusiasm from vo
I told you she was a gold medalist. Remember, catch all of the action from the olympics streaming on peacock and across nbc. It is going to be an extraordinary next two weeks, go team usa. On that note, i wish you all a fantastic and winning night. From all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with me. I will see you at the end of monday. Earlier this week, we brought you the news of how on sunday night, after president biden dropped out of the race, the activist group, men with black women, literally almost broke zoom. Organizing a call with 44,000 people to make sure kamala harris wins the white house this november. In 24 hours, that one zoom call raised $1. 5 million for the harris campaign. At 44,000 people, the call was about 1000 people short of the world record for the biggest zoom call ever. The world record held another four days but it was broken last night. Last night, an event called, white women answer the call, held their own zoom
She is more than qualified for the job. I think she will frankly surprised people in terms of her ability to connect with americans in this moment. I think she will choose an amazing vice presidential candidate to bring the ticket together in a way that will send a unified message we all so desperately want right now. So i am kind of with tim. I think if we do open it up, i have to believe that kamala harris is by far the front runner. I think she is the one, under the circumstances, that makes the most sense to nominate for president for all the reasons i stated and many more that we will be talking about for days to come. I just want to echo claire. I think we have seen her be a remarkably powerful campaigner and such an effective prosecutor in the case against donald trump. Abortionrights, which is on the minds of millions of americans. I think there are so many interesting questions here that will be discussed in the days ahead, we will all be discussing, including approaching ball