putting almost 150 million americans at risk. the orange/yellow haze choking cities up and down the east coast. new york city with the worst air in the world. the faa halting flights at one of the busiest airports. the yankees and women s pro basketball postponed with schools keeping students inside, all of it fueled by canada s massive wildfires. al roker is tracking it with the latest and how long it will last. plus, we ask medical experts what you should do to protect your family. running mate turned rival. what donald trump s former vice president said about the former president s efforts to overturn the election, but can he shake up the race? plus, our new reporting, the trump ally subpoenaed by the special counsel. pope francis on the mend in surgery for three hours today. the latest on his road to recovery. school board chaos. protesters in california clashing with supporters of pride month curriculum. the future of farming, robots with artificial intelligenc
clear that donald j. trump is a target of the investigation. we ll have legal analysis what that means for a possible indictment in just a moment. meanwhile trump s former running mate is now his newest challenger in the 2024 presidential race. we ll have more from mike pence s campaign launch. plus that hazardous haze that s been covering the northeast is expected to kick back up today. we ll get the latest time line for when the wildfire smoke from canada could finally clear out. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, june 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. nbc news has learned that former president donald trump s attorneys have been told that trump is a target of the justice department s investigation into the former president s handling of classified documents after he left the white house. prosecutors told trump s attorneys about their client being a target in that probe during their meeting monday at the doj headqu
the race plus, our new reporting, the trump ally subpoenaed by the special counsel. pope francis on the mend in surgery for three hours today. the latest on his road to recovery. school board chaos. protesters in california clashing with supporters of pride month curriculum the future of farming, robots with artificial intelligence zapping weeds with lasers. how it could upend agriculture. and we ve packed our bags for paris as the city of light prepares to host next summer s olympics. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening new york s famed skyline enveloped by an eerie and dangerous pall of smoke as we come on the air tonight. dangerous conditions here and officially the worst air quality on the planet and the worst this city has ever recorded. the source, wildfires in eastern canada. the smoke caught in an atmospheric trap right now over 115 million people from new england to texas are under air quality alerts, 90 million of them d
canadian wildfires choking major u.s. cities and the people who live there. these are live pictures of the haze now across many parts of the northeast. at one point yesterday, new york city topped the list of the world s worst polluted cities. today, new yorkers can barely make out the city s skyline. looks almost like the surface of mars there. there s a code red air quality warning in effect for philadelphia where all residents are urged now to stay indoors. even here in washington, d.c., we are seeing the effects, as well. cnn meteorologist jennifer gray, she s been helping us understand this. jennifer, looking at that map there, first of all, boy, look at that ranking to see the u.s. well above for a time, new york city well above some of the worst polluted cities in the world. uh-huh. tell us about that ranking, and tell us how long it s likely to stay like this. well, new york city right now is topping the world for the worst air quality of any major city in the e
It has been one year since the deadly Graduation Day shooting at Richmond's Altria Theater. Two people were killed in the shooting, and the gunman, Amari Pollard was sentenced to 25 years in prison.