Passengers forced to jump up onto seats because the water was rising so fast. Several people killed in Basement Apartments. And tonight, those confirmed tornadoes, including a possible ef3. Winds more than 135 miles per hour. And this evening, the new images coming in from philadelphia. Evacuations still under way. People taken from a hotel just a short time ago. Our team across the storm zone tonight. Whit johnson, Janai Norman and Ginger Zee with what drove this. And now the concern going forward. Also tonight, the Supreme Court overnight issuing a 54 ruling. The court will allow the new Texas Law banning most abortions to move forward. Tonight, President Biden calling it an unprecedented assault on womens rights. Several states already using this Texas Law as a potential blueprint. So, what does this mean for the future of Roe Versus Wade . Rachel scott in texas, Terry Moran at the Supreme Court. The Desperation Growing in louisiana tonight. Millions still without electricity. The n
Lost the election was there for All Of Us to see. We all saw it, We Saw it from this position, talking to you every night unfold in realtime. But ill admit, even as someone whos covered it, Day By day felt the danger, worried about where democracy was headed, was up late at night worrying about it, culminating in the January 6th insurrection, even Eyes Someone very tuned into the news did not quite put all the pieces together at the time. The latest reporting we are getting is a good occasion to revisit it all, look at it in hindsight, now youve probably seen the news from the new book by two great Washington Post Reporter Carol Leoning and phil rucker, they report that as Trump Ceaselessly pushed false claims about the 2020 president ial election, general marked a Milley Chairman of the joint chiefs of staff grew more nervous, telling aides he feared the president and his acolytes might attempt to use the military to stay in office. Milley described a Stomach Churning Feeling as he li
Definitely couldnt wear the same pants that i wore the last time i talked him but apparently hes in a Time Warp in his pants. Yeah hes got the one pant so we are very used to that pants that he wears. But hey its a remarkable semi predictable result in new Mexico Tonight but so far stronger than expected showing for the democrat at The End of our hour we will see exactly where the vote stands. And were gonna do it without Steve Kornacki which means i might have to take my jacket off. Im not sure. Well see how we do. Okay. If you Stand Up and take your jacket off i dont even want to be here for the ratings coming in tomorrow. Its gonna be very overwhelming. Yeah, okay youve made me reconsider the whole thing. Okay, thank you rachel. Thank you lawrence. Thank you. Well in Tulsa Oklahoma Today President Biden described what he called a truly unprecedented assault on our democracy. And he was talking about Voting Rights when he said that. But he went to Tulsa Today to mark an assault that
Peers, promising spending on Brick And Mortar programs for black communities while touting his Infrastructure Plan as doing at least some of the rest. Without calling it such, it reads like a tangible campaign of reparation, acknowledging that our nations racist past is still just prologue to a Jim Crow that has never truly died. Its just hidden in legislation. Like the hundreds of Voter Suppression bills generated in various State Houses in the past year, the difference here is that the president is seizing this national moment of dialogue around reparative justice, while our congress, led by the Congressional Black Caucus, is poised for a historic discussion around making it real. Of course it shouldnt be lost that while the gop has never needed an excuse to suppress black votes or hold up the peoples business, The Party remains enthralled to Donald Trump, even though media continues to reject him. But first, reparative justice, the washington version. Joining me now is Congresswoman
These should be sacrosanct. But the developments in the past few months is now. Why is there such urgency . Whats happening in legislature after legislature. The voting rights, fundamental to democracy, the right that men and women have died for in war time ap and peace time. The rights are all under assault, under assault. One end of the country to the other. In the wake of the 2020 election, Donald Trump told a lie, a big lie that the election was stolen from him by voting fraud. There was no evident for this. His own administration concluded that the 2020 election was one of the safest in his history. His lawyers were laughed out of court, many by republican judges, some by judges he appointed, trump appointed but he kept saying it anyway. He lied over and over and over again. Donald trump lied over and over and over again. Poisoning our democracy, lighting a fire beneath republican state legislators who immediately launched the most Sweep Voting suppress efforts in at least 80 year