campaign 24 developments. hello, steve. reporter: mike, the former president showing he can still draw a big crowd. pickens, south carolina, population just 3,000 and yet more than 50,000 according to local police turned up to hear nutes at midday in ther 90 sweltering heat. many of them arriving in the predawn hours. they heard the former president take credit for recent supreme court decisions. somebody that hasn t done nearly as well and perhaps has not worked nearly as hard will not be taking your place in school, at a college or university, they re in the going to be. we re back to the old merit system that that built our country. reporter: in the meantime, trump s competitors took shots at him from multiple angles. nikki haley, former governor of south carolina, said she expected trump s massive lead mt. polls to evaporate by the fall. it s not about how many people show up at your rally, it s how many times you show up and how hard of the questions you answer
This case? well, he pleaded not guilty at his arraignment, and i m not surprised that the grand jury included a lesser-included offense. that happens quite often. it s sort of a safety hatch for the prosecution because if they don t, if a jury ultimately if it gets to trial and they don t find him guilty on the more serious charge, they can convict him on the lesser-included offense. but they cannot convict him on both x so it s one or the other or perhaps none of them. and the criminally negligent homicide carries a much less significant penalty. it s a class e felony, the lowest felony category in new york, and it s up to four years in prison, but there s no actual mandatory prison time in the statute, so it could even be if he were convicted on that count, he could even serve no time in prison. mike: here are some of the attorneys involved in this case talking about it. let s play it. daniel penny killed a man. he took a life. and for everyone who thought
Electronics. the sleeping quarters had an entrance and a safety hatch. questions about whether the hatch was big enough to escape and if passengers knew it even existed. investigators asking witnesses to come forward and urging previous passengers to share their experiences. in a statement to nbc news the company said it passed every annual safety inspection and this tragedy was not caused by operators, the boat, or the crew the cause may not be known for months molly hunter, nbc news in el paso, texas, a grand jury indicted the suspect in last month s mass shooting at a walmart. the 21-year-old was charged with capital murder 22 people were killed and dozens of others were wounded in the rampage. the district attorney plans to seek the death penalty. breaking tonight, another family touched by tragedy in acy the 20th child killed by gunfire this year in st. louis we get more from ron allen. to investigators converged on an apartment complex in north st.
reporter: all members of the conception taking a dingy to bob hanson s boat. there are some things you can t unsee. i don t know if i ll ever forget the sight of that boat burning reporter: switching from a search to recovery mission today, what was left of the dive boat has now sunk to the ocean floor. among the missing, a california family of five with three daughters who loved to dive. shari mcdonagh just arrived from cincinnati to identify her daughter ali, the one crew member who died below deck never thought i would ever have to do this. reporter: the conception was wrapping up a weekend dive trip like this one when the blaze apparently trapped those sleeping in these tight quarters the 75-foot boat has three levels five crew members were on the top deck when the fire broke out on the second deck in or around the galley the 33 passengers and one crew member below deck, with no way out. the sleeping quarters had an entrance by the bow and a safety hatch toward the stern
Chance that when you make this kinds of decision, you have the record, and then later you come along and can say the judge was wrong to grant it. in other words, what would be a safety hatch here is not anything that mr. roof the defendant is doing but rather the idea that maybe he was incompetent, but people may not realize it s a very low bar here. when we say that someone is competent to handle their own defense, we don t mean they are perfectly sane. we don t mean they are in their right mind. all we mean legally is that they can handle basically providing some defense for themselves and they have some understanding of the consequences. here, in a somewhat dramatic exchange in court, this judge told this individual who obviously is reviled by so many people, he has publicly spoken about, admitted to doing these heinous mass murders and the judge said this is a bad idea. this is really against your interests but you have the legal right. and people may recall, it s in the bill of ri