campaign travel as the administration s poll numbers sink while the border crisis reaches critical levels with thousands of migrants arriving every day and released into the country. welcome to fox news live. i m griff jenkins. hey, jacqui. jacqui: good to be with you, i m jacqui heinrich. in a victory for trump, and the 2024 election cycle. alex has this for us. let s start with the drive by the biden-harris campaign. it offered bullet points and did not hold back. inside the maga plan to attack and ban the abortion pill. tying the former president to restrictive abortion policies. the biden team says the campaign as a whole will hit full steam by early summer, but a push is evident now to connect more so with black and hispanic voters. yesterday the president commuted the sentences of 11 people in prison for nonviolent drug offenses and on wednesday touted bidenomics with a focus on minority businesses. it s a fundamental break from trickle down economics, economics tha
remaining fugitives now. 24 hours after declaring he is running for reelection, our mary bruce asking president biden about his age, whether he considered age in his own decision and if his decision to run would have been different had donald trump not run again. how he answers it all. columnist e. jean carroll taking the stand in her lawsuit against former president trump, declaring today i am here because donald trump raped me. the former president not in court. the judge today issuing a warning to trump s lawyer about the former president. our parent company, disney tonight filing a lawsuit against florida governor ron desantis accusing the governor of a targeted campaign of retaliation. how the governor is responding and what s behind all of this. the war in ukraine. tonight, the first call between president zelenskyy and china s president xi. what xi warned about nuclear war. back in the u.s. tonight, three high school seniors under arrest in that deadly rock throwin
lawmaker barred from speaking on the floor. a pastor killed, police say, by a man he stopped to help it turned out to be an inmate escaped from jail the violent standoff and manhunt ongoing. menopause and money. the new data on the billions in lost work. how some businesses are changing their thinking and a song that echoes through the past the violins that survived the holocaust and the people who saved them announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome. it is like the worst of winter in reverse as excessive snow melt poses a rising disaster threat in parts of the country tonight. along the mississippi river, flood warnings up from st. paul to north of st. louis in places like davenport, an agonizing wait for residents powerless to halt the creeping waters still days before the river is expected to crest. almost 2,000 miles away, the atmospheric rivers that brought massive snowpacks to california s high country are gone, but war
community and of democracy itself. everybody is having this struggle. norah: crime in america. our exclusive reporting. the major challenges in keeping the nation safe. all crime up 25%. murder up 24%. motor vehicle theft up 107%. what s going on in our nation s capital? allergy season is here, with specialists telling cbs news it is now lasting longer, with patients experiencing more intense symptoms. norah: president biden and south korean president yoon, the official state visit and the agreement to deter north korea. it is an unbreakable bond, forged in bravery and the sacrifice of our people. norah: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this wednesday night. we want to begin with the severe weather that is making its way across the southern part of the country, while residents along the mississippi river are forced to evacuate ahead of rising floodwaters. nearly 22 million americans from central texas to the
might. bill: beijing showing it whats the power to blockade the island firing maybe from every direction. the drills come on the heels of last week s talks in california between the president of taiwan and our house speaker kevin mccarthy. dana: congressional dell grecian visiting taiwan. the foreign minister warning to fox news any accident might spark an uncontrollable war. the chinese did their exercises these couple days have been very serious. if you look at the chinese air force and with the ships they re coming close to taiwan. even though taiwan is small. we believe in the prophesy of david versus goliath and taiwan will also prevail in the end. bill: brand-new week. mike gallagher house chair joins us in a moment. dana: greg palkot joins us. good morning, greg. there is the latest flurry of saber rattling by china around taiwan appears to be ending for the moment. there is more to come. war planes and ships were announced around the coast. a warning to th