The Disaster Declaration. Thats something that some local state officials had really been hoping for. Were also live in texas, the state where two controversies are colliding over restrictions on voting and abortion. In just two hours from now, the governor is expected to sign into law a plan opponents say would strip Voting Rights away from a lot of people, even with no evidence of widespread fraud in 2020. The law will ban Drivethrough And 24hour voting, requires i. D. For Mailin Voting and adds criminal penalties for election workers. We take you to the state live. Plus in washington, the Attorney General taking aim at a different new law in texas, one that bans most abortions. He says the Justice Department is urgently looking at ways to challenge that law. We want to start in the northeast here at the White House and in New Jersey. President biden just heading to the region as we mentioned, he talked with reporters. Shannon pettypiece is with us and rehema el pice. He talked about
Hour gusting up to 90. That Forward Movement pushing it to the northnortheast at 17 miles per hour. Now, the ewe did start to see some of the watches and warnings expand a bit. You can see the tropical Storm Warnings in blue. Hurricane warnings are in red, including new haven, islip, and montauk. The track still expected to basically move north until just a few hours before landfall. We expect a slight shift off to the west. Thats why we figure at this point the best Landfall Location still likely to be Long Island. Timingwise were looking at lunchtime on sunday. It will move farther inland before making a sharp turn to the east, going back out over open water. There you the evening hours tonight, really some of those outer bands will mostly impact areas of new York City and especially around portions of new jersey. Then we start to see it fill in across connecticut, rhode island, and massachusetts as we through much of the day sunday. Now, even though the areas around the coast are ex
Thats Taliban Gunmen Opening Fire into the air to disperse the crowds, desperate to flee the country. Our Richard Engel spoke with one afghan woman, who is leaving. Very bad. Im hoping, but i dont know if ill ever be back. Good morning. Im Garrett Haake in washington, along with our Nbc News teams. Monica alba is tess White House, and Courtney Kube is at the pentagon. Monica, what are we expecting to hear. Reporter continuation from a president who is as defiant and defensive as he has been. He believes this is the only way to do it. We heard a preview of that on an interview a couple days ago when he said theres no way to get, but today were told by White House officials well be more forwardlooking not looking back. Thats their hope, of course, because to your point, all of the Onslaught And News and criticism is something the president has not met with in terms of a large response. They really let Pentagon And State department briefings to answer more technical questions, so today th
Early this afternoon. It comes amid frustratingly slovak Evacuation Process from kabul. The united states has the capacity to evacuate 9,000 people a day, but instead weve evacuated just 9,000 total in a week. That includes 350 americans who were flown out in the last 24 hours. But that is just a fraction of the 15,000 americans who may be stuck in afghanistan right now. In fact the pentagon admitted yesterday that they are not even sure how many americans are still there. And then there are Tens Of Thousands of afghans also trying to get out of the country, nbcs chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel has that story. Reporter we are in doha and we took one of the evacuation flights from the kabul airport. That is the only way out of the country right now, the only safe way. The Civilian Airport is closed and all of the land crossings to other countries are controlled by the taliban. It was a long flight, it complicated journey and for many lifechanging. This is what you have to face
crucial votes appeared more allusive and the decision whether democrats will actually move forward with a vote tomorrow still up in the air at this hour. the president ditched a travel date in chicago today to stay at the white house and pressure reluctant capitol hill democrats to try to get with the biden program meeting with house speaker nancy pelosi and senate majority leader chuck schumer in the oval office trying to cut deals with moderates, crunching the numbers for progressives and positioning or continuing to spin that it will all, quote, cost zero. which got two pinocchios from the washington post today. we have fox team coverage tonight. chad pergram on the hill with the latest on the fight over tax hikes. what that possibly means for your family or your business. but we begin on the north lawn of white house correspondent jacqui heinrich and what jen psaki calls a precarious and important time. precarious, jackie, may be the word. good evening. no kidding. goo