all in? we win and are we ready tomorrow to take back this country? are you ready to take this state back? [cheers and applause]. who s ready to send mark kelly back to space tomorrow? laura: now, we re going to hear from reporters and candidates across the nation tonight including our own mark meredith in ohio where donald trump is still delivering what was billed as a highly anticipated speech. but first, the great realignment. that s the focus of tonight s angle. with republicans about to take control of both the house and the senate, most democrats aren t interested in serious soul searching about how it all unravelled. for a bunch so worried about election denial, they seem to be preemptively questioning the legitimacy of the impending republican takeover. how concerned are you that the upheaval at twitter will result in a flood of misinformation, disinformation right before the election? and it actually goes beyond twitter. today there are reports that
and missing in america. after seeing our report, one family s 30-year-old mystery finally solved announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. the american west is scorching tonight under a smooth ring heat dome that won t giving producing temperatures never before seen in september. breaking records by as much as 5 degrees. sacramento no stranger to summer heat reaching a record high of 114 yesterday at 104, salt lake city topping its september record for the third time this month. and now a deadly emergency playing out in southern california where two people died in a fast moving labor day fire the region now a week into a dangerous heatwave the brutal conditions are also threatening california s power grid which remains on the brink of rolling blackouts to cope with demand miguel almaguer is in hemet, california, where firefighters are still battling that deadly and lightning fast wildfire. reporter: it exploded out of control so quickly, autho
Paragraph of a person of interest. Ktvus Christien Kafton has more. Reporter they are saying he was spotted in the area around the time the bag was discovered and they want to speak with him. He is a person of interest. Again we want to talk toanybody who was in the area to anybody in the area. Too soon to call anybody suspects. We are trying to determine what happened, was the body dumped here, did it happen nearby. Reporter investigators wont say why this man peaked their interest. They say they want to speak with him. He is a white male in his 50s or 60s. 56. Police say he may be a transient. He was spotted in the area around the time the suit case was left on the street wednesday. The medical examiner released new details about the victim in the case. Confirmed it was a light skinned male found in the suit case. No word on tattoos or other identifying marks. Investigators say they will use every tool they have ofigure out who to figure out who he was. The medical examiner will dete