familiar music, but no panel tonight. one leader, one after another, facing a live audience for half an hour each. and first, the prime minister asked about the story we brought you throughout the day. aren t the emerging allegations about betting on the election date the absolute epitome of the lack of ethics that we have had to tolerate from the conservative party for years and years. like you, i was incredibly angry, incredibly angry to learn of these allegations. it is a really serious matter. it is right they are being investigated properly but you are happy not to suspend them, to let them carry on and go on in the election? obviously, they have not admitted anything, no one is saying a decision has been taken about their guilt or innocence, but you are happy for them to go into the election and represent you and the conservative party? fiona, as you said, these investigations are ongoing, but what i can tell you, if anyone is found to have broken the rules, not only wi
new reporting on the judge in the mar-a-lago documents case. new questions about whether she should step aside as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle and we are now 138 days away from an election in which abortion is set to play a defining role. and now democrats on capitol hill have a new focus when it comes to safeguarding abortion access. which they believe will be at risk if donald trump returns to the white house. they are ramping up efforts to reveal the comstock act. this has been on the books 150 years. it is related to materials being sent by mail that are connected to abortion. it is often referred to as a zombie law because it remains on the books though it hasn t been enforced in decades. the democratic senator tina smith who is cosponsoring the bill to repeal it warns it could be used under trump to crack down on abortion access or ban it altogether. we have seen a full on attack on women and their
calling him one of the most important actors in the history of film. ourarts and media correspondent david sillito looks back at his career. tonight s movie has been mash. in 1970, a sprawling, darkly comic film about the korean war came out. i m drjekyll, actually, this is my friend mr hyde. the hero, a cynical, rebellious, heavy drinking, womanising surgeon. everybody was telling me, don t do it. at the end of it, it ll ruin you. we did it in five weeks and it was wonderful. born in canada, he d studied engineering before switching to acting and working in theatre in britain. four captains, there, hamlet, like a soldier to the stage. mash. ..a thinly veiled satire of vietnam, led to klute. would you mind not doing that? ..with jane fonda. it was the first of three films together. ..and an off screen relationship. at a moment when a dark and maverick mood was making itself felt in hollywood, donald sutherland, with that piercing gaze, was just the sort of complex leading man
it comes as brutal heat refuses to let up. 65 million on alert. and in new mexico the massive dust storms and deadly wildfires burning out of control. also tonight the manhunt for a suspect wanted for multiple murders in two states. where he was caught today. the close call for a southwest plane triggering urgent warnings after descending at just 500 feet over a suburb. why was it so low? the train chaos in the north east. why amtrak service was suspended from philadelphia to connecticut. the first debate just one week away. new details on the biden-trump showdown, where they ll be positioned on stage, and who will get the last word. remembering donald sutherland whose acting career spanned six decades. from mash to thehuer games. the warning about popular weight loss drugs, the dangerous counter-foots on the market. and saving the whale. the nearly 3,000-mile mission to rescue two majestic belugas from ukraine s war zone. announcer: this is nbc nightly news
no matter where you are chances are you re dealing with heat, storms, wildfires, maybe all three. as we speak, new record temperatures are being set across the northeast. down south texas is taking the brunt of tropical depression alberto. we ll have the very latest coming up. plus, we ve been talking about it for months, now it may be happening. a new poll showing a significant number of independents abandoning trump after his conviction, and now supporting president biden. and say good-bye to something we have all gotten used to deal with. those little plastic pillows that come in your amazon box. the company is ditching them as it tries to cut down on the roughly 200 million pounds of plastic it generated just a few years ago. right now, virtually the whole country is impacted by a triple threat of deadly extreme weather. the start of record-breaking summer heat, the beginning blazes of wildfire season, and 2024 s first tropical storm. now the majority of the nation