after seeding the fourth of july jamaica to his rivals. donald trump is back in action. this january we re going to win the iowa caucus. does absence makes voters hearts go fonder. and the b word and the boot. after a controversial attack on a fellow member, the freedom caucus votes to oust marjorie taylor greene. they re proving to the country they re destructionist. but no to no labels as the prospect of a third party candidate gets more real by the day. totally understand the frustrations that lead to this kind of discussion. i may have to be choice c. hello an welcome to inside politics sunday , i m abby phillip. the countdown is on. in just 190 days republican voters will cast their very first votes of the 2020 presidential race in the all important iowa caucus now set for january 15th. and it was in the hawkeye state with donald trump finally returned to the campaign trail on friday to rally the state s critical farming community. but his focus was clear. h
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
forcing evacuations with the worst still days away. in california, communities bracing for epic flooding there from the meltdown of record snow. plus, tens of millions in texas and florida on the lookout for tornadoes and large hail. also tonight, the woman who accused former president trump of rape and defamation takes the stand in his civil trial. what she says about their alleged encounter years ago. the former president s denial. disney fires back suing florida governor ron desantis in their feud about free speech and the future of disney world. just breaking, republicans in the montana legislature punish a transgender lawmaker barred from speaking on the floor. the 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
Care about their kids education, i think that is also softening it a little bit by adding the grandma references as well. but there is a chance, if it starts being interpreted as a safe spot in the campaign for example for the moms for liberty and things like that, that are more blatantly embracing the culture wars in ways that she kind of stopped short of doing, i think that is where the risk comes. because we know that the culture wars will perhaps have a republican base in a primary, but they may not play as well in a general election. and even leaning heavily in this covid message is an interesting choice. dave zweigle wrote this and i thit w smart. the fauci dystopia that desantis talkut never came to dubuque, in iowa and nashua and new hampshire and another reason for the fade, s were the least controversial among olders voters who are the mt likely
People in the south face a more immediate threat tonight, violent weather including large hail and possible tornadoes in the forecast this evening. maggie vespa begins our coverage. reporter: tonight, up and down one of america s longest rivers, a slow-moving disaster, inch by inch, is taking shape. this one is scaring people. yeah, it s going to devastate the whole downtown if it comes through. reporter: rising waters now swallowing entire neighborhoods reaching what experts call major flood stage from st. paul, minnesota, to fountain city, wisconsin, to dubuque, iowa, where levels are already six feet above flood stage and rising, that city closing all 17 of its floodgates for the third time in half a century. between 1 and 2 this morning it was in the house. reporter: near davenport, utility providers cutting off gas to flooded homes. residents evacuating by boat. i know when i first moved out here, we had very small floods. they came and went real fast, but the last few