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
we have economic growth movement we re in a situation where the climate, we ve invested more money and more help in dealing with the climate crisis than any nation in the world. and so things are moving, and the reason i m running again is we have a job to finish. that was president joe biden laying out some of his administration s accomplishments in response to concerns about his age and polling in his second bid for the white house we ll have more of the president s comments and all of that just aed. meanwhile it appears we re just a few more weeks away from ron desantis officially jumping into the 2024 presidential race. we ll explain what first has to happen in florida before desantis can announce. and then on capitol hill house speaker kevin mccarthy not just a symbolic win with the passage of his debt limit plan, but with that bill no likely to die in the senate, we ll look at what s next in the fight to raise the debt ceiling good morning and welcome to way too
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
A federal appeals court has blocked trump s attempt to stop former vice president mike pence from testifying before a federal grand jury that is investigating trump s role in the january 6th insurrection the d.c. circcourt s refusal to block the subpoena yesterday comes after trump filed an emergency motion to halt a lower court decision ordering pence to testify. trump s legal team argued that executive privilege bars pence from giving any testimony. the former vp also initially fought the subpoena citing the speech and debate clause, arguing that he was acting as president of the senate on january 6th. but pence has since agreed to testify. now, trump can still appeal to the supreme court. a spokesperson for the former president did not respond to our request for comment yesterday. meanwhile, a bipartisan group of senators have introduced a bill that would ban
Owners of this great land, one movement focused on the true priorities make america great for us. make america great for us new polling shows, though, that joe biden, well, dominates former president trump in a hypothetical matchup among voters who disapprove of them both well, in the latest wall street journal survey 56% of registered voters give biden negative marks while 51% feel the same about trump s time in office but when forced to choose between the two in a general election 54% of that same group say they would back biden while just 15% say they d vote for trump. that s a 39-point margin in favor of the sitting president joining us now national politics reporter for the hill julia manchester so, julia, let s talk about that poll for a second. oh, you know, it s from among voters who don t like either,