Hurricane status. The National Hurricane center said the storm will likely cause catastrophic and lifethreatening flooding in the region. And in parts of the southwest United States through monday. Southern california its already impacting millions of people there. To make matters worse a 5. 1 magnitude earthquake also in Southern California earlier today. As of now there have not been any reports of damage or injuries. In historic rainfall and reports of flooding and Power Outages are already happening in the area. Like you see here in palm springs, california. According to the National Weather service the city has seen 2. 6 inches of rain since midnight in record high for the date. Mexico seen the worst flooding so far in places like santa rosa liana, one person drowned yesterday with his vehicle when it was swept away. Storms expected to be the first Tropical Storm in Southern California and 84 years. Were gonna be following all that for you and bring you updates if we have them thr
Social media with posts that could defy the judges orders. Well get legal analysis on that new development. Also ahead, 9 latest warning from the pentagon about potential disruptions to Troop Readiness and military relations. Were learning about more provocative news from russia and chinas navys off the coast of alaska. Good morning. Welcome to Way Too Early on monday, august 8th. Im jonathan lemire. Thank you for starting your day and week with us. We begin with a flurry of action. Just days after being formally charged for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 Election Results, trump spent the weekend testing the limits of the judge assigned to that case. Now during thursdays arraignment the Magistrate Judge warned trump against interfering in the case telling him that his bond could be revoked if he tried to influence a juror, threaten or bribe a witness or if he retaliated. Despite telling the judge he understood her warning, just one day later the former president posted on his
Historical case, how long they will drag this out, and how it all plays into trumps legal strategy of delay. And, the kick the can congress, once again, they bought more time to avoid a Government Shutdown. And once again, a Republican House speaker is feeling the heat from his own conference. Congresswoman becca of the House Budget Committee joins me live, to bring us inside the chaos. Im jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. We begin this busy saturday evening, with Breaking News. Our eyes are on michigan, missouri, and idaho, where republicans in those states are Holding President ial caucuses today. Nbc news projects that donald trump won the most delegates of michigans Nominating Convention. All together, between the convention and michigans primary on tuesday, donald trump won 51 delegates, and nikki haley won four. Nbc also Projects Trump won the Missouri Republican caucus, picking up 54 delegates. Trump is expected to sweep idaho as well. We could get those results with
and members of his inner-most circle. we re talking about the slates of fake electors set up in battleground states. they set up as the spark for the rest of the plan as conceived by john eastman. from the very beginning from when the plan was first conceived days after the november election, attorneys for the trump campaign were well aware of the fact that their plan for slates of fake electors was how should we put it fake. the new york times reported on emails from trump lawyers that say this, quote, we would just be sending in fake electoral votes to pence so someone in congress can make an objection when they start counting votes and start arguing that the they need to be counted. he wrote that on december 8, 2020 in an email to boris epshteyn, an advisor for the trump campaign. in a followup email, the same guy, mr. will len chick wrote that alternative votes is probably a better term, a better word than fake votes. he added a smiley face emoji. the plan quickly g
s reproductive care from state to state, and how it could influence the 2024 race. as the 11th hour gets underway this friday night. good evening. once again, i m stephanie ruhle. in less than one hour, it will be one year since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. revoking the constitutional right to abortion that it had established. that decision coming from the conservative majority on the high court. the latest nbc news poll shows 61% of registered voters disapproved of that very decision. in the years since that ruling, abortion has been banned, or made unavailable, in more than a dozen states. and it is severely restricted in nearly ten others. today, president biden signed an executive order to expand access to birth control. his administration s latest effort to protect reproductive rights. late this afternoon, biden and vice president harris spoke about those rights. we stand for the freedom of every american, including the freedom of every person, everywhere