now that nancy pelosi is in asia, there are questions whether she will visit taiwan or not. something the chinese government has been threatening her not to do. 99 days before the midterm elections. we re keeping a close eye on big races across the nation. five states, michigan, missouri, kansas, arizona and washington will hold primary elections tomorrow. all eyes on kansas, where boorgs rights will be on the ballot for the first time since the supreme court overruled roe v. wade back in june. voters will decide on a constitutional amendment that could pave the way for more abortion restrictions. next door in missouri, three candidates are locked in a tight race for the republican nomination to succeed retiring senator roy blunt. all three seeking donald trump s endorsement, which he hasn t given yet. with us to start our coverage this hour is dasha burns in kansas. and washington correspondent in missouri. dasha s this the first major test of abortion rights on the ballot
rejecting a special master. a filing that included this, a striking photo of highly classified documents found at mar-a-lago. among trump s arguments, an admission that there were classified documents there. but that was to be expected among presidential records. no big deal. and should not have triggered an fbi search. joining us now, legal analyst loni coombs. so nice to see you. thanks for getting up our staying up late for us. so lawyers for the former president, they are,ing that it is the justice department that is unchecked and that these highly classified documents stashed away at the president s resort are no big deal? yeah, this is a really interesting reply brief. it was supposed to be a reply to all of the very strong arguments that were made by the department of justice in their response to this request for a special master. but instead it really read more like a pr statement, you know, going after the fbi and the doj as usual saying that they are unchecked and
through the long holiday weekend. over 160 records potentially broken or tied. 40 million americans under heat alerts under the heat dome that continues to build. and if you are looking for relief along the coastline, you might not get it because temperatures there will be extremely warm. in fact the heat warnings extend all the way to the coastline of ventura county for instance. los angeles, temperatures will flirt with the 100 degree mark. sunday and monday will be your warmest days. it is not only l.a. that will see the excessive heat. you can see the triple digit temperatures from barks bakersfm springs and las vegas. thanks so much. some of those numbers almost hard to believe. not typos. and just ahead, a setback for sarah palin s political comeback. and nuclear inspectorses on a risky mission in the middle of a war sooen. our best plan ever.y. event plah (manny) yeah, that s what i do.
like a war zone, but yesterday we talked to a retired marine who says it looks like a war sooen and i know what war zones look like. this is it. this is unbelievable. in particular we spoke to another family yesterday. their story was unbelievable. this woman watched her son s house be swept away while her daughter-in-law and husband were sitting on the front porch screaming for help. they couldn t do anything to help them. they were able to escape. they barely survived. but listen to what she had to say about what they are going through right now. there s nothing else left for us to lose. we have lost four houses, a couple vehicles, all our farm equipment. i mean, technically there s nothing else left for us to lose. we can t dwell on that because it s gone. we have to start over. that s the only way you can deal with that. reporter: we saw more rain
we seen the press release, but do we have the filing itself? and if not, do we know when we ll get it? don t have it yet .but we know that the court-martial will be in his home base up in tacoma, washington, but we don t have the official charging documents. that s why we can t answer the question of what s that 17th charge. okay, i know we re work on it. appreciate it there in kansas. i do want to go many, many thousand miles away to afghanistan where we have stand kabul. thi since news of the charges, there s already been reaction from afghanistans, specifically the taliban. what have they said? it s true. we got a message specifically i got a message sent to me by e-mail from a commander from the taliban. and i just want to read it, the top part of it says the taliban will take strong revenge for the punjwi incident, and many other crimes from the american soldiers. we do not believe in these american courts and reject the decision of these courts. the courts are n