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many as 850 still missing. plus, our new poll with des moines register, the first time year on iowa with some surprising results at what likely republican voters think about front-runner, donald trump, and his challengers. as the former president and his 18 co-defendants in georgia still have to surrender at the fulton county jail for booking on the alleged election racketeering case by noon this friday. when will any of them show up? and good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. tropical storm hilary is setting off flash flood alerts from central california to idaho as millions of americans are bracing for severe weather or dealing with record flooding. priscilla thompson is in california. what s the latest there and to the north? reporter: yeah, andrea. the sun is out right now, but i want to show you what folks here are dealing with. we are on a closed road right now and as you can see, this water is just washing over this road. it looks like a river ....
reporter: new this morning, the first nbc polling numbers from iowa among the 2024 gop presidential hopefuls coming after trump s fourth indictment and before the first debate. a critical week for the former president, he and his 18 co-defendants have until friday at noon to turn themselves in on racketeering charges in georgia. we begin this hour with the historic impact of tropical storm hilary, the first to hit southern california in more than 20 years. hilary now a post-tropical cyclone is bringing record-breaking rain and flooding triggering a state of emergency for parts of the region. take a look at what it looked like for those who dared to drive through the storm on sunday in los angeles. today the l.a. unified school district closed all of its schools. according to the national weather service, virtually all daily records for rainfall have been broken with lewis ranch, california, getting more than 7 inches of rain. the heavy downpours and flooding were ....
in hawaii president biden promises more aid as the anger rises over the initial response. and communities across the western u.s. clean up from tropical storm hilary, and another powerful storm is barrelling towards texas right now. we begin this hour with the latest on the legal troubles surrounding former president donald trump. two of trump s 18 codefendants in the georgia election interference case surrendered themselves to authorities in fulton, georgia. trump s attorney, john eastman, surrendered himself hours after the codefendant, scott hall, who accessed voting machines and data in coffee county, georgia, turned himself in. this as donald trump says he will travel on thursday to surrender to authorities. that news came hours after his attorneys and the fulton county authorities agreed to his release, and all this as jack smith s team responds to trump s proposal to start the trial in april of 2026. joining us, leslie caldwell and ali vitali. what do we know a ....
whiteout conditions in the plains. cars skidding off roads in iowa. winds set to hit 60 miles per hour. on the east coast, roads under water. hundreds of thousands without power and the desperate search for a young girl swept away in a creek. the half a billion dollar deadline for former president trump just hours away now. how the new york attorney general could freeze his bank accounts and seize his iconic buildings if he doesn t pay. dramatic video of a carnival cruise ship on fire. what the passengers told us. immediately when we stepped out of the balcony, the first thing you saw was just black smoke. plus the two staffers killed while aboard a holland america voyage. and attempted kidnapping caught on camera and the mother who fought the assailant down four flights of stairs. it s my baby. you can t take her. home sales surging. the real estate market makes a surprise comeback. why are buyers pulling the trigger now? the scientists who say they re go ....
californians expanding their disaster vocabulary to include a new word, hurriquake. in hawaii, an official number of those still missing, and it s bad. while the 114 confirmed dead, just a handful have been identified among those. a few hours from now president biden will meet with those who lost their homes, their livelihoods and loved ones. what can he say or do today to start to ease even a tiny fraction of their pain? what do you do when fixing a 23-point deficit in a new poll is actually good news. the brand new polling out of iowa that shows republicans closer to donald trump than they are in the vast majority of the national polls. what does that tell us about their chances of maybe pulling a primary season upset? we start out west. with the power of the hurricane, then tropical storm behind her, hilary is churning across idaho and oregon posing more threats while millions in california and nevada have been left shaken and stunned by the kind of catastrophic ....