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norm macdonald, the former snl star s long, private health battle announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone as a hurricane, it was short-lived, but now tropical storm nicholas is still delivering a dangerous punch along the gulf coast tonight, water and lots of it 5 million people living under flash flood alerts, rain amounts as high as 20 inches possible as the storm makes a brutally slow crawl across parts of texas and louisiana after its landfall not far from houston early today with 75-mile-an-hour sustained winds. in this very active tropical season, nicholas the 14th named storm, the 8th to make a u.s. landfall, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses morgan chesky is in the storm zone for us tonight with late details. reporter: tonight, nicholas on a gulf coast course crash first slamming into texas as a category-1 hurricane more than 90-mile-an-hour winds knocked out power to 500,000 texans i ....
the question is, did you hear what mike pence did? some of broadway s biggest shows reopen, hamilton, wicked resumed performances last night. 18 months after coronavirus forced broadway to close. broadway is back. but the question is, is it back to normal? it s way too early for this. good morning, welcome to way too early, the show that has always been a rumor in the house. we ll start with the news, california governor gavin newsom survived an attempt to remove him office. the question was ask whether newsom, a democrat, should be removed. yes or no. and against 46 others, led by larry elder a top conservative radio host. newsom succeeded in rousing democratic voters with warning that a republican replacement would roll back covid protections and betray the state s character. last night, newsom thanks california voters for keeping him at arms. we said yes to science. we said yes to vaccines. we said yes to ending this pandemic. we said yes to people s righ ....
nationalize the race and talk about trump aimed at boosting democratic turnout. it may be paying off. it creates a stark contrast between the governor and larry elder. i don t see elder or any of the other ones as viable candidates or leadership for the state. reporter: the question on the ballot today, should newsom be recalled? and if so, who should replace him? i can t think of any level, any front, any policy this man has engaged in that has made life better for us in california. he s been an abject failure. reporter: elder, the conservative talk show host, is the gop frontrunner of more than 40 challengers on the second part of the ballot. will gavin newsom accept the results of the election when he loses? reporter: not one to shy away from controversy, elder has been borrowing a page from donald trump s play book. we re going to file lawsuits in a timely fashion. what i believe is that no matter what they do, and i believe that there might very wel ....
me. my needless condolences go out to you, the audience. you thought you were getting got filled. instead, you re getting someone taller, better looking, and someone who didn t get fired from a magazine. you got watters! instead. this is like buying tickets to see jerry seinfeld and carrot top takes the stage. i give you your money back, but i found out got filled doesn t charge anybody to come see the show which makes sense. but there is a silver lining. unlike a normal show, none of tonight s jokes will go over your head. that i promise you. it s me. and it s an honor to step into greg s shoes today even though it kind of hurts because he is a size 6. greg has been on a hot streak recently. he needs a break. a number one best seller, a new house, a baby boy. wait, that s me. you would think greg would want a baby. finally someone in his life who is shorter than he is. also someone to laugh at his jokes. greg has a strange sense of humor, doesn t he? it s almost like ....
this was an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions. i never thought in my lifetime i would see an unconditional surrender to the taliban. this is betrayal. i do not believe a word you re saying on this. i do not wish to hear from you. what you said is dead wrong. i don t wish to hear your lie. it is so unfortunate the consequences. you need to resign. that would be leadership. dana: senator mike rounds will question secretary blinken this morning on the senate side. peter doocy with the latest from the white house. let s go to capitol hill where aishah hosni is standing by for day two. if it was anything like yesterday it is sure to draw the ire of republicans. blinken yesterday defenlded the withdrawal of the troops from afghanistan at one point hitting his message home saying we inherited a deadline. we did not inherit a plan. he also revealed there are still several thousand u.s. green card holder on top of the some 100 citizens still stuck in afghanist ....