With the founder of structural engineering partnership. David, we ll start with you. Your teams have retreated for this demolition. What are you hearing about the time line of when this can go down? and i m sure your rescue teams understand why this is happening, but are they discouraged at all that they re unable to keep going right now? i wouldn t categorize it as discouraged. They understand the importance of the demolition and the time line that it s going to take to accomplish that. They stand poised, ready to engage. As you heard in the press conference, as soon as the building comes down, teams will be able to move right in and resume their search and rescue efforts. We are maintaining a presence on the site of what we consider rapid intervention teams in the event anything happens with the building while these demolition crews are doing their job. Okay. Joel, from an engineering point of view here, what is involved in taking this structure down? well, as engineers we try to des
good morning, it saturday apri 1st. i am ali velshi, this week marked another inflection poin from the state of th democracy. donald, trump the rookie politician who somehow made it into the white house with zero political experience, only t be disgraced as the firs president to be impeached twic while in office. it is now the first current or former president to be criminally indicted in u.s history. nbc news has learned that hi indictment includes about 30 charges related to documen fraud, that s classified a misdemeanors and the associated press i reporting that according to it sources, trump is also facin at least one felony charge stemming from the manhatta district attorney, alvin bragg s investigation of the former presidents role in th hush money payments made to th former adult film actress, stormy daniels with whom he allegedly had a affair, donald trump denie that there wasn t a fair and any interview with the london-based times radio tha aired yesterday, daniel sa
new york, he will be the first former president to appear i court as a criminaldefendant nbc news has learned that he s facing about 30 counts related to document fraud. they stem from manhattan da, alvin bragg, s investigation into the hush money paymen made to adult film actress stormy daniels now, trump s indictment is expected to remain sealed unti tuesday afternoon. that s when he s scheduled t turn himself in for an arraignment. today, we are getting ne details on how the dramati moment will unfold the former president wil arrive in new york city monday night on tuesday around 1 pm he will be driven from trump tower to the courthouse. as of now, the former presiden will not be handcuffed photographed for a mugshot, no placed in a holding cell however, he will b fingerprinted. trump s lawyer, making clear h intends to fight the charges - hold up in mar-a-lago, so we will fix this and we will be successful, i m sure president trump will not take plea deal in this case,
we report with breaking news i california and the deadl weather situation unfoldin there. another atmospheric river is slamming the state, bringing millions under flood alerts. several roads washed away, communities cut off an evacuations ordered. that threat is not over, mor rain is expected this weeken and northern california, eve more snow in fact in the sierra s let s go to nbc steve patterson, he is joining us from sanger california that is in the central part of the state. steve, welcome and what it s like there yes the central part of the state is taken a lot of this water, take a look at this community here one of the communities tha really sort of dodged a bullet here alex, take a look here th river running through rushin water, all of this though was part of that river yesterday this entire communit waterlogged water coming ove this bridge. we just saw workers plot a massive log from the strea here it was clogging things up and they worked to shore thi up but it c
you from los angeles and welcome everyone to alex wit reports. developing this, our new reaction today and a growing partisan divide after former president donald trump claim without evidence that th manhattan district attorney is planning to arrest on tuesday. the da s office declined t comment on those claims, which stem from an investigation int a hush money payment to stormy daniels. but nbc news has obtained an email sent by da alvin bragg telling staff they will not be intimidated. if indicted, donald trump woul be the first former u.s. president to face criminal charges, and early today democratic lot makers ar stressing that significance. no one is above the law that is a defining principle o the republic, and has been the case for 247 years it i outrageous there is no thing to low the sky cannot reach every time yo think he s reached, it he goes even further also that he is ver typical of the forme president. he attacks the person who is leading this investigat