Lower one. Thank you so much for joining me this sunday. Im Fredricka Whitfield and we begin this hour with a new glimpse at where americans are leaning with just 51 days until the president ial election, a new Abc News Ipsos Poll released today shows Vice President Kamala Harris with 52 support among leading likely voters to a former President Donald Trumps 46 . That margin unchanged from the last Abc News Poll taken at The End of august before they are debate with roughly seven weeks until the general election campaigns are racing to secure undecided voters in several key battleground states. But while these events will focus on voters, trumps mind seems to be elsewhere at this critical moment in the race, a former president posting to his truth social account today, i hate Taylor Swift following the pop Singers Endorsement of harris last week, cnns Sunlen Serfaty is at the White House for a sunlen, what more are these latest polls telling us about the state of the race fred, it show
After the next president ial election, as the former president and his codefendants in the georgia case have just one week more to surrender for booking at a Fulton County jail. Chris christie sharpening his attacks on ron desantis today in the florida governors own backyard. The American People want from a president more than anything else is authenticity. This campaign of his has gone from up here to down here because people are really beginning to wonder what the hell he stands for. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. President biden is hosting a diplomatic show of force this hour at camp david. A summit with japans Prime Minister and south koreas president , to discuss shared security challenges, chinas growing economic and geopolitical power and kim jonguns expansion of his Nuclear Weapons program. A new concern for these leaders, a north Korean Missile tested in july and as first reported by nbc, clearly identical or nearly identical in appearance and trajectory
Historic summit at camp david with the leaders of japan and south korea. On the agenda, confronting threats from china and north korea. Donald trump deciding to skip next weeks first gop president ial debate, and new reporting tonight, when will he surrender on new charges in georgia . Nbc news reports aboard an f16 fighter jet, the u. S. Today approving the shipment of f16s to ukraine, but how long will it take to train ukraines pilots to fly them . And after losing her restaurant in the fires, the top chef still cooking with compassion for maui. Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt good evening, and welcome. Normally this time of year, people in the south and the east are keeping an eye open for potential hurricane threats. Tonight, however, in a historic weather twist, americans on the west coast are on alert with an eye on Hurricane Hilary as it races northward off the Baja Peninsula Parts of california are under the first Tropical Storm watch ever issued for that st
had been rescued. some had scrambled on to their roof tops and some just ran for their lives. we ve never seen something like this. folks who deal with this for a living have been doing it for 20 years. have never seen water this high. we still can t get to a lot of people. there s so much water, the current is so strong, it is not safe for some of the water rescues that we need to do. we ll be in the search and rescue certainly today and tomorrow and then we ll be looking at a year s worth of rebuilding. president biden has declared a major disaster across eastern kentucky and the national guard is helping to rescue people. joining us now from clay county, what is the situation where you are? reporter: well, fred, it is really hard, still, to get to the worst of this. this is an ongoing situation. we re not really in the aftermath yet. my cnn crew dave and chris pulled over on the side of the road to talk to you and catch you up on what we are seeing so far. the import
hello. the man accused of stabbing the author sir salman rushdie has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault. hadi matar was formally charged in a court in new york state. sir salman remains on a ventilator in hospital, after being attacked at an event yesterday. he s been the subject of death threats ever since the publication in 1988 of his controversial book, the satanic verses, which some muslims considered blasphemous. this report from our correspondent, nomia iqbal. sir salman rushdie remains on a ventilator inside this hospital after undergoing emergency surgery. his agent has said the author is in bad shape. he faces losing an eye, the nerves in one of his arms are severed, and his liver is damaged. sir salman was flown here from the neighbouring state of new york. it was there at a literary event where the attack happened in full view of a large audience. a man in a black mask jumped onto the stage, stabbing him at least once in the neck and several times