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From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. As desperately as they need the rain these are desperate hours in parts of the state of california tonight. A huge western storm caused the need for fast water rescues today. Rampant flooding, power outages, mud and rock slides. Local rain bursts have brought up to two inches of rain in an hour, way more than the ground can handle. Some of it falling on land where wildfires have left nothing...

We just got briefed by authorities. This one has been stumped. It will be another 45 minutes until they can get the water. They say its a big pipe, 12inch pipe that broke about 3 00 38 this morning. They have been working for the last two and a half hours and havent been able to figure out to get the water to stop. Firefighters were first on the scene and they tried to the close the valve. Water department showed up. Called in for more help. They had fixed part of it. They shut off one source bu...

East at suddenly road. Also looking great at spout run parkway. Its about a 12minute ride on eastbound 66 from the Fairfax County parkway to the beltway at 55 miles an hour. A deal is in place. The house voted in favor of a measure late last night. Taxes will not be going up for 98 of americans. Were talking tax hikes for some and still a lot of unanswered questions, especially when it comes to spending. Those making more than 400,000 a year and households pulling in more than 450,000 will see a...

Multibillion dollar mortgage settlement deal has reportedly reached an impassion. The New York Times says the talks stalled after bank of americas latest offer of more than 12 billion fell short of what prosecutors were demanding. Apparently it fell far short, too. 12 billion isnt enough, i dont know what it would take to settle this. Take a look at that stock, down by 8 cents. In housing news, mortgage politics rising by more than 10 on the latest week. There was an increase in purchase and ref...

Sheena parveen is tracking the fog and rain. Storms are moving in. Fog is settling in. Not a good combination. The storms moving up the i95 corridor into New Castle County near newark some strong thunderstorms. Heavy rain near smyrna moving into south jersey. Lancaster and reading and it will move to north. Fog settling in, 2 1 2 mile visibility. Well be dealing with fog for the morning commute and a few areas of light rain or drizzle in the morning. So by 7 00 a. M. When you head out mid60s, fo...

People can shovel snow. If they work for the for the clinic, they can sweep the sidewalk, they can do maintenance, they can go in and they and out, but they cant utter a word. Well, that would be a different statute. But thats not this statute. This statute says that there is an exemption for employees of the facility if they are operating within the scope of their employment. And surely coming out and saying this is a safe facility is within the scope of their employment. Right. So how do you j...

And so hopefully its obvious to everyone here this 30 billion the 80 billion are deeply intertwined. In order for the private sector to make those investments there has to be raw material coming out of the basic research. Weve talked a lot about that. In order for that investment in basic research to create new cures, it has to be that investment in private sector r d to develop those scientific discoveries into cures for patients. So talking about that 80 billion is important and its also the b...

3, that since their meeting their recess was still on and lasted more than 3 days, it was a violation of that adjournment clause of the constitution. Now, thats one way to interpret it. Over a long period of time, they have apparently met pro forma on those days. Or we could try to make them mean the same thing, which would mean it was up to the senate. They consider that a meeting, its a meeting. What do we do . Or there is another option, Justice Breyer. Would you write that opinion, saying th...

The executive was by rejecting the notion that the appointment power should reside with the senate. The framers considered that and they rejected it. And the reason they rejected it, as this court noted in its edmund opinion, was to protect the executive against encroachment by the legislature. But the compromise they settled on in moving away from that is that the president will nominate and the senate, if it so chooses, can confirm a nominee. You spoke of the intransigence of the senate. Well,...

Darker days are ahead. Well get all the angles covered coming up. We begin with the White House Correspondent Boris Sanchez in West Palm Beach this morning, boris, good morning to you. There was no signing ceremony. The president clearly not touting this bill that he signed but he still has his own demands, what are they . Reporter yes, good morning, bianna. After several days of delays, numerous twitter rants and several rounds of golf, the president ultimately relenting and signing this covid ...