when there s life and light and love. and that if we can just get to the light and life and love, 51% of the time, then we are having a good day. and we are having a good era. don t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. and i think that america is a marvelous example of a human community that gets so much wrong but which knows intuitively that if you do the right thing, everybody benefits. and we have to see each other as neighbors and not as enemies. do not despair, do not give up, in the words of churchill, never, never, never give up. try john meacham, as always, thank you for being with us. i hope you and your family are having a great fourth of july weekend. that was joe s conversation with john meacham ahead of this july 4th holiday. erin o hearn picks up the coverage right now. good money. morning, john. don t go far. no holiday starting yet. good morning to you at home and welcome to msnbc s live coverage on this monday, july 4th. we begin with the latest fr
move closer to shore what you can do to avoid what lies beneath. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening i m tom llamas in for lester tonight we begin with breaking news massive ground stops and delays across some of the country s biggest airports, making the holiday travel chaos even more complicated. a difficult summer travel season is now going from challenging to worse before the severe weather even moved in, americans facing a rare combination of high gas prices, high airfare, and mass cancellations across the country. the july fourth getaway is under way it is unclear how far people will get. nearly 50 million navigating clogged airports and roads gas prices down slightly, still painfully high for so many americans tracking it all for us tonight, tom costello who starts us off. reporter: friday night and america s july 4th getaway looks dicey. critical airports up and down the east coast in ground stops with severe thunderstorms from or
on. here we go with mask mandates and president biden is facing criticism for pushing the mask mandate. never put our kid back in masks. a man seen beating a woman in the subway for over two minutes. incarceration movement. we will never see alex murdaugh on the street again, never worry about that. his lawyers say they have evidence of jury tampering. duty calls, larry did everything. army helicopter pilot army taylor awarded medal of honor for his service in the vietnam war. brian: we begin with this, today is deadline for david weiss to submit updated version of diversion agreement that would settle a gun charge and keep the president s son out of jail. the house oversight committee issue six new subpoenas over claim that the agency tipped secret service and biden team in 2020 ahead of the tax probe interview. steve: committee chairman james comer is asking for document from homeland securityland security secretary alejandro mayorkas and testimony from
Tropical storm winds over the carolinas. Hurricane michael is likely the most powerful hurricane to sham into the Florida Panhandle. My colleague is in panama city, florida for us and will be with us throughout the hour, throughout the show. You have been getting drenched throughout the morning. How is it looking now . Reporter they just closed the bridge. Im on Panama City Beach. The winds are already too strong. We are still several hours away from the most intense winds we will see, 145 Miles Per Hour. All morning i was out on the beach itself about one mile from here. We could see the sea rising. It was already two or three feet higher than normal. We had to get off that beach. We had to move about a mile inland to where we are right now to ride out the storm on a little bit higher ground. They are expecting a storm surge of about nine feet. It will be enough to flood the coastal areas, the beach zone. The waterfront areas will see water maybe going into the first floors of some of
NEW VIDEO: Three hurt in Walton County shark attacks Friday afternoon wtxl.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wtxl.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.