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and take advantage of our special offer of no payments for eighteen months. hello again, everyone, thank you so much for joining me this saturday. im fredericka whitfield. rescue operations are under way in eastern kentucky, floodwaters engulfing entire communities following torrential rainfall. there have been deaths from the flooding, including four children. officials say the numbers may rise as many people are missing as of this hour. governor andy beshear saying this earlier tod...

house is pushing back against criticism it is not doing enough. msnbc get -- executive actions boosting access to abortion and contraception. the white house emphasizing that only congress will codify roe v. wade protections into federal law. this all comes as a post rule america begins to really take shape. friday, a louisiana judge ruled that the state can now enforce its total ban on abortions. republicans in pennsylvania just advanced a proposed constitutional amendment that would ...

and nowadays, youve got something called a calculator, and these are just marvellous things. anybody that gets one of these, it does all the work for you. in other news... the investigation into the murder of nine—year—old olivia pratt—korbel continues — police are questioning a former drug dealer, who was the intended target of the attack. a think—thank campaigning on behalf of low—and—middle—income families has warned that "a catastrophe is coming this winter", unless...

and her husband are being held on an immigration charge. and coming up this hour... the 17—year—old solo pilot whos broken two world records. hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. 25 people, including two children, are now known to have died in a russian airstrike in eastern ukraine, according to authorities in kyiv. the ukrainian president, volodmyr zelensky, said that a railway station was hit and several houses and cars were destroyed, in a series of...

about what happens next now that the judge has this in hand? >> reporter: it could be some time before we see anything here from this process, this process where the justice department is proposing redactions from this affidavit that would detail the investigation up to the point where they decided they needed to go and search and seize documents out of mar-a-lago. this filing, it did come in under seal. the judge will take a look at it. there could be days or weeks of wagt ahwaiting a...

the suspect dressed in womens clothing. that is the disguise he used to try to get away after the shooting. police say this is something that had been planned for several weeks. the gunman used that disguise to try to sleep through the crowd. but investigators say he left behind a legally purchased assault rifle that the atf was able to trace to this person of interest now, who is behind bars as we speak, not yet charged. police say he fired off more than 70 rounds from a roof overlook...

it passed in spite of weeks of protests. -- new lap permits for borden shun only in cases of incest or. rape or if the fetus has a lethal anomaly. physicians would lose their licenses performing. portions the white house as its another about a call step by republican legislators to take away womens reproductive rights and freedom input personal health care decisions in the hands of politicians rather than women and their doctors. meanwhile, in wisconsin, donald trump continue to push t...

i can see that -- i can see alexandria obviously talking there but we are having a bit of and adio issue, we will circle back and get back to her in a moment. in the mean time, i will take you out to the great state of florida where we have live pictures of mar-a-lago, the former president trumps beautiful estate. some have called it the southern white house. as for the former president hes pushing back against the fbi search of his home on social media saying the agency should return ...

it for now they sent does not appear that man was targeting any members of congress. police are just released this mans name about an hour ago and are still investigating his a background in social media. lucas tomlinson is alive in washington with the very latest on this. lucas what can you tell us? >> we just learn the identity of that man who crash the car into a barricade, fired shots in the air to the u.s. capitol. please have identified 29 year old richard eight york the third fr...

im in an untenable position. the constitution is on my side on this. >> well see about that. next week the january 6th committee begins a month of hearings with the promise of revealing new witnesses and unseen documents. were getting a new report from "the new york times" that chief of staff to vice president warned the secret service one day before the insurrection that trump could publically turn on pence and create a security risk for the vice president. the secret service disputes...