The wildfires have destroyed eight houses an 18unit apartment complex and two businesses. More now from david bag no. Reporter flames in san marco lit up the sky as the stubborn wildfire continued to burn keeping people from their homes. Hopefully we can get back in. Reporter chopper put out hot spots along smoldering hillsides thursday. But tripledigit temperatures and winds sparked flareups and forced authorities to evacuate thousands more residents. Scott martin and his family are taking up shelter at a hotel for now. Literally, there were black clouds and flames just coming right down the hill from our front door. Reporter the fire is burning everything in its path. This home right behind me in san marcos reduced to rubble. Firefighters say what makes this wildfire so difficult to battle is that its essentially creating its own weather pattern as it sucks in oxygen. Residents have completely lost their homes. Im very upset. But, uhm, what can you say . Im alive. And its okay. You j
To be just hours away from legislation that will finally do that. When we get this done, congress will not deserve any special praise. Not with this relief having waited until late december. Meantime at the white house after countless legal failures, the president is reportedly taking extreme and, in fact, unprecedented measures to try to overturn the Election Results. Nbc news now confirming that they want to investigate allegations of fraud. But first at this hour a massive vaccine rollout is underway. Millions of doses of Modernas Covid vaccine are on the way to thousands of locations nationwide. Officials expect those shots will start being administered tomorrow. Lets start on capitol hill. Nbcs Leigh Ann Caldwell is joining me now. Okay. Its the 900 billion question. What is the latest senator mcconnell has said that were just hours away from a deal . Do you think that time lines realistic . It does seem to be realistic, alex. The reason is, is because what is happening now is tha
Think that this is exactly what it is. Its an indictment of 12 russians, which is a very good development. It means they are making progress on the real rush investigation, nothing to do with collusion, theres nothing politicized about it. Its finding people who did try to interfere with our election and hopefully go after them. Brian the president is about to meet with Vladimir Putin and we know the Mueller Probe is getting more unpopular. Does not have anything to do with the fact that we got this Press Conference . Charles krauthammer used to say you can almost never be too cynical when it comes to things happening in washington but i hope not. This is important stuff. The indictment, what Rod Rosenstein laid out today reveals they did some very good
alter the results of the election and there is still absolutely zero evidence of that whatsoever and it is bogging down our political process. Brian theres a big call among some leadership on the democratic side to not meet with Vladimi
Thanks for watching. And to keep the conversation going, like us at facebook. Com politics nation and follow us on twitter at politics nation. Ill see you back here next sunday. Now to my colleague kasie hunt. Welcome to kasie d. C. Im kasie hunt. We are live every sunday from washington from 7 00 to 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Tonight, brandnew nbc polling just out about the president and his handling of all things russia in light of the historic summit. And senator Richard Blumenthal joins us as Paul Manaforts trial gets ready to start and Michael Cohen drops his first mix tape. Plus this time last sunday we were talking to bill broader about the summit with putin. Hes going to join us live tonight after the russian president name chikd him on the
world stage. And later states of play. Democrats are serious about taking back the senate. Heidi high camp will have to hold on to north dakota. We have new reporting on why it could be tariffs, not russia, that make the difference there. But first
Live with a lawyer who was arguing against this policy in court today. Who will update on us whether the Trump Administration is complying with the judges timetable to put these families back together again. We start tonight with Fredrick Vaughn stew ben. He was born in 1730 in the kingdom of presha. An air that is modern day germany. At 17 he joined the preshan army and fought in the seven years war. It was one of the most sophisticated and powerful armies in the world. He had a distinguished military career, eventually becoming a top aid to fredrick the great. He also believed to be a openly gay man. Back then, being gay was a crime. In 1753 he was dismissed from the army. He was rumored he was let go because he was gay. With no job and nowhere to go,
fredrick went to america. He arrived in the states in the throes of the Revolutionary War in 1777. The Continental Army was losing. They suffered through a bit l winter at valley forge. The troops were living in filth, untrained. George