The powerful storms moving east after battling multiple states from tornadoes to smashed homes and cars, winds so strong a student was literally blown off his feet. Wow. Its a race against time in taiwan. The scenes of devastation after a major earthquake knocked buildings right off of their foundations. Trapping people inside. And could the state of nebraska cost joe biden the election. Its not even a battleground state. Why republicans are pushing for a big change that could make the path to 270 a lot harder for biden. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. We start with the World Central Kitchen, revealing new details about an incident that happened two days before seven aid workers were killed in an air strike. Nbcs raf sanchez is reporting from tel aviv. Tell us about this new accusation, raf. Reporter chris, that deadly air strike happening on monday night, but World Central Kitchen telling us that on saturday, they believe an israeli sniper opened fire on one of their humanitarian vehicles in southern gaza. They say nobody was hurt in that incident. A bullet apparently hitting a wing mirror, but that they did file a complaint with the Israeli Military. Weve asked the idf about that. They havent come back to us. But if true, this would really raise new questions about the care that israels military says that its taking to make sure that aid workers, that other civilians in gaza are safe. The u. N. Says mondays killing, not an isolated incident. Around 200 humanitarians have been killed in gaza since the start of the war. The vast majority of them palestinians, their deaths not getting the same kind of attention as these World Central Kitchen workers. We are hearing today from the founder of that organization, chef jose andres. He just appeared on Television In Israel growing very emotional talking about the deaths of his colleagues, and he touched on a lot of the same points that he mentioned in an oped in the New York Times this morning. I want to read you, chris, Just A Little Bit of what he says. He begins, israelis in their hearts know that food is not a weapon of war. Israel is better than the way this war is being waged. It is better than blocking food and medicine to civilians. It is better than killing aid workers who had coordinated their movements with the Israel Defense forces. The Israeli Government needs to open more land routes for food and medicine today. It needs to stop killing civilians and aide workers today. It needs to start the long journey to peace today. Now, andres also saying that he hopes the Israeli Military investigation into this killing will be fair and it will be thorough. Israels military says its preliminary findings indicate that this was a case of misidentification that Israeli Forces mistook this aid convoy for something that could threaten them. This was three separate strikes, chris, happening over a mile and a half stretch of coastal road, along the mediterranean, and there are a lot of questions from World Central Kitchen, from the white house, from the families of those seven killed aid workers, and absolute top of the list is how is it that Israeli Forces open fire on the convoy when World Central Kitchen says that it coordinated its movements with the idf ahead of time. That is not a question that we yet have an answer to, chris. Raf sanchez, thank you. Now to the Spring Storms that brought reports of at least 12 tornadoes across multiple states. Nbcs maggie vespa is reporting from kentucky for us. Maggie. Reporter kentuckys governor this afternoon in a News Conference deeming this latest round of severe storms now fatal in his state, saying yesterday afternoon during the first line of storms, he says a young man who he declined to name was killed in a car accident that was at least in part due to the weather. He said it happened in Campbell County about an hour northeast of where we are in the louisville area, and he said hes offering his prayers to that victims family. In the meantime, you can see the strength of the storms in kentucky, to wisconsin, to west virginia, that home a metaphor for the strength. It was torn to pieces, especially the front corner, from what we can tell, and ill walk as you can see other homes that were damaged. That chunk of the home tossed on to the lawn of the house across the street from it. You can see crews here across the neighborhood, already setting up trying to clean up as much as they can, tarp homes quickly. Its been raining throughout the afternoon. Hundreds of thousands of people across six states in the u. S. , including Tens Of Thousands here in kentucky, still without power, heading into the afternoon, which speaks to the work that crews have ahead of them. Thankfully in the other states, we have only had reports of minor injuries, no major injuries, no deaths, but kentuckys governor in the News Conference also saying now based on reports they are seeing, they believe as many as seven tornadoes touched down in his state, and this storm system now has been deemed fatal. Maggie vespa, thank you. We are seeing jaw dropping images from a deadly earthquake in taiwan that injured hundreds of people. Nbcs Meagan Fitzgerald is covering this for us. These images are heartbreaking. What can you tell us about whats happening there . Reporter youre right. Absolutely extraordinary. Images of buildings partially collapsed and teetering on the edge next to other buildings. The Search And Rescue effort has been underway now for hours. We know that First Responders are working as quickly as they can to try and save as many people as they can. New numbers coming in. Taiwans National Fire agency says more than 140 people are trapped, most are tourists or in hotels. Then of course they say of that number, 71 people are trapped in mines in the hardest hit coastal city of hualien. Fire departments in various counties and cities have dispatched resources to try and help, including Search And Rescue dogs in support of whats happening in hualien county. All of this as Officials Say more earthquakes are possible. Important to note, this is an earthquake prone region, and taiwans readiness is pretty advanced. They have strict Building Codes in place. Theres routine drills they have in schools. This country was as prepared as they could be. Chris. Meagan fitzgerald, thank you. There will be plenty of battlegrounds to watch on election night. Chances are you didnt have nebraska on your bingo card at least until now. The states republican governor is trying to reinstate a winner take all Electoral System that could deny joe biden a critical Electoral Vote and potentially even cost him the election. Here to explain, nbc Senior National politics reporter jonathan allen. Jonathan, usually winning or losing the election in nebraska are not in the same sentence, but we do know 270 is the magic number. Explain whats happening here. Thats a great question, chris. It can feel very abstract. Let me explain it in these terms. In the last election, joe biden won by about 70 plus Electoral Votes, 74 Electoral Votes, but if you had flipped georgia, arizona, and wisconsin, he and President Trump, former President Trump would have been tied at 269 apiece. If biden had not won nebraskas second district, in addition to those other three states, donald trump would have been reelected president. There are a significant number of scenarios where the two candidates can tie and the single Electoral Vote in nebraska becomes overwhelmingly important if that happens. An interesting side note, theres not a perfect microcosm in any Congressional District of the country, but omahas second Congressional District, the base second Congressional District, thats close to it, a lot of demographic similarities to the rest of the country, in terms of economics, in terms of racial mix, et cetera. So its sort of a fascinating place politically that i think gets ignored a little bit on the coast. John allen, thank you. In 60 seconds, the new evidence that Special Counsel jack smith has had it up to here with the judge in trumps Classified Documents Trial. With Classified Documents Trial he thd patches are all people see. Otezla is the 1 prescribed pill to treat plaque psoriasis. Otezla can help you get clearer skin. Dont use otezla if youre allergic to it. Serious allergic reactions can happen. 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Glen kirschner is a form Erp Federal Prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst, and here in studio, msnbc legal analyst, lisa rubin. What is jack smith so mad about . Hes mad for a couple of reasons. We dont have a trial date in the case and judge cannon is ordering the Special Counsel and Trump Lawyers to submit Jury Instructions on a specific topic. As glenn knows well, you submit your Jury Instructions when your close to trial. She asked about the Jury Instructions about the president ial documents act. She wanted them to say what the jury can and cant decide about if a president can designate records as personal versus president ial and if they do that, is the president the sole decider with respect to that in ways that would negate prosecution. Let me make this a little simpler. Bottom line is, personal versus whats part of the law, right, that distinction is incredibly important. But its irrelevant to whether something can be charged under espionage act, and thats what jack smith is upset about. Hes saying to the extent that youre telling the jury the president ial records act plays any part inform this case, thats an unstated and fundamentally flawed legal premise. It has nothing to do with whether he is authorized to willfully retain documents that pertain to the National Defense which is what we have charged this guy with. So is what the underlying thing is here, glenn, is why are we even talking about this, and by the way, have you ever seen a prosecutor go after a judge like this . In all of my years i have filed a lot of motions in Federal Court, and on the Receiving End of Defense Motions filed in court, i have never seen quite so direct or searing a criticism of a Federal Court judge by prosecutors or defense attorneys. I mean, ironically, this is jack smith both figuratively and literally Laying Down The Law for judge cannon because she proposed to give an instruction to cut right to the chase that would be like telling the jury, if youre the president , they let you do it under the president ial records act, and jack smith said, quote, it is fiction to suggest that a president of the United States can take some of our most closely guarded National Security secrets and convert them into personal records like diaries, journals, and private medical records of a president. And so just, you know, one sentence from one what jack smith says directly to judge cannon is judge, your legal premise is wrong and a Jury Instruction that disrupts that premise would distort the trial. If you persist, we will file an appeal, perhaps a special kind of appeal called a writ of mandamus, which seeks to have a superior court tell the Trial Court Judge do your job in accordance the law and dont abuse your judicial discretion. Yeah, so whats going on here, glenn . Do you think the judge doesnt understand the law . Is it that cut and dry . Whats happening . So these two proposed Jury Instructions have no legal support, no experienced judge, no competent judge would propose them. I cant say if this is a product of incompetence, of compromise, undue bias in favor of donald trump, which this judge has been found to have done once previously, the 11th Circuit Court of appeals previously found she abused her judicial discretion and did something the law did not allow, to the extreme benefit of donald trump. I think that gives us a little insight, but its clear, the gloves are off, jack smith will not stand for it, and he is going to go hard and fast after making sure the rule of law applies to donald trump as it should. So what are smiths options now, lisa . If he would take it to this point, if he would say im going to essentially appeal this, right, and if shes found not to be right in this by the higher court, then is there a case to get her taken off . I mean, what happens . I think there is. First of all, lets go to your initial question, which is what are their options in the Special Counsels office. There has to be some sort of decision to appeal in the first instance. So theyre asking very clearly, make a prompt decision here because, if you decide that this president ial records act has a role in this trial, we want to get this in front of an Appeals Panel right away before jeopardy attaches. Thats a fancy way of saying the minute the jury is seated here, we dont get a second bite at this apple. We need to appeal this now, and to your point, chris, will they also ask for a recusal if we get to that point. I think its possible. There are a number of people we thought to the extent they asked for a recusal, it will be on another issue, the order directing them to unseal the names of two dozen witnesses in the case. She is still reconsidering whether or not that order should hold. Many people think that if she says they should reveal those witnesses, the government will appeal that too and that too could lead to a request to recuse judge cannon. I have to ask you about something else, about trump now suing some of the cofounders, i guess you would say of truth social. They happen to be former contestants on the apprentice. Whats he saying they did . Lets start with what they said he did first. His is actually the second suit here. They sued trump media in a Delaware Court almost a month before that company was taken public saying that the conversion ratio for their Ownership Stake was improper and they essentially werent going to be given enough of the public company. Thats being litigated. Trump counter sued in a different form saying they werent loyalty to the company they should fore fit their shares. Lisa rubin glenn kirschner, thank you very much. Donald trump issues a new Debate Challenge to joe biden, this time using props. G props. I know what its like to perform through pain. If youre like me, one of the millions suffering from pain caused by migraine, Nurtec Odt May help. Its the only medication that can treat a migraine when it strikes and prevent migraine attacks. Treat and prevent, all in one. Dont take if allergic to nurtec. Allergic reactions can occur, even days after using. Most common side effects were nausea, indigestion, and stomach pain. Relief is possible. 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