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They rejected a bid to strip away protections under the states constitution. It is the first time voters have had a say since the Supreme Court struck down roe v. Wade. President biden is framing the landslide vote in kansas is a clear rebuke of the Supreme Court and republican abortion bans. The court in this decisive victory, voters made it clear politicians should not interfere with the fundamental rights of women. The voters of kansas sent a powerful signal that this fall the American People will vote to reserve and protect the right to refuse to let them be ripped away by politicians. Reporter today, the president signed an executive order to help women travel out ofstate to get an abortion if the procedure stand and their home state. Yesterdays primaries were a big victory for trump backed election deniers as well. Those who have embraced the former president s debunked conspiracy theories. They are on the verge of a clean sweep and arizonas gop primary. Only the race for governor is too close to call. Trump endorsed kerry lake holds a slight lead with votes still to be counted. Nbc news projects mr. Trends pics with the state attorney general and secretary of state will all go to gop nominees. The question now, how will they fare against their democratic opponents . Last night was a major test republican members of congress who voted to impeach mr. Trump after the january 6th insurrection. In michigan, a trump endorsed challenger nearly defeated the incumbent gop congressman peter meyer. Two other House Republicans who voted for impeachment facing challenges in Washington State but their races are still listed as too early to call. Lets get analysis from larry sabado, director f the center for politics at the university of virginia. Congress, democrats and energized but this was really a single issue ballot measure. Could they be overstating how much impact this has in november . Yes. They could be. There is no way that you can generalize about this. Every campaign is different. Candidates are different, the districts are different in the states are different. You have to apply what you learned in a particular election like the kansas election on abortion rights. I will tell you, this is the best news democrats have gone from an election in a long while. They at least have the possibility of cutting their losses in the house and maybe holding onto the senate by the narrowest of margins. A new University Poll sent out to us, it shows 50 of voters say they prefer democrats control congress. 83 say they want republicans. This is a swing from three months ago when republicans had the upper hand. Do you see signs that november maybe closer than recently anticipated . Sure. That is one sign of it. There have been a series of polls showing that the so called generic ballot if the election were held today, would you favor democrats and republicans, it is clear democrats have moved up and republicans have moved down but not massively. Also, you have to be careful with it because the democratic vote is over concentrated in fewer districts, particularly minority districts. Republican votes are more economically distributed. Democrats have to have a big lead in the generic ballot to win the election in the house. A big lead they do not have. Trump backed candidates marked several went across several states, especially arizona. What message does that send to the Republican Party . It sends this message that all of us have been looking for too many signs and signals that donald trump is fading. He may be but you cant tell it from the election returns, at least a republican primaries. He did well and most contests where he endorsed. You mentioned arizona in particular, it is stunning and jawdropping. Not just that all of terms candidates in the key races one, but that they are all for elections. They brought into terms big live. This is a major test in november for american democracy as well. Great to see you. Thank you. China is prepared to arry out a series of live fire military drills just miles off the coast of taiwan. They are essentially a blockade, according to Taiwan Defense officials. It is seen as a retaliatory move as promised for House SpeakerNancy Pelosis trip to the island. According to the New York Times, Chinese State media reports the drills are set to begin tomorrow. Is you can see on this map, the military zone surrounds taiwan and some cross into the islands territorial waters. Taiwans Defense Ministry reports effacing follows through with the exercises, it will be a direct challenge to taiwan sovereignty. China claims control over that selfgoverning island. Before Speaker Pelosi left taiwan earlier today, she spoke alongside the evidence president delivered a message of solidarity. Speaker pelosi appeared to call out the chinese president. There were certain insecurities on the part of the president on china as to his own political situation that he is rattling a saber. I dont know. What matters to us is that we salute the successes of taiwan, we Work Together for the security of taiwan, and we just take great lessons from the democracy of taiwan. Speaker pelosi added she hopes the visit makes it a clear point to china that america stands with taiwan. Interpreter mr. Charles with us, now. Former director for Asian Affairs of the National Security council. Our wargames and tough talk from beijing all we are likely to see . Do you expect chinese president xi jinping may go further . If so, to what . I think it will just be wargames and tough talk is your piece are noted. As the speaker noted, chinese president xi jinping is walking a political tightrope. He is up for a third term as the leader of china. The last that he wants is a full on war crisis instigated by him that with the potentially make it difficult for him to win that third term. This is expected. They telegraphed that they would do this and it is expected and it will go forward. I dont think the chinese would do much more. There could be a response if the United States chose to respond, but i dont think we need that either. You wonder why chinese president xi jinping did dismiss her visit as sort of a political charade instead of elevating it, which is exactly what he did. That is right. By elevating it, he brought the responsibility on himself to respond, whereas ignoring it might be helpful. This speaks to how much of a neurology point this is for china. Anything that has to do with pseudorecognition of taiwan as an independent state is something that the chinese leadership cannot stand for, especially at this time when he is taking about a third term as a leader of china. Good of you, thank you. It is a horrible mess in kentucky. They are cleaning up after devastating flash floods started a week ago and have killed 37 people. This video from the town of andaman, two hours south of lexington, it got crushed. Flash floods swept a fire truck under a bridge. This video shows workers cleaning and office building. They say the water reached all the way to the ceiling. Search and rescue teams continue to look for survivors. For them, there is a new threat, a scorching heat wave. Parts of Eastern Kentucky under extreme heat advisories today and tomorrow. Many people will have to deal with extreme heat without air conditioning. Honey, it is hot, we have ceiling fans. I have electric but we just dont have air. What else are we going to do . It is so hot that officials are opening up cooling centers for everyone. Is live two hours east of lexington. The seat i understand is just suffocating. Reporter we have been sweating all day. There is a cooling center in town. It is at the high school. It has been hot all day. Right now we are in a heat advisory. Creek of the waters have been going down. People just keep finding things in the water. Yesterday, a man who lives here told us he found this. Found a truck he has never seen before. He has no idea who owns it or where it came from. On if you get is crying where her house used to stand. In the rubble, the only thing she recognizes is a patch of linoleum flooring. The tires of her car pulled out of the creek. It could have turned out so different. It could have been so different. Reporter the neighbors living on both sides of her house died, four of them. We could have been with the rest of them and not made it. God saved us. Connie says she and her 8 yearold granddaughter, faith, which after the water. Lying on their bellies, they called up this hill pulling on the grass. No, maam ill get it. He goes you can get up that hill, youre almost here. Goes you can do it. And its her little voice that got me up the hill. Furniture bakes in the heat. This fella i saw out there in front of my house a while ago, he said it would take 90,000 to fix it. I said i dont have 90,000. Reporter on the road to flemington the heart, the highway crumbles into the water. The sun is hot and the mud is deep. It is a tough time. Reporter connie says her house is somewhere in the bend of the creek. The house has been in our family for ages. It is a lot of memories. Yes it is, a lot of memories. We have got our memories. We got them back there. They are there. Are you going to try to move back here . No. We will go somewhere where there aint no water. Im not living by the water no more. I cant. I am terrified. We spoke with the firefighters and states connie. He said the water was chest deep when she was saved her and her 8yearold granddaughter. Connie and a lot of people rely on families and stable families at this time. With the seed, this mud is turning to dirt so people are shoveling dirt out of their house. Just incredible. Thank you so much. Now, a young girl found wandering alone on a road in alabama. Nobody knew then she just escaped captivity. What she endured, how she freed herself, and what police say about the grisly discovery they made when she led them to this home. Minutes before a small plane made an Emergency Landing, air Traffic Controllers got a call from 911. The explanation they gave into how one of the pilots ended up dead on the ground. A paraglider caught in his parachute, plummeting towards the ground. What he tells cnbc about his quick actions after deciding it was not his day to died. Just got a tiny scratch on my elbow which is by now actually invisible. I got super lucky on another story of a brave 12 yearold girl and alabama. She chewed her way through her abductors restraints, breaking her braces on the process, to escaped captivity. Cops say she pointed them to her alleged kidnappers home where they found two decomposing bodies. She is a hero. It is one of those things we want to get into later we gave her medical attention. She is safe now. We want to keep her that way. The sheriff until the is the county, alabama, says a driver spotted the girl walking by herself along the road yesterday morning and call the cops. He didnt identify her but said she is doing well. The cops arrested this man, jose pascoe reyes. According to Court Documents, he tied the girl to bedposts for about a week, used alcohol to keep her drugged up, and assaulted her. The Court Documents accused the men of killing and chopping up the remains of a 34yearold woman and a boy under the age of 14. Their bodies were the ones they found. Police would not say if the suspect had any sort of relationship with the victims. Today, the New York Times reports an assistant District Attorney says it was not a random abduction. Pascoe reyes season to capital murder charges, two counts of corpse abuse, and a kidnapping charge for allegedly abducting and abusing that 12yearold girl. It is not yet clear whether he has a lawyer. You may have heard about the man who fell to his death from an airplane. Now we know it happened on purpose and there is audio. We first reported on the story on monday. At the time, it was unclear to us or anyone else whether the pilot jumped or fell out at 3500 feet. Now we have a 911 call that suggest he jumped. The 23yearold, charles crookes, was one of two pilots aboard a small plane that had to make an Emergency Landing on friday. On the emergency call, you can hear the faa employee told the dispatcher what crookes copilots it happened. They say he jumped out of the aircraft. His copilot jumped out without the peer to. So he might have impact to the ground. Tonight a friend of crookes say he has fun with him before. He said when they were in the sky together, he followed every rule to the letter. According to the recordings, both pilots called air Traffic Control shortly after a wheel fell off the plane while trying to land the first time. They asked for help regarding two different airport. When the plane to come down, only one pilot was on board. Im sure the pilot is going to be shaken. He literally just said my pilot just jumped out. I guess all we can really do is do a yeah. I know. I dont know. This is the craziest thing ive ever Authorities Say they found crookes body in a backyard about 30 miles from the airport. He did not have a parachute. Authorities have not released the name of the other pilot. They say the faa and ntsb are still investigating. A paraglider ends been Cheating Death and capturing every heart stopping moment of it on camera. His name is kevin philip and here he is up in the air. Philip is a pro. He does acro paragliding. Aerobatic tricks while gliding to the ground. He tries to pull the first parachute but gets tangled in a mess of cables and ropes. Then with seconds to spare, he pulls the emergency chute and sales down. Philip told us the break line got stuck. He says that day, his mother came to see him. Light for the first time. I was actually having her in my mind when everything went really bad at the very end of the video. For philip e says this was nothing. A few years ago, he says he was partially paralyzed in a paragliding accident. I broke my back paragliding. I was paralyzed for a half year. After six months, i still left the wheelchair. I still needed it from time to time. He says after he learned to walk again, he started up in the and. That is how he got into acro paragliding. He says it does not scare him as he has already been through the worst. Philip told us he walked away with just a scratch on his elbow. He says what happened to him is rare and he is ready to get back out there as soon as he can. One of the best broadcasters in history has died. Good afternoon, everybody. This is vin scully speaking to you. Remembering the legend. A big change for dti do you have a Life Insurance policy you no longer need . Now you can sell your policy even a term policy for an immediate cash payment. Call Coventry Direct to learn more. We thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. But we quickly realized we needed a way to supplement our income. Our friend sold their policy to help pay their medical bills, and that got me thinking. Maybe selling our policy could help with our retirement. Im skeptical, so i did some research and called Coventry Direct. They explained Life Insurance is a valuable asset that can be sold. We learned we could sell all of our policy, or keep part of it with no future payments. Who knew . 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He has been called the soundtrack of baseball, a singular voice who captured the hearts of fans in a way few others could. The Los Angeles Dodgers announced he died yesterday at the age of 94. He was the voice of dodgers baseball for nearly 7 decades. He knew when to talk and when to listen to the sounds of the game. In a tweet, the team wrote there were never be another vin scully. You will be forever missed. Basketball star lebron james said reston power. Another great one who made sports so special. The tennis icon,