Musks fight not to buy the company. Reaching a decision on whether to cancel some Student Loan Debt for some americans. I have 20 grand at least and thats like bare minimum. What sources say about how the president is leaning and when well goat figuresal word. A mysterious virus infecting and killing dogs 30 dead in one county alone. The symptoms, the treatment and some serious advice for dog owners why the Justice Department was so determined to recover the documents from maralago. A verdict for two men tried for plotting to kidnap governor gretchen whitmer. And celebrities busted for extreme waterways. Announcer live from cnbc, the facts. The truth. The news with Shepard Smith. Good evening its another crucial primary night in america right now voters in new york and florida are deciding some high profile races that could give us a preview of whats to come in the mid terms. Will abortion rights energize democratic voters . New yorks special election for congressional seat widely seen as a bellwether for november the democratic candidate, pat ryan has made abortion the center piece of our campaign. While Marcus Molinaro has focused on crime and inflation also in new york, redistricting is pitting these two longtime democrats against each other in a contentious battle jerry nadler and carolyn maloney. Only one can stay in office. And in florida, well find out which democrat will face off against the gops rising star and potential president ial candidate, Governor Ron Desantis we begin with cnbc senior Congressional Correspondent ylan mui live. Shep, new yorks special election is a test case of which issues will break through to a divided electorate it went for obama, it went to trump and then it swung back to biden. The latest polls show that democrat pat ryan and republican Mark Molinaro are running neck in neck within the margin of error. Theres been money to tip it 650,000 to supporting molinaro. The House Democratic campaign sent six figures to boosting ryan with ads focused on abortion despite all of this attention, no matter who wins tonight, theyll only hold a job for a couple of months thats because the district has been redrawn it could change hands again in november. Ylan, jerry nadler or Caroline Maloney will be out of a job. Reporter its pitting two titans of the Democratic Party against each other jerry nadler has been campaigning across town all day long he has said hes the principal progressive in this race and he has a lead in the polls. Ill be out campaigning this morning. Ill be out campaigning this afternoon. No, you do everything you can. You dont want to lose an election and think to yourself, oh, if only i had done that so you do everything you can. Reporter nadler said its unfortunate hes been forced to run against his former friend and former house chair, Caroline Maloney because of redistricting. She posted a couple of pictures outside on the streets this morning, even with her grandson. Shes made gender a big part of her campaign. It is a horrible time for women. I never thought i would ever see a law rolled back and that my daughters would have less protection than i have, and i would say there is no democracy if women cannot determine their health care for their own bodies reporter now both candidates are also trying to fend off a Young Political newcomer who says hes seeking generational change shep, the bigger issue here could be turnout lots of folks in new york are on vacation now they might be thinking more about actual parties and not political ones. Ylan mui live in bryant park in mid town, manhattan. In florida, two people competing to take on Ron Desantis Charlie Crist was once republican democrat. Hes facing off against nikki fried. Shes the only statewide elected democrat in florida and shes run focusing largely on womens rights since the overturn of roe v. Wade. Four years ago Governor Desantis barely won hes become one of the most Popular Figures in all of the Republican Party desantis is widely seen as a leading gop contender for the white house in 2024 if he decides to run former President Trump brought more than 700 pages of classified documents to his mansion in florida when he left the white house. Some of them pertaining to the nations most secret intelligence operations. Thats according to a newly released letter from the National Archives. The nations archive vice sent it to mr. Trumps lawyer back in may. The Justice Department was alarmed and seeking immediate access according to the letter, the fbi and Intelligence Community needed urgent access based on the way they were stored and transported. The doj needed them for an ongoing criminal investigation heres nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. Reporter the documents included special Access Program materials. Some of the most highly secure documents. Special Access Programs are a category of top secret information so sensitive that only a small number of people inside the u. S. Government can see it its the kind of information that if disclosed can compromise American National security and even get People Killed maralago is not exactly a secure facility. Its a private beach front club. The New York Times is reporting that altogether the fbi counts 300 classified documents taken from maralago suggesting this was not simply a matter of a few mistakes in packing. The archive letter also tells us that trumps lawyer was seeking to stop the fbi from seeing the documents claiming some of them might be covered by executive privilege. The National Archives flat out rejected the plan saying the question in this case is not a close one. The executive branch here is seeking access to records belonging to and in the custody of the federal government itself bottom line, whether highly classified or not, the documents were the property of the u. S. Government itself. Storm watch. More than 3 million americans under flood alerts tonight a deadly storm moving east after the devastating flash floods in arizona and north texas. Today the texas governor, greg abbott, signed a state disaster declaration freeing up state declarations for hardhit counties. Its our understanding what happened yesterday is the second worst rainstorm and flooding in dallas since 1932. In fact, the Weather Service reports dallas got a summers worth of rain in just 24 hours between sunday and yesterday Governor Abbott said texas is prepared to handle extreme weather but he did not mention Climate Change during his news cop for instance meantime, texas fire Officials Say one woman is dead after water swept her car off a bridge officials identifying her as 90yearold Jolene Gerald from dallas she was on the phone with her husband when the flood waters swept her away. A high profile whistle ploeer calls twitters Security Problems a threat to your privacy and a threat to our security what that means for elon musk. Getting high on the legal supply the new study that shows how many drugs young people are using and what theyre cutting back on. Plus, the hits just keep coming the new numbers out today delivering more bad news for our Housing Market and anybody looking to buy s twitter has serious Security Issues it puts our entire democracy and security at risk in it the companys former security chief alleges executives misled federal regulators as well as the companys own board about, as he puts it, extreme and egregious deficiencies related to privacy and security the tech giant has flat out lied about how they handle cases. His name is peter zapko. Hes known online as mudge he says twitter needs to take these risks seriously as well as now. Your whole perception of the world is what you are made from seeing, reading, consuming online if you dont have an understanding of whats real, whats not, yeah, i think this is pretty scary. Reporter are you nervous yeah. Yeah this wasnt my first choice. I just want to make the world a safe place, a better place the levers i have to do it is this way. In a memo to staff obtained by cnbc he describes zapko as a former twitter executive who was terminated in january of this year for ineffective leadership and performance. We are reviewing the redacted claims that have been published, but what weve seen so far is a false narrative. So this is just beginning. But what does it all mean for elon musk . Right now hes locked in a legal battle with twitter after trying to back out of his 44 billion deal to buy the social media company. Musk claims twitter didnt give him all the data he requested about fake and spam accounts and now the whistleblower complaint just raised more questions an attorney representing zap could he insists the former twitter attorney has had no contact with elon musk eamon javers is here stunning accusations. Absolutely, shep. This whistleblower document is 84 pages long with sections like legal violations and deceit, lying about bots to musk and new ceo enables fraud. You can see why twitter doesnt like it. Mudge here says they didnt even conduct the basics of cybersecurity. He said there were server vulnerabilities. Employees computers were exposed. There was no mobile Device Management and Insider Threats were, quote, virtually unmonitored. He alleges misuse of mishandling personally identifiable information and making misrepresentations to the federal trade Commission Even worse for twitter, mudge here alleges certain instances of fraudard of directors. Mudge portrays exsececutives misrepresenting he would conduct meetings prompting some to say he might be sick. This document is very good news for elon musk whos been making similar arguments about the presence of bots on the twitter system in his fight to cancel the purchase he backs musk almost every certain time musk is correct or musks suspicions are on target they told cnbc this morning his team has subpoenaed subpoenme. Eamon javers, thanks very much. Last year young adults used more marijuana and psychedelic drugs than ever before at least according to a new study from the National Institutes of health in 2021, 43 of young adults reported using marijuana in the past year. Thats the highest level recorded since the nih started monitoring these trends more than 30 years ago. Young adults reported theyre using more hallucinogenic drugs. 8 reported using lsd or shrooms. 10 years ago that was 3 nicotine vaping nearly tripled 16 last year up from 6 five years ago. The study reported young adults are doing less binge drinking. Thats defined as having more than five drinks in a row. High intensity drinking, ten drinks or more, that reached the highest level since it was first measured, more than 15 years ago. Most americans want to see tighter gun control laws it reported 71 of American Adults say gun laws should be stricter the poll found 8 in 10 americans believe gun violence is increasing all across the country. The ap conducted the poll between july 28th and august 1st. That was shortly after a string of mass shootings, including at a Grocery Store in buffalo, new york, at Robb Elementary School in uvalde, texas, and at a fourth of july parade in illinois as for the type of gun laws people would like to see, a Bipartisan Group of americans is in favor of a nationwide background check policy. A law preventing mentally ill people from buying guns and making 21 the minimum age to buy a gun in every state 59 surveyed favor a ban on ar15 style weapons. What is killing dozens of dogs in one particular county. The signs that pet owners need to watch out for and what to do to keep dogs safer plus, College Students moving back to campus finding out, cant afford the rent anymore so theyre looking for roommates, but not the ones you might expect first tonight, gary gaines has died he inspired the best selling book and movie and tv show fright night lights. His family announced he died yesterday of alzheimers his football legend lives in west texas coach gaines led several successful programs over his 30year career hes best known for his time at odessa permean High School Friday night lights follows his teams run to the championship in 1988 he valued winning above all else coach gary gaines was 73 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. We thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. But we quickly realized we needed a way to supplement our income. If you have 100,000 or more of Life Insurance, you may qualify to sell your policy. Dont cancel or let your policy lapse without finding out what its worth. Visit coventrydirect. Com to find out if your policy qualifies. Or call the number on your screen. Coventry direct, redefining insurance. Now the mystery illness thats killed dozens of dogs in northern michigan. Officials say more than 30 dogs have died in the last month. According to a local animal shelter, most of them were puppies or under 2 years old and most died within just 3 to 5 days vet ter rin nairians say it seems similar to parvo virus vomiting, with bloody stool. All of them came back negative for parvo. Some of the dogs were vaccinated for parvo. They say this could be a variant of sorts their advice, clean up after your pets, keep dogs from the other dogs if theyre sick and dont let them sniff around too much since parvo and maybe this variant can live on soil and pavement in a statement on facebook a representative for the local shelter wrote in part, no one has an answer. The best guess is that this is a strain of parvo. The only thing is to make sure that your pets are vaccinated and at the first sign of illness get to the veterinarian. Teachers in Columbus Ohio on strike for a second day now. Schools scheduled to start tomorrow columbus is the states Largest School district with more than 47,000 students. The school board said students will have to attend Remote School until the strike is over. You know they love that. This is the scene, you cant really hear them, but they are making noises. The teachers again took to the picket line according to the School Boards 600 substitute teachers are on hand to kick off the school year tomorrow morning and 9 Different Community centers will be available if students would rather be with other kids instead of at the breakfast table. Tas as for the negotiations, students say Better School sizes, heat and air and class sizes. Both sides met for four hours but no deal. A federal mediator called them back to the bargaining table tomorrow. Back to School Season for millions of kids most can expect changes in the lunchroom. For the past two years breakfast and lunch have been free for every student. Thats ending. The free meals program, congress voted to make a change for the new school year. Now with grocery costs on the rise, some families and schools are left scrambling to get food for the lunch table. Single mom has relied on free or reduced priced lunches since he was in kindergarten. What does that extra money mean to you . Savings i can put it towards grocery i can put it in my gas tank. She says paying for his lunch would take more than 1,000 a year its added up to 119 a month. I have to buy groceries. Reporter its a lot of money for families already tight on cash, especially those impacted by the end of the federal Free School Lunch for all program a pandemicera initiative now expired. When you heard that program was ending, what was your reaction i was stressed. Very stressed. Reporter more than 26 million free meals were served every day because of the program. Now families must apply for meal coverage and only those meeting certain income requirements will receive the free lunches nationwide, around 1 in 6 students dont always know where their next meal is coming from here in the ggreely school district, 65 apply for them. The school board has decided to allocate 2 million so every one of the 23,000 School Children can eat for free. A lot of our families are just over the threshold of what qualifies them so we know those families dont necessarily have the money to pay for those meals. Reporter while some believe universal free lunch should be made permanent, critics say it was only meant to be a pandemic era program. By returning these programs back to normal, we can uphold our duty back to the community. This year is far from normal as staffing shortages, supply chain slowdowns and shortages further complicate lunchtime. Our goal is to teach kids how to learn and to think but they cant do that when theyre hungry. Reporter back to school bringing back challenges in feeding americas children for the news, im emily equietta. A guilty plea in the raid that led to the shooting and killing of Breonna Taylor