CONTINUES WITH HALLIE JACKSON, RIGHT NOW ♪ >>> WE ARE COMING ON THE AIR WITH A DANGEROUS TORNADO RIPPING THROUGH A TOWN IN NORTH CAROLINA. PULLING THE ROOF OFF OF A MEDICAL PLANT, KNOCKING OVER HOUSES AS IN KENTUCKY, HERE. THE GOVERNOR IS DECLARING A STATE OF EMERGENCY AFTER ALL OF THE FLASH FLOODING. WE ARE LIVE WITH WHERE THE STORMS ARE HEADED NEXT. >> JUST IN THE LAST HOUR OR SO, SHOCKING DETAILS FROM THE POLICE ABOUT WHAT A WOMAN WHO WENT MISSING FOR 49 HOURS WERE LOOKING UP ON THE PHONE. AMBER ALERTS, HOW TO STEAL MONEY, TAKEN. WHAT THEY HAVE NOT FOUND? ANY EVIDENCE OF A TODDLER WALKING DOWN THE HIGHWAY. WE WILL EXPLAIN. >>> A PRISON INTERVIEW WITH A PLAN THAT COULD BE EXECUTED AS EARLY AS TOMORROW COUNTRY MUSICV AS CRITICS ACCUSE HIM OF INCITING VIOLENCE. HOW HE IS DEFENDING HIMSELF TONIGHT. >>> CLIMATE CHANGE AND CHANGING SEA LEVELS MIGHT SINK A TOWN BUT SOME ARE STILL MOVING IN. SOME HOMEOWNERS ARE SAYING THE RISK IS WORTH IT FOR THEIR SLICE OF PARADISE, LATER IN THE SHOW. >>> HEY, THERE I'M HALLIE. >>> A TORNADO THE LATEST INFORMATION WE ARE GETTING IN THE LAST COUPLE OF MINUTES. AS YOU SEE SOME OF THE DAMAGE HERE. TREES FALLING OVER HOUSES, ROADS, SEVERAL MOBILE HOMES DESTROYED THE ROOF RIPPED UP THERE. THERE IS A PFIZER PLANT WHERE THE ROOF IS TORN OFF, WE DON'T KNOW THE EXAT THE PRESENT TIME OF THE DAMAGE, ANYTHING INSIDE THAT MAY HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED. WE ARE WORKING TO FIND OUT. THE TORNADO CAME ROLLING THROUGH NASH COUNTY. LIGHTNING, WINDS, UP TO 135 MILES AN HOUR. THAT IS SO OMINOUS LOOKING. YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE DEBRIS FLYING IN THE AIR AS THE SKY GETS DARKER AND DARKER. THIS TORNADO, IT IS PART OF THE WAVE OF TERRIBLE WEATHER PUTTING PEOPLE AT RISK TONIGHT. POTENTIALLY MORE TORNADOES TO COME, STRONG WIND, BIG HAIL, THE LATEST ROUND AFTER THE CLEANUP IN ONE KENTUCKY TOWN WITH FLASH FLOODING PUTTING NEIGHBORHOODS ALMOST UNDER WATER. LOOK AT THIS DRONE SHOT. YOU CAN NOT SEE PEOPLE'S FRONT DOORS HERE. IT LOOKS LIKE HOUSES AND CARS ARE FLOATING IN A LAKE OF WHAT USED TO BE STREETS. THE CITY SAW ALMOST A FOOT OF RAIN COMING DOWN IN THE LAST 24 HOURS. THAT CAN BE A NEW STATE RECORD. LOOK AT THAT, WITH THE FLOODING LEAVING SOME PEOPLE NOT SURE OF WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO NEXT. >>> WE ALL WORK FULL TIME JOBS AND ALL OF OUR STUFF WAS TAKEN. IT IS RUINED. WE DON'T HAVE RENTER'S INSURANCE. >> IT IS A HARD SITUATION. ESPECIALLY IN A TOWN LIKE MAYFIELD, 30% OF THE PEOPLE THERE LIVE UNDER THE POVERTY LINE. MORE THAN TWICE THE NATIONAL AVERAGE. IF YOU ARE WONDERING WHY THIS TOWN SOUNDS FAMILIAR IT IS BECAUSE BACK IN DECEMBER 2021 IT WAS IN THE BULL'S-EYE OF A EF-4 TORNADO THAT FLATTENED THE AREA, 40 PEOPLE DIED. ALL OF THIS COMING ON TOP OF THE EXTREME HEATWAVE THAT IS BAKING SOMETHING LIKE 80 MILLION OF US. WE HAVE BILL KARINS WITH THE FORECAST BUT I WANT TO GET TO BLAYNE ALEXANDER, YOU HAVE THE HEAT, THE FLOODING AND THE TORNADOES. >> Reporter: THIS IS BECOMING THE THEME OF THE SUMMER. THIS EXTREME WEATHER THAT CHECKS ALMOST EVERY BOX, EVERY CATEGORY. LET'S START WITH THE HEAT HERE IN ATLANTA WE HAVE SEEN UNPRECEDENTEDLY HOT TEMPERATURES. BUT, THAT IS WHAT WE ARE SEEING ACROSS IT. MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOR DAYS NOW HAVE BEEN IN THE PATH WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THIS WEATHER, WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT IT BEING UNCOMFORTABLE. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HEAT THAT IS DANGEROUS. THAT IS WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. THE HEAT. NOW, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE RAIN. WE SEEN IT AROUND THE COUNTRY, THE NORTHEAST. NOW, FOCUS ON KENTUCKY. IN FACT THE GOVERNOR THERE DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY AFTER WE SAW THAT EXTREME FLASH FLOODING THERE IN KENTUCKY NEAR MAYFIELD. NOW, WHAT IS REALLY IS UNBELIEVABLE ABOUT THIS, HALLIE, THAT PARTICULAR COUNTY BROKE A DAILY RECORD FOR RAINFALL. IT WAS IN A 24-HOUR PERIOD. THAT IS UNBELIEVABLE. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE PICTURES RIGHT THERE, IT IS UNBELIEVABLE. BACK IN DECEMBER OF 2021 WE SAW THE SAME AREA. IN FACT, SOME PARTS OF MAYFIELD, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, ARE STILL CLEANING UP FROM THE TORNADO BACK THEN. NOW THEY HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS DISASTER ON TOP OF A STILL EXISTING DISASTER. SO, THAT IS KENTUCKY. AND THEN IF YOU GO JUST A LITTLE BIT TO THE SOUTHEAST, DOWN IN NORTH CAROLINA WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT TORNADO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT JUST RIPS THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. YOU SEE THE IMAGES THEREOF THAT PFIZER FACILITY. NOW, WE ARE GETTING REPORTS THAT THERE IS HEAVY DAMAGE INSIDE. THAT SOME OF THE MEDICINE, OF COURSE, STORED INSIDE COULD HAVE BEEN HEAVILY DAMAGED AS WELL. IT IS NOT JUST THAT FACILITY, WE ARE SEEING PICTURES COMING OUT OF THEREOF HOMES DEVASTATED. PEOPLE WERE URGED TO STAY OFF OF THE ROADS. THE ROADS WERE DAMAGED, THEY HAD TO CLOSE THE INTERSTATE FOR SOME TIME. TRAFFIC BACKED UP. THIS IS REALLY A SNAPSHOT OF SOME OF THE EXTREME WEATHER, HALLIE, WE ARE SEEING, NOW, WE ARE OFFICIALLY HITTING FOUR WEEKS OF SUMMER TODAY. AND THIS IS BECOMING, AGAIN, QUITE A TRADE MARK OF WHAT WE ARE SEEING THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER. HERE IN ATLANTA WITH THE HEAT, NO SIGN OF IT COOLING DOWN AS WELL. MANY PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO FIND RELIEF. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT RUN DOWN. LOTS GOING ON. METEOROLOGIST BILL KARINS KNOWS IT. TALK ABOUT THE EF-2 TORNADO IN NORTH CAROLINA, AND THE RISK OF MORE STORMS TONIGHT. WHAT SHOULD WE BE BRACING FOR. THAT IS RIDICULOUS. >> YES, THIS IS AT 12:30 THIS IS AT NOON. NOT IN A TORNADO WATCH WHEN THE TORNADO FIRST TOUCHED DOWN. THERE IS NOT A WARNING. SUDDEN AND UNPREDICTED. WE ARE LUCKY AND THANKFUL WITH THIS STRONG OF A TORNADO WE ARE NOT HEARING REPORTS OF DEATHS. INJURIES, PEOPLE GOING TO THE HOSPITAL, THIS, LITTLE WARNING, IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE. THIS SHIRKS-5. NORTH OF RALEIGH THIS IS ROCKY MOUNT RIGHT HERE AND THIS IS WHERE THE TORNADO PATH WAS. IT WAS ON THE GROUND LIKELY FOR 20 MINUTES, TOO. NOT JUST LIKE A SHORT BLIP. IT IS HALF AN HOUR OF OH, BOY, THIS LOOKS BAD. AND NOW, THAT STORM, IT JUST CLEARED VIRGINIA BEACH IN NORFOLK AREA. A THUNDERSTORM WARNING THERE. IT IS ABOUT TO END. A TORNADO WATCH FOR THE NEWBORN AREA, MORGAN CITY, OUTER BANKS, SO FAR, NO OTHER REPORTS OF TORNADOES. THAT RAINFALL IN KENTUCKY IT WAS JUST OFF OF THE CHARTS. THIS IS 4:00 A.M. UNTIL NOON. HERE IT IS, MAYFIELD RIGHT HERE. ONE THUNDERSTORM AFTER ANOTHER. IT WAS NOT JUST MAYFIELD. A BIG PORTION OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND WESTERN KENTUCKY THIS 5-7 AND THIS IS THAT 10 INCH RAINFALL. IN CASE YOU ARE WONDERING THE OLD KENTUCKY RECORD BEFORE THIS WAS 10.5 INCHES OF RAIN IN LOUISVILLE. WE BEAT THAT EASILY. ABOUT 3/4S OF AN INCH OF RAIN. STILL FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS FOR THAT AREA, TOO. AND, HOW ABOUT THIS, HALLIE? YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING, RIGHT? AND THE COOLEST, THE LOWEST TEMPERATURE THAT IT WAS FOR THE 24-HOUR PERIOD IN PHOENIX WAS 97 DEGREES. THAT BROKE THE ALL-TIME RECORD. THAT HAPPENED EARLY THIS MORNING. WE JUST KEEP PILING THE RECORDS ONE AFTER ANOTHER. AND IT IS JUST BEGINNING. AS YOU SAID, MERCY, PLEASE. I KNOW YOU WILL TRACK ALL OF THAT THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT, APPRECIATE IT. >> TAKING YOU TO ALABAMA. WE ARE HEARING FROM THE POLICE IN THE LAST COUPLE OF HOURS WITH NEW DETAILS IN A CASE OF A WOMAN WHO WENT MISSING THERE FOR 48 HOURS. THE POLICE SHARING EXTRAORDINARY DETAILS ABOUT WHAT CARLEE RUSSELLS ONLINE SEARCHES LOOKED LIKE IN THE DAYS AND THE HOURS BEFORE. SHE WAS SEARCHING STUFF LIKE "DO YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR AMBER ALERT?" , "HOW TO TAKE MONEY FROM A REGISTER WITHOUT BEING CAUGHT" AND THE "MOVIE TAKEN." >> NOW THE BIG QUESTION NOW IS WHERE DID CARLEE RUSSELL GO AFTER SHE CALLED THE POLICE ABOUT SEEING A TODDLER WALKING DOWN THE INTERSTATE, SHE SAID. LISTEN. >> WE PRETTY MUCH KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TOOK PLACE FROM THE TIME SHE LEFT WORK UNTIL SHE GOT THE 911 CALL AND WE CAN SEE GETTING OUT OF THE CAR. ON THE INTERSTATE FROM THAT FOOTAGE. AFTER THAT, I THINK SHE ONLY DOES. WE DON'T KNOW. >> I WANT TO BRING IN SAM BROCK IS FOLLOWING THE STORY. THE POLICE SAY THERE IS NO INDICATION MENTAL ILLNESS IS THE FACTOR HERE. THE DETAILS ABOUT THE SEARCHES ARE ADDING TO JUST THE MURKINESS AROUND THIS. TALK US THROUGH WHAT WE KNOW.. >> Reporter: ISN'T IT AMAZING. THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHERE SHE WENT. I THINK THE POLICE DID NOT COME OUT TODAY FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND SAY THERE WAS NOT AN ABDUCTION, THEY MADE THE STRONGEST CASE THEY POSSIBLY COULD THAT IT SEEMS EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY LIKELY. I WILL GIVE YOU A COUPLE EXAMPLES ON THAT. PRIOR TO HER GOING TO THE HIGHWAY SHE WENT TO WORK, SHE TOOK OUT A BATHROBE, TOILET PAPER, GOT FOOD AND ADDITIONAL SNACKS, THE SNACKS WERE NEVER FOUND. WENT TO THE HIGHWAY AND THEY GEO TRACKED HER PHONE. AS SHE IS ON THE PHONE WITH 911 REPORTING THE TODDLER WITH DETAIL, I MIGHT AD, THREE TO FOUR YEARS OLD, WEARING A WHITE SHIRT, MIGHT BE IN A DIAPER. SHE MOVED 600 YARDS THAT IS EQUIVALENT TO SIX FOOTBALL FIELDS, I ASKED HIM, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO YOU? TO ME IT MEANS I GOT KIDS AND GRANDKIDS AND A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE AS WELL. CAN YOU ENVISION A TODDLER THAT A TODDLER WOULD WALK DOWN THAT FAR AS SHE IS TRACKING HIM? SEEMS IMPROBABLE. AS FOR THE INTERSNET SEARCHES SHE MADE OR THE POLICE SAID SHE DID MAKE IN THE DAYS LEADING UP TO HER DISAPPEARANCE, "DO YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR AN AMBER ALERT." SHE LOOKED FOR A BUS TICKET FROM BERMINGHAM TO NASHVILLE. ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE PRESENTING A PORTRAIT OF WHAT SEEMS UNLIKELY THERE IS AN ABDUCTION, AS FOR THE ABDUCTION ITSELF SHE SAW A MAPLE MUMBLING OUT ON THE HIGHWAY, TOOK HER INTO A 18 WHEELER AND ANOTHER CAR. A MAN WITH ORANGE HAIR. SOME POINT SHE IS ABLE TO BREAK FREE AND ABDUCTED AGAIN BY THE SAME PLAN AND A WOMAN WHO BLINDFOLD HER, STRIP HER DOWN AND DON'T HAVE ANY SORT OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT BUT TAKE PHOTOS OF HER AND THEN SHE IS DROPPED OFF OR BREAKS FRO IN WEST HOOVER AND WALKS BACK HOME. THAT IS HER TALE. THAT IS WHAT SHE SAID AND THAT IS WHAT HER PARENTS ARE STICKING BEHIND. THE POLICE ARE TRYING TO PUNCTURE A LOT OF HOLES IN THIS NARRATIVE >> WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? THERE ARE A LOT OF QUESTIONS HERE. CLEARLY THEY SPOKEN TO HER. CLEARLY THEY HAVE MORE CONCERNS OR QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED. THEY SAY THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT A CRIME WAS COMMITTED HERE. WHERE DOES THIS INVESTIGATION GO? >> Reporter: RIGHT, A GREAT POINT, BY THE WAY. THAT I WERE ASKED ARE YOU CONSIDERING CRIMINAL CHARGES, AND THEY SAID WE HAVE NOT THOUGHT ABOUT THAT. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE. THEY ARE TRYING TO RESPECT THE PRIVACY OF CARLEE. WE KNOW SHE WAS IN A FRARGILE STATE. FRAGILE STATE. HERE IS WHAT THE POLICE SAID ABOUT TRYING TO TALK TO HER, ONCE AGAIN >> I THINK OUR DETECTIVES TALKED TO THE PARENTS AND WE ARE READY TO TALK AS SOON AS SHE IS READY. SHE CALLED RIGHT NOW, WE ARE READY. >> Reporter: HALLIE, ONE FINAL POINT. I FOLLOWED UP WITH THE POLICE CHIEF DID YOU SPEAK TO HER PARENTS? WHY DO YOU THINK THEY ARE ADAMANT ABOUT AN ABDUCTION? THEY ARE PARENTS. THEY WANT TO BELIEVE THEIR CHILD. A SYMPATHY LEVEL THERE. BUT, AT THE END OF THE DAY YOU ARE LOOKING AT ALL OF THE PIECES OF EVIDENCE AND A GIANT VACUUM OF WHERE SHE WENT OR DID NOT GO. NO WITHIN KNOWS, THEY THINK IT IS UNLIKELY THAT AN ABDUCTION WAS BEHIND IT. >> SAM BROCK LIVE FOR US THERE IN HOOVER, ALABAMA, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >>> BACK HERE IN WASHINGTON, IN THE LAST COUPLE OF HOURS WE ARE LEARNING FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP IS SAYING THANKS BUT NO THANKS TO JACK SMITH'S OVERTORY COME AND TESTIFY IN FRONT OF A FEDERAL GRAND JURY IN DC AS WE ARE GETTING, NOW, A CLEARER PICTURE OF THE CHARGES HE COULD FACE. A CLEARER PICTURE OF THE SCOPE OF THIS INVESTIGATION AGAINST HIM. REMEMBER, WE KNOW THAT THIS INVESTIGATION IS AGAINST HIM BECAUSE HE HAS GOTTEN A TARGET LETTER. HE HIMSELF HAS TOLD US THAT IN A SPECIAL COUNCIL INVESTIGATION INTO SCHEMES TO OVERTHROW THE 2020 ELECTION. THEY TALK ABOUT THREE POSSIBLE CHARGES FOR MR. TRUMP. FIRST, DEPRIVING SOMEBODY OF THEIR RIGHT. MAYBE THEIR VOTING RIGHT. NOT CLEAR IF THERE IS A SPECIFIC INDIVIDUAL OR INDIVIDUALS, PLURAL. SECOND, CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE UNITED STATES AND THIRD, TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS, SOMETHING THAT WE KNOW THAT FORMER VICE PRESIDENT PENCE FACING QUESTIONS ABOUT. I WANT TO BRING THEM IN, GARRET, WITHOUT, WHILE WE TAKE OURSELVES OUT OF THE WEEDS, WE CAN GET LOST IN HERE, BIG PICTURE, IT IS NOT AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST OF THE CHARGES HE CAN FACE . IT IS A ROAD MAP. IT IS SERIOUS STUFF, NOT THE MOST SERIOUS. >> A ROAD MAP WITHOUT THE SPECIFIC STREET SIGN. WHAT YOU ARE SEEING HERE THEY ARE NOT REALLY CHARGES, THEY ARE BROOD CATEGORIES OF THINGS IN WHICH THE FORMER PRESIDENT COULD POTENTIALLY BE CHARGED. THE UPSHOT, EVEN THE MOST MILD WILL BE FIVE YEARS, LOOKING AT POTENTIALLY 20 YEAR CHARGES ON SOME OF THE OBSTRUCTION RELATED COUNTS. WE DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MANY COUNTS WE ARE DEALING WITH HERE. IT IS A SERIOUS PACKAGE OF THINGS THAT THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS DEALING WITH. AND, YOU KNOW, WE ARE NOT PRIVY TO EXACTLY WHAT IS GOING ON BEHIND-THE-SCENES WHERE HE IS RIGHT NOW. CLEARLY THEY ARE ADJUSTING THEIR POLITICAL AND LEGAL STRATEGY WITH AN EXPECTATION THEY ARE GOING TO SEE AN INDICTMENT. PERHAPS, VERY SOON. A HOST OF THE CHARGES NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, ITEM ONE, TWO AND THREE. >> WHEN YOU GET A TARGET LETTER IT TYPICALLY MEANS YOU ARE PROBABLY LIKELY TO GET INDICTED. >> ALMOST CERTAIN TO BE INDICTED. IT IS RARE WHEN YOU TALK TO FORMER PROSECUTORS, IT HAPPENS WHERE SOMEBODY, YOU KNOW ,DOES NOT GET INDICTED BUT IT IS FAR MORE LIKELY THAT YOU ARE GOING TO SEE LARGES FORTH COMING, SOONER RATHER THAN LATER. >> THAT IS WHY WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS. NOT GETTING OVER OUR SKIS, WE ARE FOLLOWING THE FACTS OF WHERE IT GOES. ONE OF THE BIGGEST REPORTING IS ANYONE ELSE GOING TO GET INDICTED RELATED TO THE SCHEME. >> I THINK IT LOOKS MORE LIKELY THAN IT DID 24 HOURS AGO BASED ON THE CONDUCT OF TRUMP AND WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED ABOUT WHAT THE INVESTIGATORS ARE LOOKING AT. THE SCOPE IS MASSIVE. >> IT IS HUGE. >> EVERY DAY WE ARE LEARNING NEW THINGS THAT INVESTIGATORS LOOKED INTO. TODAY WE LEARNED THEY WENT AFTER SURVEILLANCE VIDEO FROM THE ARENA IN FULT FULTON, ARIZONA, YESTERDAY THEY TALKED TO THE OFFICIALS IN WISCONSIN. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE ELECTORS GETTING CHARGED. PEOPLE WORKING ON THE GROUND, IN INDIVIDUAL STATES ON THE CONSPIRACY ELEMENTS WILL GET CHARGED AND THEN TRUMP'S OWN BEHAVIOR O. SOCIAL MEDIA HE HAS BEEN ON A TEAR THAT THE PROSECUTORS ARE GOING AFTER LAWYERS, THEY ARE ATTACKING LAWYERS, THERE ARE A LOT OF LAWYERS THAT HAVE LEGAL EXPOSURE, JOHN EASTMAN WHO WAS ADVISING TRUMP ABOUT WAYS HOW TO GET AROUND THE ELECTION RESULTS TO RUDY GIULIANI WHO WAS THE PUBLIC FACE OF STOP THE STEAL EFFORT. AND EVEN LAWYERS THAT WORK FOR TRUMP NOW ADVISING HIM ON THIS CASE. THEY ARE GOING TO BE A POSSIBILITY THERE IS SOMETHING GOING ON BEHIND THE SWEEPS, PERHAPS MOST PEOPLE ARE FINDING OUT THEY GOT MAIL THEY DID NOT WANT. >> I KNOW IF YOU FIND OUT YOU WILL KNOW YOU >> WILL BE THE FIRST TO KNOW. >> OH, MY GOSH, THANK YOU. >>> YOU HAVE FASCINATING REPORTING. WE HAVE BEEN TALKING A LOT ON THIS SHOW ABOUT THE POLITICAL REACTION. THE WAY SOME OF HIS ALLIES ON CAPITOL HILL, KEVIN McCARTHY WHO REALLY BACKED HIM UP WHEN WE LEARN ABOUT THIS TARGET LETTER. THERE IS MORE THREADS TO PULL ON THAT STORY, EXPLAIN? >> THE DIFFERENCE THAT YOU SEE FROM TRUMP IN THE HOUSE IS ORGANIC, NOT ALWAYS. IN THIS CASE IT WAS NOT AT ALL ORGANIC. WE KNOW THAT DONALD TRUMP, ACCORDING TO SOURCES FAMILIAR WITH THE CALLS MADE PHONE CALL TO McCARTHY. THE NUMBER ONE AND FOURTH REPUBLICAN ON TUESDAY THE SAME TIME HE WAS PUBLISHING THIS POST ON TRUTH SOCIAL. URGING THEM TO DEFEND HIM PUBLICLY AND ENCOURAGE THEIR COLLEAGUES TO DO SO. YOU COVERED TRUMP IN THE WHITE HOUSE, THERE IS SOMEBODY WHO WANTS NOT JUST LOYALTY BUT PUBLIC LOYALTY AND THAT IS WHAT HE HAS GOTTEN. >> LOYALTY THAT IS NOT ALWAYS A TWO-WAY STREET. >> YES. >>> TONIGHT, THE STATE DEPARTMENT IS IN TALKS WITH SOUTH KOREA AND SWEDEN TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO ABOUT THIS SOLDIER. THE GUY THAT RAN ACROSS THE DEMARCATION LINE BETWEEN THE SOUTH AND THE NORTH. LISTEN TO THIS. >> WE ARE STILL GATHERING FACTS? I WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT THE ADMINISTRATION HAS AND WILL CONTINUE TO ACTIVELY WORK TO ENSURE HIS SAFETY AND RETURN HIM HOME TO HIS FAMILY. >> IT IS JUST A VERY STRANGE STORY AS WE ARE GETTING MORE AND MORE DETAILS INTO US. OUR TEAM TALKED TO A NEW ZEALAND TOURIST ABOUT HOW SHE SAW THE PERSON THAT YOU SEE HERE, PRIVATE TRAVIS KING SPRINT INTO NORTH KOREA. SHE DESCRIBED HIM AS RUNNING INCREDIBLY FAST. SO QUICK NOBODY COULD STOP HIM. >> MY INITIAL THOUGHT WAS LIKE, OH, MY GOD, HE IS OBVIOUSLY DOING THAT -- [INDISCERNIBLE] >> THAT IS THE STUPIDEST THING YOU CAN DO. THE SOLDIERS REACTED AND CLASSED AFTER HIM. >> I MEAN CLEARLY NOT A TIKTOK STUNT. SHE SHARED A PICTURE WHERE YOU CAN SEE THE BACK OF KING'S HEAD AS HE IS STANDING WITH HER TOUR GROUP. NBC NEWS HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY CONFIRM IT IS HIM. KING HAD BEEN SERVING TIME IN PRISON IN SOUTH KOREA ON ASSAULT CHARGES. HE WAS RELEASED LAST WEEK. HE WAS ON HIS WAY HOME WHEN HE BASICALLY LIKE HOOKED UP, BLENDED IN WITH A GROUP OF TOURISTS HEADING FOR A PRIVATE TOUR OF THE DEMILITARIZED ZONE. NOW, BOTTOM LINE, HOWEVER HE GOT THERE, THERE IS AN PERSON SOLDIER HELD BY NORTH KOREA. WHAT DO THE NEGOTIATIONS LOOK LIKE TO GET HIM BACK? >> YOU HAVE TO HEAT UP THE DIP PLATTIC RELATIONS FROM THE DEEP FREEZE. I AM TRYING TO THINK. BEFORE THIS WEEK I AM NOT SURE IF ON HALLIE JACKSON NOW EVEN TALKED ABOUT NORTH KOREA. IT HAS OPINION SO OFF THE RADAR, RIGHT? I AM TRYING TO REMEMBER. I THINK THAT IS RIGHT. YET THE TENSIONS HAVE BEEN BUILDING. ONE OF THE REASONS WE HAVE NOT BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT BECAUSE NOTHING HAS BEEN HAPPENING BEYOND TESTS OF BALLISTIC MISSILES BY THE NORTH KOREANS. THAT IS THE POSITION THEY NOW HAVE TO TRY TO GET STARTED FROM. JUST TAKE A LISTEN TO THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS TALKING ABOUT JUST THIS POINT, THIS VERY, VERY STARTING POINT. >> WE HAVE MADE AN EFFORT TO ENGAGE DIPLOMATICALLY WITH THIS GOVERNMENT. THEY HAVE NOT ACCEPTED. IT IS NOT FOR LACK OF TRYING ON OUR SIDE. >> Reporter: THE WAY THAT THE U.S. TALKS TO NORTH KOREA IS THROUGH SWEDEN. THEY ARE A SECOND PARTY, IF YOU LIKE THAT, THAT GIVES YOU A PICTURE. JUST IMAGINE, YOU KNOW, THE U.S. IS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT ITSELF WHAT WENT ON. SO, THIS COULD PLAY OUT QUICKLY OR NOT. WE DON'T KNOW. >> SOME OF THE THING THAT WE DO KNOW, THE DESCRIPTION FROM THE TOURIST THAT WAS WITH HIM SAID HE JUST BOLTED. OFFICIALS SAY IT WAS WILLFUL. HE DID IT, APPARENTLY, VOLUNTARILY, RIGHT? WE KNOW IT HAPPENED APPARENTLY AFTER HE WAS RELEASED FROM A PRISON IN SOUTH KOREA WHERE HE HAD BEEN DETAINED, ESSENTIALLY, WHERE HE HAD BEEN SERVING TIME. WHAT ELSE DO WE KNOW? WHY WAS HE BEING SENT BACK TO THE U.S.? I KNOW THERE IS MYSTERY SURROUNDING THIS. >> SO UCH MYSTERY. THERE ARE A SERIES OF EVENTS THAT MANY FOLKS WATCHING MAY KNOW ABOUT ALREADY. THINK ABOUT THE ACCUSATION FOR EXAMPLE HE ATTACKED A SOUTH KOREAN POLICE CAR, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH HIS MIND. TAKE A LISTEN TO HIS FAMILY. >> HE NEVER ACTED LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW. TRAVIS IS A NICE GUY. HE REALLY IS. HE MINDS HIS OWN BUSINESS. >> SOMETHING HAS TO BE GOING ON IN HIS HEAD TO MAKE HIM FEEL LIKE HE NEEDS TO STAY THERE OR WHATEVER, I DON'T KNOW. >> HE WAS SUPPOSED TO HEAD BACK TO THE U.S., HALLIE, AND THEN HE ESCAPED THAT PLAN AND SETS OFF NOW IN NORTH KOREA, YOU THROW YOUR HANDS ARE UP AND WONDER WHAT HE WAS THINKING, FRANKLY. >> AND YOU THROW YOUR HANDS UP AND WONDER HOW ARE THEY GOING TO GET HIM BACK. >> YEAH. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE WILL TALK AGAIN. >>> LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT IS GOING DOWN ON CAPITOL HILL. IRS WHISTLE-BLOWERS SOUNDING THE ALARM WITH INTENSE TESTIMONY IN THEIR VIEW, TELLING THE HOUSE COMMITTEE THAT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT MEDDLED AND MISHANDLED THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE PRESIDENT'S SON, HUNTER BIDEN. >> PROSECUTORS DID NOT APPEAR TO FOLLOW THE NORMAL PROCESS. >> AT EVERY STAGE, DECISIONS WERE MADE THAT BENEFITED THE SUBJECT OF THIS INVESTIGATION. >> THIS REPUBLICAN-LEAD HOUSE COMMITTEE CLAIMS THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SLOW-WALKED ITS INVESTIGATION OF HUNTER BIDEN AND LET HIM OFF EASY. YOU ARE TAKING A LIVE LOOK AT THE HEARING. IT IS LONG. IT IS GOING INTO THE EVENING IN HERE IN WASHINGTON T. IS ABOUT 5:20 EASTERN TIME, LOCAL. HE GOT A PLEA DEAL. PLED GUILTY TO MISDEMEANOR COUNTS FOR FAILING TO PAY HIS TAXES PROPERLY AND HE FACES A SEPARATE FELONY GUN LARGE THAT WILL BE DISMISSED IF HE MEETS CERTAIN CONDITIONS. BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, IN THEIR WORDS IS STAGING PUNTS. SO, YOU HAVE TWO WHISTLE BLOWERS, ONE SAYING I AM A DEMOCRAT, I AM A GAY DEMOCRAT, I LIVE WITH A MAN. HE SAID HE IS CLEAN FROM A CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN PERSPECTIVE. HIS WORDS, NOT MINE. WHO IS SAYING THAT HE AND THIS OTHER WHISTLE-BLOWER, SO TO SPEAK, BELIEVE THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE MISHANDLED THIS INVESTIGATION. WHAT DO WE KNOW? WHAT ARE THE FACTS OF THE MATTER HERE? >> Reporter: MISHANDLED THE INVESTIGATION, THEY ARE SAYING FROM AN IRS PERSPECTIVE FROM THEIR CAPACITY AS PEOPLE WHO ARE EXPERTS HAVING WORKED IN THAT FIELD. THEY ARE GOING FORWARD SAYING THINGS LIKE THE PROSECUTOR WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF THE HUNTER BIDEN CASE WAS HAND STRUNG. THAT PROSECUTOR SAID HE WAS GIVEN THE TOOLS HE NEEDED TO DO THE INVESTIGATION THE WAY HE WANTED TO DO THEM, NEVER THE LESS, THESE ARE WHAT SOME OF THE CLAIMS SOUNDED LIKE FROM THOSE SO-CALLED WHISTLE- BLOWERS, WATCH. >> IT APPEARED TO ME, BASED ON WHAT I EXPERIENCED THAT THE U.S. ATTORNEY IN DELAWARE IN OUR INVESTIGATION WAS LIMITED AND MARGINALIZED BY DOJ OFFICIALS AS WELL AS OTHER U.S. ATTORNEYS. >> Reporter: NEVER THE LESS, THOUGH, AGAIN, WE HEARD FROM THAT U.S. ATTORNEY AT THE CENTER OF IT. A GUY WHO WAS TRUMP-APPOINTED. AGAIN, IT STARTED DURING THE TRUMP YEARS. THIS PROSECUTOR SAYING HE WAS NOT TOLD HE COULD NOT SUBPOENA PEOPLE, HE WAS NOT TOLD HE COULD NOT BRING THE CASES WITHIN CERTAIN JURISDICTIONS SO THESE ALLEGATIONS ARE OUT THERE BUT THEY DO NOT BEAR OUT FROM WHAT WE HEARD FROM THE PROSECUTOR AT THE CENTER OF THE CASE. >> WHAT ARE DEMOCRATS POINTING TO? ARE THEY POINTING OUT THE FACT THAT IT STARTED UNDER THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION? >> CERTAINLY THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS THEY POINTED TO. THIS IS A RANKING MEMBER HERE. NO STRANGER TO DEEP CONSPIRACIES FROM THOSE ON THE RIGHT. HE WAS WELL AWARE OF THE FACT THAT THE HUNTER BIDEN PROBES WERE THING THAT REPUBLICANS WERE BRINGING UP AS A COUNTEROFFENSIVE TO HELP OFFSET, REALLY, THE THINGS SAID ABOUT FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. THIS IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HE LEVELED AS SORT OF A DIFFERENCE TODAY. WATCH. >> THEIR FRUSTRATIONS AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH SUPERVISOR AND MR. WHITE AND THE KEY POINT IS AMERICA NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND THE ONLY POLITICAL INTERFERENCE AT PLAY IS COMING FROM DONALD TRUMP AND MY REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES. >> HE IS ECHOING WHAT YOU HEARD FROM THE WHITE HOUSE AS WELL, HALLIE >> YOU KNOW, WE WERE CALLING THESE FOLKS WHISTLE-BLOWERS, THAT IS A TERM THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW. THERE IS A FORMAL WHISTLE- BLOWER PROCESS, DO YOU KNOW IF THESE TWO INDIVIDUALS, THESE TWO AGENTS HAVE GONE THROUGH THAT PROCESS? >> THAT IS ACTUALLY A GREAT QUESTION. ONE OF THESE WAS A SO-CALLED WHISTLE-BLOWER WHO WAS NOT NAMED UNTIL WE SAW HIM IN THE HEARING ROOM THIS MORNING. THE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE HAD TAKEN A LOT OF STEPS TO MAKE SURE THE PERSON'S IDENTITY WAS NOT REVEALED UNTIL HE WAS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE. WE DID LEARN SOMETHING FROM THAT TODAY. THE OTHER THING THAT WAS STRIKING IS THAT IT WAS AN OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE HEARING BUT WE HAD MULTIPLE CHAIRMEN, SMITH, THE HEAD OF THE WEIGHS AND MEANS COMMITTEE, AND CONGRESSMAN TURNER THERE. I THINK IT WAS MEANT TO SHOW IT IS IN FRONT OF OVERSIGHT BUT STRETCHES OVER MANY REPUBLICANS. >> IT IS STRETCHING INTO ITS FIFTH HOUR THERE. >> YES. >> WE WILL CHECK IN WITH YOU NEXT HOUR AS WELL. THANK YOU. >>> TONIGHT WE ARE LEARNING ABOUT A BIZARRE BACKTRACK AS THE WOMEN'S WORLD CUP IS ABOUT TO KICK OFF IN A FEW HOURS FROM NOW. TURNS OUT THE PLAYERS MAY NOT GET PAID THE MONEY THEY WERE PROMISED. HE IS SAYING TODAY HE CAN NOT GUARANTEE HE WILL GET THEIR MONEY. $30,000 EACH BECAUSE IT IS GOING TO THE GOVERNING BODIES THAT OVERSEE THE TEAMS AND THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO PAY IT OUT. LOOK AT THIS. >> WHATEVER PAYMENTS WE DO, WE DO THROUGH THE ASSOCIATIONS AND THEN THE ASSOCIATIONS, OF COURSE, MAKE THE DIRECT PAYMENTS TO THEIR OWN PLAYERS >> KEEP IN MIND THE CONTEXT AND THE BACKDROP. INCREDIBLY HIGH PROFILE SITE BY THESE WOMEN SOCCER PLAYERS TO GET PAID LIKE THE MEN DO. TO GET EQUAL PAY AND NOW THERE IS THIS. THE PRIZE FOR THE WORLD CUP IS ONLY A QUARTER OF WHAT THE MEN GOT LAST YEAR. LET'S BRING IN JOSH LETTERMAN. >> WHAT? WHAT? >> THE WORLD CUP IS KICKING OFF. IT IS OVERNIGHT HOURS HERE IN THE U.S. YOU HAVE A SITUATION, WHY ARE THE WOMEN NOT GOING TO GE PAID? >> Reporter: JUST TO BACK UP IT WAS A BIG DEAL WHEN FI FAA NOUNSED THEY WERE GOING TO CHANGE THE WAY THEY GIVE OUT THE PRIZE MONEY. IN THE PAST THEY HANDED OVER THE PRIZE MONEY TO EACH NATIONAL FOOTBALL FEDERATION TO THEN DOLE OUT TO THE PLAYERS. WE WILL NOT DO THAT. WE WANT A GUARANTEE THAT EACH ONE OF THESE PLAYERS GETS THAT MINIMUM $30,000. THAT WOULD BE FOR A TEAM THAT IS LESS SUCCESSFUL, WELL UPWARDS OF $200,000 FOR EXAMPLE A WINNING TEAM. THE IDEA WAS THERE WOULD BE MORE EQUITY HERE. NOW THE HEAD OF FIFA SAYS THAT IT IS TOO COMPLICATED WITH THE TAX SITUATION AND THE RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS FOR FIFA TO PAY OUT OF MONEY. SO THEY ARE, ONCE AGAIN, GOING TO GIVE THE MONEY TO THE ASSOCIATION AND THEY HOPE THE ASSOCIATIONS WILL GIVE IT FAIRLY TO EACH OF THE PLAYERS BUT THEY CAN NOT GUARANTEE IT. >> SO, THE WOMEN'S WORLD CUP IS HAPPENING OBVIOUSLY IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. WE ARE HEARING REPORTS OF AN INCIDENT IN NEW ZEALAND, PEOPLE HURT. DOES IT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE WORLD CUP? CAN YOU GIVE US INSIGHT INTO THAT? >> YES THIS IS JUST COMING IN RIGHT NOW. >> Reporter: IT IS ABOUT 9:30 IN THE MORNING ON THURSDAY RIGHT NOW IN NEW ZEALAND. THEY ARE WALKING UP TO THE REPORTS THAT THERE HAS BEEN WHAT LOOKS LIKE IT MAY BE A MASS SHOOTING. WE JUST SPOKE TO THE POLICE. THEY SAY SIX PEOPLE ARE INJURED, THREE OF THEM SERIOUSLY. IT WAS CONTAINED TO A BUILDING THERE THAT HAS BEEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION. THE MAYOR THERE HAS SPOKEN TO THE NEW ZEALAND HEROLD SAYING HE BELIEVES THE GUNMAN IS DEAD. THEY ARE NOT CONFIRMING THAT. THEY ARE RESPONDING TO THE INCIDENTS AND URGING PEOPLE TO STAY AWAY AND IT WAS NOT NEAR ANY OF THE STADIUMS INVOLVED IN THE WORLD CUP. >> THAT IS MY QUESTION IF IT WAS CLOSE TO WHERE THE WORLD CUP ACTIVITIES ARE HAPPENING. AS YOU SAY T IS ABOUT 9:30 IN THE MORNING. JOSH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BRINGING US THAT DEVELOPING NEWS TONIGHT. >>> COMING UP ON THE SHOW, SHOCKING STORIES FROM FORMER NORTH WESTERN FOOTBALL PLAYERS. THE ABUSE THEY CLAIMED HAPPENED WHILE PLAYING FOR THE SCHOOL. >>> AND LATER YOU MAY NOT GUESS HOW MUCH OR HOW LITTLE A STAR MADE WHEN HER SHOW WENT STREAMING, STAY WITH US >>> WE ARE HEARING NEW DETAILS TONIGHT FROM FORMER NORTH WESTERN UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL PLAYERS ON HAZING. THEY WENT THROUGH IT WITH THEIR TEAMMATES AND THE FEAR THEY HAD TO LIVE WITH. LISTEN. >> WE WERE THROWN INTO A CULTURE WHERE PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND SEXUAL ABUSE WAS NORMALIZED. >> SO WE HAD NO REFERENCE POINT TO KNOW THAT THIS WAS JUST A COLLEGE FOOTBALL THING OR JUST UNIQUELY NORTH WESTERN THING. >> ALL WE WANTED TO DO WAS PLAY BALL. WE WERE SUBJECTED TO SORT OF THIS CULTURE. AND, AND WE LIVED IN FEAR. >> WE LIVED IN FEAR, HE SAID. THE STORIES ARE COMING AFTER A LAWSUIT FILED SEPARATELY BY A FORMER PLAYER, JUST CALLED JOHN DOUGH, TALKING ABOUT RITUALS YOU SEE IT HERE. SOMETHING CALLED SHEK CLAP, THEY WOULD CLAP THEIR HANDS ABOVE THE PLAYER WHO MADE A MISTAKE. AND SOMETHING CALLED CAR WASH, STANDING THERE NAKED SO THEY WERE FORCED TO RUB UP AGAINST THEM TO GET INTO THE SHOWER. THE SUIT CLAIM THAT NOW FIRED COACH FITZGERALD KNEW ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON. THE PRESIDENT OF NORTH WESTERN SAYS HE CAN NOT RESPOND TO SPECIFICS IN THE LAWSUIT BUT SAYS THAT WE MUST ENSURE, I AM QUOTING HERE, MUST ENSURE THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE APPROPRIATE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT. SHAQ BREWSTER IS JOINING US NOW. THERE WERE BIG NAMED LAWYERS TODAY. HAVE THEY FILED SUIT? WHAT IS THE EXPECTATION AND WHAT ELSE ARE THEY SAYING? BIG NAMED LAWYERS LOOKING AT HIM ON SCREEN RIGHT NOW. HE HAS NOT FILED THAT LAWSUIT YET. HIS LANGUAGE IS THAT THAT WILL BE COMING IN THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE. IT IS COMING SOON. HE HAS RETAINED ABOUT A DOZEN FORMER FOOTBALL PLAYERS AT NORTH WESTERN. HE SAID HE IS CONDUCTING INTERVIEWS WITH STAFF, THEY ARE DOING THEIR OWN INVESTIGATION TO GET DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS. THE ALLEGATIONS THAT WE HAVE HEARD SO FAR, HALLIE, THEY ARE WIDESPREAD. THEY ARE SAYING IT IS NOT JUST THE FOOTBALL PROGRAM. IT EXTENDS TO BASEBALL, SOFTBALL, VOLLEYBALL, EVEN CHEERLEADING. I WANT TOY LISTEN TO ONE OF THE ALLEGATIONS THAT WE HEARD AND THE IMPACT THAT THE EXPERIENCE THAT THESE PLAYERS SAY THEY WENT THROUGH. LISTEN TO THE IMPACT THAT IT HAS HAD ON THEM. >> THERE IS A CODE OF SILENCE THAT FELT INSURMOUNTABLE TO BREAK. SPEAKING UP COULD LEAD TO CONSEQUENCES THAT EFFECTED PLAYING TIME AND WARRANT FURTHER ABUSE. >> WHAT WE WENT THROUGH IS WRONG. SO I SAY WE SUPPORT YOU, WE ARE HERE, WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER. >> SO FAR ONE LAWSUIT HAS BEEN FILED BUT IT IS CLEAR MORE ARE TO COME. >> WHAT ELSE WE HEARING FROM NORTH WESTERN? >> THE UNIVERSITY IS EMPHASIZING WHAT THEY HAVE DONE ALREADY. THEY SAY WE REALLY KNOW ABOUT THIS BECAUSE OF AN INTERNAL INVESTIGATION THAT THEY CONDUCTED AND STARTED BACK IN NOVEMBER OF LAST YEAR. THEY SAY THAT SINCE THAT INTERNAL INVESTIGATION THAT RESULTED IN THE 17-YEAR VETERAN COACH BEING FIRED THEY HAVE INSTITUTED NEW REFORMS, THEY CLOSED DOWN TRAINING FACILITIES. THEY HAVE NEW TRAINING FOR STAFF IN TERMS OF HAZING AND NEW REPORTING MECHANISMS FOR STAFF INVOLVING HAZING. SO, THEY SAY THEY ARE TAKING IT SERIOUSLY. YOU READ THE STATEMENT FROM THE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT TO MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY. THEY ARE NOT LAYING IT OUT IN PRESS CONFRONTS BUT IT IS SOMETHING THAT THEY WILL BE TALKING ABOUT FOR MONTHS TO COME. >> SHAQ BREWSTER, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I KNOW WE WILL TALK AGAIN IN THE DAYS TO COME. APPRECIATE IT. >>> LET'S GET YOU OVER TO THE FIVE THINGS OUR TEAM THINKS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT. NUMBER ONE, THE UNIVERSITY SAYS THEY WILL STOP GIVING PREFERENCE TO LEGACY APPLICANTS, MEANING FAMILY MEMBERS THAT GOT IN THE SCHOOL. AND PUTTING IN A TON OF STOCK. NUMBER TWO, NEW RESEARCH SAYS BAD GUT HEALTH MAY BE TIED TO BAD BRAIN HEALTH. CHRONIC CONSTIPATION WAS LINKED TO WORSE COGNITVE SKILLS. EXPERTS SAY THERE IS STILL A LOT WE DON'T KNOW. HEY, STUDYING THIS STUFF IS IMPORTANT. IT CAN HELP TREAT AND PREVENT BRAIN DECLINE. >>> NUMBER THREE, MANDY MOORE, THE STAR OF "THIS IS US." THE MEGAHIT, SHE SAYS SHE HAS GOTTEN PAYCHECKS LESS THAN $1 AFTER THE SHOW STARTED STREAMING ON HULU. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IT FOR FAIRER RESIDUAL. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS, PAYMENTS FOR ACTORS WHEN THEIR SHOWS OR MOVIES ARE REPLAYED. PART OF THE REASON WHY ACTORS ARE ON STRIKE RIGHT NOW. GIVING INSIGHT AND SOME COLOR INTO, YOU KNOW, THE DOLLARS AND CENTS. NO COMMENT FROM HULU. COMCAST OUR PARENT COMPANY IS PRESENTED BY THEM. >>> NOW YOU CAN OWN A PIECE OF A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM. IT IS AFTER A REORGANIZATION BY THE TEAM'S PARENT COMPANY. YOU CAN BUY A SHARE, PART OWNERSHIP, FOR AROUND $45 AS OF TODAY'S MARKET CLOSE. HOW ABOUT THAT? >>> NUMBER 5, CHAMPAGNE SALES AND EXPORTS, TAKING A DIVE THIS YEAR. PRODUCERS SAY IT IS PARTLY BECAUSE OF PRESSURE FROM INFLATION, THE REMEMBER WHO SHA NEWS WITH THEM. >>> IN ALABAMA, THEY ARE PREPARING TO PUT TO DEATH THE FIRST INMATE SINCE A SERIES OF ISSUES CARRYING OUT OTHER LETHAL INJECTIONS. WITH THAT INMATE SPEAKING EXCLUSIVELY WITH NBC NEWS TONIGHT FROM PRISON. IT IS A STORY WE FIRST BROUGHT TO YOU AS OUR ORIGINAL, SHARING WITH YOU HOW THE LAST TWO EXECUTIONS IN ALABAMA FAILED. MEANING THERE ARE TWO PRISONER INS ON DEATH ROW RIGHT THERE WHO ARE STILL ALIVE MONTHS AFTER THEIR EXECUTION DATE. NOW, JAMES BARBER IS STILL WAITING FOR A DECISION FROM A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT ON AN EFFORT TO BLOCK HIS EXECUTION, FOR NOW, HEADING INTO TOMORROW PREPARING FOR THE END OF HIS LIFE. WE HAVE THE EXCLUSIV REPORTING. >> Reporter: A ALABAMA DEATH ROW INMATE SET TO DIE THIS WEEK IN HIS OWN WORDS >> IT IS A SITUATION FEW PEOPLE HAVE BEEN IN. >> Reporter: HE ACCEPTS HADS FATE. >> I DON'T HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE WITH IT. I CAN TELL YOU WHAT GOD HAS SHOWN ME. HAVE NO FEAR. >> Reporter: HE IS EXPRESSING HESITATION BEING THE STATE'S TEST SUBJECT. >> NOW, I TREPIDATION ABOUT THE PROCESS THEY HAVE NOT PERFECTED IT. >> Reporter: THE LAST TWO WENT WRONG. THE CONDEMNED MEN SURVIVED AFTER BEING PIERCED WITH NEEDLES FOR HOURS AS THE EXECUTION TEAM STRUGGLED TO FILL AN IV. >>> AND A THREE MONTH PAUSE SO THAT THE STATE CAN CONDUCT A REVIEW. THE STATE DOWNPLAYING THE FAILURES. >> COLD BLOODED CONVICTED KILLER COMPLAINS ABOUT THE PRODDING AND POKING OF A SMALL IV LINE. REALLY? >> Reporter: THE GOVERNOR SAYING IN A STATEMENT FOR THE SAKE OF THE VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES WE GOT TO GET IT RIGHT. BLAMING QUOTE LEGAL TACTICS AND CRIMINALS HIJACKING THE SYSTEM FOR THE CONTROVERSY. NOW THE STATE SAYS THEY ARE READY. >> TO BE THE FIRST ONE AFTER THEY DID NOT KNOW THE PROTOCOL, MADE NO REAL CHANGES >> ALABAMA DID NOT MAKE THE FINDINGS OF IT PUBLIC. THE STATE DECLINED TO COMMENT THIS WEEK. IN A LETTER TO THE GOVERNOR, THEY SAID THEY HIRED MORE MEDICAL PERSONNEL, PRACTICED PROTOCOLS AND ADDED MORE EQUIPMENT. THAT EQUIPMENT REVEALED IN COURT FILINGS INCLUDE ADDITIONAL STRAPS TO SECURE INMATES TO THE GURNEY AND THEY WILL USE A NEW IV TEAM. THE CHANGE IS THAT THE STATE WILL HAVE MORE TIME TO GO THROUGH THE FLIGHT FROM 6:00 P.M. ON THURSDAY TO 6:00 A.M. ON FRIDAY, PREVIOUSLY THEY HAD TO BE COMPLETED IN A SINGLE DAY. THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT LIFTED THAT TIME LIMIT. >> I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT. BUT THEN, I KNOW I AM IN GOD'S HANDS. >> Reporter: BARBER IS CONVICTED OF THE 2001 MURDER OF 75-YEAR-OLD DOROTHY EPPS WHO HE BEAT TO DEATH IN A HAMMER WHEN HE WAS IN A DRUG INDUCED BLACKOUT. MEMBERS OF EPPS FAMILY ARE TRAVELING THERE FOR THE ATTEMPTED EXECUTION, ONE OF THEM, HIS GRANDDAUGHTER, FORGIVEN HIM. I PRAY THAT WHEN YOU SEE GRANDMAMA, SHE EMBRACES YOU AND TELLS YOU THAT IT IS OKAY. I FORGIVE YOU, I FORGIVE YOU. >> I LOVE SARA GREGORY MORE THAN ANY PERSON ON THIS FACE OF THIS EARTH. >> Reporter: HE SEES IT AS A SIGN FROM GOD. HE BECAME RELIGIOUS READING THE BIBLE IN COUNTY JAIL AFTER MURDERING EPPS. ON THE EVE OF HIS EXECUTION HE IS PLACING HIS FATE IN GOD'S HANDS. >> LOOK AT WHAT I DID I AM ASHAMED. I REGRET. SO MUCH I HAD TO GO TO GOD. NOBODY WANTS TO DIE. I THINK THERE IS STILL A LOT THAT I COULD ACCOMPLISH AND PEOPLE THAT I COULD HELP. IN DEED IT HAPPENS AND I HAVE TO GO I WILL GO WITH A SMILE ON MY FACE. IF IT DOESN'T HAPPEN I WILL GO ON AND DO EVERYTHING THAT I CAN TO HONOR GOD AND DO THINGS IN HIS NAME. >> OUR THANKS FOR THAT REPORTING. >>> COMING UP HERE IN THE SHOW. >>> A WILD VIDEO SHOWING A CAR SLAMMING INTO A HOUSE, THE CRASH AND THE DEADLY RESULTS, LATER F STORIES EVERY DAY. BECAUSE YOU COULD NOT POSSIBLY READ OR WATCH OR LISTEN TO THEM ALL OUR BUREAU TEAMS HAVE DONE IT FOR YOU. THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE SAYING IS GOING DOWN IN THEIR REGION IN A SEGMENT CALLED THE LOCAL. A TERRIBLE CRASH. A 73-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WHO DIED AFTER THAT MOMENT, HE CAR JUST FLYING INTO THE AIR. LOOKED LIKE IT FLIPPED. SLAMS INTO TWO HOUSES, YOU CAN SEE IT THERE. THE CAR WAS GOING SO FAST IT VEERED OFF OF THE ROAD, HIT AN EMBANKMENT, PEOPLE WERE HOME INSIDE OF THE HOUSES WHEN THE CRASH HAPPENED. THERE HAVE BEEN FLOW OTHER REPORTED INJURIES. >>> OUT OF THE NORTHEAST BUREAU, A GUY CAUGHT HIDING IN THE BACK OF A WOMAN'S CAR IN MASSACHUSETTS. SHE WAS DRIVING, SHE WAS IN HER CAR DRIVING WHEN A LIGHT IN THE CAR SUDDENLY CAME ON. SHE LOOKED IN HER BACKSEAT AND THERE WAS A PERSON HIDING UNDER A COAT. SHE OBVIOUSLY GOT A LITTLE SCARED. STARTED SWERVING ALL OVER THE ROAD, THE MAN FELL OUT OF THE CAR, THE POLICE CHARGED HIM WITH BREAKING AND ENTERING, OUT OF THE MIDWEST BUREAU, LOOK AT THIS. BIZARRE LOOKING FISH. THAT IS A GUM LINE, ARE THEY HUMAN TEETH? NO, IT IS FISH TEETH. IT IS A NATIVE SPECIES. IT IS INVASIVE. THERE IS THE KID. HIS SMILE IS AS BIG AS THE FISH THERE. THE FAMILY PUT IT BACK IN THE WATER BEFORE THEY FIGURED OUT WHAT IT WAS. THEY THINK IT WAS SOMEBODY'S PET THAT GOT TOO BIG. NO BRACES NEEDED FOR THAT FISH. THAT IS A LINE OF STRAIGHT PEARLY WHITES. >>> CLIMATE CHANGE, THREATENING LIFE ON THIS LITTLE ISLAND OFF OF THE COAST OF MARYLAND. PEOPLE ARE STILL MOVING N BIG TIME. THEY ARE STULL CALLING IT HOME. THEY SAY THEY ARE WILLING TO TAKE THE RISK. WE GO THERE TO FIGURE OUT HOW SO MANY PEOPLE ARE PAYING TO STAY IN A PLACE THAT MAY NOT EXIST IN 2 GENERATION OF NOW IS NBC NEWS NOW. >>> SO, TONIGHT'S ORIGINAL NOW, IN-DEPTH REPORTING ON A TOPIC WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING, TONIGHT, CLIMATE CHANGE, WE ALL HEARD HOW GLOBAL WARMING IS GOING TO RAISE SEA LEVELS, HAVING A BIG EFFECT ON COMMUNITIES ON THE COAST. FOR ONE TINY COMMUNITY OFF OF THE COAST OF MARYLAND, CALLED SMITH ISLAND, THE THREAT IS VERY REAL. EXPERTS SAY IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF DECADES MOST OF THE ISLAND THAT YOU ARE SEEING HERE COULD END UP UNLIVABLE, CAN NOT LIVE THERE BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THE BAY, THE SEA LEVELS, WILL RISE UP AND OVERTAKE IT. HOWEVER, NEW HOME BUYERS THEY ARE STILL FLOODING IN. ONE PERSON'S RETREAT AWAY FROM THE FLOOD RISK, AFTER ALL IS ANOTHER'S OPPORTUNITY TO GET A TASTE OF SMITH ISLAND'S CHARM. FOLKS SAY IT IS WORTH THE RISK. >> A 15 MILE CHOPPY BOAT RIDE FROM MARYLAND'S WESTERN SHORE. PASSED A SHIPWRECK THERE IS A REFUGE IN THE BAY. SMITH ISLAND. FEWER THAN 200 FULL TIME RESIDENTS CARRY MORE THAN 300 YEARS OF THE ISLAND'S UNIQUE CULTURE. HOME TO MARYLAND STATE DESSERT, THE LIAR CAKE, A CRABBING TRADITION AND RECENTLY, A SWARM OF HOME BUYERS. >> IT HAS BEEN OVER 30 HOMES IN TWO YEARS. >> SMITH ISLAND JACK-OF-ALL- TRADES NEW AND ONLY REALTOR SAYS HE IS NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT. >> THIS IS ONE OF THE LISTING THAT I JUST RECENTLY RECEIVED. >> IT IS ON THE MARKET FOR $160,000. UP 28% FROM THE LAST TIME IT SOLD 17 YEARS AGO COMPARED TO THE MAINLAND, THE HOMES OFFER A BARGAIN FOR THOSE SEEKING A SLOWER LIFESTYLE. >> I THINK THE ATTRACTION IS PEOPLE JUST WANT TO ESCAPE. >> ALL OF THE NEW HOME BUYERS MAY SEEM PECULIAR. SCIENTISTS SAY IT WILL PLUNGE IT ALMOST ENTIRELY UNDER WATER WITH A FOOT OF SEA LEVEL RISE BY 2050. NEW HOME BUYERS ON THE ISLAND, THOUGH, WILL TELL YOU THERE IS SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT SMITH ISLAND THAT MAKES THEM WANT TO STAY. >> I NEVER HAD NEIGHBORS LIKE IT. PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST OPEN THEIR ARMS TO WELCOME US HERE. >> PAUL AND SAMANTHA BOUGHT A FIXER UP FOR $8,000. RISING SEA LEVELS RE A CONDITION ISSUE FOR COMMON LIVING ON THE COAST. >> THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THAT. I DON'T THINK WE WILL BE AROUND WHEN THE ISLAND HAS SUNK. >> THEY SAY THEY HAD NO TROUBLE GETTING HOME AND FLOOD INSURANCE FOR $2800 A YEAR. FOR GENERATIONS, RESIDENTS FOUND WAYS TO COPE WITH A BAY THAT RECLAIMED MORE THAN 3,000 ACRES OF THE ISLAND IN THE PAST 150 YEARS. >> THERE IS A CANARY IN THE COAL MINE WHEN IT COMES TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND SEA LEVEL. >> Reporter: BACK ON THE EASTERN SHORE. >> WHAT WAS SOLID LAND HERE IT HAS FALLEN INTO THE WATER AND THAT IS SIX FEET DOWN. >> THE PROFESSOR SAYING CLIMATE CHANGE IS FUELING EROSION AND SHORE LOTS ACROSS THE CHESAPEAKE. IN 2013 AFTER DAMAGE FROM HURRICANE SANDY THE STATE OF MARYLAND OFFERED A HOME BUY OUT TO SMITH ISLAND RESIDENTS. SPARKING A BACKLASH. >> WE ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE, WE ARE HERE AND HERE TO STAY. >> HE HAS LIVED ON THE ISLAND HIS WHOLE LIFE. >> WE STARTED SEEKING FUNDING THROUGH WHATEVER AGENCIES THAT WERE AVAILABLE TO US. >> Reporter: SINCE THEN, THEY RECEIVED MILLIONS OF GOVERNMENT DOLLARS FOR NEW ELEVATED ROADS, SEWER PLANT, JETTY, DOCK REPAIRS AND NOW THE STATE'S BUY BACK PROGRAM IS HISTORY. STILL, SOME ON THE ISLAND HARBOR CLIMATE SKEPTICISM. THE FOLKS THAT SAY IN ANOTHER 30 YEARS, 50 YEARS SMITH ISLAND WILL NOT BE INHABITABLE. WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THOSE PEOPLE? >> I THINK THEIR NUMBERS ARE SKEWED. >> FOR THEM, OLD AND NEW, THE FUTURE HAS BEEN UNCERTAIN. THEY SAY WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS PRESERVING THEIR SLICE OF HEAVEN ON EARTH AND THE ROCK SOLID COMMUNITY THAT COMES WITH IT. >> IT IS FASCINATING, AS A FORMER RESIDENT OF DEL MARVA YOU I KNOW SMITH ISLAND, YOU HAVE BEEN THERE, PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE ALREADY THAT DON'T WANT TO LEAVE BUT THE IDEA PEOPLE KNOWING THAT SMITH ISLAND IS FIGHTING AGAINST WHAT MANY SEE AS INEVITABLE, AND STILL DECIDING TO MOVE THERE ANY WAY. >> IT IS A BIT OF A HEAD SCRATCHER, RIGHT? FEMA SAYS SMITH ISLAND AND OTHER PLACES ALONG THE EAST COAST ARE AT MODERATE RISK, RELATIVELY MODERATE RISK OF COASTAL FLOODING, SAME GOES FOR PLACES LIKE MIAMI, NEW ORLEANS, NEW YORK CITY, PHILADELPHIA, AT A HIGHER RISK. YOU HAVE PEOPLE IN THIS CASE WHO ARE WILLING TO GO AND PLAY THE ODDS. THEY BELIEVE THAT THE ODDS ARE IN THEIR FAVOR WHEN PLAY THE ODDS AND THEY BELIEVE THE ODDS ARE IN FAVOR WHEN IT COMES TO THESE ISLANDS AND THEY BELIEVE THEY WILL BE OKAY IN THE TIME THEY WILL BE THERE LIVING THERE AND THEY ARE NOT TOO WORRIED ABOUT WHAT COULD HAPPEN DECADES DOWN THE ROAD. >> YOU HAVE TO THINK OF HOUSING COSTS ARE PART OF D TO PLAY BALL BUT INSTEAD THEY SAY THEY LIVED IN FEAR. WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEP DASH NEXT STEPS? >>> FOUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HURT AFTER A HEY, PODCAST FANS, ARE YOU READY TO UNLOCK OUR TRUE CRIME MYSTERIES? TRY APPLE PREMIUM NOW. YOU WILL GET EARLY ACCESS TO ORIGINALS PLUS BONUS CONTENT AND EVERYTHING IS AD FREE. HEAD TO APPLE PODCAST NOW SUBSCRIBE. TO: -- 2 HITS THE CITY AND YOU CAN SEE IT LOOKS TO BE THIS WALL THAT HAS BEEN RIPPED OFF AND THE ROOF CAME OFF ON THAT HOUSE AND THERE IS A PFIZER PLANT AND YOU'RE LOOKING AT THIS AND IT IS TOTALLY GONE AND THEY DON'T KNOW HOW BAD THIS WAS THE DAMAGE OR WHAT HAD BEEN COMPROMISED AND THIS CAME ROLLING IN EAST OF RALEIGH WITH LIGHTNING UP TO 135 MILES AN HOUR AND LOOK OUT OMINOUS THIS LOOKS WITH DEBRIS FLYING AROUND WITH THE SKY GETTING DARKER AND DARKER AND THIS IS PART OF THE WAVE OF DANGEROUS WEATHER PUTTING 10 MILLION PEOPLE AT RISK WITH MAYBE THE POTENTIAL FOR MORE TORNADOES, STRONG WIND AND BIG HAIL AND IT IS THE LATEST ROUND OF EXTREME WEATHER AFTER ONE KENTUCKY TOWN IS STARTING TO CLEAN UP AFTER THIS./FLOODING PUTTING NEIGHBORHOODS UNDERWATER AND YOU CAN BARELY SEE THE FRONT DOOR. THE CITY SAW A FOOT OF REIGN POURING DOWN IN THE LAST 24 HOURS WHICH COULD BE A NEW STATE RECORD BUT FLOODING LEAVING SOME PEOPLE UNSURE OF WHAT THEY WILL DO. >> WE ARE NOT RICH. WE WORK FULL-TIME JOBS AND ALL OF OUR STUFF IS JUROR -- RUINED. >> 30% OF PEOPLE IN MAYFIELD ARE UNDER THE POVERTY LINE WHICH IS TWO AND HALF TIMES THE NATIONAL AVERAGE AND YOU THINK WHY DO WE KNOW THE TOWN OF MAYFIELD? BECAUSE BACK IN 2021, A FEW YEARS AGO IT WAS IN THE BULL'S EYE OF A EF 4 TORNADO THAT DEVASTATED THAT TOWN AND KILLED SOMETHING LIKE 80 PEOPLE IN THE AREA AND HEARTBREAKING FOR SO MANY AND A GUT PUNCH TO SEE ANOTHER ROUND OF EXTREME WEATHER AFFECTING PEOPLE'S LIVES AND ON TOP OF THIS COMES THE EXTREME HEAT THAT HAS 80 MILLION OF US ON ALERT AND WE HAVE MORE. YOU HAVE THE HEAT AND AIR QUALITY ISSUES IN THIS NEW ROUND OF FLOODING AND TORNADOES. >> Reporter: THIS IS UNFORTUNATELY THE SINGING OF THE SUMMER AND IT CHECKS EVERY CATEGORY AND WE WILL START WITH THE HEAT HERE IN ATLANTA AND WE HAVE SEEN HOT TEMPERATURES AND WE HAVE SEEN THIS ALL ACROSS THE SOUTH WITH MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOR DAYS HAVE BEEN IN THE PATH OF THIS HEAT DOME FURTHER OUT WEST AND HITTING TRIPLE DIGIT HIGHS SO WE TALK ABOUT THIS TYPE OF WEATHER AND WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT UNCOMFORTABLE BUT JUST DOWNRIGHT DANGEROUS BECAUSE THAT IS A BOX WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WITH EXTREME HEAT AND NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS WE HAVE SEEN THIS IN THE NORTHEAST AND FOCUS ON KENTUCKY AND THE GOVERNOR THERE HAS DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY AFTER WE SAW THE EXTREME/FLOODING THERE IN KENTUCKY NEAR MAYFIELD AND WHAT IS UNBELIEVABLE ABOUT THIS IS THAT PARTICULAR COUNTY BROKE A DAILY RECORD FOR RAINFALL AND IT GOT MORE THAN 11 INCHES OF REIGN OVER A 24-HOUR PERIOD WHICH IS UNBELIEVABLE AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THOSE AERIAL PICTURES OVER THERE. IT IS UNBELIEVABLE. SOME PARTS OF MAYFIELD, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, ARE STILL CLEANING UP FROM THAT TORNADO AND NOW THEY HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS ON TOP OF THIS. THAT IS KENTUCKY. IF YOU GO JUST A LITTLE BIT TO THE SOUTHEAST DOWN TO NORTH CAROLINA AND YOU CAN TALK ABOUT THAT TORNADO AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT RIPPED THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON AND YOU CAN SEE THAT IMAGE OF THAT FACILITY. WE ARE GETTING REPORTS THERE IS HEAVY DAMAGE INSIDE AND SOME OF THIS COULD HAVE BEEN HEAVILY DAMAGED AS WELL BUT IT'S JUST NOT THIS FACILITY BUT THESE ARE PICTURES OF HOMES DEVASTATED AND EMERGENCY OFFICIALS EARLIER TODAY WERE URGING EVERYBODY IN THE AREA TO STAY OFF THE ROAD AND THEY SAY THE ROADS ARE DAMAGED AND THEY HAD TO CLOSE THE INTERSTATE FOR QUITE SOME TIME BUT YOU CAN IMAGINE TRAFFIC BACKED UP AND THIS IS REALLY A SNAPSHOT OF SOME OF THE EXTREME WEATHER THAT WE DO SEE AND WE ARE OFFICIALLY HITTING FOUR WEEKS OF SUMMER TODAY AND THIS IS BECOMING QUITE A TRADEMARK OF WHAT WE HAVE SEEN ACROSS THE SUMMER AND BACK HERE WITH THE HEAT IT IS JOINED BY THE COOLING DOWN AS WELL AND MANY PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO GET RELIEF. >>> LET'S GET TO BILL WHO HAS MORE ON ALL OF THIS. WHERE IS THE RISK OF MORE STORMS AND DO WE KNOW ANYTHING MORE ABOUT THIS TORNADO THAT RIPPED THROUGH THE COUNTY? >> THE ONE THING THEY ARE SAYING IS THEY SAY THEY IMMEDIATELY FOUND WHAT THEY CALL EF 2 DAMAGE BUT THAT IS JUST SO FAR AND THEY WILL GO THE REST OF THE 20 MILE PATH AND THEY WILL SEE IF THERE IS ANYTHING HIGHER AND I WOULDN'T DOUBT IF IT JUMPS TO 3 AND 5 IS RARE AND WE HAVEN'T HAD THAT IN YEARS BUT IT WILL PROBABLY A HIGHER 2 OR 3. THERE ARE STRONG STORMS HEADING OUT TOWARD THE OUTER BANKS IN ISOLATED STRONG STORMS TO THE EAST OF THE FAYETTEVILLE AREA AND THE TORNADO WATCH WILL BE EXPIRING AND WE HAVE NOT HAD ANY TORNADOES SINCE THAT ONE BIG ONE AND THE REST OF THE RISK WILL TAKE US NORTH OF OMAHA BACK TO AREAS OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS AND ALSO THERE IN COLORADO AND ISOLATED STORMS AND LARGE HAIL. TOMORROW WE HAVE A HUGE POPULATION HERE WITH 41 MILLION PEOPLE IN BOTH ARE TALKING ABOUT COLUMBUS AND INDIANAPOLIS AND CINCINNATI AND PITTSBURGH UP TO ERIE AND A LITTLE AREA AROUND WESTERN KANSAS WHERE WE COULD GET SOME STRONG STORMS IN ISOLATED TORNADOES TOMORROW AND HOW ABOUT THE RAINFALL SITUATION. WE HAVE NEVER SEEN RAINFALL LIKE THIS IN KENTUCKY AND WE DO THINK THIS WILL BE CONFIRMED AS A NEW STATE RECORD FOR THE MOST REIGN NEVER AND 24 HOURS AND WE DID IT 6 TO 10 HOURS AND MOST 3 TO 4 HOURS AND THE OLD RECORD WAS 10 1/2 INCHES AND WE ARE 3 1/4 INCHES HERE AND IT HAS TO FEEL HORRIBLE AND 67 PEOPLE IN THAT TOWN DIED 19 MONTHS AGO IN THAT TORNADO AND NOW SO MANY HOMES HAVE WATER AND THIS IS MISERY ON TOP OF MISERY AND WE DO HAVE A/FLOOD WATCH THAT GOES INTO THE AREA INCLUDING AREAS OF KENTUCKY IN NORTHERN PORTIONS OF TENNESSEE INCLUDING NASHVILLE SO THERE ARE ADDITIONAL CHANCES OF RAINFALL AND HOPEFULLY NOTHING LIKE YESTERDAY AND 111 IN LITTLE ROCK AND THAT IS THE PEAK OF OUR HEAT NOBODY WANTS TO KNOW EVERY DAY WE SHOW YOU THESE NUMBERS AND WHEN WILL IT END AND THIS IS THE OUTLOOK TOWARD THE END OF JULY AND YOU CAN SEE THIS HUGE BULL'S-EYE AND THIS ISN'T PRETTY AND NO END IN SIGHT. >> IT WILL HAVE TO BREAK SOON AND IF IT IS A DOME BAKING THE UNITED STATES, HOW DOES IT MOVE ON AND WHAT IS THE WEATHER PATTERN THAT GETS IT OUT OF HERE? >> YOU NEED ME TO SAY THAT THE HEAT WILL BUILD ON THE EAST COAST AND WE HAVEN'T HAD THAT AND SOMETIMES WE CAN WATCH THIS WEATHER BUT THE BERMUDA HIGH AS STRONG AND THAT IS WHEN THE EAST COAST IT'S A HEAT WAVE AND WE HAVEN'T TALKED ABOUT EAT JUST -- EAST COAST HEAT WAVES AND THIS IS WHERE THIS DOME WILL STAY IN THIS DANGEROUS HEAT THERE IS NO BREAK OR AND INSIGHT SO DON'T BE SURPRISED IF THE NEXT THREE WEEKS WE TALK ABOUT FLASH FLOODING ISSUES BECAUSE THIS WEATHER PATTERN IS STUCK. >>> IN THE LAST FEW HOURS WE HAVE LEARNED THAT FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP IS SAYING THANKS BUT NO THANKS TO THE OFFER BY THE SPECIAL COUNSEL TO HAVE HIM COME IN AND TESTIFY BEFORE A GRAND JURY IN DC AND WE GET A CLEARER PICTURE OF THE CHARGES HE COULD FACE IN THE SCOPE OF THIS INVESTIGATION AGAINST HIM AND WE DO KNOW THE INVESTIGATION IS AGAINST HIM HERE BECAUSE HE IS A TARGET OF IT AND HE HAS THAT TARGET LETTER AND HE TOLD US HE DID WHICH MEANS HE ALMOST CERTAINLY WILL END UP CHARGED WITH A CRIME AND THERE WILL BE SOME KIND OF INDICTMENT TYPICALLY IS WHAT WE SEE WHEN SOMEBODY GETS A TARGET LETTER AGAINST HIM AND WHAT WILL HE GET CHARGED WITH. IT TALKS ABOUT CHARGES AND FIRST DEPRIVING SOMEBODY OF THEIR RIGHTS AND MAYBE VOTING RIGHTS AND WE DON'T KNOW IF IT IS AGAINST ONE PERSON OR A BUNCH OF PEOPLE AND ALSO CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE UNITED STATES AND ALSO TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS SOMETHING WE KNOW FORMER PRESIDENT PENCE IS FACING QUESTIONS ABOUT. TO BE CLEAR, THE LAST CLIP WE SHOWED ISN'T THE END ALL BE ALL AND IT IS AN INDICATION OF A POTENTIAL ROADMAP THAT THEY COULD BE FOLLOWING AND WE COULD SEE OTHER CHARGES AND THINGS THAT ARE NOT THOSE CHARGES BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS THEY ARE SERIOUS CHARGES. >> CORRECT. THIS COULD HAPPEN NEXT WEEK OR WEEKS FROM NOW AND IT COULDN'T HAPPEN AT ALL AND THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR DONALD TRUMP TO GO FORWARD BEFORE THE GRAND JURY AND CLEARLY WE ARE TOLD HE HAS PLANS TO TRAVEL TO WASHINGTON DC THIS WEEK BUT YOU CAN LOOK AT WHAT HE IS UP AGAINST AND THE PRISON SENTENCES OF THOSE POTENTIAL CHARGES AND POLITICALLY FOR DONALD TRUMP SO MUCH OF THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE HE OVER THE LAST YEAR HAS SUGGESTED THAT IF HE GOT BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE WOULD PARDON A VAST MAJORITY OF JANUARY 6 DEFENDANTS AND IS LOOKING AT A REALITY THAT IF YOU WERE TO BE CHARGED AND FOUND GUILTY THAT HE WOULD BE ONE OF THOSE. THAT IS WHERE THIS IS MORE THAN ABOUT JUST TAKING BACK THE WHITE HOUSE BUT A POTENTIALLY HIS OWN FREEDOM. LISTEN TO THIS. >> IT BOTHERS ME FOR EVERYBODY IN THIS INCREDIBLE SOLD-OUT AUDIENCE AND IT BOTHERS ME. IT IS ELECTION INTERFERENCE AND NEVER BEEN DONE LIKE THIS IN A HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY AND IT IS A DISGRACE. >> THAT IS WHERE TRUMP IS MAKING THIS ABOUT THE GREATER MAGNUM -- MAGA MOVEMENT AND THIS FOR HIM IS LAYING DOWN THE STATES AND THOSE IN THE CROWD THAT THEY ARE TRYING TO PUT DOWN THE LEADER OF THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TODAY THOSE ARE THE STAKES HE IS LAYING OUT FOR THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE REPUBLICAN ELECTORATE. >> THERE IS ALSO THE REACTION THAT YOU ALLUDED TO FROM DONALD TRUMP BUT ALSO FROM ALLIES IN CONGRESS AND MORE BROADLY IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BUT HE HAD THE STRATEGY SESSIONS WITH A FEW REPUBLICANS ESSENTIALLY LOOKING TO GET THAT MESSAGING IN LINE ABOUT A POTENTIAL INDICTMENT AND IN THE LAST 45 MINUTES WE ARE HEARING FROM KEVIN McCARTHY WHO SAID THIS HAPPENED BUT IT WASN'T LIKE THAT. >> MAY BE A STRATEGY SESSION AND A POSSIBLE INDICTMENT AND I THINK IT HAPPENS WHERE THEY GO AFTER EVERYBODY WHO'S RUNNING TO GET THE PRESIDENT. >> THE HARDEST PART FOR THEM TO STRATEGIZE ON IS THE REALITY THAT DONALD TRUMP DOESN'T DENY SOME OF THESE ACTIONS FROM THAT DAY AND THE LEAD UP TO THE JANUARY 6 ATTACK BUT INSTEAD IT'S REALLY GOING TO BEYOND KEVIN McCARTHY AND OTHER REPUBLICANS TO CHALLENGE THE MERITS OF THE SPECIAL COUNSEL'S PROSECUTION. >> FOLLOWING EVERY TWIST AND TURN. THANK YOU. >>> THERE NEW DETAILS TONIGHT OUT OF ALABAMA AND A CASE OF A WOMAN WHO WAS MISSING FOR TWO DAYS WITH POLICE SHARING WHAT THE ONLINE SEARCHES LOOK LIKE FOR CARLY RUSSELL IN THE DAYS AND HOURS LEADING UP TO HER DISAPPEARANCE SEARCHING FOR THINGS LIKE DO YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR AMBER ALERT OR A ONE-WAY TICKET OUT OF BIRMINGHAM OR THE MOVIE TAKEN AND MORE LEAVING ALL OF US WITH A QUESTION, WHERE DID SHE GO AND AFTER SHE CALLED OFFICIALS ABOUT A CHILD WALKING DOWN AN INTERSTATE. RIGHT NOW POLICE SAY THERE IS NO INDICATION A CRIME HAS BEEN COMMITTED. >> WE PRETTY MUCH KNOW WHAT TOOK PLACE FROM WHEN SHE LEFT WORK UNTIL SHE GOT THE CALL AND WE CAN SEE GETTING OUT OF THE CAR ON THE INTERSTATE FROM THAT FOOTAGE AND AFTER THAT I THINK SHE ONLY DOES AND WE DON'T KNOW. >> HER FAMILY SAID THEY HAVE NO RESPONSE TO WHAT THE POLICE HAVE SHARED AND NOW WHAT RUSSELL DESCRIBES ACCORDING TO HER FAMILY WAS HORRIFIC AND SHE WENT THROUGH SOMETHING TERRIBLE AND THESE ONLINE SEARCHES WOULD SEEM TO PAINT A DIFFERENT PICTURE AND WHAT IS THE REALITY. DO WE KNOW AND WILL WE KNOW. >> WE ARE NOT SURE BUT THEY SAID THERE IS NO RISK OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND YOU WOULD THINK IF THEY THOUGHT THERE WAS A POSSIBLE KIDNAPPER THEY WOULD USE THOSE WORDS AND THEY DID AND LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT HER VERSION OF EVENTS WORK AND PARSE IT OUT. SHE SAID SHE WAS ON THE INTERSTATE 459 AND GOT OUT TO LOOK AT THIS CHILD 3 TO 4 YEARS OLD WITH A WHITE SHIRT AND POTENTIALLY A DIAPER AND A MAN STARTED TO MUMBLE THAT HE WOULD TRY AS WELL AND CAME OVER TO THE HIGHWAY AND TOOK HER AND PULLED HER OVER THE FENCE AND BROUGHT HER INTO THE CAR AND THEN IN 18 WHEELER AND SHE SAID SHE WAS ABLE TO ESCAPE THAT BUT THEN GOT ABDUCTED AGAIN BETWEEN A MAN AND WOMAN AND ENDED UP IN A HOUSE WHERE SHE WAS BLINDFOLDED AND MADE TO STRIP OVER ALL OF HER CLOTHES BUT SHE SAID THERE IS NO SEXUAL MISCONDUCT AND ULTIMATELY WAS ABLE TO BREAK FREE THE NEXT DAY AND THAT HIS OR HER VERSION OF EVENTS AND THEY SAID LET'S START WITH THE REPORTED TODDLER AND THEY DID A GEO TRACK ON HER PHONE AND SHE DID 600 YARDS WHICH IS SIX FOOTBALL FIELDS LONG SHE WAS TRAVELING AND SHE SAID NO TODDLER COULD TRAVEL THAT DISTANCE AND THAT MEN AND HALF THEY WERE ON THE PHONE SO HE IS IMMEDIATELY POKING HOLES INTO WHAT SHE WAS SAYING AND YOU TALK ABOUT SOME OF THOSE SEARCHES WAS REVEALED EARLIER THAT YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR AN AMBER ALERT AND WHEN WILL POLICE TALK TO HER AGAIN? SO FAR IT'S ONLY THE INITIAL REVIEWER SHE WENT TO THE HOSPITAL AND HERE IS WHAT THE POLICE CHIEF SAID. >> I THINK THEY HAVE TALKED TO THE PARENTS AND WE ARE READY TO TALK AS SOON AS SHE IS READY SO SHE CAN CALL US RIGHT NOW AND WE ARE READY. >> Reporter: SHE WAS RETURNED HOME WITH A CUT ON HER LIP AND A TEAR IN HER SHIRT AND $107 AND ONE OF HER SOCKS. >> WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? POLICE SAY, AND I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT IS NO INDICATION OF MENTAL ILLNESS BUT THERE ARE STILL A LOT OF QUESTIONS. ARE THEY GOING TO GET ANSWERS? WILL THEY TRY TO GET THOSE? IT SOUNDS LIKE THEY WILL. >> Reporter: A LOT OF QUESTIONS. WHAT WE LEARNED IS THE CELL PHONE NEEDS TO BE SEARCHED EVEN THOUGH WE KNOW SHE DIDN'T HAVE IT WITH HER WHEREVER SHE WENT SO THEY ARE STILL TRYING TO USE THIS GUN VIOLENCE PROBLEM CONTINUES TO AFFECT NEW ZEALAND. >>> TONIGHT THE STATE DEPARTMENT IS IN TALKS WITH SOUTH KOREA AND SWEDEN TO FIND OUT WHAT TO DO ABOUT THIS U.S. SOLDIER IN CUSTODY AT NORTH KOREA AFTER HE APPARENTLY RAN, SPRINTED ACROSS THE BORDER TO GET THERE. >> WE ARE GATHERING FACTS AND THE ADMINISTRATION HAS AND WILL CONTINUE TO ACTIVELY WORK TO ENSURE HIS SAFETY AND RETURN HIM HOME TO HIS FAMILY. >> A VERY MURKY STORY HERE. THIS IS PRIVATE SECOND CLASS TRAVIS KING AND THIS PERSON SAID SHE WAS ON THIS TOUR WITH HIM AND SHE WATCHED HIM SPRINT AND TAKE OFF SUPERFAST TOWARD THE BORDER WITH NORTH KOREA CROSSING THAT LINE AND RUNNING SO FAST THAT OFFICIALS COULDN'T STOP HER. >> MY INITIAL THOUGHT WAS OH MY GOD. THEY CHASED AFTER HIM. >> SHE SHARED THIS PICTURE YOU CAN SEE THE BACK OF KINGS HAD STANDING WITH THE TOUR GROUP AND THE NEWS HAS NOT ABLE TO CONFIRM THAT IS HIM AND U.S. OFFICIALS SPEAKING ANONYMOUSLY WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAYING HE WAS SERVING TIME IN PRISON IN SOUTH KOREA ON ASSAULT CHARGES AND RELEASED LAST WEEK AND ON HIS WAY HOME WHEN HE BLENDED IN WITH A GROUP OF TOURISTS HEADED FOR A TOUR OF THE DEMILITARIZED ZONE AND HERE THEY ARE JOINING US NOW. NEGOTIATIONS WITH A COUNTRY THAT WE DON'T REALLY NEGOTIATE WITH AND HOW DOES THAT EVEN WORK AND HOW LONG COULD IT TAKE AND WHAT IS YOUR SENSE AND WHERE IS THE REPORTING ON THIS? >> Reporter: THIS COULD TAKE A LONG TIME WHERE THEY COULD HAPPEN QUICKLY AND THE U.S. HAS NEGOTIATED WITH NORTH KOREA OF COURSE MOST FAMOUSLY WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THIS IS ON THAT BORDER STANDING THERE MEETING WITH KIM JONG-UN BUT THINGS HAVE CHANGED AND THEY HAVE BEEN IN A DEEP FREEZE AND TAKE A LISTEN ON HOW THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATION FRAMED THE CHALLENGE. >> WE HAVE MADE AN EFFORT TO ENGAGE DIPLOMATICALLY WITH THIS GOVERNMENT AND THEY MAY NOT ACCEPT IT BUT IT ISN'T FOR LACK OF TRYING ON OUR SIDE. >> APART FROM THE QUESTION ON HOW ON EARTH HE WAS ABLE TO RUN ACROSS AND NOT GET SHOT IT'S ONE OF THE THINGS I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT WHICH I HAVE BEEN THE NORTH KOREA AND ON THE SOUTH SIDE AND YOU HAVE TO FLY THROUGH BEIJING TO GO OVER TO NORTH KOREA AND YOU CAN'T JUST CROSS OVER ANYONE OF US NORMALLY AND THE CHANGE IN THE WORLD THAT HE WOULD BE EXPERIENCING I CAN'T EVEN DESCRIBE HOW DIFFERENT IT IS TO BE IN THE SOUTH AND NORTH AND IT IS LIKE A THROWBACK AND IT IS COMMUNISM AND COMPLETELY A DIFFERENT WORLD SO YOU CAN IMAGINE WHAT HE IS EXPERIENCING RIGHT NOW AND IT WILL BE SOMETHING. >> YOU ARE TALKING AND I THINK IT IS FASCINATING AT A MICRO LEVEL WHAT THIS EXPERIENCE WILL BE THAT THE U.S. IS TRYING TO GET HIM HOME AND ALSO A MACRO LEVEL AND A GEOPOLITICAL LEVEL BECAUSE NORTH KOREA IS LAUNCHING SHORT RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILES TO THE OCEAN INTO THE SEA AND THAT PROBABLY DOESN'T HELP THE SITUATION BUT STILL THERE ARE PIECES OF THIS MOVING AROUND BEYOND THIS. >> ABSOLUTELY. SOMETIMES IN HISTORY STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN AND THEY CAN IMPACT HISTORY AND SOMETIMES THEY DON'T BUT THE BIG PICTURE IS THE CONTINUING DESIRE BY KIM JONG-UN TO STRENGTHEN IF YOU WOULD LIKE HIS NUCLEAR CAPABILITY BECAUSE HE BELIEVES THAT THE WAY TO PROTECT NORTH KOREA OR MAKING IT MORE POWERFUL ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA AND THAT ATTEMPT TO STOP HIM FROM DOING THAT HAS REALLY GONE NOWHERE. AND CONTINUING TO FIRE THESE MISSILES. THESE AREN'T THE INTERCONTINENTAL MISSILES THAT MAY HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO REACH THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES AND WE HAVEN'T BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS BUT IT IS STILL THERE AND ATTENTION IS THERE IN THE QUESTION IS AS THESE TALKS PLAY OUT OVER THIS ONE SOLDIER WHAT IMPACT WILL THAT HAVE AND MAYBE, JUST MAYBE IT GETS THE TWO SIDES TALKING. I DOUBT IT. BUT WILL IT HAVE SOME KIND OF AN IMPACT ON THE GEOPOLITICAL PICTURE? >> WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT THIS AGAIN AND OF THAT I AM SURE. THANK YOU. >>> RIGHT NOW ON CAPITOL HILL IT IS A LATE EVENING HEARING AS A PAIR OF IRS WHISTLEBLOWERS ARE SOUNDING THE ALARM SUGGESTING THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT MAY HAVE TRIED TO SLOW WALK ITS INVESTIGATION OF HUNTER BIDEN. >> PROSECUTORS DIDN'T APPEAR TO FOLLOW THE NORMAL INVESTIGATIVE PROCESS AND AT EVERY STAGE DECISIONS WERE MADE THAT BENEFITED THE SUBJECT OF THIS INVESTIGATION. >> THESE WHISTLEBLOWERS ARE TESTIFYING TO A REPUBLICAN LED HOUSE PANEL THAT CLAIMS THE DOJ MISHANDLED INVESTIGATION INTO HUNTER BIDEN, THE PRESIDENT SON AND YOU'RE LOOKING AT LIVE PICTURES FOR YOUR REFERENCE AT 6:30 ALMOST EASTERN TIME THIS IS STRETCHING INTO AND IT HAS BEEN SIX HOURS. HUNTER BIDEN GOT A PLEA DEAL AND PLEADED GUILTY FOR FAILING TO PAY TAXES PROPERLY AND HE FACES A SEPARATE FELONY GUN POSSESSION CHARGE THAT WILL PROBABLY BE DISMISSED IF YOU MEET CERTAIN CONDITIONS IN THE BIDEN MINISTRATION TELLING US THAT HOUSE REPUBLICANS ARE STAGING PARTISAN STUNTS TO DAMAGE THE PRESIDENT POLITICALLY AND I WILL BRING IN ALI VITALI AND THESE WHISTLEBLOWERS HAVE BEEN SPEAKING FOR QUITE A WHILE AND BRING US UP TO SPEED AND I DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN THE WEEDS BUT THEY ARE SAYING THEY ARE NOT COMFORTABLE WITH THE WAY THIS WAS HANDLED IN ONE OF THESE AND WE DIDN'T KNOW WHO HE WAS UNTIL TODAY SAYS I AM A DEMOCRAT AND HE WILL MAKE A DECISION ABOUT POLITICS. >> HE IS SAYING HE IS THE LEAST LIKELY BECAUSE HE IS A DEMOCRAT AND THE LEAST LIKELY TO GO AFTER THE PRESIDENTS SON FOR POLITICAL REASONS BUT THAT IS WHAT DEMOCRATS ARE ALLEGING AND HE CONTINUES TO TESTIFY FOR WELL OVER THE FIFTH HOUR AND IN PART BECAUSE THIS IS GOING TO BE A LENGTHY HEARING BUT ALSO BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU START HEARING AT 1:00 IN THE AFTERNOON AS OPPOSED TO THE AROUND 10 AM WHEN USUALLY START BUT WE HAD THE ISRAELI PRESIDENT HERE TODAY AND THAT IS WHY THEY HAD TO START LATER AND NEVERTHELESS WHILE THE TIMING WAS UNPREDICTABLE THE TALKING POINT THAT WE HEARD FROM MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ON THE RIGHT AND LEFT BUT ALSO FROM THESE WITNESSES HASN'T BEEN SURPRISING AND WE DID HAVE A SENSE OF WHAT THEY WOULD SAY SPECIFICALLY THAT THESE WITNESSES POINT TO THE IDEA THAT BASED ON WHAT THEY SAY THEY SAW, THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF HUNTER BIDEN GETTING A SWEETHEART DEAL AND GETTING THE DOJ EFFECTIVELY PLAYING SOFTBALL WITH THEM BECAUSE OF WHO HE IS. >> IT APPEARED TO ME BASED ON WHAT I EXPERIENCED YOU AS ATTORNEY IN DELAWARE IN OUR INVESTIGATION WAS LIMITED AND MARGINALIZED BY DOJ OFFICIALS AS WELL AS OTHER YOU AS ATTORNEYS. >>> YOU WILL NOTICE HE USES THE WORD HEADSTRONG AND DEMOCRATS ON THE COMMITTEE HAVE DONE THIS REPEATEDLY TO SAY THAT THE ATTORNEY AT THE CENTER OF THIS WHO WAS SELF-APPOINTED AND BEGAN HIS INVESTIGATION DURING THE TRUMP YEARS SAID REPEATEDLY HE WAS NOT STYMIED OR LIMITED IN THE SCOPE OF WHAT HE WAS INVESTIGATED BUT IT GOES WITH WHAT THEY ARE SAYING. >> WHAT ELSE ARE DEMOCRATS TRYING TO FRAME THIS AS? >> POLITICS. >> THEY HAVE FRUSTRATIONS AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH SUPERVISORS AS WELL AS MR. WEISS AND HIS PROSECUTORS AND THE KEY POINT THAT AMERICA NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND IS THE ONLY POLITICAL INTERFERENCE IS COMING FROM DONALD TRUMP AND MY REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES. >> WHAT HE IS TOUCHING ON IS THAT THESE INVESTIGATIONS ARE IN SOME WAYS SEEN BY DEMOCRATS AS A SORT OF COUNTER PROBE AND AS FOR FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP HE IS IN THE CROSSHAIRS BOTH AT DOJ PROPER ON THE FEDERAL LEVEL IN THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND WE ARE WAITING TO SEE IN GEORGIA WHAT HAPPENS AND AS HE GOES THROUGH THESE TRIALS LITERALLY -- LITERALLY THIS EFFECTIVELY TRIES TO MUDDY THE WATERS TO SHOW IT'S NOT JUST TRUMP WHO HAS INVESTIGATIONS BUT ALSO AGAINST THE CURRENT PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AND HIS SON JOE -- HUNTER. AND ALSO IN THIS INSTANCE THEY ARE LOOKING AT THIS SWEETHEART DEAL WHICH THE REPUBLICANS CALL IT THE ATTORNEYS AT THE CENTER OF THIS HAVE KNOCKED THAT CENTRAL PREMISE DOWN. >>> STILL TO COME THE PRESIDENT OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY STEPPING DOWN AND WE WILL TELL YOU ABOUT THE INVESTIGATION THAT COST HIM HIS JOB AND RAISING QUESTIONS ABOUT THE RESEARCH. >> A MAN WHO COULD BE EXECUTED IN ALABAMA AS SOON AS TOMORROW TELLS >>> NEW DETAILS TONIGHT FROM THE FORMER NORTHWESTERN FOOTBALL PLAYERS ON THE HAZING AND THE FEAR THEY HAD TO LIVE WITH. >> WE ARE THROWN INTO A CULTURE WHERE PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL AND SEXUAL ABUSE WAS NORMALIZED SO WE HAD NO REFERENCE POINT TO NOTE IF THIS WAS A COLLEGE FOOTBALL THING OR JUST A NORTHWESTERN THING. >> WE WERE SUBJECTED TO SORT OF THIS CULTURE. WE DID LIVE IN FEAR. >> LIVING IN FEAR COMING AFTER A LAWSUIT FILED SEPARATELY BY A FORMER PLAYER NAMED JOHN DOE AND UPPERCLASSMAN ON THE TEAM APPARENTLY WOULD RUN AROUND A PLAYER WHO MESSED UP AND PRACTICE WHILE CLAPPING THEIR HANDS AND THE CARWASH WHICH IS CALLED A QUOTE UNQUOTE TRADITION WHERE PLAYERS STAND AROUND NAKED AND THEY WERE SPINNING AROUND THE ENTRANCE TO THE SHOWERS WITH FRESHMAN PLAYERS FORCED TO RUB UP AGAINST THEM AND THE SUIT CLAIMS IT FIRED THE COACH WHO KNEW WHAT WAS GOING ON AND THE PRESIDENT SAID HE COULDN'T TALK ABOUT SPECIFICS BUT THEY HAVE TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE PLACED APPROPRIATE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT. WHERE DO YOU GO NEXT AND WHAT ELSE ARE WE HEARING? >> THIS GOES TO MORE LAWSUITS AND MORE COMING FROM BIG NAMES AND TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE BEN CROM AND KNOWN FOR GETTING SETTLEMENTS LIKE CIVIL RIGHTS CASES AND YOU HEAR LAWYERS AND IN THAT LAWSUIT THEY MAKE SOME BIG ALLEGATIONS SAYING IT IS NOT ABOUT WHAT YOU HEARD IN THAT FOOTBALL PROGRAM BUT SAYING THAT EXTENDS TO OTHER PROGRAMS AT THE SCHOOL BUT WHAT WE DID HEAR FROM THE FOOTBALL PLAYERS, THEY EXPLAINED WHY THEY ARE DOING THIS NOW AND I WANT YOU TO HEAR FROM THEM NOW. >> THERE IS A CODE OF SILENCE THAT IS INSURMOUNTABLE TO BREAK AND COULD LEAD TO CONSEQUENCES THAT AFFECT PLAYING TIME AND COULD WARRANT FURTHER ABUSE. >> WHAT WE WENT THROUGH WAS WRONG AND I SAY WE SUPPORT YOU AND WE ARE HERE AND WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER. >> THEY DO WANT TO HEAR MORE STORIES AND THEY WANT MORE FORMER PLAYERS TO SPEAK OUT AND MEANWHILE THE UNIVERSITY SAYS THEY AREN'T RESPONDING TO THESE LAWSUITS AND ALLEGATIONS MADE IN THE LAWSUIT THE TALKING ABOUT CHANGES THEY HAVE MADE SINCE THEY LAUNCHED AN INTERNAL INVESTIGATION LAST FALL AND CHANGES INVOLVING MORE HAZING AND TRAINING AND INVOLVING FINDING A BETTER WAY AND IMPROVING WAYS WHERE STUDENTS CAN REPORT UPDATES OR ALLEGATIONS OF HAZING BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS ONE LAWSUIT HAS BEEN FILED AND THERE ARE MORE TO COME IN THIS IS SOMETHING THIS UNIVERSITY WILL DEAL WITH FOR SOME TIME. >> THEY SAY THEY DESCRIBED THIS GOING BACK TO AS LONG AS 2014 TALK ABOUT ISSUES INVOLVING HAZING AND BULLYING AND WE ALSO KNOW THAT NORTHWESTERN ISN'T THE ONLY BIG FOOTBALL SCHOOL FACING ALLEGATIONS LIKE THIS. >> YES. WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE WITH PENN STATE AND MICHIGAN STATE AND OHIO STATE, A LOT OF SCHOOLS ARE DEALING WITH THIS AND USUALLY IN THOSE PROGRAMS YOU TALK ABOUT IT IN THE CONTEXT OF FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES BUT IN TALKING ABOUT SEXUAL HARASSMENT OR SEXUAL ABUSE, THIS IS A PROBLEM WITH MANY BIG INSTITUTIONS AND THERE WAS A STUDY THAT CAME OUT TWO YEARS AGO IN 2021 WHERE IT FOUND THAT ATHLETES WERE 2 1/2 MORE TIMES MORE LIKELY TO SAY THE ENCOUNTERED SEXUAL ABUSE OR HARASSMENT, SOMETHING BROUGHT ON AND MENTIONED BY ATTORNEYS TODAY SO IT IS A PROBLEM THAT THEY ARE HOPING THIS HELPS ADDRESS. >> LET'S GET YOU TO THE FIVE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TONIGHT. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT SAID TODAY HE WILL RESIGN AFTER HIS REVIEW FOUND BIG FLAWS AND HE SAID HE WAS CLEARED BUT WILL STEP DOWN NEXT MONTH FOR THE GOOD OF THE SCHOOL. HAVE YOU GOTTEN COVID-19 BUT DIDN'T GET SICK? RESEARCHERS FOUND THOSE WITH A CERTAIN VARIATION GENETICALLY MAY BE LESS LIKELY EVEN IF THEY DO HAVE THE VIRUS. MANDY MOORE OF THIS IS US SAID SHE HAS GOTTEN PAYCHECKS LESS THAN A DOLLAR AFTER THE SHOW STARTED STREAMING ON HULU AND SHE SHARES NOW AS PART OF THIS PUSH FOR RESIDUALS THAT ARE MORE FAIR AND RESIDUALS ARE THOSE THAT ACTORS GET WHEN THE SHOW AIRS BUT PART OF THE REASON WHY ACTORS ARE STRIKING AND NO COMMENT FROM HULU AND COMCAST OUR PARENT COMPANY IS REPRESENTED BY THE GROUP NEGOTIATING WITH THE ACTORS. THE COST OF THE RIDE ON THE COUNTRY'S BUSIEST TRANSIT SYSTEM IS GETTING MORE EXPENSIVE. NEW YORK CITY WILL RAISE THE PRICE FOR THE BUS AND SUBWAY TO DO DOLLARS $.90 UP FROM $2.75 AND IT IS THE FIRST HIKE IN EIGHT YEARS AND THEY HAVE BEEN HAVING A TOUGH TIME GETTING BACK TO PRE-PANDEMIC LEVELS AND THIS WILL GO INTO EFFECT NEXT MONTH. THERE IS SET TO BE A DROP APPARENTLY IN THE SALE OF CHAMPAGNE AND THE EXPORT OF CHAMPAGNE AND PRODUCER SITS PARTLY BECAUSE OF THE PRESSURE FROM INFLATION AFTER >>> IN ALABAMA THEY ARE PREPARING TO PUT TO DEATH THE FIRST INMATE SINCE THEY CARRIED OUT OTHER LETHAL INJECTIONS AND THAT INMATE IS SPEAKING WITH US TONIGHT FROM PRISON AND THE STORY WE FIRST BROUGHT YOU WAS AN ORIGINAL A FEW MONTHS AGO SHARING HOW THE LAST FEW EXECUTIONS IN ALABAMA FAILED MEANING THERE ARE TWO PRISONERS STILL ALIVE MONTHS AFTER THE EXECUTION DATE. JAMES BARBER IS WAITING ON A DECISION FROM A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT ON AN EFFORT TO BLOCK HIS EXECUTION BUT AT THE MOMENT HEADED INTO TOMORROW PREPARED FOR THE END OF HIS LIFE. WE HAVE THAT EXCLUSIVE REPORTING AND SOME DETAILS YOU MAY FIND DISTURBING. >> Reporter: AND ALABAMA DEATH ROW INMATE SET TO DIE THIS WEEK IN HIS OWN WORDS. >> IT'S A SITUATION THAT FEW PEOPLE ARE EVER IN. >> HE ACCEPTS HIS FATE. >> I CAN TELL YOU WHAT GOD IS TELLING ME TO HAVE NO FEAR. >> Reporter: HE EXPRESSES HESITATION ABOUT BEING THE STATE'S FIRST TEST SUBJECT AS IT PROVES THAT CAN CARRY OUT A LETHAL INJECTION WITHOUT INCIDENT. >> I HAVE A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE. >> THE LAST FEW WENT WRONG AND THE MEN SURVIVED AFTER BEING PIERCED WITH NEEDLES BY HOURS AS THE EXECUTION TEAM STRUGGLED THE STARTING IVY FILLED WITH A COCKTAIL OF LETHAL DRUGS PROMPTING BACKLASH AND A PAUSE IN EXECUTION SO THE STATE COULD CONDUCT A REVIEW OF THE PROCEDURES IN THE STATE DOWNPLAY THE FAILURES. >> COLD-BLOODED CONVICTED KILLER AND COMPLAINS ABOUT THE PRODDING AND POKING OF A SMALL IVY LINE. REALLY? >> Reporter: THE GOVERNOR SAID FOR THE SAKE OF THE VICTIMS AND FAMILIES WE HAVE TO GET THIS RIGHT BUT SAYING LEGAL TACTICS AND CRIMINALS HIJACKING THE SYSTEM FOR THE CONTROVERSY AND NOW THE STATE SAID IT IS READY. >> AFTER THEY DID A FULL REVIEW AND NO REAL CHANGES. >> ALABAMA DIDN'T MAKE THE FINDINGS PUBLIC IN THE STATE DECLINED TO COMMENT BUT IN A LETTER TO THE GOVERNOR IN FEBRUARY OF THE CORRECTIONS COMMISSIONER SAID THE DEPARTMENT HIRED MORE MEDICAL PERSONNEL AND PRACTICE PROTOCOLS AND ADDED MORE EQUIPMENT WHICH REVEALED IN COURT FILINGS INCLUDES ADDITIONAL STRAPS TO SECURE INMATES TO THE GURNEY AND THE STATE SAID IN COURT IT WILL USE A NEW IVY TEAM AND THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IS THE STATE HAS MORE TIME TO EXECUTE BARBER ALLOWING THEM TO GO THROUGH THE NIGHT FROM 6 PM THURSDAY TO 6 AM FRIDAY AND PREVIOUSLY EXECUTIONS HAD TO BE COMPLETED IN A SINGLE DAY BUT THE SUPREME COURT IN ALABAMA LIFTED THAT TIME LIMIT. >> I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT BUT I AM IN GOD'S HANDS. >> Reporter: HE IS CONVICTED DID OF THE MURDER OF A 75-YEAR OLD WOMAN HOME HE BEAT TO DEATH WITH A HAMMER WHILE IN A DRUG- INDUCED BLACKOUT AND COURT FILINGS AND MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY ARE TRAVELING TO ALABAMA FOR THE ATTEMPTED EXECUTION AND ONE OF THEM, HER GRANDDAUGHTER, HAS FORGIVEN HIM WRITING A LETTER PUBLISHED IN THE ATLANTIC AND I HOPE THAT WHEN YOU SEE GRANDMA SHE EMBRACES YOU AND TELLS YOU IT IS OKAY. I FORGIVE YOU, JIMMY. I FORGIVE YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU DID. >> THAT FORGIVENESS IS INCREDIBLE AND I LOVE SARAH GREGORY MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE ON EARTH. >> Reporter: HE BECAME DEEPLY RELIGIOUS AFTER MURDERING APPS AND ON THE EVE OF HIS SCHEDULED EXECUTION HE SAID HE IS PUTTING HIS FAITH IN GOD'S HANDS. >> WHAT I DID I AM SO ASHAMED OF AND I REGRET SO MUCH I HAD TO GO TO GOD NOBODY WANTS TO DIE AND I STILL THINK THERE IS A LOT I CAN ACCOMPLISH AND PEOPLE I CAN HELP AND IF INDEED IT HAPPENS AND I HAVE TO GO I WILL GO WITH A SMILE ON MY FACE AND IF IT DOESN'T HAPPEN THEN I WILL GO ON AND DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO HIRE A GOD AND DO THINGS IN HIS NAME. >> Reporter: THAT IS OUR STORY. >>> PUTTING CONVICTED GANG LEADERS ON AN COULDN'T POSSIBLY READ OR WATCH OR LISTEN TO THE MALL OUR GUESTS HAVE DONE IT FOR YOU AND HERE'S A SEGMENT WHAT WE CALL THE GLOBAL. RUSSIA HAS LAUNCHED A HUGE AIRSTRIKE IN ODESSA DESCRIBING THE NIGHT AS HELLISH AND IT'S THE MAIN FORCE FOR EXPORTING GRAIN AND UKRAINIANS PRESIDENTS HAVE THEIR WORKING TO TRY TO KEEP EXPORTS RUNNING AS NORMAL. >>> HONDURAS IS PLANNING TO BUILD A CONTROVERSIAL ISLAND PRISON COLONY AND IT'S THE ONLY ONE IN THE HEMISPHERE THAT HOLDS 2000 GANG LEADERS AND ABOUT 150 MILES OFF OF THE UNDER AN COAST AND OFFICIALS HOPE IT HELPS CRACK DOWN ON GANG OPERATIONS. OUT OF CHINA SOMEWHAT OF A MYSTERY SURROUNDING THE FOREIGN MINISTER. NOBODY HAS SEEN HIM IN THREE WEEKS PUBLICLY AND IT DOES SEEM LIKE HE MISSED HIGH-LEVEL TALKS WITH THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA LIKE THE TREASURY SECRETARY JANET YELLEN AND JOHN KERRY AND A LOT OF SPECULATION ABOUT ALL OF THIS BUT SO FAR THAT IS ALL IT IS AND NO FIRM DETAILS ON WHY HE HAS BEEN GONE AND THEN ONE CHARMING COMMUNITY COULD BE WIPED OFFIS REAL. NEWS FOR THE GENERATION OF NOW IS NBC NEWS NOW. >>> AN IN-DEPTH REPORTING ON A TOPIC WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING AND TONIGHT IT IS PEOPLE MOVING INTO ONE CHARMING COMMUNITY AND EVEN WITH EXPERTS PREDICTING IT COULD BE UNDERWATER IN THE NEXT FEW DECADES AND ALL ABOUT HOW CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING COULD LADIES -- RAISE SEA LEVELS. SMITH ISLAND OFF THE COAST OF MARYLAND IS ONE OF THEM. SEA LEVEL CHANGE IS AFFECTING WHAT THAT LIFE COULD LOOK LIKE 40 OR 50 YEARS FROM NOW BUT STILL A HOT REAL ESTATE MARKET. >> Reporter: A 15 MILE VOTES RIDE FROM THE WESTERN SHORE AND PASSED A SHIPWRECK THERE IS A REFUGE IN THE CHESAPEAKE BAY. SMITH ISLAND IS FEWER THAN FULL- TIME TO RESIDENCE CARRYING 300 YEARS OF THE UNIQUE CULTURE AND IT'S HOME TO THE STATE DESERT THE LAYER CAKE AND A VIBRANT CRABBING TRADITION AND MORE RECENTLY A SWARM OF HOMEBUYERS. >> IT IS BEEN OVER 30 HOMES IN TWO YEARS. >> THE NEW AND ONLY REALTOR SAID SHE HAS NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT. >> THIS IS ONE OF THE LISTINGS THAT I JUST RECENTLY RECEIVED. >> Reporter: IT IS ON THE MARKET $160,000 UP 20% THE LAST TIME IT SOLD YEARS AGO AND COMPARED TO THE MAINLAND A BARGAIN FOR THOSE SEEKING A SLOWER LIFESTYLE. ALL THE NEW HOMEBUYERS MAY SEEM PECULIAR BECAUSE SCIENTISTS PROJECT MOBILE WARMING WILL PLUNGE SMITH ISLAND ALMOST ENTIRELY UNDERWATER WITH JUST A FOOT OF SEALEVEL RISE BY 2050 AND NEW HOMEBUYERS ON THE ISLAND WILL SAY THERE IS SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT SMITH ISLAND THAT MAKES THEM WANT TO STAY. >> I HAVE NEVER HAD NEIGHBORS LIKE THIS WHO HAVE NEIGHBORS THAT WELCOME THEIR ARMS. >> Reporter: HE BOUGHT A FIXER UPPER IN MARCH AND HE SAID RISING SEA LEVELS ARE COMMON ISSUE FOR ANYBODY ON THE COAST. >> I DON'T THINK WE WILL BE AROUND WHEN THE ISLAND DOES THAT. >> Reporter: WHILE IT HAS FORCED INSURERS TO PULL OUT OF STATES LIKE FLORIDA AND CALIFORNIA, THEY SAY THEY HAD NO TROUBLE GETTING HOME AND FLOOD INSURANCE FOR ABOUT $2800 A YEAR AND FOR GENERATIONS RESIDENTS HERE HAVE FOUND WAYS TO COPE WITH A BAY THAT HAS RECLAIMED MORE THAN 3000 ACRES OF THE ISLAND IN THE PAST 150 YEARS. >> THERE IS A CANARY IN THE COAL MINE WHEN IT COMES TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND SEA LEVEL RISE IN CHESAPEAKE BAY. >> THIS LAND HAS FALLEN STRAIGHT IN THE WATER 6 FEET DOWN. >> Reporter: HE SAID CLIMATE CHANGE HAS FUELED EROSION AND SURE LOSS ACROSS THE CHESAPEAKE AND IN 2013 AFTER DAMAGE FROM HURRICANE SANDY, THE STATE OF MARYLAND OFFERED A HOME BUYOUT PROGRAM TO THE RESIDENCE SPARKING A BACK MESH. >> WE ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE AND WE ARE HERE TO STAY. >> Reporter: HE HAS LIVED HERE HIS WHOLE LIFE. >> SMITH ISLAND HAS RECEIVED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR NEW ELEVATED ROADS AND THE SEWER PLANT AND JETTY AND NOW THE BUYBACK PROGRAM IS HISTORY. STILL SOME ON THE ISLAND HARBOR SKEPTICISM. >> FOR THE FOLKS WHO SAY IN ANOTHER 50 YEARS SMITH ISLAND WON'T BE INHABITABLE WHAT YOU SAY TO THOSE PEOPLE? >> I THINK THEIR NUMBERS ARE SKEWED. TOOK THE FUTURE HAS ALWAYS BEEN UNCERTAIN BUT THEY SAY WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS PRESERVING THEIR SLICE OF HEAVEN ON EARTH AND THE ROCKSOLID COMMUNITY THAT COMES WITH IT. >> WE ARE NOW JOINED WITH AARON GILCHREST. I KNOW SMITH ISLAND AND YOU KNOW IT AND YOU HAVE BEEN THERE MULTIPLE TIMES AND I THINK PEOPLE MAYBE UNDERSTAND, THOSE WHO LIVE THERE ALREADY WHO DON'T WANT TO LEAVE BUT THE IDEA OF PEOPLE KNOWING THAT SMITH ISLAND IS ALREADY FIGHTING AGAIN AND STILL DECIDING TO MOVE THERE ANYWAY. >> IT IS A BIT OF A HEAD SCRATCHER. FEMA SAID THAT OTHER PLACES ALONG THE EAST COAST ARE AT A MODERATE RISK OF COASTAL FLOODING AND THE SAME GOES FOR PLACES LIKE MIAMI AND NEW ORLEANS IN NEW YORK CITY AND PHILADELPHIA AT A HIGHER RISK BUT YET YOU HAVE PEOPLE IN THIS CASE WILLING TO GO AND PLAY THE ODDS AND THEY BELIEVE THE ODDS ARE IN THEIR FAVOR WHEN IT COMES TO SMITH ISLAND AND TANGIER ISLAND IN VIRGINIA AND THOSE FOLKS BELIEVE THEY ARE OKAY BY THE TIME THEY WILL BE THERE LIVING THERE AND NOT TOO WORRIED ABOUT WHAT MAY COME DECADES DOWN THE ROAD THEY SAY. >> THAT DOES IT FOR US THIS HOUR AND IF YOU MISSED ANY OF IT CATCH UP ON THE LATEST REPORTING IN THE NEWEST IN ABUSE AND IN SO MANY PLACES ON
