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process. on tuesday, a grand jury in washington indicted former president trump in connection with jack smith's investigation into trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. it charges him with four counts, including conspiracies to obstruct the counting of electoral votes and to disenfranchise voter and involves six co-conspirators who are alleged to have aided trump and his plan to stay in office nbc's laura jarret has the full story. >> reporter: former president donald trump facing a blistering new indictment from special counsel jack smith, this time for his actions leading up to the capitol riot on january 6, including prosecutors say, trying to steal the election from the winner, president biden. the indictment alleging mr. trump was determined to remain in power and spread lies about winning the 2020 election, saying these claims were false and the defendant knew they were

false. the former president faces four counts, including conspiracy to defraud the united states and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. prosecutors described an alleged criminal scheme that mr. trump launched after election day, in an indictment that also details six unnamed co-conspirators. prosecutors did not charge mr. trump with inciting the january 6 riot the special counsel speaking out. >> the attack on our nation's capitol on january 6, 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy, it was fuel ed by lies lies bit defendant, targeted at obstructing a bed rook function of the u.s. government >> reporter: adding new charges, accusing mr. trump of trying to

delete video subpoenaed by the doj. the former president says they were not deleted they were voluntarily turned over i did not tell anyone to delete them he's expected to go to trial next may then there's the trial set for march. manhattan indicted him for falsifying business records. and in fulton county, georgia, the d.a. says she'll announce this month whether mr. trump will face charges for trying to overturn the election results in that state >> we're ready to go nbc news has been able to identify five out of the six names that are listed as c co-conspirators. they include rudy giuliani, sydney powell and john eastman in a statement, an attorney for

rudy giuliani also classified the indictment as election interference and eviscerates the first amendment for bringing charges over questioning the results of an election at an appearance in florida tuesday, vice president kamala harris had strong words for florida governor ron desantis on education in the sunshine state. >> there is no round table no lecture no invitation. we will accept to debate an undeniable fact. there were no redeeming qualities of slavery >> harris there was responding to an offer made by desantis to speak with her on florida's controversial new curriculum on african-american history the state's new standards include language that does suggest some black people benefitted from slavery. we want to turn to the west coast where the largest wildfire so far this year is still burning out of control

it could forever change the mojave desert, as it burns down joshua t joshua trees and scars the landscape. our miguel almaguer has more from california. >> reporter: facing an out-of-control blaze in extreme conditions, this is a dangerous firefight for crews in the mojave desert. remote but exploding in size, the york fire has torn across 80,000 acres the largest in the country so far this year, now spilling into nevada >> we pretty concerned it could start coming down at us the. >> reporter: as the unusual desert blaze destroyed protected joshua trees and threatens endangered animals, the erratic conditions have created fire nad oes, a vortex of flas and smok fireters are battling an inferno while working in an oven >> it gets really bad. hard to breathe. >> reporter: if the heat wasn't

enough, smoke is drifting across two states, smothering parts of las vegas, where a thick haze triggered flight delays and is impacting air quality. >> yeah. hot. >> reporter: for some 43 million under heat alerts, the conditions outside are stifling. in july, phoenix averaged nearly 103 degrees. the warmest temps for any u.s. city in any year and across the west, the start of fire season was delayed because of our wet winter, but now conditions are primed for disaster back to you. >> miguel, thank you chinese state media have reported that at least 20 people have died in flooding in and around beijing tens of thousands have been vac wait remnants of a typhoon caused extreme raines extreme rains. it is more than the monthly average for july and one of the worst storms to hit northern

china in years the pentagon has stopped training special forces in niger, one week after a military coup in the west african country. the u.s. has 1100 troops stationed there supporting local forces and let's go live to raf sanchez, tracking developments for the united states. why are we still not calling what happened in niger a coup? >> reporter: it certainly looks like a coup. it sounds like a coup, but the biden administration is reluctant to call it a coup because that would trigger a very specific set of legal requirements, one of which is that the united states would have to suspend security aid to niger. the u.s. is reluctant for two reasons. there's still some optimism the situation could be reversed. with enough diplomatic, economic pressure the soldiers could be convinced to return to their barracks and democracy restored. and the fight against terrorism

goes on. there are links to islamic state and al qaeda in the region the u.s. doesn't want to let pressure up on them. that's why the u.s. is keeping the 1100 troops in the region. the pentagon at this point is not ordering evacuations for american citizens in niger the state department is telling americans, limit your movements, but they say at this stage there is no sign of a direct threat to americans. now that is a different approach from the one being taken by the europeans. the french military yesterday began evacuation flights for both its own citizens and for other europeans, and just to complicate the geopopolitical picturure here, ththere arare cs that if these niger coup leaders end up overly isolated from the u.s., they may turn to russia and invite the wagner military group into their country pope francis is on his way to portugal since having intestinal surgery in june he will attend catholic world

youth day, the first such event since covid. in addition to leading with leaders and diplomats, he is expected to meet with sexual abuse survivors. a portuguese commission found that thousands of children were molested by members of that country's catholic church over the past 70 years. new morning, potential progress in the writers strike that has halted much of hollywood. a writers guild says the alliance representing the studios has requested a meeting on friday. this would be the first effort to restart negotiations since talks broke down may 1st at the top of the agenda are topics like residuals for streaming and the use of ai. turning to the weather now wind, hail, even floods are possible in the midwest today. nbc meteorologist angie lassman is tracking everything good morning >> we've already got thunderstorms firing up in parts of the midwest and stretching into parts of the plains you can see the state of missouri, stretching into iowa,

that's where we're going to see some of those thunderstorms that really g re really give us a good dowsing rain it moves out into the southeast, but we'll also see unsettled conditions in parts of the northeast as well. when we talk severe weather, it will be focussed around missouri, stretching into kentucky, right over places like columbia, could see stronger wind gusts, large hail the tornado threat is low, but repeated round of thunderstorms means flooding concerns are elevated we've already got flood watches in effect in those areas and for good reason. shreveport. showers and thunderstorms expected for st. louis into kansas city and across parts of colorado and that's a look at your forecast, ladies

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