i think he left priscilla hiss. priscilla hiss predeceased. alger hiss. she died a broken woman. and one has to think that the guilt and the trauma that she experienced during this just devastated her and i think it brought on the whole health. she died early, but never less maintained her innocence and their sons one from an earlier marriage and from their marriage, spent much of their lives proclaim their father's innocence, even wrote books on. the subject, tony hiss, who was a writer for the new yorker wrote books about the family and about their life together and very eloquently maintained their innocence. so yes, with the with the new evidence i think the the the alger hiss family still sticks by their their man and believing in his innocence to the end. any other questions questions? okay i would like to thank you all coming. thank you for the questions. and thank you, david, for talking with us about gods of deception. thank you, matthew. and thank you edgartown books and st andrew's. it's been a great pleasure to be with you all. thank you so much. thank you.

is in palm springs where storm preps continue priscilla even the military is getting ready for a worst case scenario across the southwest. >> reporter: that's right, jose, as people here frantically fill sandbags, the national guard has been prepositioned in california and nevada along with high water rescue vehicles, and even the navy is moving their ships out of the san diego bay to prevent damage jose. >> priscilla thompson in palm springs. thank you. >>> let's get right to nbc meteorologist angie lassman who's tracking the storm angie, what's the latest >> jose, we have weakening from hurricane hilary as expected now down to a category 2 with 110 miles per hour wind. as we get into tomorrow, making landfall as a cat 1 storm, and a tropical storm as it threatens parts of southern california, bringing with it ample parts of rain as far north as montana through the next couple of days. the flood alerts are up for 26 million people, including l.a., san diego, las vegas and as far north as boise we have heavy rain, catastrophic rain happening here as we get through the day on sunday. th

>> those are critical warnings priscilla thompson in palm springs, thank you. let's get right to meteorologist angie lassman now. angie, how long are we expecting all of this to last? >> good evening, kristen. we've got another 24 hours to deal with hilary's impacts right now 26 million people under flood alerts including flash flood warnings in effect for southern california as heavy rain works on. we've still got the tropical moisture that's going to work in with some heavy downpours through at least this evening and the potential for some isolated tornadoes the remnants of hilary will move to the north and west tomorrow. the threat of heavy rain and damaging winds will continue. isolated amounts up to 5 inches of rain are possible between now and monday and on top of that the power outages will be likely with places like las vegas seeing peak wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour yuma, arizona headed close to 70 miles per hour this will be another day or so of us looking at the impacts across this region kristen. >> we know you'll continue to track it, angie

and our priscilla thompson is in the storm zone priscilla, there's a mandatory evacuation where you are tonight. >> reporter: that's right, lester. windows here are boarded up the sandbags are in place. as residents are racing to get out by tomorrow's 4:00 p.m. deadline tonight florida's gulf coast taking no chances when it comes to tropical storm idalia >> i got the bags that i need and they loaded it in my car >> reporter: idalia could become the strongest hurricane to hit florida's big bend since 1950 in cedar key tammy wilkes is preparing to evacuate and bracing for the worst. >> how bad do you think the storm is going to be? >> it looks like it's going to be a big one. even some of our old locals are pretty concerned at this point. >> reporter: several counties under a state of emergency mandatory evacuations and school closures along the coast already issued >> we want everybody to make the best decisions they can for themselves and their families >> reporter: tampa international airport closing at midnight. officials urging floridians to prepare. >> what we always like to say is

solis, [ speaking non-english ] >> i'm priscilla.heac daughter of pinia. i'm from denton, texas. my mother was an immigrant and my father was a second generation mexican-american that was a migrant farm worker. my personal land acknowledgement i travel from the lands of the wichita and cato affiliated tribes and the town i live and teach at the university of north texas is called denton, named after john b. denton. he committed genocide against indigenous people against the wichita and apache people. that was the time when the texas rangersce committed violence against my people, mexican-american people, and indigenous people. i'm grateful to be here. thank you for the invitation to join you today. i believe these moments, as i mentionedme earlier are very important moments to reflect on what's come before. let me bring my presentation up here. >> okay, so, thank you you all. for the wonderful introduction of the panel and contextualize. they adhered to offer prospectives of what we have beeng talking about in the context of racial j

priscilla thompson, nbc news. >>> still ahead tonight new details about the dramatic rescue of a man whose small boat drifted 12 miles away from shore. how he survived. >>> plus, what sparked this baseball brawl in cleveland that cleared both teamsms' benches?s? >>> we are back with new details about the dramatic coast guard rescue after a man's small boat was submerged in water 12 2 miles off the florida coast. marissa parra has that story. >> reporter: in the moments after a miraculous rescue, gratitude hits this mother like a wave >> we cannot thank the coast guard rescue and everybody. we just want to say thank you so much. >> reporter: this was her son charles gregory just hours before the 25-year-old seen hugging his knees, lone and lost at sea for almost two days after a fishing trip gone wrong >> he lost his engine. when he got swept out to sea at some point his vessel capsized. he lost all his survivor equipment including his phone which he would have been able to use to call out to us. >> reporter: the clock was ticking. he had no food, no water, and his boat was on the bri

here's priscilla thompson >> reporter: outrage is growing across the country over these now viral videos appearing to show more than a dozen people in an all-out brawl on the downtown montgomery riverfront no arrests have been made, the mayor says, but investigators have issued four arrest warrants and say they're reviewing videos of the incident and that more could be coming t's something ouldn't happ and it's thing that we' investigating right now. >> reporter: thaos unfolded saturday night after witnesses say a worker asked a group multiple times to move their pontoon so a commercial riverboat could dock christa owen says she filmed this video from on board the riverboat. >> they're mad this guy who came off our boat is untying his boat and touching it but it needed to move. >> reporter: a brawl starts, and within seconds several people appear to join in. >> witnessing our r poor crewman beining attacked byby these guys. anand we couldn't do anything about it.t. >> yeah, these white folks -- >> reporter: after the riverboat docks fighting erupts again. police on the ground struggling

moves forward, his family continues to fight against what they see as a broken system priscilla thompson, nbc news, tuscaloosa, alabama. >>> up next here tonight, the american who just became the fastest woman in the world. >>> finally, after a suspension cost her a spot at the tokyo olympics, american sha'carri richardson has made a spectacular return, by officially becoming the fastest woman in the world here's ann thompson. >> you are capable of winning this race. >> reporter: sha'carri richardson took th worst lane, lane nine. >> here comes that kar carry rsha'carri richardson >> reporter: and 10.65 seconds later, made the best of it. >> sha'carri has done it. >> reporter: world champion in the 100 meters a remarkable comeback for the 23-year-old, who had gold medal aspirations before the tokyo olympics >> it feels amazing. it feels like -- it feels like everything has paid off >> reporter: in 2021, richardson nearly made the olympic team, until she tested positive for marijuana, after learning of the death of her mom the subsequent suspension knocked her out of the tokyo games. >> i

and then they ended up with their aunt who her name was, priscilla. and she was a really upstanding and she wanted to adopt the kids at that time, there was four kids. so when the oldest did not get adopted by harts because he was ten years old when he was removed and he realized that what was happening that? he was being removed from his family and he started acting out and they put him in a residential treatment center, which is basically like an institutional setting. and he he wasn't able to his siblings again, so he was split from them. but when the the aunt basically lost custody because she did not have child care day, her normal child, which was her grown daughter. was unavailable and. so she asked sherri, their mom, watch the kids and the caseworker stopped by unannounced and saw their birth mom there with them and. they removed them immediately on the spot and they never had custody of them again. why does it happen like that? so why? why is that the norm? yeah, well, in this case, like sherri had terminated, she had relinquished her her par

several have been urged to evacuate priscilla thompson kicks off our coverage >> reporter: florida's gulf coast taking no chances when it comes to tropical storm idalia >> i come in for the bags that i need and they loaded it in my car. >> reporter: it could become the strongest hurricane to hit florida's big bend since 1950. how bad do you think's going to be >> it looks like it's going to be a bad one >> reporter: mandatory evacuations and school closures along the coast already issued from we >> we want everybody to make the best decisions they can for themselves and their families. >> what we always like to say is run from the water, hide from the wind >> reporter: residents and business owners in the fort myers area concerned and still rebuilding after hurricane ian hit nearly a year ago. >> it was real le harly hard toe something you built destroyed in an instant >> reporter: gas contaminated with diesel. the contaminated fuel could cause damage to engines. meanwhile, residents are stocking up on supplies and lining up at sandbag locations >> i'm just afraid that our luck is go

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priscilla? >> that's right, dana.sistent with how they have approached this before, they are taking a no-comment strategy. the statement from the white house says, quote, we will refer you to doj or hunter biden's personal representatives. again, they're taking that no-comment strategy. they also -- a white house official confirms again that the white house did not have any special heads-up before the attorney general made the announcement about the special counsel. we should note that president biden is here at the white house today. he has had no public events, but he will be heading to rthe beac today which will give reporters a chance to ask him questions about this, but no comment from the white house. >> we are getting comment now from capitol hill from republicans who run the house. lauren fox, what are you hearing? >> reporter: we're getting initial statements, dana, this one coming from a spokesperson on the house judiciary committee who works for jim jordan. and in the statement, it's clear that this is not

let's go to cnn white house correspondent priscilla alvarez.illa, it's a measure, right, of the effects of all these storms and natural disasters tied to climate change that it's, well, means the coffers are running empty for response to a lot of these disasters. so what are the options to replace them? >> that's right, jim. this is an agency that has to contend with the fact that natural disasters are getting worse and they only have so much money. and that means asking congress for more. this is something that the white house has been monitoring. and they included in their supplemental request to congress $12 billion for disaster funds. of course, that is part of a broader funding request, which already faces an uphill battle. but at least for fema, there is growing concern about what it might mean if these funds are depleted by the end of the month. already the federal government has tallied 15 weather-related disasters that funds include over a billion dollars have gone to the assistance and recovery for those disasters, just to give you a

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. >> priscilla joins us now.he shelter there is nearing capacity. >> reporter: that's right, jose, i'm told there are nearly 70 people here. dinner has just arrived, so, folks looking to get a hot meal before they turn in for the night. and the red cross says they are prepared to open a second shelter and continue taking residents in. jose? >> priscilla thompson in louisiana, thank you. >>> tonight, the death toll in the maui wildfires stands at 115. that number is expected to rise, as officials for the first time put out a list this weekend of nearly 400 still missing, but that has led to some much-needed good news, as many as 100 people on the list have now come forward to say they are alive and well. >>> 60 years after martin luther king jr. led a massive march to the lincoln memorial in washington, thousands retraced his steps today, picking up his mission while vowing to take on new challenges. aaron gilchrist was there. >> reporter: a sea of people to take in a call to action. >> let's not give up. let's no

and we're going to hear really, priscilla is going to turn us this whole conversation upside down and on its head. i think she gave us a a little bit of of a clue earlier today about really challenging our basic premises, about parks and national parks and access. and even this notion of ownership. and so we're going to be looking forward to that. and finally, shelton johnson national park ranger and educate educator extraordinaire who has landed in yosemite national park and just refuses to go away. is also the author of glory land, a really interested thing perspective about national parks and the and the dilemmas that many of us people of color in this country face when we celebrate, on one hand, this marvelous invention of national parks in these beautiful places. and yet the prices that some of us paid for for them to even exist. and what in those tensions all the time so wonderful exploration of that in his his book of glory land. but he's going to be bringing a very, very person sort of perspective about what it means to be in these places that he is now the steward and helps g

our priscilla thompson reports. >> here's the start of the situation.nt. >> what were some of your goals? >> playing my senior year. having my dad and mom walk me out for senior game day, taking my mom to prom. >> reporter: dreams that were shattered last november when cory jones of tuscaloosa, alabama, was accused of bringing marijuana to campus after police say they found weed in a car he and four friends rode in. >> what has this process been like? >> hell, hell. >> reporter: c.j., who receives special services in school for a learning disability, says he was called into the office and read his miranda rights, which he told police he didn't understand. >> the police asked me, whose is it? whose is it? they're saying it's yours. i'm saying, i don't know. i don't know whose it is. >> reporter: police investigated and charged someone else, not c.j., who had no prior disciplinary issues, his attorney says, but c.j. says he spent nearly two months in in-school suspension before getting a disciplinary hearing where his dad said c.j. was given little chance

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cnn white house reporter priscilla alvarez is joining us from washington, d.c. good morning, priscilla. we know fema officials held a call yesterday ahead of the storm. how are they preparing? >> well, they're mobilizing personnel and resources to the areas that could be potentially impacted. they have also embedded federal personnel with the california office of emergency services. a lot of what they're doing right now is president biden, to help now and help on the back end of this when we start to see the impacts of this hurricane. as you mentioned, president biden is being regularly briefed on this by the fema administrator and his officials as he also heads to hawaii tomorrow to see the devastation of the wildfires there. importantly, the fema administrator said that no resources will have to be pulled from hawaii to respond to hurricane hilary which, as you mentioned, is barreling towards southern california. right now a lot of the focus is mobilization and in the interim the president is being briefed on the preparedness plans. we should also note this is

in the early hours of wednesday, nbc correspondent priscilla thompson is in cedar key in florida and sent us this report of theater. k. florida is under a mandatory evacuation folks have until 4 pm eastern time to get out. and what we're seeing is folks continuing to race against the clock to finish those storm. perhaps here, these business owners have put up caution tape and effectively open these glass sliding doors in the front, in the back of the building. and their hope is that when that storm surge, which could be up to 12 feet comes through, it will be able to wash right through here and won't actually cause any major structural damage. and so these folks are done for the day, they are heading out and up and down this waterfront. we are seeing businesses boarded up in anticipation of this hurricane, which is preparing to make landfall here in the next 24 hours. already the governor has activated the national guard. we're talking about 5500 national guardsmen preposition throughout the state. there are thousands of high water rescue vehicles ready to go for those search and res

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here is nbc's priscilla thompson. >> reporter: a tragic ending to a family vacation in paradise. partygoers capturing the moment a speed boat slammed into their sailboat off italy's amalfie coke on thursday. >> jesus christ! >> reporter: italian officials say 45-year-old adrien vaughn was thrown from the motor boat she had rented with her husband and two children people nearby scrambled frantically to get her out of the water. a crewmember aboard the sailboat describing the chaotic moments saying the captain immediately ordered everyone in the water to be reskewed. some on board diving in to help save vaughen witnesses were able to get her ashore, but authorities avaughn died before she could be flown to the hospital. vaughn's children were not physically hurt in the collision, but that her husband and the speed boat's captain were injured and taken to nearby hospitals. now local prosecutors say they're investigating the 30-year-old captain of the speed boat for suspected manslaughter and involuntary shipwreck. officials say the captain was tested for alcohol and other substances

priscilla, let's start with you. what are we seeing? ar ana, it is already 88 degrees here.eat is not stopping folks from getting their workouts in. that water undoubtedly helping them to cool off as we prepare for temperatures here to hit triple digits again today. meanwhile, the northeast is being battered by severe storms and devastating flooding. this morning bracing for storms, after a weekend of wild weather in the midwest and west with reported tornadoes and severe storms in illinois and colorado. >> that is a tornado funnel. >> reporter: that treacherous weather now moving east, bringing torrential rain, hail and wind gusts over 70 miles per hour from tennessee to new york. in the washington, d.c. area sunday, lightning delaying a beyonce concert. fedex field issuing a shelter in place. fans feeling the heat as they packed into the concourse. >> there it goes. there it goes. >> reporter: this as alaska battles historic flooding. dramatic video capturing the moment a home collapsed in juneau. the flooding swallowing several homes, toppling trees and prompting evacuati

>> priscilla, thank you very much for that. let's get more now on the timing of this storm and its path from nbc news meteorologist angie lassman. angie, good morning. we are just getting in an update from the national hurricane center. talk us through the latest. >>> good morning, hallie. we officially have hurricane hilary just barely hanging on to that category 1 status with winds at 81 miles an hour. as it begins to push rain into parts of southern california and extending points north of that. this is just the first batch of rain folks will see there. we likely will see the system work onshore maybe as a tropical storm here when it makes landfall. notice as it makes its way over portions of southern california, a tropical storm is likely what we will have. the impacts remain the same. this will happen later in the afternoon before it moves north into nevada and north that have as the remnants what have is hilary right now. as we look to the flood alerts, they extend from california all the way up into idaho including 26 mi

nbc's priscilla thompson is live, what's it like where you are on the ground, priscilla? >> reporter: yeah, chris, this is the type of scene that some folks are waking up to. this is a road that has effectively, as you said, turned into a river. all of that water that came down had nowhere to go. there may be some debris. a worker told us that is blocking where it should be flowing under this road, and so you see it flowing across the road, and it has been going like this all morning since we've been here over the past several hours, and we know how quickly that water came down in this area. we're talking about .9 inches in palm springs and just one hour. it did not take long for many of these roads to flood, and this area got about half of its yearly total in a matter of hours. so you can imagine what that was like. we saw roads flooded, cars that were getting stuck. we know that there were several swift water rescues that took place, and these are some of the scenes that we're seeing across california. we saw those mud slides, which is something that officials were conc

back to you. >> michelle grossman and priscilla thompson thank you. >>> financial headlines now, morere eating their fast food orders at home. kia issued another major recall. >>> americans are taking their burgers and fries to go, leading fast food booths empty. dining customers are now less than 10% of visits, mcdonald's and other chains are developing new restaurants centered on drive-throughs and carryout with little or no dine-in options. >>> kia is recalling more than 100,000 vehicles, a fluid leak was found in the plug-in hybrids that could cause a fire in the compartment. they'll replace necessary parts free of charge. >>> zoom is telling its staff to return to work. live near an office to be on site two days a week. zoom is joining google, amazon and salesforce which have enacted similar policies in recent months. two days to five days, it seems like we're going in that direction. >> no zoom for the zoom employees. all right, pippa, thank you. all right, pippa, thank you. >>> team usa ge ♪♪ when y you have chchronic kidney disisease... therere are placaces you'u'd like t to b

lindsey. >> priscilla thompson, thank you. angie, we'll check back in with you later this hour. >>> in georgia, first of donald trump's 18 co-defendants pleaded not guilty in the sprawling fulton county case. ray smith is an attorney represented trump in georgia cases related to the 2020 election. he now pleaded not guilty to, quote, each and every charge of the indictment. and it comes after another co-defendant mark meadows spent five hours testifying yesterday as he tries to get his case moved to federal court. trump's former chief of staff described the conduct he's charged with as part of the job and said it was a 24/7 kind of job. joining us now from atlanta is nbc's blayne alexander, chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official and harry litman. what do we know about ray smith and do we expect any of the other co-defendants to enter a plea before that september 6th arraignment date? >> reporter: we could very likely seeing some like that, lindsey. what we're expecting between now and then is, yes, any s

priscilla thompson is covering the story for us.eding, but the threat is not over. how much of a search they experience? >> yeah, richard, that flooding is continuing there after the minden hall river crested overnight at 14.9 feet. that is a new record, nearly three feet higher than the previous record that had been set. you play that dramatic video of the home that collapsed into the water. officials say that there were several homes and trees that were swept away by this raging water. the water is starting to recede, but officials are saying that there is still the danger of erosion along the riverbank, which means that we could still see more homes collapsing into the river, more structural damage, even as those waters are receding. all of this flooding began on saturday as a suicide basin in the city of juneau began to recede, and that water began rushing through that river. there were a evacuations that were held, there were roads that were flooded and had to be closed, and officials there were really warning people to avoid t

>> priscilla thompson, has always, thank you so much. now, for a collision course of donald trump's own making, as his sprawling legal troubles disrupt the 2024 presidential race. next week, trump must surrender at an atlanta jail. also next week, the first republican debate, which trump now plans to skip in favor of a possible interview with fired fox news host tucker carlson. here's what we know about the timing. three senior law enforcement officials tell nbc news trump would turn himself in no earlier than thursday. that is the day after the first debate. former new jersey governor chris christie wasted no time working to brand trump is a coward for snubbing the debate, and he's questioning why trump is still in the race. >> we -- the voters -- i want to voters to decide this. the only way the voters of our party and the voters of our country will -- accept results is if they believe that it is fair. and -- trump has made himself a candidate for president under the most ridiculous circumstances i've ever seen in my life. there is not

priscilla will turn this whole conversation upside down. i think she gave us a little bit of a clue earlier today about really challenging our basic premises about parks and national parks and access and even this notion of ownership. we will be looking forward to that. finally, shelton johnson, a national park ranger and educator extraordinaire who has landed in yosemite national park adjust refuses to go away. [laughter]gl also the author of glory land. a really interesting perspective about national parks and the dilemmas that many of us, people of current color in this country face. when we celebrate on one hand this marvelous land and yet the prices some of us paid for some of them to even exist. wonderful exploration of that in hiss book, but he will be bringing a very personal sort of perspective about what it means to be in these places that he is now the steward and helps guide the rest of us in that notion of stewardship. i leave you finally with this. it is about that notion of stewardship. about that collective responsibility we

nbc's priscilla thompson is tracking it for us. priscilla, good to talk to you.ks for joining us on this. what is going on? >> yeah, yasmin, we are seeing major flooding in juneau after the mendenhall river crested overnight at a record setting 14.9 feet. that is nearly three feet higher than the previous record set. you showed that dramatic video of that home collapsing into the river. officials say there are several homes and trees that have just floated away because of those rushing waters. all of this started on saturday. this flooding began. this happened because of a major release from the suicide basin in juneau. we actually have a time lapse where you can see how quickly that water began to go down over the past several days, as it was flooding into the river. and the good news is that now that water is starting to recede, and also officials there have not yet reported any deaths. it may be possible that so far everyone is safe and sound. but of course, there is a lot of structural damage that they are dealing with there. they are not out of the woods jus

>> sherry had relinquished her rental rights and she did because her attorney said in order for priscilla to adopt the kids she had to be legally free for an option and get adopted when you have legal parents so sherry relinquished her rights with the understanding that the kids would be with their aunt which is still in their family but still in their community. but what happens when you terminate your rights that i think a lot of birthmothers don't understand is when they choose to give up their rights is that the minute your rights are terminated, you no longer have any say in what happens to your kids and you also are in this case she wasn't around allowed to be around whthem so that's why the rumor is what happened is because shewas not allowed to be watching the kids . so the aunt made this mistake and she wanted to, she petitioned to adopt and she was trying to get thekids back . while that was happening they went on the texas adoption exchange website so they became sort of advertised as available. and jennifer and sarah were a couple who both grew up in south dakota but were livi

her name was priscilla and she was really like an upstanding lady and she wanted to adopt the kids. at that time there were four did not getoldest adopted by the hart's because he was 10 years old when he was removed and he realized what was happening that he was being removed from the family and started acting out and they put him in a residential treatment center which is basically like an institutional setting. he wasn't able to seize his siblings again so he split from them at the aunt lost custody because she did not have childcare one day. her normal childcare which was herr grown daughter was unavailable so she asked sherry behrmann to watch the kids and the caseworker stopped by unannounced and saw their birth month there with them and they remove them immediately on this spot and they never had custody of them again. >> why does it happen like that? why is at the norm? >> in this case sherry had terminated, she had relinquished her parental rights and she did that because her attorney said in order for priscilla to adopt the kids they had to be legally free for adoption. yo