>>> TONIGHT, THE RECORD-BREAKING HEAT WAVE THREATENING >>> TONIGHT, THE RECORD-BREAKING HEAT WAVE THREATENING MILLIONS OF AMERICANS. THE HEAT DOME IN THE WEST DRIVING TEMPERATURES TO NEW HIGHS. 111 DEGREES IN LAS VEGAS. 113 IN PHOENIX. THE NEW ICE IMMERSION BAGS FIRST RESPONDERS ARE USING TO SAVE LIVES. WE'RE TRACKING THE DANGER. >>> ALSO TONIGHT, PRESIDENT BIDEN'S SPEECH ON THE CLIFFS OF NORMANDY URGING AMERICANS TO PROTECT DEMOCRACY. PLUS, HIS MEETING WITH UKRAINE'S PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY AND WHAT HE APOLOGIZED FOR. >>> JUST IN, AFTER HIS NEW YORK RAPE CONVICTION WAS OVERTURNED, THE NEW TWIST IN HARVEY WEINSTEIN'S LOS ANGELES CASE. >>> SUPREME COURT JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS FOR THE FIRST TIME DISCLOSING TWO LUXURY VACATIONS PAID FOR BY A GOP MEGADONOR AND WHAT THE OTHER JUSTICES DISCLOSED INCLUDING BOOK DEALS AND BEYONCE TICKETS. >>> HUNTER BIDEN TEARING UP AS HIS DAUGHTER TAKES THE STAND. WHAT SHE TOLD THE JURY ABOUT HIS EFFORTS TO GET SOBER BEFORE BUYING THE GUN AT THE CENTER OF THE CASE. >>> THE OUTRAGE IN ISRAEL. THE U.N. ADDING IT AND VER? >> Announcer: THIS IS "NBC NIGHTLY NEWS" WITH LESTER HOLT. >>> GOOD EVENING, AND WELCOME. IN THIS SEASON OF EXTREMES AND HEIGHTENINGED WEATHER DANGER WE'VE WITNESSED THESE LAST SEVERAL WEEKS, IT'S NOW THE CRIPPLING HEAT WE'RE WATCHING TONIGHT, TAKING HOLD ACROSS A WIDE STRETCH OF THE SOUTHERN TIER PUTTING 21 MILLION PEOPLE UNDER HEAT ALERTS TODAY. IN THE PAST 24 HOURS, TRIPLE-DIGIT TEMPERATURES BEING RECORDED IN PLACES THAT INCLUDE PHOENIX AND LAS VEGAS. NEAR RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES COULD OCCUR AS FAR EAST AS MIAMI. TONIGHT, FIRST RESPONDERS ARE ADOPTING SOME OF THE LESSONS FROM LAST YEAR'S DEADLY SUMMER, DEPLOYING NEW TOOLS TO BUY TIME AND SAVE LIVES AMID THE HEAT. ALL AS SCIENTISTS OFFER A SOBERING NEW ASSESSMENT OF THE RATE AT WHICH THE EARTH IS WARMING. LIZ KREUTZ JOINS US FROM PHOENIX TONIGHT. LIZ, WHAT'S IT LIKE? >> Reporter: WELL, LESTER, IT'S CERTAINLY HOT HERE. AN EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IS IN EFFECT RIGHT NOW THROUGH TONIGHT, AND BECAUSE OF THAT TRAILS LIKE THIS ONE HERE IN PHOENIX ARE CLOSED. IT IS EXPECTED TO GRADUALLY COOL OFF THROUGH THE WEEKEND, THOUGH, BUT STILL REMAIN HOT IN THE TRIPLE DIGITS. COAST TO COAST TONIGHT SCORCHING TRIPLE-DIGIT TEMPERATURES FROM CALIFORNIA TO FLORIDA. EAST OF TAMPA, THE CITY OF WINTER HAVEN REACHING A RARE 102 DEGREES THURSDAY. ACROSS THE WEST, 15 MILLION PEOPLE UNDER A HEAT DOME BRINGING BLISTERING CONDITIONS TO PLACES LIKE LAS VEGAS, WHICH HIT 111 AND PHOENIX, WHICH REACHED 113. A DAILY RECORD IN BOTH CITIES. AFTER MARICOPA COUNTY SAW MORE THAN 600 HEAT-RELATED DEATHS LAST YEAR, PHOENIX FIREFIGHTERS ARE NOW USING ICE IMMERSION TO TREAT HEATSTROKE PATIENTS. EVERY FIRE TRUCK IS NOW EQUIPPED WITH ONE OF THESE BAGS, AND FIREFIGHTERS SAY BY IMMEDIATELY IMMERSING A PATIENT IN ICE, IT CAN LOWER THEIR BODY TEMPERATURE BY SEVERAL DEGREES. >> IS THIS A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH? >> ABSOLUTELY. THE SURVIVABILITY THAT WE'RE SEEING IS GOING THROUGH THE ROOF WHEN WE CAN GET THESE PATIENTS COOLED DOWN BEFORE WE ARRIVE TO THE HOSPITAL. >> Reporter: EXTREME HEAT EXPERT AND ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR MELISSA GUARDARO SAYS THE LOW TEMPS ARE ALSO CONCERNING. OVERNIGHT PHOENIX NOT DROPPING BELOW 87 DEGREES OVERNIGHT. >> IT'S A THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH AT THAT POINT. YOU DON'T HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO COOL OFF. >> Reporter: AND IT TAKES A FINANCIAL TOLL. CAMILLE'S ELECTRICITY BILL GOT SO HIGH LAST SUMMER, SHE WOULD KEEP HER THERMOSTAT AT A STIFLING 83 DEGREES TO CUT DOWN ON COSTS. >> WE THOUGHT 83 WAS MANAGEABLE, BUT AT THAT POINT LIKE TIGHT BUDGET. >> Reporter: ALL THIS AS NOAA SAYS CARBON DIOXIDE IS ACCUMULATING FASTER THAN EVER ACTING LIKE A BLANKET OVER THE EARTH AND WARMING THE PLANET. NEW DATA RELEASED BY THE EU FINDS GLOBALLY THE LAST 12 MONTHS HAVE EACH BEEN THE HOTTEST EVER ON RECORD. >> WE NEED TO TAKE EXTREME HEAT VERY SERIOUSLY. PEOPLE ARE DYING. >> Reporter: LIZ KREUTZ, NBC NEWS, PHOENIX. >>> WE TURN OVERSEAS NOW. PRESIDENT BIDEN GIVING A MAJOR SPEECH ON THE CLIFFS OVERLOOKING NORMANDY, FRANCE, EVOKING D-DAY'S HEROES TO URGE AMERICANS TO DEFEND DEMOCRACY AS HE SEEKS TO DRAW A SHARP CONTRAST TO FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. PETER ALEXANDER IS THERE. >> Reporter: TODAY, IT'S THE BEAUTY THAT OVERWHELMS YOU, BUT 80 YEARS AGO, IT WAS THE BRAVERY. ARMY RANGERS DEFIED DANGER SCALING THESE TOWERING CLIFFS KNOWING THE NAZIS WERE WAITING. >> ONE THOUGHT COMES TO MIND, MY GOD, MY GOD, HOW DID THEY DO IT? >> Reporter: ATOP ONE OF THE ENEMY BUNKERS THOSE BRAVE WARRIORS CAPTURED, PRESIDENT BIDEN TODAY INVOKED THEIR MEMORY DECLARING A RENEWED MISSION FOR AMERICANS. >> THEY'RE NOT ASKING US TO DO THEIR JOB. THEY'RE ASKING US TO DO OUR JOB TO PROTECT FREEDOM IN OUR TIME, TO DEFEND DEMOCRACY. >> Reporter: AT THE VERY SPOT WHERE PRESIDENT REAGAN IMMORTALIZED THE BOYS OF POINTE du HOC, PRESIDENT BIDEN TODAY HIGHLIGHTED THEIR SERVICE AND FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. >> DOES ANYONE DOUBT THAT THEY WOULD WANT AMERICA TO STAND UP AGAINST PUTIN'S AGGRESSION HERE IN EUROPE TODAY? DOES ANYONE BELIEVE THESE RANGERS WOULD WANT AMERICANS TO GO IT ALONG TODAY? >> Reporter: EARLIER MEETING UKRAINE'S PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY ANNOUNCING A NEW AID PACKAGE AND APOLOGIZING FOR CONGRESS' DELAY IN APPROVING MORE AMERICAN SUPPORT. >> I APOLOGIZE FOR THE -- THOSE WEEKS OF NOT KNOWING WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IN TERMS OF FUNDING. >> Reporter: THE PRESIDENT DRAWING AN ELECTION YEAR CONTRAST WITH FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, WHO'S ARGUED EUROPE, NOT THE U.S., SHOULD BE SPENDING MORE TO HELP UKRAINE. >> WE'RE PROBABLY IN FOR $250 BILLION. YOU KNOW, THEY JUST -- THEY JUST GOT 62 BILLION, AND NOW I HEARD TODAY THAT THEY NEED MORE MONEY. IT'S GOING TO NEVER END. >> Reporter: BUT TODAY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF WARNED AGAINST ISOLATIONISM AND SALUTED 98-YEAR-OLD JOHN WARDELL, THEN AN 18-YEAR-OLD ARMY RANGER FROM NEW JERSEY WHO BATTLED HITLER'S FORCES HERE. TODAY ALONGSIDE THE DIGNITARIES IN THE FRONT ROW. >> JOHN, WE LOVE YOU, MAN. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU'VE DONE. [ APPLAUSE ] >> WHAT DOES THIS PLACE REPRESENT? >> WELL, IT'S A PLACE IN HISTORY, A PART OF HISTORY HERE. >> YOU WERE PART OF THAT HISTORY. >> WELL, I'D LIKE TO BE. I THINK I AM, A LITTLE PART OF IT. >> Reporter: A PART OF ONE OF HISTORY'S MOST PIVOTAL MOMENTS WHERE AMERICA'S SONS HELPED RECLAIM THE CONTINENT AND SAVE THE WORLD. >> AND, PETER, WILL THE PRESIDENT REMAIN IN FRANCE THROUGH THE WEEKEND? >> Reporter: YEAH, LESTER, THE PRESIDENT'S D-DAY COMMEMORATIONS ARE NOW COMPLETE, BUT TOMORROW PRESIDENT BIDEN WILL BE WELCOMED HERE IN PARIS FOR AN OFFICIAL STATE VISIT INCLUDING A PARADE DOWN THE FAMED CHAMPS-ELYSEES AND THE MAJOR FOCUS OF HIS TALKS WITH THE FRENCH PRESIDENT, EMMANUEL MACRON, THE ONGOING WARS IN UKRAINE AND GAZA. LESTER. >> ALL RIGHT. PETER ALEXANDER, THANK YOU. >>> BREAKING TONIGHT, DISGRACED MOVIE MOGUL HARVEY WEINSTEIN FIGHTS HIS CONVICTIONS FOR RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT. CHLOE MELAS JOINS US NOW WITH HER EXCLUSIVE REPORTING. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED? >> WE'VE LEARNED THAT HARVEY WEINSTEIN'S LEGAL TEAM HAS FILED AN APPEAL FOR HIS 2022 LOS ANGELES RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT CONVICTIONS. IN THE FILING OBTAINED BY NBC NEWS, WEINSTEIN'S ATTORNEYS ARE SEEKING A NEW TRIAL, CITING CRITICAL EVIDENCE THAT THEY SAY WAS DENIED AND AN INABILITY TO GUARANTEE A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIAL. AN L.A. JUDGE HAD PREVIOUSLY SENTENCED WEINSTEIN TO 16 YEARS BEHIND BARS, WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO RUN CONCURRENTLY WITH HIS NEW YORK CONVICTION THAT WAS OVERTURNED JUST OVER A MONTH AGO. NEW YORK DISTRICT ATTORNEY ALVIN BRAGG SAYS THEY INTEND TO RETRY WEINSTEIN, BUT THAT DATE HAS NOT YET BEEN SET. IN THE MEANTIME, WEINSTEIN REMAINS IN JAIL AT RIKERS ISLAND, LESTER. >> ALL RIGHT, CHLOE, THANKS VERY MUCH. >>> ALSO TONIGHT, AFTER FACING BACKLASH FOR LAVISH VACATIONS PAID FOR BY A REPUBLICAN MEGADONOR, SUPREME COURT JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS IS DISCLOSING THEM FOR THE FIRST TIME. GABE GUTIERREZ WITH MORE ON THAT AND WHAT THE OTHER JUSTICES REVEALED. >> Reporter: TONIGHT, SUPREME COURT JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS FOR THE FIRST TIME IS OFFICIALLY DISCLOSING A CONTROVERSIAL 2019 TRIP TO BALI WITH BILLIONAIRE HARLAN CROW. THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OUT TODAY IN THOMAS' ANNUAL FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE REPORT. IT COMES AFTER A REPORT LAST YEAR FROM PROPUBLICA THAT DETAILED HIS SECRET LAVISH VACATIONS PAID FOR BY THE TOP REPUBLICAN DONOR, WHO IS A LONGTIME FRIEND OF THE JUSTICE. THOMAS IS ALSO DISCLOSING ANOTHER TRIP THAT SAME YEAR TO CALIFORNIA WITH CROW, THOUGH THE REPORT ONLY INCLUDES LODGING EXPENSES, NOT TRAVEL COSTS. PROPUBLICA REPORTED THOMAS HAD FLOWN ON CROW'S PRIVATE JET, A STARK CONTRAST TO THE MORE MODEST IMAGE THE CONSERVATIVE JUSTICE HAS PROJECTED. >> I'D PREFER THE WALMART PARKING LOTS TO THE BEACHES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. THERE'S SOMETHING NORMAL TO ME ABOUT IT. >> Reporter: AT THE TIME, THOMAS SAID THE TRIPS WERE A FORM OF PERSONAL HOSPITALITY THAT JUSTICES DID NOT HAVE TO REPORT. NOW HIS DISCLOSURE REPORT SAID THE TWO TRIPS HAD BEEN INADVERTENTLY OMITTED FROM HIS 2019 REPORT. AS FOR HIS COLLEAGUES, JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON REPORTED RECEIVING A $900,000 BOOK ADVANCE, PLUS FOUR CONCERT TICKETS WORTH $3,700 FROM POP SUPERSTAR BEYONCE, AND JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR DISCLOSED $86,000 IN BOOK ROYALTIES. A NEW CODE OF CONDUCT WITH NO WAY TO ENFORCE IT, CRITICS SAY. >>> AN EMOTIONAL DAY IN DELAWARE. HUNTER BIDEN'S ELDEST DAUGHTER TOOK THE STAND FOR THE DEFENSE AT HIS GUN TRIAL AFTER PROSECUTORS RESTED THEIR CASE. RYAN NOBLES IS THERE FOR US TONIGHT. >> Reporter: TONIGHT, HUNTER BIDEN FIGHTING BACK TEARS AS HIS NAOMI, TESTIFIED IN HIS DEFENSE SAYING IN AUGUST 2018 SHE CONSIDERED HER FATHER TO BE ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY FROM HIS DRUG ADDICTION. IT WAS THE CLEAREST I'D SEEN HIM SINCE MY UNCLE DIED. HE SEEMED REALLY GREAT, SHE SAID. IT WAS TWO MONTHS BEFORE HUNTER FILLED OUT THAT GOVERNMENT BACKGROUND CHECK TO PURCHASE A GUN CHECKING NO ON THE FORM THAT ASKED IF HE WAS AN ACTIVE DRUG USER. NAOMI TESTIFYING SHE INTRODUCED HER DAD TO HER FUTURE HUSBAND. I TOLD HIM, I WAS SO PROUD OF HIM, SHE SAID. BUT ON CROSS-EXAMINATION PROSECUTOR LEO WISE PRESSED NAOMI ABOUT MEETING HER FATHER A FEW DAYS AFTER HE BOUGHT THE GUN POINTING TO THEIR TEXT MESSAGES SHOWING THE TWO WAS HAVING A DIFFICULT TIME MEETING UP AFTER SHE BORROWED HIS TRUCK. HIGHLIGHTING A TEXT WHERE HUNTER ASKED HER TO MEET HIM WITH THE TRUCK AT 2:00 A.M. NAOMI TEXTING THE FOLLOWING DAY, I'M REALLY SORRY, DAD. I CAN'T TAKE THIS. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY. I JUST MISS YOU AND WANT TO HANG OUT WITH YOU. FOLLOWING HER TESTIMONY, NAOMI BIDEN GAVE HER FATHER A HUG AND KISS AND QUICKLY EXITED THE COURTROOM. EARLIER THE PROSECUTION RESTED THEIR CASE AFTER CALLING TEN WITNESSES, MANY DESCRIBING HUNTER BIDEN'S FREQUENT DRUG USE AROUND THE TIME HE FILLED OUT THAT BACKGROUND CHECK IN OCTOBER OF 2018. PROSECUTORS SAY HE LIED ABOUT HIS DRUG USE ON THE FORM, WHICH IS A FEDERAL CRIME. HUNTER BIDEN'S EX-WIFE TESTIFIED SHE FOUND DRUG PARAPHERNALIA INSIDE THEIR CAR IN OCTOBER OF 2018, AND HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND WHO WAS DATING HIM AT THE TIME SAYING HUNTER WAS SMOKING CRACK EVERY 20 MINUTES OR SO. THE DEFENSE SAYS THAT HUNTER DID NOT KNOWINGLY LIE ON THAT BACKGROUND CHECK, AND THAT THEY HAVE NOT RULED OUT CALLING HIM TO THE STAND TO TESTIFY IN HIS OWN DEFENSE. LESTER. >> ALL RIGHT, RYAN, THANK YOU. >>> IN THE MIDDLE EAST THERE IS OUTRAGE IN ISRAEL AS WE LEARN THE U.N. PLANS TO ADD IT TO A BLACKLIST ALONGSIDE HAMAS OVER ACTIONS DURING THE WAR. RAF SANCHEZ IS IN TEL AVIV. RAF, WHAT MORE CAN YOU TELL US? >> Reporter: LESTER, A U.N. DIPLOMAT TELLS NBC NEWS THAT BOTH ISRAEL AND HAMAS ARE DUE TO BE ADDED TO A GLOBAL BLACKLIST OF THOSE THAT HARM CHILDREN DURING WARTIME. ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU SLAMMING THE DECISION SAYING THE U.N. PUT ITSELF TODAY ON HISTORY'S BLACKLIST WHEN IT ADOPTED THE ABSURD CLAIMS OF HAMAS. IT COMES A DAY AFTER AN ISRAELI STRIKE ON HAMAS OPERATIVES AT A U.N. SCHOOL KILLED AT LEAST 14 CHILDREN ACCORDING TO HOSPITAL OFFICIALS AND EIGHT MONTHS AFTER OCTOBER 7th, THE IDF SAYS HAMAS GUNMEN TRIED TO BREACH THE BORDER ONCE AGAIN BUT WERE KILLED BEFORE THEY COULD CROSS INTO ISRAEL. AN ISRAELI SOLDIER ALSO DIED. LESTER. >> RAF SANCHEZ, THANK YOU. >>> A STRONG NEW JOBS REPORT IS OUT. THE U.S. ECONOMY ADDING 272,000 JOBS LAST MONTH BLOWING PAST EXPECTATIONS. THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE DID TICK UP TO 4%, BUT AFTER 30 MONTHS AT OR BELOW THAT LEVEL, IT IS THE LONGEST STREAK OF UNEMPLOYMENT THIS LOW SINCE THE LATE '60s. >>> IN JUST 60 SECONDS, THE SLEW OF >>> WE ARE BACK WITH TWO NEW SHARK INCIDENTS REPORTED TODAY IN FLORIDA. THE WALTON COUNTY SHERIFF SAYS THEY HAPPENED OFF THE GULF COAST LESS THAN FIVE MILES APART. BOTH VICTIMS WERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL BUT STABLE CONDITION. SAYING, THERE IS NO ILL WILL GOING FORWARD ADDING, HE WISHES SCHEFFLER AND HIS FAMILY ALL THE BEST, AGREEING WITH THE GOLFER THAT IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON. ERIN McLAUGHLIN, NBC NEWS,