Good evening. I'm Omnenevaz. Jeff Bennett is away on the NewsHour tonight. Former President

Trump calls for the judge overseeing the 2020 election interference case to recuse

herself and change the venue. He argues he cannot get a fair trial in D.C.

Secretary of the Interior, Deb Holland, discusses a new monument near the Grand Canyon that

protects sacred indigenous land and bans mining. And many American cities look to convert

vacant corporate spaces into housing units as the future of downtown office work remains

in question. What we're seeing right now is a lot of developers and owners making that

decision to go residential, because there's a lack of confidence in the office market.

Welcome to the NewsHour. The nation's weather has etched more entries today in the journal

of extremes that's marked this summer. Millions of Americans faced everything from steaming

heat across the south to stormy destruction in the northeast. Laura Barone Lopez has

our report. In North Baltimore County, emergency crews cleared through the damage.

Enormous trees completely uprooted, left homes crushed and roads impassable. This morning,

Maryland Governor Wes Moore said it's a long road ahead. This is going to take some time

to fix. The damage from last night is significant and it will take time to make sure that we

are getting everything done. A fast-moving storm swept through the east coast on Monday night,

prompting severe weather advisories in 10 states and the District of Columbia. In upstate New York,

outside Dryden, tornado funnel clouds whipped through gray skies. Nearly 30 million people were

under a tornado watch yesterday, as strong gusts caused tree limbs in several states to stamp.

This is the worst I've seen it. I mean, I hadn't no trees left. They're all going now.

The storm killed two people official said after a tree fell on a 15-year-old boy in South Carolina,

and a 28-year-old Alabama man was struck by lightning. Last night, more than 1.1 million households

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