Good evening, you guys. I have to ask you if you got the dreaded control room warning.

You guys, you guys, Rachel might not be ready. Did they actually tell you that?

They didn't tell us, but they said, take our time.

Just take your time.

Okay. So this involves randomly sticking a finger into some mascara and then touching my face, like right in the

middle of my face, immediately before the lights came on.

You know, Rachel, just so you don't feel alone. I've done that on occasion, too. I just had to

put a little bit right under the eye. I understand, baby. There you go. You can pass it off as like a football thing or something, but for me, it was like a very, very failed effort to make a beauty spot.

And it really didn't work.

So thank you for saving me from that, you guys.

All right.

Much appreciated you guys.

Thank you so much.

All right. You never know. It's live TV. Anything can happen. All right. Thank you very much at home for joining me this hour. Really, really happy to have you here. I was away last week. I want to thank everybody on Team Jen Saki for filling in for me while I had the night off. Very kind of everybody. I know it's lots of work, but it's good to be back. We, of course, have eyes tonight on

central Texas, where rescue and recovery operations are now into their fourth night, and where

Texas officials say, the death toll has now topped more than 100 lives lost in this terrible, terrible flash flooding, centering on

Kerr County, Texas. This is now officially one of the deadliest floods in the United States

in decades. We're going to have eyes there throughout the night again as rescue and recovery

efforts head into the fourth night. We're also going to be talking tonight

with a meteorologist and journalist who just before these storms was trying to publicly

sound the alarm about the Trump administration dismantling important parts of the National

Weather Service and the consequences of that for any part of our country facing severe weather.

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