Tonight Tropical Storm Alberto turning deadly as it slams Texas with heavy rain and flooding.

The remnants of Alberta over Mexico after making landfall there and killing at least four.

The heavy rain and storm surge flooding the Texas

coast. It comes as brutal heat refuses to let up. 65 million on alert.

At in New Mexico the massive dust storms and deadly wildfires burning out of control.

Also tonight the manhunt for a suspect wanted for multiple murders in two states where

he was caught today. A close call for a southwest plane

triggering urgent warnings after descending to just 500 feet over a suburb. Why

was it so low? The train chaos in the northeast why Amtrak service was suspended from Philadelphia to Connecticut.

The first debate just one week away, new details on the Biden Trump showdown where they'll be positioned on stage and

who will get the last word the new warning about popular weight loss drugs that

dangerous counterfeits on the market and saving the Wales the nearly 3,000 mile

mission to rescue two majestic volugas from Ukraine's war zone.

This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

Good evening and welcome everyone.

The broiling heat in the east, a flooded Texas coast, and now the potential for new tropical weather threats

forming on the distant horizon, all making for a volatile start to summer.

After several days, that heat dome sitting over the northeast is still making life

miserable for 65 million people from the Ohio Valley to New England.

Temperatures once again climbing into the upper 90s and challenging record highs.

While some 1800 miles away residents of southeast Texas

are trying to dry on from a brush with what was tropical storm Alberto.

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