bodies feel warmth and touch have won the nobel prize for medicine. we will speak live to one of them late in the programme. it has been a pretty torrid day for facebook. two interconnecting stories that together have wiped $7 billion of mark zuckerberg s wealth. we will come to each of them in turn. let s start with a first, the whistle blower. two weeks ago the wall streetjournal published the facebook files, a damning series of reports that were based on a cache of the company s leaked internal documents. they reveal that facebook was aware of problems it was having with its apps, including the negative effects of misinformation and the harm that was being caused, especially to young girls, by instagram. we now have the identity of that whistle blower. francis hogan, who until recently worked as a product manager on the civic integrity team at facebook. ahead of her team tomorrow before a senate committee where she will be giving evidence she has given an explosive intervi
i m erin burnett. the breaking news, police now on the scene of a deadly mass shooting at a supermarket in collierville, tennessee just outside memphis. here is what i can tell you we know right now. it started around 1:30 p.m. local time. a gunman walked into a kroger and opened fire. this is how witnesses described what they saw and heard next. all i heard was gunshot and i saw a couple of customers, it was like balloons. like popping the balloons. only thing i heard was a couple more gunshots. i said that s not a balloon. that s gunshot. we ran to the back of the store. i said, go, go. he came in there where i was where the other people were. he shot one in the head. he shot one of my co-workers in the head and a customer in the stomach. one person was killed and some of these injuries are dire. police say they are very, very serious. ten people were killed in mass shooting at a supermarket in boulder, colorado. i want to go first to jen following this breaking story.
decision is final until it is officially issued, but the 98 pages written by justice leto lay out how the conservative majority plans to wipe away nearly 50 years of legal precedent. it s crystal clear. the court plans toe limb nate the constitutional protection for abortion and absent federal legislation, leave this issue to each of the 50 states. this from justice alito. we hold roe and casey must be overruled. he says the constitution makes no reference to abortion and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision. roe was egregiously wrong from the start. alito s draft joined by four other conservatives. clarence thomas and the four trump appointees. the news prompting an thunderstorms and a visceral reaction outside the court. both last night and then continuing today. the law s defenders flocking to the court steps to protest. the draft decision would reset american life by changing abortion access for millions of women. by delivering on decades
a decision to overrule roe would lead to abortion bans in roughly half the united states and could have huge ramifications for this year s mid-term elections. it is unclear if the preliminary draft represents the court s final word on this matter. opinions often do change in the drafting process. important to note. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell moments ago taking to the senate floor among the republicans many of them denouncing the leak in the very strongest terms. somebody, likely somebody inside the court itself, leaked a confidential internal draft to the press, almost certainly in an effort to stir up an inappropriate pressure campaign to sway an outcome. they want to elevate mob rule over the rule of law. we have complete fox coverage for you. republican senator james langford of oklahoma will weigh in and we begin the david spunt live outside the u.s. supreme court which was barricaded last night within an hour of this leak actually happening. david. a lo
destroyed locations as well as military equipment at the hands of ukraine or the west. good morning. welcome to morning joe. the united states accuses russia of planning to film a fake attack video and use it as justification for invading ukraine. we ll discuss whether russia really thinks that would work. that as russian president putin meets this morning with the leader of china, reaffirming their alliance. speaker nancy pelosi has a warning to u.s. athletes in beijing competing in the winter olympics. your free speech doesn t travel with you to china. we ll play for you what she said. also this morning, new signs of ex-president trump s hold over the republican party. today the rnc will vote on censuring two of the most vocal critics of the former president, liz cheney and adam kinzinger. we will read for you their preemptive ponces. we will get to that and much more on this friday, february 4th. along with willie and me we have the host of way too early jonathan l