tensions with china. nbc news was first to report the suspected chinese surveillance balloon hovering over the northern united states around montana for the past few days. china is now responding claiming it is a civilian airship used for weather research that was blown off course. but how credible is that claim? minutes ago we learned secretary of state antony blinken is postponing his trip to china for what was supposed to be a highly anticipated meeting with china s leader next week. the pentagon is set to hold a briefing in the next hour. we know the department of defense is tracking the balloon closely, even at one point discussing shooting it down. we even have air traffic audio from wednesday about a, quote, special mission. we just got alerted from salt lake tmu we re on a ground stop right now until further notice for a special mission going on over the livingston area. we don t know exactly when we can have our next departure. it is landing with a thud on capito
josé diaz-balart. right now hundreds of thousands across the american south are waking up to no power after a deadly ice storm pummelled the region. we ll take you live to arkansas. in memphis, police are facing new questions on the discrepancies in an initial police report compared to the video detailing the deadly beating of tyre nichols. on capitol hill, in just a couple of hours, the house will vote on whether to remove congresswoman ilhan omar from the house foreign affairs committee for what republicans have called anti-semitic remarks. we ll ask congresswoman pramila jayapal about that and more . a brand new congressional dads caucus has just launched and seeks to advocate for working families. it s congressman jimmy gomez who brought the idea to life will join us to discuss. and is an early spring around the corner? punxsutawney phil makes his groundhog day predictions. and we begin this hour with the extreme winter ice storm impacting the southern u.s., the
We go to the vxx which is 12. 03. Some of the geopolitics of the weekend the ruble is putin friendly. The indian rupee after that momentous election continues to strengthen this morning. Lets look at this data check. Is the one year yield guess five years forward, in 2019. We have come down and down. This is disinflation, dampening. Tradersher words, what think the one year yield will be five years from now. Andhere it is, we go down that is the back story as we go into this memorial day weekend. We scoured the papers and looked at the websites. Weve got the day off on monday. In ukraine, they are looking ahead to the president ial election on sunday. There is a burst of violence overnight there. The military suffered their worst loss as it prepares for the polls. Rebels in ukraine attacked Army Checkpoints and killed 16 ukrainian soldiers and i been other fighting. You have to believe the next 2448 hours injure sunday is critical into sundays critical. Vladimir putin has promised to w
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