First we are following breaking news coming into our newsroom. Fremont police are arriving on the scene of a shooting happening near stevenson and albert street. The area is shut down and police are asking the public to avoid that area. No other details are being released at this time. Our nbc bay area sky ranger is headed over to the scene right now. Good morning and thank you for joining us. Im lawyer laura garcia. And im marcus washington. For others mehtas platform is a way for them to get their news and information sources. And with it being super tuesday this raises the urgency for answers even after the service was restored. Chriz rozman joins us now. Reporter i was wondering what the deal was and i recognized others were having the same problem but i want to show you the response from the Communications Person for mehta. This is andy stone saying earlier eight technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some servers. We resolve the issues quickly and we apologize
Polling as we speak of some kind. Kind News Unspooling always. Thank you for joining us at home. Today has not been a good day for the Republican Party. It began with a fourth defendant flipping in the George Racketeering case against donald trump Turning Jenna Ellis tearfully pleading guilty in state court. This afternoon we are bombshell new report from abc news the trumps former Chief Of Staff, mark meadows, has been granted immunity and special counsel jack smiths federal interference case. Mr. Meadows has reportedly told smith team that he long believe the trumps was being dishonest about his claim that he won the election. Which is certainly something new. Now that report has not been confirmed by nbc news, and Meadows Lawyer is denying it, so we will have a lot more on that later in this hour. But we start with the absolute debacle unfolding among republicans in the house of representatives, which is entering its fourth week. Fourth week, without a speaker of the house. Right, n
This afternoon we have a Bombshell New report from abc news the trumps former Chief Of Staff, mark meadows, has been granted immunity in special counsel jack smiths federal interference case. Mr. Meadows has reportedly told smiths team that he long believed that trump was being dishonest about his claim that he won the election. Which is certainly something new. Now that report has not been confirmed by nbc news, and Meadows Lawyer is denying it, so we will have a lot more on that later in this hour. But we start with the absolute debacle unfolding among republicans in the house of representatives, which is entering its fourth week. Fourth week, without a speaker of the house. Right, now republicans are holding a vote Behind Closed Doors to choose their fourth nominee for speaker in less than two weeks. This morning, after five rounds of voting Behind Closed Doors, the party nominated its third speaker candidate, congressman tom emmer. And then, just four hours and ten minutes later, t
Among those, are attempting to leave gaza and israel, and some are leaving israel by boat. The state department announced it will charter flights out of tel aviv through thursday. The number of hamas hostages is now 200, up from its initial attack on civilians on october 7th when it was thought 150 hostages around taken. The National Red Cross are helping with the talks. Also, access, so we can check on their wellbeing. As detentions boil at the israeli gaza border. Today hundreds of Jewish Americans and allies were marching to the white house. Here in the bay area, uc Berkeley Students came together on campus to support the palestinians. It was a large demonstration. The gathering organized by bears for palestine, which is a pro palestinian group. There has been criticism of comments that have been deleted about antisemitic vandalism in the city, has angers some of those groups. And then sweeping reforms for the Vallejo Police department. The department has been plagued for years by n
Now, id like to invite gleaves whitney, executive director of the gerald dar ford president ial foundation, to the podium to introduce tonights speaker, gleaves. Thanks for. As joel, just said, were back. Look at this. This is great to have all these people in the auditorium after all those months of covid. So i applaud you for being here. You came for a Great Program this evening. As as you all know, weve been bringing bill brands back to grand rapids, west michigan, for many years, almost two decades. And ill introduce him in just a minute. But first, i want to welcome our cspan, our viewing audience. I want to welcome all of you who are here in person. I think we have some trustees from the gerald ford president ial foundation to recognize. I think i see bob hooker and i think j. C. Rising is here. We have one of the ford president fords family members, greg ford, a nephew of president. Mrs. Ford, welcome. Glad youre always glad youre here. So, yeah, go ahead and applaud. Absolutely