see the crime scene for themselves. we ll have a live report from the courthouse in south carolina coming up. at least a dozen people hospitalized, but no deaths reported after tornadoes tear apart businesses and homes in central oklahoma. we ll have the latest on the storms that made million z miserable over the last 24 hours and the problems they left behind. first, the challenges to donald trump. ideologically, financially and organizationally, all ramping up. case in point, ron desantis is gathering for more than 150 donors, a huge event over the weekend held less than a ten-minute drive from former president trump s back yard. the event was described as, quote, part of desantis increasingly open encroachments into the former president s long-term support base and ideological turf. that s just the tip of the iceberg with the florida governor set to extend his campaign with a national book tour that launches tomorrow. we should be clear. right nou desantis is still a
whirlwind of action on capitol hill this wednesday morning. you could say it s a congressional hearing palooza on a slate of urgent topics from the origin of covid, the safety of air travel, the u.s. evacuation of afghanistan, and threats from around the world. that last topic is the focus of a hearing set to begin any second with the senate intelligence committee. we ll hear testimony from the nation s top intel chiefs including dni avril haines, cia director bill burns and fbi director chris wray. we can expect them to dive into a number of topics including new threats from china, questions about mishandling classified documents and concerns over domestic extremism. our team is monitoring this closely. meanwhile, in a different senate hearing, acting administrator of the faa is just moments away from testifying after weeks of disturbing headlines from the not so friendly skies, including a united passenger recently caught on camera attacking a flight attendant and threate
rocked two countries. more than 2,200 are dead in turkey and syria. thousands more injured. we ve got the latest details. a new republican criticism this morning of how the biden administration handled the suspected chinese spy balloon drifting for days over the u.s. before the military shot it down over the weekend. all this as president biden red december to address the nation tomorrow. a huge night for a star-packed grammy awards. that s bad bunny. we ll tell you who made history. we begin with that breaking news, a deadly catastrophe unfolding right now in tour key and syria. two powerful and devastating earthquakes striking jurs hours apart. 7.92 earth kwair quake near the city of gaziantep in turkey. that number only expected to rise as the tremors toppled buildings across the region. take a look at this moment. look at this. this whole building just comes down in the city just outside the epicenter collapsing in a matter of seconds. bystanders fleeing the scene
good to be with you, i m kay katy tur, the chinese spy balloon is still hanging over the white house. why they didn t know about it sooner and what the u.s. was able to gather about the balloon while it was still in the air. the gang of eight is waiting for a full briefing. the white house has offered one and it s expected to get on the schedule next week. house intel chair republican mike turner said the balloon exposed a weakness at the top. clearly this was an attempt by china to gather information to defeat our command and control of our sensitive missile defense and nuclear weapon sites and that certainly is an urgency that this administration does not recognize. i ll know the answer to that question this week when we actually get briefed on the decision making process about when and how to take down the balloon. there s an awful lot of people like me coming to absolutely rock solid conclusions based on very few facts. none of us know what the decision making process
we ll dig deeper into the decisions made by police and first responders and the decisions officials are faced with right now that could stop the next attack from happening. our new nbc news poll showing americans increasingly grim about the country s future saying it s a disaster. the warning signs for joe biden s expected re-election bid, how can he turn things around. no golden elevator, no wild crowds. donald trump s 2024 campaign kicks off with what one publication called a sleepy event in new hampshire. just 400 people in a high school auditorium. does that kind of kickoff open the door even wider for other republicans to jump into the race? a lot to talk about today. at this power the country is struggling to come to grips with the sheer brutality and inhumanity of the death of tyre nichols, put into devastating focus by today s new york times analysis. it concludes that officers shouted at least 71 commands in 13 minutes, many of them orders described as impossib