florida lawmakers can w disney on the docket, the one that ended the tax district after the magic kingdom came out against the don t say gay law. i m hallie jackson in washington, but let s start with nbc news foreign correspondent molly hunter, and nbc news meteorologist bill karins. let s take a look about what we know about the story that has developed quite a bit over the last 18 hours or so. very strong earthquakes, two of them, in a region that includes part of turkey and syria. the first was early in the morning. 7.8 magnitude. the second later in the afternoon, 7.5. we know at least 3,000 people are dead. it s very likely that number, horrifically will go up. rescuers on the ground, countries around the world promising to send help as well. the quakes took place near the turkish city, pretty large, population, more than 2 million people, people as far away as egypt and israel felt this thing. that s the difference between new york and chicago. i want to get to molly
discussion. as you remember from your time covering a previous vice president, mike memoli. take off your vice presidential cover hat, and put on your presidential cover hat. i m going to ask you to do an annoying pivot here. there s brand new reporting that you and our white house team as put out, as it relates to china. this spy balloon drama, what we have seen. there s new reporting on how the white house is pivoting a bit themselves to maybe changes tone, safe to say, mem, check me on that, but how the president is going to talk to china tomorrow night? this new reporting from carol lee, monica alker and myself. china has been a big focus from president biden in terms of economic messaging, talking about trying to compete as they have been making infrastructure investments, we need to do the same, and on a foreign policy basis, he s framed broadly about