Morning joe starts right now. And good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is tuesday april 2nd. We have a lot to get to this morning, including the expanded gag order in Donald Trumps jonathan, just have a seat may as well put my lipstick on. Someone is passing notes. Just getting set from the show. I had to mov from over here to over there. I had to put stuff down. Right behind willie. Sorry. Have a seat. Are you ready for us to begin the class . Yes, lets do it. I know its your first day. Queue it up her name is mika. Welcome everyone to morning joe. Thats a beautiful shot. If we still even have you. Thank you for joining us. I think its tuesday, everybody is in their seats and well get to all thats going on this morning. The expanded gag order in Donald Trumps Hush Money Case comes as the former president came up with the cash needed to appeal for his Civil Fraud Judgment. Well talk about that. On wall street, truth social looks more like a meme stock with shares lower im not sure
Like . Temperatures overnight in many places the Single Digits the worst is here. We have another commute coming up. I am bill spadea, this is chasing news. Bill we got a weather alert for you tonight on chasing news. What a huge storm we had to endure today. A foot of snow in some cases and with the wind and the freezing temperatures, it aint over yet. We got team chairs coverage for you, but, lets start with meteorologist dan zarrow with details. Dan, what do you got for us. Reporter this was winter storm. 17 inches of snow. 60plus Miles Per Hour wind gusts along the south shore of long island. The bomb cyclone the thing intensified so rapidly we saw the blizzard like conditions for the day. Now the storm system moving in. They will have to deal with the 60plus Miles Per Hour wind gusts and the snow as it moves away us. The threat of blowing snow through the overnight hours and we have to deal with the free freeze the slush on the roads may become ice and buy early tomorrow morning.
[inaudible conversation] are you ready for whatever happens. Absolutely. All right. Welcome everybody. Not just those of you in the room but people who are watching this live on cspan, we are glad to have you here. I know by now we been in this generation long enough i dont need to tell you to turn off your cell phones or turn off the sound, but do, if you dont mind. I want to welcome all of you here, but also i want to call special attention to two groups of students here at the aspen institute. We have students here and from the charter school. Welcome. When we get to the q a asked questions and we hope you will. Let me start with a little story to get us started in this experiment that we live in that is so constantly contentious and uncivil. I run a program that we started at the institute 12 years ago. Its called the Hotel Scholarship in public leadership. What we do, i will be very brief, we go out every year and we find that 24 top Young Political leaders in the countr country.
Sound like a major traffic issue, so roll the windows up because you may see or smell a little smoke in that area. This is really our main trouble pot, southbound 680, dublin to mission boulevard, and we have a sigalert due to a crash. No issues on northbound 85 in the south bay. We begin this hour with developing news out of san Franciscos Bayview district. Thats where police are combing the scene of an earlymorning Home Invasion that took place around 11 00 last night, and police surrounded the home. Several suspects ran out and one shot at officers and an officer returned fire and nobody was hit. Police nabbed one of the suspects and the others got away. And a shelter in place was lifted just before 4 00 a. M. And then a Watchdog Agency is now facing Sexual Harassment allegations. An alleged victim sent a letter saying the appointment of fuentes raised red flags because he sexually harassed her in 2014. The department did not comment on the incident but says it takes all allegations
Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a busy friday night. And we begin with the severe storms hitting this evening. Possible tornadoes and flash flooding threats from dallas all the way up to philadelphia. Then, new york city and the northeast. A confirmed ef2 tornado in alabama, destroying several businesses. That f16 flipping in the rains in dayton. And look at the map tonight. 30 million in the east at risk. Travel will be challenging, as though dangerous storms make it up to new york city. This evening, images of the effort to save a woman and her sinking car. And abcs gio benitez leads us off. Reporter tonight, with a deadly mix of flash flooding and severe storms, cindy is not done yet. My husbands trying to help. Reporter alabama hit hard. Rescuers forming a human chain, rescuing a woman from her sinking car, just in the nick of time. There she is. She got out reporter the car completely submerged. West of birmingham, where several people were hurt when an ef2