more. brooke: the white house banned the media from president biden yesterday. row of empty seats that reporters from the post were not able to acontinued. we are unable to accommodate your credential invests to attend the remarks on may 8th. thank you for understanding. the october of 2020 reportod files from hunter s laptop falsely characterized as russian disinformation by the president. miranda devine slamming the white house over the ban. it is appalling, we ve hit a nerve with the biden administration, but it is not their press room, not joe biden s press room. it is the people s press room. for administration that is probably the most untransparent of any in recent memory and the mosts opaque and the president who is the least accessible to do this, should be causing an outrage with the rest of the media. they should boycott that press room. brooke: chairman james comer is expected to release major findings in the having of hunter biden foreign business dealing
shooting, yet again, that left five people dead including an eight-year-old child. we are keeping an eye on breaking weather news as well, around the country including the growing flooding threat along the mississippi river. plus, mike pence grilled, the latest on the hours he spent before the special counsel s grand jury. and the woman accusing donald trump of sexual assault defamation stands up to the former president s lawyers in a blistering cross examination. plus, this. when i have had friends who have taken their lives because of these bills. i have fielded calls from families in montana. including one family who s trans teenager attempted to take her life while watching a hearing on one of the anti-trans bills. so when i rose up and said there is blood on your hands, i was not being hyperbolic. i was speaking to the real consequences of the votes that we as legislators take in this body. i will be joined by montana state representative, is that we zephyr, after he
we began this morning with an update on that traumatic incident with the chinese spy balloon 60,000 feet in the air. eight days after it was first spotted in u.s. airspace, and have 22 raptor shot down the balloon with a single missile yesterday off the carolina coast. the search for degree is now underway. it my touch off a war of words between the u.s. and china. heightening tensions in an already data diplomatic relationship. china expressed its, quote, strong dissatisfaction. they have insisted that the device was a civilian weather balloon. a u.s. senior administration official said in response that they were confident the balloon was, quote, seeking to monitor sensitive military spots. we shift the focus now tuesday state of the union. president biden s first before the new republican house majority. security is being ramped up with plans to install fencing around the u.s. capitol ahead of the primetime address. we don t know too many specifics about what the president
taking aim area. rob marciano times it out. developing story overseas tonight. a deadly bomb attack at a café in st. petersburg, russia. a popular pro-russian military blogger killed. dozens more injured. new details coming in. at the same time, early calls on russia to release the american journalist detained in moscow. antony blinken hold rare talks with his russian counterpart demanding both eva gershkovich and retired marine paul whelan be set free. one day after being released from the hospital, pope francis celebrates palm sunday mass in st. peter s square. authorities in south carolina exhume the body of a teenager eight years after his death. the case now considered a homicide. coming under renewed scrutiny, the week of the alex murdaugh trial. the images coming in of freight train derailment in montana. at least 25 cars jumping the tracks. moments ago, the new ncaa women s basketball chance crowned on the court. and america strong tonight. an opening day field of dr
over the united states. eventually shot down off of the coast of south carolina by an air force fighter jet. now pentagon officials will not confirm whether or not the new object was also a balloon or its country of origin. officials did say the object was roughly the size of a small car, and was flying at an altitude that will make it a potential threat to civilian aircraft. alaska senator melissa spoke with lester holt last night, said she was briefed and told the object was not a balloon. take a listen. but today, to know that we have yet another unidentified objects successfully shot down in alaska, making sure that the message is clear that any sovereign territory or airspace in this country, and there s a threat, that there is an incursion. there will be consequences. here is nbc news white house correspondent allie raffa with more. today, the search with ice and snow is underway for any debris from that second flying object in u.s. airspace. this object shot do