michigan state university, naming several others, most of whom remain in critical condition. today, funeral services were held for two of the slain msu students, and in just a minute, i will talk to a michigan congresswoman with her reaction to this tragedy, which was on my mind even as i was marching in florida on wednesday, joining a peoples protest against the state s governor, ron desantis, and his escalating war on black history. it was while i was on the ground in florida that i got word that the shooter who massacred nearly a dozen black shoppers at a buffalo supermarket two years ago had been sentenced to life in prison without parole. later, i learned that all five of the former memphis police officers charged with murder, murdering tyre nichols had pled not guilty. i thought about tyre s mother and her grief, and i also thought about so many grieving mothers in other parts of the world right now. as turkey and syria recover from the massive earthquake that has now k
from an mess nbc rolled headquarters, welcome in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with the big story of survival and recovery, mostly in florida that state hit hardest by hurricane ian. the total death toll from that storm is estimated 78 people. power outage numbers are down from reporting last hour, now it s over 21,000 in north carolina and just over 7000 in virginia without power. 1200 in south carolina. search and rescue operations are still underway, with the coast guard leading most efforts as 100 of thousands struggle with basic necessities like power, water, cell phone service. here is fema director demon chris just short time ago. we have well over 2 million people without power immediately following the storm and the power companies there have done a numbing job of getting the majority people back online. i think where the difficulty comes in, jonathan, is that there are so many homes especially in fort myers beach, area that are compl
visiting hurricane damage regions, there are no paper towel rolls being tossed as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle, and a case against the former handling of white house documents appears to be growing by the day. tonight, reporting from the washington post and the new york times, seems to provide the justice department more potential evidence. both papers reporting the back in february, one of trump s lawyers refused his clients request to tell the national archives that everything had been returned. the post returns this. the lawyer declined because, he was not sure the statement was true, according to people familiar with the matter. the paper reports that that lawyer was alex cannon, who is responsible for the transfer of 15 boxes of presidential records, from mar-a-lago to the national archives back in january. he is the very same alex cannon who testified to the january 6th committee, that he told white house
against the former handling of white house documents appears to be growing by the day. tonight, reporting from the washington post and the new york times, seems to provide the justice department more potential evidence. both papers reporting the back in february, one of trump s lawyers refused his clients request to tell the national archives that everything had been returned. the post returns this. the lawyer declined because, he was not sure the statement was true, according to people familiar with the matter. the paper reports that that lawyer was alex cannon, who is responsible for the transfer of 15 boxes of presidential records, from mar-a-lago to the national archives back in january. he is the very same alex cannon who testified to the january 6th committee, that he told white house chief of staff mark meadows, that there was no evidence of voter fraud in 2020 election. the papers say that both trump and cannon have yet to respond to specific questions about this docu
we will bring you that speech live. and in florida, grim new details about how many people were killed by a different hurricane, ian of course. and the new number just coming in. some officials now responding to criticism about their initial response to ian. we ve got our team standing by live on the ground. also this hour, we re live in district court in dc with opening statements happening now, in the conspiracy trial of leaders for the oath keepers. why the defense is hanging its case on something former president trump didn t do, and what prosecutors are saying today about what the defendants said were not enough weapons. we will talk about it coming up. and october, not spooked yet. rare good news lately from the market. the dow up 800 points. we will talk about what is behind the rally on wall street later in the show. i m hallie jackson on assignment for a story you will see later on in the month. joining me is gabe guiterrez in san germane puerto rico and shaq bre