it is 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. we begin this hour with deadly storms now making their way northeast after leaving behind a trail of destruction across texas, oklahoma, arkansas and kentucky. at least 19 people are dead and dozens more injured. take a look at this. valley view, texas, gas station. officials say as many as 125 people were sheltering when a powerful tornado struck. overnight kentucky governor andy beshear declared a state of emergency as the severe weather threat continues into today for millions of americans. it leaves hundreds of,sands across the region without power. joining us from valley view, texas, is nbc s priscilla thompson. priscilla, good morning. where do things stand now? reporter: jose, good morning. right now in the hardest-hit areas there s devastation everywhere. we re here and you can see there s a car with its windows completely blown out. that car was actually in that gas station parking lot when this tor
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poised to give a consequential speech on the world stage, returning to the beaches of normandy again this morning to deliver remarks on the threats against democracy and freedom at home and overseas. now, this speech coming just hours after president biden met with ukrainian president zelenskyy in paris announcing $225 million in new aid and apologizing for the political gridlock in washington that delayed that package. nbc s kelly o donnell is traveling with the president in france. also with us, david ignatius, foreign affairs columnist for the washington post, nbc news military analyst, retired colonel jack jacobs and presidential historian mark updegrove. it s great to have all of you with us. kelly, set the stage for us as we await the president. reporter: well, it is a spectacular setting. when you see how the white house has set up the president s lectern on the cliff. this is a cliff that 80 years ago american army rangers scaled that cliff using knives and pieces
A crash of that plane into the alcoh capitol. President obama will observe a Moment Of Silence marking the moment the first plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center. Bv moving to the Memorial Ceremony at the pentagon across the river where he will speak. Donald trump appeared alongside Rudy Giuliani at ground zero this morning. Hell visit a firehouse later today. Hillary clinton is also at the site of the attacks. She spoke to chris cuomo about visiting ground zero the day after the towers fell. I went the next day, Chuck Schumer and i. We were one of theery few planes in the sky that day. The 12th. And we landed at laguardia. We were on a fema plane. We took a helicopter. And we went over, circled the burning pile. And when we landed, we met up with the governor and the mayor and went walking toward ground zero. And as we moved further south and we saw this curtain of black smoke that was stretched across the island basically, occasionally it would be broken by a firefighte
all packed into that media area, preparing for listening to the president s remarks as he continues to make his way on those hallowed grounds up to the microphone, and we re told this walk should take about a couple minutes altogether. it looks like he s quite close now. we did get some excerpts from his upcoming speech in which he said when we talk about democracy, american democracy, we often talk big ideas like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. what we don t talk about enough is how hard it is. and so those remarks expected in just moments from president biden who, as you can see, just paused for a moment there in front of those wreaths and now let s listen in. please welcome the 46th president of the united states of america, joe biden. john, how are you?