around 700,000 children are being taught in buildings that need repairs. the government said it has been investing in transforming schools. nine people are known to have died after a russian missile attack in ukraine. rescuers have spent the night looking for survivors in kramatorsk. the chancellor will meet with water and energy regulators to find out what they will do to lower prices. there are concerns that firms are exploiting inflation. and kevin spacey has arrived at his trial in london where he is accused of sexual assaulting men. he denies the charges against him. the the national audit office found a third of school buildings has develop beyond their initial design life. a lot were put up quickly after the war. so we are talking of 24,000 after the war. so we are talking of 2a,000 buildings. the risk of injury or death from a school building or collapse has been assessed as very likely or critical. what the hell s going on. jessica hill is with us and racheljones, a
possible indictment. we are in uncharted waters, people, and a shifting hazard. if you don t have to be outside, then don t be outside. that s the mayor of washington, d.c. dangerous thick smoke from canadian wildfires is moving south. major cities in the u.s. are elevating their alert as air quality is getting worse. plus, new russian aggression on the battlefield. the significant losses for ukraine as ukrainian forces try to breach enemy lines. welcome to the load. i m jake tapper, and we ll start today with our law and justice lead. donald trump is gathering with his top aides reaching out to allies on capitol hill ahead of possible criminal charges, criminal charges, being filed against him. sources say the justice department recently told trump s legal team that the former president is a target in the federal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified documents after he left office and, of course, possible obstruction of justice charges related to
yotam haim, alon shamriz and samer talalka were abducted on october 7 when hamas carried out its deadly attacks on israel. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called the incident an unbearable tragedy . relatives of hostages taken by hamas have been protesting the accidental killings in tel aviv while also calling for a ceasefire and agreement for the release of those still held captive. more than 100 hostages remain in gaza. a federaljury has ordered former president donald trump s ex lawyer, rudy giuliani, to pay more than $1118 million, or £116 million, to two women over lies that they tampered with votes in the 2020 presidential election. a judge had already found mr giuliani liable of making defamatory claims about the georgia poll workers. mr giuliani told reporters outside the court, he has no regrets. we will have more on those stories in the next hour. we start with the us supreme court, which announced this week it will hear a case challenging the food and drugs
that massive spy balloon. we ll walk through what happened and take a look at the growing fallout. we re also following the devastating aftermath of a powerful earthquake that left hundreds of people dead in turkey and syria. this morning, rescue crews are searching through rubble for any survivors. and back in washington, there is a major gop donor looking to, quote, turn the page on the past several years in an apparent rebuke of former president trump. we ll explain that development. plus four more years! four more years! four more years! president biden got a surge of support at the democratic national committee s annual winter meeting in philadelphia on friday. as democrats approve a new primary calendar, reshaping the way the party picks its presidential nominees. we ll speak to the chairman of the dnc just ahead. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, february 6th. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at po
intensifying as much as we thought it. where there s still a ways to go. the storm has roughly three days to get a strong as it s going to get, and then will weaken as it approaches florida after that. the hope is that it never gets its act together, but all of our computer, guides that are telling us is not going to happen. it s saying this is going to intensify for the next three, days maybe rapidly intensify when it gets to as of now, still only tropical storms, that s not the issue. the issue is that on our computer guides is telling us it gets much stronger from here. becoming a hurricane by tomorrow morning, and then, possibly, a major category three hurricane and a 20 mile per hour winds, only 48 hours from now. that s a really fast, intensification as it moves up there. after that, it goes to the north. then it goes back a little bit. the question is, how much does it bend back to the northeast. if it bends back a little harder, it will be towards tampa, sarasot