michigan. we do know that object was shot down by an f-16. norad s commander says they aren t calling that object a balloon because they re not able to say right now how that object was able to stay in the air. the uncertainty is escalating the war of words between the united states and china. china claims the united states has been flying balloons over chinese airspace without permission. that s an argument admiral john kirby flatly denied earlier. not true. not doing it. that s absolutely not true. we or not flying balloons over china. also this week, over a week since the devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria, rescue crews are amazingly still finding survivors in the rubble this morning, but the devastation is immense, spanning the area nearly the size of texas, and the number of people confirmed dead is now more than 35,000. in moments i ll be talking with former arizona senator jeff flake, now the ambassador to turkey about how the u.s. is helping people there.
without power and commuters facing a travel nightmare. i think people thought that w winter was going to be done and over with and now we re getting hit. this is new england it is about time well, on the west, more catastrophic flooding in the forecast in the wake of weeks of unrelenting rain thousands now under evacuation orders, rescue teams already deployed to save people trapped in those deadly floodwaters. we re timing out both of these systems. and the gloves are off former president trump in iowa taking direct aim at his biggest competition for the gop ticket, florida governor ron desantis. ron was a disciple of paul ryan, who is a rino loser. how the crowd responded to that and why it may not be what the former president wanted to hear we re going to begin with the latest fallout from the collapse of silicon valley bank and the new inflation numbers out this morning. starting us off, jake ward in san francisco. our business and data reporter brian cheung
weather. and this afternoon as his predecessor prepares for his day in court, president biden headed to minnesota to tout his economic agenda. he stayed quiet on trump s indictment could that change today? and later this hour, we re looking ahead to tonight s big game in houston. the university of connecticut, san diego state will face off in the final matchup of a march madness full of twists and turns. so in just about an hour from now, former president donald trump is expected to start his journey from here in florida to new york to be arraigned on charges connected to a hush money payment made to an adult film actress before the 2016 presidential election. these are live pictures coming to us. there is the airplane, the trump airplane in palm beach airport i want to bring in my colleague yasmin vossoughian, who is on the other side of this story, outside the district attorney identifies in lower manhattan where trump will appear tomorrow, yasmin yeah, a lot of actio
hovering over the northern u.s. plus, do you know what negative 60 degrees feels like? well, tens of millions from the northern plains to new england are under alerts for what could be some of the coldest windchills in a generation. and an nbc news exclusive, new reporting on why more than half a million migrants living in the u.s. are in legal limbo. migrants telling us quote, i couldn t believe what i was seeing. fresh outcry over another police killing. a double amputee missing both his legs trying to run from police. in just minutes, president biden expected to address those huge numbers in the latest jobs report released just this morning. what those numbers mean for our economy. we begin this hour with the pentagon on alert. nbc news was first to report that the u.s. is monitoring a suspected chinese surveillance balloon that has been hovering over the northern u.s. a witness in billings, montana, captured this footage on wednesday the same day the pentagon sa
coast of san diego we ll bring you lat itest. and former president trump heads back to iowa today. and amid the glitz and glam, a look at some of the historic wins during hollywood s biggest night. i cannot believe it s happening to me. this, this is the american dream. we begin this morning with the federal government rushing to prevent a wide scale banking crisis after two of the country s largest banks collapsed over the weekend marking the biggest bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis. today the fdic, the federal reserve, and the trash ri department are taking emergency measures to ensure depositors at silicon bank and signature bank will be able to access their money. this morning president biden insisted u.s. banking system is safe and no losses, he said, will be borne by the taxpayer. over the past few days, americans with deposits in these banks can rest assured they ll be protected and they ll have access to their money as of today. because of the ac