we are coming on the air with breaking news on today s top story. for the first time, we will see secretary of state tony blinken on camera. you re looking at it live on the left side of your screen there. potentially reacting to that suspected chinese spy balloon, flying over u.s. airspace. also this hour, you ve got president biden in philadelphia after a better than expected jobs report. we re juggling all of it live here in the next 60 minutes on msnbc. i m hallie jackson in washington. i want to bring in one of our chief white house correspondents, foreign correspondent janis mackey frayer is live in beijing, and gary locke, former u.s. ambassador to china. let s take a beat. lay out what we know so far about this chinese apparent supply balloon mystery situation. we are about to hear from the secretary of state for the first time on camera since he postponed his trip to beijing earlier today. the pentagon says they are still tracking this balloon. they also say it is no
After a high turnout forced them to be extended three times. Hello and welcome to the programme. We start with yet more Turbulent Development in washington, hot on the heels of president froms departure on his first foreign trip, us media published two new revelations. The New York Times is reporting that the president described his sacked fbi chief james coney the president described his sacked fbi chiefjames coney as a nutjob. They show document summarising the meeting saying i face great pressure because of russia has taken off. The Washington Post has also published an article saying a Current White House official has been identified Asa House Official has been identified as a significant person of interest. In the fbi investigation into links between russia and the tramp campaign. We will have more for you with our correspondent in a moment. But both those stories were published only minutes after Air Force One took off from Andrews Air Base taking donald trump on his first foreig
Times i asked him again. He said he absolutely did not meddle in our election. He did not do what theyre saying he did. John roberts is reporting on this on a moving bus at this moment. John, its a fine distinction, but the president didnt say he believed putin. He said that he believes that putin means it, right . Yeah. There is a different here and the language is what is important. Were pulling this bus, by the way, up to the royal palace in downtown hanoi, where the president and the president of vietnam will hold bilateral meetings. The president did make a lot of news on Air Force One when he said that he talked to President Putin about whether or not Russia Meddled in the election. He got a denial from putin. Headquarters of raqqa fell. And the president and President Putin agreed they would find a way forward and political solution to syria under the framework of the u. N. Security council on syria. The two leaders saying that efforts to deconflict between the two militaries ha
mount washington. three people living out there. weather observers, 6,500 feet, and negative 94 windchill. the wind is gusting to 120 miles per hour. that s pretty insane, and they actually said if they walked outside their building, they would take one minute for their skin to get frostbite. so yeah, they re not doing that. we re still, i mean, even in greenville, maine, negative 42, northern vermont, negative 44. it only takes four to five minutes for frostbite. they cancelled schools in this region, and they re tell everyone staying indoors. tomorrow morning, the winds will be dying off. it will be very cold. but the windchill action will be improving as we go throughout saturday morning, and by the time we get to sunday, things are back in new york city s mid-40s. northern vermont, mid- to upper 40s. a very cold outbreak. ice quakes, if the ground isn t frozen already, and you get water that soaks into it, and
mid-to upper 40s. tomorrow, the warming trend continues with highs in the upper 60s at the coast, mid- 60s at the bay. that s when the warming peeks. can see there will be some cooling on thursday. minor cooling on thursday, further cooling on friday and saturday. a chance of showers. showers are likely. don t forget to spring forward. gordon matthew thomas stopped by. you may know him better as sting. he wrote the show s music and lyrics and he told us this is a personal story. i think we ve been working on this since 2011. it s been an amazing adventure, a difficult adventure, a challenging adventure, but the