County, same for stafford and spotslvani and chuck bell will be joining us live momentarily out there in West Falls Church. What does it feel like out there, chuck . Reporter we were going to tysons but came to West Falls Church metro station instead. It looks like the middle of january out here. 26 degrees in falls church. Yes, youre right, the wind is blowing out there today. The current windchill, 18 degrees here. And windchills are in the teens and 20s everywhere. Even some Single Digits out in the mountains. So really a huge bundleup factor for you first thing this morning. And its not that we have not been this cold before because we have. We are not going to set a record or anything today, but its just the suddenness of the change that has everybody going. Come to our website, nbcwashington. We have a full section top center right there for the hypothermia hotline. Give a call if you see someone stranded outside, homeless, needs extra warmth, give those local municipalities a ca
Joins me now. Shes rosa brooks, professor at Georgetown University law center and author of everything became war and the military became everything and joining me tom nichols of usa today and former rnc chairman michael steele. Thank you very much for being here this saturday morning. Rosa, i want to start with you. As a coorganizer of that war gaming. Apparently you ran through three or four different scenarios. Can you run through them quickly . Sure. We gave our exercise participants four scenarios. One was a big decisive biden win. A popular vote and electoral vote. One was a trump win where he, as in 2016, lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote decisively. One was a narrow biden win. A squeaker in the Electoral College with the popular vote lead and the final scenario involved a period of extended uncertainty like the election of 2000 where it seemed like it was going to be essentially interminate who really won. In all of those scenarios, as it was reported in, i think
More record case numbers, all reported over the weekend. Hospitalizations also surging today. And hours long lines for tests and in some areas not nearly enough. The nation now topping 2. 5 million cases with more than 125,000 deaths. While the global death toll has reached more than 500,000, the u. S. Health secretary warning that the window is closing to get the crisis in this country under control. Now some officials rolling back more reopenings as concerns about july 4th celebrations build up, florida closing some beaches for the holiday weekend. Bars and nightclubs also in focus. Californias governor now closing them in seven counties in that state. And this hour, we are putting a spotlight on the worsening crisis in arizona. Thats where we find msnbcs Vaughn Hillyard to kick things off for us, at a drive through testing site in phoenix, arizona, one of the many areas where the demand for tests is currently outpacing availability. Vaughn, what is the situation right there . Report
In georgia, for people across the country and for people around the world, at a time when politics has been dominated by fear and hatred and scapegoating and division, this Community Stood up, women in this Community Stood up. [ cheers and applause ] georgia is sending karen handel to congress and republicans breathing a little easier this morning in the most expensive house race in American History. Handel narrowly kept the district in gop hands. She becomes the first woman ever elected to the capital from georgia, fending off rookie jon ossoff among a blizzard of spending, more than 50 million in all. The turnout was enormous, even eclipsing mid terms in 2014. Ossoff defied polls in the first round of voting getting 48 of the vote but in yesterdays runoff, in spite of a court order allowing new voters and adding 32,000 votes as of this morning, his percentage only increased by 1 100th of a percent. Joe . I dont think you can overstate the significance for the new congresswoman. For r
The diver, 29, has written a love letter of support to his husband Dustin Lance Black who revealed this week his court case made them and their children relocate to the US.