the national cathedral, president trump is set to appear later this morning at the traditional post-inauguration prayer service. hallie jackson is there. what is expected today and will we hear from the new president? reporter: he s not expected to speak at least on the schedule, the program that has been provided by the national cathedral. that doesn t mean we may not get some off the cuff or impromptu remarks making his way through the folks here. by the way started lining up pretty early ahead of the service in northwest washington. after president trump wakes up in the white house for the first time he ll make his way here for this long-standing tradition date back to george washington. there s a long list of faith leaders from all denominations who will be here, speaking, offering prayers, including cleveland pastor daryl scott, somebody we saw a lot on the campaign trail. he was a member of the president s national diversity council when donald trump was a candidate, of course,
you see that in that comment by ted cruz, we are watching the political discussion shift as we learn more. again, we don t know for sure yet what the motives are. we don t know a lot of the details. but based on some of the new information that s been learned since these shootings happened yesterday, we have seen the political conversation shift. i ll show you what i mean. this is from yesterday. this is when news first broke that there had been a mass shooting out in california. the three democratic candidates for president, hillary clinton, bernie sanders, martin o malley, they were all very quick to take to twitter to talk about gun violence, to talk about gun control, the need for new gun laws. this also hours after that, the new york daily news, one of the largest newspapers in the country, they talked about some of those comments from republicans. a lot of republicans who didn t want to get into the gun issue but wanted to talk about offering prayers, offering thoughts. the
the state of the union and he told us in congress, hey, do what i want. if you don t do it, i ll do it anyway. he looked over on the other side of the aisle and a lot of my democratic colleagues were cheering. i m not going to cheer any president who says they can simply go around congress at their will. all right, congressman. thank you for joining us. appreciate it. up next, the ongoing mystery surrounding the missing malaysian jetliner. it s lighting up the twitter universe. people from around the world coming together through social media to float different theories, offering prayers, and trading conspiracy theorys. stay with us. for hearburn? yea. try alka seltzer fruit chews. they work fast on heart burn and taste awesome. these are good. told ya! i m feeling better already. alka-seltzer fruit chews. enjoy the relief! hi boys! i ve made you
been writing in. words of support, delia from los angeles offering prayers. others, a new york schoolteacher, jonathan. and people offering help any way. they don t know what it is they can do to help but they want to let them know they re supporting. another one that people have been using is the survivor s page. this is joplin, missouri, tornado survivor page. where people can say things how can i check on the state of st. john s medical center. has baby sky her been found? somebody inquiring about that. syria waters writing in no, three hours ago. there are many others talking ability who they re looking for, where they were, looking for randy, his truck was found at home depot. please call with a phone number. this is when it gets heartbreaking knowing these people still have no information on where their loved ones may be and they re reaching out on social networking sites to try to find out. another one, because in some of these cases and we can still hold out hope that perhaps p
it is tuesday, may 24th. we re getting a much better picture of the scope of the disaster that we re talking about in joplin, missouri, today where our ali velshi is. good morning. what are you seeing there? good morning, kiran, christine. i wish i could tell you it s a good morning in joplin. it simply isn t. over my shoulder you can see the remains of the medical center which in this vast area is really the only building of significance that is still standing. let s begin this morning with some breaking news, however. president obama in london this morning, is announcing that he will be coming here. he will be visiting joplin this sunday as soon as he gets back from his european trip. the president says he wants the folks here to know the government will do absolutely everything they can to make sure that there s recovery here. 30% of joplin is gone. it s decimated. right now hundreds of police, fire fighters, national guardsmen, other volunteers are searching for survi