the ohio town still reeling from that toxic train derailleur derailment. a major city in the west bank, the rain killed at least ten palestinians and wounded more than 100. it went after three wanted men. norah: and michigan state men s basketball returns. first home gain since that national shooting. empty seats at the arena tonight. walker, left hand, yes. bigger than just us, we are playing for the whole community. norah: good evening and thank you for joining us on this wednesday night. i am margaret brennan, norah is on assignment pair tonight our in-depth look at what earthquake crone california is looking to do to prevent a large scale destruction when the big one hits. plus 18 a pageant queen who is also a state champion wrestler. but we begin with a coast-to-coast outbreak of severe weather threatening more than 76 million people across 26 states. the dakotas, minnesota, and wisconsin are bearing the brunt of the blizzard threat with some areas bracin
transportation secretary pete buttigieg will visit that ohio train derailment site one day after donald trump. the lead starts right now. big names descend on a small town, east palestine, ohio, the scene of that toxic train wreck. norfolk southern vows to help but critics know how much the company is giving victims versus company investors for stock buybacks. plus after the speeches and fanfare, ukraine left with the realities of war. do you have any idea how many bodies you have taken back to their hometowns at this stage? cnn s clarissa ward is on the front lines for us with the somber work of returning bodies of fallen ukrainian soldiers to their families as russia s brutal invasion nears one year. and a coast to coast winter storm. ice and snow and conditions not seen in some spots in 30 years. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper and we start in east palestine, ohio, where the fallout from that toxic train wreck starts to get messier by the hour and i don t
reporter: we were going basically to the scene of where that missile strike took place last night on that residential building that killed several people because of course there is still a big rescue operation going on there. and we had just arrived at the scene, left our vehicles when the house in front of which our vehicle was parked was hit by a missile strike. it was a really heavy explosion, very close by. i would say maybe 40 or 50 yards from our location. so we then tried to go into a sheltered building. and as we were doing that i turned around, and you could see the second missile hitting the exact same area. we already know that there were people who were severely wounded on the ground there. it s unclear if and how many people were killed. of course right now there s a big rescue operation going on there. but i think it s important for our viewers to understand this area this was in, there was an active search and rescue operation in a residential area. and today
fox news senior meteorologist and author of the new book i am the storm jenna z. when he produces a tv show, characters ask it to be killed off, founder of the loftus cardi.com, kyle loftus! and rattlesnakes describe her as to poisonous, fox news contributor captive. and finally, elephants won t discuss him when he is in the room, my massive sidekick and the n.w.a. a world w weight double weight champion, tyrus. okay, before we get to some new stories, obviously, since it is friday, it s time for this! greg s leftovers. greg: i love leftovers, this is where i read the jokes we did not use this week, so if they suck, it s not my fault. and you say the word and i will fire the staff. here we go, this week president biden address the classified documents found in his garage when asked why he thought her garage would be a safe place for such things, he said, because hunter has been hiding his cokes there for 15 years, and he has never lost an ounce. fair enough. spe
but we begin with the white house closing ranks and saying the president meant what he said about the classified documents being no big deal. the white house correspondent kevin corke is live for us in the nation s capital with this. evening, two years and in the white house says it is focused on the battles that it mattered most, both here at home and abroad which is to say nurturing the economy back to full health, responding to the climate crisis, and of course and effort in ukraine to name a few, as we look at the jill biden have time report, we see that it is a mixed bag coming at us, we are two years since he was inaugurated, we have low unemployment, jobs aplenty, high but falling inflation, high but falling gas prices, however, record debt in spending, the border crisis, and don t forget to the crime crisis and many of america s largest cities, the afghanistan debacle, and the document drama, the unfolding classified materials kerfuffle continuing to bubble up to th