afternoon to you. i m yasmin vossoughian on a very big saturday afternoon. we are following some major breaking news this hour out of memphis. 24 people are dead or as tornadoes ripped through the states. we are live on the ground, a deadly scene in pennsylvania after an explosion at a chocolate factory. we are also following the developments in the strikes and counterstrikes between the u.s. and iranian-backed syria. and, we are just hours away from $1 trump rally in texas. that comes as a potential indictment hangs over his head and it is happening in a place that has become sacred ground for some of the worst extremists in the republican party, more on that. we want to begin in a state of emergency. the tornado break that has killed over 24 people. teams are working to look for survivors across multiple counties devastated. the town is getting particularly hard. dozens of buildings collapsed there. biden releasing a statement saying that he and the first lady are praying f
kill paul pelosi. the lies being spread by elon musk, donald trump junior, even some republican-elected officials about that attack. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. as the biggest names in american politics hit the battleground states, right now president biden is on his way to florida to help charlie crist in his battle against ron desantis. in georgia, mike pence and governor kemp, two republicans, who have angered former president trump, at their peril for not backing his lie, are working together to help re-elect kemp against a challenge from stacey abrams. former president obama continuing his campaign tour of battleground states. today in nevada where he will be trying to help the endangered democratic senator and governor, both tight races there. our reporters are in place ahead of the big campaign events. joining us now, nbc s ali vitali in miami gardens, nbc s guad have a nation as. ali, the president is facing criticism for his campaign a
congress that her agency is conducting a damage assessment from the classified documents found at former president donald trump s home. reporter: top intelligence official avril haynes sent a letter to two chairs of committees in the house of representatives where she confirmed for the very first time that a damage assessment will be done of the documents that were recovered from mar-a-lago. let me read for you from this letter. she told the lawmakers, quote, that the department of justice and the office of the director of national intelligence are working together to facilitate a classification review of relevant materials including those recovered during the search. okay. that means they re going to do a review to figure out how classified these documents were. there s a few different levels of classification. and they re going to figure that out first. she went on to say, odni, that s the director of national intelligence, will also lead an intelligence community assessm
revelation, of the secret service will play a part in a hearing. although the select committee, has subpoenaed the agency, which says it is cooperating. thursday s hearing will take place just over a week after the last public hearing, which focused on how, far-right extremist groups participated in the insurrection. also, the direct and indirect coordination, between those groups, and several of the former presidents people. that hearing also featured testimony, from former white house counsel, pat cipollone. including his firsthand account, of a raucous december 18th, 2020 meeting in the oval office. that meeting involves some really strange figures. the former overstocked outcome guy, patrick byrne, the i m sure the four seasons landscaping, is related to the hotel guy. rudy giuliani, but maybe venezuela interfered in our election, sydney powell. all reportedly pushing the former president, to overturn the election, seize voting machines, and even invoke martial law. in th
jones now has to pay the parents of a sandy hook school shooting victim more than $4 million for the cruel and widespread and relentless lies that added to their heartache over a ten-year period. now, of course, this does fall way short of $150 million they did ask for in compensatory damages sought by little jessie lewis parents, a number their attorney said came from the number of people who believed the false claims of the hoax spewed by jones and the baseless arguments that the newtown s grieving parents were actors. the number also factored in the emotional and mental anguish those parents suffered and continue to suffer today for years of harassment by jones and his followers. he finally acknowledged what everyone else hopefully knew to be true, that the massacre was, quote, using his words after what ten years, 100% real. but the $4 million is actually not the end of the story, not in this courtroom, not in texas, because jones legal battles are actually far from