here we go. tuesday morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. president biden is ready to confirm what used to be a given for an incumbent in american politics, that he is running for re-election. the official announcement of his 2024 campaign today comes as polls show a majority of voters and even a majority of democrats don t want him to run again. jasmine wright is joining me. good morning. what do we know about the campaign rollout? reporter: well, today is the day maybe, that is an important caveat, because we know that president biden is one that can change his decision especially about his political future. so that caveat is very important, but if president biden were to go forward with it today he d be really in essence launching his final campaign of his decades long political career. it is only official when it is official, but if it happens, we know logistically how it will look. the president will be launchi
chemicals derailed in their tow of 4700 people. they are now told to drink bottled water for 3500 fish and frogs floated belly up. their concerns were aired durin a raucous town hall tonight tha the rail company chose not to attend. marian rafferty s life with details and reaction. these people have a right to be angry. can you not being confident in the very air that you were breathing for the have a chance to grill city officials at eating at the town s high schoo in the concerns that the area around the crash site is still unsafe. my biggest concerns is ultimately the drinking water, the effects of the drinking water appears. i feel like they haven t bee straight with us. i just think the young mothers, the pregnant mothers. the biggest concern i have i with dioxins. nobody talks about dioxins period. and those folks are demandin answers about worries some symptoms that many have had since the release of toxic chemicals into the air app that crash prayer that ask
rates still attest. but in silicon valley it made for an epic pay day. it was soon reflected on the balance sheets of its biggest local lenders which was called silicon valley bank. in 2018, svb had about $49 billion on deposit. three years later that same bank had amassed more than $189 billion. that is a gargantuan amount of deposits over a short period of time. dramatic enough to have raised a serious question and an obvious one. what was silicon valley bank gonna do with all that money? even the san francisco bay area, it would be hard to find qualified borrowers for $189 billion. you could not responsibly loan all of that money even if you wanted to. so what would you do with it? that s the question you would have asked if you were paying attention, both from inside svb or the regulatories action. turns out nobody was paying attention. nobody thought to ask for questions. we thought stress test silicon valley bank in the middle of a room. with a narcissism complex who ta
and that the russian pilots were just provocative and incompetent amateurs. make no mistake. this was no accident. i can guarantee you that vladamir putin personally signed off on this military aggression. here s our very own gennifer griffin. i d just like to get your reaction to what happened today in the black sea. pissed off. i mean, just be honest about this for a second. the report coming out of our government is that this was an unprofessional act and environmentally unsound. i m sorry, folks. they shot down a united states warplane. they took it out of action. that s the response we get back? not very happy about it. bottom line is we cannot allow that to happen. hannity: that s right. we can t allow this to happen. russia and putin s hostility and aggression against our country, the united states, has now reached a dangerous new height. now tonight the question is this. what will your president, joe biden, do? is he going to offer maybe another waiver for the n
thank you for wicking up with us. i am amara walker. i m paula reid in for boris sanchez and i am thrilled to be back with you today. thanks for coming back. i am glad we didn t scare you away. well, we are following two top stories this morning. a solemn moment expected today in alabama. president biden will visit selma to mark an important moment in civil rights history. the 58th anniversary of bloody sunday. and a raucous welcome for former patient. the conservative political action conference in maryland facing a slew of investigations. the twice impeached republican promised a reckoning with democrats and establishment republicans. in 2016 i declared i am your voice. today i add i am your warrior, i am your justice, and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, i am your retribution. i am your retribution. a lot to get to this morning. let s begin with priscilla alvarez in delaware with the president. this is president biden s third trip to selma but his fi