hackers out number cyber personnel, at least 50 to one. and inching toward disaster, growing concerns across the midwest as people watch flood waters inch closer and closer to their homes and businesses. our nbc news reporters are following all the latest developments for you. we re going to begin with major flooding tormenting the midwest now as the national weather service says we are still days away from the mississippi river cresting. let s go to maggie vespa, joining us from davenport, iowa. we can see evidence of the mess behind you, maggie. the usda is reporting that barge traffic, that has been halted across the upper mississippi river for likely weeks, and this flooding is only expected to get worse, so how are folks there preparing? reporter: first and foremost, what you highlighted, that is a rare move. it s unclear at this point how and or if that might trickle down to consumers but definitely something to watch and something officials say to be worried about. a
either way, this race is set to be one of the most high profile clashes which can decide what party has senate control. ryan nobles from capitol hill, and west virginia metro news statewide correspondent, brad mclaney. how is senator manchin responding to senator justice s announcement? reporter: he seems to be indicating this isn t a done deal for justice yet. he does have a primary to win. there is another candidate in the race, a current house member who is expected to put up a pretty vigorous fight, and chin said let the games begin. he s not officially decided he s going to run for reelection. regardless, he s confident he can win if he does get into the race. take a listen to what he had to say yesterday. let me tell you, anything i m involved with, i always, you know, you run scared, run opposed, you got to run every
this was james comer on investigating dr. fauci. we want to bring in and interview all the scientists who told dr. fauci it s obviously lab leak, man-made, but they changed their story. later learned through some of our investigative work many scientists that just gave fauci a blank check to go along with everything. sandra: so you have had some very high profile clashes with dr. anthony fauci. what do you expect will happen as far as investigations into him during the covid pandemic? you know, we are not done with him yet. i think dr. fauci actually made one of the worst judgments in modern medical history by funding for over a decade, funding dangerous research which many of us believed leaked from the lab, but does connect dr. fauci to the origins of the pandemic. his support for this type of research without sufficient controls, without sufficient
colors. as we showed you yesterday big tech appears to be increasely success suppressing, banning users some with the most prominent cases involving conservatives. adding fuel to the fire for critics who argue the social media giants are targeting people for partisan reasons. here is fox news media analyst and host of fox news media buzz howard cutters. beth mandel a conservative columnist who plushes children s books accuses facebook of anti-american bias after being told her account was banned. there are woke behind behind the screen at facebook and they get these complaints and see it s books about rondell reagan and thomas sowell and amy coney barrett, let s turn that off because that s offensive. after a fox business report, a facebook spokesman says this should not have happened. it was an error and the ad account has been restored. this is one of a spate of high profile clashes between silicon valley giants and conservatives. vaccine researcher dr. robert malone, whose bat
the establishment initiating the fights. the question is why. why is it? and what i see. she s talking about defense cuts, there s been a bunch of high profile clashes between rand paul and lindsey graham which represents this split in the republican party. we ve seen these clashes, this seems to be an intervention on the side of the mccain/graham arm of the party. john mccain and lindsay graham don t have juice any more. people are just rolling their eyes at him for saying we should boycott the olympics in russia. john mccain although he has a lot of influence, he doesn t have a lot of juice. if you went to the republican convention in 2012, all of the buzz was around these insurgent types. and they re much less interventionist.