somebody s vengeance. revenge, that s their motives. revenge. it sent shockwaves right away. no fingerprints, no bloody footprints you are trying to constantly find out what s going on. park your car somewhere else, walk to the location. the list a killer would make? yes, it is. he said, they had it coming. where is he going? what s he gonna do? you re getting real life. god, what the hell do we have here? winter on the great plains can be long, bleak, brutal. in march, when winter briefly releases its grip for a day or two, even the trees seemed to raise their limbs in celebration. march 13th 2008, was one of those days of cautious jubilation, in omaha nebraska. 61 degrees, and a light velvety breeze. 11-year-old tom hunter wore shorts and a t-shirt to school that tuesday. it was a little after three when tom, seen here on a security camera, got off the bus in the leafy dundee neighborhood, and headed home to play video games as he did, nearly eve
around the world. this is new day. wednesday, march 31st. john berman is off. john avlon is taking his last sip of coffee while he has to be with me. buckle up. the prosecutors build their case up against derek chauvin after an emotional day with six witnesses who watched george floyd die with a police officer s knee on his neck for up to nine minutes. a firefighter said she was desperate to help floyd. she will be back on the stand today. four of the witnesses who testified were younger than 18 at the time of floyd s death including the teenager who recorded that now infamous video. we ll bring you all the key moments and what to expect ahead. we re also following a developing story about republican congressman and trump supporter matt gaetz. investigators are looking at whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl. that may include sex trafficking charges. gates denies the claims and says it s part of an extortion scheme. omar jiminez has the story.
comments pointed at florida governor ron desantis? it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that s watching one florida man battle another. i m jonathan lemire on this thursday, january 13th. let s start with the news. president biden is keeping the pressure on senate democrats to pass voting rights or change the filibuster. today the president will attend a closed door democratic caucus lunch at the u.s. capitol to push senators into backing the two bills, but despite his vocal support, the president still has an uphill battle to get senators manchin and sinema on board. every democratic senator would need to vote in favor of a change for the filibuster. this comes just one day after majority leader chuck schumer outlined his plan to make sure republicans can t stop him from bringing up voting rights. schumer wrote a memo to colleagues detailing a workaround to get the senate bills to floor for debate even if a final vote re
but there is some good news breaking word on a new drug. today the fda gave emergency authorization to the first antiviral pill to treat coronavirus. we re going to hear from the cdc director and dr. anthony fauci on that and more at any minute. joining me now is monica alba at the white house, nbc steve paterson in los angeles, nbc courtney kube at the pentagon and also with us nbc senior medical correspondent dr. john torres. a lot of good news in terms of this pill. i m sure we ll hear about that at the covid briefing and concerns about us who cannot get vaccinated and by us i mean kids under 5 and also those immuno compromised. what are we expecting from the briefing on those two groups? exactly, katy. i think you ll hear at the top about the encouraging news that the covid team is going to highlight and at the same time they re going to remind everybody that the reason it s so important to get vaccinated and to get boosted is not to protect yourself. it s really, of co
confirmation from the kentucky governor confirming it was a deadly night of destruction active and deadly tornados. i fear there are more than 50 dead in kentucky. confirmation still coming in. we re going to lose over 50 people, probably closer to somewhere between 70 and 100. it s devastating. this shows you what we believe will be the longest tornado touchdown in terms of distance in our history. you all the way down to the bottom of the screen, and that s where it first touched down, and then it stayed on the ground, that entire line, causing significant devastation. this is incredibly rare to see, and it is one of the reasons that this was so devastating here in kentucky. so we just heard from the kentucky governor, they fear there could be as many as 70 to 100 dead from the night of tornados. we know there are about four tornadoes total, the one the governor just talked about, a 227-mile tornado touchdown. it stayed down. we know one of the areas hardest hit in kent