support nearly a year after russians full scale invasion of ukraine. tennis top diplomat is expected in moscow, over fears that baiting might send lethal aid to support russia s war. then a massive 6.2 magnitude aftershock hits turkey, just two weeks after the devastating quake that left tens of thousands dead. so, it is just after eight in the morning, and in warsaw poland, where u.s. president, joe, biden is set to begin a two-day visit following a symbolic and highly secretive trip to ukraine. in the hours ahead, mr. biden will be meeting with the polish president in warsaw castle, as he marks nearly one year since russia s invasion of ukraine. and that falls a surprise trip to kyiv, on monday. a unprecedented presidential visit to an active war zone with no significant u.s. military presence. think about. that air raid sirens, in, fact could be near kyiv as he arrived. mr. biden walked alongside mr. zelenskyy, outside st. michael scott pedro and some winter sunshine was a
search teams desperately digging through the earthquake rubble and praying for miracles. plus former vice president subpoenaed, what could mike pence tell the special counsel about trump and january 6. and the fight over america s social safety net, both sides ignoring the cold hard truth, not touching it is not an option. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is early start. and we begin with the earthquake disaster in turkey and syria where they are clinging to hope that survivors can still be found alive but that hope fading with each passing hour. but there are miraculous stories. overnight two teenage sisters were pulled from the rubble. and the staggers death toll now approaching 22,000, the number of injured in these two countries near 80,000. and salma abdelaziz is live in istanbul. and the story of the sisters is a heartwarming story amid all the tragedy. and now a secondary tragedy, many are forced in to the freezing cold. what i
you from msnbc and los angeles mayor christmas eve to all o you celebrating, welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with th latest on the deadly winte storms moving across the u.s., leaving dangerously cold win chills across much of centra and eastern states at least 20 people have died i storm related incidents across the country in, erie count police say ambulances are stil unable to respond to emergency calls, in a timely manner. the problem is in the hardest hit areas, up to two thirds of emergency response vehicles are stuck fire, ambulance, police, i addition, a man in vehicles ar causing significant problems, have to note this, it is not something we are proud of, but in the worst affected areas, there is no emergency servic available. there s no guarantee that life-threatening emergency situation, that they will be able to respond immediately. we are dealing with situations all night, including a situation with a baby at a hom location which is on
we begin this hour with breaking news. right now, thousands of flights in the u.s. are delayed or cancelled after a major outage overnight to an faa computer system that provides safety updates for pilots normal flight operations are slowly resuming after the faa lifted a ground stop about an hour ago. the domino effect of the pause is being felt throughout the country. according to flight aware, more than 4,000 flights are delayed. over 800 are cancelled. the white house directed the department of transportation to investigate. the president himself saying he has spoken with the transportation success tear pete buttigieg about getting to the bottom of it. joining us now is ann tone ya hilton. what s the latest after the outage? reporter: there s a lot of travelers who have been checking their phones for hours. this is due to everything you just described. this is a critical function that gives an important realtime safety information. it alerts them to abnormal, unusual
delayed for hours and airlines are scrambling to get things back on track but that could take awhile. i have school tomorrow, so i have to change my flight to tomorrow morning and i have classes in the morning. we ve had a lot of airport issues this season. we have, yeah. over new year s we had issues as well. it hasn t been fun. just delays and a lot of canceled flights. it s just the latest disruption to travel after the difficult holiday season that affected millions of travelers. we re going to get an update from one of the nation s busiest airports. plus, what we re learning about how the biden administration is responding. also this morning, the new dangerous scenes unfolding out west as dangerous storms are walloping california. at least 17 people have died. millions of people remain under flood watches. hillsides and roads are giving away as folks across the state brace for more storms and rain. two feet of mud and water coming down the street and into