it is wednesday, october 12th. i m christine romans. president biden says he believes russian president vladimir putin is rational. mr. biden said putin s objectives invading ukraine were irrational and a serious misjudgment. do you think putin is a rational actor? i think he is a rational actor who s miscalculated significantly. so if he s not rational no, i didn t say he s not rational. you said the speech. i think his speech, his objectives. i think he thought they would welcome him with open arms. this is home for mother russia and i think he totally miscalculated. cnn s jasmine wright is live in washington. what else did the president have to say about putin and ukraine? reporter: obviously the president warned of catastrophic mistakes and miscalculations. president putin continues to make these nuclear threats. as the u.s. grows more concerned while looking at the escalations happening in ukraine caused by russia. he warns of armageddon. take a look at
California attorney general rob bonta announced 5 years of Court Oversight of the embattled Vallejo Police department. That agency has that amount of time to complete 45 different reforms to the satisfaction of independent evaluator evaluator rather, it is a continuation of a process. It started 3 years ago. Police departments interim police chief said today the department is critically understaffed, but is committed to making these reforms happened. The news comes just days after a Vallejo Police officer was caught on camera over the weekend slamming a woman to the pavement and then punching her in the face while she is on the ground. Police say the woman was suspected of theft and allegedly refused to yield during a traffic stop initiated by police with more insight on this and other legal matters youre already thinking i started. Here with the latest, your reaction to that Police Beating caught on camera. Im calling it a beating. Hes making an arrest. I would guess victim where the
Too early on this friday morning and all week long. Morning joe starts right now. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is friday, october 13th. We are following fastmoving developments out of israel. The countrys military is telling us more than a Million People telling more than a Million People to leave their homes this morning as it prepares a potential fullscale Ground Invasion in the wake of the Terror Attacks by hamas. Well have a live report for the very latest on the ground there. Plus, an update on the Biden Administrations efforts to prevent further escalation in the region with top officials on the ground this morning in israel and jordan. Also ahead, the republicanled chaos on capitol hill reached yet another level last night when the partys nominee for speaker just dropped out of the race. Well talk about how that impacts the country and world events. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, White House Bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemir
Defense forces have declared a state of alert for war following a surprise attack carried out by Palestinian Militants. The idf says at least 2200 rockets were fired towards israel, though hamas claimed at least 5000 rockets were fired, all landing in southern and central israel. Emily schrader says shes an israeli american and captured this video of the aftermath. So this is very close to where i live in tel aviv. You can see here where there was a direct hit. Images on social media show heavily armed Palestinian Militants on motorbikes and pickup trucks crossing into israeli settlements. This video appears to show militants taking hostages in israel near the border with gaza. Another video also appears to show a woman being taken hostage in gaza. Israeli forces launching massive retaliatory airstrikes. This building collapsing, flames then lighting up the night sky in gaza as those israeli strikes continued. Israelis prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli Defense forces will
And its coming with a lot of cold air. So weve got the clouds gathering already outside. Tonight, we saw that fog push in as we started to see that ramp up and head of the cold front that weve got that storm system thats now bearing down on the bay area. Some clouds already beginning to move in across the bay area. And much of Northern California starting to see a couple raindrops moving in as well. See that right there. Some showers already beginning to move in the far Northern California. You can see where that storm is coming from, right from the gulf of alaska. That means this is going to be a cold system dropping in the bay area, unusually cold for this time of year. And of course, this week weve been basking in temperatures in the 70s and the 80s. Its been beautiful all around the bay area tomorrow. Were going to be lucky to get out the 50s and a good part of the bay area, too. All right. Heres the latest on the forecast model. You can see that storm system rolling down about 7 o