russia s invasion of ukraine. we ll ask the head of the foreign relations committee, senator bob menendez, about what s next for the u.s. response to that crisis. in new york, the suspected gunman in a racist shooting in a buffalo store is in court this morning as they launch a probe into the suspect s social media footprint. we begin with the dire situation facing families across the country, the baby formula shortage. the president taking dramatic emergency steps, invoking the defense production act to ramp up manufacturing as two bills, one sending $28 million to the fda and the other expanding formula access for low income families make their way through the senate. nbc news is the first to obtain a letter from two senate democrats urging president biden to, quote, immediately assign a coordinator to work with formula manufacturers. meanwhile, any moment now, the fda commissioner is going to be testifying before a house committee where he s expected to be asked about ho
ahead of one of the busiest travel seasons of the year. national average price for gallon of gas is $4.57 now. that s up 5 cents from yesterday. 17 cents from one week ago. and the national shortage of baby formula causing a pair of hospitalizations in this country. the biden administration is defending its policies as criticisms pile up and they re promising more action. in fact, we are getting breaking news at this hour that the administration is going to deploy the defense production act on baby formula. just getting word about this at this hour. correspondent mark meredith is at the white house on the north lawn with the very latest. good evening, mark. bret, good evening to you. this is the breaking news at this hour that biden is invoking the defense production act which will allow these ingredients that go into baby formula to be prioritized to formula makers the idea is to make sure that the factories that produce baby formula have what they need as quickly as possi
his wife giselle gave an update on his condition earlier on morning joe. he feels great. he wants to get out. they hold him longer but the surgery went great and on the way to a full recovery. democratic pennsylvania attorney general shapiro will go head to head with doug mastriano this november. in north carolina, incumbent republican congressman hawthorne lost his bid conceding to chuck head wards. let s start with nbc news national political correspondent steve kornacki at the big board. good morning. where do things stand for the senate in pennsylvania? yeah. good morning, jose. what a close one we got here. mehmet oz, that is his statewide lead is .2%. just over 2,500 votes. to keep in mind, number one, it appears that the biggest source of outstanding votes in allegheny county where pittsburgh is. it s also david mrk cormick s home county and we think 6,000 or 7,000 uncounted votes. election day votes that have not been tallied so far. in allegheny county on the
authorities believe carrying out reconnaisance just one day before the massacre. the suspect taken into custody on saturday. police say he was heavily armed wearing tactical gear with a camera, livestreaming his rampage. authorities say they have uncovered efvidence that this supermarket was not his only target, and if he had not been stopped, the death toll would have been much higher. he got out of here to continue his rampage and continue shooting people. he had even spoken about possibly going to another store. the scene of this massacre has the highest black populated zip code in new york. police say he posted a manifesto online, describing himself as a white supremacist. we have omar jimenez. reporter: details show the suspect planned the attack months in advance. investigators say he is believed to have scoured the store in early march to prepare for his gunfire. because of the body armor he had on, he could have easily retreated back into that store where ther
spiking and foreigners researching in to a wide open border even before the floodgates open with title 42 goes away next week. coming up senator bill hagerty on the crisis created that policy. what gets done and the senate and the final stretch to the memorial day recess. and theatrics in washington another dirty trick from the democrats as an animated joe biden tries to turn make america great again into a dirty word. let me tell you about this ultra agenda the ultra mega agenda under my predecessor the great maca king per. of present is a good time doing people have asked her to come with ultra mega? what he called president trump? big mag? the king of mega? over the long lines are seen in a television, people lining up all kinds of vehicles. just to get a box of food. how quickly we forget people are hurting. and what they did the mega crowd want to do? forget it, forget it. congressman and jim and jordan separates the fake and the fraud in zero center what matters to