shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. look at that, two dogs reportedly hurt after an animal shelter was destroyed. fox weather meteorologist is here with the fox weather forecast. britta, january has been active. it has been, every week we ve had a severe weather outbreak. this was close to downtown houston, where i used to live, so it is heartbreaking to see the damage, especially to the animal shelters. waking up this morning, threat of severe weather, massive storm system. look at evolution of thunderstorms ripping through the south and we have a snow component. the threat is presents, we have a tornado watch until 11:00 in the morning that stretches into the florida panhandle. a lot of the reason of why we have seen so much severe weather, todd and carley, is the warm weather. the map hasn t looked like january, we have had record-breaking highs, that is an important part of this ingredient list, that much heat gives way to powerful storms. that is what we had yesterday and
we are coming on the air with several developing stories, the big international pledge secret meeting on secret doc with a little bit of committee chaos, let s start with what is happening right now with the u.s. and allies getting ready to add tanks to the battlefield in ukraine. the white house just now outlining when those tanks will be on the ground, part of a bigger international push to try to get other countries to do the same. our teemg is standing by with the latest. also this hour, senators getting briefed by the head of the u.s. intelligence and what is at the top of the agenda, a whole bunch of classified documents ending up in places where they shouldn t be. we will have the team on what to expect. plus the committee, democrats blasting speaker kevin mccarthy s move to boot top democrats from the in tem committee and his expected push to try to block one member of congress from foreign affairs. we will get into it all later in the show. i m hallie jackson in
we should point out nbc news has not yet verified that reporting half what we do have this afternoon is new reaction from a spokesperson for mark meadows. joining me now, luke broad january broadwater, matt miller, and joyce vance. luke, who exactly could be picking up these legal fees for at least it seems a dozen witnesses testifying before the january 6th committee? well, there are two funds that are funding witnesses lawyers. one is the save america pac which is run directly connected to donald trump. the other is the cpac first amendment fund which its director says consults with donald trump and donald trump s allies directly to decide which witnesses it will cover. so these are they offer both free legal advice to the witnesses and then also will pay for their attorneys fees if needed. this came to a head this week when cassidy hutchinson said she had to switch attorneys because she felt only with a new attorney could she be more forthright and testify publicly a
recession? because that is not the technical definition. in terms of the technical definition, it is not a recession? a much broader spectrum of data points? that is not the actual data of said mike recession but actual retraction over a few months. i would reject to the idea of two quarters of negative gdp growth is a technical recession is wrong. carley: griff jenkins is live with the technical definition and much, much more, good morning. good morning carley and todd appear the definition of braising is what americans are doing for potential bad news this week that we are in a recession after two consecutive quarters of dropping gdp numbers. but president biden said he doesn t see that happening. we are not going to be in a recession, in my view. the employment rate is still one of the lowest we have had in the history with 3.6%. my hope is that we go from this rapid growth to steady growth. and we will see some of it coming down, but i don t think we will see