truck. we re also getting details of a second plane over the netherlands. two were injured by debris after an engine caught fire on a boeing 747 cargo plane. that plane went slamming into cars and houses. meanwhile, back stateside in texas, more than half of the state, more than 14 million are still without clean water after that brutal massive winter storm knocked out power and burst pipes across the state. and as the u.s. nears a devastating marker in the coronavirus battle, nearly 500,000 deaths, dr. fauci warning today americans are not out of the woods. it s something that is historic. it s nothing like we ve ever been through in the last 102 years since the 1918 influenza pandemic. it really is a terrible situation that we ve been through and that we re still going through. that s the reason why we keep insisting to continue with the public health measures, because we don t want this to get much worse than it already is. we ll get back to coronavirus. i want to be
it s terrifying to think about people dying from this condition and we don t want to be one of those statistics. and check out your screen and some of the pictures that have gone viral through this whole thing. icicles forming on a ceiling fan. you can see a pot of water with frozen snow in it. they re actually boiling the snow, because they have no running water in their house. we have the politics of this, too, governor greg abbott walking back comments, blaming 14 energy for the crisis and you want to hear what the former governor said on this, too, with more on the way with the mid-atlantic and east, sleet and freezing raynhamering more than 100 million people. i m hallie jackson in washington along with our team on this thursday morning. morgan chesky is in dallas. we will be joined in a moment by a couple live guests from texas as well, morgan, yes, we are seeing improvement in the number of power outages? more people are getting their power back. more are in for a
agents provocateurs, fake trump protesters and a disappointed bunch of attackers. how a gun fetish is a statement of movements. plus the ongoing nightmare in texas and what we re now learning about tiger woods after a horrible car accident this morning. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. for most of today as you might imagine, we have been following one breaking news story, the serious car accident involving golf legend tiger woods. according to officials, woods was involved in a single vehicle rollover collision around 7:00 a.m. pacific time. he was extracted from the wreck and taken to the hospital. at a press conference a little while ago, the l.a. county sheriff said woods was conscious when rescue workers arrived and there is no evidence of impairment at this time. he said woods may have been going at a greater speed than normal. there were no skid marks. the vehicle traveled several hundred feet, making contact with the center
multiple leg injuries and was undergoing surgery. we re awaiting word on exactly how this happened. obviously we ll keep you updated with any new details. the other major story today comes to us from washington, d.c., where 48 days since the insurrectionist attack on the capitol that led to the death of three police officers we had our first public accounting of the security preparations and failures of one of the most significant historical dates in modern american history. until this point, we had heard nothing from the people responsible for defending the capitol on that day. but today the acting chief of the metropolitan police department, former u.s. capitol police chief of the former senate sergeant-at-arms and the former house sergeant at arms all testified before a joint senate committee hearing. those last three men all resigned following the attack. coming into this hearing we did not have consensus on the timeline of events or during the attack and we do not have o
biden administration is trying to focus on the jobs report and shut down accusations if the drugs belonged to anyone in the first family. lucas tomlinson kicks things off for us right now. what s the latest? good afternoon, griff and aishah. white house officials say they hope to have this investigation wrapped up as early as early next week. we re not sure if we re going to hear about a list of suspects or somebody being arrested or charged, however. now, jean-pierre has been asked about the caper and this pointed question. i m asking again, can we say once and for all, whether or not the cocaine belonged to the biden family. i was very clear when talking about this over and over again as i was being asked the question, as you know, and the media outlets reported this, the biden family was not here. so to ask that question is actually incredibly irresponsible and i ll just leave it there. the biden family including first son hunter, who admitted to using crack every