following the headlines. natasha, first to you. this is a change from the white house. the white house is pushing back very hard on what it says is inf en inflammatory behavior by china. they said please don t up the ante here. now they re making public the fact that they have in fact summoned the chinese ambassador to the u.s. to the white house to essentially give him a dressing down about china s provocations against taiwan in recent days. they had said numerous times that they expected that china would have some kind of reaction to this visit by pelosi, which was extremely offensive to the chinese. but the white house has been, you know, kind of willing to respond in a meaningful way now to the chinese activities that we have seen around taiwan, which are really escalatory and are the most that we have seen in decades. so what the white house is saying now is that they re reiterating to the chinese that this is unacceptable, that the u.s. position on taiwan has not chan
come back, what to make of the reception donald trump got in south carolina yesterday. a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. as one pm on the east coast, a pm in the middle east, and we begin with the breaking news, the third group of israeli hostages transferred now by hamas in exchange for palestinian prisoners. a list provided of names by the israeli government, 14 israeli and three for national abductees released today. it includes nine cldn. four-year-old american israeli, abigail moore adana is back in israel. president biden is celebrating her release in the last hour. she s been through a terrible trauma. her mom was killed in front of her, when her kibbutz was attacked by hamas terrorists on october the 7th. abigail mor edan, who then was gunned down as well while using his body to shield a little abigail. the four-day truce, which ends tomorrow, calls for the release of at least 5
Start your day with the latest weather news – Energy from a storm system that pounded California over the weekend is moving into the central U.S. Dangerous thunderstorms are expected to develop Monday.
officials, it s time to move from preparation to hunkering down and making your way off the roads. keep following that plow. tom, what are we seeing at the airports across the country? a lot of cancellations? absolutely. if shaq could pick up a burger and fries, that would be nice. we are looking at a total, nationwide, we have about 4,500 delays, at airports nationwide, and 1,725 cancellations. that will continue to grow as the weather moves in. let me give you a sense of which airports are getting hit the hardest. no surprise, chicago, ord, in denver, kansas city. des moines, st. louis. you see the theme here.
all of this work to come back from those floods that happened eight days ago. they re attempting to come back, attempting to dig out and clean up. and in addition to the flooding potential, there is also rain in the forecast for the next several days. this will slow down some of that recovery. some of that cleanup. now, jim, we are expecting an update from kentucky s governor in about an hour and a half, two hours. right now the death toll stands still at 37. he has cautioned that he does expect that to go up. we should get some updates on the situation here on the ground from him then. and potentially what to expect as this weather moves in. jim? dianne gallagher, thanks so much. thanks so much to all of you for joining us today. hope you have a great weekend. i m jim sciutto. at this hour starts right after a short break.