And flooded parts of the northeast. Listen to this reality. Many of those people who died drowned in their own homes, in their own cars. Right now the threat from rising rivers is expected to continue throughout the weekend. In new york, officials rescued more than 500 people from flooded buildings, streets, even subway stations. In pennsylvania, massachusetts and new jersey, at least eight tornadoes destroyed dozens of homes and buildings, while the northeast assesses the damage. More than 800,000 still remain without power in louisiana. Of course, where ida first hit several days ago. Millions are at risk as the sweltering heat stretches into the weekend. Today president biden is headed to louisiana to tour the damage there. Before that, he is expected to speak about the latest jobs report which was a huge disappointment. Frankly, a huge surprise. The economy added just 235,000 jobs. That missed projections by half a million. Let s begin with christine romans. Christine, projection e
Manifesting in surging unrelenting crime. Malaise, hopelessness, and even anger. Tonight we expose the growing rot inside the fbi. Remember the fbi? remember that once esteemed law enforcement institution that tried to tell us that justice was blind and that justice would seek the truth and treat everyone equal under the law? yeah, whatever version of that fbi that may have once existed it exists no more. And has been replaced with a cabal of entrenched washington operatives committed to carrying out the bidding of democrats, the deep state, and committed to demolishing anyone who gets in their way, not that i have an opinion, right? as we now have growing evidence that is the fbi itself who are inciting that which they claim to be preventing. For example, we recently learned that of the 14 beam indicted in the plot to kidnap michigan governor gretchen whitmer, at least five were working as informs for the fbi. Was this more sting or setup. And, of course, at the explosive revelations
And touchdown. Welcome back new shepard s first human crew. Welcome to earth. Congratulations to all of you. You ve watched all of it unfold live here. Billionaire jeff bezos and his crew, check it out, popping open the hatch of the rocket and popping some champagne, too, first unpiloted suborbital flight all civilian crew landing successfully on the 52nd anniversary of the lunar landing. We re gearing up to hear from the crew members during a news conference and that includes 82yearold wally funk, involved in the mercury program who became the oldest person to go into space. Look at her popping out of the capsule there, about seven hours away from the launch site in south lake, texas. A wally watch party her family and friends cheering her on as she made this historic flight, tears, emotion, joy, all of it. We are here with you for the next couple of hours for a special coverage. I bring in nbc s morgan chesky and van horn in texas and all astronaut panel of experts with us, mike mass
classrooms. many are questioning why. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead and that major announcement by president biden about who will succeed supreme court justice stephen breyer when breyer retires at the end of this term. the person i will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity. that person will be the first black woman ever nominated to the united states supreme court. now, biden says he has not yet made a decision on just who that person will be, but he is going to invite senators from both parties to hear their opinions, their points of view. biden says he expects to choose a nominee before the end of february. as cnn s m.j. lee reports, some have been lobbying the president on just who that nominee should be since back in february, 2021. this is sort of a bittersweet day for me. justice breyer and i go back a long way. reporter: a momentous day for the joe bide
wheels up happened last hour. she is on her way to honduras, as we speak. this is the second or third trip she s taken to address the root causes of the immigration crisis. the other reason she s going to honduras is to support the president-elect at her inauguration ceremony, interesting she is a socialist in the country. honduras is typically conservative, the fact she was elect side interesting. the swearing-in ceremony will happen at 11 a.m. she will hold a meeting with the president, president castro and heading back to dc at 5:20. in the three-hour time span, they will address the root causes of illegal immigration. todd: have you seen an inauguration ceremony? not a lot of work or root cause discussion done there. correct me if i m wrong, carley, another place where border issues are top of mind for the administration, it is called ukraine. they are putting time and energy into the border situation at ukraine, yet kamala harris gets in a plane, flies over our borde