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a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. here s what s happening just a minute past 2:00 p.m. eastern, 11:00 a.m. pacific. we have more breaking news related to that hostage standoff at a synagogue in texas. the fbi has released the identity. president biden is giving some new details after talking with attorney general merrick garland. and we are also hearing from the suspect s family. let s go to msnbc s sam brock. i think it was his brother that spoke, sam? reporter: that s correct, alex. the suspect s owner brother expressing heartache and also suggesting that mental health issues may have played a role here. now, there s been a lot of developments over the course of the afternoon, alex, including, as you said, the revealing of the identity of the suspect. that came from the fbi s dallas office here just within the last couple of hours. his name is malik faisal akram, 44 years old, a b ....
burnett. out front tonight, biden s pivot. the president trying to regain his footing as his agenda son the republican rocks. today, finally promotes his $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill win. these investments are consequential. we are just getting started. we are building back better than ever before. you know, it is amazing, right, trump couldn t get infrastructure through. obama couldn t get it through. perhaps, now he is realizing he should have been pounding the table on that win loudly and a long time ago because now, he is in the midst of what one famous children book s writer called a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad time. all week, the white house has watched as headlines detailed a setback, misstep, a miscalculation. covid tests and spread. biden s domestic agen that. foreign policy crises. crises, plural. and it is call all coming to a head on what is essentially the one-year mark of biden s term. his push to change senate rules so he can ....
wilmington where president biden arrived last night from washington, and even his strongest supporters admit this week has been a disaster. there s a lot of talk about disappointments of things we haven t gotten done. we re going to get a lot of them done, i might add. reporter: this week u.s. inflation hitting its fastest pace in nearyly four decades nearly four decades. an almost 50% increase in gas prices as americans across the country have noticed at the pump and a 12.5% jump in grocery store prices including meat, fish and eggs. at the white house, jen psaki claims nobody saw this coming. we are getting out of a pandemic, and the economic downturn tied to it at a rate that is faster than anyone would have thought would have happened. reporter: talks with russia failing to stop tensions at the border with ukraine, the situation now even more tense. a speech in georgia failed to get voting rights pass ld, biden comparing his opponents to segregationists. the ....
jeff: while it s a much different situation of the pacific nation in tonga, here in california near the coast and other states like hawaii and alaska were under tsunami advisory from the undersea volcano, we will 1 to 2-foot waves. also worth noting likely dangerous rift current. it s a terrible day to be in the water whether that s swimming, surfing or boating. this how it all started massive undersea volcano erupting near tonga and that sent large waves crashing undershore. tonga s king was reportedly evacuated after tsunami funded the capital. beyond tonga, parts of japan are under tsunami warnings and advisories have been issued for parts of new zealand. here advisories on the west coast, alaska, hawaii. so far no damage. anita: tsunami is in effect across the west coast as you heard jeff say, alaska and hawaii after underwater volcano erupted near the pacific nation tonga, meteorologist adam klotz has the latest in the weather center. adam, big activity this weeken ....
away from shore, and make their way inland or uphill. wow. joining us with more on this tsunami advisory, guad vin nay gas. what s the latest on this? the national tsunami warning center issued this alert after that volcano erupted in the south pacific as you mentioned near the island of tonga. some residents saying they could hear the violent eruption into the air. you showed the images. you can see it from the satellites. there s also been reports that the ash was sent into the air. the capital there was also hit by a tsunami with these waves that flooded the city. some of the residents report had to head to higher grounds, there are no immediate reports of injuries or damage. there s all the videos that were posted to social media that show the water going around the homes and buildings in tonga. to the current advisory we have now in hawaii, the west coast of the united states and canada s british columbia. the beach cities are expecting one to two-foot waves arri ....