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it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that notes that the former president has never been known for his policy chops. i m jonathan lemire on this tuesday, january 18th. we ll start with the news. the senate will begin voting onnen a pair of voting rights bills today despite strong backing from the white house that will likely fail to pass. the senate will convene this afternoon to begin debating but is not expected to hold a vote today. after debate on the bills begin, senate majority leader chuck schumer will move to end debate. that requires a filibuster-proof 60-vote margin, and that s when republicans are expected to block the bills. senator schumer said he ll put forward a bill on the filibuster change after it s used to block the voting rights legislation. the only path forward on this important issue is to change the rules to bypass the filibuster, and right now there are two democrats who don t want to make ....
cutting covid quarantine from 10 to 5 days may be premature, we begin this hour with the winter storm plowing across the eastern united states. right now more than 80 million people on winter weather alerts across the east, the storl will exit the south tonight and march across new england across the southeast some 180,000 homes and businesses without power, trees brought down, heavy winds and the rate of freezing rain and snow as well, and across the country, traffic snarled on this day before the martin luther king jr. holiday, flights ka canceled today and many delays. not used to snow, let alone this much, right? reporter: that s right, and underneath all this snow is a lot of ice, the word of the day has been travel. air travel, with more than 90% of the flights out of the charlotte s airport cancelled but if you look at the live drone footage showing the interstates around charlotte, it s the roads, all across the state at this point, more than 200 accidents thr ....
to a coup in a year later. our democracy remains at risk. today, that risk isn t from a group of men making their way up the capitol steps but from an coordinated nationwide attack. tomorrow, the u.s. will mark martin luther king junior day. every year, we celebrate the life, work, and legacy of the civil rights giant. but tonight, on the heels of yet another voting right failure, i want to play these words from king in 1963. i think the tragedy is that we have a congress with a senate that has a minority of missed guided senators that will use the filibuster to keep the majority of people from even voting. they want the majority senate for. and sooner they would want the majority of people to vote because they know they do not represent the majority of the american people. now that tragedy king spoke about almost six decades ago is still playing our country today almost down to a word. this weekend, kings family rallied in arizona, pushed for voting rights, home st ....
in the course of a lifetime, 350 tons of air pass through our lungs. we also inhale all the pollutants contained in that air outside. it s the emissions from industry and traffic that affect our health. but in the home, other dangers lurk traditional cooking with wood or cow dung poisoned the air as much as the smoke of 400 cigarettes. the world health organization says 3 point. 8000000 people die every year from the effects of using those cooking fuels. but the air in modern houses isn t clean either toxic fumes that harm. our lungs may be released by insulation floorboards, furniture, or cleaning agents. the groove and family recently bought new furniture and has had problems with it ever since tish the table was extremely smelly. even the box mount horrible from mortal. oh is that the guns the hall apartments mad if he left the door open? 2 of us. crystal, man, my furniture still stinks that us cannot sima. and of course, since its furniture in the kids room, i wonde ....
hostage situation overnight after four people were rescued. the suspect is dead. we will break down his possible motives. a massive winter storm system barrels across the country. some governors in the south declaring a state of emergency ahead of a potentially crippling ice event. and then joe rogen debunks himself by accident on his own show, as over 200 doctors is concerned he s spreading disinformation. we re going to start this morning with breaking news out of australia. after a legal back and forth stretching almost two weeks, tennis star, djokovic has been deported and we saw these pictures of him getting ready to get on a plane for dubai. australian officials put him in detention in a hotel. his team tried to claim a medical exemption because he just recovered from covid, but his visa was canceled a second time by an australian immigration official and he now lost his last appeal. molly, good morning. reporter: look, you just shared those pictures of novak ....