ron desantis has his eyes on the white house. new exclusive reporting from nbc news that the florida governor is set to jump into the 2024 race as early as next month in just a few weeks, but he may have other things on his mind right now as the war of words between him and disney has turned into a legal showdown disney just filing a lawsuit alleging an orchestrated campaign to punish the media giant and desantis firing back overnight. i don t think the suit has merit. i think it s political i think they filed, you know, in tallahassee for a reason because they re trying to generate, you know, some district court decision, but we re very confident on the law plus, in a new in just a few hours, the airman accused of leaking classified documents is due back in court. this as new overnight filing alleges jack teixeira kept an arsenal of weapons in his house and talked about carrying out a mass shooting. and later montana republicans voting to ban the state s first transg
Expect with this joint session and southbo korea s president expected to address congress coming up. reporter: that s right, ana, this is one of the rare moments of bipartisanship on capitol hill where you see both republicans and democrats coming together in support of south korea, one of the united states most important allies in the east, and you know, the south korean president expected to talk at length about the special relationship that the united states has with south korea during an important time, especially with the situation happening with china and taiwan. also the war in ukraine, all of those geopolitical scenarios weigh heavily on the relationship between south korea and the united states, and this will be a demonstration that the u.s., both republicans and democrats support the south koreans, ana. the first south korean president to visit america with a state visit in over a decade ryan nobles thank you.
Me your truck, he would have gave it to him. he would have done it yes yes. but he was going to talk to him first, try and save him. because that s the person he was? that s the person he was. reporter: and his friend told me that that s how he wants him to be remembered, how he should be remembered, as somebody who really in his final moments was trying to he know somebody else. ana. wow what a horrific situation. blayne alexander, thank you for that reporting. and we have some breaking news this morning. we have just confirmed that jerry springer, long-time host of that popular daytime talk show, the jerry springer show has tidied a spokesperson says he has died this morning in chicago. no word yet on the cause of death. he was 79 years old. up next on ana cabrera
Escape, but basically to look for contraband and possibly see if there was contraband that was brought in by some of the officers here at this detention center you know, he said that there have been a number of problems at this jail in recent years we ve seen other escapes within the past year or so, and he says that it s a number of different issues coming from infrastructure as well as staffing issues, ana blayne, can you tell us more about this pastor who was killed yes, absolutely a good samaritan, that s how police are describing him. somebody who saw one of the suspects run off the road in a stolen motorcycle, police say stopped to help. instead that suspect shot and killed him and stole his truck he is a beloved pastor here in mississippi, somebody who leaves behind a wife and a daughter here s what a very close friend of his told me, take a look. i mean, even if the man would have asked or told him to give
He killed a pastor while he was on the run nbc news correspondent blayne alexander joins us from mississippi, from jackson, mississippi, blayne, what s the latest now on the search for these other inmates? well, ana, this search is intensifying it is spanning more than 400 miles, and it is now well into day five this is something where the sheriff tells me these three men are still on the run they are considered dangerous. they ve got agencies from a number of different places really trying to find these men. now, as for where they could be, one was spotted just outside of houston on sunday. that s also where a wrecked vehicle was spotted as well. one that officials believe they stole to get away, but other than that, at least officials have not publicly said they have any indication of where they might be now, just here outside of the detention center earlier this morning, we saw a number of different law enforcement officials from different agencies they came in and did what the sh