the weekend trail derailment poiseoned an entire town in ohio, the transportation secretary the man in charge of preventing train derailments held a press conference attacking white construction workers because they re the problem. it s 1952. our 80 year old president, meanwhile, 80 years old, he seems convinced it s 1915 and we re all living in rural alabama burning crosses in the front yard of terrified share croppers to amuse ourselves. we don t have tv. biden gave a speech the other day, in 2023, to denounce lynching. as if lynching is still happening in the united states. this all seems a little delusional. so it was with genuine relief that we saw today one of biden s to be cabinet officials janet yellen, sign off her twitter account leave washington and meet with actual flesh and blood human beings who are suffering. and not only did she meet with them, janet yellen brought with her a check for a billion dollars. and we were happy to see that, finally someone from t
questioning today in the aleck murdaugh double murder trial, and closing arguments could come within days. we re learning more about what the feds are now doing to help the people of east palestine, ohio, the scene of that toxic train derailment, and now health concerns are spreading beyond ohio. we ll explain. plus, the department of energy says it found the likely source of the covid outbreak, but the intelligence community still doesn t agree about the origins of covid. and new reporting this morning on how child migrants are being dangerously exploited working brutal jobs in factories that made products we use every day. we ll talk to the journalist behind this new york times investigation. this morning 56 million americans remain under winter storm alerts as huge parts of the country are recovering from a weekend of extreme weather. right now tens of thousands are still in the dark after a string of storms caused destruction in the heartland with nine tornad
against sending weapons to russia for the war in ukraine. plus, a newly disputed intelligence report. did a lab accident in wuhan cause the covid pandemic? as house republicans are about to launch a new prime time investigation. and toxic fears. safety concerns spreading far beyond ohio after contaminated waste from that train derailment was shipped out of state without warning. the environmental activist erin brockovich is back with us today. plus, curveball. major league baseball s new rules already changing the outcome of the game. the mlb s dramatic changes to america s favorite past time. good day. tensions with china escalating a beijing accusing the u.s. of quote, fanning the flames in ukraine. china saying the u.s. is using a double standard. arming ukraine while warning china against doing the same. secretary of state blinken and vice president harris had told the world about the possible change in china s policy not to provide lethal aid to putin. national sec
this is america s newsroom. terrible situation there. she was not in san francisco at the time so she got a call and it happened sometime in the middle of the night. we ll get more details, we believe, this morning and we ll bring them to you. bill: if i m correct, their home is in pacific heights in san francisco. high living as you know and a home in napa valley. this happened in san francisco according to the reporting. you think about crime and how we ve been talking about it for two years. lee zeldin is the republican candidate in new york. a month ago he had a random shooting in his front yard where his two daughters were home. point being depending the circumstances of this story, crime hits everybody. dana: there was also the home intrusion and robbery of the democratic candidate in los angeles running for mayor, her name is escaping me at the moment but she also remember had the gun stolen from her home. still don t have information about how that happened. b