address, days after russia s invasion of ukraine. tonight, his speech is going to be heavily focused on reminding americans what his administration has accomplished over the past two years. it comes as ukraine is now preparing for a major russian offensive. we ll have more on the mobilization of troops in putin s army. meanwhile, we are learning more about the chinese surveillance balloon that was shot down, and other incidents that went undetected by u.s. force. also ahead, the latest from turkey and syria where the death toll is rising following a massive earthquake, and rescuers continue to hold out hope of finding survivors. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, february 7th. the death toll from the earthquake in turkey and syria passed 5,000 and continues to climb. a 7.8 magnitude quake hit the region early yesterday along with multiple aftershocks, including a 7.5 magnitude one that struck just hours later. tens of thousands have been injured.
violence. let s go straight to more, tracking so much of what has done said on line. death threats have been out there, some general like social media posts urging people to kill all feds. but there have also been very specific threats, in particular aimed at the attorney general, merrick garland, and the florida judge who signed and then unsealed that search warrant. how concerned are federal officials about about this going from online threats to actual violence? reporter: yeah. well, sources told our colleague josh campbell that the fbi s investigating an unprecedented number of threats against its personnel including some of its agents. and you can really see that playing out on line since right after the news of that search of mar-a-lago broke on monday. i want to show you some of the kind of messages that have been posted. you mentioned there s one called kill awed feds, another lock and load, another person writes, i m going to say it, garland needs to be assassina
And coming up on bbc news arsenal drop points in the race for the Premier League title after losing to aston villa. They are now two points behind manchester city. Good afternoon. Israels war cabinet is meeting now to discuss options for retaliation against iran after its drone and Missile Attacks on saturday night. Israel says 99 of the iranian weapons were safely intercepted. One senior israeli minister says his country will exact a price on iran for the attack when the timing is right. But World Leaders are urging israel to show restraint. From jerusalem, heres Yolande Knell. Israels air defences called to action. In the early hours on sunday, fighterjets battled waves of iranian drones and missiles, fired at israeli targets. It marked the first time iran has attacked israel directly from its own soil. Explosions could be heard widely, Including Injerusalem and tel aviv. Israel says that 99 of more than 300 drones and missiles launched by iran were intercepted. Some of those that go
president obama being heckled. the key for president biden, and he knows this, is that part of the theme of his speech tonight is going to be about him being basically the adult in the room. that s what one of my former colleagues described to me. if he is the adult in the room and is contrasting that with the chaos in the room, these people heckling him in the house chamber, at him having a calm response, is exactly confirming the point he is making in the speech. yes, you have to prepare for it and think about it. i certainly expect they re doing that. john, interesting for the first time visual tonight, speaker mccarthy standing behind president biden as he delivers the address. mccarthy had been a critic of president biden but, in his own way, participated in the attempted coup to prevent biden from sitting in that office. mccarthy yesterday said he wouldn t tear up the speech. he pledged to be on good behavior. we ll see. i don t think we can say the same for everyone in his c
right way? yeah, great point. we would really encourage parents to find out from the schools what s the protocol that they re using, are they using a standard lockdown protocol, or are they using more of an options-based approach where they may be teaching kids to run and and hide and fight. we d also want to see are the schools announcing this as a drill. we ve heard of situations where it s gone wrong, where people don t understand that it s a drill. so it should be clearly announced. as jack esaid, we want to make sure that they receive training in what to do and that the adults are modeling a calm response. finally, there should be debriefing or discussion after the drill takes place to give an opportunity for the students to ask questions that they have and for teachers and staff to recognize if there s anybody