Chris jansing reports. At this hour, joe biden said watch me, and they did. Can the president keep the momentum going after a inyourface State Of The Union. Georgia split screen, biden and trump preparing for dueling events in one of the years critical swing states. What were hearing from voters there. Plus, even as hes facing trial for keeping classified documents in his bathroom and other places, donald trump could soon be getting intelligence briefings. Well tell you why. And the Ticking Clock on tiktok. Angry users Flood Congress with calls as a bill that could ban the app gains steam. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. Well, we see a split screen in georgia tomorrow, and President Biden and former President Trump hold dueling campaign events. Nbcs Blayne Alexander is in gwinett county, one of seven counties our nbc News Politics team believe will help determine the election in novel. What are you hearing from the voters youre talking to today . Re
i love the rain, i don t like the flooding. i showed my roommate and she s like what about your car? and you could see from the window, we saw my car get totalled. we are getting a little worried now about the food in the refrigerator. there s no heat, and of course no lights, and so we are not really sure what we are going to do for dinner. sandra: a live look, los angeles, storm damage from a massive system hitting the west coast, life-threatening flooding in parts of california. kick off a new week, john. john: good to be with you, and albert was long when he sang it never rains in california. i m john roberts in washington. this is america reports . official in the golden state warn the storm is far from over as it makes its way now toward san diego. they are pleading with californians to stay off the roads amid record rainfall. police in northern california say one man is dead after a tree fell on him. sandra: and concern growing that mudslides and downe
at the southern border as cbp sources tell fox news that december saw the highest monthly total of migrant encounters ever. this comes as another caravan of thousands of migrants is heading towards the united states just three days out from a new year. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m molly line. mike. mike: good morning. i m mike emanuel. bill and dana are off. new numbers from the southern border reveal agents stopped more than 276,000 migrants in december smashing the previous record of nearly 270,000 set back in september. that figure does not include the migrants who weren t caught known as gotaways. all of this as sanctuary cities say they are buckling under the surge of migrants arriving from the border. molly: we have fox team coverage on this. garrett tenney is live in chicago with the latest on the migrant crisis there. go to william la jeunesse on the record breaking numbers. to put that in perspective the population of pittsburgh is 300,000
coast of myrtle beach, south carolina, collecting the wreckage of the downed balloon. republicans are condemning president biden for failing to take action on the balloon sooner. let s get the latest on the balloon and today s recovery efforts, zachary cohen is here. zachary, what more are we learning about this balloon and, i guess, at some point, they need to pull it up out of the ocean and start examining it. i think at this early stage, u.s. officials are not buying the chinese government s explanation that it was a civilian aircraft. they have strongly indicated, defense officials and administration officials, strongly told us that this was used for spying and they believe it was used to try to collect data about sensitive u.s. military sites across the country. now, that raises an being question, though, and one that the biden administration is going to have to grapple with in the next few days. they know that was the intent of this balloon, why did they not shoot it
he shared the document on thug central. alexandria hoff has the latest. good morning. alexandria: classified national defense information at 21 years old, which is striking. he was part of the 102nd intelligence in cape cod. teixeira was placed into custody without incidents. the justice department arrested jack teixeira into alleged unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of national defense information. it is important to understand we do have stringent guidelines in place for safeguarding sensitive information, this was a deliberate criminal act. alexandria: plans were accelerated as he was described as the leader of a gaming group on the platform discord, he shared information with fellow users and shared more widely. it was maps and positions of ukrainian troops and china s role in aiding russia. including intelligence on adversaries and allies and top secret american and nato planning. this sounded alarm bells for the pentagon as the source was being tr