President biden and the first lady will travel to the maui disaster zone monday, as the death toll passed 100 people. Recovery crews bringing in more highly trained dogs to help in the search for victims. How daunting is it . Its the worst thing i have ever seen. This is apocalyptic. Its terrible. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell In Washington. We are on defendant watch today as president s trump and his 18 codefendants in georgia have nine days to surrender to the Fulton County jail for fingerprinting and processing in advance of a separate arraignment to be scheduled before a judge. They will enter their pleas. One of the most prominent of the former officials charged, mark meadows, has petitioned to have his case moved to Federal Court where d. A. Willis would still try the case, but meadows would more likely have a much more favorable jury pool from all of Northern Georgia, not just Fulton County, and there would not be cameras in the courtroom. Meadows argument expected to b
teachers at the end of may. and new details about what the 77 minutes of school hallway surveillance video shows. plus, a new covid variant spreading at an alarming rate throughout the united states, and this one is not deterred even by recent infections. so how do the vaccines hold up against it? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and members of the january 6th select house committee now publicly suggesting they will use tomorrow s hearing to draw direct links between the extremist groups who stormed the u.s. capitol and have been charged with seditious conspiracy and people inside donald trump s orbit. we are going to be connecting the dots during these hearings between these groups and those who were trying in government circles to overturn the election. what we heard cassidy hutchinson testify along the lines of trump telling mark meadows, the chief of staff, to talk to roger stone and others, mike flynn, and stone and flynn ha
then be heard saying on capitol hill. the committee pointing out they were directly reacting to what they were hearing from the president. and even after the horrific violence, another late message to mike pence. the lawyer working with trump saying there was still time to do this, to not certify the election. jonathan karl standing by with the testimony. also at this hour, the severe storms we re watching in the east at we come on the air. a tornado watch now in effect for parts of pennsylvania to new york. severe thunderstorms from the carolinas all the way up into the northeast. damaging winds possible. rob marciano standing by to time this out. the war in ukraine. and tonight, it s now believed three americans fighting for ukraine are now missing. at least two of them feared captured by russia. james longman in ukraine with what we re now learning tonight. the top isis leader captured by the u.s. tonight, u.s. officials saying he planned attacks against u.s. forces
Britain two men in the fourth round of a grand slam for the First Time Since 2002. Good morning. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Hes just hours away from becoming the most powerful person in the world. Donald trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States at five oclock this afternoon uk time, signalling possibly the most radical change in the Us Government in modern times. Last night in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial the Billionaire Businessman told the crowd that he will unify the country and give a voice to people who have been forgotten. Our washington Correspondent Laura Bicker has more. Marching band plays. This is A Musical Warm Up Act for one of the greatest political shows on earth. And centre stage for this welcome concert is its star. This is a first look at Donald Trumps inauguration crowds, his chance to address those who put him in office. The polls started going up, up, up, but they didnt want to give us credit, because they forgot about a lot of us.
That wraps up the hour for me. you can watch highlights from today s show online. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. right now on andrea mitchell reports, more fallout from the fourth indictment of former president trump, with his former white house chief of staff, mark meadows, and current co-defendant, meadows, waging the first of many legal battles against d.a. willis. president biden celebrating the one-year anniversary of the inflation reduction act going into law. who is seeing the benefits? why a senator central to the legislation getting passed, joe manchin, is not going to show up for the celebration today.