through the state this weekend. the death toll is now 64, the governor made that announcement, officials do expect the number to rise. the severe weather killed more than a dozen people in arkansas, tennessee, missouri, illinois, where six people died in the partial collapse of the amazon facility. parts of kentucky are unrecognizable after what the governor believes is the longest tornado in u.s. history. it touched down for four hours. you could hear the crews already trying to clean up this area downtown in mayfield. president biden is going to tour some of the destruction on wednesday. and kentucky governor andy bashear was visibly shaken by what happened across his state in the past three days. here is what he said. just a few more facts about those we ve lost. 18 are still unidentified. of the ones that we know, the age range is 5 months to 86 years and six are younger than 18. the youngest victim 5 years old. i ll speak to the governor live in just a few moments.
america s diplomatic boycott of the olympics. and washington tehran far from the deal. i will talk to anna applebom about it all. then, merkel s era ended with a song and now the schultz era has begun. what to expect from europe s most richest and powerful nation? i ll ask an expert. also, syria descends into a narco state as the new york times reports its top export now is illegal amphetamines. i will talk to one of the reporters about that harrowing story. finally, does the nobel peace prize need a rethink? i ll explore. first, here s my take. in america we tend to listen with rapt attention to the people who succeeded in the private sector. if they made billions, we think surely they must have profound insights into the world. and when the person speaking is obviously brilliant, this adds to our veneration. so when someone as staggeringly rich and staggeringly as intelligent as elon musk talks, people listen. what came out of elon musk s mouth this week was ill
vladimir putin s propaganda machine and how is right wing media involved? matthew chance has a report from the region. later, jussie smollett s hate crime hoax. we will unpack the media baggage from this case coming up. plus, jay rosen on how to cover a pro democracy, and much more coming up this hour. first, a sunday morning surprise in the tv news business. chris wallace, the veteran moderator of fox news sunday, is leaving the network effective immediately. here s how he announced it on his show just a few minutes ago. it may sound corny but i feel we built a community here. there s a lot you can do on sunday mornings, the fact you have chosen to spend this hour with us is something i cherish. but after 18 years i have decided to leave fox. i want to try something new, to go beyond politics, to all of the things i m interested in. i m ready for a new adventure, and i hope you ll check it out. this is a shock to the tv news business. chris wallace is one of the,
of debris looking for survivors. president biden briefed on the situation earlier today directing resources to help in the situation. cnn s reporter is on the ground there in mayfield, hard-hit mayfield, kentucky. what is happening right now? reporter: well, fredricka, what we re seeing right now is different emergency response teams coming in from different cities and counties all throughout kentucky. coming right here to what they re calling ground zero after the tornadoes last night p you see behind me a slew of vehicles out here and different construction crews that come to use heavy equipment to lift the debris and try to find as many people as possible. we know more than 100 people were working here at this candle factory last night. they were working overtime trying to get the holiday orders out just two weeks before the christmas holiday. i spoke with one man. his name was ryan, worked at the factory. said i didn t feel like working overtime. was working a lot. deci
of us. i ll see you again tomorrow night. it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. i want to ask you and the audience for forgiveness for something i m going to do. haven t done it yet. i m going to do it. possibly as early as next week, and that is the last line of this show every night, which is a line i wrote myself, is the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. brian s not going to be doing it as of next week. i m going to say brian williams. i mean, someone else is going to be hosting. that name, i ll have them put the person s name in the teleprompter, i will memorize, ally velshi, whoever it is that s doing it, i m going to slip. you re going to tell you the mistake you re going to make. i just know how the brain is going to miss that every once in a while. the habit is so deep, so many years of saying it. i m going to miss him so much. yeah. that i kind of don t want it to be true. it will be a wishful state. and it s brian at 11. a wishful