Fires, shifting materials, Twisted Steel and water up to their waist at some points. Yeah, theyre searching for people in there. Theyre searching for mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters, children. Officials say they have heard sounds from underneath the debris. They are not confirming exactly what those sounds are. They said it is very possible the debris moving, metal, concrete, et cetera. But, with that news, Family Members are doing their best to hold on to hope. There is hope. Its just dwindling by the minute. There is a certain hope in the air but it is a very strange kind of a feeling. Ive rarely had this feeling except in the war zone. Were dealing day by day, theyre now finding more and more people and i hope and pray theyre found soon and everything is good. Those poor, poor people. Officials say that President Biden has been receiving updates on this. Hes expected to address the tragedy there later today at the white house. We dont know yet if he will then go on to v
Devastating outbreak of wildfires. With us today fema administrator dee ann griswald. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Donald trump is out fundraising this hour in nashville as his legal bills have mounted and he faces a deadline to surrender to the Fulton County jail in georgia before noon next friday, but his unrelenting attacks over prosecutors over his cases are troubling. On wednesday a texas woman was charged with transmitting a threat to injure a person by an interstate commerce after leaving expletiveladen racist email for d. C. District drug Tanya Chutkan. We are coming to kill you and that chutkan will be targeted personally, your family, all of it. Were leaving all of the expletives out. Nbc news has learned that the reported names of the Georgia Grand Jury who handed out the latest indictment have been posted on a fringe website that often features violent rhetoric. Nbcs Garrett Haake in atlanta, grant kushner, robert james and New York Times White Hous
we start with one of the biggest threats facing our nation, the fentanyl crisis. it s a fox news alert. fentanyl is a synthetic opioid 80 to 100 times stronger than morphine. an opioid 100 times more potent than heroin. there are millions of these dangerous fake pills out there and they are killing thousands of americans. the lethal drug expected to kill 80,000 americans this year alone. for context, that would mean more americans killed by fentanyl in a single year than killed in the entire vietnam war. john: all stemming from cracks in the southern border, a breeding ground for drug cartels. exactly what the house homeland security committee will talk about in a hearing moments from now. sandra: social media plays a huge role in the cartels marketing. teens are buying the drugs online often not knowing that they are laced with the fentanyl. and sometimes the drug is even disguised as rainbow colored candy. the epidemic is hitting neighbors, friends, families, ju
There is not a whole lot of holiday populations and trying to get to a dispersed population. you are actually and gainesville tonight where there is a lot of concern about the possibility of downed trees taking out powerlines, blocking roads, even in these more concentrated areas. so, how does something like that really hampered rescue and recovery, knowing fema must be accustomed to a planning for that. but the landscape of what might be is really, at this time, indeterminate. well, you basically again, we don t focus on the we focus on the forecast of impacts. you have got tornado watches up now along much of the west coast. so, fema s approach is working with the state. governor desantis and his team really focused on what florida has a lot of resources. i think the initial rescues, the response, will be led by florida. i think fema, as you saw from administrator chriswell talking about a lot of the immediate me needs in the aftermath of
Latest on the landslide that s happening in southern california. but first, let s get to nate foy in vermont. nate, how are things looking there compared to yesterday, and what may be coming on the way? well, sandra, the water has certainly receded but a big clean-up effort ahead. first, i want to show you these cars right here, governor phil scott, fema administrator chriswell, as well as both vermont senators are during the damage, and unfortunately we just missed an opportunity for a live interview, but if i can ask my photographer connor to walk down here along with this gentleman personally impacted by this, tim, tim owns multiple rental properties, over 50 rental properties here in berry, vermont. take a look down the street right now, you can see it is absolutely flooded. they are clearing the mud today, i m going to bring in tim jarvis