it has been cold here the last half hour. i got hand warmers under here. it is really helping and good to make the show really good. the official who led the covid investigation that president biden shut down. we were telling you about that all week. he is telling fox news his team found almost nothing to suggest the virus occurred naturally saying the vast majority of evidence pointed to a lab leak. we were finding that despite the claims of our scientific community including the national institutes of health and dr. fauci s organization that there was almost no evidence that supported a natural transmission, evolution or sours of covid-19. the data stacked up it was coming out of a labor supernatural source. bill: have interesting interview with john roberts yesterday afternoon. mark meredith is live from the white house today. good morning to you. there is a growing effort by both here at the white house and those on capitol hill to better understand how the pandemic
former vice president walter mondale. his touching message before his death. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is early start, i m christine romans. i m laura jarrett. it s tuesday, april 20th, 5:00 a.m. here in new york and the most high profile criminal trial in a generation now in the hands of 12 people. the jury continues deliberations today in the case against derek chauvin for killing george floyd after roughly four hours of deliberations yesterday and for the first time during this trial the defendant sat unmasked at length yesterday during his lawyer s closing arguments. the jury finally able to see his expressions, his reactions and the prosecution and defense offering their final words to the jury as the nation prepares for a verdict. you can believe your own eyes. this case is exactly what you thought when you saw it first, when you saw that video. it is exactly that. you can believe your eyes. it s exactly what you beli
rates in the u.s. are the highest they have been in three months, though experts say that doesn t necessarily mean hospitalizations and deaths are will be as high as in previous surges. still, the president will lay out a sweeping plan to beat back this tide. priority one. flood the zone with free covid tests. we have had in the past not as many tests as everyone would have wanted or needed, but part of the president s program, which he will be speaking about this afternoon, is to dramatically increase the availability of testing and putting up about 20,000 testing sites, with getting half a billion tests very quickly, literally within the next few days, and then have a situation where you can get anywhere from 200 million to half a billion tests per month. but a key question. with the travel rush in full gear already, is this push too late? the tsa has screened more than 10 million people at u.s. airports in the last five days, and the agency estimates 30 million holiday
this building. so far no sign of jussie smollett or his attorney. yesterday, the judge told the attorneys that when a verdict come in, he would like them back in courthouse in a matter of about 30 minutes. so it looks like smollett and his team is passed that 30 minute mark. we will keep you updated on that front. in all deliberated about 9 hours total. seven two hours yesterday, seven hours today. we did not get word of the jury asking any questions or any difficulties. it was a very quiet day here in the courthouse. yesterday, before going home, the jury asked for one thing. they asked for a copy of a prosecution exhibit of a calendar that had red x marks on it indicating important dates in this trial. jussie smollett and his family walked into this courthouse every day locked in arms. jussie smollett was often assisting his elderly mother. is he charged with six low level felony counts of lying to police. police and the six counts represent each time they feel jussie smoll
the economy? i ll be joined by one of biden s top aids, principal press secretary, who i m sure will agree. it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that hopes supply chain issues won t impact pecan pie on thursday. i m jonathan lemire on this tuesday, november 23rd. we ll start with the news. we re learning new detailsen about a deadly crash at a christmas parade in waukesha, wisconsin. nbc correspondent tom llamas has the latest. reporter: in whack shaw, families usually grab a good spot to see the christmas parade. this year was to escape. holiday cheer quickly turned to terror and carnage. it was just after 4:30 on sunday when this red suv plowed through barricades on waukesha s main street barreling into families and marchers. here you see the vehicle just missing a little girl. james touchstone describes the moment he says he saw evil up close. he was shooting video of his daughter s marching band when this vehicle su