becomes more dire and concerned leading up to january 6th. allie raffa, thank you for giving us the latest on that development in washington, d.c. that s the latest on that, but i want to know, could these revelations help build the case against donald trump? coming up, i m going to ask msnbc legal analyst joyce advance and molly john fast from the atlantic. next to florida where the republican war on abortion is in full effect. governor ron desantis signing a bill that bans abortions within 15 weeks without exception for rape, insist or human trafficking. joining us now more on this is nbc news correspondent stephanie stanton. stephanie, thanks for joining us this morning. when does this new law take effect and who is going to be the most impacted by it? reporter: good morning,
abortion. stephanie, your point is well-taken. florida s new law comes as we ve seen attacks on abortion rights in so many gop-led states. we have to wait and see whether or not any legal challenges are actually going to take place. but stephanie, this isn t the only controversial move desantis made this week. we ll be looking into that later on but we appreciate you taking the time this morning to join us. reporter: sure, thank you. so stephanie stanton just joined us to talk about one of the moves that desantis made this week but the other one is he also took over congressional redistricting in the state of florida. so we re going to be getting into that later on in the show, plus for russians, the flagship maskva represented power and hope and then it sunk. could it symbolize something bigger? i ll ask john hertz about what
and i was also listening to the scanners, lindsey, and you know, that is quite emotional. when you listen to the scanners, you know, you re hearing what s happening in realtime. you know, it was rescue after rescue after rescue. officials no doubt are extremely overwhelmed. we are continuing to watch it of course here in the state of florida and will all across the nation as all eyes are on the midsection of the country as folks there have some pretty tough days ahead of them. certainly, yeah, the sheer scope of the devastation and the emotion of the timing of it all too, stephanie, it s hard to wrap your minds around. stephanie, we appreciate it. for more on this, we are joined now on the phone by kentucky state trooper sarah burgess who s in graves county, that s where mayfield is located. trooper burgess, thank you for joining us on such a somber morning. absolutely. what can you tell us now? i know the sun hasn t risen right now where you are. what have you seen in terms of
this is from amazon. the area where this happened. amazon saying our thoughts, prayers and sympathies are with the victims and loved ones and everyone impacted. this is a devastating tragedy for the amazon family and focus is on supporting employees and partners. this took place in evansville, illinois where one person died. part of the roof ripped off the amazon facility trapping some people inside. i want to go back to nbc news correspondent stephanie stanton. stephanie, we talked about devastation in mayfield and monette and evansville. it s a lot to take in. reporter: it really is, lindsey. i have been on my phone like so many monitoring twitter and watching to see if we can get any shred of information and i ve been listening to the scanners. when you talk about the amazon
it doesn t make any difference whatsoever, the damage is done. the rescues are ongoing, i would expect the death toll unfortunately with a powerful tornado like this it will just go up during the day. it wasn t just mayfield, we are going to know first what happened in the cities and bigger towns. mayfield s about 10,000. i know dawson springs, that s about 4 to 5,000 people. we ll find out in the days ahead if this was one tornado on the ground for an extraordinary period of time or not. but this is going to be one of the worst tornado outbreaks we ve had in a long time in this country, and a lot of people are going to need help right before the holidays. so tragic. we want you to stay around: stick around for us, we re going to come back to you. i want to bring in nbc news correspondent stephanie stanton who s been following latest. stephanie, the governor of kentucky says the true extent of the damage and defr station won t be known until day break. that s still about an hour from