tested twice at home, and so you can test and test until you figure it out. glad you are healthy, my friend. andrea mitchell picks up our coverage right now. good morning, and happy new year. it s 11:00 a.m. eastern. 8:00 a.m. pacific. i am andrea mitchell in for joée diaz-balart today. overnight a national coast guard plane collides with a passenger jet. in the middle east, israel s cabinet meeting hours from now to discuss its plans for gaza after the war, which are dramatically different than the biden white house s demand for a two-state solution. back here at home, we re watching the supreme court which could soon take up two major challenges, a challenge to colorado s decision to disqualify former president trump from its primary ballot, as well as maine s. texas sends hundreds of more migrants to big cities, as the number of border crossings last month shattered previous records. where the border negotiations stand on capitol hill. good day. we begin with th
best option. but classes online often in isolation have created their own health concerns. this has resulted in frustrated students, struggling parents, millions of whom cannot afford or access high speed internet or childcare, and teachers, working to save a generation of young minds while too often fearing for their own lives. and their health and that of their loved ones. tonight we will try to explore every part of the educational crisis this pandemic created. but let s start with an obvious admission. there are no simple answers here. there is no one size fits all, inexpensive solution that would end the struggle like that. if this were easy, it would have been solved long ago. so let us listen and learn and try to figure out what to do. so here s a snap shot of where things stand. the families of more than 50 million kids rely on public schools in some 14,000 school districts. so let s bring in our chief medical corn, dr. sanjay gupta. let s start with the most basic qu
against time to get those people who are trapped beneath the rubble out, andrea, before it s too late. meagan fitzgerald, that s just awful, but at least most of the people from that collision, certainly all the civilians survived. amazing. joining me, our aviation correspondent, tom costello, and a former faa and ntsb investigator and nbc news aviation analyst. tom, first to you, how was it possible for all of those people to get out safely? astonishing. the faa requires and most international airlines require you have to evacuate a plane in 90 seconds with half of the exits blocked, and this was an extreme situation, heavy smoke and fire and they all got out within two to 2 1/2 minutes. a couple caveats.
i m skeptical that we would. the consequences are high. we have to focus on the red lines. on victory, i want to make it clear. if putin wins all of our allies in the region are more threat upped. all allies and partners in the middle east and asia will feel more insecure and if he loses it is the opposite and therefore i do think there is a change in the biden administration. i talk to them fairly frequently including today. senior pentagon officials. i think they understand that and want to see a scenario in which the world can see that putin gambled. he overreached. this is his afghanistan. and as a result they re weaker not stronger as a result of the military intervention. the administration, you think that biden administration is all in to help the ukrainians? yeah. with a couple caveats.