damming assessment of the police response to the uvalde school shooting, what a newly released report reveals about cascading failures of leadership and decision making as 21 students and teachers were murdered. breaking news in donald trump s georgia election case. the hearing just scheduled on the misconduct allegations involving fulton county d.a. fani willis, and the special prosecutor she hired. also breaking news on the crisis in the red sea, we have just learned that the u.s. has launched a fifth round of strikes on the houthis as tensions rise in the region. and ready for launch, we are live at kennedy space center as four astronauts prepare to blast off. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, but we begin on the ground in uvalde with nbc justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. i want to get into this extensive report from the justice department about the failures inside the walls of robb elementary. what more can you tel
right now on early start, the new poll releasing this very minute showing nikki haley is closing the gap on donald trump in one early primary state. plus the republican front runner planning to be in court just hours from now while his lawyers argue he s immune from prosecution. hi, everyone. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. good to see all of you. i m omar jimenez in for kasie hunt. it is tuesday, january 9th. we are we have a lot of news to get to. let s get going. we want to start with 5:00 a.m. in washington. we have a brand new cnn poll for you all. that poll shows donald trump s lead narrowing as nikki haley surges. the former president now at 39% of likely gop primary voters with haley just 7 points behind at 32%. the rest of the field hovers at least 20 points further back in the poll taken just this week. chris christie is at 12% fo followed by vivek ramaswamy and ron desantis in single digits. now trump is roughly where he was
said about how they are preparing in case china attacks. in just two hours, spacex will launch a spacecraft with five astronauts to the international space station. we ll take you live to the kennedy space center and explain the significance of this historic mission. we begin with our top story this morning. this hour president biden and the first lady will head to florida where crews are working around the clock doing door to door searches in neighborhoods hardest hit by hurricane ian seven days after this monster storm battered the gulf coast. and these communities, particularly those outside of major cities, are still suffering. they are saying they have no power, no water, no food and help is not getting to them like it did in the past. this is the scenario many florida residents are dealing with right now. at least 105 people have lost their lives in the wake of this storm. the sheriff says crews are more likely to the recovery phase. heartbreaking development for
griff: the starliner launch delayed at least 24 hours but yet they never set back in a crucial moment. fox news live. alicia i am alicia acuna acuna you. under four minutes to the launch suddenly delayed over a technical issue. let s go live to the kennedy space center with what we are learning at this hour. . it turns out this was an automated hold. generated by a computer analyzing the very dynamic conditions on the atlas five rocket in the minutes before launch. looking at supercold liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen used as the oxidizer in the propellant in the launch. they have to be absolutely perfect conditions. if anything goes wrong even a software glitch the computer shuts it down. the launch is on hold. engineers are now trying to get to the bottom of exactly what spooked the computer and what went wrong to cause the automated trigger. astronauts are safe. cruise help them to exit the spacecraft. basically doing in reverse what they did several hours earlier
while having a strain on their marriage. and then to break up and famously we kindled their relationship about three years ago then tied the knot in 2022. they have been busy with lopez promoting her new netflix film and affleck has been filming for the accountant part two. griff: the launch of boeing spruced crude mission above the starliner has been delayed once again the spacecraft was within minutes of taking off on his journey to the iss with the countdown clock was paused you saw that almost two hours ago it was delayed because of a technical issue with the computer ground launch sequencer. we will see if they can get it together but we will cover that