Good morning. 11 00 a. M. Eastern. 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Jose diazbalart. We begin with major Breaking News. Sources tell nbc news a Multination Prisoner Swap including the united states, russia and other countries is currently under way. Sources say the americans being released can be expected to be in U. S. Custody soon. The Kremlin Spokesperson said he had no comment on the reports of the exchange. The turkish government is confirming the exchange is going to take place at the Ankara Airport in turkey. We do not know if what were showing you right now on your screen, which is the live shot from one of our cameras at ankara international airport are the planes that are involved, but from what we can see in these live pictures, at ankara international airport, there are those two planes that you see on the screen. Again, no information on what these planes are, what theyre doing there. But one of them, as you can see, has on its tail the russian flag. This is live pictures from ankar
Five to ten inches in that area. So hurricane warnings are currently in place, and that means the next 24 hours we will be seeing things deteriorating in this area from baton rouge to morgan city. Right now the national hurricane center extending these tropical storm watches into portions of mississippi to alabama. I want to make this very clear, we are not seeing this forecast chiselled in stone. It could make its way east or west in the next few hours. And then you still have a chance of a different kind of landfall in areas of maybe even texas to alabama, mississippi. Now, this forecast for rainfall really important. If it slows down at least 20 inches possible for new orleans. We already know what that looks like. You re going to see flooding rain across lake pontchartrain and even the mississippi river. 10 to 15 feet storm surge, 10 feet is a one story building. On average 15 feet is a two story home so this will be extensive damage from more dan city all the way into the biloxi a
A very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters. Welcome to alex witt reports. We ll begin with breaking news. The northeast is bracing for impact from hurricane henri. Landfall expected within 24 hours and right now people have new york to new england are wrapping up their preparations as this storm is closing in. Hurricane hunters flew into the storm today and reported winds up to 75 miles an hour, on the coast storm surge up to 5 feet is possible, and flooding rainfall expected on alreadysoaked lands. Conditions are going to begin to worsen as soon as tonight. Millions will be without power by monday morning. Our meteorologist michelle grossman and vanessa webb are watching for us. Let s talk about the latest forecast track at this hour. What are you seeing? alex, good to see you. We re seeing changes since the last time we talked. We have an advisory coming out at 2:00. Now it s a hurricane category 1 and that s what we expect as it enters into new england it will be do
Thousands protested on food and medicine shortages during the pandemic. We ll have the latest there. Maybe you watched it here. We had it on msnbc. Richard branson made it into space, putting us one step closer into the space travel era. We will be talked through what we witnessed. Where does president biden s agenda stand on capitol hill and what are the next steps? congresswoman debbie dingell shares her take, ahead. And we want to share with david rhode. I m joshua johnson. Welcome to the the week. Let us begin tonight with a breaking story out of cuba. Thousands of people have taken to the streets, denouncing the government in an unusual act of civil disobedience. They are demanding food and covid19 vaccines and protesting the islands of dire economic situation. We know of demonstrations in at least five neighborhoods in havana and in the number of towns across the island. Police in havana detained a number of protesters in an attempt to control the crowd. Progovernment counterprot
Strong man at a news conference. We ll have much more in just a minute as we await the president to disembark from air force one. Also this hour breaking news out of israel. Wow, it s been a couple of hours. After 12 years, benjamin netanyahu has been voted out of office as prime minister. A new government surviving a key parliament vote. What we know about the new prime minister, neftali bennett and what is on the minds of world leaders. We want to start with that breaking news in brussels where the president has arrived for the first time after taking office. They wrapped up the g7 just hours ago. One more leg in the president s international tour leading up to wednesday when he flies to geneva for his muchanticipated meeting with vladimir putin. Secretary of state blinken gave us a preview of just how he expects that meeting to go. The purpose of the meeting is for the president to do two things, which he s made very clear already. It s to tell president putin directly that we would