Data on a key question today. How do current vaccines hold up to the new variant . And heading to kentucky. President biden arrives in kentucky. He arrived in kentucky moments ago to see the Tornado Devastation firsthand. Lets begin with the congressional investigation into the attack on the u. S. Capitol. The Justice Department now must decide whether to pursue a prosecution of mark meadows. The house voted last night as we know to hold the former Trump White House Chief Of Staff in Criminal Contempt Of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the Panel Investigating the insurrection. Meadows is now the first former member of Congress Held in contempt since 1832. The vote was mostly along party lines with liz cheney and Adam Kinzinger as the only republicans voting with democrats on this. Before the vote, the January 6th Committee shared more revealing Text Messages from unnamed that unnamed lawmakers sent to meadows as the siege unfolded in realtime. Lets get to Paula Reid In Washingt
Down for a oneonone just ahead. Plus sources telling nbc news that Senate Democrats are preparing to miss next weeks deadline to pass the president s sweeping social spending bill. In fact, a vote could slide all the way into march. So a lot going on. Good afternoon, im Chris Jansing at msnbc World Headquarters in new york. We begin with mike memoli traveling with the president in Dawson Springs, kentucky. Allison barber is there where shes been in touch with survivors. And nbcs Gabe Guiterrez in mayfield, kentucky. Lets start with allison. As we await President Bidens arrival there in Dawson Springs, youve been on the ground, youve looked for yourself, seen the destruction, seen the scale of the need, what is the president going to see and experience when he gets there . Reporter hes going to see homes like this one. This belonged to a woman named shauna. You could see a lot of her childrens things here. What remains of christmas wrapping paper. She was inside her house in kind of thi
Further evidence of President Trumps supreme dereliction of duty during those 187 minutes. And how many trump allies were pressing meadows to get the president to act, including a plea from donald trump jr. He has to leave now. It has gone too far and gotten out of hand. Reporter and from several fox news hosts. Mark, the president needs to tell people in the capitol to go home. This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy. Laura ingraham wrote, quote, can he make a statement . Ask people to leave the capitol, sean hannity urged. Reporter ingram went to to downplay the issue. More than 99 , had to be, were peaceful, but because of a small contingent of loons, these patriots have been unfairly maligned. Reporter the Committee Also looking at how involved meadows was in efforts to undermine the 2020 election. And revealed a message from an unnamed lawmaker apologizing the day after the capitol riot for failing to stop the counting of electoral votes in key states trump lost. Ye
And an historic trip. The First Official visit by an israeli Prime Minister to the uae. A sign of deepening ties between israel and the arab world. Announcer live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. We begin with the desperate search for survivors after the deadliest december Tornado Outbreak in u. S. History. Dozens of People Killed when a series of powerful tornadoes tore through several states over the weekend. Kentucky the hardest hit. The governor says in the best case scenario, at least 50 people died in his state. But he says crews are still finding bodies, and he fears the final toll could be much higher. Still, rescuers are looking for signs of life as they dig through the rubble, including at a Candle Factory that was flattened in the small town of mayfield. Initially officials feared dozens may have died inside the factory, but a Company Spokesperson said sunday that most employees fortunately made it out. Eight have been confirmed dead, however, and e
History. The governor now speaking. Lets listen in. To the worst Tornado Event in the history of our commonwealth. Our state was hit by at least four tornadoes. One stayed on the ground in kentucky for at least 200 miles devastating anything in its path. Thousands of homes are damaged if not entirely destroyed. And it may be weeks before we have final counts on both deaths and levels of destruction. We lost lives in at least eight counties and at least 18 counties suffered damage. As of this morning, our best count for confirmed deaths, the most accurate count we have as of this morning, 64 kentuckians. Remember this is fluid and the numbers will change and sometimes they have thank god gone down, other times they have gone up. It breaks down as follows. 20 in grace, 13 in hopkins, 11 in mulenburg, i think that was reported at 12, but we believe 11. 12 in warren. Four in caldwell. One in marshall. One in taylor. One in fulton. And one in lyon. Undoubtedly there will be more. We believe