. good morning, it s thursday, march 3, welcome to morning joe. we have a lot to get to this morning. some breaking news developing late last night. with us we have veteran columnist in and msnbc contributor mike barnicle. president and ceo of politico jim vandehei. pulitzer prize winning historian jon meacham. you won a pew litzer? he loves everyone knowing about that. he took a picture. and in washington, michael steele. managing editor of bloomberg politics mark halperin also with us. mike, you obtained a copy of the speech that mitt romney is going to be giving later today. he is going to be slamming donald trump, calling him and i got this, willie, mark got a little bit of exactly what he s going to say. calling him let me see if this is seringly clear enough. calling him a phony, a fraud and playing the american people for suckers. so i guess he s not going to mince words today. and a stark contrast from four years ago when he stood with donald trump and saw his
that s what makes it so tragic. the what do you know in terms of the ability of this community, this area to deal with a magnitude problem like this? reporter: well, this is a seismic area, so they re used to small tremors. in 2009, there was a devastating earthquake that just leveled one of the towns not so far up the road from here. they have the means and civil protection are very well versed in how to save people from these situations. the problem is the area of devastation and the access points. it s been very difficult. we haven t seen any heavy equipment come up this country lane yet. this is one of the roads to the hardest hit area. we can t get up there. the roads are blocked. they can t get up there either. this is a multistory building behind me that s now flattened out. you still see the tomato plants in the front garden of the
house. this is rural italy. what makes this area so beautiful also makes it so deadly, these ancient buildings. thank you for the update. w
morning joe starts right now. hey, guys. hi. welcome to our big plane! it s so exciting. what do you think? i think it s pretty cool. don t cool. don t you? you re supposed to say yes. watch the camera. i am so happy to have all of you with me. i was just waiting for this moment. ask you about obviously hillary is having us on her plane? is that what she s doing? it s a different kind of plane the way it s set up. it s not set up with seats. kellyanne i have no problem with that, with letting some of the folks travel. it s a different kind of plane. hillary clinton and donald trump speaking with the press on their planes over the holiday weekend. mark halperin is back. i just want to finish what i was saying, at one point parked
on the same tarmac in ohio. labor day saw the debut of clinton s campaign 737 carrying traveling press corps with the candidate for the first time. although trump s press corps did not travel with him, he did take questions fr
captioning sponsored by cbs glor: on the cbs evening news this monday, it is set to become the largest wildfire ever in the nation s most populous state, and we are on the scene. the star witness takes the stand at the fraud trial of paul manafort. and why so many older americans have been forced to declare of ruptcy. but first, the headlines in 60 seconds. massive wildfires raging across california. the mendocino complex fire is now up to more than 273,000 acres. making it the second largest fire in california history. president trump hitting iran with the first financial .unishment since he pulled the united states out of the nuclear deal. we are not going to allow iran to get nuclear weapons. there is a shortage of values about what is right, what is wrong. the violent weekend in
chicago, dozens were shot and at least 11 people are dead. we can t solve these things without the community. a deadly collision involving gwo trucks. on a highway in northern ita
the worldwide coronavirus death toll has passed a new milestone 150,000 people have now died across the globe. the chinese city of wuhan, where the coronavirus originated last year, has raised its official covid 19 death toll by 50%, taking the national total to more than 4,600. china insists there was no cover up. a top uk health specialist warns there could be 40,000 deaths in britain by the time the early wave of the pandemic is over due to in initial errors. there have been 847 deaths reported in the past 2a hours. germany s health minister says the country s covid 19 outbreak is under control after a decline in the infection rate. many experts believe the country s high testing rate is playing a crucial role in containment measures. at ten o clock sophie raworth
will be here with a full round up of the days news. now on bbc news, victoria derbyshire has more information and health advice on the coronavirus outbreak, in this special programme. hello and welcome to the specia