going. people trapped on the trains. businesses and homes are crushed. a major move by israel supreme court striking down a contentious law. risking even more division in the country at more. as we start 2024, some of the 2023 political predictions that were also wrong. how is it looking this new year? welcome to the lead. i m casey in for jake tapper. we start with destruction in a japan after a 7.2 magnitude earth right. four people were killed when the 7.5 magnitude quake hit western japan just hours into the new year followed by a series of aftershocks. the weather agency says those could continue up to a week. it also triggered tsunami warnings along the coast and residents have been urged to evacuate. the warnings have been downgraded but there is still a tsunami threat. multiple buildings caught fire or collapsed including a home on the upper left of the screen. it was reduced to a pile of rubble. we start coverage off from japan where more than 8000 military perso
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the president is going to be there for them tomorrow until we are needed on the ground. so fema, the federal emergency management agency has $3.5 billion in disaster relief for this hurricane and for the maui wildfires and for any future extreme weather events to come. we just heard from the fema director today. she s worried about running out of funding, understand police. she called on congress to approve the request for another $12 billion in disaster funds. so emergency relief efforts are not impacted. we should note that request for relief is paired with requests for more aid for ukraine, which is more controversial to many in congress. it might be a sticking point for them. why not separate the fema dollars from ukraine dollars so you don t have that problem for those who need this fema money as soon as possible? so the administrator came into the briefing room and laid that out for americans watching.