suicide. and the investor immortalizing the big short for predicting the housing bubble would burst is back at it again. why he s betting $1.6 billion that the stock market will crash. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin in hawaii with the growing questions about the role downed power lines may have played in those deadly wildfires. nbc s dana griffin is live from maui. some hawaiian residents are suing the utility company as videos emerge of what happened to the power lines during the high winds. dana, what can you tell us? reporter: well, chris, i can tell you, we have seen a lot of videos on social media, one in particular that purports to show downed power lines and smoke, and that could have been the reignition of that fire after it was contained. nbc news has not independently verified those videos yet. we re hearing reports from several people including one guy who says that fire started behind his home, and now there are c
to find survivors trapped in the rubble. we will take you to the turkey. back here in the u.s., president biden is hitting the road this morning to deliver his post state of the union pitch in wisconsin. in his speech, biden defended his accomplishments, took on republicans and pled for unity as he laid out his plans for the future. fighting for the sake of fighting, power for the sake of power, conflict for the sake of conflict gets us nowhere. we will speak to congresswoman nn anette barragan and get her message. president zelenskyy is in the uk right now for the first time since the war broke out. what he just told the british parliament. and lebron james making history, breaking the nba s all-time scoring record. we begin this hour with a rising death toll in turkey and syria after those two massive earthquakes and the race against time for rescuers. more than 11,000 people have been confirmed dead, tens of thousands injured, untold numbers still trapped. many
will: earlier clashed with worshipers inside the mosque compound. palestinians shooting fireworks at authorities and chanting slogans praising hamas. prime minister ben gentleman minute netanyahu says israel s enemies will pay the price for the attacks on its people. serious events over there in israel. brian: they say it stems over what happened wednesday police in the mosque. that was a response and the israelis know exactly where the fire came from. ainsley: 34 rockets were fired from lebanon. 29 of them were intercepted in israel. israel s response tonight and later will exact a significant price from our enemies says benjamin netanyahu. that s why they attacked back. brian: so about 2:00 in the afternoon yesterday admirable kirby took to the stand took to the podium and i thought okay. why are some of these stations taking admirable kirby in the middle of the day i wonder what s going on. ainsley: turned up the volume. brian: got to it late. he decides that
workers and pay their bills. hard working employees can breathe easier as well. no losses this is an important point. no losses will be borne by the taxpayers. dana: fox news alert. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. dana: a great monday morning. bill: good morning at home. president biden last hour reassuring americans the banking system is in tact after the second and third largest bank failures in u.s. history in the last couple of days. silicon valley bank in california. new york s signature bank yesterday. dana: they issued a joint statement saying depositers will get their money back at both banks. here is janet yellen yesterday. whenever a bank, especially one like silicon valley bank with billions of dollars in deposits fails, it is clearly a concern from the standpoint of depositors, many of which may be small businesses. dana: the market has been open for 31 minutes. what do we know? to avoid a re
a potential nuclear armageddon with russia. what his staff is saying this afternoon, as we take you live to the white house and to moss couple of i m hallie jackson in washington and with me now is nbc news correspondent josh lederman traveling with the president in hagerstown, maryland. tom costello and global markets reporter with us, too. we saw the big board red, not green like we ve seen earlier this week. talk about why investors are so spooked here. hallie, a number of top advisers telling me interest rates are heading even higher and wall street wanted to seat job wanting to see the job market start to cool and average hourly earnings increasing, and the chair fed has reiterated in the past in order to get inflation down, the job market needs to cool and until it does, interest rates will head even higher a rising rate environment has been challenging for the stock market. that is why the dow is down over 600 points right now. and for companies that increase their