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they re capable of doing with the force amassed on the border, it is going to be a disaster for russia. unclear exactly what constitutes a minor incursion, but it caused enough of a stir that the white house had to clarify the president s remarks last night. we ll have more on that in a live report from moscow in a moment. on domestic policy the president signaling a new approach could be on the horizon. he s hoping to revive his currently stalled plan to remake america s social safety net suggesting congress could pass big chunks of build back better. it s clear to me that we re going to have to probably break it up. break it up. and breaking overnight, a major defeat as expected in the push to pass voting rights legislation in the senate. reforms that the president said were so needed that without them, the coming midterm elections could be viewed as illegitimate. i m not saying it s going to be legit. the increase in the prospect of being illegitimate is in d ....
hi there, and thanks so much for joining me. i m jessica dean in for fredericka whitfield, and we start this hour with that massive winter storm pummeling much of the eastern united states right now. 80 million people now under winter weather alerts from mississippi all the way to maine. a potentially dangerous mix of snow and freezing rain blanketing major roads, airlines cancelling more than 2,800 flights, and as you can imagine the severe weather also causing some significant flight delays. power now knocked out for more than 278,000 customers across georgia, alabama, tennessee, florida and the carolinas. this storm is moving up the east coast with some cities like washington, d.c. expecting up to four inches of snow and we have team coverage for you tracking all of the winter weather. we go first to cnn s dianne gallagher who is in charlotte, north carolina. dianne, i know north carolina is seeing some ice. walk us through the situation there right now. reporter: ....
a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. here s what s happening just a minute past 2:00 p.m. eastern, 11:00 a.m. pacific. we have more breaking news related to that hostage standoff at a synagogue in texas. the fbi has released the identity. president biden is giving some new details after talking with attorney general merrick garland. and we are also hearing from the suspect s family. let s go to msnbc s sam brock. i think it was his brother that spoke, sam? reporter: that s correct, alex. the suspect s owner brother expressing heartache and also suggesting that mental health issues may have played a role here. now, there s been a lot of developments over the course of the afternoon, alex, including, as you said, the revealing of the identity of the suspect. that came from the fbi s dallas office here just within the last couple of hours. his name is malik faisal akram, 44 years old, a b ....
the palestinian/israeli conflict that we are experiencing today, you ve seen it experienced in jerusalem for thousands of years. for the jews, jerusalem is where solomon built the holy temple. for christians, this is the place where jesus was crucified. for muslims, jerusalem is where the prophet muhammed made the night journey. people who are said to have conquered the world have swept through this city. no other individual changed the landscape in the way that herod the great did. saladin was determined to take on the christians and throw them out of jerusalem. at a time of ottoman/islamic rule, the british badly wanted to control the holy land. the main case of the arabs is against the british government policy in palestine. we are the only people in the world homeless and stateless. for israelis, the creation of the state of israel is seen as a miracle. and of course for the palestinians, it s a great disaster. the history of jerusalem, a ver ....
the committee will agree that i ve accepted that it was a mistake, i and it was my mistake. everybody else has apologised for him but he won t apologise for himself. a coward, not a leader. we talk to the former yorkshire cricketer azeem rafiq about racist abuse and what he hopes to achieve by going public. and a year in the life of northern ireland we ask people to share their experiences of a year full of uncertainty. and coming up on the bbc news channel, as wales and scotland secure play off spots and england qualify for qatar, we look at who s in and who is set to miss out on next year s world cup. welcome to bbc news at six which comes today from belfast, at a critical time in the history of northern ireland. there s growing uncertainty about the future of trading arrangements with the rest of the united kingdom, not to mention the links with its close neighbour, the republic of ireland, and the european union. today, we ll be looking at all the day s news at ho ....