Have been hit the hardest. This is the first earthquake of such magnitude to hit the area in more than 100 years. Lets go right to nbc news Foreign Correspondent matt bradley. What do we know about the efforts that are underway . Yes so far we are seeing local authorities and the military trying to bring people out of the wreckage. As you, said the death toll is now at 8000. It was only a couple hours ago the death toll is at 800. A couple hours before it was at 600. As you know from the earthquake that happened in turkey back in february, they have a way of climbing very high after Rescue Workers are able to get in and extracting dead bodies. Thats when we start to see these numbers going up and up. As you mentioned this is a 6. 8 magnitude earthquake according to the geological survey. That is the strongest earthquake to strike this country and 123 years. As you mentioned, this was in the high atlas mountains. About 50 miles away from the historic city america. There was some damage
guilty pleas with the judge, say they intend to waive arraignment, and normally that s allowed in this court in these kinds of cases unless we hear otherwise from the judge. i would be surprised if donald trump doesn t take that opportunity, but we ll see. also today a judge asked for additional briefs on mark meadows bid to move the georgia election case from georgia court to federal court. he says he needs to do this because he was serving at the pleasure of the president, his white house chief of staff at the time. what do we know about that today? well, the judge wants more information even though, of course, he had a whole day hearing on this issue. but there s still a legal matter he wants sorted out, and that s this question of, look, if one of the acts mark meadows did written out in this indictment could be chalked up to his role as white house chief of staff is that enough for mark meadows to move this to federal court, or does he not clear the bar?