bret: alive look at the u.s. capitol a beautiful evening in washington as we are just moments away from president biden and tonight s state of the union address, good evening from washington i am bret baier. martha: i am martha maccallum in moments we will be on the house floor from the familiar call of the sergeant at arms will make his way down the aisle greeted by lawmakers along the way. bret: you can see mitt romney talking to joe mansion it seems like they are pretty engaged in some conversation that can happen on the sidelines as you have a lot of lawmakers waiting a long time in the chamber, a lot of folks expressing themselves, different ways, republican some of them wearing buttons about the border, others dressed in white on the democratic side in solidarity, we set the stage now with white house correspondent with a preview of the president s speech good evening. good evening officials at the white house think that most people who will watch it tonight hav
warning in the dobbs decision, right, from the dissenters from the liberal justices. they said, look, this is a slippery slope. republicans dispute this. of course, we should note. but there are they do legislators here and there who have i mean, when you believe that fertilization that that life begins at conception, that there are some consequences there. and when you start to talk about the technologies, i mean, it s entirely, you know, we re seeing unintended consequences. let s just put it that way. just to note, i mean, how important this issue is, dozens of democrats have brought guests related to ivf and including the first lady, including the first lady. so that s another way that they show, you know, their priorities for this address. that s from what we ve gathered from the president s excerpts of his speech. it s going to be a big part of his remarks. it s also the most i mean, maybe second to democracy, if you re talking about base democratic voters, probab
landslides. more on a potentially historic storm impacting millions this morning. plus, breaking news out of the middle east. the u.s. military revealing new details about the scope of damage from those retaliatory strikes in iraq and syria, and not ruling out more strikes including potentially inside iran. also ahead, lawmakers finally unveiling that long-awaited bipartisan border bill, but it s already facing a partisan wall with the house speaker calling it dead on arrival. this as house republicans push forward today with their effort to impeach the secretary of homeland security. we ll have the latest from capitol hill. hello. it s 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. a potentially historic storm impacting millions this morning. 38 million under flood alerts across california, warned of life-threatening conditions with evacuations under way. we re seeing torrential rain, high-speed wins leading to dangerous spinouts and landslides. it is still co
to further target the houthis. live now to westminster, where our political correspondent rob watson is there for us. yes, we expect to hear from yes, we expect to hearfrom rishi sunak but it seems we may also hear from the house of commons speaker. yes, the house of commons speaker has indicated that he really does think that mps should be brief, they should get notice if there is going to be continuing action. so i think the speaker would distinguish between if there are going to be limited air strikes between that and something far more full scale british bombardment. i m not entirely sure there will be some almighty row but i think the speaker is sending out a signal, if it is going to go further, you need to keep us on side. [30 going to go further, you need to keep us on side. going to go further, you need to keep us on side. do we expect to hear from keep us on side. do we expect to hear from rishi keep us on side. do we expect to hear from rishi sunak? - keep us
but why the flare up now? all of these things are interconnected, and that s why it s really dangerous right now. so the big question now is, could this red sea conflict become the next war in the middle east? first of all, let s start by looking at what has actually been happening in the red sea. in mid november, 2023, the houthis, an iranian backed rebel group in yemen, began targeting commercial shipping off their coast. so, who exactly are the houthis and what is it motivating them? the houthis, who are a so called rebel group in yemen, they hail from the north west of yemen. they have been very active in this area for about a decade. it s only now that we re noticing because our global trade is being impacted. they hijacked this ship called the galaxy leader and they fired missiles and drones at others. us and british warships went to their defence. the houthis vowed revenge. the world economy, every economy will suffer if ships keep coming under attack in this illegal