building. we have to warn you. this is upsetting. okay. i don t know who s watching. we got hit by a hurricane. i m at work in mayfield. and we are trapped. please, y all, give us some help. we re at the candle factory in mayfield. please. please. in arkansas, at least one person is dead. five seriously injured after the apparent tornado hit a nursing home. early reports say two people died and multiple injured at the amazon center in edwardsville, illinois after a 100-foot portion of the wall collapsed. we will stay with the story. a lot going on. i want to get to stephanie stanton who has been covering this. stephanie, good morning. this is a fast breaking story. we are learning about the damage and as sun starts to come up and what that damage looks like. there is still danger of more storms. reporter: good morning, ali. we are monitoring what is happening over in the several states in the midwest. from here in florida, i grew up in the chicagoland area. i m familiar
which is having a negative impact on communities of color. - i never in a million years thought that my son, let alone any six-year-old, would be gunned down in the streets of san francisco and not get any justice. - chesa s failure has resulted in increase in crime against asian americans. - the da s office is in complete turmoil at this point. - for chesa boudin to intervene in so many cases is both bad management and dangerous for the city of san francisco. - we are for criminal justice reform. chesa s not it. recall chesa boudin now. good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin with the breaking news, the damage being assessed after a series of tornados tore through at least six states in the south and midwest, and right now 12 million americans are under threat from that same storm system as it moves east. at least 36 tornados are believed to have touched down across arkansas, illinois, kentuck
good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that is happy to report it s friday. friday, december 10th. i m jonathan lemire. let s start with the news. a federal appeals court has unanimously denied former president donald trump s request to block the release of documents by the national archives to the january 6th select committee. the ruling upheld a lower court s opinion which said in an executive privilege dispute between a current and past president, the sitting president must prevail. the court gave the former president 14 days to file an appeal with the supreme court, during which the injunction to halt the transfer of documents will remain in place. in a 68-page opinion, the panel concluded that, quote, former president trump has provided no basis for this court to override president biden s judgment and the agreement and accommodations worked out between the political branches over these documents. it goes on to say both branches agree there s a unique ne
there s no conceivable way we will stop the spread of the new variant omicron. it is already in 45 countries, it is present in 17 states in america. over 300 people now have it in the uk. on top of that the figures worldwide are widely skewed, some countries much better at genomic sequencing than others. the suspicion will be that its starting to fuel a fourth wave. in the us the number of daily covid 19 is back at 120,000 the first time it s been there since early october. however there is promising news on the vaccine front, the concerns over the spread of the omicron variant, has led to an increased take up of the vaccinate in the last week. these are figures are for the us. but there is a similar trend worldwide. the threat of a fourth wave is testing the patience of political leaders. there are tighter mandates coming in austria and germany, and today the mayor of new york bill de blasio announced that everyone in his city will need to be vaccinated if they want to go to
kayleigh mcenany is engaging with the panel, but her deposition has since been delayed. despite that, there are still a few big-name holdouts who appear to be right to slow walk the process. former justice department official jeffrey clark s deposition hearing has been delayed due to a, quote, medical condition, according to the pam and his lawyer. of course, the panel is very interested in hearing from the guy who reportedly wanted to send bogus letters to georgia election officials, from the department of justice, urging them to ignore biden s victory in the state and to name electors in favor of donald trump instead. the committee has already voted to hold him in contempt of congress for not cooperating previously, but they re giving clark another chance to testify on december 16th. clark s lawyer has already announced that when he does that, he plans to plead the fifth. another one of the ex-president s cronies intends to use the same strategy for his own hearing, schedul