warning of chaos and bedlam if he s barred from the ballot. his argument to the supreme court in a case that could impact all 50 states. plus, house republicans get their wish. why hunter biden has agreed to a closed-door deposition following weeks of defiance. a disturbing report from gaza, the graves dug up by israeli soldiers. we ll tell you exactly what they were looking for. and 100 million people in the path of severe winter weather. it s already caused a plane to slide off an icy runway. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. but speaking of planes, we have this breaking news. let me show you a live picture that is coming to us from nbc 4 in washington. yes, that is what it looks like. that is a small private plane that had to make an emergency landing. this is in loudoun county, on loudoun county parkway earlier this afternoon. no injuries are reported, but this is very close to dulles airport. we don t know why this plane had to land
After an israeli air strike on the Southern City of rafah, where more than a million displaced palestinians are sheltering. The Hamas Run Health Ministry in gaza says more than 3a,000 people have died since the start of the war in october. Emergency workers in khan younis say theyve uncovered nearly 200 bodies buried in the courtyard of a hospital. Al nasser had been at the centre of an Israeli Military operation until two weeks ago. The World Health Organization has previously said bodies were being buried within hospitals under israeli siege, but palestinians have accused Israeli Forces of killing some of the victims. Israel accuses hamas of using medical facilities in gaza as command centres. Heres our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, with more. Major general Aharon Haliva is the most senior israeli official we have had so far to step down from his role in connection with the failings that led to the october seven attacks by hamas that really shocked israel and shocked the
Him in the days following the attacks. However, his resignation has only come now. This likely reflects the greater visibility of his resignation and indeed replacement at this point in time. Originally when we go back to the 7th of october, the idf was going to launch a large Scale Ground operations into gaza and those required incredible Intelligence Collection needs, and therefore didnt make sense from a human Resources Perspective for haliva to remain in place. However, now that we are seeing the shift into more targeted operations in gaza, less of these large scale territorial operations we saw in the early days in november or december and that becomes more feasible now. It is now more possible to find out put in his replacement as we see this operational shift. Replacement as we see this operationalshift. I replacement as we see this operational shift. I suppose thats the question, isnt it . How does this leave the idf militarily . How much of a loss is this for them . Obviously
apple pushed back, and we go back to work in february. what if we had both of our original vaccines and no booster. we re know that efficacy goes down overtight. i asked scott gottlieb that this morning and here is what he said. i would be surprised to see them qualified for a third dose. as people get further out from their primary series. they will start to require boosters, and i don t they will happen certainly after this epidemic surge. i can tell you businesses that i spoke to this week they want people to get the booster. they want people to get safe, but from a human resources
resources at the problem, both money as well as people. i think the central issue that comes out of this excellent reporting is are we getting the proper return on the investment and can we do this job in a more efficient way, both from a financial perspective as well as from a human resources perspective? for example, i don t think redundancy in the system is a bad thing, contessa. i just want to make sure it s being done in a way that gives the policymakers what they need from the intelligence community. and we were just showing some of the numbers there. more than 1,200 government organizations here, more than 1,900 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence, and then you have here close to 1 million people, 854,000 people who have top-secret clearance. i mean, how is that even effective? apparently even the janitors get top-secret security clearancing to and work in these build right, but we ve got to be careful about that