for the entire u.s. west coast and alaska. take a look. we are now seeing the first waves arriving on the mainland of the u.s. and this is video of waves arriving moments ago in santa cruz, california. more and potentially larger waves are expected. the tsunami which was triggered by an underwater volcanic eruption overnight in the south pacific. the satellite images are incredible right now. they are showing a massive ash cloud and shock waves. the eruption happened near the island nation of tonga. now, a tsunami has already hit the largest island there sending waves flooding into the capital. the tsunami warning center says the first waves are now hitting the mainland of the west coast. so laguna beach right there in southern california already shutting down all beaches and boardwalks out of precaution. natasha chen is live at the santa monica pier in california for us, but let s begin first with allison chinchar, she is in the cnn weather center. allison, what are people o
what do you do about a congresswoman openly rooting for a, quote, national divorce? as the u.s. hits new case records and omicron surges, randy weingarden on whether american schools are ready to handle open that criterion. what we learned about climate change in 2021, the year that is now ending with winter wildfires in colorado and near 70-degree weather in alaska. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. this morning the associated press published an expansive and very well reported story on the attack on our democracy. the headline slow-motion insurrection: how the republican party seizes election power. reporting from the ap is reprinted in newspapers across the country. this article appeared in a slew of major publications including the atlanta journal-constitution in georgia, the star tribune in minnesota, the houston chronicle in texas, the tampa bay times in florida, the philadelphia inquirer in pennsylvania, the wi
for this hour. rachel has the night off. we ll start off the night in classic rachel fashion. we go back to the archives here. it was october 30th, 1961. and on an island in the russian arctic sea, this happened. the soviet union detonated the most powerful nuclear device ever tested. it remains, believe it or not, til this day, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. i know this is going to sound almost impossible to comprehend. it was 3,333 times stronger, stronger, than the bomb that was actually dropped on hiroshima. because this was the height of the cold war, because it was at the height of the arms race between the soviet union and the united states, the men who designed this bomb, the men who brought the soviet union to this glory of having the strongest nuclear device in the world, as you can imagine, they were heroes. here is how one of those scientists, andre sakarov, was described in a new york times profile. in part it reads, a nuclear physicist, he g
and vice president kamala harris taking on iowa s abortion ban just days after blasting florida s black history curriculum. our reporters are following all of the latest developments and we begin with new charges brought against former president trump in the mar-a-lago classified documents case. nbc s ken dilanian is reporting from the justice department, what s in this new indictment, ken? this indictment really describes a sorted obstruction of justice conspiracy between the former president of the united states and two lower level employees. now, these are allegations, these men are all presumed innocent, but what it says is that donald trump got a subpoena last june, june of 2022, demanding surveillance footage from mar-a-lago, and he immediately called this new codefendant, carlos de oliveira, who is the property manager at mar-a-lago, and then constituently, walt nauta, the other codefendant, trump s butler makes an unscheduled trip to mar-a-lago, and then he is in co
and it will come just a few months after trump s new york hush money trial starts in march. we don t know how long that case will last. but both of those criminal cases against the former president comes back dab and the middle of the 2024 political calendar. both are after the bulk of the republican primaries, but before the general election. and if that calendar seems full now, give it a couple weeks. we are all on indictment watch, waiting for a charging decision from special counsel jack smith and his investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and jack smith only has a week left if he wants to indict trump in that case before fulton county district attorney fani willis comes to a charging decision in her investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. da willis has indicated that she expects to announce that charging decision as soon as a week from monday. so, the clock is ticking. now, i know the entire country is watch