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a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we re beginning with the breaking news, a tsunami advisory currently in effect for the entire pacific coast as well as alaska. it comes after an underwater volcano erupted early this morning off the coast of tonga in the pacific ocean. you can see here that nation s largest island was hit by some pretty big waves. just last hour, though, hawaii ended their tsunami advisory. no major damage or injuries being reported at this hour, only some minor flooding. let s go right to nbc s guad venegas. i m going to be honest and tell you i got an email from a friend from new port beach saying they were alarmed about it and wanted to know what the latest was. reporter: right, so, a lot of people saw the alerts. they ve been seeing posts on social media talking about the tsunami. a lot of the images that we ve seen that we were just showing come from tonga. this is where th ....
able to safely keep our children in school. every jurisdiction is going to have to make these decisions locally. but what i will say is the most important thing we can do is get our children vaccinated. get our teachers vaccinated, get our teenagers vaccinated. and then, to practice all of those layered mitigation strategies that have been proven to work. well, the president facing all of this and more, as he makes his way back to the white house after spending saturday in nevada, where he and other top democrats paid tribute to the late senate majority leader harry reid. harry cared so much about his fellow americans. and so little about what anybody thought of him. it was all search light, no spotlight. during my time in the senate, he was more generous to me than i have any right to expect. he was one of the first people to encourage me to run for president. believing that despite my youth, despite my inexperience, despite the fact that i was african-american, ....
a few of us got to see a white christmas. this cloud brought rain and health snow in the north during boxing day with more cloud and rain waiting in the wings down to the south west. the big story for this week will be this surge of very, very mild air wafting up from the south and affecting all parts of the uk as we move towards the end. hello and thank you forjoining us. sorry for the interruption there from the weather in our headlines but let s get straight on to our top story. and that is leaders from around the world have been paying tribute to desmond tutu one of the heroes of the anti apartheid movement who s died at the age of 90. president biden praised the courage and moral clarity of the former archbishop of cape town. the un secretary general, antonio guterres, called him an inspiration to generations. our africa correspondent andrew harding looks back at his life. raise our hands and we say we will be free! desmond tutu was an exuberant figure, an outs ....
a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we re beginning this hour with two high profile trials that have brought race and justice into focus. kyle rittenhouse was acquitted, found not guilty on all charges. it s hard to reconcile the verdict with the experience that we as african americans have faced over the last several decades. this trial for us is a warning shot that vigilante justice is allowed in this country or in particular communities. and tomorrow, closing arguments are expected to begin in yet another murder trial dealing with questions of self-defense. a nearly all-white jury will hear closing arguments in the trial of three white men charged with killing ahmaud arbery while he was jogging through a georgia neighborhood last year. nbc s stephanie stanton is following the story from georgia. welcome, stephanie. what can we expect from closing arguments tomorrow? reporter: g ....
rittenhouse. urging people to avoid the city this week. i think everyone is in limbo, scared. we re really fragile right now. rittenhouse is charged with six crimes related to the night he shot three people, killing two and wounding another with an assault rifle during protesters following the police shooting of a black man. the most serious charge is intengal homicide. rittenhouse testified it was self-defense. i didn t do anything wrong. i defended myself. some say it was an emotional moment. others say it was all for show. nb star lebron james tweeting what tears? i didn t see one. the judge in the case says he s inclined to let the jury consider lesser charges but he hasn t issued his final ruling. this case hasn t gone so well for the prosecution, the request for lesser included offenses is probably more to get some conviction on any crime because they may not be feeling any confident about first degree homicide at this point. there are currently 18 jur ....