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we re live on the hill with our team in a minute and live on the ground in kentucky where the governor finished a tour of one of the hardest hit areas in the tornado outbreak. we ll take you there. what abortion providers in texas are asking the supreme court today. the request they re making to the justices and why the state is trying to stop them. i m hallie jackson in washington with a ton to get to with all of it happening or just about to. the contempt vote against former trump chief of staff mark meadows and you can bet you will see fiery floor speeches when the house starts debate around 3:30, with vice chair liz cheney revealing more text messages from republican lawmakers basically begging meadows to have the president do something to stop the violence. the committee planning more depositions, with the guy you see there, former trump adviser stephen miller, supposed to show up today, tbd on whether that happened. we saw the d.c. attorney general announce a ....
about in the fields and the farms. that gives you a sense of the scene here on the ground in mayfield. and it s not just mayfield. we just spoke with scott jennings from dawson springs. there s 100 people unaccounted for. 1,000 homes and structures in the state just destroyed. this all started friday night with these storms touching down first in arkansas. they hit a nursing home there. one person died there. the swarm of twisters then tore a path across 200 miles in kentucky. one tornado slams into a family-run candle factory in mayfield. the building was leveled. now, 110 people scheduled to work that shift, it s unclear how many people were in the building at that exact moment that it hit. rescuers crawling over the dead to get to the living. at this point, eight people were confirmed dead. eight unaccounted for. the unimaginable loss there that some had feared is terrible. but maybe not as bad as was feared before. earlier this morning, i spoke to a man whose pharma ....
and washington and tehran seem far from the deal. i will talk to anne applebaum and ian bremmer all about it. then, merkel s era ended with a song. and now the scholz era has begun. what to expect from europe s most richest and powerful nation? i ll ask an expert. also, syria descends into a narco state as the new york times reports its top export now is illegal amphetamines. i will talk to one of the reporters about that harrowing story. finally, does the nobel peace prize need a rethink? i ll explore. first, here s my take. in america we tend to listen with rapt attention to the wisdom of people who have succeeded in the private sector. if they made billions, we think surely they must have profound insights into the world. and when the person speaking is obviously brilliant, this adds to our veneration. so when somebody as staggeringly rich and staggeringly intelligent as elon musk talks, people listen. what came out of elon musk s mouth this week wa ....
through eight states. entire towns leveled in the blink of an eye is a the storm swept through friday night. officials say one single tornado actually carved a path of destruction more than 200 miles long and they fear more than 80 people may have been killed. search-and-rescue teams are working around the clock for survivors who may be trapped under mountains of debris. the heads of homeland security and fema are in the region today bringing with them much-needed federal resources. mayfield, kentucky is seeing some of the worst of the damage. a few buildings left standing in the town of roughly 10,000. rescuers sifting through a collapsed candle factory there where more than 100 people were working and so far only about 40 people have been rescued from the wreckage. and new video shows what s left of an amazon warehouse in edwardsville, illinois. at least six people died when the building collapsed during a violent tornado there: people are considered dead and the scal ....
prices, high consumer spending and markets fighting off fears of the omicron variant. those are all positive signs pointing to a strong economy, wages, also expected to increase for employees next year. the white house working to temper expectations ahead of this report. janet yellen reportedly urging lawmakers not to be spooked by new inflation numbers as they continue to consider the price tag of president biden s social spending bill. what does all this really mean? let s bring in christine romans. when it comes to higher prices, look, we can all attest to that. we have seen it in different areas. what does this report tell us? these are the numbers that really quantify the gut punch for american consumers. that gut punch that feels like it really peaked in november. 6.8% is a big number. back to the 80s when stevie wonder and ebony and ivory was at the top of the charts, we were wearing clogs. this is not something we have seen in modern times, numbers like this. ....