on msnbc, the tsunami warning in japan after a series of powerful earthquakes erupted off the country s coast. fires breaking out, collapsed homes, tremors felt even in the capital city of tokyo. we ll have a live report with the latest in israel, a barrage of rockets fired toward tel aviv with prime minister netanyahu saying the war is expected to go on for many more months. what that will look like. the rising tensions in the region after a u.s. helicopter sunk three houthi rebel ships. just two weeks left before the caucuses. candidates barnstorming the states. who will come out on top. happy new year to you, it is 10:00 a.m., i m frances rivera reporting from new york city. we begin with the breaking news out of japan. overnight a series of strong earthquakes in the sea of japan prompting a tsunami warning among the nation s western and coastal regions. one quake reaching a magnitude of 7.6 grounding commercial flights and halting rail services for the affected
going to do now? we may get some early answers when the white house briefing starts just a few minutes from now. and we have some brand-new information about the two americans who survived. plus, one republican lawmaker calling bs on tucker carlson s narrative that january 6th was a peaceful protest. another republican calling it flat out a lie. the capitol police are going further, insisting it invites the prospect of more antigovernment violence. and president biden s big pitch for 2024 that he s the only one who can save medicare. how it fits with his larger message to voters and contrasts with maga republicans he says are intent on making things worse. but, we begin with that breaking news. two of the four americans kidnapped in mexico just a few days ago have been murdered. two others are alive and we just learned minutes ago that they are now back across the border to the u.s. one of them, though, injured. a state department briefing is scheduled next hour with ke
any safety risks because there was an urgency here. this balloon is not armed, it does not pose some physical threat to the united states, even from an intelligence perspective. the chinese have much more effective ways of picking up intelligence from the satellites and otherwise. the fact that the president said what he said about taking care of it. now we have the physical fact that the balloon is heading towards the atlantic. these airports in north and south carolina are being closed for the moment. it does seem to set the stage and present an opportunity to have this shot down. it is really not a reversal. i think they ve been preparing for this and contingency planning. once it is not overland, it changes the calculus. general, weigh in for me if you will, you heard the presidents words there, we are going to take care of this. from your estimation, what is taking care of this look like and what are the risks and calculations going into that decision? i think what
concentration. long-term the fix is making sure we have more producers and more competition in the market so we re not relying on just one company. it s so crazy, isn t it? we re talking about baby formula, which seems outrageous. we can t get parents baby formula? you just talked about it. there is such a market concentration throughout our economy. we re talking about this whether you re talking about baby formula, computer chips, during covid we couldn t get masks, we couldn t get medication because china was making 95% of the medicines. there is such a market concentration, this is literally a national security issue, isn t it? absolutely. particularly with food, we have long understood that we need to be able to produce our own food. i think the exact same thing is true about other essentials including medication. the solution is to make sure there are not just one or two companies controlling things, but instead that we have a lot of different producers in different
A new hour of msnbcs Special Coverage of the israelhamas war. Im stephanie ruhle, live from Msnbc Headquarters in new york city. We begin this hour with breaking news. We have just learned that the u. S. Has confirmed the death of another american killed in israel. That brings a death toll to 30 was citizens of 13 americans remain unaccounted for. That is all according to the State Department. This comes as we learned of a Key Development in the ongng effort to get americans the door trapped in gaza out of the war zone. The Palestinian Embassy says that starting tomorrow at 9 am local time, Foreignnaonals Inside Gaza can cross the rafah border into. Egypt at the same time, humanitarian aid will be moved into the region. This comes as the world rates for unanticipated Granite Bay Shunt of israel. They saw on your screen is a live shot from the gaza strip where it is now one a amodei morning. New video provided by the israeli army shows israeli troops gathering near the border. They have