police officers accused in the death of tyre nichols appear in court for the first time. how the nichols family is reacting after today s developments, and the vice president doubling down on america s support for ukraine, what future aid could look like with a divided congress. as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. greatings i m simone sanders standing in for stephanie ruhle. donald trump and the tv network that s been loyal to him for years are both facing escalating legal troubles, stemming from false claims about her so-called stolen 2020 election. a damning legal filing has revealed that on air personalities at fox news publicly promoted those claims, while ridiculing them behind the scenes. this was all released as part of a 1. 6 billion dollar defamation suit against fox news by dominion voting systems. here is part of one text message from november 19th 2020 between tucker carlson and laura ingraham, all about trump campaign loyal lawyer, sydney powell.
for police reform. stephanie ramos in memphis. that dangerous ice storm, winter alerts across 30 states. 50 million americans. that ice storm causing those multiple accidents already. concerns over the power grid tonight. hundreds of flights canceled. and the record-breaking cold right behind it. wind chills well below zero by tomorrow morning. mireyavil villarreal in dallas. ginger zee timing it out. police appealing for the public s help. the suspect accused of brutal by beating and kidnapping a woman who is now in critical condition. authorities say he may be using social media and their warning tonight. matt gutman reporting. secretary of state antony blinken in israel tonight, urging calm on all sides after some of the worst violence in years. and the mysterious drone attacks in iran. what we re learning tonight. back here at home, the alec murdaugh trial. the new interview played for the jurors. and what he told investigators just after the murders. 6 and the de
boundaries for their children. set boundaries for adolescents. set boundaries for teenagers on the use of phones. on use of social media. it s hard to protect them. on the use of everything. it s hard but it is it is a lot more important than so many other things. okay. we re over time here, though. we will revisit this. that does it for us this morning. it is so great that yasmin vossoughian is back with us, and she picks up the coverage right now. hey, everybody, good friday morning. i m yasmin vossoughian at msnbc headquarters in new york city. we ve got a lot happening this hour. we want to start in memphis where any moment now five former police officers will be arraigned in court in connection with the death of tyre nichols. you re looking at a live cam there right now inside that courtroom. all have been charged with second degree and a number of other counts as well. authorities say nichols was beaten by officers last month following a traffic stop. he died
accused of waging war on energy in america. all of this is coming up. we want to get right away to the border story. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. dramatic new video now. let s go to it. showing the magnitude of the jeopardy to our sovereign nation. the video shows a large group of illegal immigrants bailing out of a human smuggler s truck followed by a high-speed chase. the driver later lost control and crashed that truck. after hitting speeds of 100 miles-per-hour or more. texas troopers were chasing her down and then had to tackle her down to keep her from getting away. all of this comes as homeland security secretary mayokas is in miami, florida today touting new measures the administration says will put a dent in illegal crossings. two borders. shocking numbers tell a different story than the one coming out of his mouth. cbp sources telling fox there have been nearly 300,000 gotaways just since october. those are the ones our scanners and camer
biden s border crisis new migrating north of the u.s. border as agents in new york, vermont, and new hampshire are all seeing illegal crossings now. i m sandra smith, and it s great to be with you for another week here, john. john: john roberts in washington. you are warmed up, revved up ready to go. this as america reports freezing weather not stopping migrants from making the journey across the canadian border into the united states. border patrol agents have seen 743% increase at encounters in just the last three months. more than in the previous two years combined. sandra: meanwhile, south of the border, cbp sources say nearly 300,000 known got-aways since october. that averages out to 2,450 got aways a say. john: streaming through south texas. texas dps in a high speed chase before a group of migrants fled on foot into the brush. sandra: eric shawn on the northern migrant surge but first, bill melugin is live in the rio grande valley. they do whatever they can