just a short time ago president biden spoke at length about criticism of his administration s fight against covid, and specifically about what vice president harris said in a recent interview that the administration didn t see the omicron variant coming. here is the exchange with abc s david muir. reporter: the vice president said in recent days that that you didn t see delta coming. you didn t see omicron coming. how did you get it wrong? how d we get it wrong? nobody saw it coming. nobody in the whole world. who saw it coming? did the administration not expect that there could be moments like this one where you d have a highly transmissible variant? sure. it was possible. it was possible there could be other variants that come along. that s possible. but what do you plan for? you plan for what you think is available. that is, the most likely threat that s exists at the time and you respond to it. and i think that that s exactly what we ve done and that s for e
welcome to alex witt reports . we begin with the concept of double trouble for donald trump with new york state ceased to poise his ethics tomorrow unless he comes up with more than $454 million. trump prosperous bank accounts and properties could be under control of the courts by the end of today. and trump will attend tomorrow s hearing and has many case where stormy daniels says that she is ready to testify. a case that can make trump the first former u.s. president to face a criminal trial. this is not about party this is not about politics. this is about corruption and criminality. we are talking about an individual who ordered essentially a terrorist attack on the capital of the united states in order to retain power. that is not about being a republican. it is not about being a democrat. it is about being and make an ethical individual. also knew today and trump s fulton county election racketeering case, the ones involving when he describes as a perfect phone cal
collapse begins. now, i-95 is now closed in both directions here in northeast philadelphia. state leaders say a tanker truck caught fire under the overpass and the heat caused a portion of i-95 s northbound lane to come crashing down. this compromising the southbound lanes. last night demolition crews started chipping oea way at the wreckage. one car is still stuck under the rumble a long haul to repair one of the busiest highways in pennsylvania. retired philadelphia police sergeant telling fox news this morning some drivers including himself drove over those southbound lanes with seconds to spare. i saw the black smoke, figured it was a car on fire on 95 in philadelphia. not unusual. as i was driving, realized i had to go through it because i was already past the exit. i hit a bump that was essentially the road getting ready to collapse. thank god state police closed it down shortly after. it was literally like driving off a curb and that s how heavy it was. buttigieg s
this is america s newsroom. terrible situation there. she was not in san francisco at the time so she got a call and it happened sometime in the middle of the night. we ll get more details, we believe, this morning and we ll bring them to you. bill: if i m correct, their home is in pacific heights in san francisco. high living as you know and a home in napa valley. this happened in san francisco according to the reporting. you think about crime and how we ve been talking about it for two years. lee zeldin is the republican candidate in new york. a month ago he had a random shooting in his front yard where his two daughters were home. point being depending the circumstances of this story, crime hits everybody. dana: there was also the home intrusion and robbery of the democratic candidate in los angeles running for mayor, her name is escaping me at the moment but she also remember had the gun stolen from her home. still don t have information about how that happened. b
inflation that is not going down significantly. we will have the latest on the midterms including a fallout from all this week s debates. but, first up, the preelection economy where it stands. white house correspondent jackii heinrich starts us off from the north lawn. good evening, bret. the president is in syracuse touting the biden administration investment and praising today s economic report. the data is not what it seems on the surface. great economic report today. the g.d.p. report. things are looking good. at first glance today s g.d.p. report suggests the u.s. economy is turning around after two consecutive quarters of negative growth. but a closer look shows the 2.6% growth was driven by flux yaptions in international trade, not reflecting the underlying health of the economy and increased government spending. economists think both will drop off in quarter four. moreover, consumer spending is slowing as inflation climbs faster than wages. moody s chief econom