good morning, and welcome to your new day. it is saturday, january 15th, glad to be with you, christi. glad po to be with you, boris. we want to talk about the wicked storm plowing through parts of the country right now. 65 million of you from the midwest to the east coast are right now under winter weather alerts. but take a look at what we ve seeing here. a lot of states preparing for what meteorologists warn could be a crippling ice storm for parts of the deep south. all the way up to virginia. some regions are expected to see rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain, all of that in just 24 hours. the governors in both georgia and south carolina have now issued states of emergencies. let s get straight to allison chinchar live from the weather center. this is a complicated storms with hazardous conditions an the effects might be felt for several days after it is gone. that is right. we take a look at where the storm is itself. we have the low pressure system that is diving
that party is heading. and, of course, we re following new concerning developments with this pandemic. we ve already blown past last winter s hospitalization peak. the federal government is deploying military personnel to help strained hospitals. how much worse can it get? we ll break it down. i ll ask one michigan s doctor whose hospital is getting help from the military why he says right now is the worst point in the pandemic he has seen. we re going to start this morning there. antonia hilton and gabe gutierrez and jake ward and dr. ungerlighter. an internal medicine physician in california pacific medical center. doctor, we ll come to you in a moment. antonia, let me start with you. you re at a coney island hospital in brooklyn. it s a hospital getting help from the military. we re talking doctors, nurses, more. how are they going to use those things to help the patients? well, craig, they are all part of a surge team from the military. and like you said they are essent
single sentence that favors or even slightly sympathizes with donald trump s argument for presidential immunity. instead, the d.c. appeals court stands up trump s defenses only to knock them down one by one. the judges reached back through history citing case law from the early 1800s along with founders themselves on how they envisioned the power and limitations of the presidency. the court concludes quote, for the purposes of h criminal case, former president trump has become citizen trump with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant. on trump s argument that the separation of powers doctrine bars judicial review of executive actions, the court cited presidents nixon and truman, both of whom were found to have exceeded their authority by the supreme court. nixon on trying to shield his tapes and truman on trying to seize steel mills. they also cited an 1882 supreme court ruling that said officers of the government can be sued pulling directly from the decision, q
and sbc host, jen psaki. that interview coming up in minutes. and a very good day to all of you from nbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with the breaking news, right, now the senate is holding a sunday session as lawmakers scramble to lockdown a last-minute deal on funding for both ukraine and israel. this comes after republican scrapped a bipartisan border deal that would have finalized that budget for wartime. we have a live report ahead for you. of course, that wartime aid, in the meantime. a second vote on all hundred mayorkas impeachment. that is set for tuesday after house republicans first attempt fell short last week. today, secretary mayorkas is dismissing the vote. calling the gop s allegations against him a distraction. there are baseless allegations, kristen. that is why i am not distracted by them. i am focused on the work of the department of homeland security. i ve got a busy day today, after the show. a busy day
we ll be back here, tomorrow night, at eight pm eastern. stay right where you are because there is much more news coming up on msnbc. what happens at the supreme court this week could be the beginning of the end for donald trump and one historic way. plus, a report from behind the curtain, trump s conviction scenario. what does that mean? a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news. right now, around back houthi rebels vowing the latest american strikes will not go unanswered or unpunished. 36 targets struck, 13 locations, carried out by the united states and great britain with support from other countries. nbc news with this exclusive video of the attack from the uss eisenhower and the red sea. national security adviser, jake sullivan, emphasizing the strikes are not over yet. it began with the strikes on friday night, that is not the end of it. we intend to take condit