joining us this hour. very happy to have you with us here tonight. you know the tornadoes hit very late on friday night and that means tonight in the dark and the cold in kentucky it is a third straight night, saturday night, sunday night, and now tonight of searching for survivors. the death toll in kentucky is almost unimaginable. it stands at more than 70 already. at least 13 other americans have also had deaths attributed to the storms in arkansas, illinois, missouri, and tennessee. but even just in kentucky, it is deeply worrying that beyond the dozens of people known to have been killed already, there are more than a hundred other people who just have not been accounted for since the storms hit. more than 100, again, unaccounted for. this is night three in the cold and the dark, searching. president biden will be traveling to kentucky on wednesday. we have eyes on law enforcement and on the governor s office overnight tonight as the rescue and recovery efforts continue.
learn more over the course of this hour. but we re going to start tonight with some breaking news from washington. tonight the january 6th investigation has voted to hold trump white house chief of staff mark meadows in contempt. the committee holding him in contempt tonight means that tomorrow it ll be the full house of representatives that will vote to refer him to the u.s. justice department for federal criminal prosecution for contempt.atte now, that ll be the justice t department s independent decision, but the house will decide tomorrow to make that referral of him for potential prosecution. mark meadows is a special case here. white house chief of staff is a big deal. it s a high-ranking official, very close to the president throughout the incidents in question. that said, in this investigation he is one of nearly 300 people, 300 witnesses that have been is called by the investigation thus far and asked to provide documents and testimony.ed initially mr. meadows seeme
quote, we are under siege here at the capitol. another quote, they have breached the capitol. in the third, mark protesters are literally storming the capitol breaking windows on doors, rushing in. is trump going to say something? there is an arm standoff on the house chamber of doors. and another from inside the capitol. we are all helpless. , dozens of, techs in colluding trump officials, urged immediate action. he has to come out firmly until the protesters to dissipate. someone is going to get killed. in another mark, he needs to stop this now. a third in all caps, tell them to go home. a fourth, and i quote, he needs to calm this shit down. indeed, according to the records. multiple fox news host knew the president needed to act immediately. they texted mr. meadows, and he has turned over those texts. quote, mark, the president needs to tell people in the capital to go home. this is hurting all of us. he is destroying his legacy, laura ingraham wrote. please, get him on
reminder. we ll continue to follow those stories. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. more reports of noises from the ocean. in that desperate search for the missing sub. the lead starts right now. sounds of hope in what is still being described as very much a search and rescue mission. sensors picking up noises from the ocean, could those be from the passengers? trapped on that titanic submersible that vanished during a deep sea expedition. and another u.s. supreme court justice defending another undisclosed luxury trip paid for by another billionaire. this time it is justice samuel alito who many met with someone before the court. alito tried to get ahead of the claims. and diplomacy undone. was all that work by antony blinken in beijing ruined when president biden called xi jinping a dictator in an off the cuff remark. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start with the world lead. we need to have hope. that is the message from the u.s. coast gu
To exhaust those opportunities. in addition to pitch black conditions, what other conditions would the passengers be facing down there? the previous guest said it would be freezing teamperatures, if nt below freezing. absolutely. very cold. those would be the two that would probably effect me the most, the cold and the dark. now eventually they re going to run into a co2 buildup and that is going to be a problem coming up soon. but the first two is the cold, and the darkness. is there is a way to conserve oxygen? sleeping. you breathe less when you rest. so that would be one way to slow down. you can t stay awake for three days so they would have rested and slept somehow so that would have helped them to a degree. the more excited you get, the