it s 10:00 a.m. in new york, i m lindsey rise e and we are following a whirlwind of breaking news this hour, including on capitol hill where norfolk southern s embattled ceo will be in the hot seat at a hearing that begins in moments facing tough questions from senators about the toxic train derailment in ohio. what he plans to say about the numerous derailments, cleanup efforts, and his promise to a community in fear from the toxic fallout. also breaking overnight, 81 senator mitch mcconnell, the longest serving senate leader ever is in the hospital this morning after a fall. what we know about how he s doing. and more breaking news overnight. a fiery onslaught across ukraine as russia launches its biggest missile and drone attack in weeks. reporter: these are targets that were largely civilian infrastructure, and he s trying to knock out the lights. he s trying to turn off the heat, and he s trying to do it all over the country. why there are new concerns about euro
guards will throw them out. i m the president. [ bleep ] you. i m challenging all of it and the judges we re going to are judges i appointed [ bleep ] you. you re not stealing the election. why was he so sure trump was going to lose? and here s roger stone after january 6th on plans for a pardon for himself and for others who were involved in plotting to overturn the election. talk b about how many i think 132 congressmen voted with trump. that s 132 right there. big or small as you want. it s a way of saying this is so you can t run your switch on two. i m going to deal with movie poster, witch hunt 2 with a big picture of merrick garland. has it been pitched to the president? yes, it has. i believe the president s for it. the obstacles are these lily livered, weak kneed bureaucrats in the white house counsel s office and now they must be crushed because they told the president something that s not true. lily livered, weak kneed. in a statement, stone says he t
more than 450 march for our live rallies taking place in cities or new york, to nashville, to austin. of course, in parkland florida where it all started four years ago with the first march for our lives. president biden making his voice heard with these marches in the backstop, calling on congress to pass a number of reforms including an assault weapons ban. let s turn now to our nation s capital where thousands assemble to call lawmakers to take some meaningful action on gun violence. let s bring in nbc s savannah sellers now, she is live in d.c. at this rally. savannah, i will ask you first, what are you hearing at today s event there in d.c., especially with the negotiations happening in the backstop trying to come up with some gun legislation? yeah, hey, aaron, we heard a lot about that and we saw a lot about that on posters all over the place. first, let me give you a little there are scheduled to go up until two, and 2:30 pm, this was full of the way back to the mo
Room. Hi everyone. Im jessica dean in new york and we begin this hour with israels military ramping up operations in gaza, ordering the immediate evacuation of several more neighborhoods in the Southern City of rafah. Thats where more than 1 million displaced palestinians have been taking refuge its the idf saying about 300,000 have already fled. Now this is happening as a newly released state Department Report finds it, quote, reasonable to assess that america in weapons have been used by Israeli Forces in gaza in ways quote inconsistent with International Humanitarian law. We have cnns Priscilla Alvarez with more fallout from that poor but first lets go to cnn correspondent scott mclean in the dire situation in gaza and scott, israels military confirming war airstrikes. Today, this as hundreds of thousands of people are trying to leave rafah, what do we know . Yeah. So the Israeli Military ordered two parts of gaza to be evacuated, several areas of Northern Gaza. And also several par
u.n. thomas pickering on whether there is a potential endgame for israel in all of this. also ahead, a vote could come as early as this week on the next step in the house gop impeachment even as his son hunter turned the table on the committee leader demanding that he testify. it comes as court declared insurrectionist donald trump has a new sales pitch. he s a candidate who will protect democracy. all of that plus the santos saga ends in congress. so i am no longer congressman santos. i m just regular old professor major general reverend astronaut santos. protector of the realm, princess of genova. coming up, i m going to talk to a screenwriter who saw his fictional story about a conman in congress come to life over the past year. stay tuned for that conversation. you don t want to miss it. we ll begin this hour with the breaking story out of the middle east. the pentagon confirmed the uss carney shot down two drones after multiple commercial vessels were attacked in the