why the nichols family is criticizing the investigation. plus, we re talking to troy carter. dangerous weather across the south and midwest being blamed for at least one death in texas. we re live with what s expected to be a multi-day ice storm and where it s headed next. the high-stakes meeting today between secretary of state antony blinken and the head of hamas. and an exclusive interview with homeland secretary alejandro majorca. it s my hope they take that problem and they fix it. we begin this hour in memphis where more first responders are facing disciplinary action over the tyre nichols death. the memphis police department now says two more officers were relieved of duty after the brutal and deadly beating of nichols which was captured on video. one of the newly named officers preston hemphill was involved in the initial traffic stop and used a taser on nichols before he fled from police. his lawyer says he was never present at the second seen. lawyer
the attorney of the officer said he was not present at the scene where the five officers were seen beating nichols. all this plays out in memphis. on capitol hill there s new movement around potential police reform. can it get bipartisan backing in a divided congress? meanwhile, breaking news on the house fire surrounding embattled congressman george santos. extreme cold and dangerous conditions across a dozen states. 37 million people are under some sort of winter weather alert. the bitter blast of ice, snow and cold temperatures bringing a host of woes in travel reports. the icing and sleet is much harder to deal with than the snow. where the storm is heading, coming up. plus, on the run. an urgent manhunt is under way for a man accused of torturing a woman he held captive in oregon. police say it s not the first time he has done this. why they are urging women who use dating apps to be on alert. we will start out with the firings in the aftermath of tyre nichol
josé. kelly cobiella in jerusalem, thank you so much. that wraps up the hour for me. i am josé diaz-balart. you can reach me on twitter and instagram @jdbalart. lindsey reiser picks up here. good tuesday morning. i am lindsey reiser at msnbc headquarters in new york. we are following a number of fast-moving stories this morning, including new repercussions and more calls for transparency a after a wave of disciplinary action across the police and fire departments. three fire department personnel are out of a job. rereached out to all three and have not heard back. and the seventh memphis officer has also been relieved of duty.
transparency a weirdly unanimous call for transparency, which is an interesting moment in the narrative arc of this story. i think there s a layer of transparency that everyone is skating over but i think is nils initially very important. everyone is assuming that when bill barr says he intends to release the principal conclusions as early as this weekend, that he just means here s how many people we indicted, here s the cases we brought, etc. i m not sure why people should assume that. to me that sentence read like maybe prepared an executive summary that identifies the principal conclusions at a high level of altitude without getting into some of the more detailed material and he s going to review that. i m just making this up.
rosenstein has consulted on what is the declassification picture here? declassification can take forever. it s very complicated at times. and so i don t think mueller would throw raw on the ag s desk without saying i have a otherwise we d be in weeks of declassification conversations. i think that s largely done and that s a good thing for america. sarah sanders who says we look forwithwaard to the proces taking its course. chuckb schumer and nancy pelosi who said they don t want to give into president trump. but when you see from mcconnell and jack reed a sort of call for transparency a weirdly unanimous call for transparency, which is an interesting moment in the