. >> reporter: daniel smith says he was visiting this ride when the quakes began. >> we did not feel like the normal -- this felt significant. it felt a lot more dangerous. >> reporter: japan's prime minister says there is widespread damage and numerous human casualties. officials are warning residents in some areas not to return to their homes, fearing there could be more quakes. >>> president biden released a statement last night saying he and the first lady are praying for the people of japan who have been impacted by the earthquake. he also said his administration is in touch with japanese officials and the u.s. stands ready to provide assistance. >>> a surprising discovery. how an old bomb ended up on a bay area beach. >>> criminals using ai and hacking attacks. you can spot misinformation. >>> here is a live look outside before we had to break. darren is tracking the rain and we will have an update on your first alert forecast. we will be right back. when migraine strikes are the tradeoffs of treating worth it? ubrelvy is another option, it quickly eliminates migraine pain. do

. >> american tv producer and japan resident daniel smith said he was visiting this shrine when the quakes began. >> earthquakes and tremors last for more than a couple of minutes. this felt more significant than that and a lot more dangerous. >> japan's prime minister fumio kishida says there's widespread damage. officials there are warning residents and others that they should not return to their homeses out of fear there could be more quakes. there are warnings that the other earthquakes could happen over the next couple of days. as you mentioned, lindsey, so far 48 people confirmed dead there. >> jarred hill in new york, thank you. >>> breaking overnight, south korean opposition leader lee jae-myung was airlifted to the hospital after being stabbed in the neck. he can be seen lying on the ground while a man applied a handkerchief to his neck to stop the bleeding. a hospital official says his injury is not life-threatening. the alleged attacker was quickl. he narrowly lost the 2022 presidential election. >>> now to the war in gaza, the israeli army has announced it's withdrawing thousan

american daniel smith was there. >> it started very slowly. everybody kind of laughed it off.y thought, you know, this is kind of humorous . and then, a violent shake and i mean violent. >> reporter: with the threat of a synonymy now over, japan's nuclear authority says the reactors are all fine, but large areas of the peninsula has been damaged and mudslides and broken roads account getting efforts to find survivors. officials are warning residents to stay away from their homes, with more quakes still possible over the next few days. >>> police in rochester, new york, say a man who crashed an suv loaded with gas cans outside a concert venue early yesterday appeared to be aiming for a pedestrian crossing. investigators say 35-year-old michael avery had traveled to the area from syracuse late last month, where he rented birthday hotel room and a ford exhibition. >> avery made at least half a dozen purchases of gasoline and gas containers, from different locations. avery sped up , and appears to have been intentionally driving towards the pedestrian crossing. at the same time, a

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. >> reporter: american tv producer and japan resident daniel smith says he was visiting this shrine> didn't feel like the normal -- you got earthquake you know, tremors for a couple of minutes. this felt more significant than that. and it felt a lot more dangerous. >> reporter: japan's prime minister fumio kishida says there's widespread damage and numerous human casualties and officials there are warning residents in some areas not to return to their homes, fearing there could be more quakes. all right, there are also some concerns about the rain in the region. what that could do and some of the buildings creating really again continuing dangerous situations there with the crumbling buildings and infrastructure making them even less stable. >> thank you so much jarred hill, live from new york. >>> why don't we take a live look outside on this tuesday morning and it is one of the favorite shots from mount diablo in the east bay. good morning to you clayton and we see the clouds just kind of lingering as i walked out the door this morning in the east bay. it was freezing cold and now

daniel smith was visiting this shrine when the quakes began. >> didn't feel like the normal -- you got, tremors ifer a couple of minutes. this felt more significant than that. and it felt a lot more dangerous. >> reporter: japan's prime minister says there's widespread damage and numerous human cashtis and official there are warning residents in some areas not to return to their homes fearing there could be more quakes. now there are also concerns here that rain in the region could make those already crumbling homes, buildings, the infrastructure there, even less stable. so this is far from over. reed? >> jarred. thank you for watching this this morning. thank you. >>> why don't we take a live look outside on this tuesday morning? and this is the view from our and mark hopkins cam looking east and the city is lit up. there's a little bit of fog there. and as it is the calm before the storm as we like to call it? darren, i walked out of my house today. and it was bone chilling cold. and even gianna said, it was freezing this morning. so it wasn't just a me thing. it's cold out there. >>

, then the stormy daniels case by alvin bragg, march 25th, and mar-a-lago, may 20th, set to start there fani willis, don't know when it's going to happen, but some time. you wrote in the national review in a column, we have never seen anything like 2024 promised collision of electoral politics and high stakes trials. i hope we don't see anything like it again. but what effect do you think that this is going to have on politics and the legal system? >> well, i think you are going to get a steady thrum, it's beginning today with e. jean carroll, every day will remind the public of what the allegations are in these cases. where the democrats timed the indictment so that they could be, you know, at this point during the primaries and then be tried as you were going to the run-up of the election. i don't know how many of these cases will get tried. it looks like the march 4th date is in doubt because the supreme court will decide an important issue about obstruction that's key to that case, even though the supremes will be looking at it in a different case. that could affect the march 4th da

, zeb and linda smith, jews and non-jews working together to fight against them but semitism. that's a goal and that's all going accomplish. thank you. [applause] >> before we go i disorder percival, if you just, just talk for a minute about your brother and what he's doing now and what he's facing because i think that's important. >> so my brother lives in israel, he moved to jerusalem about 14 you to go. he has three children who are currently deployed fighting in this terrible war against hamas, and he speaks treacly, he writes weekly, is a columnist for the jerusalem post and is one of our staunch advocates, one of our allies inn fighting this. i feel i can do everything again on the american front to push against anti-semitism and he's doing what he can on the interfund push against anti-semitism, and he is, he's really somewhat i'm so proud of. last night i was at a party and he met some, not jewish and told them my last name and he said your brother letter in the "washington post" made soot much to me. my brother with this letter about how when the tree of life massacre

the candidate for san francisco mayor, daniel lurie, held a summit inside the now closed mister smith's bar on seventh street, an area notorious for drug dealing and use. the owner of mister smith's, max young, says he closed the bar for good in 2019 when the drug crisis outside his door forced him out, a crisis he says is still unfolding with a drug overdose just outside his building on tuesday. >> it just doesn't feel safe. whether it's safe or not, it doesn't feel safe and that's that's the perception that we have in san francisco that we need to change to address the city's 806 fatal drug overdoses last year and ongoing fentanyl crisis. >> lurie held a summit to discuss the issue with a former prosecutor and former public defender. a big part of his plan trying to keep drug dealers out of high drug traffic areas. i would ask the da to push for electronic monitoring so an ankle monitor, a stay away order and a search condition. >> this way the sheriff can monitor where these individuals are. uh, and if they violate their stay away order, then they can be immediately picked up. >> the

stormy daniels, civil fraud trial, jack smith, the documents -- george, the list goes on. i have never seen somebody handling more on legal fronts than donald trump. the state attorney for palm beach county, florida, dave aronberg, former u.s. attorney chuck rosenberg, thank you both. it would take us, charlie sykes, probably the whole show to go through each case. the bulwark's charlie sykes, thank you for coming on this morning. >>> still ahead on "morning joe," hamas blames israel for the death of one of its senior leaders after an explosion in beirut. we'll get a live report from the region. >>> and later, we'll talk to homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas about the situation at the u.s. southern border. you're watching "morning joe." plus, special financing. shop for a limited time, only at sleep number. ♪ ♪ mom! mom! every day can be extraordinary with rich, creamy, delicious fage total yogurt. hi, i'm darlene and i lost 40 pounds with golo every day can be extraordinary with rich, in just eight months. golo has really taught me how to eat better and feel b

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classified documents and state-level cases, one in manhattan related to hush money payments to stormy daniels and in fulton county, georgia for election subversion. let's have fun with the calendar. trials, first of all, jack smith's doj case starts march 4, manhattan hush money case is scheduled for march 25, they're both the same time, that's impossible, one of them will have to give way, jack smith's other case scheduled for may 20 forget about the fulton county case, we don't have a trial date, what happened for the election, november 5, were not going to have a trial in october november, that's too close, the republican convention is july 15 and the day after jack smith's case is supposed to start on super tuesday, donald trump has to be physically in the courtroom for these cases, he can pick and choose on the civil cases but he will be off the campaign trail for two months or so for these . >> are already giving the id. -- me anxiety. the question about on the ballot or >> the 14th amendment say that anyone who engages in insurrection is out, the supreme court is taking the colorado ca

in washington, special counsel, jack smith, has charged trump with four felonies and a federal case in connection with his attempt to stay in power after the 2020 election. >> we are going to walk down to the capitol. >> reporter: there is the justice department's mar-a-lago case, charging trump with illegally handling classified documents when he brought them to his florida is eight after leaving the white house. and in georgia, fulton county da, willis, has brought a huge racketeering case against trump and 18 other people, alleging a conspiracy to steal the 2020 election. there's also a civil lawsuit in new york filed against trump and his adult sons, alleging that they fraudulently distorted the values of their robberies, which case against trump is the strongest? analysts have gone back and forth, but to some point to georgia for the decent possibility of conviction. >> even if you didn't have a direct hand in some of the efforts, that he was part of the planning, that he directed these efforts. so, that is why in a lot of ways it is the most serious, because when it comes to the

smith's, a bar on seventh street that permanently closed back in 2019. during due to the heightening drug crisis. this at their discussion, lurie said one of his main focuses is to use ankle monitors to keep track of drug dealers. i would ask the da to push for electron monitoring, so an ankle monitor, a stay away order and a search condition. >> this way the sheriff can monitor where these individuals are. uh, and if they violate their stay away order, then they can be immediately picked up. >> sfda brook jenkins says her office is already arguing for monitoring and stay at home orders, while current mayor london breed emphasizes that ankle monitoring program homes are not run from the mayor's office. >> also in san francisco, walgreens announced it plans to close another one of its stores downtown. the store at the corner of sacramento in front, will close february 27th. walgreens says several factors are considered when deciding to close a store, such as changes in customer buying habits and the dynamics of local markets. just three months ago, the co