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ok. in theaters april 5th. rated pg. good day, i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. yet another norfolk southern train derails this morning just as the ceo faces members of congress who have a lot of tough questions but don't always get clear answers. a full month after the train crash that got many residents sick, will the railroad keep its word to be in east palestine, ohio, into the future, and what are lawmakers willing to do to make sure he keeps his word? plus, president biden about to lay down a critical marker ahead of the 2024 presidential race unveiling his budget just about 90 minutes from now, how it will frame the critical economic and political fight with republicans going forward.

and more misery in california as a series of unrelenting storms escalates the danger and the disaster. at least a dozen people have been killed. now a new storm could dump another 8 inches of rain risking flooding in areas that are already buried under 16 feet of snow. we've got a live report on that coming up. but, we start with an extraordinary case of bad timing for norfolk southern, another train derailment reported, this one in eastern alabama just hours before a ceo alan shaw got an earful from senators, accusing him of prioritizing financial gain over public safety. a calculation critics say paved the way for last month's toxic train derailment in east palestine. this latest train derailment didn't involve any toxic chemicals or injuries, but it is the fourth derailment of a norfolk southern train in just over a month. on capitol hill, shaw who has ducked multiple town halls back

in ohio was challenged by senator ed markey about his vow to, quote, make things right, something he said repeatedly for the people of east palestine. >> when you say do the right thing, will you, again, compensate these families for their diminished, lost property value for homes and small businesses? >> senator, we've already committed $21 million, and that's a down payment. >> that is a down payment. will you commit to ensuring that these families, these innocent families do not lose their life savings in their homes and small businesses? the right thing to do is to say, yes, we will. >> senator, i'm committed to doing what's right for the community, and we're going to be there as long as it takes. >> what's right for the community will then be balanced -- which is what we can see from your stock buybacks by what's right for norfolk southern. we're not hearing the right things today. >> i want to bring in nbc ease ryan nobles who's been watching all of this unfold on capitol

hill. also with me, heather mctier tony, former epa administrator for the southeast region. she currently works with the environmental defense fund and moms clean air force. all right, ryan, so that was not a commitment to compensate people who may never be able to sell their homes. that's just one of many examples that lawmakers pushed them on, lawmakers were not shy. but what is the overall takeaway from this hearing? what is it that they want shaw to do? >> reporter: i think it's pretty clear here, chris, from the questioning that these senators would like to hold shaw on the record. they're trying to get him to commit to investments in the community that will try and get it back to what it was like before that train derailment, basically turn this community upside down. and that includes cleaning up the soil, cleaning up the air and water, fixing the railway itself and all of the ancillary pieces of infrastructure that were impacted by it. but it also means an investment specifically in the human beings that live there in the homes

that they own that are now not worth nearly as much, and a commitment to pay for their health care in the wake of everything that they've been impacted by as it relates to hazardous chemicals. listen to what bernie sanders, the senator from vermont, pressed alan shaw about just a few minutes ago. >> you talked about covering the needs of the people of east palestine. does that include paying for their health care needs? all of their health care needs? >> senator, we're going to do what's right for the citizens of -- >> what's right is to cover their health care needs. will you do that? >> everything is on the table, sir. >> reporter: and you could tell, chris, that alan shaw didn't really want to box himself in on any level and make a commitment that his company would not be able to then fulfill, and that's why he went back to that same line over and over again. we're going to do what's right by the citizens of ohio. that's not clearly what the

senators wanted to hear, but that was him trying to find a balance here as we are still at the early stages of this recovery in ohio. chris. >> so heather, if the answer is and it was repeatedly, we're going to do what's right, who gets to decide what's right? you know, and i guess i'm curious your thoughts about what you heard and can they be essentially have their feet held to the fire by whether it's by congress, by the epa, by any of the multitude of federal organizations to do what's right? >> well, it certainly sounded like he watched one of my favorite films, the 1980s classic do the right thing by spike lee. that was certainly what he said repeatedly. it came to whether or not that meets the expectations of the communities around east palestine, and communities across this country that have dealt with train derailments. the things that we're really trying to figure out here was there new information that we're

learning, and what is the risk currently today, and you're right, who's responsible for that risk. i think there's still some more explaining to do on that. >> "politico" did an analysis of train accidents in the united states, and it found that norfolk southern's accident rate rose nearly three times as fast as the industry average over the past three years. it also said, quote, the increased accident rate comes as the chemical industry predicts a rise in the amount of chemicals that will be shipped by rail, trucks, and other forms of transportation. this is something your group calls train bombs. explain a little more what we're talking about and what do we do about it so other folks don't become an east palestine? >> well, we can look to south texas and to cancer alley in louisiana to get an idea of what the impacts could be because we have communities in this country that have been suffering from this for years, and so the buildout of petrochemical facilities in the ohio and

pennsylvania area, again, is giving us an indication that this is something we must pay attention to right now. and i think there were some really good points that were made throughout the hearing that connected the number of workers to safety, and that's a key component for people in the community. how safe am i, and is actions that the railroad companies are taking in reducing the number of workers impacting that safety? that's another key component of this that should be thought through, and we should ask them some more questions about. >> let me bring in jesse kirsch who's in cleveland, who is the site of another train accident. you spent a lot of time in east palestine, jesse. i was reading a report this morning about residents. they're still complaining that they're getting sick. that there are bad smells in their house, that their lips and tongues are tingling. pledging millions of dollars is obviously great. it's a step, but i wonder if they're going to thinking that's enough or what they heard today

was enough? >> reporter: well, and chris,ky tell you that people are thinking about not just today, they're thinking about years from now, both about their health and about their financial well-being, and those are two of the things that we have repeatedly heard the railroad be asked about at town halls and again on capitol hill now. the ceo being asked about this, and i just want to flag two things from the hearing that stood out to me. alan shaw was pressed on if he would commit to paying for people's medical bills for covering people's health costs down the road as people are worried about that. he said that is something that is on the table. everything is on the table. he was also asked if he would commit to reimbursing people for property value losses. we have heard from people who think their homes are total losses now in terms of their value in the market based on what happened there, and even if there is no outlying air or water issue, there's a stigma around the community, and that is something that people are worried about. the ceo would not commit to that. those are two notable things that i think people in this

community, we've heard them asking similar questions, those are things that are going to stick out to people as they move forward trying to get a sense of what exactly doing right by this community will mean. that is the vow we continue to hear from norfolk southern. they talk about the down payment they made, but we don't get many specifics as they talked about the long-term future of that community. >> another former ep a, administrator wrote an op-ed in the "new york times," and i want to read part of it for you. it said in lieu of a comprehensive plan, the epa appears to be playing a game of crisis whac-a-mole, waiting and responding to the news cycle. for example, she says in a situation like this, the e.p.a. should immediately conduct authoritative tests and come up with a plan to address any dangers and communicate all of it loudly and clearly to the affected communities. instead, it waited a full month and then asked norfolk southern to test for dioxins and come up with a plan. as you step back now, we've got a month behind us. did the e.p.a. drop the ball here, heather?

>> well, i think that when we look at the questions that are being asked now, of course hindsight is always 2020, and part of the discussion today was to look at the communication gaps, and i think the panel did a great job of walking through each one of those agencies and identifying those gaps. but one of the things my good friend and colleague judith did talk about in that piece that she wrote was that e.p.a. has been drastically underfunded and defunded over the past few years, especially under the previous administration, and so trying to refill and then meet those standards, we are all -- this is where we all have to pull in together here. and one more thing, chris, you know, i wish we could have pan ed around a bit to that room. i know there were mothers thinking some of the same questions. were there things we could have done better, are are there places we could have made the community more aware? certainly i think the answer to that is yes, and it is very incumbent on not only the

federal government but also the state leads and especially norfolk who's responsible and has tried to be -- or is attempting to say they're going to clean up. we're still waiting on that. important for us to hold them accountable for all of that communication. >> ryan, before we go, i do want to ask you about something else on capitol hill, and that is a status check on senator mitch mcconnell who was hospitalized overnight. what happened? >> he was at a dinner for the senate leadership fund, which is a pac that supports the republican majority in the senate. it was after that event that he tripped and fell and that led to a hospital stay. last check he was still in the hospital recovering from that fall. we don't know how serious the injuries were that he sustained as a result of that fall. we are expected to get some sort of an update later this afternoon as to exactly what this means for mcconnell going forward. there's obviously two ends to this. if it's a short-term problem, likely won't be that big of a deal. the senate will continue on

business as usual. if it's a long-term problem, that could be a challenge for republicans, mcconnell of course the most powerful member of the republican caucus on the senate side. of course president biden releasing his budget today. we have a debt ceiling fight in the offing. mcconnell usually a key figure in those talks, so we'll just have to wait and see exactly just what his prognosis is here before we draw any conclusions as to how this could impact the united states senate going forward. chris. >> and i should mention that the president who's on his way to philadelphia, there was just a gaggle on board with the deputy press secretary, i think, the white house is going to put out a statement, but they say the president and first lady wish mitch mcconnell a swift recovery. thank you so much, ryan nobles, jesse kirsch, heather mcteer toney, we appreciate you being here. russia has launched its biggest aerial attack in weeks. a barrage of 81 missiles overnight in what russia says is retaliation for an incursion last week. you can see the scope of the attacks on this map. no region out of reach. people living far from the front

lines were awakened by air raid sirens. at least 11 people were killed. those missiles specifically, though, targeting energy infrastructure, knocking out power across the country. in kyiv, nearly half the city was without heat, and temperatures were down in the 40s. nbc's erin mclaughlin is on the ground in dnipro. tell us if you saw and heard anything, and how are people reacting on the ground? >> reporter: well, this is being seen by ukrainian officials as another play by the russians at propaganda, another sort of appeal to a domestic audience there in russia because militarily they accomplished very little today. what was significant was those hypersonic missiles, six of the missiles that were launched towards ukraine were hypersonic missiles. they're very expensive. they go far distances. they're very fast, and they evade ukraine's air defense systems. one of those hypersonic missiles was suspected of having attacked

kyiv, landed in a power plant compromising 40% of the city's ability to provide heat. we actually heard that missile strike when we woke up this morning, the early hours of the morning. we heard a big boom. it echoed throughout the city. that being said, the other sort of major concerning thing that happened today was the attack on the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, a missile struck, according to ukrainian officials one of the key power lines connecting that power plant to the ukrainian power grid. it's the sixth time during the war that that has happened, forcing europe's largest nuclear power plant onto backup generators concerning the director general of the iaea, take a listen to the warning he issued about the situation there today. >> this cannot go on. i am astonished by the complacency, yes, the complacency. what are we doing to prevent this from happening?

each time we are rolling a dice, and if we allow this to continue time after time, then one day our luck will run out. >> reporter: you can sense there his outrage, the fact that this has happened again for the sixth time and his warning, that being said, there is no clear answer to his question. it is not clear what is being done to prevent that from happening again given that russia currently occupies that nuclear plant. chris. >> erin mclaughlin, thank you very much for that. and moments ago, president biden landed in philadelphia. he's about to unveil his new budget setting up a battle royal with political power, bragging rights, and your tax dollars at stake. also, the relentless wind weather in california is far from over. more dangerous conditions on the way and the rising new death toll as well. plus, a stark new warning from u.s. intelligence about china's growing threat to national security, the latest from hong kong ahead.

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president's 2024 priorities, but also as "the new york times" frames it, about picking a fight with a republican opposition that's demanding severe spending cuts. so biden has really two major goals with this speech, one, he has to lay out the numbers, right? how much do we spend, who gets what? the other is pure political messaging. carol lee is traveling with the president and stewart steven ss a former chief strategist for mitt romney's 2012 campaign and a senior adviser to the lincoln project. good to have both of you. carol, it's hard to have a debate with much higher stakes than this, deciding how something that's, what, 6, $7 trillion worth of money being spent. how much do we know right now about what's in this budget proposal? >> reporter: chris a lot of what's in the president's budget proposal will sound familiar to many viewers because thaer proposals that he has put forward in the past. many of them he was unable to get passed through congress when democrats had control of the house and the senate. now, it's going to be even more

difficult for him to get these things passed with republicans having control of the house. but some of the provisions that the president is putting forward are things like expanding access to preschool, things like capping insulin costs for $35 a month for everyone, not just for seniors as the president was able to achieve last year in congress. but minimum tax for billionaires, for instance, and increasing taxes on corporations and individuals making 400 thousand dollars a year or more. the president's also proposing to cut the deficit by $3 trillion over ten years, and to shore up the medicare trust fund. but chris, the way he pays for things like that are by raising taxes on wealthier americans and corporations. that's something that republicans don't support, and so there will have to be negotiations on exactly what funding the government looks like later this year. republicans are supposed to put forward their budget next month

at some point, and there are things, chris, that the white house is hoping that there can be compromise on, things like crime prevention for instance. i spoke with the omb director about this, and she's described the president's budget as the beginning of a dialogue, chris. >> all right, stewart, there are few things more guaranteed to cause political trouble than talking about entitlements, right? medicare, social security, those kinds of things. we also know that they're running out of money. where do you see that part of the fight going? >> well, look, i think this puts the democrats in a place where they want to be. this is, as they say, a fight that they're picking. you know, there's been this big food fight inside the republican party because senate, republican senatorial campaign chair rick scott put out this plan last year that called for sun setting every government program every five years. so that means every five years you'd look at social security

and look at medicare. he put this out. it was a written document. they printed hundreds of thousands of copies of it, and mitch mcconnell acted like he'd never seen this. and it's this interparty fight. donald trump out there saying he'll pledge not to cut social security and medicare. all those things that were listed in the president's budget, if you tested those, they would all test way to the good. i mean, the people who don't want to raise taxes on people who make $400,000 or more is pretty small. people who think that corporations should pay more is almost universal. this is a good figh the democrats are going to have, and you don't have the republicans really standing for anything. >> well, to that point, i mean, isn't the republican challenge then what do you offer as an alternative, right? the biden white house i think in many cases is looking to say, okay, you think you've got a better plan? tell us exactly what it is and tell us how you're going to get

it through. >> yeah, i don't want to be on the side arguing that we shouldn't reduce insulin prices to $35 for americans, you know. i don't want to be on the side that says that people that make over $400,000 a year should pay the same taxes of people that make $70,000 a year. you know, there's been this complete collapse of any sort of republican policy proposals. you saw that in 2022 when the election played out and no one could really say what the republicans were for. i mean, i worked in the party for decades, and there used to be this thing that we like to say and we sort of believed that we were the party of big ideas, and now look who's running for president, ron desantis is running on this kind of bathroom and bedrooms plan. this is just small stuff, and i think republicans are really lost here. they don't really have any center of gravity that relates

to traditionally what a center right party would be, and look, i mean, officially the platform of the republican national committee is still to be for whatever donald trump wants. that's the platform that they passed in 2020, which just shows the complete lack of any substance or new ideas. >> i don't know how many times i've said this on the air, but to quote james carville, it's the economy stupid, but when you look ahead to 2024, how much of it is about the way the parties, the way a joe biden or a donald trump or a ron desantis present what they consider to be the priorities for how money should be spent, and how much of it is frankly where the economy goes and whether people are still feeling like they're paying too much for eggs, and whether them like they can afford that ticket to go on summer vacation? >> well, you know, i think it's an interesting test of that in 2022 when, you know, the president went out, and there was something like at the

lincoln project, we had talked about a lot that he should do, and he put democracy on the ballot. and a lot of people said you can't do that because it's going to be about gas prices. it's really going to be about grocery prices. i think it's important for campaigns to invest in what they want a race to be about. pick the fight you want to be. so usually in american politics, the bigger candidate wins, not always. i would say that didn't happen in 2016, but i think that the task for republicans here is to come up with some alternative plan that is going to be seen as somehow good for most americans, somehow decent, somehow compassionate, and that's a complete struggle the party is having without any success. >> stuart stevens, carol lee, thanks to both of you. i just want to get you caught up. we have a new update on what happened to mitch mcconnell, the minority leader. the statement from his team now,

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the weekend, while some in southern california are digging themselves out from that record-setting snow, and others have had to be rescued, including by intrepid volunteers. the situation is so desperate for some ranchers that local officials have been dropping bails of hay from helicopters to save starving cattle. we have meteorologist bill karins tracking where that storm is heading, but we're going start with jacob ward who is live in santa cruz, california. jacob, how are people preparing for the next storm when you've still got massive amounts of snow on the ground? >> reporter: well, chris, the rain is just beginning to fall here on the northern california coast, and where i'm standing in santa cruz, california, is really a place that gets it two ways. behind me you can see the river mouth where the rest of california basically drains into the ocean like a bathtub, all the northern california coastal cities like santa cruz are that drain point, and that is where you get incredible flood waters

coming out of the mountains. this is a morning really where people are, you know, slowly, i think, taking their last walk with a dog, hitting the surf one last time. but i want to show you here why it's such a big deal when the flooding hits. these huge pieces of timber you see on the beach in front of me, you know, some weighing a thousand pounds or more. those don't come from the ocean. they come from inland. they are swept out by the incredible violence in the waters when they hit, and the expectation is that as the rain that i'm beginning to feel on me now intensifies over the next 72 hours, it's not only going to bring all of this sort of debris out into the bay like it has in the past, but of course as you mentioned, there's the problem of the people at the higher elevations. if you trace these water ways up into the mountains, that is where snow is going to be hit by that rain, made even heavier. we've seen structures collapse already, and the damage is going to go on and on. that is what officials are worried about at this time. that is why the flood watch that so many millions are under is such a concern, not just here

but especially at the higher elevations, chris. >> so bill, we've got all these concerns, what can we expect from this atmospheric river storm? >> the biggest concern, chris, is going to be tonight and tomorrow morning, we're going to wonder how bad the flooding is going to be. we had this tropical pool of moisture coming off the pacific. two huge storms driving all of this rain towards the california coast as jake was mentioning. it has begun. he's right here in santa cruz. that's where some of the heavier rain is starting. we may even get thunderstorms out of this. this is not like the last couple of storms we've seen, and rainfall totals in the mountains, there are already feet of snow. some of these areas will absorb it just like a sponge, no problems. but some of the lower elevations, some of the snow melt will combine with the rivers and the heavy rain, and that's when we're really going to worry. we're also very concerned with the coastal areas, like the san lorenzo river where we could have major flooding. 16 million people are under flood watches throughout the region, and we are going to get snow out of this. some of the highest of

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statement writing california will not stand by as corporations cave to extremists and cut off critical access to reproductive care and freedom. a spokesperson for walgreen's tells nbc news that the company, quote, is deeply disappointed by the decision by the state of california not it renew our long-standing contract due to false and misleading information. $54 million is a small fraction of walgreen's nearly $133 billion in sales in the last fiscal year, but what's still to be seen is how customers will react, activists and critics are calling for a boycott. i want to bring in former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst barbara mcquade. so barbara, newsome is accusing walgreen's of giving in. other chains, cvs, rite aid have not followed suit, but legally how much of a threat could a.g.'s pose to the company? >> there is certainly some

threat here. it is disappointing for those who care about reproductive rights to see a company like walgreen's cave in to intimidation tactics. there is some threat here. there are laws in some of these states that say that these abortion pills cannot be distributed in their states, and until otherwise ruled in some ways, those laws are on the books. there is some legal risk for walgreen's. i think in the long-term those laws are likely to be struck down as in violation of the supremacy clause or even the commerce clause of the constitution because federal law typically trumps state law, but for now, for the moment, there is some legal uncertainty, and for that reason, you know, corporations like to ask that in a risk averse kind of way and perhaps they see this as the risk averse move, but if they boycott but large numbers of groups, it could be riskier to cave into the demands of the states. >> it's worth reminding people that medical abortions like the

ones we're talking about with these pills count for more than half of all abortions in the country. given those stakes and the fact that as you indicated this may be just the start, how big and how long of a fight legally could we be looking at here? >> i think it really depends, chris. there are already some lawsuits pending across the country, and the resolution of those lawsuits could give us some clarity. for example, in west virginia, a large manufacturer of these pills has sued the state of west virginia, which has banned the pill and has made some of these arguments that their law is unconstitutional and asked the law to be struck down. if they were to prevail there, then it would have a ripple effect elsewhere. we've seen challenges going one way to stop bans, some going the other way to challenge the fda's certification ruling, and so i would expect that, you know, it may take some months for these things to shake out, but perhaps in a year or so we'll have some clarity on the law on this issue. >> i want to ask you about another big case. this is arkansas governor sarah

huckabee sanders signing a measure that rolls back child labor protections. legally, what does that mean for the fight against underage workers? >> that is an interesting parallel, chris, to the other story, which is i'm sure why you're asking about them both at the same time, when you've not sort of a state versus federal faceoff in terms of what the laws are. ordinarily, states have higher levels of child protection laws than the federal government does. both of them have laws about how many hours a child can work, the -- how late they can work, how early in the morning they can work. whether they can work under certain kinds of dangerous situations, what they've done in arkansas is roll back a state law that previously said that you had to have permission from your parents before you could have a job. that's not a federal law. they can roll back their laws if they want to all the way back to federal laws. to the extent they go beyond federal laws, that's when, again, we would see this issue

at the supremacy clause intervene and say states can't go beyond those protections that the federal government has imposed. >> barbara mcquade, always great to have you on the program. thanks so much. good to see you. right now the supreme court is asking for more funding to beef up its security in the wake of roe v. wade. they've put out a new budget request, and the court is asking for almost $6 million for expanded security activities conducted by court police, another 6.5 million for physical upgrades to the courthouse itself. they're also requesting more funding for enhanced protection against cybersecurity threats they may face. the budget request notes that threat assessments have shown, quote, evolving risks that require continuous protection of those nine justices. and today new concerns over china's growing threat to u.s. national security, what xi jinping is now saying about his military, we'll take you to hong kong next. and as another norfolk southern train derails, what will congress do to hold norfolk southern accountable?

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who's calling for more quickly elevating his country's armed forces so they can quote win wars. it comes as top u.s. intel chiefs are back on capitol hill for a second day of hearings. singling out china as our most serious and consequential threat. nbc's josh ledderman is following all of those developments from hong kong, and you know xi made those remarks to china's parliament ahead of a vote to confirm his unprecedented third term as leader. talk to us about this aggressive posture he's been taking toward the u.s. and where this strained relationship may be going from here? >> reporter: well, this all takes place, chris, in the context of this big annual legislative meeting where president xi is set to start his historic third term, and so his big focus on this day of the section was on the need, in his view, to really upgrade and enhance china's military to increase its capabilities and things like emergency fields, in

bringing its industrial supply chain up to modern standards, in science and technology, and a lot of this fits into what president xi has tried to emphasize that he calls made in china 2025, which is essentially to bring the civilian and military parts of china's economy under the same umbrella, make sure that they are all rowing in the same direction. that is something the chinese government feels is necessary for it to be able to take on and have deterrence against the threats that it perceives from the u.s. and other countries just as u.s. intelligence officials, as you mentioned, avril haynes, the head of the national intelligence director is saying that china remains the number one threat and concern that they are focused about. so even as china is working to improve its own military and bring it up to a really modern day standard, the u.s. doing the same as well with president biden announcing in that budget release just today that he also

wants more for the u.s. military. about $850 billion, he wants to include which according to defense secretary austin is about 100 billion more than what was included for our military in the 2022 fiscal year. you can see both of these countries really trying to step up both their spending and their modernization of the militaries as they prepare for any potential conflict that could lie ahead as china's foreign minister just this week warns that he believes the u.s. is putting these two countries on an inevitable path to conflict, chris. >> josh lederman, thank you for that. live from hong kong. the plane that just disappeared, a highly anticipated docuseries, about how a 370 vanished without a trace nearly a decade ago, that's next. vanished without a trace nearly a decade ago, that's next. eal. wayfair deals so big that you might get a big head.

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without a trace. a netflix docuseries is taking a closer look at the mysterious flight of mh370. keir simmons has more. >> reporter: among the greatest aviation mysteries of all time, mh 370 disappeared nine years ago. the malaysia airlines passenger plane and all 239 people on board never seen again. >> planes go up, planes go down. >> reporter: now, a new three part netflix docuseries explores the theories around what happened ranging from the rational to the unbelievable. >> what planes don't do is just vanish off the face of the earth. >> reporter: a boeing 777, mh370 was a red eye from kuala lumpur, its last cryptic communication 38 minutes later. then at 2:22 a.m., the plane

suddenly and inexplicably went dark. in 2014, i reported on the desperate and ultimately doomed search for survivors. >> we're in the cockpit of a p 3 flying at about 500 feet, looking for flight 370. and it is an extraordinary expansion of ocean out there. >> reporter: nine years on, a widely accepted account is that the plane banked left, then flew south across the indian ocean for six hours before disappearing. the extensive 2 1/2 year search that followed, never finding any trace of it. since then, pieces of the plane have washed up on beaches. the netflix docuseries features devastated victims' families. it also portrays how social media with its then expanding influence helped fuel conspiracy theories. >> we received so many reports

from the social media. one claimed that it was hijacked. >> one theory is that the pilot deliberately -- a passenger jet on a routine flight. there on the radar one minute, gone the next. keir simmons, nbc news. we have a lot to cover in our second hour of "chris jansing reports." let's get right to it. at this hour, senator silenced. new video reveals january 6th rioters trashed the office of a republican senator. so why won't he talk about it? what he told our reporter. chilling new details in the kidn