karine: look. i'm not going to speak to a random person -- i don't know who is person is what i can say is look, obviously, matt miller will speak for himself. what i can say is, there is -- there are steps that were taken here that's really important and critical. that started with this president starting a framework that was agreed upon by the world back in may. and that was because of this president. that was because he was able to lay out his thoughts, his thinking on how to move forward with this negotiation. what i said before, this is someone who understands foreign policy as i'm talking about the president. he understands how difficult it is. this was not an easy one. and so he has the experience, was able to get that going, to get that started. so this has been going on for some time. it has. i mean that's just the reality of it. that's the facts of it. have we been working closely with the incoming trump administration, their transition team? yes. we have been very forthcoming about that.

karine: that's not what i said. reporter: it's not president biden and it's not vice president -- karine: i'm regretting this right now. regretting all of this. that's not what i said. i said that -- you asked me about what 2028 is going to look like, between now and then. post this president's tenure. that's not for me to decide. that's not for me to speak to. i could only speak about the here and now and that's why i appreciate this job and what i'm doing right now. reporter: and president biden says that he's not going to be out of sight, out of mind. but isn't that what voters basically said that they wanted? is him gone? karine: so, look, this is a president that has served more than 50 years. who has given all of himself, if you will, right? as a public servant. whether as a senator, as a local elected official, as vice president and now as president. i think anybody who has served that long and does it from their heart and soul, because they believe this country deserves so much more, they believe that the am

do you like karine jean-pierre? >> oh, my gosh. [laughter] >> biggest fan.achel: what do you think of the story, karine jean-pierre saying she has the best team in the business. she posted this on x with a picture of her team. she says here's to the best team in the business. i couldn't do it without you. >> this is called smoking your own product. [laughter] >> this is -- you know, so i covered the white house over much of the past 20 years and i have to say -- and we've had some rough ones. >>> .we've had some okay ones. we've had some really great ones. rachel: kayleigh mcenany. >> one of the best. this team and her in particular has to go -- will go down in history as the most ridiculously, absurdly under -- i mean, completely unbelievable, not -- no credibility. she never knew anything. she didn't pull off that she knew anything. she went out there and faked it every single day and what's really amazing about it is that these people, you know, she pulls this off and she still fails even though she's got the entire press basically in her corner, willing

that's what turn people most off about karine jean-pierre and jen psaki.lly when you're working for joe biden that the toughest job on the planet to make that guy to make his or could look at. teasley with the lowest approval numbers that we sing quite frankly since jimmy carter and richard nixon. two weeks to go watch out for the pardons. thank you for joining us. senator chuck schumer pushed back when asked if he misled americans about biden's cognitive decline. >> we did not. what let's look at president biden. he had amazing record use a patriot. becca did not end there, we have the full tape and you will see it. u.s. steel and nippon steel suing president biden for blocking the deal. a full report on that is next. ♪ as we went on the market. one hour's worth of business. this is a monday morning valley, the dow is up 230 points, that would be a half a percentage point. the nasdaq. strong, 1.7% 347 points. nippon steel is suing president biden over his decision to block the deal, lydia hu joins us from pittsburgh read what grounds are they suing? >> go

hello, i'm karin giannone. this is the context on bbc news. president trump tells the world economic forum in davos that global oil prices should be lowered to end the $500 billion stargate joint venture aims to build a network of data centres across the us. you're watching the context. it's time for our our new weekly segment — ai decoded. welcome to ai decoded, that time of the week when we look in depth at some of the most eye catching stories in the world of artificial intellligence. i'm karin giannone, sitting in for christian who's in washington this week.this week america stole the limelight with regards to artificial intelligence the $500 billion stargate joint venture aims to build a network of data centres across the us. you're watching the context. it's time for our our new weekly segment — ai decoded. when we look in depth at some of the most eye catching stories in the world of artificial intellligence. i'm karin giannone, sitting in for christian who's in washington this week.this week america stole importance of al to the nation

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a member of the outgoing team is karine jean-pierre, the press secretary for president biden.this on social media -- charlie's beside himself already. [laughter] here's to the best team in the business. i couldn't do do it without you. sort of wonder how she would be without them. rachel: wow. charlie: exactly are. no, she couldn't. guy: and, look, in fairness, when you're doing a tough job, and she has one, and you have that camaraderie, you want to pay tribute to the people you work with. but this sort of has the same vibe as someone on the chicago white sox putting out a team photo and and being, like, what an amazing group -- they lost 121 games in chicago this past season. that's the baseball equivalent of this press if shop. i understand that president biden didn't give them much to work with, right? it's very hard to speak on his behalf and defend him. but with all respect, she is uniquely bad at this job. charlie: and she has the entire press corps almost exclusively behind her. they're doing her work for her, and she still is a complete disaster. rachel: that's why i

then karine jean-pierre took over the briefings every day for two years. the white house press corps became as openly hostile to karine jean-pierre as they have ever been to a white house press secretary, including the famously beleaguered ron ziegler of the nixon white house, who had the impossible press secretary job of trying to defend a criminal president. the white house press corps attacked karine jean-pierre more than they ever attacked ron ziegler because although there are some able and honorable reporters in that room as a group, they have absolutely no sense of balance whatsoever. and as of tonight, there is no white house briefing even scheduled. none. and there is not a single complaint from the white house press corps. they could turn on their cameras and scream at the empty podium and televise that to show their outrage at not being allowed to ask a single question of the white house press secretary, but they would never dare do that in the trump white house. we all know that life isn't fair, and washington certainly isn't fair. and the whit

i think you've seen it, but let's look at it again. >> reporter: thank you, karine. again -- >> i, well, you know -- >> reporter: -- in the briefing, thank you for, you could have stopped taking the hard questions years ago, and you didn't. so we appreciate it. >> over two years, my friend, this is, let's say, one last dance. i don't know how i'm going to fill my dance card. how will i fill that void without you? [laughter] >> reporter: you tell me. [laughter] you tell me. so -- >> start some rumors many in here, i guess. [laughter] if. >> he's getting red too. stuart: you know, brian, they have a cupid of contentious relationship. but i think that's a nice way to go out. what say you? >> it is. jen psaki, i thought, was very -- there was a lot of sparring there too, i thought it was a classy way to go out, and it was good that she kept on calling on him and vice versa. you know, the it's just a shame there weren't more people who were challenging the administration. and i think that's going to be one of the stories, stuart. i know whatever happens between them, unli

get this, as details of the deal got there is backlash around karine jean-pierre. in addition to blocking john kirby from speaking we have our senior white house correspondent jackui heinrich reporting that karine jean-pierre delayed news of the are he lease of those two american hostages by over an hour. i can understand wanting to say goodbye at the briefing room. the news comes first and especially american hostages should come first. that tension between karine jean-pierre and john kirby, they deny it in public but it is obviously there. maybe we'll read about it in a book one day. >> bill: calendar says three or four days from now to get a deal done before the incoming new administration on monday. speaking on that, this is on the line right now. >> i have a warm spot in my heart for tiktok. i won youth by 34 points. there are those that say that tiktok had something to do with that. >> bill: is time ticking down and running down for tiktok? can it be revived under new ownership? set to be shut down on sunday. thousands of others in thousand tammy's home is go

let's bring in bill karins now, firefighters catching a small break with the winds but how does it lookn the days to cocome? >> lester, it's important we get these containment numbers up in the next two to three days. because the santa ana winds will return early next week. this is the lowest the winds have been since the fires erupted two, three days ago. as we go through tomorrow the afternoon, thab they kick up a little bit into the 20 to 30 miles per hour range. that really shouldn't hamper any of the fire fighting efforts. we do expect the santa ana winds to return. strong high pressure comes down from the pacific northwest. this increases the pressure gradient in southern california. that is the santa ana winds, and we think we could get wind gusts in the 40 to 60 mile per hour range monday night into tuesday. now, this isn't 80 to 100 like we just saw. but this still is strong enough to cause significant problems, and also the big climate headline today, we just found out that 2024 was the warmest year ever recorded on planet earth. >> bill karins, thank you so much. > now to the

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as karine noted president biden will deliver an address on the state department on the united states position in the world as he hands it off to the incoming administration. the state department, as many of you know, is where president biden delivered his first foreign policy address in february of 2021. it was a very different world then. we were still in the midst of a devastating health and economic crisis. with our alliances fraying and fragile. and our competitors and adversaries on the march growing stronger. the president spoke at that time about the urgency of meeting the challenges of this world in a period of profound transition and change. the post-cold war era had ended. the united states was in a contest for what comes next. economically, technologically and with respect to values and vision for the world. a time of change in transition like that has brought geopolitical turbulence, technological disruption, the pressures of an energy transition and more. we have had a lot thrown at us. but as we pass the baton to our successor. the president will report with confidence

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. >>> joining us now is nbc news weather anchor bill karins. this is just beyond description.obviously. how did it get out of control so fast? talk to me about the winds. we haven't talked about how dry it has been. i was not aware it has been so many months without rain. >> yeah, the rainy season begins in november and it hasn't rained. that's why we have gone eight months since significant rain in southern california. we knew this high wind event was going to happen. and that by itself was pretty historic. mammoth, 135. kirkwood, 176 mile-per-hour wind gusts. burbank gusted to 90 miles per l hour. so the wind event itself did significant damage. and throw in the mix, this urban wild fire, and that is why we have this just epic catastrophe, thousands of structures lost. when this is all added up, this will likely end up one of the most destructive wild fires in california history. this is one of the fires we are tracking, the big one is the palisades fire. malibu overnight. the eaton fire exploded. the woodley fire is a smaller one. the hurst fire is about 505 acres just to t

white house press secretary karine jean-pierre says it's the best in the business, her words. secretary of state anthony blinken tells the new york times that he and biden made the right calls on afghanistan, ukraine and gaza. two news items on the president. biden angrily brushed off reporters when questioned about his age, he said is no more world leader than anyone he met in your old didi life. he gave out freedom metals, the recipients included hillary clinton, the radical george soros and the soccer player lionel messi did not want to receive a metal wall and sent no one's looking out for him. two weeks to the inauguration, the first full week of trading at 25. a massive storm that hit 60 million americans. a lot going on monday january the sixth 2025. "varney & company" is about to begin. stuart: i think the song is about me, i'm back to two wonderful weeks of vacation. >> you look relaxed. >> i feel relaxed. it is nice to get back to normal to a schedule of getting on with life. >> this is the week to do that. here we go, congress will count and certify the results of t

nbc's antonia hylton reporting from philadelphia, and nbc meteorologist bill karins is here with me. it just looks cold where you are. but what kind of impact are we seeing from this winter storm. >> reporter: it's a little chilly. thankfully i don't have snow piling up on my neck like i did a little while ago. we are looking at a couple of inches piling up on the ground. in some parts of this region, as much as a foot. in kansas, more than a foot of snow in some cases. if you don't have to be on the roads, necessary errands or a job you have to work for in person today, experts say you might want to avoid going out there and it's even worse if you are planning to travel by plane today, especially if you're in the dmv area, in dallas and missouri, that's where we're seeing a lot of trouble with flights. we're at almost 5,000 delays today, and almost 2,000 cancellations. just here on the ground in the city of philadelphia our team has been here all day, on some of the roads that aren't cleared quite as well, we have seen cars slipping and sliding in some cases. that's what's to expect

joining us now, maggie vespa and bill karins. maggie, let me start with you. see a lot of snow. what are conditions like there now? >> reporter: awful and brutally cold. the snowfall was intense. look at these cars. they clearly have not moved since the snow started. i'm realizing how stupid it was to try to walk through this on television, but here we are. the exact numbers i believed to bill. forecasters say this is probably the largest snowstorm in roughly a decade and cleanup could take days as we're talking about a one-two punch of ice covering the roads, the highways, leading to scenes you just saw on saturday and on sunday, the snow rolled in. again, a foot in some areas or more on top of the ice so dozens of wrecks and injuries on the highways, here in the city, a lot of cars stuck, digging their way out to go to work today. they are asking everyone to stay home. and air travel, it is wreaking havoc at the end of the holiday season. a lot of students trying to get back to campus. people who stayed with family a little longer until the new year are stra

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karine jean-pierre is not having it. >> no.fortunate is it's one thing if it's an msnbc talking point where we know a lot of people aren't watching. but it's another one it's influencing policy. we know the biden administration devoted a number of resources to going after what they viewed as the biggest concern, white supremacy. you think there are limited resources when you are allocating that money, those people to look into something that at this point there's not a lot of reason to think is a concern for crime in america. you are taking those resources away from looking into people who likely are going to be terminals, we have no idea who's coming across the border so unfortunately this is the position we are in. >> trace: that's exactly right. go after the parents, not the terrorists. kamala harris leading the pledge of allegiance, watch. >> please join me in pledging allegiance to our flag. i pledge of allegiance to the united states of america and to the republic of which it stands one nation under god indivisible with l

dana: we saw hunter biden and karine jean-pierre as well.ially making a decision to to go dark after the supreme court upheld the divest or ban law. president-elect trump says he's willing to work with the social media giant. he posted a simple message saying save tiktok. madeleine rivera is live at the white house with more. >> reporter: good morning. tiktok went offline about two hours before the law was supposed to take effect. you'll see a message that a says, sorry, tiktok is not available right now. while banning tiktok has been enacted in the u.s., unfortunately, that means you can't use tiktok for now. the app also suggests it might not be gone for too long. the message goes on to say we are fortunate that president trump has indicated he work with us on a solution to reinstate tiktok once he takes office. please stay tuned. president-elect trump posted on truth social minutes ago asking companies not to let tiktok go dark. he says he will be issuing an executive order tomorrow to extend the period of time before the law's prohibitio

i didn't justly want to jen psaki: i left went to karine jean-pierre. i left it in the little drawer. are not only signed the white house press secretary desk, but i had blake do it too. what a special moment now that we know the contents of that letter. >> i was just looking at it. it's only two code paragraphs. and the second paragraph is really short. it's one sentence. [laughter] "may god bless you and guide you as he has guided our beloved country since the founding." not a lot of words. the president was on camera when he was trying to find the letter biden left behind. just the way things laid out with biden in his last 30 days. we will probably forget the acrimony he must've been feeling, but some things will be lasting. he said there's only been seven presidents -- this was in peter's report -- you have ever gotten a letter like this left by a predecessor. only six of them were left for the opposite party. that's 45 presidents, because the couple did not serve double terms. grover and donald trump the first time around. they were not consecutiv

hello i'm karin giannone.a few minutes, we'll have live coverage of prime minister's questions. prince harry has reached an out of court settlement with the owners of the sun in a long running case linked to phone hacking. news group newspapers, which publishes the sun, offered a full and unequivocal apology to the prince, for serious intrusions into his private life. it will pay substantial undisclosed damages. it's also apologised for intruding into the private life of his late mother, diana, princess of wales. prince harry's lawyer has called on police to investigate the company. prince harry was not in court — but his barrister, david sherborne, gave this statement to the reporters gathered outside. at her trial in 2014, rebekah brooks said, when i was editor of the sun, we ran a clean ship. now, ten years later, when she is ceo of the company, they now admit, when she was editor of the sun, they ran a criminal enterprise. farfrom being relics of a distant past, many of those behind these unlawful practice

. >> bill karins is tracking the fire threat.ll begin with nbc national climate reporter, chase cain. chase, some of the video we're seeing already really doesn't look good. what do we know? what's happening now? what are officials bracing for? >> reporter: well, some good news kate is the fire that was burning in the hollywood hills, they were able to contain that fire quickly. but that is not the case with the much bigger fire burning in the pacific palisades. it exploded to more than 200 acres in just a matter of minutes. officials are working to quickly evacuate people from homes. they've started shutting off power in the area to make sure there aren't any new fires started by potentially downed power lines. the fire is moving quickly. you mentioned the strong sustained winds with potential of winds gusting to hurricane force. imagine you have these dry conditions. los angeles is in a moderate drought. it's been more than eight months since we've had significant rain here in southern california. you have all this dry brush. y

and nbc news meteorologist bill karins here with me in studio.s start with you out there. pacific palisades is one of the hardest hit communities. that is clear. what are you hearing from people on the ground there today? >> reporter: the sentiment like a bomb went off is absolutely true. you are looking at the frame of a car that has been almost melted into the ground here. this neighborhood as we have been saying and repeated all day long is essentially gone. there is fairly a homestanding. there is one home out of the dozens in the neighborhood that we are in. we spoke to one of the homeowners not too long ago in this neighborhood. he didn't have a chance to grab anything. had to leave everything and go and was coming back to find absolutely nothing left. it is heartbreaking here for so many who are returning to just ash and rubble. this neighborhood again, i mean, we walked through. there is barely anything. you don't hear -- eerie, there is no sign of life. you don't hear birds chirping, insects crawling. everything is bombed out and gone. t

nbc meteorologist bill karins is here to give us an update on the conditions firefighters will likely be up against. what can you tell us, bill? >> we can put the shot back up, and kind of give everyone a lay of the land of what you're looking at here. alta dina is at the bottom of the hill, with the fire camera burning below it. the fire burned up the hill. we're at the highest of elevations here. it's breezy today, not the extreme wind storm we went when the structures were lost. today would be a dangerous fire day. firefighters would be on alert. we have these fires that were, you know, started a couple of days ago. they're still scattered around, still trying to get those flames out. if new fires form, we could get more of a rapid fire spread, fire behavior, that would be called extreme. we have red flag warnings for today and tomorrow. it's not just the l.a. area. obviously that's where we have the active fire. all the way down here outside of san diego, we have high wind warnings too. we're on guard in case anything new happens. zooming into the l.a. area. we have two big fires,

geoff: karine jean-pierre, thanks again for your time this evening.ur live coverage of the president's address right here on pbs at 8:00 p.m. eastern. president-elect donald trump is still several days from re-entering the oval office, but some of his nominees for cabinet posts were in senate committees for one of the busiest days of confimation hearings in u.s. history. from the nation's top diplomatic post, to a top spy, to the country's top law enforcement officer, the hearings ran the gamut from cordial to confrontational. amna: we start with president-elect trump's picks for secretary of state and director of the cia. florida senator marco rubio would helm the state department, and former congressman john ratcliffe would run the cia. they went before senators on the foreign relations and intelligence committees this morning. >> i get bilingual protesters. it's pretty cool. >> as you know, that is a first year perk. reporter: president-elect donald trump's choice for u.s. secretary of state, senator marco rubio, sailed relatively smoothly through

. >> nbc news correspondent steve patterson is in pacific palisades and meteorologist bill karins ise, let's start with you. what are you seeing? give us a sense where things stand right now. >> reporter: i wanted to show you this. you're seeing a fire hydrant gushing out water. this is one of the problems fireghters are dealing with. we don't know how this happened. as you know, firefighters need all the water pressure they can get. one of the things they'll do is try to seal this up. meanwhile, the fire fighting effort continues. hot spots is all over. this is the pacific palisades. it's been wrecked, destroyed. this neighborhood completed bombed out. it appears as if a bomb has gone off as officials have said. major fire fighting efforts continue. we see smoldering in every direction we look. there's another fire burning in the hills. fires are burning in los angeles. i have a fire captain here. your name so. >> adam. >> nice to meet you, sir. how is the fire fighting effort going? >> right now it's still red flag conditions. we have active firefighters throughout the pacific pali

. >> let's go to nbc meteorologist bill karins. get us up to date with these winds? >> un until now, the fires had the upper hand. ever since it started yesterday, the winds were in the 40 to 60-mile-per-hour range. last night, they were 80 to 100. now they're beginning to drop off. still extremely difficult for firefighters. but as we head into the afternoon and evening, the wind should go down to 10 to 15 to 20 miles per hour. they're going to get the big planes back up, the helicopters, the super scoopers. and the firefighters are actually going to start to fight back on this blaze. and hopefully we'll lose a lot less homes than we have already. there's four big fires burning within the l.a. proper area. the one we saw yesterday and tracked last night, this is the one that has taken the most structures. the palisades fire as it burned toward malibu. the eaton fire has taken structures with it. woodley fire is smaller. they're trying to get containment on that. the hurst fire has grown quickly. this fire is the problem, the eaton fire. they're taking the fire and b

so here's the new statement from karine jean-pierre. she says we have seen the most recent statement from tiktok and it is a stunt. we see no reason for tiktok or other companies to take actions in the next few days. before the trump administration takes office on monday, she continues we have laid out our position clearly and straightforwardly. actions to implement this law will fall to the next administration, she says. tiktok and other companies should take up any concerns with them. so that's the white house position. >> so what does this mean for users? i mean, users are thinking they're going to go to their tiktok app and there will be nothing there. or might it be the case there will be something there, but perhaps it won't be updated. or does it mean you go to your apple app store? you know, and it's not. it's no longer available. i mean, what are the potential scenarios as of this moment? >> tiktok is saying that it will turn out the lights, meaning it will on its own decide to make the app inoperable starting at 12:01 a.m. eas

nbc meteorologist bill karins.ctly where the biggest threat is and what we're expecting tonight. >> yeah, this is la county. >> this is outside of the downtown area. so that's why we're not talking about la city proper, the downtown area like the last time. and we're halfway through this event. it's about a 48 hour event. we're 24 hours in. but last night the winds kicked up. we had those gusts of 50 to 61. case 72, but no new fires have started. we have visible satellite imagery. we could see if there's any smoke plumes. there's none. right now. the air quality actually has been as good as it has been in the last week in la. so, you know, knock on wood or whatever else, say some prayers if we just can get through until tomorrow at this time, then we should be in the clear. the winds will be much lighter now, of course, we still want it to rain eventually, but at least for this wind event will be good. so these are the particularly dangerous situation areas that we're dealing with here. north of the 101 especially.

nbc's george solis is live from baton rouge, and nbc meteorologist bill karins is here as well.not accustomed to slow like this. so how are folks dealing? >> hey, chris, you know, it's also weird snow on palm trees. i can't wrap my head around it, but the thing now that you're seeing is something that's a welcome sight. we are seeing the sun. so some of the roadways here that have been covered in snow and some of that ice starting to melt. however, you can see some of this stuff is still very hard to move around. but again, the danger is once all this melts and that sun goes down, whatever's left behind is just going to refreeze, creating some of that treacherous travel. and so that's why officials are still urging folks to stay inside and stay off the roadways as long as they can. that's the dangerous side of it. people are still out and about having fun in this snow and this rare snow, this once in a lifetime snow. students at lsu check this out. they sure know how to have a good time. we can expect college students to. they were out there having snowball fights. they were out

joining me now is nbc news meteorological meteorologist bill karins.hat's going to happen with these winds of the santa ana winds going to really start up. and are they going to reach gusts as high as 100 miles an hour as they did last week? >> yeah. it's important to note this is not last week's event. last week was like extreme like off the charts. this is a more typical santa ana wind event. can still be extremely dangerous. we still could have new fires. we could have structures that are threatened. we could have new evacuation orders. we just don't know yet if that's going to happen. so what they did this weekend was try to prevent the fires that have already formed from spreading and getting as much containment on those and getting as many hotspots out as possible. so we got 10 million people that are in these red flag warnings. red flag warnings mean that conditions are favorable for fires if they do form the spread. but what's different about this one is now we're put this up to a particularly dangerous situation from the national weather servi

and then you get issues, without a doubt. >> bill karins, thank you for that update. let's go to new york now, where this morning, president elect donald trump was sentenced to a penalty free unconditional discharge. that was his sentence for his hush money convictions. nbc's lisa rubin was in the courtroom for us. give us a sense of what it was like in there, lisa, and walk us through judge marchand's decision. >> well, chris, it was totally surreal to be there because many people, me included, anticipated that this day would never come, particularly after donald trump won reelection to the presidency in november with 312 electoral votes. a fact that he reminded judge of when he had the opportunity to speak. but in terms of imposing the sentence of unconditional discharge, which mershone did today, that's a sentence that carries no penalty associated with it whatsoever. no fine, no jail time, not even community service or probation. judge merchan said that, look, the situation presented a number of aggravating factors, including the willfulness of donald trump's cond

bill karins, thank you very much. joining us now, cal fire public information officer colin noyce, thank you very much for joining us, sir. let me ask you, we've seen a lot of the phos-chek that's that pink stuff dropped on the mountainside, dropped in some of the canyons. explain exactly what firefighters are trying to do ahead of these potentially dangerous winds. >> yeah. >> so when it comes to the fire retardant that has been dropped on the ridges currently that is still in place and that will prevent any further spread or at least slow further spread of any fire outside of the current perimeter. >> as far as what we're doing to be prepared into the future for this, this ongoing wind event until wednesday evening, we have thousands of firefighters here at on the palisades fire. over 5000 of them currently, and numerous fire engines, numerous air resources to not only continue the suppression of the palisades fire to our ultimate goal of 100%, but also in the case where there's new starts, we can respond out to tho

us now, nbc news correspondent dana griffin who is in los angeles, and nbc news meteorologist bill karinse with us in studio. dana, what are firefighters doing right now to prepare for this new round of high wind? >> zinhle, we are in the palisades, and exactly what you see behind me is part of that effort to prevent hot spots from flaring up, once those winds kick back up, firefighters are spraying homes that are flaring up again so they won't be carried to homes that have not burned down. fire officials are combing through the area, trying to ut off the gas lines in certain communities because some of those lines have been opened. we have seen over several days, the efforts where the fire has started. they are reminding people they won't be able to come into the areas because it's just not safe yet. >> thank you. bill, let me go over to you. you were telling us off camera, it's not like the wind gusts are going to be everywhere. but they are definitely going to peak in the middle of the night. walk us through. >> this is not a repeat of last week. 80, 100 mile per hour winds, right thro

thousand pieces challenge. >> all right, bill karins. thank you.day, southern california still isn't out of the woods after two weeks of deadly and destructive wildfires. even as some neighborhoods do begin their recovery. 13 million people today under active fire alerts at 63% containment. officials say the palisades fire still poses a risk because winds could ramp up to dangerous levels again tomorrow and overnight. hurricane force gusts of up to 100mph fanned three fires that popped up near san diego, forcing at least 86 people to evacuate. nbc's dana griffin is reporting from los angeles. dana, how serious do fire officials think this wind threat could be this week? >> well, it's very serious. those red flag warnings are in effect until later this afternoon, possibly this evening. and there's still a weather a fire weather watch through thursday. so although the winds are dying down compared to what we were seeing overnight, there is still a major threat out there because conditions are ripe. you've got dry conditions plus wind conditions. mayb

. >> and bill karins is here. and bill, we're going to talk about the historic freeze in the south in a second, but let's start with the winds and the fire danger in the west. >> horrible timing, lester, for the hughes fire. santa ana winds are returning and they're going to get even stronger later on tonight. 10 million people including where the hughes fire is located all the way down outside of san diego. specifically for the hughes fire later tonight the firefighters are going to be fighting this blaze with like a strong tropical storm winds around. 50 to 65 to 70-mile-per-hour wind gusts. we're going to have extreme fire growth and hopefully they'll keep those aircraft in the air fighting the blaze. as far as the cold goes, today a lot of the snow melted but it kind of got slushy. tonight it's going to turn to a rock once again. the ice is going to form. very dangerous. treacherous conditions, lester, till tomorrow afternoon when it begins to finally melt away. >> all right, bill, thanks for the update. >>> m

karine badawi was a fresh man at the university of alabama.class mates remember him as kind and ambitious and on facebook his father said it is with great sadness, that i announce the death of my son. the president of the university where he had started, i grieve with family and friends in their loss and he asked people to take a moment to play for those impacted —— pray for those impacted —— pray for those impacted. another student was 21 and he had been a student at archbishop shaw high school, which said with great sorrow, we share that uber was killed in is in act of violence and he was a bright and promising young man. we ask the entire school family to pray for the repose of his soul. and the most recent name that we have had is matthew tenedorio, he was 25 and his family have also set up a page on the go fund me web site in memory of him. describing him as a graduate of pearl river high school in mississippi, about 60 miles north of new orleans. he was an audio—visual technician for the caesars super bowl. he was described as having a l

hello i'm karin giannone.art in la — where police say scammers and looters have been taking advantage of devastating wildfires — with one man dressing as a firefighter to try to burgle a home. 16 people have died in the fires, and 16 are missing — and with more strong winds forecast, the threat remains high. one of four fires burning through los angeles, the kenneth fire, is now 100% contained — meaning they have stopped it spreading. but firefighters are trying to prevent the biggest of the wildfires — palisades — from reaching the affluent suburb of brentwood. they are trying to stop the devastation already seen in the palisades village — this video shows the before and after in the upscale shopping area. on the left is what it looked like in march— and on the right is how it looks now. here's emma vardy with the latest from los angeles the race to stay ahead of the deadly fires enters a sixth day. helicopters fly just above the smoke. below, the flames rage. butjust as progress is made, other areas ignite.

as karin pointed out, that he might not do in his threats of retribution against political opponents, who we have to remember that trump actually did did commit felonies. he did try to tamper with the result of the 2020 election in a big way. we do know that in georgia that he personally oversaw an effort. we have the phone calls to try you know, get the secretary of state of georgia to give him the 12,000 or so votes he would be to win that state. we do know that he systematically organized effort 2 illegitimately and the legally stay in power, even considered the possibility of trying to incite a military coup. we do know that in in the a case in which he was found guilty on 34 felony counts that he broke the law. this is very unusual behavior for president or ex-president. this wasn't a matter of going after trump. the fact is that the trump broke the law, merrick garland, the attorney general and the biden administration was really very conservative and slow to go after him. they didn't want to create a precedent of prosecuting a former president because it could be seen as politi

just getting the statement from the press secretary, karine jean-pierre. and i'll just read it as it's popped into my email here. the administration, like the rest of this country, of the country, has awaited the decision just made by the us supreme court on the tiktok matter. president biden's position on tiktok has been clear for months, including since congress sent a bill in overwhelming bipartisan fashion to the president's desk. tiktok should remain available to americans, but simply under american ownership or other ownership that addresses the national security concerns identified by congress in developing this law. given the sheer fact of timing, this administration recognizes that actions to implement the law simply must fall to the next administration, which takes office on monday. the reality is that on a sunday, the possibility that you would have government lawyers reaching out to take some legal action against the tech companies that the platforms apple and google and things of that sort, the idea that the government would take action agains

everyone knows tomas he for sure -- >> we will take you live to white house briefing where karine jean-pierre will be fielding questions from reporters live on c-span 3. >> the president and first lady will grieve with the families and community members impacted by the tragic attack on january 1st. they will meet with local and state officials on the ground. the president has been extremely focused on ensuring that everything possible be done to complete this investigation and ensure the safety of the community and provide any and all federal assistance to support state and local officials. since wednesday, the president has held regular meetings with his homeland security team to receive the latest information on the investigation and convey the need to do everything possible to complete this investigation and keep the american people safe. the president has also spoken to the mayor of new orleans and the governor of louisiana to offer support to both the state and local officials, whose teams are in close touch with their teams, and as the president said earlier today, you heard in moments