our chief, john heidi, has more another day and more testimony in the trial of gil maxwell. this time from a man who said he's to drive teenage girls to and from the west palm beach, mansion of geoffrey epstein watching them leave with hunger dollar bills. he said after spending hours with epstein and also maxwell, the man who identified himself as sean said, he began dating one of the teens who was just 14 years of age at the time while he was 17. that girl now in her thirties is one of several alleged victims of epstein, who said she performed sexual acts on him. being recruited by maxwell, who prosecutor se recruited and traffic to other girls, some as young as 14, to epstein and a circle of rich and powerful friends maxwell's pled not guilty, and her lawyers maintained, she's being scapegoat, and now that epstein is dead, and that she was merely just upon that epstein used like many others, unaware of his sick and sordid life. but prosecutor say the pictures taken over the years and shown as evidence tell a much different story. several show maxwell giving epstein a seem

things around quickly are john, heidi has more. there left off space x. his mission to mars may be a mission to nowhere if the company can keep up in space flights and ramp up production of the new raptor engines. in a post thanksgiving e mail to employees, reportedly obtained by cnbc space at founder eli must warns the company faces bankruptcy if it can't send a starship to space at least once every 2 weeks in 2022. the space ex starship is the next generation rocket space. x is developing to san cargo and astronaut to space, and particularly for the space x moon and mars missions. but the starship reportedly need as many as $39.00 raptor engines, each requiring a huge jumping production that apparently is not happening right now. must told his employees, he was cutting short a long thanksgiving holiday to personally work on figuring out the company's production line problems with the raptor engines. it's unclear if it has anything to do with the ongoing global supply chain crisis, but musk is definitely sounding the alarm and call, you know, quote, disa

. >> john, heidi heitkamp told me yesterday joe manchin is probably shielding critics from other senatorsa smaller spending bill. there's a lot of other democratic lawmakers saying yeah, we agree with man chin, but let's let him take the hit. >> there are a lot of details that still haven't been worked out, including whether there's going to be a raised exemption for state and local taxes. you're talked about that on your show before, whether the child tax credit, if it's in there, if it goes to the level that the white house wants to or whether benefits kick in at a different point, there are a whole host of issues that have not been resolved to a place where they can actually come to the senate floor. i think senator heitkamp is right to some extent manchin is defending some of those other senators from having to come out there with their objections. >> what a beautiful vista, jonathan allen, leanne caldwell. >> where are you? >> chesapeake bay, maryland. >> damn, maryland, you're looking good today. leanne caldwell, jonathan allen, thank you both so much. the chesapeake, america's fine

heidi, john, thank you-all so much.ere because we need to turn to the other big news out of capitol hill. >>> the house committee investigating the january 6th insurrection for the first time is asking to speak with current members of congress. they want to question pennsylvania republican congressman scott perry. the committee's chair said he played a key role in the events leading up to the riot including efforts to make former trump justice official jeffrey clark the acting attorney general toward the end of the trump administration. i want to go to garrett on the hill. we're not talking about roger stone. this is a sitting member of congress. what are the consequences if he doesn't compile? >> reporter: that's not entirely clear. you have perry head of the freedom caucus, the same position mark meadows whose name came up in the senate investigation during the period between the election and the inauguration. perry is someone who apparently connected jeffrey clark that doj official with the white house, the person wh

>> john heilemann, as heidi just said, one of the sort of side gigs of helming this hour is managingor me next week. there is an "atlantic" piece in august that i read four times, sent it to every parent i know. it was basically about mommies and daddies are broken. it was about sending our kids black to school in september amid the surging delta wave. and what i think kids, most importantly, can't take, and you see them, they're devastated. the u.s. surgeon general put out a warning, an alert about kids' mental health, a 55% increase in young girls going to the emergency room with mental health crises, 5% increase in young boys. we cannot go through this again. kids cannot stay home, john. >> yeah, and look, i mean, what dr. jha said, on the other side, i'm reading through the epidemiologists who are still trying to sort out what's going on with omicron and looking at some of the data coming out of south africa, some of the data coming out of denmark and london that suggest there might be a little higher hospitalization rate with kids with this variant. i'm no expert but i've read e

heidi joe castro. let's go over down to john henderson and edwards vill, illinois. how is the investigation coming together there? well, just in the very early stages, the occupational safety and health administration of federal organization that looks after workers safety has begun a probe that will last as long as 6 months. and that is because they do this anytime workers are killed in a large employment center. but here, this is an unusual situation and in which 6 people were killed in that amazon warehouse behind me, one was injured, 45 were rescued when the walls came down on the far end of this building here near me, the walls crushed in on the side and so did the ceiling and there were 6 people inside that portion of the building, really a small number of the hundreds who worked here. and the girlfriend of one of those workers has told reporters that at her boyfriend had written her that they were told they could not leave the building. so there has been another workers hired a de tourney. rather, the family of that worker who was slain has hired an attorney

the healing even harder. heidi jo, castro, al jazeera mayfield, kentucky and john henderson is in edward vill, illinois where 6 people were killed when a tornado hit an amazon warehouse. a federal investigation is looking into what exactly happened in the minutes before a tornado tor, through the front of his amazon warehouse center. what we know is that between 8 o, 6 and 8, 16 pm on friday night, managers at this plant were alerted that a tornado might come through at 827. that's just what happened. a twister touched down in that parking lot in tor, through the front of the building, killing 6 people, and injuring one. the occupational safety and health administration is looking into whether anything amazon did contributed to those deaths. over here you can see the and damage side of the building. that's where 45 workers huddled down in a pre designated tornado shelter. osha will be looking into why those who died were not among them. some drivers also complained that they were asked to shelter in their trucks is one said that just turns this van into my casket. osha says it will take

that killed at least 6 people will speak to john henry, who's outside that amazon warehouse in edwards fill in a noise shortly. but 1st, let's head over to heidi joe castro. she's in mayfield, kentucky. so how is the biden visit, unraveling family. the president has already done an aerial tour of may field kentucky where i stand now and from the sky. the level of destruction is just impressive. you can see it here on the ground to home. utterly got it is not flattened. it's amazing. the things that do survive, though there's still potted flowers, standing inside some of the shells of these homes. there are 74 concerned can confirmed a death in kentucky for people having died inside of a nearby factory as they were at work and allegations from some of those workers are surfacing saying that bosses there would not allow workers to leave before the storm with christmas approaching worker as of the mayfield consumer products candle factory were rushing to fill holiday orders, despite fridays, ominous skies. 20 year old elijah johnson says he felt nervous when he clocked in for his shift. and worse, after a tornado alarm sounded an early warning. t

least 6 people will speak to john henry, who's outside the warehouse in nashville, in nor shortly fast. that's pretty hard issue castro. she's in mayfield, kentucky. and heidi, president biden is seen the tornado on the 1st hand. how's? he responded so far? that's why he just walked through these streets here mayfield kentucky a few minutes ago after 1st getting an area to or of this devastation and president, by his reaction to it. you said that this was catastrophic that were due by anyone who's laid eyes on this damage reeked by tornadoes. that the biggest, one of which was more than one kilometer in width and traveling more than 300 kilometers in distance, leaving behind like this. these were home the course this home here, lucky to not have been completely flat and like many of its neighbors and a bite and seeing this meeting with survivors. and also meeting with the governor of kentucky, the head of emma and others on the ground. here he vowed that the government would continue to step up with support for the thousands of people without homes than of course, there are those who lost loved ones. the death toll in kentucky alone at $74.00 and the govern

power, i speak to john henry, who's outside the amazon warehouse was damaged in edward's vill, illinois. shortly. first, that's bringing hydro castro, she's in mayfield, kentucky. and heidi, president biden, seeing some of that tornado damage 1st hand. how's? he responded so far? that's right. he was here in a field tech touring 1st by air then by foot, and now he's in another town that was also devastated by this. tornado dawson springs and the story is repeating in communities across this region. lauren because the storm that struck on friday with historic and how many tornadoes it, it started more than 30 and in the wide was that they covered one tornado traveling more than 300 kilometers. and the scenes that these radios left behind are just pure and utter devastation. thousands of home just flattened, the work to count exactly how many buildings are damaged by this. the government, there's so many to get through the, they don't even have a total number. they're fearful that as far as the death, whole, 74 alone here in the state of kentucky. they are fear. fearful that that has that, that death total raise or rise well over $100.00 more. and what's happening to the p

john henry, who's outside of the amazon warehouse in edward's vill, illinois, shortly. that was badly damaged. first, let's bring in hydro castro, she's in mayfield, kentucky. and heidi we heard from president biden. what do people react to how people reacting to what he's promising? a lauren, the families that have been devastated by this disaster. those who survived have all have told me, they count themselves as lucky to have their lives because property can be rebuilt . but one gentleman who i just spoke with, whose house was destroyed, he says he's actually not getting any help from the government. contrary to what you just heard, the president promise it looks like this help may be spotty, particularly if people already had insurance on their homes. and this gentleman counted himself lucky and that his insurance will step in. but that actually disqualified him. he says, for some of the government assistance, so with the need so great, so many people out of home, thousands of buildings destroyed by these storms i hit on friday of last week. this process of rebuilding is going to be a big challenge logistically. and for each and every single person involved in th

john henry, who's outside the amazon warehouse in edwards village, illinois, shortly. but 1st let's bring in hi, be jo castro. she joins us from mayfield in kentucky. so heidi, what can we expect to hear from biden when he visits the state? well sammy, he will be visiting with the 1st responders and also with the survivors of this devastating tornado that happened on friday. he'll be touring this town of mayfield and we are in downtown, and you can see that destruction rock stretches as far as the i can see. this is one of many communities that were simply leveled by this disaster. the death toll here in kentucky at 748 of whom were people trapped inside of a candle factory nearby. and now there have been allegations from workers there that their bosses said they would be fired if they went home before the storm. with christmas approaching worker as of the mayfield consumer products candle factory were rushing to fill holiday orders. despite fridays, ominous skies. 20 year old elijah johnson says he felt nervous when he clocked in for his shift. and worse, after a tornado alarm sounded an early warning. the 1st alarm came all around saving and going on eigh