. >> martha: hello. good afternoon, i'm martha maccallum in new york. at times a testy white house briefing that kicked off from the folks from ted lasso talking mental health. a head-to-head is under way with china's and russia's leaders calling each other dear friends. they begin three days of meetings that they will undergo in moscow. putin seeking ammo. xi seeking a dominant role as a power broker on the world stage. john kirby telling reporters the u.s. believes that china may give the go-ahead on lethal aid to vladimir putin. taking a question from our own peter doocy about how biden is viewed by xi and putin. >> specific to these two leaders, you think putin and xi fear president biden? >> you'd have to ask them whether they fear or not. it is not about fear. it's about president biden advancing our foreign policy goals around the world. it's about president biden revi revitalizing partnerships. that's what we're focused on. >> martha: with that, we bring in republican senator marsha blackburn from tennessee. she's traveled to taiwan in the past.

i'm martha maccallum. our correspondent benjamin hall and his wife, alicia, one year after the attack in ukraine that nearly took his life. we'll show you never-before-seen footage from the new fox documentary that reveals the actual attack much of which was filmed. the super heros that risked their lives to save ben, their stories, their former special forces, incredible and then the family's struggle and his struggle to get home to them. all of that coming up. but first, story breaking late today. new evidence that $3 million found its way from a chinese company to biden bank accounts. we're now learning that hallie biden, joe biden's daughter-in-law who he spent time with in delaware, was also a recipient of that money according to the reports around these documents of two transfers of thousands of dollars. kellyanne conway and juan williams join us in just a moment. first to nancy mace from the house oversight committee. great to have you back. we heard from james comer, the chairman of the committee t

martha? >> martha: steve harrigan reporting live from kyiv. thank you. first lady jill biden says she believes absolutely that her husband will run for president. in that context, she is slamming nikki haley for calling for a competency test for him and any presidential candidate over the age of 75. >> how many 30-year-olds could travel to poland, get on the train, go nine more hours, go to ukraine, meet with president zelensky. his energy level, his level of passion. so look at the man. look what he's doing. look what he continues to do each and every day. >> martha: sounds like he wants another four years. sean duffy and harold ford jr. live in new york when "the story" continues. so to help you remember that liberty mutual customizes your home insurance, here's a little number you'll never forget. ♪ customize and save. ♪ only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ in a world, where dry eye symptoms... keep... coming... back... inflammation in the eye might be to blame. feel the ache and burn! one man learns the truth... over-th

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martha? >> martha: you can say that again.our children are doing on their phones and have as much transparency as you possibly can to keep them safe, laura. thank you. with that, we bring in davidson county sheriff richie simmons. his department's emergency response team was able to rescue this girl and save her life from this shed 1,000 mills away. good to have you hear, sheriff. congratulations for reuniting this girl with her family. we hope she can heal and recover from this horrific experience. how did you do this so quickly, sheriff? >> why were contacted by the dallas fbi violent crime task force about 6:00. we mobilized to some undercover units to set on the house because we didn't know where the young girl was. we worked very quickly. we were able to stabilize the area. actually after we did that, we got more units in the area. the target actually left the location and we were able to stop him, make a vehicle stop on him and get him in custody. >> martha: incredible. how much did -- i know that laura ingle reported th

. >> john: the story with martha starts right now. >> martha: good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum live in iowa. governor ron desantis on what looks a lot like a presidential campaign swing as he launches on to the national stage in a likely preview of what is to come for the 44-year-old florida governor. watch this. >> the elites were wrong about lockdowns. they were rock about forced masks. they were wrong about closing schools. we will fight the woke in legislature and in education and fight the woke in the businesses. i will send my florida people who built those brings in record time, i'm send them to the southern border to do the wall. come on, joe, let us get it done. >> martha: that's a taste of it there. the former president trump heads to iowa monday. iowans like to see the candidates and they're getting a good look in the early going. he's virtually tied with desantis in iowa in terms of favor ability among republicans. more and more we'll see these two on the debate stage in five months, folks. it's far away until it's not. let me tell you, it's not

martha? >> martha: thanks very much. with that, we bring in jonathan turley, a george washington law professor and fox news contributor. good to have you here. i want to get to the big picture. a quick thought on this. does this lawsuit by hunter biden's team pro that a, this is indeed his material and, you know, what else are we learning from this entire thing from mack isaac? >> it's like alice in wonder land. it guess curiouser and curiouser. this is a weird filing. he's telling the court this may or may not be my laptop, and these files may or may not be my files, but i'm injured by the invasion of my privacy. it's very hard to follow this chain of logic in this filing in the absence of saying yes, i dropped off the laptop, did not pick it up. it contained authentic e-mails. so they're trying very hard to make out a case without the key elements in my view. this is like complaining that someone may or may not have stolen my car. the police will say, well, could you pin that down a bit? is your car missing? that's wha

martha? >> martha: thanks. back to the heart of this matter with robert costello, michael cohen's former legal adviser and partner at david, hutcher and citron. good to have you here with us today. you hear what's going on. they cancelled for a second day after you went in there and testified. is this unraveling? i mean, what is your take on what is going on behind those courtroom walls right now? >> well, in fairness, i don't know what is going on behind those courtroom walls. i can certainly make an educated guess because when i was before the grand jury, i presented a lot of evidence that the grand jury didn't physically see in the sense that i sent a lot of documents to both trump's lawyer and to the man had tan da's office. i had those documents with me. the assistant district attorney that was asking me questions in my opinion was not asking me the questions that would have elicited the exculpatory evidence that they had, which they knew because i participated in a zoom conference for 1 hough and 20 minut

martha? >> martha: fascinating. thanks, bryan. with that, we bring in constitutional attorney, jonathan turley, who has been writing about this quite a bit. good to see you. thanks for being here. very interesting, bryan's reporting, that there has been dissension inside the d.a.'s office. now the news that they were -- they were told not to -- they were told to stay home today and not come in to the grand jury. what do you read here? >> well, if that report is accurate, it's a signal to bragg here that he's gone down the wrong course here. the old expression that a prosecutor can get a indictment on a ham sandwich is not true here. if he's getting serious push-back on a case like this, it amplifies the case that this is a weak and flawed case. if that's getting him to think again about his course, that's a welcome change. there could be various contributing factors here. the garage jury here from mr. costello, the former lawyer for michael cohen. he said he went into the grand jury and waived around 300 e-mails that they said the

our friend martha is back today. >> martha: good morning. it is a deadly epidemic. we have covered it extensively. it reaches all states, all walks of life, all kinds of families. the powerful opioid known as fentanyl is an indiscriminate killer took the lives of all these people whose faces you see on the screen right now and teens at a record pace. in 2021 fentanyl was identified in 77% of as lessent drug deaths. cartels have an enormous business. they will stop at nothing turning the drug into a weapons of mass destruction. lindsey graham says it is time to fight back. >> here is what i would say. america is under attack of the our nation is being attacked by foreign powers called drug cartels in mexico. this is the largest attack on american's homeland by a foreign power in the history of the nation. 70,000 americans were poisoned by fentanyl last year. we need to take the gloves off. they are at war with us. we need to be at war with them. >> bill: we go to texas, school districts are demanding more to be done to protect their kids from a silent killer. casey s

martha? >> martha: thanks, aishah. in the senator that participated as a member of the senate intel committee, james langford. good to have you here. >> now there's this bipartisan move to give the authority to the commercial department to ban tik tok in america. we know it's dangerous. we heard it. to you think that will happen in this country? will the president sign off on it? >> there's several bills, multiple bills out there to be resolved. the key is, it can be just another study or another evaluation. we know exactly what china is doing. i rewound everybody back to when we used to talk about the virus protection software until everybody found out it checks every document you have, goes through russia and sends it back and says there's no problem, this is the russians getting every date of data from americans. now we have games like tik tok that are running through china where they can go through all of your data. it's not just about you. some people say i don't have anything to hide from china. it's every contac

i'm martha maccallum. the white house has just announced that the first lady will head to nashville for this vigil this evening for these heart breaking victims in the covenant school shooting as we wait to learn what was in this manifesto about the goals and the thinking of this shooter. now, the attorney general is saying too soon to call this a hate crime. republican senator john hawley pushing for that designation for these victims. watch how president biden reacted to that. >> the members of this community were singled out because of their religious affiliation. now three young children are dead. three educators are dead. >> you believe that christians were targeted? >> i have no idea. >> josh hawley believes they were. what to you say to that? >> i probably don't then. >> i'm joking. i have no idea. >> martha: well, laugh about that and saying that if that's what josh hawley thinks, he probably disagrees. we'll get into that with katie pavlich and fox news contributor and geraldo rivera, co-host of "

martha?teenage life these days that has just -- the impact of the anxiety that comes from social media and all of this we're just beginning to understand and need to put guardrails around it to help these young women. thank you. look forward to your next pieces on it. that's "the story" for this monday, march 13th. 2023. as always, "the story" goes on and we'll see you back here tomorrow at 3:00. thanks for being with us. the dow down about 100 points right now on a stressful day in the wake of these bank closures. "your world" starts right now. >> as soon as we started to hear rumors, we tried to open up additional bank accounts to be able to she if we could attempt to wire our money out. you weren't even able to open an account. >> i cannot believe it. this is -- i did not expect this. >> they're just holding our funds and not paying us. that's a little scary. >> if there's any question, i want to empty my accounts and bring it to another bank.

"the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: thanks, john and sandra. good afternoon. sandra will be here later this hour with congressman jim jordan who is also joining us today and general jack keane on the mounting tensions that exist now between the united states and china in what is called the great power struggle of our time. chinese president xi who tomorrow signs on for another five years in leadership making history as the longest serving head of state since the communist revolution in 1949. he's a very consequential figure in the history of china. he says now his goal is to be more quickly elevating his military in this next term. that as the generally quiet chinese foreign minister now slamming the united states. >> if the u.s. does not hit the brake, continues to speed on the wrong path no, amount of guardrails can prevent derailing and there will be conflict and confrontation. >> martha: our nation's top intelligence officials laying out today the escalating china threat. watch this. >> we assess that during the course of xi's third term that they will att

"the story" >> martha: thanks, guys. i'm martha maccallum. we're seeing this heroic body cam video of the nashville metro police officers running in to the covenant school. things you notice right away, they had a key to open that door. it's at the very beginning of this video. they ran towards the direction of the gun fire in an organized methodical way. >> let's go. i need three. >> one more. >> let's go. >> let's go. >> let's go, let's go! >> it's really chilling to listen to that. they did run towards what was going on in there. the horrific loss of three 9-year-olds. we have just received this photo of evelyn dieckhaus, hallie scruggs, the daughter of the pastor at the church that runs this school. beautiful family. three older brothers. william kinney, we don't have a photograph of at this time. three adults. all in their 60s, all dedicated to the covenant school. working at this place that we're centered on faith and families and taking care of these children. cynthia peak, the head of the school who we now know was in the hallway. cam

. >> martha: always a few extra seconds for good moose video. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. breaking right now on "the story," 2024, heating up as florida governor ron desantis and former president trump give very important speeches over the weekend. so how did each of them do? karl rove, kellyanne conway and mark penn rate these speeches and these men as candidates at this stage of the game. great discussion coming up with them. also, this unbelievable story. we're still trying to figure out what happened here. four americans were assaulted and then kidnapped just inside the mexico border. we expect an update soon on who are these americans that are involved here. now kidnapped, likely by cartel linked individuals on that side of the border. we'll get new information and bring it this hour. president biden hasn't said whether or not he is running for president but he's got two very big moves in the works here. one is a huge tax hike and the other is potentially new drilling for oil in the united states. something he said he would never do. drill -- he was going to cut back

good to see you today. >> thank you, martha. >> martha: so the rescue crews tried.stranded on a beach in new jersey. this is also the area where a higher than normal number of dead whales have recently washed up. so what is going on on the atlantic coastline? its raised concerns about the enormous impact on the ocean floor from the operations underway to build offshore wind farms. do we know all we need to know about that? c.b. cotton is here to answer that question from new york. hi, c.b. >> hi, martha. 23 dolphins have washed ashore. eight today. crews are calling it a mass stranding event. all the dolphins have died. some needing to be euthanized because they were in such bad shape. police and medics were the first on the scene pouring water on them. this happened 30 minutes south of atlantic city. news of these stranded dolphins comes after 29 large whale strandings along the east coast since december 1. 11 of those hump back whales in new york and new jersey. this data according to the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, lawmakers have called for a

i'm martha maccallum live in washington d.c. as we begin with this alert on a breaking news story, a tragic story we've been covering throughout the afternoon here, the killing of three young children. this school goes from 6-year-olds up through 6th graders. they did not reveal the age of the children that were victims. also three adults were killed who worked at this private christian school. the covenant school in nashville. as i said, the students go down to 3 years old up to sixth grade and we're waiting to get more information. they said, you know, inside of this hour, we'll learn more. stay with us. we'll get another update. i would ascertain that they have information that they are almost ready to reveal and they're likely making sure that everyone has been notified before they reveal this other information. we learned quite a bit here about the suspect in this case. a 28-year-old white woman who they believe went to the school. we'll get more information on that. they said she had two assault-type rifles and a handgun w

i'm martha maccallum. breaking right now on "the story," the secret service, the nypd, the fbi and the manhattan da's office have all been meeting this afternoon to hammer out the details around logistics and security and it will be complicated as they prepare for this on tuesday afternoon when we expect around 2:15 p.m., the arraignment of former president trump here in new york. sources telling fox that we will not see the former president in handcuffs. there will be no perp walk. they're working out the details of how this will be carried out in this unprecedented situation. the former president launching attacks on the reported judge in this case, manhattan da alvin bragg and michael cohen calling him a convicted felon and a disbarred lawyer, which he admits he is. >> at the end of the day, we have an indictment today. so clearly that means that the information provided was more than enough for the grand jury to come back with a determination for an indictment. oh, by the way, for donald, since we're t

martha? >> martha: thanks, greg. that, we bring in nikki haley, 2024 presidential candidate, former u.n. ambassador and governor to south carolina. how would you respond in this situation? >> well, if you go and trade the merchant of death for an american, guess what? they're going to take more americans, this comes from the weakness of the biden administration. putin should be scared to do this. he's not. he's getting really desperate. we know he's getting drones from iran, missiles from north korea. they're running out of the money. the sanctions are setting in. he's getting desperate. this is what he starts to do. this is a reminder to the american people, whenever you doubt whether ukraine needs to win, look at this mafia-type dictator who basically does not value he man life and does not value freedom, this is another example of that. >> martha: in terms of the process, you know, what happens now, what kind of language do you think is appropriate from the white house about discussing what is going on here in no

martha? >> martha: thanks, peter.ring in our panel, sean duffy and ari fleischer, former white house press secretary for president george w. bush. great to have you with us today. i want to get to these polls. they're stunning. a quote from the pollster that says it strikes me as something that is kind of an intractable level of pessimism. americans losing faith in a college case, which is something that people thought would elevate their situation. 56%, this is bad news for u.s. colleges say they don't think a four-year education is worth the cost. 12% of americans call themselves very happy. ari? >> we've been there before, martha. this was the late 1970s under jimmy carter. you know what solved it? leadership, strength, patriotism. ronald reagan. we're so divided, so polarized and we have a president that was so unpopular. he pits us against each other and calls people jim crow 2.0 and plays upon things that make us feel worse. leadership. that's what solves it. >> martha: who is that person? >> we don't know yet.

is that like this whole perception of martha? you know, how did she get to where she was where she did become a famous wartime correspondent. was it based off of her work her reporting in advance, or was it based off of her connections to hemingway? now thinking about wartime correspondence. i do want to kind of fast forward a little bit to look at some more modern wartime correspondence now when i think a female wartime correspondence i go back to my youth. i know that's giving away my age a little bit. i think of martha raditz and larry logan, you know during in afghanistan wars those were two female faces two of the only female faces that i remember. it's not quite as uncommon to see women on the fronts now even thinking to ukraine with everything that's going on right now. think about the faces you're seeing on tv. how often are they female just a quick pool life do sat from bbc clarissa ward from cnn sabrina traverse from the new york times. there's not a lot of female faces still it's still is predominantly male. so when yo

so helen thomas asked martha what do you think about the min mini skirts and martha quipped back ande wanted to be treated with respected. she had a really interesting relationship with female reporters. they took her seriously, and we owe them a debt of gratitude for telling martha's story. if we didn't have them on the record with martha, then we wouldn't really know what had happened to her. so helen thomas was incredibly crucial in telling martha's tale. they really -- you know, they benefitted from each other i guess i would say. >> women reporters in those days at the white house could not cover the president as much as so-called east wing first lady activities and cabinet wives and therein lies the tale, they took her seriously. she had a really sad, sad fall and the end of the documentary is very sad. you'll have to see it. it's on netflix. so catch "the martha mitchell effect." we are going to be rooting for you on sunday night. gives us another excuse to watch the oscars. thanks so much ann and debra. congratulations again. thanks for being with us as we say good luck for t

good morning, alexis. >> martha, good morning. if you listen to that hearing secretary mayokas paints a different picture than what we see every day here at the southern border. this all comes as dozens of migrants just lost their life in a massive fire just over the border in mexico. take a look here. new video from inside this migrant detention facility. it shows the moment a massive fire started inside in mexico. the migrants inside started their mattresses on fire after they found out they were going to be deported. as those flames spread the guards ran out leaving those migrants locked up with no way to escape here. on tuesday dozens of venezuelan migrants showed up to the center trying to find their loved ones. protests at that scene you can see there growing as the group demands answer after nearly 40 people were killed in the fire and many other injured. many people talking about how the centers in mexico are way too crowded with migrants and they don't have the basic resources. things not slowing down in south texas. new

>> martha: no.d a conversation with brian kilmeade and tristen harris, the guy featured in "the social dilemma" which raised some of the serious concerns about how damaging a dangerous social medias for children we can no longer turn our backs on that. we know what danger it is. we know children should not have access to social media. it is a negative for them. he was screaming this from the rooftops. now he's got his hair on fire on this issue. he said people have no idea the kinds of realities that can be created by ai. for example, let's say that china wants to attack taiwan and i am putting big brackets around this. and imagine scenario. they want to convince everyone that taiwanese forces shot down their plane and that's why they went in. they can spread this message in such an uncontrollable way that no one is aware of what reality is and what it isn't. did that happen or didn't it happen? there is video, images, people on social media say that it happened, that they witnessed it and saw it an

martha, what heroic passengers to stay so calm, that's terrifying. >> martha: and reminds you from thingswn the alley there and just tackling him, obviously this man is very disturbed. that is quite clear. but when you are on a plane and the pilot is saying united takes 2609, we are now in emergency aircraft, that is a chilling moment. i'm struck by how everyone just sits there in the beginning. you know, you can imagine what is going through their minds as they are like stay calm, disappear, you know, it's just an incredibly scary moment. and we have a lot of problems with the airlines right now. i mean, it is -- any wonder why when you go through security and it says, those warnings, you know, do not insult, do not threaten, and you are thinking is that necessary? and then you watch this anything coming coming understand what they are going through. >> kayleigh: you think it's an isolated incident, but there is an allegiant fight from pennsylvania until florida where an individual was caught with an explosive before boarding the plane. and thank god security called it, but why is this g

martha? >> rebecca jarvis, thank you. >>> joining us now is senator mark warner, chair of the intelligence committee, and a member of the banking committee. thanks for joining us this morning, senator. we know this is only one bank, but this is the second largest bank failure in u.s. history, and banks collapsing bring back a lot of nightmares for people. how significant do you think this is? >> well, martha, let's remember how we got here. first of all, banking 101 is about taking care of interest rate risks. this bank bought long-term treasuries. interest rates went up, and they got caught in a bind, but what was different and your report made clear, $42 billion came out of this bank on one day on thursday, and frankly some actors i think were accelerate that run. to put in comparison, washington mutual when it went under, it lost $16 million over ten days. this happened so, so quickly. why is it important to most americans? one, is because this bank did fund startup companies all over the

martha raddatz, thank you.tracking back here in houston at the service terms of this hour and a real concern tonight over these long track tornadoes possible in several states after dark. two turn it is confirmed in texas already. a satellite catching a lot of lightning flashes over oklahoma, heavy rain in galveston, the recording, the darkening sky over paris, texas, here and capturing the damage from others those two years internet is confirmed. it is truck outside fort worth. was up to 100 miles an hour. meteorologist rob marciano is interesting that louis is an a for and i know a particular concern obviously because this is going to play out after sundown now. >> rob: yeah, at least until midnight. that is always more dangerous. storms have been bubbling in the region. we are on the campus of louisiana tech. a lot of superstorms. those clouds are ripping. that is a low level jet. becauseof that and other factors, they have now expanded the tornado watch. it is massive now. the northern part of louisiana, me

martha s. jones is the society of black alumni presidential professor professor of history and a professor at the snf agora institute at johns hopkins university. she is a legal and cultural historian and the author of vanguard. how black women broke barriers won the vote and insisted on equality for all. now let's hear from mary sarah builder and martha s jones. thank you for joining us today. greetings and welcome to this conversation with mary sarah builder about her brand new book female genius. i'm martha jones, and i'm honored to be here under the auspices of the national archives and really eager to dive into this conversation with you mary. so thanks very much for doing this with us. martha thanks so much and thanks to the national archives for having me and giving us this great opportunity to talk about my book and obviously hopefully we'll get to talk about your book vanguard also. well, i want to dive in because you know, i know your work and admire it for a long time. it's no surpri

martha. >> eric, thank you. let's break down these cases now with our experts, abc news chief legal analyst, dan abrams and also a former fbi special agent, thank you for joining us this morning. dan, let me start with you, as we heard all eyes are on the manhattan da this week. the case seems to hinge on a legal theory that's never been used in new york. how risky is this? >> look, it is risky for a number of reasons. the new theory is in getting it from the misdemeanor to the felony. they're kind of jerry-rigging it to some degree. the reason that's novel and difficult has not been quite done exactly in this way before. there is also another factor here, which is this is not just a misdemeanor case that they're trying to get into a felony. it is also a seven-year-old case. it is also a case that two other sets of prosecutors, the previous da and the federal prosecutors decided not to move forward with. when people say to me sometimes, well, this had been me, i would have been prosecuted for sure. my response i

let's get to martha raddatz. martha, we heard general milley there saying if the russians were able to recover this drone from the black sea, the u.s. is very confident they will not gain access to any valuable u.s. intelligence here. >> reporter: right, david. the drone operators were able to gain some control of the drone, even after the collision, and were able to wipe out or scrub all the sensitive information remotely and render the drone inoperable, even if it is recovered by the russians. david? >> all right, martha raddatz, working this story again today for us. martha, thank you. >>> meantime, here in the u.s., we're learning about yet another close call at a u.s. airport. at least seven incidents so far this year, and this time, a united flight forced to abort takeoff from reagan national airport. tonight right here, you will hear air traffic controllers urging that cockpit to halt takeoff. so, what happened on that runway? and it all comes just as the faa held a safety summit today. here's gio benitez

and martha raddatz with late reporting. >>> two major systems hitting both coasts tonight. in the northeast, this nor'easter. in some places, more than 30 inches of snow. wind gusts hitting 60 miles an hour. a passenger plane off the taxiway in syracuse. and now in the west, the second atmospheric river targeting california. heavy rain tonight and a rare flash flood alert in los angeles. ginger zee timing it out. >>> the alarming headline breaking late today. police outside syracuse, new york, say they have stopped a mass shooting threat at another upstate tops supermarket. tonight, how they knew of this threat, and why they took it seriously. >>> tonight, the federal investigations now launched after those two u.s. banks collapsed. the justice department and the s.e.c. did high-ranking bank employees know this was coming? did they take advantage of that information? and the video tonight. one of the bank's ceos and what he asked employees to do as this was unfolding. pierre thomas tonight. >>> the race for the white house. and florida governor ron desantis declaring that s

i want to get right to martha raddatz. martha, the two new attacks we learned of tonight. we learned this from the pentagon as we were coming on. we did hear a unified message before these two new attacks from both the pentagon and the pres u itgsid wit t. us, here, martha, the president in canada saying the u.s. does not seek conflict with iran, but this would appear to be escalating. what are you hearing tonight about the defense systems on those u.s. bases, why they're not able to stop these drones and rockets, an how the u.s. might respond to these attacks? >> reporter: a u.s. official confirmed to us that one of the air defenses was down at the time of the deadly attack, something they will be looking into but do not expect the u.s. to back off. president biden said just moments ago, we are not going to stop, implying there could be further retaliations. david? >> i know you'll be monitoring this into the evening for us. martha raddatz leading us off with this on this friday night. >>> severe stormsnd concern tonight over long track tornadoes possible after dark. two

>> sandra: it's interesting, i was chatting with martha off camera about.erybody has their take on this, and said to martha, you ski enough, you are almost all near a collision, especially here in the slopes in this neck of the woods, tight at times. i don't know. i think there is some really interesting moments in the way she handled that trial, and how he did, and i don't know what happened. >> john: i appreciate people who can ski in upstate new york, kind of like skating downhill, very icy. >> sandra: sorry, alex was in my here. talking about skiing in new england, absolutely. >> john: like skating downhill. the slopes are ice for the most part. >> sandra: it is, and the snowboarder plow it down further, becomes an ice rink. >> john: was alex weighing in on the trial? >> sandra: time cue. it's time for the tease. new fbi documents shedding light on the las vegas gunman shedding light on the worse mass shooting in history. and what may have caused the shooter to kill 60 people at a music festival and injure hundreds more. >> john: chilling 911 schools fr

. >> reporter: martha, that's right, good morning to you. he said that most of the buildings throughout the town were destroyed, maybe a few left standing but those are uninhabitalble as the son is coming up, i will try to paint this picture for you. this behind me is a lumberyard. right now it is all just been mixed together in this unrecognizable pile of debris and we are seeing this as far as the eyes can see. across the street, down the street. this was a 60-mile path that was cut from that one deadly ef4 tornado. ef4s are incredibly rare. only 1% of all tornados are all ef4s, they're that powerful. this is what we heard. they knew there was bad weather and they heard the warnings, they didn't have a lot of time to react. many of them were already in their homes and started to take shelter, what they didn't expect was this. they didn't expect when they were in their homes that the walls and the roofs and windows all around them would be ripped to shreds. that's why we see how deadly this storm was. we spoke with the mayor here, he talked

good morning, martha. >> martha: good morning, michael, u.s.liation for attack on maintenance facility at a coalition base in northeast syria. the drone strike killed that american contractor, wounded another and injured five american servicemembers. u.s. central command this morning saying we will always take all necessary measures to defend our people and will always respond at a time and place of our choosing. well is some 900 american forces in syria as part of a counter isis force including special operations, national duty and national guard and contractors who are vital part of this dangerous mission. since early 2021, they have been targeted 78 times by drones and rockets by the iranian proxy groups and sadly the latest claiming the life of the american. michael. >> michael: such a tough and dangerous job. thank you. >> linsey: tornado threat putting 30 million people on alert throughout the south and dangerous weather heading to the northeast. sam is tracking it from miami. good morning, sam >> sam: good morning, everybody and especial

the 48 people that went up to martha's vineyard.ow barack obama himself owns 30 acres in martha's vineyard? he could have given everyone half an acre and had plenty of acres right on the water. it's surprising he lives on the water considering that climate change is going to kill all of us. the reason they can steal in front of our eyes and ruin cities. is because they own the cultural apparatus. i would say guys like us are beginning to change that a little bit and people are tuning out of msnbc and "new york times" and cnn and "washington post." but the main driver of culture is still what comes from the left. these people will vote gavin newsom in again despite ruining san francisco and destroying the economy of california. the factory settings people walk around with is democrats are kind of nice, they seem like they are nice, they say nice things, and republicans are mean because they care about money and war. it's not true. but to deprogram people out of that, it takes work. that's what a whole bunch of us are up to. you can t

one was his own wife, martha washington. his wife, martha washington knew that smallpox was a risk if she visited her husband in camp with the army there. so she took it upon herself off to be inoculated in philadelphia washington, wrote to his brother, but he doubted that martha would actually go through with it. he said that he doubted her resolution, but she does it anyway. john hancock actually offered to have martha inoculated where he was staying at his house in philadelphia. but martha went her own way and was inoculated at the house of a cabinet maker named benjamin randolph. and after martha is inoculated, after she goes through successfully and recovers, washington stamps on inoculation begins to soften and a bit. for the first time, he actually uses the word inoculation in his letters. after martha's inoculation, he usually calls it taking the smallpox right, making it almost equivalent to getting infected naturally starts using the word. he almost always spells it wrong, but he starts using the word everybody spe

martha raddatz with us again tonight, martha. thank you to turn out of this powerful cross country storm tonight at this hour, a tornado warning for a time in the dallas area already confirmed tornado on the ground in fort worth just a short time ago, and these are the images coming in already large. hail falling in weatherford, texas, and across the state 16 states, in fact, on alert right now, from colorado to michigan, and then, of course, the east gets hit next, let's get right to senior meteorologist rob marciano. tracking this again tonight. hey, rob. hi david. dangerous evening across north texas. this is the wind energy from that california storm. tornado watch remains up for the dallas fort worth metroplex that sells weakened somewhat, but you see more bubbling up down around waco. the northern part of this has dropped some snow, and it will push off to the east. we're looking for some rain across chicago into the great lakes. in the southern part of this, that's where the wind energy is again today and tomorrow looks li