also, confirmation for merritt garland begins in the next hour. all of this as the united states is on the brink of surpassing 500,000 lives lost to coronavirus. president biden is planning to lon nor the americans killed by the pandemic with a moment of silence and a candlelight vigil outside the white house tonight. let's begin our coverage with dan simons with the latest on the fallout in the investigation into what happened on that united flight saturday afternoon. dan. >> reporter: good morning, erica. well, the ntsb says the likely culprit appears to be a fractured fan blade that then took out another blade. these are preliminary findings. no conclusions have been made. the regulators want to determine how that uncontained engine failure took place and prevent something like from from happening in the future to do that, the faa is saying all those boeing 777s, they should be inspected, of course, thoroughly inspected before they can fly again. in the meantime, seeing those images, seeing all that debris fly out of the sky, it continue to be

that is for judge merritt garland. we got manu raju.s struck by in this statement from garland is his focus on civil rights and what true equality means. he noted in july of 2020, it was the 150-year anniversary of the doj being formed after the civil war in this country. he writes there in his remarks. the mission remains urgent because we do not yet have equal justice. he goes on to say, communities of color and other minorities face discrimflation in housing, education, employment and criminal justice. how significant to hear him choose to really bring that to the forum in this hearing? >> that will be a priority of the biden administration to consistent with the new president's approach. one of the things that he will also be pressed on through the course of this hearing that will take up today. we will go into tomorrow is about how he plans to pursue what happened on january 6th. we just heard the opening statement from the new chairman of the committee, dick durbin, the judiciary chairman, saying that people involved in what happe

david merritt. -- recently introduced a point of care in clinical practices. professor of microbiology joins us for more. thank you for your time today. i want to start with where they left off. the u.k. vaccination program is going well. we have now vaccinated one through four categories in terms of the people most at risk. government doesn't want a threat coming from outside. how big of a risk does the u.k. face of another variant coming in and upsetting this work? >> there is a risk of variance. we have seen variance in this country as we speak. we have the u.k. variant and now we have different combinations, as well as other viruses that are circulating in small numbers that have foreign mutations. things are already getting a little bit tricky here. we have to make sure they are not transmitting. that might lead to more severe illness, even in the face of infection and the vaccine. once the numbers are not high, we need to get control of the pandemic and backs not as -- vaccinate as many people as possible. guy: in tom's -- in terms of the 1-4 cohorts, ho

near lake merritt. in asian woman walking to her car when suspects idling in the car behind her jump out and attacked her. this happened yesterday, no word yet whether opd has tracked down those suspects. >> there asking the public's health -- help to find a computer program was been missing for more than a month. his family worries foul play could be involved. he spoke to his siblings whose -- who flew in to look for him. family members say they talked to him on the ninth, since then, they say no communication and no video of him walking out of the building. >> there has been no activity, he has not been in his apartment, there's no activity on his bank. we are very anxious to find him. >> they flew to san francisco. they passed out flyers, near his building. it is out of character for the computer programmer to disappear. >> there's not a day that goes by at this point about wondering what happens, where is he? >> it has been horrible. i tried to sleep, i tried to think, it is hard to focus on anythin

also, confirmation for merritt garland begins in the next hour. states is on the brink of surpassing

were in hours or come for 4 years but due to the fighting in various attacks we moved to a camp in merritt. the un says an assault on the city would force hundreds of thousands of people to leave aid workers who are already struggling to cope say they aren't prepared for a large influx of new arrivals. over the past 2 days we've received many displaced people who were forced to leave camps including elves who are hundreds have arrived here some stayed others were moved to different camps they are staying in the open air under the open sky and as you can see they lack basic essentials. the united states has called on the heath east to stop their advance. and washington special envoy to yemen says he is easing back channels to get the these to return to international negotiations. these have accused the yemeni government of being the aggressor is if diplomacy fails the u.n. is warning of unimaginable humanitarian consequences victoria gate and b. is there a winter storm has hit middle eastern countries along the mediterranean destructing traffic and halting covert 19 vaccinations heavy snow

khan fatally stabbed jack merritt and saskia jones in november 2019, before being shot dead by policestock exchange. today, a pre—inquest hearing was told khan was deemed a "high—risk category a prisoner" before his release. it's half—term for many schools in england and wales next week, with most pupils having been home—schooled since christmas. it's been a lonely and isolating time for many children, who've been unable to see their friends, and hard work for some parents too. but one school on the wirral has been trying to bring some end—of—term cheer, as our education correspondent, elaine dunkley, reports. we've done our maths and our english. for many parents and pupils, it's been a tough term. we did our phonics, didn't we? here in wallasey, joanne has been home—schooling faith and blake. some days it's like pulling teeth. it's like being a one—on—one teacher. you have to sit with him and read through everything. i am well and truly ready for half term. it's notjust lost learning but broken friendships which has made life in lockdown hard. she'd created this bond and the fact th

. >> my father but a number every day at the merritt had the good fortune but the documentary about amsterdamwhat time i touch my father's old union boss and he's just looking, there's a penny that they always call my father and any member of my family, he was buying a number that day. we could see buying a number every day. [laughter] i loved also, and i think you have been touched by some of the reaction to your book. one person wrote in that he cried after reading about the same story about your relatives, the one that sticks with me is your uncle leo who is really down and out, tell us about him. >> leo had a bit of interesting history when he was a kid. leo was actually my father's uncle so he's a great uncle. grand uncle, whatever. he was taken back to poland with his mother to settle some sort of family business through he was the youngest of i don't know, nine kids or so. he was about four. the year was 1914, you are there. [laughter] and world war i starts. and the russian army is coming straight for the village where they are. i mean really, i'm not exaggerating. that was the front

merritt? >> the father of the great historian of our time, great historian and activist. with activism as you know. he worked for john kennedy inn the white house during kennedy's administration. but his father was a noted, highly noted harvard historian who in 1948 concocted the idea the rankings of the american presidents through the views so you have this whole by far the most influential and highest circulation magazine in m the country he published these rankings. and itas was kind of electrifying for people in america. the article got a lotf of attention. so he did it again and 1962 and his son, sausage or junior did it, my good friend the late steve neal from chicago tribune did a poll. and then various other academics, had various kinds of methodologies to pull historians on this. whereas the historians of you nick contemporaneous judgment within presidential politics and the customers always c right , because you have to pay attention to what the voters are saying. therefore one term president rejected by the american people after a term, has a few marks against

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trillion relief package and more than four years after being denied a seat on the supreme court, merrittnfirmation hearing. this time for the attorney general of the united states. making this promise to lawmakers. >> if confirmed, i will supervise the prosecution of white supremacists and others who stormed the capitol on january 6th. >> and the supreme court dealt a major blow to former president donald trump when it paved the way for prosecutors in new york to get access to his financial records and tax returns. joining us this hour, nbc news correspondent jeff bennett, tara palmieri, good to have you both with us. let's begin with you. the house plans to vote on the pandemic relief package as i noted, but the real test will be on the senate

. >>> well we're days away from the senate vote expected to confirm merritt garland as the next attorneyas her et garland's own hesitation, something that gave him pause, but i hope will guide his tenure as the attorney general of the united states. >> i have had a great pause about the -- about the death penalty. >> his pause was actually an evolution of thought. the kind of epiphany that justice not only invites but requires. we assume that justice is served by a blindfolded lady justice, that somehow her blindness will guarantee equal justice under the law, but judge garland's pause may actually represent the realization that we must actually see the world for what it really is for justice to be served. consider the death penalty that he spoke of. merrick garland didn't close his eyes to the data regarding the arbitrariness of its application or the disparate impact on communities of color? we saw the data, actually looked at the data. it gave him pause about how justice could actually be defined. and even perhaps how an injustice could be corrected. like the use of police body camera

the impeachment article fails on the merritt. they have charge of the president with incitement of violence and insurrection. nothing they said meets the legal standard for incitement.. incitement is very clear. incitement is very deliberately saying, go attack -- by the way, if you are actually measuring the standard for incitement, those democrats you played, maxine waters, what she said, chuck schumer, what he said, they would come much closer to meeting the standard for incitement then did president trump. but the honest answer is none of them meet incitement. we have the first amendment. we have robust political speech. people are entitled to be idiots. you know what? in united states congress, we've got a lot of people doing that. we shouldn't be prosecuting people for speaking and we shouldn't be impeaching them. this is political theater. the reason they are doing this, we need to understand this, is not just a hate donald trump, they hate the 75 million americans who voted for him and they are trying to silence you, they

. >> when i first came to merritt it was on the more overmelling side. >> reporter: goddard center goldberg worked with satellite imagery, studying the impact of climate change on the world's mangrove forests. goldberg soon realized there was a mountain of evidence satellites were gathering about climate change, but much of it unseen outside of research circles and none of it making it back to her high school science class. >> it was nice, and i realized if i could possibly give the tools that i'm getting at nasa and i got an experience with two of the kids in my science classes, i could change the way they were viewing their interest and see the way they benefit the world. >> reporter: that's what goldberg set out to do, working with nasa, national geographic and google, goldberg is helping to launch cloud to classroom, a way to better visualize and therefore better teach climate change. like showing the spread of droughts and wildfires, the shrinking of ice and the growth of urbanization, and not just on a global scale, but enabling people to view the impact exactly where they live. >> wh

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trillion relief package and more than four years after being denied a seat on the supreme court, merritt garland is getting his confirmation hearing. this time for the attorney general of the united states. making this promise to lawmakers. >> if confirmed, i will supervise the prosecution of white supremacists and others who stormed the capitol on january 6th. >> and the supreme court dealt a major blow to former president donald trump when it paved the way for prosecutors in new york to get access to his financial records and tax returns. joining us this hour, nbc news correspondent jeff bennett, tara palmieri, good to have you both with us. let's begin with you. the house plans to vote on the pandemic relief package as i noted, but the real test will be on the senate side of things. what happens when the package moves to the other side of the capital? >> well, there are a lot of questions over whether moderate democrats like kirsten and joe manchin will vote for this bill. a lot of people including moderate republicans have said this bill is too big. they haven't been pushing it too h

and so i moved from -- atlanta to oakland is where i lived in lake merritt and i took funky google bus up and down i guess that was the 101 i can't remember now but down to san jose silicon valley in mountain view headquarters and my purpose there -- became to be whatever google wanted me to be. and i was the culture of silicon valley companies like google is so all encompassing it sort of enveloped my entire life at that time as a 22-year-old so far away from home and friends that my purpose was really just to be a part of the club. however i could. you know, every company has a club, and it is the people who seem like they're on the right track who feel like they -- set this social dynamic who is feel like they get promoted. who seem to understand how things move around, and so -- i was such a fish out of water in a cultural way that my purpose just became how can i -- how can i get in the club and how can i stay there? and that was painful but i'm sure we'll come back to that. i moved within the company, i moved geographically from silicon valley to new york where i worked out of th

schools to reopen and that hybrid instruction that rally planned for this sunday at noon at lake merritt reporting live, allie rasmus ktvu boxed removes, all right. l a thank you. in less than a month here, students in livermore, thousands of them will be back in the classroom. yesterday the livermore valley joint unified school district met about a safety plan for students and district workers. board voted unanimously to resume in person instruction for preschool through 12th grade on march 22nd. livermore superintendent says there is no perfect answer to make everyone happy, but says she thinks this plan will work. for everyone's taste night, getting emails from, you know if you if you don't recall goilocks story, you know it's this this. this chair's too big and this one's to smaller this port just too hot in this one. and then this is just right. and so we're trying to get it just right, knowing that for everyone's taste in preference. we can't get it just right because we have 14,000 people. the board says more than 80% of teachers have received at least one dose of the covid vaccin

arthel: based on signage we just saw in mark merritt's report they want another trump term.'s say even at the former president does not intend to run again in 2020 for his endorsement is a large part of his political power. how long might he string out his endorsement of another potential gop candidate? >> very good question. he is the 800-pound gorilla in the room, if you will. and i think what we've heard from reports is that he will tease the idea of running in 2024 but not rule it in or rule it out and this is classic trump. ever the showman wanting to leave a crowd wanting more and the question is how long can he play that game because he will absolutely freeze the field. anybody who thinks about 2024 will have to come up work very gingerly around the edges in terms of lining up supporters and donors and staffers. this is until donald trump either gets in or gets out and clears the way for the next generation of republicans. arthel: that is why you see senators with ted cruz they are saying party, let me tell you something donald day trump isn't going anywhere. even if

merritt has a great opportunity to advocate on this issue as they have been identified as elite moverd, identify relief, and issue grants across the nation. that will be key for america to move forward. it will be very important with all of the issues and failure to do that will create a real problematic russian in the supply chain. and again, we talk about imports and exports and 95% of international trade is boosted by one heard trade begins at the ports. >> i'm going to pick up on what was said and strongly encourage congress to fund this program. there are a number of entities ranging from training institutions that the unions and shipping companies run that have been effectively shut down for most of this past year that we are not able to travel to and from the school spirit -- from the school. there are other shipping companies, all of whom have taken significant hits throughout the pandemic, and just to emphasize this administration does not dictate money go to anybody. they have to comply with the grant and prove it is worthwhile and necessary. if none of that happens, no mon

merritt-based. this illegal crap has got to stop. it is overrun in ohio.ound them all up and deport them. host: jim in georgia saying illegal immigrants always send 50% to 75% of their earnings their countries of origin. -- back to their countries of origin. william says, how is this a benefit for me and my fellow americans? carol in panama city, florida. it's about time. they deserve to be recognized as they work and pay taxes and join the military, etc. republicans use it at election time for the number one topic. immigration should be sorted out once and for all. text us at (202) 748-8003. twitter available, and our facebook page. you can also call us on the lines. sean in sterling heights, michigan, a supporter of this path to citizenship. caller: good morning. host: go ahead. caller: i'm definitely in favor of it. i used to be in the military. we had people from the philippines, central america and the military. it was like their path to citizenship. but we changed the rules and a lot of them did not get to qualify at the end of their service. it is l