according to noaa these late may storms may have caused millions of damage to property. majestic mountains... scenic coastal highways... there's lots to love about california. so put off those chores and use less energy from 4 to 9 pm when less clean energy is available. because that's power down time. >>> right now we want too to governor new on vaccines as wel reopening schools. >> educators in this district, at least that first dose. today marks more broadly a commitment for the state of california across the spectrum in all 58 counties to provide at least 10%, a minimum of 75,000 doses we are setting aside for our educators, school employees broadly, all up and down the state of california. on thursday and friday, we'll actually be utilizing the two large fema sites thursday and friday in southern california and in northern california as educator days exclusively to provide even additional vaccinations. those don't come out of the 75,000 allocations. just a commitment, our resolve to prioritize our educators as we're prioritizing our most vulnerable, our seniors and

warning people and that is white is a good idea to have somewhere you can get your watches or warnings, noaaio is a great thing to have, have extra batteries. you are severe threat tonight will affect heavily populated areas across the southeast in the mid-atlantic with this area meaning a high risk of tornadoes for parts of willington towards north of charleston. the carolinas towards virginia need to be on alert. here are your preparations. we hope you have these in advance of the storm but in case folks are wondering you need to know where to get your watches and warnings, warnings mean you need to seek shelter immediately, basement, sellers are the safest, stay away from windows and flying debris potential and your noaa weather radio is the best things to have and have your batteries. there is your forecast, the big stories the southeast and mid-atlantic, snow behind the system across the plane states and even potential for snow tomorrow behind the system for the mid-atlantic and the northeast. the bottom line is if you are in an area you can see potential whether be prepared ahead of it

they are already working with noaa. so i think there's progress. the limitationon>> is l in the t ofhe seafood varieties that are tracked. >> okay. well, let's get them all tracked. anyway, thank you so much. thank you, mr. l. chairman. >> thank you, senator cantwell. and it's important for the country. and it's especially important ha for the peoplet. who give us an election certificate in the pacific northwest. and i thank you for doing that. next will be senator grassley. >> thank you, mr.n o urchairman holding this hearing. we need fairness in our trade, and we need a level playing lead field. and you're hitting that very n hard with this hearing.the i want to lead into a question with ms. hughes this way. the australian strategic policy institute january last year said around 600 ethnic minority workers from shin jang were woe employed atrs a shoe manufactur whose primary customer is nike.. these women werere most uighur women who at night were required to study mandarin and sing chinese national anthem. pub new evidence fromli a nankai tin re

well, the federal forecasters at noaa just offered their spring outlook.ting that the droughts affecting half the country will expand. drier conditions in the southwest will impact about 74 million people. and if we do have any hurricanes this season, we know one thing. they won't be named after the greek alphabet, anymore. we use greek letters when we run out of each season's names and that's only happened twice. the national weather service says that names like delta, eta, and iota, were too difficult for people to remember. this year's list includes -- that will do it for now. but we hope you come back tomorrow night at 9:00 eastern. michigan's governor gretchen whitmer will join us to discuss how her state is handling covid-19. that is tomorrow night, at 9:00 eastern, here on msnbc. but until we meet again, i'm joshua johnson. thank you so much for making time for us, and i will see you tomorrow. good night. alice loves the scent of gain so much, she wished there was a way to make it last longer. say hello to your fairy godmother alice. and long-lastin

well, the federal forecasters at noaa just offered their spring outlook.ry will expand. drier conditions in the southwest will impact about 74 million people. and if we do have any hurricanes this season, we know one thing. they won't be name after the greek alphabet anymore. we use greek letters when we run out of the names and that's only happened twice. the national weather center service says the names were too difficult for people to remember. this year their list of back-up name includes adria, and de sean. we home you come back tomorrow night at 9:00 eastern. michigan's governor will jimmie us to discuss how her state is handling covid-19. that's tomorrow night at 9:00 eastern on msnbc. until we meet again, i'm joshua johnson. thank you for making time for us. see you tomorrow. good night. (vo) last year subaru and our retailers donated 50 million meals to feeding america. and yet, one in four children may still face hunger. so, subaru and our retailers are doing it again, donating an additional 100 million meals to help those in need. love. it's ne

we had looked at the noaa sea surface temperature maps, and it was clear that for 8 months, a hot spot due to climate change sat on that reef and the corals died, and it was striking. van thillo: global warming was well-known, but most people did not dare to say this was global warming, although, for us, this was a complete sign that there was global warming. dustan: imagine you as a human being. we increase your body temperature by two degrees, you have a fever, right? we increase it by another two degrs, and you'reead. that's what's happening to the reefs. if you recover from your fever, you can go on to be a perfectly healthy person. the reef can go on to be a perfectly healthy reef if this was just a one-time stress. if it becomes a chronic stress, and every year it gets worse, slowly those corals that survived this year might not survive next year or the year after or the year after or the year after. narrator: scientists have confirmed a dramatic rise in ocean temperatures over the past two decades. every day, humans are pushing more than 100 million tons of carbon dioxide into t

you have to have a noaa weather radio and a smartphone. people are getting that message.ning, they're starting to respond. they're starting to do the right thing. it's really working well this year. >> reporter: for now these folks are just left picking up the pieces. yes, they're looking to the future and hoping for the best, but it's tornado season. they have to prepare for the worst. >> i don't really know what i've lost, to tell you the truth. reality hasn't even hit me good yet. >> we've been here a long time, but we never been through a tornado. they've hit all around us, but i tell you one thing, i never want to go through another one. >> our thanks to ginger. >>> up next, when fashion meets activism. how one young designer plans to stop asian hate. ♪ ♪ ocean spray works with nature every day to keep you healthy you try to stay ahead of the mess but scrubbing still takes time. now there's dawn powerwash dish spray. it's the faster way to clean as you go. just spray, wipe and rinse. it cleans grease five times faster. dawn powerwash now available in free & clear. wa

we also saw the last year with noaa. i began fighting about the weather with spectrum is noaa happy? >> when you reallocate spectrum are pushed back away from federal users, it's never a big issue, old as on the issue. there's a potential for to come back. just this week i saw in political report, a group kind of pushed the biden administration to get the fcc to unwind our decision and 5.9 gigahertz and that would just be a monumental mistake. this is spectrum that has been just underutilized, to put it lightly, for decades now. we made the right call from my perspective. there's no going back and i hope there's a consensus at the sec with that position. same thing with nationalizing weiler. >> we pushed back costs on that in the last initiation and a kind was only mostly dead were a lot of that time hopefully that is dead. hopefully we can move on beyond 5.9 so i'm not really litigate that when. >> how are we doing on international spectrum? i know it's a year for another, whatever -- there's always something -- >> twen

or is noaa happy now? t >> when you push back away from federalba users, it's never a dd issue, it's only a zombie issue. just this week i think "politico" reported that there was a group trying to push the biden administration to get thes fcc to i unwind our decision in 5.9 gigahertz. that would be a monumental we md mistake. this is spectrum that has been underutilized, to put it lightl. for decades now.ack and we made the right call frome my perspective, there's no going back. and i would hope that there's a consensus at the fcc with that position. nationalizing wireless. we push backy constantly on thi, particularly in the last ime administration. and it t kindhat of was only mo dead for a lot of that time. but hopefully that's dead, o hopefully we can move beyond 5.a as well and not relitigate that, one. >> how are we doing on spectrum?nty- i know it's ath year for whatever -- there's always m something --as >> p os23. of w >> okay. and where we try to harmonize as much as possible which goes back ton

with warmer temperatures over the next several years, there's the possibility in the year 2100, noaa climate scientists are saying we may not have any snow at all. most of it may come down as rainfall and only snow above 9,000 feet, which is a very few spots in the sierra. the overall trend will be a lot less snow and we've been following this on nbcbayarea.com/climateincrisis. >> kari, thank you. >>> coming up, why today, in particular, would be an especially gad day to say thank you to your bus driver. >>> first, happening now, amazon now jumping into the health care business. tech giant says it will offer its amazon care telemedicine program to employees nationwide. amazon care is an app that currently is available only to the company's employees in washington state. it connects users virtually to doctors and nurses who can provide services and treatment over the phone 24 hours a day. amazon will expand the service by summer. we'll have much more for you here after the break. how do i use better than bouillon? i just add a spoonful to my marinades... ...to stir frys... ...sauces..

coastal state, is going to oversee the key functions at the department of commerce, particularly at noaa and help manage these economies and keep them focused on science. i know that she understands that as secretary she can use those good scientific agencies within the department of commerce to better understand the impacts of climate and the impacts of covid and what we can do. we know in the state of washington that just a little bit of science done at the university of washington helped us immensely in saving our shellfish industry, now we need to do more for fisheries across the united states. we need to invest in things that i call salmon infrastructure to keep as we continue to grow our economy and continue to move forward on infrastructure that we're also keeping ways to return salmon. i think that this is one of the most important things that governor raimondo can do as secretary of commerce, restore the respect for the scientific process, the scientific community, and the important issues that are going to be at heart of how our coastal economies are impacted by climate. i invi

according to noaa, last month marked the coldest february in years. the average contiguous u.s.rature was 30.6 degrees. grateful that it's not that cold all the time. and we were still in the top third of the es . stra m and w ng waurearts. next onkpixand streaming on cbsn bathe scue texa pups looking yeah, i mean the thing is, people like geico because it's just easy. bundling for example. you've got car insurance here. and home insurance here. why not... schuuuuzp.. put them together. save even more. some things are just better together, aren't they? like tea and crumpets. but you wouldn't bundle just anything. like, say... a porcupine in a balloon factory. no. that'd be a mess. i mean for starters, porcupines are famously no good in a team setting. geico. save even more when bundle home and car insurance. >>> well, after severe weather hit texas, thousands of pets hit shelters. >> about two dozen dogs from an overcrowded shelter in california and made their journey to santa barbara. animal activists saved them from being put down. >> they were not in an area that was as fortu

around the great lakes like here in chicago chicago that depend on the health of these waters and noaaortantly we need a wake-up call. it's not just oceans heating up at an alarming rate, the biggest freshwater systems in the world. >> anything that can be done to stop the water from warming or is it too late? >> reporter: well, it's not going to cool off unless, you know, until the earth stops -- humanity stops burning the kind of fuels that burn and create that greenhouse effect which is heating up the planet. even then it will only get warmer because this is a slow motion disaster that's sort of baked in after over a century since the industrial revolution. in australia, for example, they are looking at radical solutions to try to save the great barrier reef including pumping cold water down to cool off those delicate corals now. you can't air condition lake michigan obviously and so really the only wild card in how bad it gets, how warm it gets, how radically this ecosystem changes comes down to human nature and how fast we get our fossil fuels. >> bill weir with our latest in eart

noaa scientists are saying that in the year 2100 most of the precipitation may fall as rain only gettingw above 9,000 feet. that's if we don't do anything, but there are some things we can do. as we look at our website nbcbayarea.com/climateincrisis we've been posting some things you can do to help our climate in crisis and see some ways that you can make a difference. i'll have another weather update coming up in a few minutes. marcus and laura? >> looking forward to that, kari. >>> 6:22. up next, details just out on that mass shooting at a southern california park three years ago. how the unfolding chaos continued to the delayed police response. >>> and all weeklong we've been looking back at the last photo taken from before the covid shutdown started. heidi took this photo in the richmond shipyard. the doors were locked, chained shut. she says little did she know the entire state would lock down. just days later. share your videos and pictures with us here on "today in the bay." more news ahead. i'm morgan, and there's more to me than hiv. more love,... more adventure,... more communi

as we look at the future in 2100 noaa climate scientists say in the year 2100 most of the precipitationthe sierra will fall as rain. that is not good. if we do continue on this trend we are going to say good-bye to sierra snow. we've been talking about this and things we can do to help out our climate in crisis. you can see more of these stories as well as look back on the stories that we've done over the past several months. i'll have another update in the forecast coming up in a few minutes. marcus and laura? >> all right, thanks, kari. >>> the latest bay area rain is nothing like what parts of the south are seeing right now. overnight storms are causing havoc. the latest on the damage and where the system is headed now. >>> but first, all weeklong we've been sharing stories of resilience, looking forward and ways to emerge from the pandemic. we're also looking back at some of the last photos taken before the covid shutdowns began. heidi took this at the richmond shipyard, the doors locked and chained shut. little did she know at that time the entire state would look down just days la

noaa designating the storm a rare level five, the highest severity risk. >> ten seconds it was gone,ittle bit longer, i probably wouldn't be here. >> reporter: in wayne county, mississippi, a chicken farm now fanned out in pieces while this tuscaloosa county suburb of moundville is littered with sobering scenes of overturned rvs and homes for blocks taking damage. a severe weather outbreak that's flexed its might, but one that is also far from over. somewhere in the neighborhood of 24 million americans are still facing a threat tonight, and we are talking about are like the carolinas, northern florida, georgia, our weather folks tell me that remains until about 6:00 tonight. where i am again in billingsley, alabama, we had a period here of 6.5 hours of a tornado watch. back to you. >> i'm serious, don't turn off your phone overnight. tornadoes, the warning systems have gotten better over the years. but they are very hard to predict, and if they come at you in the middle of the night, it's just -- it's bad news. i covered tornadoes a lot in my early career, and even those skinny ones

different ways to receive your emergency management alerts from your cell phones to the sirens to your noaaeather radios. these are all crucial tools to keep you and your family safe. >> that's really important information. derrick van dam, thanks so much. with us on the phone is sheriff matthew wade of calhoun county, alabama. first off, tell us just how bad is the damage there, how urgent is the situation? >> we immediately started getting reports of the damage, of people trapped and there were at least five fatalities at this time. we're worrying about the second storm that's coming through, possibly on the same track. there is numerous homes damaged, numerous people injured and at least five fatalities. >> i just want to confirm with you you said five fatalities so far you're aware of? >> that's right. >> people are trapped in their homes. what do the search and rescue efforts look like at this point? >> we've had multiple agencies from around our county and outside our county come to our rescue and we've had search and rescue teams sending people out and trying to get medical attention

forecasters say the storms should bring damaging winds and hail to some areas noaa's satellite captured yesterday's storms the flashes are lightning strikes hitting mississippi and alabama. take a look at this time-lapse video. that is a tornado forming two hours west of montgomery, alabama. according to reports there, a twister left a horrible mess in billingsly neighbors looking for their belongings luckily nobody got hurt. >>> a war of words between presidents putin and biden the heated question that started it all and the action now being taken by the russians. >>> and you want to fly, airlines want to make sure you're safe to do so we go behind the scenes for a test run on a new type of boarding pass that allows you to travel internationally >>> but first on wall street the dow down 153 the s&p down 59. the nasdaq down 409. a 3% drop on the day not everybody wants the same thing. that's why i go with liberty mutual — they customize my car insurance so i only pay for what i need. 'cause i do things a little differently. hey, i'll take one, please! wait, this isn't a hot-dog stand? n

forecasters say the storms should bring damaging winds and hail to some areas noaa's satellite capturedtning strikes hitting mississippi and alabama. that is a tornado forming two hours west of montgomery, alabama. according to reports there, a twister left a horrible mess in billingsly neighbors looking for their belongings luckily nobody got hurt. >>> a war of words between presidents putin and biden the heated question that started it all and the action now being taken by the russians. >>> and you want to fly, airlines want to make sure you're safe to do so we go behind the scenes for a test run on a new type of boarding pass that allows you to travel internationally >>> but first on wall street the dow down 153 the s&p down 59. the nasdaq down 409. a 3% drop on the day ♪ now here we go ♪ ♪ i can't help it if i'm poppin' see them watch like ♪ ♪ who that girl ♪ ♪ it's outrageous how this flavour got em shook like ♪ ♪ hold up ♪ ♪ work work work it out ♪ ♪ ah ha ♪ ♪ i hit it back with a brand new style ♪ ♪ like woah ♪ ♪ bring it up into the fold get wild ♪ ♪ we turning up all the way on

forecasters say the storms should bring damaging winds and hail to some areas noaa's satellite capturedare lightning strikes hitting mississippi and alabama. that is a tornado forming two hours west of montgomery, alabama. according to reports there, a twister left a horrible mess in billingsly neighbors looking for their belongings luckily nobody got hurt. >>> a war of words between presidents putin and biden the heated question that started it all and the action now being taken by the russians. >>> and you want to fly, airlines wantto make sure you're safe to do so we go behind the scenes for a test run on a new type of boarding pass that allows you to travel internationally >>> but first on wall street the dow down 153 the s&p down 59. the nasdaq down 409. a 3% drop on the day tle as $25 . but when you bring a friend, you get a month for $5. so i'm bringing everyone within 12 degrees of me. bam, 12 months of $5 wireless. visible. wireless that gets better with friends. (man) so when in doubt, just say, "let me talk to my manager." next, carvana's 100% online shopping experience. oh,

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so the noaa's official report states an estimated 90% of structures in cedar rapids sustained damage from the storm and more than 1,000 homes were destroyed. iowans found themselves quarantined during this health crisis with houses without power, holes in their roofs, no access to medicines. iowans need support during the pandemic, they need it doubly so. my district needs serious assistance still and this is on top of the strife brought by the pandemic, job losses, isolation, extreme mental health distress, our kids included. so now families have to decide whether or not to put food on the tables, removing trees or repairing their roofs. at this point i see that to be unacceptable for my district. my first question, will you commit to me today to stop forgetting iowans and get this relief? mr. fenton: thank you for that question. i think my testimony was focused at the time i've been acting administrator of fema, which has been a short period. but i'm glad to get with you and your team and look into that event and look at what else assistance we can provide that we haven't provide.

nih i'm aware of the tension from bipartisan members but the sister in science, nsf with nasa and noaaall deserve the same level of support nsf does great work so you have my commitment to ensure that i would lend my voice to those who want to prioritize nsf. we certainly have seen the need for the increase of basic research during covid not just nih but nsf as well. >> one of the few engineers and scientists serving in the body, thank you. >>. >> thank you ms. young for appearing before the committee her full statement is included in the record all questions for the record are due by 12 noon tomorrow with assigned hardcopies to the click on - - to the clerk and also accepted under our rules under the current conditions she will have seven days from receipt to respond with answers. >> let me make one last comment. i just had an exchange with director ray about the fbi consistent refusal to answer questions from congress through the trump administration through nine different committee hearings. seven got q f are answered and he blamed it on the interagency process that they have to go

as you said, just with such modest financial investments, i read about these beetles working with noaa to provide countries in low con activity activities allow people to communicate weather to come. i think that's a great example of the kind of uses to technology, the uses of satellites, uses of surveillance that we can bring to bear to mitigate harm. looking forward to what usaid staff which has been so creative in this domain have. >> sea level gauges, dark buoys, drones for reconnaissance and disaster response, all of these are really inexpensive even in the context of usaid, but certainly in the context of our overall foreign aid and defense budget. ... to the extent the united states spends 11 funds overseas, i know we won't want to make certain those funds are spent as effective as possible serving our interest. i would like to turn our attention to women's empowerment. as you know, to the extent that women floors in the nation, their economies floors and the democracies floors. we see more stability. the previous administration put together a tremendous program, the women's glo

get your noaa weather radios in plate. tornado watches in effect across the south.s what we're watching now. there will be a second batch of storms that comes in behind this. so why you think we have the storms here now, we're not done with it. the cold front comes in behind it. juicy air when the front comes through, we'll see the next batch of storms. this is not over yet. a long ways to go here and potentially with these dew points, sticky air and this time of the year across the south, today is one of the days that we won't see the remainder of the year. have your plan in place. john? >> john: we know you'll watch for it. coming up, a white house briefing and andrew cuomo will have a news conference as well. >> sandra: that's expected at 3:15. thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. "the story" stars right now. >> sandra, john. thank you. i'm trace gallagher in for martha maccallum. right now on "the story," any moment now, the white house press briefing will get underway. we expect comments on the spiralling border crisis, school reo

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so as we're dealing with noaa department of labor, and with the border protection custom and border protectionolks on this, there's also this overlay of military and security intelligence that we should have. i want to thank the pugh trust andvulcan they describe what it calls devastating corrupt criminal conspiracied a heart of the seafood industry. and it is not just a question of force labor it is a question of actual slavery and, of course, if you're shipping stuff illegally around the globe, it's just as easy to put arms or human trafficking victims or other contraband in with the fish as well. so cleaning up this abuse of the high seas i think is a real priority and i wanted to ask ms. vandenberg what you see happening with this, how we can work better together to combine all of these differents assets and eliminate once and for all most are useful as providing data but that presupposes that fishing vessel is legitimate enough to install a vessel monitoring system. and not corrupt enough to flip i it off but as soon as it gets out of the territorial waters of its homeou country. an it is

you need to have a way to get that warning, a noaa weather radio is the thumb one to get it.t yourself to shelter. put a helmet on too because hea >>> good morning. enjoy our dry weather today. rain is on the way increasing clouds and temperatures ma >>> and we're joined by our chief washington correspondent jon karl, the paperback edition of his best steller "front row at the trump show" is available now. new revelations about what went on in the trump white house after the pandemic hit. jon, thanks for coming back. i have the book right here so you were on for the hard cover edition i think about a year ago. you possibly could have written an entire new book about the final ten months of the trump administration. >> reporter: oh, my god, george and, of course, the book came out just as every book store in the country was shutting down, but it also was at the very moment the trump show actually became the trump show as you remember, he started doing press briefings every single day, seven days a week, sometimes lasting for two hours every day at the white house and he went o

more than two dozen tornados have already been reported, noaa designating the storm a rare level 5, the highest severity risk. >> ten seconds, would have lasted a little bit longer i probably wouldn't be here. >> reporter: in wayne county, mississippi, a chicken farm now fanned out in pieces while this tuscaloosa county suburb of moundville is littered with sobering scenes of overturned rvs and homes for blocks taking damage. a severe weather outbreak that's flexed its might, but one that is also far from over. forecasters are going to be out here a little bit later today assessing the damage and potentially rating the tornados, a process, guys, that really in the age of covid has gone on without the presence of the media. certainly worth noting these storms now are going to be heading to the southeast and mid-atlantic areas that are expected to get pummelled. savannah, back to you. >> sam brock on the scene, thank you, sam. >>> let's bring in al now and just figure out exactly where that storm is going and how bad it's going to be. hey, al. >> good morning. as with e look at the radar,

forecasters basement, sellers are the safest, stay away from windows, potential flying debris and your noaa weeks and months and the potential for more storms, heavily populated areas, 30 million in the path of the storms with tornadoes for the carolinas but the risk anywhere from florida up to the mid-atlantic and behind it we have measurable snow in parts of the interior northeast and the coast, from new york city to boston. we will continue to monitor. make sure you know what to do if there is a watch or warning in the southeast and the mid-atlantic. back to you. steve: a good day to keep and i on the sky. let's turn to the border. president biden's official, acknowledging the migrant crisis as dhs secretary refuses to call it a crisis. ainsley: peter doocy joins us with the latest. >> the talk is not just about humanitarian crisis as the fed scrambled to find new shoulders, unaccompanied children including locations in texas and arizona but also becoming more about national security. >> border patrol resources are overwhelmed and we cannot secure the border based on what the threat is c