meanwhile, a prominent republican says it is time for the party to move on from former president donald trump, calling him a quote proven loser. we ll have more of those comments just ahead, and we ll also dig into the faa s explanation for its massive system failure earlier this week. the agency is now placing the blame on contract workers. could one person literally ground all planes across america? that s the question we ll be looking into. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s friday the 13th, willie. joe has the morning off, but we have a lot going on, starting out in washington, d.c. again. yes, and big news concerning the president of the united states. attorney general merrick garland has appointed a special counsel to investigate how classified documents ended up in the personal possession of president joe biden. at a press conference yesterday, garland announced the selection of robert hur, a former trump appointed u.s. attorney to
it is official. this was an outbreak. we re talking about more than three dozen reported tornadoes across alabama, georgia, and throughout the south. officials are going to be surveying, trying to decide what they are looking at. the national weather service says that it could take some days before they are able to confirm all the tornadoes. one note i want to make about this is the timing of this. we re in the middle of january. this is the middle of winter. while it s not unheard of to see tornadoes around this time, we re talking about an outbreak and the ferocity of the tornadoes is something we typically don t see in january. new developments what may have caused the computer outage that led to chaos at airports across the country. nbc news learned investigators believe one or more contract workers may have introduced corrupted software to the faa system damaging some files.
Hundreds of contract workers found themselves out of work earlier than expected when the company that hired them was terminated from a project at the EVRAZ steel mill in Pueblo.