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Tornadoes, and is there a hope that some people might still be found alive in the rubble? >> good morning, jake. first i just wanted to start by saying my prayers go out to everybody across these states impacted by these events. we still do have reports of people that are missing and unaccounted for. i dont have exact numbers. the life-saving and life-sustaining priorities are continuing to be to find as many people as we can that might be trapped in this rubble. >> its still a rescue mission, n...

I dont have exact numbers. the life saving and sustaining priorities are continuing to find as many people as we can that might be trapped in this rubble. >> its still a rescue mission, not just a recovery. theres still hope. >> i think there is still hope. we sent one of our federal urban search and rescue teams down to kentucky, they arrived through the day yesterday. theyll be able to assist the localities with their ongoing rescue efforts. there is still hope. we should continue to find as m...

Does that not show, governor hutchinson, that vaccine mandates work? >> i dont believe it does. first of all, put it in historical perspective, never in the history of our country has government mandated the private sector to require vaccinations. its generally been left up to the states and localities, but it has been looked at as an education effort in our school systems. to put this into the businesses does a number of things. one, it hardens resistance, thats what we see in arkansas but i th...

Localities, cities that went under tornado emergencies. tornado emergencies, you may have heard of like you get a tornado warning. your phone goes off, it says tornado warning, tornado possibly located if blank location. the next level up from that is what we call tornado emergencies. thats when we know we have a very strong, powerful tornado thats on the ground and about to go through a city. in other words, the weather service is telling people in those cities, you are about to get hit by an e...

About half of the increase in november was driven by energy and cars. and those are two sectors where weve seen thankfully some moderation in prices even since that data was out. gas prices are down nationally by close to $0.10. theres 20 states in the country where gas prices have already come down below their 20-year average, and the price of natural gas has come down 25% since november, so were seeing some moderation on that front. from our perspective, the other thing the president said was ...

Thats why the president delivered anti-crime measures through his rescue plan. the white house outlined a number of instances, localities where cities have used the covid relief funds to hire more police officers. walnut creek in california, louisville, kentucky an kansas city, missouri. the images were continuing to see as the situation evolves and it is putting the white house in a position where ney have to respond to that. >> because theyre seeing a lot of them. thanks, jacqui. my next guest...

Enforcement. >> that exchange of insults, neil emblematic of what is an increasingly dysfunctional relationship between those whose job it is to arrest criminals and those two job it is to prosecute them. >> neil: thank you. jacqui heinrich on how the white house is responsing to this serious spike in crime. jacqui? >> the d.a. announced this morning that theyre giving $17 million in grants on top of $139 million that they gave out for localities to hire more police officers. the white house tou...

Somewhere we dont know because she was vague about it some video camera was not recording. the nerve to say they need to have more security. the taxes in chicago are really high to help pay for the police to guard the building. and its not just the outside of the building, its the inside of the building. she is suggesting these private retailers they need to take some of the money and they need to put guards inside. however, in chicago, and im unfamiliar exactly with the rules there but im sure ...

Overturned that does that mean for states? >> to answer your first question are the new trump appointed conservative justices, brett kavanaugh, neil gorsuch and amy coney barrett. this is the first case that amy coney barrett will hear arguments since taking her seat formally on the court. so, thats something were obviously watching. whether chief justice john roberts had how he moves on the case, whether he wants to take that institutional risk of overturning an over 40-year-old decision, that ...

Strategies that we have to really encourage people and state and localities to use so masking was incredibly important to reducing the spread. we need rapid tests available to all u.s. households. it should be free, available, and accessible. we also need for there to be a supportive household for people to be quarantined. there should be groceries and isolation facilities. again, in order to protect ourselves from this new variant, we have the tools. its a matter of using them and implementing ...