you have to wake up and smell the coffee. what they re demanding, the response from the studios, and what it means for the entertainment you were looking forward to this year. plus, it s been so hot on the pavement out west, you could literally sere food. millions under threat from extreme heat today. we re in phoenix where it could be the hottest week ever. and has a serial killer been caught after a string of murders more than a decade ago on a long island beach. what our investigators team is learning about the suspect now in custody. it s 10:00 a.m. eastern, i m lindsey reiser in for ana cabrera. hollywood movie sets and television studios are going dark. failed contract negotiations with the major studios. let s bring in nbc news correspondent dana griffin from outside headquarters where picket lines have already formed this morning, and nbc news entertainment contributor chris witherspoon. comcast is a member of the alliance of motion picture and television produc
nuclear sites for the international community. i ll talk to the iaea chief about what happens next. and average u.s. gas prices hit a record, $5 a gallon. overall inflation hits 8.6%, consumers are pessimistic about the state of the u.s. economy. what does the former federal reserve chair think? i ll ask him. we are now living in a totally new era. that is what the 99-year-old henry kissenger said. in an op-ed last week president biden vividly outlined the stakes. he wrote if russia does not pay a heavy price for its actions it would send a message to other would-be aggressors they too canceive territory is subjugate other countries, and it could mark the end of the rules based international order and open the door to aggression elsewherual catastrophic consequences the world over. in times like these it seemed appropriate that the secretary of state antony blinken would deliver a major policy address, which he did late last month except he chose to give the talk on china
This culture is very educational for people. But i think we need to stop believing victims, we need to start believing the women. And i think those are strong words that the white house would probably take issue with. So that is why you are here. Thank you all. That does it for us. Mtp daily starts right now. Hi, chuck. Thank you for all of that. If it is tuesday, russia could be meddling right now. Is anybody in the u. S. Government watching . Tonight the nations intelligence chiefs say russia is targeting the midterm elections. And the white house isnt trying to stop it. Has the president directed you and your agency to take specific actions to confront and blunt russian influence activities . Not as specifically drektsed by t directed by the plus. Plus the fbi director con are
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and through the super tuesday march 5th primary, and what the rest of the field tries to do usually is try to be the conservative alternative to the establishment candidate. that sometimes works with ronald reagan and sometimes doesn t work with say mitt romney. the failure of the nonestablishment candidate comes when they have to piecemeal together the first state so iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, and nevada. even if they are successful there, if they re not able to convert and raise enough money this that short period of time until super tuesday, they will lose massive momentum and it will be very difficult for them to catch up. so that s the big challenge. by admitting that they re not going to have a national campaign, that is very bad news for ron desantis. all right, rick tyler, and alencia johnson, we ll have to leave it there. new developments in special
america. why is it happening in all these places at the same time? you know, as i look at these elections and the changes in power that we re seeing and who s coming in, i would describe it more as an anti-incumbent wave than necessarily a leftist wave. and what we are seeing all over latin america is voters getting out and voting for the nonestablishment, voting for the outsider. the pandemic hit this region harder than almost any other region in the world in terms of fatalities, costs to economies, formal sector jobs for people living in a precarious situation, and they ve looked for candidates that have told them they re going to provide something different, get away from the old system seen as corrupt, haven t fixed latin america s problems. so they re turning to these outsiders, these populists. when i look at a place like chile regarded in many ways as a poster child of latin america,