thanks for being here on a Wednesday we start this hour with the latest on that powerful storm system that's making its way across the country the national weather service has confirmed at least one tornado touchdown in Kentucky damaging homes and ripping up power lines even overturning cars meanwhile near St Louis Missouri emergency crews were out in rafts along the Mississippi River rescuing people who were stranded by raging floodwaters in parts of the northern us it looks more like winter th
an spring 6 Ines of snow fell in Wisconsin and Upstate New York and Vermont could get up to a foot of snow by Friday and along the coast the red flags are out on Oak Island North Carolina for the first time this year that's because high winds are making it dangerous for people to swim at the beach let's take a look at the sever weather and let you know how it might impact you meteorologist Angie lman is here with the forecast Angie good morning good morning guys this is a multifaceted system whe
n it comes to impacts we've got numerous of them so let's start with what we're dealing with right now which is the potential for some strong to even severe storms across parts of the southeast where you see this pink outline that is a tornado watch that's going to remain in effect we've already got some uh thunderstorm warnings up we've had multiple tornado warnings overnight across parts of the southeast this system is going to continue chugging to the East and it will bring the other impacts
the rain the snow the strong winds and the potential for flooding here's what we're dealing with right now as you get out the door in places like Buffalo Pittsburgh Rowan Oak even Washington DC and New York you're dealing with the rain we've still got the snow draped across parts of the great lak so so Chicago Green Bay Marquette all dealing with that snow as you get out the door this morning but this is the area we're going to watch for when it comes to the stronger and even severe storms now o
ne difference from yesterday to today yesterday we had a really good chance of seeing plenty of of tornadoes and we did we saw multiple reports right now 12 reports of tornadoes from yesterday we'll see which one of those get confirmed here as the day goes on but today are chance for tornadoes a little less it isn't zero but we're looking at the better chance to see some of those stronger wind gusts Maybe 60 MPH or higher we could see some damaging hail and it's draped across the Mid-Atlantic an
d down to the southeast so from Orlando to Washington DC that's where you'll want to watch for that potential here as we get into especially the afternoon and evening hours today we've also got 46 million people under these flood alerts potentially really heavy rain working through this region likely to cause some ponding on the roadways the localized flooding all on the table and then I showed you where we're dealing with the snow already so no surprise that 11 million people at this hour are u
nder those winter alerts some of the impacts let's start with the winds we're going to see strong winds across this region this is why when we talk about the snow in addition to those winds the travel is going to be difficult on the roadways and the air uh and we likely we'll see some power outages too with this 40 50 m hour winds across parts of the Great Lakes and the Northeast New York looking at a peak wind gust of 46 miles per hour and not to mention with those strong onshore winds that mea
ns that we could be watching for some coastal flooding concerns this will be something that we likely see closer to the coast of course as the day goes on and we've also got that heavy rain falling at really impressive rates some of these storm totals three to three and a half inches across uh the Northeast we'll likely see the street and Highway and River flooding uh those swollen Rivers will probably be a problem even into tomorrow too and the snow yes April snow we've got really heavy and wet
snow that we're expecting and some impressive amounts up into portions of Northern New England foot to a foot and a half is going to be possible you see places like Conway Manchester Burlington Rutland all looking at some significant snow and guys I mentioned that we're going to see those heavy winds with this so again no surprise if we see some power outages some down trees from this really heavy snow and the the winds that we'll deal with a little bit of everything a little bit of everything
just pouring this morning I know it's gloomy early we'll be all day eventually it'll be summer don't worry eventually thank well there were no major surprises overnight when both President Biden and former president Trump won their respective presidential primaries in four states both men are ramping up their campaigning for November's general election having already sealed their party's nomination yesterday Trump was back on the road visiting Michigan where he accused President Biden of unleash
ing a quote bloodbath at the southern border Trump dialed up the inflammatory rhetoric in his speech on immigration with critics saying he's using dehumanizing language after that the former president headed next door to Wisconsin another swing state the Republican party's presumptive nominee again falsely claimed he won that state in 2020 and challenge President Biden to debate him we have an empty Podium right here to my right you know what that is that's for Joe Biden I'm trying to get him to
debate I'm calling on crooked Joe to debate anytime any place we'll do it anywhere you want Joe so that we can discuss in a friendly manner the real problems of our country of which you're a many we're joined by NBC News senior National politics reporter John Allen and our senior political editor Mark Murray good morning to both of you gentlemen John I will get started with you we heard more controversial remarks from Trump at yesterday's events as Joe mentioned walk us through some of the key
moments and claims he made when he was both in Michigan and Wisconsin as you pointed out just a a moment ago um Donald Trump is out there he's on the general election campaign Trail the first visit to Wisconsin in two years he's been to Michigan more recently than that of course they uh have had a primary already this year um but really the big thing here is he's going to these states and particularly in uh Wisconsin yesterday at his rally and arguing that he uh had the election stolen from him
uh he not only did it at the rally he did it on a radio interview yesterday and of course uh there are all kinds of controversial claims that uh and some misleading claims that uh former president Trump makes at each of his rallies most of them are familiar but I want to focus in for a minute on that uh election denialism because uh it's something that has been uh pervasive for him since uh since that 2020 election um and it's something that uh in 2022 uh during the runup to the midterms many Re
publicans were unhappy to hear they kept saying they wanted him to get past this they wanted him to admit reality they wanted him to stop talking about it it was hurting them and now what you don't hear from any Republican elected officials is uh is any recrimination against Trump for lying about what happened in the 2020 election uh and so he's going to go out he's going to continue to tell crowds this uh continue to mislead the American people on it uh he has not suffered for it within his own
party or within his own base so there's no incentive for him to stop so Mark many analysts are looking at the result of the Democratic Primary in Wisconsin where tens of thousands voted uninstructed that's what it's called that's in protest to President Biden support for Israel is handling of the war in Gaza tell us more about what we're seeing in Wisconsin it's a state that Biden very narrowly won in 2020 and how significant this protest vote is looking forward yeah Joe the reason we're lookin
g at those Wisconsin primary results is just how consequential Wisconsin has been not only uh in the 2016 and 2020 elections but as we're looking ahead to 2024 and as you end up mentioning about 50,000 people ended up voting in the Democratic primary were uninstructed representing about 8% of all total voters and uh these kind of campaign have come up because there are Democrats and Democratic align groups who want to protest uh President Biden's handling of the Israel Hamas War but as far as ac
tually how crucial and what kind of signals this actually sends I'm not necessarily sure polling does show that the president's handling of the Israel Hamas War has certainly uh been uh not a great situation for the president uh but uh you know do note that sometimes that people say hey I could Vote uncommitted or uninstructed but when you get to the general election and it is a choice between President Biden and former president Donald Trump people might vote a different way I think the best wa
y to actually look at States like Wisconsin and others is to look at the pollings that we have right now and right now Wisconsin looks to be a very very close contest between Trump and Biden John we saw yesterday the Biden campaign released a new ad and it was specifically attacking Trump on abortion rights now we know this is going to continue to be a flash point in this election we look at places like Florida which essentially just cleared the way for a six- we abortion ban but importantly tha
t's something that we'll actually see on the ballot there walk us through just how much of an issue this is going to be and how much we may see this traded as an attack between the two candidates it's perhaps the best issue for Democrats in swing States in this election so you're going to continue to hear a lot about it one of the ways that you can tell that it's a great issue for Democrats is they are uh putting uh putting out ads like the one that uh you just showed uh while Republicans are st
umbling all over themselves on abortion in particular uh former president Trump uh still doesn't have a position for this year on what he wants to do on abortion whether he wants to support uh a national ban on abortion how many weeks that National ban on abortion would be what he thinks about uh a Florida Court ruling uh this week that puts in place uh that 15we ban there and then triggers a six week ban later so uh Trump has had nearly every position on abortion uh over the course of his caree
r from the time when he was uh you know basically a liberal Democrat and was um you know for abortion rights to this moment now uh where he um you know where he is struggling to come up with what today's position is but he's kind of been all over the place on it uh I think you're going to hear uh a lot about abortion over the course of the next seven months and Mark there are a few other issues on the ballot in Wisconsin yesterday the AP he projects voters have approved two Constitutional Amendm
ents which change how elections are run and paid for real quick walk us through the changes and the impact they could have yeah real quick Joe John was just talking about the election denialism that Donald Trump was repeating yesterday and these uh ballot measures had to do with some of those claims uh including using private funds for election Administration which Donald Trump falsely ended up saying kind of swayed the outcome of what end up happening in Wisconsin was put by Republicans to elim
inate the use of private funds in election Administration it's unclear what kind of impact this would end up having in November but of course everything matters when you end up having a very close contest Mark John thank you both very much this morning a federal appeals court will hear arguments over Texas's controversial immigration enforcement law which gives local police the ability to detain and Deport suspected undocumented migrants the law is currently on hold after a panel of Appel judges
cited but a federal judge who ruled that the law is likely unconstitutional and conflicts with Federal immigration policy NBC News Homeland Security corespondent Julia ansley's been following these developments joins us with the latest Julia good morning so what is today's hearing expected to focus on could we expect a ruling today or will it take a little time well it'll probably take a little time Joe we've seen a really fast game of ping pong over this issue with the Supreme Court weighing a
gain saying it could that there needed to be a stay and then reversing that stay and then the Circuit Court taking it up and it's really just gone back and forth there was even a moment where it was allowed to go forward for about 24 hours now we should expect a little bit of a pause and that's because the Circuit Court the appeals court actually wants to weigh on the constitutionality of this law so far all of these rulings have just gotten into whether or not it can go forward in the meantime
while they consider this question so today they're giving both sides 30 minutes to present their arguments and then we should uh have we should expect a little time why these three judges one appointed by Biden one appointed by Trump and one appointed by George W bush will consider the constitutionality of sb4 and we should say that Texas seems to have the higher Hill to climb here Julia one of the big sticking points here in this law is the fact that it allows judges in Texas to send migrants r
egardless of their nationality to Mexico specifically what's Mexico's position on that part of the law well yeah I mean that's where a big part of the logistics here just fall apart because Mexico has said no they won't take migrants who have been deported by Texas judges these judges have not been trained by the justice department to even know how to adjudicate who should remain and who should be deported Mexico also hasn't agreed to take Nationals that aren't from their country and they also s
ay that it violates their sovereignty to and human rights to take those migrants because it's not up to Mexico to negot with each individual United States on who they'll take back they have negotiated already and continue to negotiate with the federal government of this country and Julia no matter how the court rules does it seem likely this is going to end up back before The Supreme Court absolutely I think no matter who wins here we'll expect the other side to appeal and go before The Supreme
Court and then it'll really be an interesting case to watch because the Supreme Court although it is conservative they have consistently sided with the federal government when it comes to enforcing immigration law because we have 150e tradition of the federal government enforcing our borders and not individual states so Texas today will make the argument that the Biden Administration hasn't done enough and it's up to them to step in but they'll have to answer a lot of questions in order to prove
that and to even talk about how this would look and when they made these arguments before the same court on the stay uh they did not win and the judges asked some pretty tough questions including what would you do if a migrant who came in through Arizona ended up in Texas uh and they weren't able to answer that at the time they may have done more homework in the meantime but they still have a pretty tough Hill to climb here Joe all right Julia Angley thank you so much well not at Taiwan where a
7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the island during their morning rush hour at least seven people are dead dozens of buildings have been reduced to rebel and thousands are without power it's said to be the most powerful Quake to hit the island in a quarter Century NBC News International correspondent Janice Macky fryer has the latest this is the moment the earthquake hit a magnitude 7.4 according to us estimates the morning Quake rocking City landmarks violently shaking homes this TV Newsroom lef
t swaying as was this rooftop swimming pool water falling down another one in this building the most powerful Quake to strike Taiwan in a quarter Century worst hit the coastal city of Juan just 15 mil from the epicenter several buildings were left partially crumbled and dangerously teetering emergency workers searching for dozens of people trapped in damaged buildings or under debris Annie Lima an American living in Taiwan was in hen when it hit my husband and I jumped to our feet and ran for th
e nearest doorway and braced oursel and we could barely keep our balance you know holding both sides of the doorway and all around us things were falling off the walls and off shelves smashing and crashing everywhere the quake and multiple aftershocks triggered landslides around the island trapping hikers on Trails hitting the capital of taipe during the morning commute it set off tsunami warnings in the Philippines and Japan where thousands were sent racing to Higher Ground this is what Jason d
ecta is cleaning up in Juan with the American owns a restaurant we lost like uh you know most of our plates a part of the world accustomed to earthquakes but few as Fierce as this our thanks to Janice mcky for that report while we are learning new details this morning about the seven World Central kitchen workers killed in an Israeli air strike yesterday the humanitarian Aid group released the identities of the victims of the attack including one US citizen the world Central Kitchen is now accus
ing Israel of using food as war and called the ACT unforgivable the White House is also condemning the air strike White House National Security spokesman John Kirby had this to say in response to the bombing we were outraged to learn of an IDF strike that killed a number of Civilian humanitarian workers yesterday from the world Central Kitchen which has been Relentless in working to get food to those who are hungry in Gaza and quite frankly around the world we send our deepest condolences to the
ir families and loved ones more than 200 Aid workers have been killed in this conf conflict making it one of the worst for Aid workers in recent history this incident is emblematic of a larger problem and evidence of why distribution of Aid in Gaza has been so challenging prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a statement following the attack saying quote unfortunately in the last day there was a tragic case of our forces unintentionally hitting innocent people in the Gaza Strip it happens i
n war and we will do everything so that this does not happen again we have NBC News inter National correspondent Molly Hunter and NBC News chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander joining us this morning with the latest details on this attack Molly good morning I will get started with you what is the latest information we have about the strike and also about the victims Savannah Joe good morning we are learning new details about the kind of sequence of events so we know that it was a thre
e car Convoy leaving a warehouse in darl Bala that is in the central Gaza Strip they had just unloaded food at a warehouse and they were heading south Now NBC News has located all three vehicles uh on a map and you can see the pictures right here on your screen two armored one soft shell now the photos show three separate Precision strikes one car showing clear signs of a missile strike one showing kind of completely burnt out and you can see that right there and one has been basically completel
y destroyed and you can see the very clear markings of world Central Kitchen all three cars on about a mile and a half of a coastal road now World Central Kitchen you guys has also now put out the names of the victims and I do think we have you showed some of their pictures in the intro I do think we have that to show our audience those victims right there as you can see include 33-year-old American Canadian citizen Jacob Flickinger Peter President Biden called World Central Kitchen founder Chef
Jose Andre to say he was heartbroken over the attack he also promised to make clear to Israel that Aid workers must be protected what else are we hearing from the White House about this well you play the words from John Kirby the National Security Council spokesperson earlier uh indicating the White House the president's outrage on this the president releasing a statement late yesterday saying as much and really it is this issue of the impact on humanitarian Aid workers by some accounts as many
as 200 200 Aid workers have been killed in Gaza since the start of this war now um 6 months in the president in this statement said that they want to see the US wants to see an investigation he said it has to be swift it has to bring accountability and that the findings must be public but again specifically to that issue of the aid workers listen to this language from his statement I want to read it to you because it is certainly sharper in tone that we have heard in the past he says Israel has
not done enough to protect Aid workers trying to deliver desperately needed help to civilians incidents like yesterday's simply should not happen Israel also has not done enough to protect civilians widely so the president communicating his uh his deep concern about the situation taking place there uh there is an American team that has been in Cairo and Egypt recently working on an immediate ceasefire but to this point Joe of course the White House has been reluctant to call for any permanent c
easefire because it remains a top priority of the US to support Israel's right to defend itself and to help support getting the hostages including some Americans home Joe and Savannah and Peter does the Biden Administration really intend to hold Israel accountable in a specific way here you mentioned you know 200 or more humanitarian groups experiencing this humanitarian workers I should say does this air strike is this different than those previous attacks do you think something different will
come of it well there are a series of things that are different about this one one Jose Andre has a very loud megaphone he is an international figure and this certainly has gotten a lot of attention uh and I think it's going to maintain a lot of the focus over the course of the next several days as we anticipate Onre will say things publicly perhaps do an interview which again adds to the pressure on the Israelis right now as it relates to the US position on this again the US not calling for any
permanent ceasefire yet but a lot of the focus including in a conversation that took place just a couple of days ago between us and Israeli officials a virtual call is on what happens next in the city of Rafa of course that's the southern Border City right now there are more than a million Palestinians who are crammed into that area with desperate conditions the fear of famine continues to grow by the day right now and the US has made clear that the Israeli desire to go in there in any way simi
lar to what it did in other towns like K Yunis Gaza City itself where the death toll was so dramatic among civilians would be unacceptable the president right now trying to push forward and I think what you could keep an eye on the days ahead is the growing pressure for any conditions to be placed on the Israelis in terms of the provision of Aid of not humanitarian but military aid to the Israelis going forward so Molly coming off of that what are Israelis saying about this today I mean world Ce
ntral kitchen is one of several NOS working on the ground there yeah that's right and actually I just want to add to Peter's look Jose Andreas does have a very loud megaphone he's been on our air a lot and he actually came out with an oped today which is really making an impact I just want to read a tiny bit from that oped just to kind of help paint the picture of the kind of pressure that Chef Jose andrees uh will definitely be able to put on Israel on the International Community he writes Isra
el is better than the way this war is being waged it is better than blocking food and medicine to civilians it is better than killing Aid workers who had coordinate coordinated their movements with the Israeli Defense Forces that is one thing that world Central Kitchen is emphasizing today is that their movements that those movements of the three car Convoy were coordinated with Israeli defense officials they knew that that Convoy was going to those locations and actually Raph Sanchez our corres
pondent in Tel Aviv pressed an Israeli government spokesperson about the Precision strikes take a quick listen to that Israel tells the world that its strikes are based on precise intelligence that it takes measures to make sure they are not civilians in the area how can that possibly be true given what happened here there's a war going on it's it's a war zone and in every war sadly um tragically uh mistakes happen and we do our very utmost to avoid those mistakes that explanation uh clearly not
Landing well with world Central Kitchen or John Kirby you heard his sound earlier as Peter referenced as far as impact World Central Kitchen as you mentioned is one of several ngos but they've really been pushing the boundary specifically focusing on the north of Gaza right now they have paused their operations if they suspend their operations seriously this will have a serious serious impact on the amount of food getting to the north of Gaza right now Savannah just a testament to the incredibl
e work that they were doing Molly Hunter and Peter Alexander thank you both very much thanks for watching stay updated about breaking news and top stories on the NBC News app or follow us on social media
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