judges made about why they should be held pretrial. >> exactly. nbc -- >> that's such an important investigation. thank you for doing that, ryan. >> nbc news justice correspondent ryan reilly, thank you for that new reporting this morning. we want to mention ryan's recent book on the insurrection entitled "sedition hunters: how january 6th broke the justice system." and that does it for us this morning. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. right now on "ana cabrera reports," ratcheting tensions following the deaths of seven aide workers. president biden set to speak with israel's netanyahu today after reports an israeli cabinet member yelled during a phone call with u.s. officials. plus, a race against the clock in taiwan, hundreds of people believed to be trapped under the rubble after a powerful earthquake. also ahead, legal heisman, how the judge in donald trump's hush money case is blocking his

attempts to delay that trial. and later, more than a million birds euthanized after bird flu is found at a texas poultry plant. the new concerns about a growing outbreak. ♪♪ good morning, it is 10:00 eastern. thanks for being with us. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york, and this morning, growing tensions between the u.s. and israel after seven aid workers were killed in an israeli strike. president biden said to be outraged is set to speak by phone with prime minister netanyahu. this will be the first conversation between the two leaders since that deadly air strike. and we now have the first on-camera comments from the founder of world central kitchen chef jose andres calling for an independent investigation. >> they were target, systematically car by car. because they were not successful

in hitting, they keep trying. we need to have an investigation that is neutral. the humanitarians and civilians should never be paying the consequences of war. >> joining us now nbc news international correspondent meagan fitzgerald, nbc's allie raffa standing by at the white house, and evelyn farkas, former senior adviser to the supreme allied commander of europe and executive director of the mccain institute. what do we know about the president's mind-set and white house expectations of this phone call? >> reporter: yeah, ana, good morning. it's significant anytime the president and prime minister netanyahu speak over the phone, but this time is incredibly consequential considering that this is going to be, as you mentioned, the first time these two leaders have spoken since that strike that killed seven aid workers and one u.s. official tells us that this call was scheduled after that strike took place. the official also adding that the president is, quote, still very angry about that strike,

and the official is saying that his anger is going to be conveyed to prime minister netanyahu on this call, and it's indicative of a broader problem, they say, of how israel is conducting its military operation, saying that either israel is not passing on its deconfliction details that it had from the world central kitchen or these details were received and then subsequently ignored. if you remember that this call is coming after months and month s of pressure and urging from u.s. officials onto their israeli counterparts to do more to protect innocent civilian life in gaza, but also to do more to allow the entry of humanitarian aid, that desperately needed aid into gaza. so a u.s. official also telling us that the president plans on expressing that frustration, that urgency, that pressure is not being received by the israelis on this phone call that

we also expect vice president harris to join as well. >> and again, a phone call that hasn't happened or contact that hasn't happened since march 18th. the outrage is growing, the pressure is growing on israel to change tactics. how is israel, both the government and the people responding? >> well, look, ana, you know, we've been seeing this new fierce wave of protests in israel since this weekend. tens of thousands of people filling the streets from tel aviv to jerusalem, and outside prime minister netanyahu's house. these residents are angry and they're calling on netten ya ue to sign a deal and get these hostages home. he told me people are fed up, they're frustrated and they want the hostages to be the priority, and they don't feel that they are. it's a sentiment that's echoed across the country. look, we've also seen protesters taking their message to the knesset, paint on the windows of

the public gallery. benny gantz calling for early elections in september. they're meant to be in the fall of 2026. so very clear here that netanyahu continues to face this mounting pressure at home and abroad with this international condemnation for the way in which he is handling the war in gaza, ana. >> and ali, president biden had those sharp words after this tragedy involving the world central kitchen workers. he said this was not a stand-alone incident. he has said israel doesn't do enough to protect civilians, but will there be any real change with the u.s. policy towards israel as a result of all of this? >> yeah, ana, and that's the latest in really a month' long time duration of this sharp criticism that the president has had for prime minister netanyahu, for israel's actions in gaza, and so far the u.s. is not indicating that there is going to be any shift in policy toward israel. so far we've only seen the

president, the vice president warn of, quote, consequences if israel invaded rafah. they didn't elaborate on what those consequences could be, but as far as aid deliveries and protecting civilian life in gaza, there hasn't been an explicit warning of consequences by the u.s. towards israel. white house officials when they have been asked about this continue to stress that israel continues to have a right to defend itself, that there is no daylight between the u.s. and its long-standing ally, and the u.s. is continuing to send that military aid to israel as recently as this past weekend, even though that was part of long-standing u.s. aid to israel. there was a significant amount of criticism when that was reported that that additional aid did go to israel, ana. >> all right, allie raffa and meagan fitzgerald, thank you for the reporting. evelyn, as we hear president biden is angry and he is going to express his anger with netanyahu, what are you making

of this growing rift, it appears, between these two world leaders? >> yeah, ana, i think what we're seeing is kind of the public explosion, if you will, or maybe that's the wrong word, but we're seeing now a public manifestation of a disagreement, i think, that's been there really since almost the beginning of israel's launch of the retribution of the attack into gaza to try to take out the hamas terrorists. the administration thought that they could persuade netanyahu behind the scenes to prioritize a cease fire, release of the hostages, and of course taking care of the civilians in gaza. they haven't done that successfully. i mean, some hostages were released. we know that, but in the last several months, there's been no -- no demonstration of israel really paying attention to what our administration's been

saying, which is don't want a new offensive into the southern part of gaza and take care of the civilians. make sure humanitarian assistance gets through, and of course work -- negotiate towards a cease fire. all of that has been ignored, so i think the pressure has come out into the public for now, and the fact that the white house is telling us about this phone call demonstrates just increasing frustration on the part of the president. >> and the phone call comes aftered virtual meeting that took place place on monday between top u.s. and israeli officials. we're learning more that they were discussing israel's plan for a ground invasion of rafah. there in the south where all those civilians are gone, and officials familiar with this meeting tell nbc it grew contentious with israel's minister of strategic affairs yelling and waving his arms as he defended their plan, but according to officials, quote, the israeli proposal did not include plans for addressing sanitation needs or an

assessment of how much food or water would be required or where it would even come from this official said, and they said that the israeli officials had only fought through sourcing for a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of tents that would be needed. what's your reaction to that? >> my reaction, ana, is it's kind of more of the same. when israel launched this operation into gaza to take out the hamas fighters, there was a lot of concern right from the beginning. you know, what is the strategic objective? what are the military objectives, and how do they tie to the strategic objective? how is this going to come to an end? how are they going to ensure civilians are not harmed the way they have been. 30,000 dead. this is not the way to conduct a military operation if you're going after terrorists, you should be more precise because they're creating more terrorists obviously because the population is, you know, understandably upset. so i think that's great reporting. it shows, again, the lack of detail, the lack of if they have

the detail, they're not sharing it with us, so why would we support such an operation that will bring only more harm to innocent civilians? >> evelyn farkas, thank you so much for taking the time and offering your perspective and insights on all of this. now to taiwan where rescue workers are racing against the clock to find the more than 600 people still trapped after that powerful earthquake. you can see just how difficult of a job that's proving to be. one of the biggest issues are the ongoing aftershocks, and this morning the death toll rising to ten. joining us from taiwan is nbc's international correspondent janis mackey frayer. janice, what is the latest on the rescue efforts? >> reporter: well, ana, we're here in hualien, and you can see this building in the background is leaning very precariously. it shows the force with which this earthquake hit. this was the hardest hit area, just 11 miles from the

epicenter. the numbers are rising here, more than a thousand people have been injured and hundreds are said to be trapped. there is now an all-out search to reach them. the violent earthquake shaking buildings, making rooftops pools churn and causing landslides. boulders tumbling down roads and crushing cars. today across taiwan, a search for people trapped or missing. some buildings so damaged they're at risk of falling over. helicopters rescuing remote quarry workers, but dozens remain stranded. the magnitude 7.4 quake made roads buckle and houses crumble. staff at this hospital race to protect newborn babies from feeling the jolt. today in hualien, people are sifting through what's left and what's been lost. memories destroyed in an instant she says. the urgency now in the mountains

along the eastern coast. emergency teams trying to reach hundreds of people trapped on blocked roads, in tunnels, and at hotels. earthquakes are common in taiwan, sitting on seismic fault lines, prepared to deal with them with a system of cell phone alerts. jason delichta has been through this before. this was the american's restaurant yesterday. today he's picking up the pieces and open for business again. there have been more than 200 aftershocks here and officials are warning of more. ana, this building in particular has become a bit of a landmark here. it's a residential building, the ground floor has been completely flattened, yet none of the windows is broken or cracked,

still the aftershocks are such a concern for officials because some of them have been quite strong. we felt a few here even in the last hour. the concern is that these buildings just aren't stable anymore. local city officials tell us there is a plan to begin demolishing this building tomorrow and they're going to do assessments on other buildings throughout the town that have sustained damage. at the same time, the focus and the priority hear does remain reaching those people who are trapped and getting them to safety. ana. >> wow, and seeing that building at that 45 degree angle, such a precarious position. janis mackey frayer, thank you for bringing us the latest. just ahead, a legal dead end? how the judge in donald trump's hush money case is closing the door on efforts to delay the trial. trump calls them hostages. nbc news takes a deep dive into who is facing time regarding

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principally because it's late. he's basically saying you have known that you might have had grounds for a presidential immunity motion for many, many months, and not only did you not do it, by the statutory deadline for pretrial motions but at various other junctures in the case when you could have raised it, you didn't do it then. you didn't even do it within a number of days after the supreme court granted sert in the presidential immunity question. you waited even eight days after that, so this is being rejected as untimely. but the judge notes this is yet one of many attempts to delay the start date of the trial, and he -- you know, he takes a little bit of a swipe at the defense about that noting this is not exactly the first time they've tried something like this. >> and so, danny, jury selection's about to get underway in about a week and a half. let's talk about that because this is the first time a former president has been tried in a criminal setting. a survey conducted by trump's legal team found that here in manhattan 67% of respondents

said that they could set aside their opinions and decide a verdict solely based on the evidence of the trial. it is hard to believe somebody wouldn't have an opinion, right, about donald trump, so how do you see the jury selection process going and how are they going to get at whether people are open minded? >> ever since the supreme court case of shepherd v. maxwell, which was deep into the last century, it's so old it gave us the tv series "the fugitive," which is very old, and even the movie "the fugitive," which is now pretty old too. the point is this, it created a kind of a paradox. >> great movie by the way. >> it created a paradox, it trial can have so much negative publicity, it can create a circus. an infamous enough defendant might not be able to have a fair trial at all, and that can't possibly be the case. you can't have a defendant that's so well-known and so

polarizing that you can't put him on trial, and yet, that's really what the trump team is trying to argue. that's why these motions under shepherd v. maxwell that claim pretrial publicity is too much, they rarely win and they more rarely result in a dismissal of an indictment. yes, this is a long shot. as a defense attorney, you're sort of duty bound to make long shot motions because you've got to make a record, and you never know what an appellate court will do for you, and particularly with trump, there's one appellate court that he probably feels he can count on for a lot of these issues, and that might be the supreme court. but jury selection here is going to be really, really challenging, and york has actually a very interesting procedure that's very different from the federal courts where the judges are almost completely in charge of jury selection. new york, i mean, the attorneys kind of get to meet the jurors and arguably even pitch their case in person directly to the jury pool in a giant courtroom with everybody listening.

so it's going to be a really interesting thing to see how the judge controls jury selection in this case, and how long it lasts, whether it's going to be weeks and weeks or even months. >> it could be. you're right. that's something we hadn't really talked much about. it could be weeks so set your expectations accordingly. lisa, we do know some of the witnesses the prosecution plans to call. we've talked about stormy daniels and michael cohen. we've also learned karen mcdougal and hope hicks may be witnesses for the prosecution as well. talk to us about how these sessions might work and which of these testimonies will you be most anxious to watch? >> i'm really anxious to watch what i would call sort of the twin polls of trump world, which is michael cohen once rr close to donald trump and now his sworn enemy and hope hicks on the other. nobody was closer to donald trump, nobody channelled and calmed donald trump better than hope hicks. i'm interested in watching both of them. when we talk about evidence of

what the d.a.'s office says happened here, right, we're not so interested, although they have to show that there was the payment to stormy daniels. the actual alleged crime here is the cover-up. it's the way in which the repayments to michael cohen were papered in 2017, not so much the settlement in the first instance. that said, i'm really interested in hearing both michael cohen and hope hicks talk about their conversations with the former president to illustrate that he knew full well why stormy daniels was being paid off, that it was related to the campaign, and that the repayments to michael cohen were in service of hiding that from the american people. >> danny, who are you watching for? >> michael cohen. here's everything you need to know about michael cohen. he's going to be the star witness against donald trump, and he has credibility issues. no surprise, nothing new. a lot of times the star witnesses against criminal defendants are people who were involved with that criminal defendant in a former life, and in just my experience, the same

thing the prosecutors will tell the jury is this, that oftentimes a witness has credibility issues, but -- and it will be some version of this in closing. it takes a criminal to catch a criminal or this is -- these are the friends, the defendant chose to hang out with. yes, he has credibility issues, but in my experience, jurors are really to forgive that. they don't expect a saint to come on the stand and have personal knowledge of everything the defendant did. >> thank you both, good to see you. up next on ana cabrera reports, more money, less problems, donald trump and the rnc's latest fund-raising haul. also, one state is saying not so fast to the former president's push to change how they dole out electoral votes. ew they dole out eceltoral votes. >> tech: at safelite, we'll take care of fixing your windshield. but did you know we can take care of your insurance claim? that means less stress for you. >> woman: thanks. >> tech: my pleasure. have a good one. >> woman: you too. >> tech: schedule today at safelite.com.

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former president trump made at a campaign event this week. while trump blasted president biden's immigration policy in michigan, he said he spoke to the family of 25-year-old ruby garcia, who was allegedly killed by an undocumented immigrant. but now garcia's sister says they never talked to trump. >> he did not speak with any of us, so it was kind of shocking seeing that he had said that he had spoke with us, and you know, saying -- well, misinforming people live tv, and it's kind of shocking why he would just bring up illegals. what about americans who do heinous crimes like this. >> let's bring in nbc news correspondent garrett haake, chief strategist for the 2012 mitt romney campaign, stuart stevens, and former democratic congresswoman from maryland donna edwards. garrett, how's the trump team responding to this rebuke and

what we just heard from ruby garcia's sister? >> yeah, on the stump the other day, trump made it sound like he was intimately familiar with ruby garcia as a person, and he had spoken to members of her family since this reporting and these comments from her sister. the campaign has had no on the record comment, but a campaign source said we don't talk about conversations with family members unless we get their permission to do so. all of it does not pass the smell test is the bottom line here, ana. there's no reason to believe that any conversation ever happened here between donald trump and certainly any core member of the garcia family. trump has been very comfortable trying to use these individual horrible stories of crime committed or allegedly committed by migrants to try to blow these things up into big national moments. here he jumped on the story of a person without any particular conversation with the family, i think it's very fair to say.

>> so stuart, what's your reaction to all of this? >> this is typical for the trump campaign. donald trump has lots of imaginary friends. he's constantly talking about conversations he had with people he never had and with people that don't exist. he got caught in this because of the sort of basic repugnant nature of trying to use a family tragedy like this for political gain. most people just don't buy this stuff. they find it distasteful at best and opportunist and crude. so i don't think this is smart by the trump campaign. i think the people that like donald trump, they can like him more for this, but ultimately politics is about addition, not subtraction, and i think this sort of stuff wears on people and reminds them of what four years with donald trump would be like. >> congresswoman, trump has tried to take these stories and use them, kind of wield them as weapons against president biden

on this issue of immigration. does being called out essentially by a family member who is grieving change the conversation at all around border policy and how trump's tried to frame it. >> i don't think it does. i mean, if anything it just exposes donald trump once again as a liar and somebody who is an opportunist, as somebody who would play on a family's grief over the loss of their loved one, and i think for those people who believe that republicans and particularly donald trump scuttled the opportunity to have one of the toughest border security measures passed in the congress, he really doesn't have any legitimacy anymore to complain about biden policies. and you know, for those people who believe that immigration is at the top of their list, they can look to donald trump and see him as the one who's scuttled

that, and you know, playing on this family's grief exposes him as the opportunist and liar we all know he is. i mean, it's his lack of character, and that gets revealed almost every day. >> garrett, let's pivot to what's happening in nebraska, donald trump and some other gop leaders have been pushing for that state to switch to a winner take all system for electoral votes. what's the latest? >> yeah, in an election in which every vote and every electoral vote could be incredibly important. the idea that the winner of nebraska could get all five of its electoral votes instead of just four with the omaha area perhaps going the other way to democrats as it has in the past, is a pretty tantalizing opportunity here for that state's republican governor and for donald trump who embraced a state house effort to try to change the law in nebraska to do just that. in a procedural vote last night, the first attempt to try to change the allocation failed by a pretty wide margin.

this is the kind of thing that comes up every campaign cycle. i bet it probably came up for stewart when he was running the romney campaign. in this case it appears this is dead, although they can always stretch this out. there doesn't appear to be enough on the ground desire to get this done in nebraska, to give donald trump perhaps that extra electoral vote and close some doors and windows that the biden campaign might need to go through once we get to counting on november 5th. >> the fact that this effort failed, nebraska is a red state. is it a sign of resistance to trump. >> well, look, i think that nebraska's proud that they're doing this. it actually makes a lot more sense to do it the way nebraska does. i think the question ought to be why is it only nebraska and maine do this because you give the state a certain number of electoral votes and you give each congressional district or electoral votes. it's more representative of people, you know, we forget in california, for instance, donald trump, the second largest state

as far as total vote count, but he didn't get a single vote. i don't think this is going to pass, but it's just indicative of the republican -- i have to say it's not just a trump effort, to curate the vote, to try to make this something other than reflecting the majority of the will of the people. i think that's incredibly troubling. i think we have presidents who lose the popular vote and win the electoral college, i think it's troubling, and i think it's something that is difficult to sustain in the long-term. >> we saw obviously with hillary clinton as well win the popular vote, lose the electoral college. we have new fundraiser numbers to report. fill us in. >> for the trump campaign who have been largely not campaigning and heavily focused on fund-raising, things are starting to move in the right direction. they reported a significant cash haul in the month of march, but they're still pretty far behind where the biden campaign and certainly the biden campaign plus their allies are in terms of cash on handed, the money

they have available to them to spend right now. donald trump has a very large fundraiser scheduled for saturday night that could add tens of millions to that total right now. they expect to be outspent by joe biden ultimately when this campaign is over, but they're trying to keep it close. >> congresswoman, we know president biden posted that huge number in february. they have reportedly 155 million cash on hand, they haven't released the march numbers just yet, but this number reported by the trump team, 65 million last month, is trump catching up? >> well, i don't think so. i mean, what is not included, obviously we saw just a week or so ago that huge haul for the fundraiser in new york, the three presidents fundraiser that brought in over $25 million, and we saw $10 million posted right after the state of the union message, and so i think we have yet to see what the march number comparison is to donald trump's haul, and this still is a huge cash advantage.

i think one of the things that biden is doing because he has that advantage, he's advertising in swing states. he's opening offices all across the country, and so you can see where they're putting to use that, and of course remember that donald trump skimmed some off the top so that it can go to pay his legal fees, and so that $53 million may not be a solid 53 million. >> garrett haake, stewart stephens and donna edwards, thank you. the 45th president has another persona. trump controls the stereo on the breezy dining patio with his big ipad and its spotify list, and just like he spins the same lines at his campaign rallies, the election was stolen, the deep state hates him, build the wall, biden is senile, and true oldies lock her up, the play list at mar-a-lago rarely shifts either. phantom of the opera, jesus

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yup. we're back with severe storms leading a path of destruction from maine down to florida with thunderstorms and heavy winds on the east coast from the same storm system that brought tornados to six states this week. that severe weather is wreaking havoc at our nation's airports. as of this morning, more than 1,000 flights were delayed in the u.s. with nearly 300 canceled. this as the faa expects spring break travel to peak today. msnbc's yasmin vossoughian is with us from new york's laguardia airport. yasmin, how are things looking for travelers there? >> reporter: better than it was in the last couple of days, and i only say that because the weather that we've been dealing with here in new york city, ana.

we've been seeing a lot of people in and out of this airport, some people completing their spring break, heading out on spring break, and then of course it's the confluence of folks that are heading to areas in which they want to be in that path of totality for the eclipse. we heard from less of those individuals. we have seen some cancellations or delays as well. around 2,000 or so cancellations domestically so far along with 300 or so delays. we got two cancellations so far and all the ones in yellow were delays. a lot of the folks i've been speaking to so far say they have not yet been affected. however, they are showing up early to the airport just in case, ana. take a listen. >> were you worried at all about delays? >> yes, definitely. this morning i was checking my phone and everything to make sure my flight wasn't delayed, and i watched all the stuff this morning when i was at the laundromat like on the news with the weather and stuff like that, so definitely was checking.

but seems like my flight's on time, so should be good. >> reporter: so today's a big travel day, right? but then you're looking at the eclipse on monday, ana. let me talk to you about numbers there, expected travel when it comes to that, texas in that path of totality expecting possibly a million travelers. indiana, ohio as well, possibly half a million travelers. if you want, take a second to look at hotels in ohio right now. for instance, the courtyard marriott going for a thousand dollars a night. so really a time in which people are hitting the skies. >> do you have your glasses ready, yasmin? >> i got my glasses ready, and i know not to look directly at the sun. >> exactly, news you can use right there. thank you so much, yasmin vossoughian. let me take you to tennessee now where a panel of judges are hearing arguments about blocking that state's strict abortion laws. a group of women and doctors have sued the state arguing the

rules about medical exceptions are too vague leaving women facing dangerous complications without care. one of the plaintiffs, ali phillips recently testified before the senate about her experience. she says when she was 20 weeks pregnant her doctor said her fetus had no amniotic fluid protecting her, no lung development, and would not survive, but she had to travel out of state for abortion care. >> i went into surgery alone, and i sat in recovery alone. i grieved her loss alone in a city i've never been in far away from the comfort of my home, my family, and my friends. no one should be treated this way. >> nbc's priya sridar is live outside the court. we just heard from this one woman involved in this particular case.

her story is one of many. what are we hearing so far in the courtroom? >> reporter: yeah, that's right. the hearing just got underway, and it involves the center for reproductive rights, which is representing seven tennessee women and two doctors challenging this total abortion ban here in the state of tennessee. they're saying that it violates the state constitution's right to life when it comes to the pregnant women. they're also asking for more specificity when it comes to the necessary medical exception clause. they're saying that what is actually happening in practice is that tennessee doctors are afraid to perform abortions because they could be held liable. unnecessary abortions here in the state of tennessee are actually considered a class c felony. they're punishable with up to 3 to 15 years in prison, not to mention a hefty fine. also those doctors could have their medical licenses revoked. they're saying what's actually happening in practice is many of the women are having to leave the state of tennessee, if they have the resources and the funds

to do so, or they're getting to near death circumstances. so they're asking, first of all, for this total abortion ban to be temporarily blocked while this case is still pending, and they're also asking for a few more situations to be added into that medical necessary exemption clause. we just heard from the judge who said we won't actually be hearing a ruling today, but they're hoping to gather all the evidence today and then make a ruling sometime soon, ana. >> priya, keep us posted. thank you. one person is charged with throwing an explosive device at a tunnel full of capitol police. another allegedly bragged that he quote, effed those cops up. three were fugitives on the run. next, meet some of the january 6th rioters donald trump claims are, quote, hostages. plus, what caused our country's largest fresh egg producer to destroy more than a million hens? generation could jeopardize my vision. it was hard, but taking preservision was easy.

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former president may be talking about. more than 1300 people have been charged in the january 6th attack. 900 have been convicted. 500 incarcerated. and just 15 people are currently in detention before their trials, most of them accused of violence against law enforcement. nbc news justice reporter ryan reilly wrote the book on january 6th, "sedition hunters" and did this new review of hundreds of cases involving january 6th defendants. take us through what you found. >> yeah, so what we really narrowed in on here are 15 individuals being held pretrial at the order of the judge. everyone else currently incarcerated has been convicted of a crime, they confessed they committed a crime before a federal judge, pleading guilty under a plea agreement and being sentenced by a judge who judges were appointed by both parties and then potentially having that sentence reviewed by an appellate court or convicted by 12 individuals, a jury of their peers, who looked at the evidence, decided what crimes they were guilty of, what crimes

they weren't guilty of. those individuals would be patently ridiculous to call those individuals hostages. they have benefitted from every part of judicial review that you can see, through the u.s. government system here. but those individuals who are being held pretrial, who also had their cases reviewed, those individuals are mostly accused of really serious crime and it is only a few -- a bit over a dozen currently being held, three years after the attack, very rare for new arrestees to be held pretrial. there has to be some very serious accusations against them. two people recently held pretrial this year after their arrest were actually -- had people who they killed in the past, one stabbed a 19-year-old to death, the other killed was a soldier and killed an iraqi civilian when deployed to iraq. so some very serious backgrounds of those individuals which is part of the reason that the judge decided -- judges decided to hold them pretrial. some offenses these individuals engaged in on january 6th allegedly include throwing a bomb into that tunnel of officers, and explosive device

that went off and several officers lost hearing for hours, even days afterwards, said it was one of the most dramatic incidents of the day. officers thought they were going to die because they were in that confined space and suddenly the explosion goes off there. you see them on the screen there, daniel ball. the evidence against him is very strong. you have another individual, john banuelos. footage emerged that the gun he appeared to be holding his waistband was actually fired that day on january 6th. he fired it twice into the air. new video emerged of that. so these individuals are accused of very serious crimes. another individual, edward kelly, after he was initially arrested and released by a federal judge allegedly plotted to murder fbi employees. his co-defendant in that case already confessed to that crime, he, edward kelley, is set for trial later this year on those charges and separately charged on his january 6th charges. >> you've been doing incredible

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new developments out of texas, state officials confirmed a case of bird flu in a human. this comes after the largest producer of fresh eggs in the country temporarily halted production and euthanized birds after finding cases of the bird flu at a texas plant. nbc's morgan chesky reports. >> reporter: the american agriculture industry on high alert as a series of troubling new cases of highly infectious avian flu hit poultry farms, dairy producers and now people. the nation's largest egg

supplier destroying nearly 2 million checkens after birds at one of it texas facilities tested positive. >> it is highly dangerous to humans. although it has never been shown to be easily transmissible between people. >> reporter: now, the first u.s. case of a person suspected of catching this version of bird flu from a cow has been reported in texas. officials say the patient, a dairy employee, who worked near infected cows, wasn't hospitalized, and experienced only minor symptoms. the news comes as the contagious bird flu spread to dairy cattle in five states. outside dallas -- >> it can spread anywhere. >> reporter: this owner has strict safety measures in place for his 14,000 chickens. but the risk remains high. just one of your birds gets infected with avian flu, what happens to the flock? >> they will all be destroyed. >> reporter: the risk to human health remains low, but stress

eggs or poultry should be cooked to an internal temperature of 165 degrees to kill any bacteria or viruses. the most immediate impact, though, may be to your grocery bill. egg prices which have already doubled since 2020 could be inching higher if this current outbreak continues to spread. now, officials warn that backyard or even pet chickens are at risk because of a wild bird that flies over them carrying the virus could potentially pose risk of infection. they also do not suggest this is all the start of a new pandemic. back to you. >> morgan chesky, thank you. that does it for us today. thanks for joining. see you back here tomorrow, same time, same place. for now, i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. our coverage continues with jose right now. and good morning. it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart. we begin this hour with the very latest in the israel-hamas war.