Horrific fire in a Bronx, NY, apartment building has killed at least 19 people, including 9 children.
Officials are calling the incident one of the city’s worst fires in recent history.
“This is a horrific, horrific, painful moment ... The impact of this fire is going to really bring a level of just pain and despair in our city.”
— NYC Mayor Eric Adams speaks outside of Bronx apartment building, where fire killed at least 19 people, including 9 children.
Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro says officials will investigate how the Bronx apartment building fire started:
"32 people were transported to hospitals in life-threatening condition. That is unprecedented in our city ..."
"Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said the fire 'started in a malfunctioning electric space heater' in an apartment unit spanning the second and third floors ... The door of the apartment was left open, allowing smoke to quickly spread ..."
“To state the obvious, one year ago today, in this scared place, democracy was attacked — simply attacked. The will of the people was under assault.”
— President Biden marking the solemn anniversary of the January 6th attack
“A crowd that professes their love for law enforcement assaulted those police officers. Dragged them, sprayed them, stomped on them.”
— President Biden on 1/6 anniversary
Biden on 1/6: "For the first time in our history, the president had not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob breached the Capitol. But they failed, they failed."
Australian PM Scott Morrison says Djokovic needs to prove he has a genuine medical exemption from the COVID vaccine mandate when he enters the country or "he'll be on the next plane home."
As a reminder, here's the Australian Open's statement:
"This has been a pretty insane and fairly dystopian experience."
— @JoshNBCNews, reporting live from his stuck car on I-95 in Virginia, where cars and semis and all vehicles have been planted in ice on the highway for 10+ hours (no food, no water, frozen temps)
Read @JoshNBCNews' thread for more context on the icy I-95 scare:
FOX & Friends' Rachel Campos-Duffy on Rep. @AOC dining in Florida last week: "When I saw this I thought first of all this is a great endorsement of [Gov.] Ron DeSantis and of Florida's policies."
Later: "I think this is a person who needs to be in therapy and not in Congress."
FOX & Friends' Rachel Campos-Duffy continues her concern-trolling about Rep. @AOC seen dining in Florida:
"She should go back to her district. Her district is dirty. It's crime-ridden. There's no economic prosperity because of the policies she supports."
FOX & Friends' Brian Kilmeade on Rep. @AOC calling out frustrated Republicans who want to date her:
"Imagine if Ted Cruz just said 'all you female Democrats that are criticizing me, you just want to date me.' There would be such outrage, he would have to have an apology ..."
Ghislaine Maxwell, closest associate of disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been found GUILTY on five of six counts of conspiracy and abuse of a minor.
Maxwell faces up to 70 years in prison.
A reminder of the charges against Ghislaine Maxwell — she was found guilty on all except Count 2: