so, that strike in damascus together seven senior iranian commanders and iran, as he mentioned, has vowed to retaliate. so, there is concern that iran

could be targeting some israeli or u.s. assets. what israel has done so far is close 28 embassies. that is, of course, a precautionary measure in case some of these consulate and embassy buildings become targets. let me set the scene for you in tel aviv. it is a saturday today, i am seeing thousands of people once again as they do on a weekly basis demonstrate against benjamin netanyahu. so many people i have spoken to hear blame him directly for not getting the rest of the hostages out and this is on a day that we have learned elad katzir, a 47-year-old taken on october 7th, was found injured, deceased inside of gosar in the han eunice area, his body taken out of gaza into israel. this is all against the backdrop of a humanitarian situation inside of gaza, and

we know that benjamin netanyahu is promising new aid deliveries, into the strip and antony blinken, the secretary of state, has said that he welcomes the announcement, but he needs to see something actually tangible happen on the ground to relieve some of the humanitarian suffering in gaza. listen to blinken. >> some of the measures that we are looking to include things like the number of trucks that are actually getting in on a sustained basis and not just getting in, but getting around. ate being distributed around gaza including critically northern gaza. some of the measurements we have been deeply concerned by, including the fact that almost 100% of the population is acutely food insecure. indicators of potential famine. we will be looking closely at those, to see that they are rehearsed. so, really, the proof is in the

results, and we will see those unfold in the coming days and the coming weeks. >> reporter: all right, and no word yet on when these food deliveries or aid deliveries will take place through some of the crossings that have been closed since october 7th. back to you. >> an intensifying situation on the ground. i am so glad you are there covering it for us. stay safe, thanks for joining, and bringing us that news. thank you. new today, the northeast and bracing for more potential aftershocks, following a 4.8 magnitude earthquake in new jersey that rattled millions of people across several states. of course, i was not one of them, i did not feel it, but a strong aftershock rocked the area hours later. that one, my parents felt even out in the new york suburbs. george solis is reporting from new york city for us. george, i didn't feel it, i am feeling a little left out. but, what can you tell us about this aftershock? should we be preparing for more

in the tri-state area and potentially even beyond? >> reporter: hey, ali. a little bit of fomo for those who did not fear the quake, but there are still aftershocks happening in the usgs, reporting as many as 30 now, so there are still those occurring, but they are in smaller scale. fortunately as we have seen in the new york metro area, there has been minimal damage and obviously a few pictures that i may be out of place right now, but it is something the city and the surrounding areas are taking very seriously. in new york, for instance, the governor has told all state agencies to review the bridges, streets, any infrastructure, basically, and make sure there are no cracks to make sure that they basically can sustain any stronger average. we know there was that stronger one, that 4.0 that followed that really did make people feel it a little bit more so they were aware of what was going on. but really, the reaction is what has been so compelling in all of this. people saw these videos through ring, through home cameras. we see that shaking and it

really is something -- we have never really witnessed here on the east coast. our friends on the west coast obviously make a lot of fun of us. they say, this is par for the course. but, their reaction really sells it and we do have a little bit of that for you. let's take a listen here. >> at first, i was tapping my leg on the ground, and then it just started getting like bigger and louder, and then i stopped, and i just like, felt like a lot of shaking. it was like, i don't know, like, weird and scary. >> look at another person working out, she got up, and we looked at it the other, i said, you felt that? she said, i felt it. i am like, oh, my god. we thought maybe it was construction, but it was different. it was different from construction. >> reporter: obviously, still a lot of people talking about it today, but the important thing to note according to the officials is new york may get a

few more aftershocks in the surrounding area, as well. it does appear that the city can sustain a pretty good number of these aftershocks, but the really hasn't been any precedent for a stronger earthquake. so, if there are stronger aftershocks or another earthquake hits, it will be hard to assess it, but hopefully that doesn't happen for a long time. >> hopefully that is true. i grew up in new york and never experienced an air click, so i get why people were confused. george solis, thank you so much for reporting out there for us. coming up, something that may have crossed your mind. why did so many people from several states feel this earthquake and why doesn't that happen with our friends in california? there is a specific reason for this and later this hour, christine goulet, director of the earthquake science center with the u.s. geological survey is going to explain it to us. now, we go to the 2020 for campaign trail, where this morning, the biden-harris campaign announcing it raised a record-breaking $90 million just last month alone. aaron gilchrist is in wilmington, delaware, where the president is once again spending the weekend. what struck me here is 96% of these donors from the biden- harris ticket are under $200,

meaning that is mostly grassroots numbers, so the campaign has to be pretty happy about that, right? >> reporter: yeah. i think that is a fair characterization. if you read the press release they put out, they seem to be very excited about what they have been able to accomplish in the last several -- the last year, really, since the biden campaign launched for re- election. in particular, as you know, we look at the numbers coming in just for the month of march and the first quarter of this year. we can show you some of them. again, 96% of the $1.9 million donations that were made in the first quarter of this year were under $200. the campaign says that has really showed an example that shows there is strong and growing enthusiasm at the grassroots level for what team biden-harris, as they call it, is trying to do along with all the down ballot races that democrats will be fielding in the months to come, as well. we look at what the campaign plans to do, it says it has built this war chest, $192 million cash on hand at this point.

the idea is, they will be able to roll out a massive ad blitz, $30 million is what they told us several months ago for this ad campaign that is going to last about six weeks. they are going to be able to hire hundreds of staffers to fill the 100 plus campaign offices that have opened in the last couple of weeks here. so, this is something the campaign is excited about, and this type of money will enable them to win in november. >> it makes a lot of sense. i have been talking to democratic donors as recently as yesterday that would like, the ads are good, no worries there, but it will be getting people on the ground in these states to make sure in the states that you have to do persuasion in, you have to do persuasion and in other states, you are doing turnout. i think the persuasion is coming for one specific group of voters i spent a lot of time with over the last few months, people that voted for nikki haley. take us inside the way the biden campaign is saying, we are here with open arms. come on in! >> reporter: that is exactly what they are saying.

you know, ali, from being on the ground, that the trump team, former president trump himself seemed to turn away the idea of haley voters joining him and the potential that he would need those voters. the biden campaign on the other hand said, you know what? let's have you guys come into the fold here for team biden- harris. they launched a campaign ads called save america, join us. it is targeting specifically nikki haley's but supporters in specific z.i.p. codes, places where she did well during the primary season. i want you to hear what the finance chair for the biden campaign had to say about embracing haley voters. >> i can tell you, i am personally on the phone with haley supporters every single day. obviously, our opponent, the other side, has told him that they do not have a home on their campaign. well, we looked straight into the eye of republicans and haley donors and said, you do have a home here. we might not agree on every issue, that is going to be clear and that may continue to be the case. but, we are going to make the case that joe biden -- to re- elect joe biden and kamala harris is the best step

forward. and thankfully we have gotten a lot of folks over to our side. >> reporter: and ali, we know the biden campaign has targeted specific groups that it says are key and very important to the coalition it is trying to build to win in november. at the same time, ali, they say there is room at the table, room in the coalition for haley voters to come to team biden- harris and support it, as well. >> i think that is something that the haley team was saying they would love to hear from the republican party but so far, no dice. aaron, thank you for joining us. coming up, the story of judge aileen cannon and jack smith just took another turn in florida, now she is facing new scrutiny. plus, a blast from the past in another case. we are back in 60 seconds. seco.

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gladhanding with some of his party's biggest spenders as he plays catch up with the biden- harris campaign. let's go to trump's big dollar donut gala tonight. take us behind the scenes on this trump fundraising crunch. i'm looking for a few certain things i think the thing we are looking at the most is, are people aware that the legal has to factor in here at some point because i think at least people know at this point some of this campaign cash is going toward the courts, right? >> exactly. some of the money raised tonight will go to the rnc, it will go to state parties in terms campaign but will absolutely go to the pack that helps pay some of trump's legal bills, which makes the $50 million expected hall that trump says he is putting in tonight even more impressive. if you look at a copy of that invitation, tickets here started at $250,000 and went up to $800,000 if you wanted to be called a chairman. some of the expected attendees include the whites of his presidential rivals, tim scott, vic ramaswamy, also former

georgia republican senator kelly leffler, former commerce secretary wilbur ross. even more notable are names like robert bigelow, a billionaire donor that used to support ron desantis but we are seeing come back into the trump fold and that is one of the significant takeaways from tonight's fundraiser, that in addition to that big, million- dollar hall, the fact that it is sort of a homecoming for donors that were at one point hesitant to support the former president as he was fending for the republican nomination, we see them coming back into fold and tonight will certainly market positive end to what has been kind of a rough week for trump, at least on the legal front. you have had judge marchand and that hussman case hit him with a gag order saying that trump can no longer go after the judges family member, the former president was attacking the judge's daughter, for a company that had democrats as clients. but, just because trump can no longer go on the offensive in the same way, doesn't mean his allies want. you can expect to see his

surrogates, like new york's republican, elise stefanik, going on the offensive with those attacks as she was at the gala earlier this week. take a listen to what she had to say. >> just look at alvin bragg's sham case against president trump. the democrat manhattan judge overseeing the trial donated to joe biden's campaign, and another anti-trump cause in 2020. the judge directed family member is a democrat political operative who is directly profiting off the trial, to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. >> so, ali, expect to hear more comments from that from allies of the former president. this trial is set to begin on april 15th. what we are going to be watching is how trump goes about balancing a busy courtroom schedule with the campaign trail, particularly as the biden campaign shows that he plans to hit battleground states early and often. >> i think you are absolutely right. it is one of those weird moments where the court room is the campaign trail. i have never covered anything

like it. it is your first ride. buckle in, my friend. thank you so much for joining us. the realities of this are why we are able to have people like the next guest that we have here on said talking to us, because we have more on the trump legal front is the former president tries to make a second attempt to kick a judge on marchand off of the case just before trial. and on the classified documents case, a precarious turn as a special counsel jack smith appears to be reaching his breaking point with florida judge aileen cannon. here to break it down, , and host of the katie feng show on msnbc. so, covers trump and the justice department. hugo, i miss you hanging out with us on capitol hill. katie, i'm so glad you are here to talk with us about this all the time because you always set me straight but i think to me, delay has always been the main tactic here for trump. if so, how does that factor into what we are seeing with the hush money case against judge marchand right now? >> that wall has a name, that

wall is named juan merchan. so, judge merchan has seen many attempts by donald trump to maybe delay the case in its entirety, the latest being this motion to recuse judge merchan. the problem is, there are standards, legal standards that have to be met to recuse a judge. in this particular instance, i along with several other analysts believe he will not reach that legal standard. it is interesting because if you consider it, ali, trump is telling juan merchan, you are bad, you are doing something wrong. but, guess who gets to decide it? juan merchan. in this instance, the allegations that judge merchan's daughter has a job or equity in a company that has democrat clients, the hypocrisy is pretty rank. we see a lot of republicans that make money off of those types of relationships, as well. but, again, if there is impropriety or the appearance of impropriety, that is a standard but that doesn't exist here, there is no legal standard being met. >> and i love that the judge in

this case said, you can file the motion, i give you permission, and then he cannot get right down. i want to ask you, trump is facing 34 felony counts. that is obviously an historic first for any president's. we are learning that hope hicks, though, will be a surprise witness against him. i covered trump, anyone who covered trump knows that hope is the most inner circle of inner circle folks. how is he preparing to carry what she might say in these court proceedings? >> i think that is a really interesting point because trump has realized that the type of people who are going to testify at this trial who are people in his inner circle. people like michael hoehn. they know the details of the things going on behind closed doors with him, personally. it is interesting that the trump new york legal team in general has decided that apart from trying to discredit that testimony in general, that their basic strategy now is to try to wash this case with the

other cases that have come before it. they are betting now that this criminal case to deal with hush money payments and falsification of business records sounds enough like the new york attorney general's civil case and the i ching carol defamation case before is because they all involved some sort of business records or money issue and they can try to wash it together. i think that is basically the only way they can parry this, because understand someone like hope hicks will make a very credible witness. >> i think that is right, all of us knowing the role that she played in trump world for so many years. so, that is the hush money case. let's switch over to trump's classified documents case because jack smith pretty much threatened to remove judge cannon from the case in a strongly worded filing. it feels like the frustration is starting to bubble over here, katie. is this simmering in a pot or does this go somewhere? >> it actually has a place to end up and that is the 11th circuit court of appeals but i practiced law for decades and yes, you have to be measured in the way you put certain things and filings before a court. jack smith, to his credit, has been very professional even in the language he has used so

far, it hasn't been threatening toward judge cannon. >> it is lawyer speak for "i'm really mad." >> and lawyer speak that says, i am calling you out, judge cannon, for the legal bs that is going on in this case. this is a case about classified documents. this is not a case about whether or not she thinks inaccurate, legal interpretations of the presidential records act should make it to a jury instruction, but that is where she has defaulted. that is why i want to emphasize this. this is national security at risk, this is classified documents at risk. this is a layup case, as the prosecution. but, if judge cannon is going to be the mysterious ghost defense attorney for donald trump and put her thumb on the scale and not even in such a silent way, it is a real problem, and that is why jack smith has to decide right now, do i move to recuse? or, do i try to do a pretrial motion to force her hand to do a ruling? >> there are so many questions in play here, because it is not just setting the trial date, it

is how do you deal with classified documents once the trial is in motion? i mean, when we talk about delay maybe not in new york but certainly in this one, november is the wall that you run into as an american public wanting to hear these trials. >> because of trump makes it back into the office, that federal prosecution in florida would go by the wayside, would punch that in a second. i'm glad you brought up the axis of the continued -- the continued access to the classified documents. we have been talking about this all the time. >> we are all nerds with this. >> absolutely. here's the deal and hugo would add more color to this, as well. the classified information procedures act, cepa, it still has to work its process, it has to get to the end. we are not even at the end of the cepa process, we are only on section 5 of multiple sections, that is why there has to be a frustration, a boiling point, as you say, for the prosecution, where it is like, hey, judge cannon, let us do our job without you again putting your thumb on the scale. >> you go, take us inside your very nerdy text messages with

katie and all of our other legal friends here, when it comes to the classified documents stuff and the way it is going to be handled. but also, the way this is percolating through republican and even trump's circles, the fact that the delay tactic on the federal side at this point is working. >> you know, kaylee brings up a really good point, which is jack smith has to decide soon how he is going to proceed with this case. he could try to go to the 11th circuit pretty soon, the moment she issues an order that is slightly problematic, could go straight to the appeals court and try to get the higher court to direct judge cannon to move in a particular way, but he has to be strategic about it because if he doesn't do it on the right sort of motion on the right sort of order he will lose and he will bring up that political capital. there are still plenty of other ways that judge cannon could try to stop this case, could take this case. for instance, she could rule down on motions, she could rule in various ways on jury instructions. she could rule in any number of ways that could significantly dent the prosecution's case, so i think jack smith has a very important decision to make and on that decision, it is part of

his timing, as you say. we are getting closer and closer to the election and so far, trump has succeeded. if you look at the way he has been playing the cases off each other, if he manages to get the classified documents case to go to trial in august, that would effectively block off the last few months leading up to the election and in doing so, he might be able to box at his d.c. january 6th case, the other case being brought by jack smith. if he does that, we all know that trump would rather have this case go to trial than the d.c. case because a conviction there is far more likely. >> i think that is right. hugo lowell of the guardian. thank you for joining us. katie fan, fantastic to have you here. you have to watch "the katie fenn show" every saturday on noon here right on msnbc especially if you want more nerdy text messages. 31 people in the u.s. will have front-row tickets to a pretty impressive ticket to mother nature. the preparations for monday's a solar eclipse with the commercial from 1999 that pretty much says it all. >> good morning, children. >> good morning, miss.

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love that transition. today, millions across the u.s. are getting ready to witness monday's a solar eclipse. huge crowds are expected to gather across the eclipse path which will cut across the u.s. from texas to maine, offering a rare opportunity to see the afternoon sky go dark as the moon blocks out the sun. joining me now from texas is nbc's morgan chesky, where they are expecting totality on monday. morgan, that just sounds like such a cool phrase. but, what kinds of crowds are expected there, and what are the preparations like for totality? >> reporter: ali, preparations have been ongoing here in

kerrville for about the past year and it is cool to cover this because this is actually where i was born and raised. we have about 24,000 people who call kerrville home. i had the chance to sit down with the mayor. she says they are expecting upwards of 115, maybe 200,000 people converging on this town in the heart of texas. as you mentioned, that total eclipse, because they are pretty much in the path of totality. as you can see, it stretches from texas all the way up to maine. one of the things that sets this eclipse apart from the one several years ago in 2017 is how many more americans are in that direct path, upwards of 30 million, whereas back in 2017, it was less than half of that. i think that is why there is so much more excitement this time around. i want you to hear what the mayor had to say in her own words about this big event, come monday. have you ever had to plan for an event of this magnitude, of this scale? >> no. no. not in kerrville, no.

this is just above and beyond anything. >> reporter: how does it feel to plan, for years, for an event that may be last five minutes? >> [ laughter ] five minutes, i know! that is kind of it, a $50,000 question there. but it is overwhelming. >> reporter: and despite the scale of the operation, the mayor says she has been working with the emergency folks around here. they are pre-positioning ambulances and paramedic crews across the town and across the county so that if there is a huge convergence of people, they will have the resources where they need to be. meantime, a lot of guys going to the forecast, ali, because we have patchy clouds today, monday calling for some cloud cover, maybe even some scattered showers. it is all going to come down to, when are those showers coming? when are the clouds coming? because everybody wants that perfect view when the sun,

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as congress returns from a two week recess on monday, democrats putting increased pressure on the biden

administration to condition military aid for israel on the wake of the deadly attack on several aid workers. more than three dozen members of congress signed a letter yesterday urging biden to reconsider authorizing an additional arms package transferred to israel. among those who signed the letter, former house speaker nancy pelosi. joining us now, nbc news capital correspondent, julie sirkin. my colleague there and my usual poster, will rogers, pelosi's signature on this puts some extra gravitas, of course, but it was notable seeing people like senator chris , who is close to biden saying separately, hey, we might be at the point of having to consider additional conditions here. what are these conditions and what is the larger impact as we consider this supplemental bill that has really been bouncing around congress for several weeks now? >> reporter: ali, certainly, there is growing frustration and concern among democrats. you are right to point out senator chris but just like nancy pelosi, both of their spokespeople have kind of

walked back their comments because democrats find themselves in such a tricky political situation. i would go a step further even to say that it is not just democratic lawmakers putting pressure on biden, it is their voters putting pressure on them, and that is why you are seeing this turning point, as it was described to me in a story we reported yesterday by moderate lawmakers saying that they are increasingly frustrated by the situation, especially after those deadly israeli strikes, once that they say were accidental that killed those seven world central kitchen aid workers this week. a portion of this letter -- i want to put that up on your screen right now -- it said on in light of the recent strike on those aid workers and the ever worsening humanitarian crisis, we believe it is unjustifiable to approve these weapons transfers. i will tell you, though, i heard promptly from a spokesperson to speaker pelosi who made those comments more tepid. they said she is sympathetic to some of the thoughts in this letter, most prominently pushing for that independent investigation while not fully calling for this halt in arms

transfers. that, by the way, is an $18 billion package that biden is now weighing. they go on to say that speaker pelosi knows president biden's support for israel and empathy with the innocent civilians in gaza and she respects his judgment in how to proceed. but, i am so glad you brought up that supplemental aid package because that is that $95 billion foreign aid package not only for aid to ukraine but also for israel, also for gaza, and the indo pacific, as well. some lawmakers like sandra peter welch told me that the may 8th deadline where they have the national security referendum, that memorandum that blinken has to certify to congress in the form of a report that all countries including israel that received lethal assistance are abiding by international law. they want to wait until that date to approve even more funding and that funding is tied, of course, to aid ukraine. so certainly, you have republicans speaking out against that aid to ukraine, but now you have democrats increasingly frustrated here, too, ali.

>> this will be such a balancing act when they come back this week. julie, i know you are ready for it, i will be getting ready for it. julie sirkin, thank you so much for joining us. now to a few from the other side of pennsylvania avenue. let's bring in peter baker, political analyst and chief white house correspondent for the new york times. peter has written several reports this week on the ever evolving relationship between u.s. and israel. it is only getting more interesting, peter, because as you write in one of your articles, you describe the call between president biden and benjamin netanyahu as tents and pointed out it was the first time with the president actually leverage usaid to influence the conduct of the war. how significant is this moment, both on the u.s. front and on the international stage? >> on one level, it is very significant for the reason you just said. up until now, president biden has said, look, i want the israelis to take more care for civilian casualties, to do more to allow humanitarian aid, but he wasn't using the influence he has is the american arms supplier and defender of israel on the world stage to leverage that into action. this time, he was. he was so outraged, upset about the world central kitchen

workers who were killed according to aides that he finally basically said, he got prime minister netanyahu on the phone and said, if you don't change course, we will. in other words, he should not count on biden's support going forward. he did not say he would cut off or limit arms supplies, but that was obviously in the air and that is obviously something that prime minister netanyahu is conscious of. >> this seems a long time coming, though, given public pressure from lawmakers and grassroots groups. what kind of pressure is the president getting now? >> well, we don't know where it is going to go. part of the thing is he made this threat but he hasn't followed through on it. she is getting netanyahu and the israelis a chance to avoid any consequences by meeting his conditions and his conditions are in effect, you need to do more for humanitarian aid, you need to do more to prevent civilian casualties and you need to do more to negotiate the cease-fire and hostage release with hamas. within hours of that phone call, netanyahu came forward with sort of a down payment, if you will, saying, okay, we will

open another crossing for humanitarian aid, we will open up and try to deliver more food and supplies. obviously, there is still more that needs to be done according to the biden white house and we will see whether or not netanyahu lives up to those demands, if you will, from the president. if he doesn't, what does the president do about it? >> there is also the ripple effects here, too. we started the hour talking about this, the concern from some u.s. officials that israelis airstrike on an iranian embassy compound in syria could spur retaliatory attacks on not just israel, but also the u.s. how concerned is the white house about this, at this point? >> well, they are very on edge this week. they do believe there is a chance the iranians will strike back against israel or perhaps against the u.s., a facility or troops in the region. we don't know if it is going to be a significant attack, or if it is going to be sort of a face-saving kind of thing, where they throw out some missiles knowing that the

united states air defense can knock them down and they can destroy a building without any actual casualties in which to make a point -- iran needs to make a point in its own sense, the question is whether they really want to escalate a war with israel or the united states. that is a much different thing, and that will -- >> that is a much different question. does this strike happen inside israel? if it happens, that is an escalation in a serious way, right? >> absolutely. and does it take place with a ring and directly, as opposed to proxy, like hezbollah? so, you are right. we will see what actually transpires and how it plays out. remember, the iranian leader backed under the trump administration, iran responded with some missiles against u.s. bases, but they seemed not intended to actually cause major damage. and they didn't cause major damage, and that was sort of the end of it, it didn't escalate.

the question is whether it is that sort of thing now or if we are headed toward genuine, more open warfare. >> one thing i want to ask you before i let you go because i think all of us in washington watched this, i want to get your reaction to this week's phone call between president biden and chinese president xi, the first on the two leaders have spoken since november. given biden's touted exteriors of dealing with xi, i wonder, what were your takeaways from this? >> i think you are right to point that out. i dissly, so much tension has been focused on the middle east and obviously to some extent ukraine and europe. but, china is still out there, and that is the big foreign- policy challenge of our generation, in many ways. this phone call was significant. remember, they seem to be in a position right now where they are trying not to escalate tensions between the united states and china after a pretty fraught moment, several moments last year with the spy balloon, and nancy pelosi's trip to taiwan. i think what you're seeing here, the continuation of the effort to try to keep things calm. but remember, you will see the president this coming week, the prime minister of japan for a

state dinner, and he will also host their trilateral relationship with the philippines. they are not going to say that is about countering china, but that is what that is about. so, there is tension in the air with all of that. >> that is exactly right, peter. thank you for joining us, and for letting us track ahead as we watch this. next, a question you might have wondered about since 10:00 a.m. yesterday morning. why the east coast earthquake shook people who were states away, and why doesn't this happen out west? some answers, next. me answers, smile! you found it. the feeling of finding psoriasis can't filter out the real you. so go ahead, live unfiltered with the one and only sotyktu, a once-daily pill for moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, and the chance at clear or almost clear skin. it's like the feeling of finding you're so ready for your close-up. or finding you don't have to hide your skin just your background.

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new worries about aftershocks after that historic earthquake rocked the northeast yesterday. the epicenter of friday's 4.8 magnitude quake was located near lebanon, new jersey, but as you can see from all the blue dots, it was felt far and wide in surrounding states in new york city. joining me now to talk about it, christine goulet, with the u.s. geological survey. christine, there is an interesting point brought up in this actio's article about why did so many people from several states fueled this earthquake, and why doesn't that happen with our friends out west in california? >> yeah, the crust -- just the way the waves travel, the vibrations, what we call seismic wave travel, is very different east of the rockies than it is west, especially in california where we have a lot more sediments and so on.

they tend to disperse the waves a little bit more, or quite a lot more. in the east, the waves travel really far into a competent, solid crust that is older and more rigid and there is less stamping, therefore, you reach much wider areas and often times, that creates more of a intention because more people are affected by it than what we see in california. this is a well-known phenomenon and when we do model or do studies on earthquakes, this is something we can take into consideration. so, people felt in canada, chicago, and different places in the south, as well, it is not a surprise to us. >> it may not be a surprise to you but i get is a surprise to a lot of folks here, including my parents who around 6:00 last night, text me when they felt what i imagined was that 4.0 aftershock. nearly 30 of those have

happened since the initial quake. how long should folks be expecting to feel those? >> so, it varies. in general, the earthquake will vary in their numbers, intensity, and magnitude as time goes on. and actually, in the recent year or so we now hard on our earthquake product pages. so, usgs.gov, you will see an earthquake forecast that tells you the probability of earthquakes, how many of a certain magnitude in the next few hours and so on. we update those regularly. over time, people should expect a decrease in the number of aftershocks, and a reduction of their magnitude. but, it is possible -- and i don't want to scare anyone -- but it is possible there could be a larger aftershock, probabilities are just much lower. >> i think our viewers at least appreciate the warning on that but i think the usgs also said that informal observations are

a big help here in understanding earthquakes. here is how one woman described what happened yesterday. >> the file cabinet shook for a few seconds. it was a little scary. >> reporter: what was going through your mind? >> "what is happening?" >> you mentioned what is on your website in terms of being predicted about what might be happening, but there is and also an as you feel it factor here. do these observations help you as a geologist? how do they help you? >> they help tremendously and this would really encourage people who did not feel the earthquake but heard about it to go on our website and fill out the, did you feel it survey? this is really made for regular people, there is no scientific content, this is where you, where did you feel it? this helps us because in between, we have to recording instruments, seismometers and all kind of instruments around the country. but, in between those areas, we came to a correlation between what people have reported feeling, to really get a better map of how the shaking was felt

and it is really useful for us. so, it is interesting, from a social perspective, but it is really useful in science, as well. a lot of our researchers use that information and scientific recordings to learn more about earthquakes. >> i think a lot of us, reporters, christine, may have just heard you -- and we are in the business of collecting people's experience on things -- it is nice they can go to science. christine goulet, thank you for joining us and explaining a bit of this. >> my pleasure, thank you so much. >> thanks, christine. coming up, the madness just a few hours in front of your tv will cure. will cure.

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it is all coming down to the wire in college basketball the university of connecticut

advances to the final four for the second time in two years in the men's bracket on the side we are all watching, women's star caitlin clark leads i went to the championship game set for tomorrow. jesse kirsch in cleveland, ohio has more. >> and all comes down to this. we expect to hear from iowa hawkeyes star caitlin clark and her team defending the huskies. south carolina toppled nc state. the national championship game for women's final four is set. iowa and south carolina as i mentioned, they hawkeyes are just getting by with a win last night after a game that went down to the final seconds. superstar caitlin clark is not done yet. >> iowa survives connecticut. >> overnight, i was defeating yukon -- university of connecticut punching a ticket to a second straight women's championship game. >> at this point, and i can take it. you have to go propping up one day to take care of yourself.

the hawkeyes will be ready. >> the magic going down to the wire with a second to play. university of connecticut often sent you two hoping to see -- seal the iowa win. the hawkeyes with once trailing most of the first half. clark 0-06 from long-range. >> first through the night for taylor clark. >> she would drain a pair of threes. including one that turned into a four . play. the hawkeyes climbed back to win before a star-studded crowd. in tomorrow's title game the hawkeyes take on undefeated south carolina squad. >> cardoso able to finish. >> gamecocks are raining threes. prevailing against nc state last night in game that started a back-and-forth battle before becoming a blowout.

>> we dominate. that is what we do we want this >> the men's final four to come today. first up, one seed purdue playing cinderella in the state. -- nc state. the 11th seed. >> honestly, at first i did not the guns, here. it is an absolute blessing. >> and one seed uconn tipping off with four seed alabama. crimson tide rolling into the first-ever men's final four. >> we have goals and ambitions to win the whole thing. >> the men's final four tips off tonight. we will know that championship match up later this evening and that championship game is monday night. in cleveland, all eyes on the women's game tomorrow afternoon. >> jesse kirsch, thank you so much. coming up, yet another headache for trump's campaign. and robert f. kennedy jr. may be to blame for it.