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Just one year into office, the White House is looking for a reset amid President Joe Biden's sinking approval numbers. The CEOs of major U.S. airlines are warning of "catastrophic" disruption if a planned 5G rollout goes ahead this week. And remember Vine, the six-second video app that was once all the rage? We check in on the once-viral Viners five years after the app's demise.
Here's what we're watching this Tuesday morning.   With President Joe Biden rounding out his first year in office amid a sinking approval rating and multiple setbacks to his agenda, the White House is planning a new communications strategy, senior administration officials say.
Biden’s advisers are looking at a variety of ways for him to engage more with Americans, officials said.
Changing a White House strategy to engage more directly with Americans is an evergreen reset plan that has been activated by previous presidents who have found themselves in politically precarious moments.
For Biden, that moment has arrived earlier than his team expected, as his administration struggles with its legislative agenda — such as the passage of key voting rights bills the president renewed calls for on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Senate Democratic leaders are determined to force a debate over the two voting rights bills on the floor Tuesday, but they seemed doomed for failure. Republicans are determined to filibuster the bill, and Democrats lack the 50 votes needed to create an exception to the filibuster. Tuesday's Top Stories
 "To be blunt, the nation’s commerce will grind to a halt," the chief executives of major carriers warned U.S. transportation and economic officials ahead of Wednesday's launch of the new 5G service from AT&T and Verizon.  Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker is being hailed for his calm and deliberate handling of the "terrifying" hostage situation at the Texas synagogue on Saturday.  Aerial and satellite photos revealed the scale of the damage to Tonga's islands after the Pacific nation was hit by a massive undersea volcanic eruption and tsunami over the weekend.  A petition filed to India’s Supreme Court said recent comments by Hindu nationalist leaders “amount to an open call for murder of an entire community.” Also in the News
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 Before there was TikTok, there was Vine.
Launched in June 2012,Vine was one of the first social media apps to make the short form video both mainstream and accessible.
It became such a hit that it was quickly acquired by Twitter in October 2012 for $30 million. But, by January 2017 it was all over for the novelty platform.
Five years later, NBC News caught up with some of the most famous ex-Viners to talk about the defunct app. FOLLOW US
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