right now on andrea mitchell reports live from munich, but reporting that the georgia special grand jury report has been made public today against the objections of the district attorney that it could hurt imminent prosecutions. the president will finally speak out about the chinese spy balloon and other shootdowns. will he explain his policy after bipartisan criticism? and here in germany, vice president kamala harris attending the munich security conference and world leaders gathering to talk about how to help ukraine survive russia s onslaught. i ll speak to the ambassador and richard engle from the front lines. good day, i m andrea mitchell in munich. it s 6:00 here. you can hear the bells tolling. world leaders, including vice president harris, gathering at a critical time in the war in ukraine. i ll be interviewing the vice president tomorrow on administration plans to help ukraine defend against russiaes spring i ve and hold vladimir putin accountable. breaking
to the 2020 election. coming up, what it tells us and what it could mean for donald trump. and at this hour, a message from residents of east palestine, ohio, to federal, state, and local officials. do your jobs because we are scared and we re worried. just a short time ago, the head of the epa arrived at the site of that toxic train derailment, but he shouldn t expect a warm welcome after residents spent hours last night laying into officials who insist the air and water are safe, despite growing reports of people getting sick. we ve got the latest on that and the notable know shows at the town hall meeting coming up. plus, after multiple days of letting his officials do the talking, president biden is finally expected to address those unprecedented shootdowns of objects in the sky, perhaps as early as today. why has it taken so long, and no matter what he says, will it be too little, too late for his critics? we start with the growing outrage in ohio. concerns escalat
now. new reporting from the white house this hour ready to go. those are the words of a biden adviser tonight about a 2024 run. and we re going to tell you what else is going on behind the scenes tonight. all new reporting from our phil mattingly at the top of the hour. plus, ron desantis new target is a small liberal arts college. his goal is to turn it into a conservative school and the man desantis putting in charge making double his predecessor. space race, inside china s spy balloon-making operation. famed astrophysicist kneel degrasse tyson is out front. let s go out front. good evening. welcome to this special edition of out front. i m erin burnett. tonight, ready to go. that s an exact quote. those are the words of a biden adviser tonight telling our phil mattingly about the president s plans to announce he s running for re-election. up until last week president biden publicly said he s not ready to make a decision on 2024. he kept using that words, i
a far cry from the 9% we saw in june but there are warnings of a possible recession or the pipelines our business reporter katie silva has been looking into the details of the story for us. it is always great to see you on asia business report at the seems like relatively good doesn t it? fit at the seems like relatively good doesn t it? of course. as we mentioned good doesn t it? of course. as i we mentioned a huge drop since lastjune. 5% inflation down from 6%, its well and truly been welcomed in high quarters, president biden saying it gives american families some breathing room in particular pointing to the fact that we ve seen the greatest reduction in the costs of gas as well as food and grocery expenses, things that are very important to american families. but the excitement should be tempered somewhat. up was the us like many major economies pursues an inflation target of 2% so 5% is still a long way off that and if we were to take out those impacts of the fuel and
chinese spy balloon is clurntly crossing latin america. something so unexpected to be what it is, where it is, that it left people asking questions like this. what planet is that? actually, that s a good question. it s not mars or venus. the balloon is the size of three buses. and surveillance equipment spotted yesterday over montana, drifted across nebraska and then into the midwest today. floating at about 60,000 feet apparently following the prevailing winds. in a moment, we ll take a look at where it could be heading next. today, china said it was, quote, civilian airship, a vehicle gone astray, and secretary blinken postponed his upcoming trip to beijing. any country that has its air space violated in this way would respond similarly, and i can only imagine what the reaction would be in china if they were on the other end. in the meantime, the pentagon is not ruling anything out when it comes to shooting it down. at this stage, what i can tell you is again, we