community under scrutiny from the senate intelligence committee this morning, as they deliver their annual report on the major global threats to the nation topped by mounting concerns over china and its authoritarian leader. the ccp represents both the leading and most consequential threat to u.s. national security and leadership globally, and its intelligence specific capabilities made it the most serious and consequential intelligence rival. judiciary committee chairman dick durban. and the push by a congressional majority, backed by president biden, to overrule a local washington, d.c. criminal code. the first challenge to home rule for the nation s capital in three decades. on this international women s day, the groundbreaking story of navy captain janet days, the first african american woman to be commander of the naval station in norfolk, virginia. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington where the senate intelligence committee is putting the decisi
these are live pictures of the tennessee house floor where a debate is underway over an extraordinary and controversial push for republicans in the state house. they are voting to expel democrats today because they broke house to corm rules. one of them, justin jones, has already been ousted. at this time, the debate is over gloria johnston, and the vote is expected soon in the fight over the third democrat, justin pearson, republicans going after democrats for using a bullhorn on the house floor as they call for tougher gun laws and did so in defiance of republicans who would not recognize the right to speak. all this comes after last week s deadly elementary school shooting that killed six in nashville. this is just a third vote to expel a tennessee house member since the civil war, an indicator of how rare and critics argue, extreme, this move is. protest are currently rocking the state capital. these children and the adults in the school will never forget this. this is
this weekend as the start of a week of protests and festivities, with the goal of being to stop the construction of this proposed $90 million, 85-acre police and fire training facility. it would be the largest of its kind in the country, if it ends up being built. and what according to police, they say happened, at least 35 people were taken into custody. they say several of those that were detained were from outside of the atlanta area. and this really has become a staging area for activists across the country to protest police and we have seen several acts of violence in recent months. listen to what police had to say at a press conference late last night. this is not appropriate. this is criminal activity. and the charges that will be brought forth will show that. when you throw commercial-grade fireworks, when you throw molotov cocktails, large rocks, a number of items at officers, your only intent is to harm. reporter: opponents of this fire and police training facil
turning into terror. four americans taken into mexico, the car crash and the confrontation and new images offering a glimpse of the frightening encounter. and plus in a twist, d.c. backtracks withdrawaling the crime bill but that is not stopping the u.s. senate charging ahead with the vote to override what the d.c. city council wants. plus, scary moments on a southwest flight when a cabin filled with smoke and forced an emergency landing. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper and we start with the world lead. four u.s. citizens missing in mexico after they were likely targeted by armed criminals. mistakenly, the fbi said, the four drove from texas into the mexico city on friday where a gunman fired at their car. assaulted them and then abducted them. a u.s. official said the americans wither in mexico for medical procedures. video obtained by cnn appears to show individuals forcefully loaded into the back of a pickup truck on friday. the border city has been racked by
good evening good evening, everyone. welcome to cnn tonight. alec murdaugh will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the murders of his own wife and son. the judge who sentenced him today knew murdaugh professionally and personally before all of this and called him a monster. tonight some legal observers say that those three hours of jury deliberations were too fast for a six-week trial. we ll debate that. plus you what will the future be like for the people of palestine ohio who are dealing with toxic chemicals. tonight a woman who grew up in the middle of a different environmental disaster has a message for the people of palestine. what she says she need to do they need to do starting now. and how would you like that travel the world for a year, all set in confidence, and see all of the historic sites like the taj mahal, machu pitch ooh, the great wall of china, for the bargt price of $30,000. but there is a catch, we ll tell you all about it and see if our paneli