good saturday morning, everyone. and welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. and i m boris sanchez. all eyes on the sky this morning as a chinese spy balloon continues drifting over the united states. where it is expected to go and why the white house has not ruled out shooting it down. and a brutal blast of dangerously cold air sweeping across the northeast. in some places it will feel like 50 to 60 degrees below zero. where we re seeing the cold air and when things will start to warm up. plus new developments in the tyre nichols case, why another officer is out of a job and why some first responders are now losing their licenses. plus important new testimony in the alex murdaugh trial, twists in the case and what it could mean for murdaugh s defense, coming up on cnn this morning . hi, everyone. if you are not keeping track, it is saturday. not time to go to work for most of you. february 4. thanks for waking up with us. i m amara walker in atlanta. an
in the faulkner focus. it will be a kwik trip as you know to new york city from where he is in florida. facing charges related to the stormy daniels hush money case. he is set to be at the courthouse tomorrow in manhattan at 11:00 a.m. his arraignment begins at 2:15 eastern. it may take as few as 15 minutes. after that trump will head back to mar-a-lago and planning a speech tomorrow night. however we re learning the judge could take an extraordinary step of imposing a gag order on the former president and 2024 contender. trump s legal team is considering adding a first amendment attorney to fight that if they try to put a gag order on him. they will be ready to fight that if necessary. many republicans continue to attack the indictment. one democrat who voted to impeach trump has his own concerns. i think people need to ask themselves the fundamental question. if this were anyone but trump would this d.a. even take up this case? it feels obvious to a lot of us that it is
brian: the reason we have a snow shot ainsley s upset with snow. this is the least snow we have had in new york since 1973. ainsley: not supposed to snow in new york. brian: i have to do this for you. this should have been your bump-in because you love show. ainsley: christmas alley ski slope. ing. you said your daughter is going skiing for the first time today? we are going to do the bunny slope today or tomorrow. brian: are you going? ainsley: of course i m going. i mean, i send her up there all by herself? brian: listen, she has got to go grow up. will is here. avians ains have you taken your children skiing either one of you. brian: no. oh yeah, hi, will. brian: ainsley asked me a question. will: i tuned him out. all morning long you have been throwing shots and lobbing missiles over this way only catching one of every five. brian: i just looked at him. wow i was hoping it would have been pete and we got off to a bad start. will: pizza pie down
how the lab leak theory is picking up steam. reporter: another covid report, 300 pages. the big take away is this statement. the preponderance of information affirms the possibility of a research related incident that was likely unintentional resulting from failures of biosafety containment during vaccine related research. relies on that scientists that have yet to discover any sort of naturally occurring viruses that are similar in composition to covid-19. furthermore, the report argues researchers in china started on at least two covid vaccines in november of 2019 before the pandemic. and that there are also safety concerns at that very lab. this is how the senator of kansas released the report interprets the fighting. i want to emphasize i think this leak was unintentional. they had no reason that they wanted to release this virus. i would hope for the best. we have to assume the worst. reporter: fbi director wray christopher wray said the virus most likely came fro