> happening now, breaking news. five former memphis police office facing charges due to the death of tyre nichols. law enforcement agencies across the country bracing for reaction to footage a top tennessee official called sickening. this hour i ll discuss all the latest developments with the executive director of the memphis naacp. welcome to viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. get right to the breaking news out of memphis. five officers charged with murder of tyre nichols. the moments before the encounter playing out on dispatch audio obtained by cnn. we got one male running. pull over. one running on foot. running. running we got one fighting at this time. let s get trright to our correspondent walk us through charges those officers are now facing. reporter: right. and, wolf, serious, significant charges here coming from the memphis d.a. just a short
welcome back to the cnn newsroom, i m jim acosta in washington on this busy saturday afternoon, and we begin this hour with unsettling new development in the skies over canada. norad says it is monitoring a high altitude airborne object and military aircraft are currently operating in the area from alaska and canada. this follows yesterday s shoot down of another high altitude object, 10 miles off the northeastern coast of alaska near the canadian border. natasha bertrand joins us now. what can you tell us about the latest object? we have to keep underlining and highlighting the point this is not what we were talking about yelled off the coast of alaska. this is a new object that we re talking about. this is a new object that norad has apparently detected over northern canada, and justin trudeau tweeted that he ordered the take down of that unidentified object that he says had sviolated canadian airspac it was a u.s. f-22 that successfully fired at this object. again, we ar
slow start, putting it bluntly, quote, welcome to the seinfeld congress. it is a show about nothing. the vote on congresswoman omar is one of the political squabbles unfolding while the nation ticks a day closer to defaulting on its debts. house speaker kevin mccarthy met with president biden yesterday, but there doesn t appear to have been any progress on the debt limit. the president did strike this optimistic tone while speaking this morning. start treating each other with respect. that s what kevin and i are going to do. not a joke. but a good meeting yesterday. we ll get latest ahead. also this morning, day four of that deadly ice storm across the south. cars are spinning out of control on highways. thousands of flights delayed and canceled. and in texas, nearly half a million people are facing the bone chilling cold without power. it is scary. definitely scary. i can say that. it is very slippery out here. probably one of the worst. we ll get an update from
we have lots of news to, cover and lots of questions to answer, so let s get started. the u.s. military shoots a mystery object out of the sky for the second time in less than a week. now the races on to figure out exactly what was in the sky over alaska. what we know so far, plus new details about what that chinese spy balloon was truly capable of. plus, trump s legal team reportedly hands over additional items with classified markings and a laptop. it comes as an fbi search of mike pence s home turns out another classified document, and pence himself faces a subpoena in the january six special counsel probe. when all of these developments tell us about where these investigations are headed. and later, michael cohen, trump s former personal attorney, meets with the manhattan district attorney for the 15th time, will join us live this morning to discuss that and everything else circling around trump world as these probes heat up. all of that more is coming up. good satu
reporter: well, wolf, the l.a.x. airport has tweeted within the last 30 minutes that the department of water and power is assessing a power issue impacting some l.a.x. facilities at this time. you see the tweet there. the airfield is operating normally but some terminals traffic lights and systems may not have power. our teams are working on the issue with dwp and follow us for additional updates. it continues to say that due to the power issue, tsa has stopped screening passengers in most terminals. so if you have to fly today, out of l.a.x., they re asking you to allow extra time here. crews are responding as quickly as possible to restore all of the systems. and the airport said that most of the terminals are impacted by the loss of power. that some departing flights may be impacted due to no power, to jet bridges and again to please allow extra time and check flight status as the airport teams learn more. now, in just checking the department of transportation s national