several hours. you can see it on screen. you can see the unpredictable path, very unsettling for local authorities in the area. the suspect was taken into custody some five hours later. nadia romero has been tracking this all day for us. also with us is cnn transportation analyst mary sciavo. what are we learning about the suspect and how all of this came to an end? and thank goodness it did, nadia. reporter: thank goodness it came to the end it did, jim. that s what we re hearing from the mayor of tupelo. saying he was woken up early this morning by police and fire and he said usually when he gets those calls it s always something bad so he feared the worst, that this pilot would go through with his initial threat, the threat he made was he was going to take that stolen aircraft and crash it into a walmart there in tupelo. that s when authorities evacuated the walmart, they blocked off the streets nearby just awaiting that threat to play out. we know it did not. we know th
more children could die. i ll be joined by correspondence to discuss the conservative leadership contest in the crisis in ukraine and the departure from iraqi politics. stay with us on bbc news. hello and welcome to bbc news. after weeks of debate, voting has closed in the conservative party leadership race. after two months of campaigning, and eight initial candidates whittled down to two, we ll find out on monday whether liz truss or rishi sunak has been chosen by party members to be the next leader and so prime minister. here s our political correspondent ben wright: after a long, rancorous campaign, it s now time to count the ballots. just 160,000 tory party members are picking their next leader, the next prime minister. and the challenges facing them are huge. they were spelt out today by the current chancellor. he is backing liz truss, presumed frontrunner. there are no easy options. we have war on our continent. we havejust come through a pandemic. but this economy i
political violence. with philadelphia s independence hall as a backdrop and flanked by two marines he frames the critical midterm elections as a choice between democracy and extremism. this morning the white house is pushing back on criticism that the president s speech was political. officials saying it was, quote, entirely about democracy. let s go straight to the white house, cnn s jeremy diamond is there. how do they feel about how it went, jeremy? reporter: john, biden s message last night was unmistakable democracy is under assault and president trump and his allies are the ones assaulting it. last night s rare prime time address wasn t just a warning about donald trump and trumpism, it was also a very clear call to action, call to action for voters to act and make their voices heard in the midterm elections. equality and democracy are under assault. we do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise. reporter: president biden issuing an urgent call to americans an
taken from that search. and it reveals the shear scale of government documents found in that former president s personal home more than a year and a half after he left office. and among what was seized, we know more than 100 documents had classified markings along with more than 11,000 government documents and photographs without the markings. intermingled with gifts and clothing among other things. and keep in mind this is after trump s attorney signed a statement saying everything had been turned over. kara scannell, walk us through what we ve learned. i think it was how many of these documents were, 33 boxes and containers, some from the former president s own personal al office at mar-a-lago and some from the storage room. and there is a distinction there because the storage room is where the fbi was initially told these records were and when they executed the search warrant, they found out that there was more evidence in the former president s office. so if you just ev
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