through his controversial pension reforms. we start with increasing warnings from western governments over the use of the chinese social media platform, tiktok. today the british government banned it on all government and civil servants devices. take a listen. we re also going to ban the use of macro when devices. we will do so with immediate effect. mr speaker, this is a precautionary move. we know that there is already use of tiktok across government, but it is also good cyber hygiene. on the face of it the app might not look like a threat to national security. it s exploded in popularity as a platform to share short videos of viral dances and comical voice overs. and has become a part of today s youth culture. tiktok claims to have more than one billion monthly users worldwide. and last year it was the most downloaded app in the world. the app is owned by the chinese company byte dance. and that s what s worrying governments. because the app can collect data stored on t
tensions with china. nbc news was first to report the suspected chinese surveillance balloon hovering over the northern united states around montana for the past few days. china is now responding claiming it is a civilian airship used for weather research that was blown off course. but how credible is that claim? minutes ago we learned secretary of state antony blinken is postponing his trip to china for what was supposed to be a highly anticipated meeting with china s leader next week. the pentagon is set to hold a briefing in the next hour. we know the department of defense is tracking the balloon closely, even at one point discussing shooting it down. we even have air traffic audio from wednesday about a, quote, special mission. we just got alerted from salt lake tmu we re on a ground stop right now until further notice for a special mission going on over the livingston area. we don t know exactly when we can have our next departure. it is landing with a thud on capito
tonight. at least 24 people have been killed in in three mass shootings in california in a little more than a week. california governor gavin newsom visiting another stricken community today. he says the second amendment is becoming a suicide pact. half moon bay community famous for annual pumpkin festival and art galleries. authorities say on monday afternoon 66-year-old chin lou zhao opened fire at the mushroom farm where he worked. killing four co-workers and injuring a fifth as children who lived on the property looked on in horror. he drove to another farm three miles away where three more bodies were found. five men and two women killed were all of asian or hispanic dissent. translators were brought in to provide a description of the shooter and his car, and, within hours an arrest after deputy spotted the alleged gunman sitting in his vehicle outside the sheriff s substation with a legally purchased semiautomatic handgun. the subject was still seated in the vehicle
hands up. and here we go again. welcome to cnn this morning. good morning, everyone. you see poppy there. kaitlan is on assignment and i m don lemon. an american crisis. california suffer egg its third mass shooting in just three days. the nation as whole up to nearly 40 mass shootings in 2023. this year is just over three weeks old right now. look at this map. nearly 70 people killed already in mat shootings. 70 people living new year s day along side friends and family no longer here. this deadly month coming after america suffer ed 670 shootings last year, a significant jump from five or six years ago. one includes fourth graders inside their classroom. there are nearly 400 million privately-owned firearms in the u.s. that s 120 guns for every 100 americans. no other nation has more civilian guns than people. in 2019 the number of americans who died from gun violence was 1 times than developed countries. the u.s. is only develop the nation to have mass shootings eve
classified information needs to be improved upon. i can t understand any individual senator can take possession of a classified document let alone remove it to another location. it s just unthinkable. there s no documents. yes, there are. there s no more. yes there are. nobody had access to them. they re in a freaking garage. if you have some evidence that either party was trying to use these documents in a way to hurt the united states of america, let s see it. otherwise, let s move on. neil: clearly no signs of moving on at this point as the president huddles with democrats at the white house just as new classified documents are now surfacing, but this time at the home of former republican vice president mike pence. now maybe this is a good time to be a governor if you re thinking about a presidential run and you can disassociate yourself with documents, classified or otherwise. we ll talk to one of those governors. virginia republican glenn youngkin is here. first