two trains crashing into one another, killing 36 people. we have the latest developments. for the first time in more than 30 years, chicago sitting mayor has lost re-election in a race that was dominate bid rising crime. is it a warning sign for other big city democrats? you re talking about a potential leak. the fbi providing his first public confirmation on their assessment about covid originally leaking from a chinese lab. we ll have more on the comments ahead. all that ahead, first, to our breaking news. a devastating train crash in greece killed more than 36 people. dozens are injured. a passenger train carrying hundreds of people collided head on with a freight train. multiple cars derailed. several catching fire. this happened north of athens. state broadcasters reporting that both trains were traveling on the same track for several miles before this collision. first responders still working, trying to find survivors in the twisted melted wreckage. hospital offic
and cnn this morning continues right now. good morning, everyone. we are following breaking news this hour out of greece. a train full of passengers colliding head on with a freight train. so far at least 36 people have been confirmed dead. we are hearing harrowing stories from survivors who say that the train cars quickly filled with smoke and with flames. worried that the death toll could go up. one of america s prominent mayors, lori lightfoot, defeated. and the price of insulin, that is just moments away. we begin with that devastating train crash that we were talking about in greece. it has killed more than 36 people and injured dozens of others. you can see the images here of the aftermath. it s a passenger train. it was carrying about 350 people at least. it collided head on with a freight train. multiple cars derailed and several caught fire north of athens where this happened. it it left carriages and heaps of debris in the wake. both were traveling on th
committee, defending his justice depend and to the probes, and allegations that he s weaponized the doj. paula reid is in washington. how has the hearing gone so far? he clearly wants to highlight the work of the rank-and-file employees who are not working on the special investigation, but as well at another high-profile investigation into hunter biden. the attorney general was grilled about why a special counsel is not overseeing the huchblter binden investigation. let s listen to how he explained that. i promised to leave the matter of hunter biden in the hands of a u.s. attorney for the district of delaware, who was appointed in the previous administration. so any information like that should have gone should or should have gone to that u.s. attorney s office and the fbi squad working with him. i have pledged not to interfere with in a investigation, and i have carried through on my pledge. there you hear him defending the trump-appointed u.s. attorney who stayed o
congress. merrick garland answered questions about everything from gun violence to tech giants to child labor and much more. he gave an early sign that he would not go into detail about some of the justice department s most politically fraught investigations. that includes the classified dork found at the home of current and former president it requires as much as possible we speak to our work and our filings in court so we do not jeopardize the viability of our investigations and the civil liberties of our citizens. as expected, the attorney general received his toughest questions from republicans. texas senator ted cruz slammed garland for failing to arrest any protester opposed to the overturning of roe v. wade who demonstrated outside the homes of some supreme court justices. in my judgment, the department of justice has been politicized to the greatest extent i ve ever seen. i vigorously disagree. i believe the men and women of the department pursue their wor
full term as president he would be 86 years old. in other words, four years from 93 these are not trivial facts about joe biden. these are the central facts of joe biden s life. joe biden s age defines him and all of us, that s true for every person. age is just a number, you ll hear people say but they are lying to themselves. age is more than a number. agents especially of core biological reality of human existence which is that at some point it comes to a close. age is the way we chart our progression from birth to death as we back pass from this world is billions before us have and replaced by others. they use to be called the cycle of life. no one has ever change it. no one ever will. our choices between accepting a reality we cannot alter or denying that reality even exists. the democratic party has chosen the latter. tomorrow is march 1. that means a year from today we ll be in the middle of the presidential primary season. joe biden has given every indication he plans