From the cnn center, this is cnn saturday morning. Its saturday, february 23. Good morning, im Victor Blackwell in for randi kaye. The vatican may be facing a new scandal. Explosive allegations involving sex, bribes, and fierce infighting. New england, ah, new england, bracing for more severe weather. Well tell you whats brewing in northeast this weekend. And Danica Patrick is gearing up for the daytona 500 and hoping to drive right into the history books. Well have all that and more this hour. Oscar pistorius will be back in court on june 4. This weekend, the olympic hero is staying at his uncles house. He was released on a 112,000 bail. Of course, there are conditions. Pistorius cannot return to his house and must report every monday and friday to a police station. He must avoid witnesses. He must surrender his passport and cannot go near an airport. And he must not drink alcohol. Nick robertson is live in johannesburg, south africa, for us. What is the reaction of the people in sout
Police say theyve narrowed down the search but theyve not found the two remaining passengers. Weve also found kind of a debris field. We found different items that would have been inside the hotair balloon. This is very helpful for us in our search efforts, because now we have an area of concentration. And that appears to be the moment when youre seeing here what appears to be the moment when the burning basket fell away from the balloon. Weve got more on the accident now that happened just before 8 00 last night. Authorities say that hotair balloon participating in the midatlantic Balloon Festival near richmond drifted into power lines and caused the basket to burst into flames. The balloon then continued to fly away and that basket, as we saw, right here looking like a fireball in the night sky. The pictures are unbelievable. One witness reported hearing two people screaming as they jumped from that burning basket. And you could hear them screaming, please, dear god, sweet jeez sujes
The second one this week. The passengers reportedly boarded three buss to a Processing Center in the san ysidro district of san diego. They did not go to nearby marietta where demonstrators forced the first fleet to turn back. Fating another protest on the fourth of july. Were not going to stand for it. Thats just how it is. Theres thousands and millions of other people have done the right way, but for people to just come in here and ask for a free handout, thats my money. These protesters are involved now in whats become a passionate immigration debate reaching all. Way to washington. Joining us from the white house. Sundayla whats the latest on what were hearing what will be done about all of these kids. Reporter weve soon california become ground zero for this debate this week. Its really been a powerful image and those 100 immigrants arrivingon that flight last night, ariving on bus, they werent taken to california but somewhere else specifically because that small town, marietta,
To dismantle this network, this force, that has claimed to troll this much territory so that they cant do us harm. And thats going to be our objective. Reporter but achieving that goal in syria with a government the u. S. Doesnt support remains a challenge. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle including republican frank wolf in the house and Democrat Bill nelson in the Senate Already are preparing legislation ahead of any president ial request to authorize u. S. Air strikes inside syria. So far, mr. Obama pledged no u. S. Ground troops will enter syria, stressing that the u. S. And an International Coalition will prop up partners on the ground there, like the relatively moderate Free Syrian Army to take the fight directly to isis. They have been to some degree outgunned, and outmanned, and thats why its important for us to work with our friends and allies to support them more effectively. Reporter now, president obama also compared the fight guess isis to the fight against al qaeda. Of
Humvees and bunkers in iraq and syria. Joins are retired Major General. And at the Brookings Institution for cms policy. Thank you for being with us. As you are there at the border. Where that fierce battle has been going on between isis militants and syrian kurds. Are you seeing any fighting going on now . What its been like in the last couple hours. Caller rig reporter right now were hearing small arms fire out of eyesight. The Kurdish Forces have managed to push isis back. Gaining key territory towards kobani. This is the effect liually the t town standing against isis. It does appear so from the cheering that perhaps the kurds have made more gains. Whatever the crowd thats been here since this fighting first broke out this close to the Turkish Border yesterday they cheer whenever the kurds manage to make significant gains. Now what the kurds are telling us is that they do want to see more Coalition Air strikes. They want to see more support here because they are barely holding isis