ukraine after russia unleashed a round of brutal missile attacks just hours after the white house said it will send american tanks to the ukrainian watt thefield. weems we ll take you live to kharkiv. in virginia, a school board fired its embattled superintendent after new claims that administrators were warned multiple times that a 6-year-old student had a gun just before shooting his teacher. in washington more than 70 democrats in the house and senate are urging president biden to reconsider new are restrictions for those seeking asylum. just as the administration is touting. we ll talk to congressman ruiz about what can be done to fix our broken immigration system. and why one organization is arging tee knows are being excluded. we ll ask the chairman about what needs to be done to address the lack of latino representation in hollywood. we begin this hour with brand new nbc news exclusive reporting. president biden is considering a visit to europe to mark the one ye
the trump russia probe. he found not much, but we ll tell you about the brand-new reporting later in the program. we re also waiting to see the police body cam video from the horrific attack on paul pelosi, the husband of speaker nancy pelosi last year as well as the audio from the 911 call he made. a judge ordered that evidence to be made public in response to requests from multiple news organizations. that includes nbc news. and we ll bring you that footage as soon as it is released and we re able to turn it around for you. we begin with breaking news, the tragedy out of memphis. criminal charges have just been announced in the case of police brutality that stunned the nation and the world in just the past hour, the shelby county district attorney announced the fire officers involved in the fatal beating of 29-year-old memphis resident tyre nichols have been charged with second degree murder. here is that announcement. earlier today, the grand jury returned indictments ag
am taking the train. kaitlan, thank you very much. we appreciate it. cnn newsroom starts right now, of course, with the breaking news as well. good wednesday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. we are following the breaking news this morning after u.s. flights were grounded, the faa now lifting that ground stop. u.s. flights resuming here. there is, though, as you can imagine a huge mess unfolding at airports across this country and, frankly, around the world. a key faa safety system went down earlier this morning, that led to some scrambling from coast to coast. here is where we stand at this hour, the faa says it is set to resume more flight departures this hour, but in terms of the backlog, the damage that we re seeing, the delays and cancellations, understandably rising by the minute. new york lines are growing, atlanta and chicago delay warnings taking over departure screens. they may be the lucky ones stuck in the airports that are already i
it s very simple. three things just do these three things. pay your taxes, mind your business, and keep will smith s wife s name out of your mouth! i needed that this morning. i missed my morning. that s eddie murphy going there on the oscar slap after the golden globes returned. we re happy to have you here. you can see kaitlan is back in washington d.c. we ll get to kaitlan in a moment. a lot to talk about. ready? ready. let s go. we ll start in california, where millions remain under flood alerts, not over yet, more on the storm walloping that state. new developments in the case of the missing massachusetts mother. what investigators found while searching through the trash. also this. i was briefed about this discovery, and surprised to learn there were any government records taken there to that office. that s president biden commenting now for the first time on the classified documents found in his private office. cnn has exclusive reporteding this mor
the most scary thing in my life, but thank you, god, that we are here. we couldn t see anything. it just went white. everything went white. explosions were happening. it was terrifying. for biden this is a political gift. it turns out apparently he is not alone in perhaps inadvertently taking classified documents. i don t know how this happened. we need to get to the bottom of it. this is an example of our leaders not following the rules they write themselves. they are preparing to announce their commitment of a significant number of tanks to ukraine. they have every right to defend their territory and armored tanks can be helpful. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. > . it is wednesday, january 25th. 9 a.m. here in london, 4 a.m. on the u.s. east coast where we are following a dangerous storm system barrelling across the east coast. tornado for mississippi, alabama and florida. 40 million people under wi