to broadcast the hearing and whether trump s indictment will be unsealed before it begins. we re also tracking the massive security operation underway right now, as officials prepare for the former president s movements. through the city and the courthouse. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. our top story tonight. we re less than 24 hours away from the arrangement of former president donald trump had a new york city courthouse. cnn correspondents are on the ground in manhattan with new information about the case. we also have a team of experts ready to break down this truly historic moment from every angle first, let s go to our senior legal affairs. correspondent paula reaches just outside the courthouse for us. give us the latest paula great. we learned that trump s lawyers are opposing having cameras in the courtroom for tomorrow s historic arrangement. a media organizations, including cnn,
transportation secretary pete buttigieg will visit that ohio train derailment site one day after donald trump. the lead starts right now. big names descend on a small town, east palestine, ohio, the scene of that toxic train wreck. norfolk southern vows to help but critics know how much the company is giving victims versus company investors for stock buybacks. plus after the speeches and fanfare, ukraine left with the realities of war. do you have any idea how many bodies you have taken back to their hometowns at this stage? cnn s clarissa ward is on the front lines for us with the somber work of returning bodies of fallen ukrainian soldiers to their families as russia s brutal invasion nears one year. and a coast to coast winter storm. ice and snow and conditions not seen in some spots in 30 years. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper and we start in east palestine, ohio, where the fallout from that toxic train wreck starts to get messier by the hour and i don t
we are coming on the air with breaking news on today s top story. for the first time, we will see secretary of state tony blinken on camera. you re looking at it live on the left side of your screen there. potentially reacting to that suspected chinese spy balloon, flying over u.s. airspace. also this hour, you ve got president biden in philadelphia after a better than expected jobs report. we re juggling all of it live here in the next 60 minutes on msnbc. i m hallie jackson in washington. i want to bring in one of our chief white house correspondents, foreign correspondent janis mackey frayer is live in beijing, and gary locke, former u.s. ambassador to china. let s take a beat. lay out what we know so far about this chinese apparent supply balloon mystery situation. we are about to hear from the secretary of state for the first time on camera since he postponed his trip to beijing earlier today. the pentagon says they are still tracking this balloon. they also say it is no
right now secretary of state antony blinken is in the west bank, set to speak at any moment. this at the end of his three-day tour of the middle east, the trip gained new urgency following an outbreak of deadly violence. he met with mahmoud abbas earlier today and met with benjamin netanyahu yesterday in an effort to get both sides to work together to end the bloodshed. also kevin mccarthy will meet tomorrow with president biden at the white house for the first time since becoming house speaker. top of his agenda the debt ceiling. republicans with that slim majority in the house are holding the threat of defaulting on the nation s debt to demand budget cuts. and this morning two more memphis police officers have been put on leave in connection to the death of tyre nichols. that in addition to the five officers who have already been fired, charged with second-degree murder. plus, the memphis fire department has also fired three employees for their response or nonresponse
hello and welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i m christina macfarlane in london where the country is waiting to see who will become the nation s third prime minister in less than two months. i m rosemary church in atlanta where we are following the latest developments in the u.s. midterms. voter turnout already hitting record highs, but political divisions running deep . well, here in london we could soon learn who will be the next leader of the ruling conservative party and the new prime minister. one thing is clear, it won t be boris johnson. he announced on sunday he won t be entering the tory leadership race, though he claimed he had enough support to move forward. that narrows the field to former finance minister rishi sunak and penny mordaunt. the conservative party today will announce which candidates had reached the necessary number of nominations and whether a vote will follow to determine the next leader of the party