captions by vitac www.vitac.com announcer: this is cnn breaking news. hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. new details about u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin secretive days long hospitalization, the storm around his hospital stay is growing, as more top white house officials are now saying they had no idea austin was incapacitated. defense officials tell cnn the deputy defense secretary was not informed about why she began assuming some of austin s duties last week, the day after austin was admitted to walter reed medical center for complications from an elective surgery. austin s staff did not reveal to her, white house staff, or even president biden for another two days. and now many republicans are criticizing the defense secretary, calling his lack of transparency shocking and totally unacceptable. the handling of this by the secretary of defense is totally unacceptable. and i believe the american people have a right to
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. we begin the hour with a torrent of bizarre and hateful comments coming from donald trump on the campaign trail in iowa this weekend. this weekend alone the former president mocked the late senator john mccain for injuries he suffered while serving. he taunted president biden and said the civil war could have been negotiated. the civil war was so fascinating, so horrible. i m so attracted to seeing it. see, there was something i think could have been negotiated, to be honest with you. without john mccain, we would have had it done. john mccain for some reason he couldn t get his arm up. remember, he goes like that. he was stuttering through the whole thing. he s a threat to democracy. i m a he s a threat to da, da, democracy. wow. of course, looming over the campaign this weekend is the third anniversary is the attack on the u.s. capitol. yesterday the justice department released this never
While the other is pink. Yes, pink. Meet the regal flamingo and the charming penguin, birds with feathers who dont flock together. Man but before we get to know this unlikely pair a little better, its a good idea to learn what all birds have in common, and this includes storks, swans, toucans, owls and chickens, too. Yes, every bird you can name belongs to the class aves, which is simply the name for birds as a class of animals to differentiate them from, say, reptiles, mammals, fish, not to mention all the invertebrates both on land, in the air and in the sea. What do all birds have in common, including the big pink bird and the stumpy blacacandwhite one . No, not that they can all be found as lawn ornaments and plush toys. For starters, all birds have an outer covering of feathers. macaw squawks man they have front limbs modified into wings, and they are warmblooded, or ectothermic. Birds lay eggs, and they dont have teeth. But perhaps most startling of all, not all birds can fly. Di