good morning, top of the hour here in the cnn newsroom i m erica hill. i m jim sueciutto. the head of the epa is headed to ohio two weeks after a train derailment that leaked chemicals into the air and the ground and the water. why are people getting sick? everybody that came here the rail company norfolk southern abruptly pulled out of last night s town hall, citing security concerns we ll go live to east palestine in a moment. standing by for news out of georgia this morning. the fulton county district attorney is expected to release parts of a special grand jury report on former president trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. it is expected what will be released will be concerns that the panel had about witnesses lying under oath. we are monitoring that. we ll bring you those details as soon as it s released. let s begin in east palstein ohio. residents demanding answers in the wake of that train wreck. they packed a town hall meeting. railroad o
state in country and school district in the nation embraces whatever the college board puts together. in the last 15 or 20 years, in my view, college board has become radicalized. as you can imagine, it like water with cracks, they find their way whether mod madison home or montrose s home or jefferson s home, they want to control what you think or what your kids think. we have been talking about it for a long time. in florida you have a governor in ron desantis who says no. i m not going to permit it, we put billions of dollar in our public school system, we ll not subsidized the teaching of destruction of american, honest american history, and our curriculum. we re not giving in to this we ll fight it he is really one of few governors who will do it this is a very important issue. because so far he is the only governor who stood up against the college board to fight this particular course. you can see why, just as with disney, anti-gay law which had nothing to do with gayne
state university as police are still trying to piece together the gunman s motive. this hour, i ll ask the michigan attorney general about the many unanswered questions in this investigation. also today, former vice president mike pence is speaking out for the first time about his plans to fight a new subpoena from the u.s. justice department. he s arguing that his effort to avoid testifying in the special counsel probe of donald trump is about the separation of powers. republican nike y haley kic off her 2024 presidential campaign. she says it s time for new leadership, taking veils swiped at former president trump. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with tonight s vigil for the victims of the michigan state university mass shooting. the pain and grief still very raw two days after the attack. miguel marquez is on the scene for us there. miguel, tell us more about this vigil and t
maybe you want to keep those seat belts fastened. the lead starts right now. major questions raised today about your safety in the air as senators grill the faa why the agency cannot be so sure there will not be more runway near misses and grounded flights. plus, nikki haley officially kicks off her 2024 campaign, bringing a pledge to bring in a new generation of leadership. but how long can she maintain this delicate dance, throwing subtle shade at trump while not alienating his supporters? and hayashi, you know, that first flying object shot down, the one that was deemed a chinese spy balloon. u.s. intel says maybe it wasn t supposed to be over the continental u.s. after all. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and the airport chaos taking over capitol hill after the series of near collisions and the nationwide ground stop that led to thousands of delayed and canceled flights. the acting head of the federal aviation administration
towns, and all those movies we saw with the guys would wander out carrying guns. it was all illegal, and a lo of those times you could never publicly kerrigan and i have a history professor who s goin to join us at the end of the show who revealed all of tha to me today. i am just so shocked, that those cowboy movies were, in some ways, inaccurat apparently it is a good reminder to al the originalist who wants to basically, rewind time back to the 1718 hundreds, that they may not have liked the gun laws. and nobody was questioning, nobody was saying that s un-american, that unconstitutional, everybod just went along with what it was. irony deep irony, lawrence those were the days thank you alex, - thanks lawrence a federal courts of appeals has agreed to hear attorne alvin bragg s appeal a federal judge ordere yesterday saying that th former assistant distric attorney, mark pomerantz, wh briefly worked for alvin bragg needs to testify to the hous judiciary comm