plus more firepower for ukraine, the u.s. about to approve longer range missiles to counter russians on the battlefield. and too cold for school, classes in big cities like boston and buffalo canceled with the coldest windchills since the 1980s about to take hold. it is friday, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. right now chinese spies could be watching you from above from a high altitude spy balloon. the pentagon says they have been tracking this balloon about the size of three buss for days. people on the ground in montana at any didn t know what to make of it at first. there is the moon. all right. and then there is that. what planet is that? that sighting raises two big questions, what is it doing here and what does the biden administration plan to to about it. we get more from oren liebermann at the pentagon. reporter: for several days now the u.s. has been tracking this surveillance balloon over northern u.s.,
hello. i m victor blackwell, welcome to c cnn newsroom. and i m bianna golodryga. for the first time we re hearing from house speaker nancy pelosi. she sat down with our anderson cooper. pelosi returned to washington last night after being at her husband s bedside in california. she says that he has a long road to recovery ahead and recounted to anderson that the moment d.c. police broke the news to her, watch. i was sleeping in washington, d.c. i had just gotten in the night before from san francisco. and the i hear the doorbell ring and think, it s five-something. they must be in the wrong apartment. it rings again and bang, bang, bang, bang on the door. i run to the door and i m very i see the capitol police and they say we have to come in and talk to you. i m thinking my children, any grandchildren. i never thought it would be paul because i knew he wouldn t be out and about, shall we say. and so they came in at that time, we didn t even know where he was
of last week s halloween crush many are demanding the president resign. we start in the uk where police say the firebombing of an immigration processing centre in kent was motivated by extreme right wing ideology and met the threshold for a terror incident. 66 year old andrew leak carried out the attack at the site in dover last sunday, two members of staff were left with minor injuries. he is believed to have taken his own life later. an act of terror this is the moment andrew leak threw one of up to three makeshift firebombs in a drive by attack on a migrant processing centre in dover last sunday. today police said leak was motivated by terrorist ideology. in a statement, tim jacques, the senior national coordinator for counterterrorism policing, said. the suspect, andrew leak, is thought to have taken his own life shortly after the attack which police say was likely motivated by extreme right beliefs. it led to around 700 migrants being transferred from the dover proce
the push to better police congressional staff training. two thirds of us want this done. the big surprise? lawmakers are dragging their feet. as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening, once again, i am stephanie ruhle. we got a lot of ground to cover tonight, so let s get smarter. after days of hearing pleas to do something, president biden went on television this evening to ask congress to save the children from americas killing fields. surrounded by 56 candles representing all of the states and territories, biden urged lawmakers to quickly pass stricter gun legislation, including a reinstatement of the federal ban on assault weapons. after columbine, after sandy hook, after charleston, after orlando, after las vegas, after parkland, nothing has been done. this time that can t be true. this time we must actually do something. how much more carnage are we willing to accept? how many more innocent american lives must be taken before we say enough!
we had people saying where s nancy pelosi? we had people who were taking desks, sit agat the desk of the speaker of the house and attempting to find people in order to bring them to justice and saying to yelling at the police kill them, kill them all. and so why trump has done this is beyond me. that was carl rove, a former senior advisor to former president george w. bush with some advice for democrats and strong criticism of donald trump. we ll bring you more of his comments straight ahead. meanwhile, the former president is running out of delay tactics in his hush money case. we ll bring you an update on that looming trial. and we ll have for you the latest on the growing global outrage over the israeli air strike that killed humanitarian aid workers in gaza. the leader of that organization is now calling the strike a targeted attack. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday april 4th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. w