in new jersey. in new york city in the northeast, the flood warnings and the alerts, potentially damaging winds. rob marciano on these deadly tornadoes, and ginger zee timing out tonight, tomorrow, and now yet another new storm right behind this one. tonight, the pentagon now saying that defense secretary lloyd austin is being treated for prostate cancer. and that the president and the white house only learned about it today. selina wang at the white house. more than 170 passenger planes now grounded tonight after that door plug came off the plane at 16,000 feet. what both alaska airlines and united airlines have now found while conducting their own inspections, and gio benitez reporting. former president trump in federal court today. his attorneys making the case that presidential immunity protects trump from anything related to the election and january 6th. a judge then asking trump s lawyers, if a president orders the assassination of a political rival, would preside
in new jersey. in new york city in the northeast, the flood warnings and the alerts, potentially damaging winds. rob marciano on these deadly tornadoes, and ginger zee timing out tonight, tomorrow, and now yet another new storm right behind this one. tonight, the pentagon now saying that defense secretary lloyd austin is being treated for prostate cancer. and that the president and the white house only learned about it today. selina wang at the white house. more than 170 passenger planes now grounded tonight after that door plug came off the plane at 16,000 feet. what both alaska airlines and united airlines have now found while conducting their own inspections, and gio benitez reporting. former president trump in federal court today. his attorneys making the case that presidential immunity protects trump from anything related to the election and january 6th. a judge then asking trump s lawyers, if a president orders the assassination of a political rival, would preside
worried for your life. reporter: investigators saying the crew turned their attention to the five unaccompanied minors and the three infants in their parents laps. and remember, david, alaska airlines had already restricted this plane from flying over water. the question now is, should it have been flying at all? david? david: that is a key question. and we applaud those flight attendants, we saw them with their masks on, helping those children in your report there. gio, thank you. we turn now to former president trump, in federal court today, his attorneys making the case that presidential immunity protects trump from anything related to the election and january 6th. a judge then asking trump s lawyers, if a president orders the assassination of a political rival, would presidential immunity protect the president? their answer made news. here s pierre thomas. reporter: today, donald trump looking on in court as his attorney tried to convince a skeptical panel of judges the fo
we re expecting the judges to rule before too long, but david, this case could go all the way to the u.s. supreme court. david: pierre thomas, thank you, pierre. and with donald trump in federal court today, and just six days until the iowa caucuses, nikki haley in iowa today, boosted by a new poll in new hampshire. and ron desantis, after those awful storms in florida today, now returning to iowa tonight. rachel scott is there. reporter: with ron desantis dealing with tornadoes in florida, and donald trump in court in washington, nikki haley had the campaign trail in snowy iowa largely to herself. i didn t know if we were going to come see five people, but to see a full house really is great. reporter: haley making her closing arguments to voters, with the caucuses just six days away. the only way we re going to win the majority of americans is if we go forward with a new generational leader that leaves the negativity and the baggage in the past, and goes forward with the so
tornadoes. earlier today, i signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency. we know there have been at least four tornadoes that have touched down in the panhandle. reporter: but this evening, desantis traveling back to iowa. he s staked his campaign on a strong showing here. a new poll in new hampshire shows him plummeting to just 5%, and haley surging, now just seven points behind trum np that state. and tonight, former president trump now facing new questions after openly hoping the economy crashes this year on biden s watch. it s running off the fumes of what we did, what the trump administration it s just running off the fumes. and when there s a crash, i hope it s going to be during this next 12 months, because i don t want to be herbert hoover. reporter: the u.s. added 216,000 jobs to the economy just last month. that s far better than what economists predicted, and helped reduce fears about a possible recession. tonight, the biden campaign says donald trump