a massive man hunt, 250 law enforcement officers, a dozen agencies, and zero leads. zero leads! there s a desperate search underway for the man accused of kim five of his neighbors in texas, including a 9-year-old child. bank takeover. j.p. morgan is snapping up first republic after the second largest bank failure in u.s. history. how safe is the banking system? could any of this push us closer to a recession? donald trump asks for a mistrial, the judge says no. the former president accusing of judge of making unfair and prejudicial rulings in the ongoing case brought by e. jean carroll. we are following these major developing stores and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central . we begin this afternoon for a man dehunt. this man is still on the run, and officials say they have zero leads. francisco orposeca is accused of a bloody scene of a neighbor s home. they say he gunned down five members of the same family, including this mother and her 9-year-ol
good thursday morning i m erika hill. i m jim sciutto. happening right now, house lawmakers on capitol hill receiving a closed door classified briefing on the chinese surveillance balloon. this as cnn has new reporting on when u.s. officials were first warned about the threat. all of it sparking sharp criticism on defense and intelligence officials who were not aware of the depth of that threat. live on capitol hill with the latest. plus, incredible stories of survival out of turkey, including an infant pulled from the rubble after 58 hours, small signs of hope there. rescue workers among so many things facing freezing temperatures, lack of water and power. the death toll hard to imagine. now surpassing 17,000. cnn is on the scene. back here in the u.s. on the road again today. cue the 2024 election music. president biden headed to florida, where he is expected to drive home his pledge to protect social security and medicare. we have a preview of the trip ahead. we want
john: chaos on a college campus in virginia where activists ambushed a students for life meeting reportedly throwing punches. it got violent and aggressive quickly. pro life students say somehow despite the threats against them, they are the ones who got shut down. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour, i m john roberts in washington. sandra, it s friday. feels like a monday. sandra: so much news to get to. sandra smith in new york. the latest example of a certain type of speech getting shut down in this country and even attacked. right here on our college campuses, students at another university are mounting a revolt against their commencement speaker. they say he is harmful, that speaker, the republican governor, glenn youngkin, who earned 1.6 million votes. that s all new at 2:00. reaction from his lieutenant governor winsome sears in a bit. but first, breaking news on the former president. john: at this time on tuesday we expect to see former pr
pinpointed the accused killer s location, in a wooded area less than two miles west of the bloody and horrific crime scene accused of shooting and kill five people including a 8-year-old boy. the killings were execution style and the victims were shot in the head. the shooting happened around 11:30 last night in the small texas town of cleveland about 45 miles north of houston. san jacinto county sheriff capers identified the suspect as 39-year-old francisco oropeza, he was firing an ar style rifle in his yard yesterday, or friday night. and they say a neighbor asked him to stop shooting that a baby was trying to sleep. and instead of putting down the weapon, he then killed four people in the house and the fifth person murdered was the 8-year-old boy. he later died at the hospital. the victims reportedly range in age from eight to 40 years old and they were all from honduras. the only thing i can tell you right now and in my this is still early in the investigation, one of
re-election bid. the republicans who jeered and booed his speech. the threat of severe storms and tornadoes across the south. al roker tracking it all for us. the deadly crash. a city bus slamming into a day care. the charges the driver is facing. the alex murdaugh murder trial halted for hours. why the courthouse was suddenly evacuated. the family terrorized with racist threats caught on doorbell cam. the charges announced today,but why did it take police more than a year to make an arrest? our nbc news exclusive. on the ground with the u.s. troops training somalians to take on one of the world s biggest terror threats. and all hail the king, lebron james earning his place in nba history. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome, everyone. the clock and the calendar say time has nearly run out to find survivors in the earthquakes that rumbled across turkey and syria. heart and raw determination tell another story as res