From the krn kcncnn live today krn center, this is cnn saturday morning. Im Brianna Keilar in for randi kaye. December flation florida. Searchers there are battling time and gravity in their attempt to recover a man swa swallowed up by a sinkhole. Well take you live to the scene. Seeing it believing. Students fed up with a crook on campus. After weevgs weeks of warn threats, americans face 85 billion in federal spending cuts. President obama siren aobama si order. What happens now . Political correspondent jim acosta is live at the white house. What happens now . Reporter a good question. Well find out at the same time. The president said in his press conference yesterday that this will not be what he called and apocalypse, but if you look at what the office of management and budget in his own administration is telling congress about these cuts, this will be serious. This is the order that the president issued last night initiating automatic acrosstheboard budget cuts. Look at the lett
First we want to bring you the latest information on flight 370. In the last hour weve learned that france is sending investigators to malaysia today to help sift through the clues. A top military official in india says that country has temporarily ended its search for the plane while malaysia reviews the massive deployments from 25 countries. The search area now covers large areas of land including extremely remote regions. Crews are looking along two corridors, one to the south, the other to the north, reaching all the way um to kazakhstan. Authorities say theyre examining a Flight Simulator taken from the home of the pilot. A u. S. Official tells cnn u. S. Intelligence is leaning toward the theory that the pilots are responsible. Satellite signals picked up on flight 370 for seven hours after the last contact with the pilots. But malaysian officials announced today it is possible the last satellite contact could have come from the plane on the ground. Atika shubert joins us live fro
The end of u. S. Combat operations in iraq, and then following the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. Lets goat cnns chris frates in washington at the white house. Chris, what do we expect from the president tonight at the oval office . I think we expect to see the president try to reassure a nation thats very much on edge. In fact, you can say how they dont think americas been this on edge since the nip lef attacks. The president will give us an update on what has happened into the investigations in the california shootings. Of course the fbi is investigating this as if it were an act of terrorism. It will be interesting to see if the president does, in fact, call it terrorism. Hes also going talk more broadly about the terrorism threat. Hes going to talk about where weve been as a country, how the terrorism has evolved since 9 11, and hes also going to reiterate the fact that he has a conviction to defeat isis and expect to hear how he wants to do that. The president also going to talk
Im fredricka whitfield. Two big stories today. Lots to talk about following that democratic debate. But first, donald trump today launching his harshest attacks against jeb bush on nbcs meet the press, calling him an embarrassment for the bush family. Jeb bush ramping up his insults towards the gop frontrunner over the weekend. This really is getting pretty ugly. Hes an embarrassment to the bush family, and in fact he doesnt even want to use the bush name, which is interesting. Just one other thing, i have to get this off my chest. Donald trump is a jerk. You cannot insult your way to the presidency. It was so sad to watch him. So sad. Bush. No. It was just sad. I mean, its like close to incompetent. You look at that, it was terrible. For us to win, donald trump cant be the nominee. Hes never going to beat Hillary Clinton. Its just not possible. Anyone you want to call out by name . Im the only guy thats speaking out about the lack of seriousness of donald trump, not being able to apps
welcome to the cnn newsroom on this mother s day. it s sunday, may 8th. i m fredricka whitfield. we start with breaking news out of st. louis. a second passenger plane has been diverted today. this one a continental flight bound for chicago. apparently there was an unruly passenger on board. he approached the front of the plane and tried to get to the exit door. the passenger had to be restrained. he was taken off the plane in st. louis and is being questioned by federal authorities. the plane was allowed to continue on to chicago, and now this comes after this taking place in new mexico. albuquerque, delta flight 1706 was forced to land there because of a potential security threat, according to the tsa. a flight attendant on the san diego bound flight discovered a suspicious note in the lavatory. the passengers are being checked out by the fbi there at albuquerque, new mexico. that flight that started out in detroit on its way to san diego, diverted to albuquerque, new mex