china says that contraption over the united states is just researching weather. yeah, okay, sure. the lead starts right now. china is calling it a civilian airship. the u.s. calls it a spy balloon. whatever you call it, it s causing a huge diplomatic riff between two global superpowers as the pentagon contemplates shooting it down. and hate in home schooling. the discovery of disturbing pro-nazi and disturbing teachings to kids in ohio sparking a debate over what parents can teach their children at home under the auspices of education. chatgpt growing faster than tiktok or instagram, bound to revolutionize how we operate, maybe even about to take your day job. welcome to the lead. secretary of state blinken is talking about his canceled trip to china. let s listen in. in our skies is a clear violation of our sovereignty, a clear violation of international law, and clearly unacceptable. and we ve made that clear to china. any country that has its air space violated
the northeast bracing for wind chills in some places 50 below zero. rob marciano with the late forecast. was a potential mass shooting plot in hollywood foiled by the lapd? tonight, the suspect in custody, and what they found in his 18th floor apartment over sunset boulevard. an arsenal of loaded weapons high powered scopes. matt gutman reporting. the new jersey councilwoman, a rising star, just 30 years old, shot and killed in her car. what community in shock tonight. police now appealing to the 3ub lick for help. on the hill tonight, the vote in the house. the gop majority removing democratic representative ilhan omar from the foreign affairs committee. the congresswoman and her speech today, and what she said this was really about. rachel scott live on the hill. a dramatic day of testimony in the alex murdaugh trial. the defense drilling authorities about what they found or didn t find the day after the murders. and prosecutors on a piece of video from the same day
we come on the air with new demands for answers from the head of intel, airlines scrambling to get planes back in the air and the congressman being put on the back burner, let s start with what is going down in the senate where key leaders are asking the director of national intelligence for more information on the classified documents found at president biden s former office, with the white house press secretary, and what she is saying now in the first comments from the podium, just in the last couple of minutes as we re learning more this afternoon on the republicans in the house who could be involved in any investigation into this. also this hour, the afternoon after the morning meltdown. new reporting on what is going down at the faa and with what is being done to prevent a runway repeat. the top democrat on house transportation live. congressman george santos promising to stay in congress but he may not have much to do, what republican leaders are saying about possib
happening now, another child s body found in the rubble of a ukrainian residential apartment building as the death toll from a powerful russian missile attack rises. this hour i ll ask key white house official john kirby about new u.s. and western military aid to ukraine and whether it s enough. also tonight the white house is ramping up its damage control as the crisis over classified documents intensifies. the biden team defending its delayed and incomplete release of information while accusing republicans of fake outrage. and the husband of a messing massachusetts woman is now charged with murdering his wife. we re breaking down the new evidence in this very high profile case as it takes a dramatic turn. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin with the growing carnage from russia s attack on an apartment building in ukraine, one of the single deadliest strikes of vladimir putin