joining us in the united states and around the world. and just ahead on cnn newsroom they screwed up our town, they will fix it. it has been two weeks now and we have no plans of going back to our house. xw a key witness to a lot of the things donald trump was doing. if jack smith wants mark meadows testimony, jack smith will get mark meadows testimony. they have just unloaded the tents here. they is one of the hardest hit areas in the quake zone. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is february 16, 9:00 a.m. in london and 4:00 a.m. in east palestine, ohio where in a few hours the air will be tested. this was the scene three days after the train derailed. federal investigators are reviewing numerous videos and data from the so-called black box and despite ohio s governor saying it is safe to return home, many residents have evacuated their homes and businesses out of concern for their safety from the toxic chemic
i m scared. for my family. i m scared for my town. i grew up here. we went to the creeks and there are crews with black and white hoses all over the creeks. they re not telling us why. the this is daily. i m driving my children to school and pass this and they re asking me questions that i don t have answers to. and they need the answers. so many, many questions. good morning, everyone. anger, fear, and many questions in east palestine ohio. two weeks after a train packed with hazardous chemicals derailed. we re going to do a deep dive into the company behind the bill and one of the dangerous chemical that was onboard there, vinyl chloride. how long will it be a threat? and is it putting residents at risk of cancer. plus, did former president trump break the law when he tried to overturn election results in georgia? we ll find out new details today when the judge leases part of the grand jury s report. also, the gunman who killed students at michigan state university
state university as police are still trying to piece together the gunman s motive. this hour, i ll ask the michigan attorney general about the many unanswered questions in this investigation. also today, former vice president mike pence is speaking out for the first time about his plans to fight a new subpoena from the u.s. justice department. he s arguing that his effort to avoid testifying in the special counsel probe of donald trump is about the separation of powers. republican nike y haley kic off her 2024 presidential campaign. she says it s time for new leadership, taking veils swiped at former president trump. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with tonight s vigil for the victims of the michigan state university mass shooting. the pain and grief still very raw two days after the attack. miguel marquez is on the scene for us there. miguel, tell us more about this vigil and t
you can see the piece on the bottom of it. that is the piece that gathers the intelligence for this what loan. we ve known about this being in the skies over our country illegally for several days at least. some say going back months. so far, we have not done anything to impede this balloon from collecting surveillance over the country even though it s of clear violation of u.s. airspace. no word from the president of the united states at 3:00 eastern time. we ve known about this since last night really. twice now he has avoided shouted questions. watch this. mr. president, when will you remove the balloon? when and how will you remove the balloon, mr. president? [question inaudible] are you worried about the balloon? martha: apparently not worried about the balloon as he walks across the lawn there. we know that it launched this instrument from china. you can see on that quick animation. maybe we can play it again from mainland china. now it has hovered over montana, h
Seat at the trump courthouse. I think you got the more dramatic part of the day. Rachel, i have been mostly in the courtroom. Once before i was in the Overflow Room, which is across the hall. This morning i was in the Overflow Room for a few reasons. I woke up late. But you were so gracious at lunch to hand me your Courtroom Pass for the afternoon, which is totally legal. We can do that. s i was in the courtroom for the moment you really wanted to be. You had to be in the courtroom. It was astonishing. I can describe it here when we get started. But, rachel, i have three Exclamation Points in my notes beside the clear the courtroom line, which was, you know judge juan merchan he is the most mildmannered and fair judge. Most judges are fair and obviously. But judge merchan is the model. Its one of the great sacrifices that America Cannot see how eventempered he is. So when he says something with Exclamation Points, which he did. It changes the room. I know youre good to go through this.