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politics, the first president ial debate. Good evening, just two hours from now at Hofstra University on new yorks long island, a debate like no other in the modern political era. Two candidate s like no other pair, including one who is debating a sole opponent in the same room for the first time ever. There are predictions tonights telecast could be one of the wildly watched Television Events of any kind in history, during this extraordinary, all bets are off political year, this is the event people have been waiting for. 43 days from now, americans will go to the polls to choose the next president of the united states. And what happens tonight, what we witness on Live Television tonight could be a major component in that vote. We are here for all of it and headquarters in new york, brian williams, along with rachel maddow, and our team, our veteran Chris Matthews, onsite at hofstra, our entire team is here. And rachel, ive heard it said,
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While much of the focus has been in kuala lumpur, the heart of the search effort has moved here to the perth air force base. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning. Im carol costello. Thanks so much for joining me. Right now a Royal Australian navy ship is racing to a new spot in the indian ocean. Its on the hunt for two objects that could be part of malaysian flight 370. Both of those objects spotted by air by an Australian Air force plane today. Now the reason these objects are so important, not just because of their shape but because of their color. The circular object is gray or green. The rectangular object is orange. Investigators say those colors are important and they are intrigued by them. Well talk about that in a moment. Now this Development Comes as a chinese plane located even more potential debris. In addition were awaiting more satellite images to be released this time by france. Search teams still have not found debris detected in two other Satellite Photos the fi
Radisson hotel in mali taking hostages. Just one week after the attacks in paris. Good morning. Im carol costello. And im Anderson Cooper live in paris. Thank you for joining us this morning. There is a lot to get to. We begin out of mali in africa. A counterattack is under way right now the capital of mali where u. S. Special forces are helping retake the Radisson Hotel. Dozens of hostages have been released but the hotel says more than 100 are still trapped inside. That attack began early this morning when gunmen stormed a luxury hotel reportedly carrying ak47s and riding in vehicles carrying diplomatic license plates. At this hour, three have been killed. And goqty1 others injured. And the embassies urging all americans to stay where they are and sending out this video of a Tactical Teaming heading there right now. David mckenzie is following the story. What are you hearing . Reporter excuse me. Not david mckenzie. Robin, what is the latest from you . Good afternoon. What i can tell
He was supposed to leave about half an hour ago. I assume hes raising a lot of money. How much are people paying for this . Reporter its a very pricey event, anderson, 35,000 a head. And theyre expecting about 300 guests. An rnc spokesperson told us earlier theyre expecting to make 10 million here at the trump hotel tonight. And those are protesters outside, thats what youre speaking over . And this one reporter yes, yes, excuse the noise. Theres a guy to my left with two megaphones who is protesting donald trump outside of his own hotel here in washington. Do you know how much the trump hotel is getting paid to host this event . Reporter no. Thats one thing we have not gotten answered today despite the fact we have made multiple requests. I made one recently even half an hour ago, and we still dont know who is paying for this event at the trump hotel tonight. Is it the rnc who is splitting this fundraiser with the president . Is it the president s Reelection Campaign . Or did the hote
Soul. New questions from democrats on the House Oversight committee about his fired National Security adviser Michael Flynn. Specifically why he continued to get classified cia briefings for nearly three weeks after the Intelligence Community and acting attorney general sally ytes warned the white house he might be vulnerable to russian blackmail. Democrats also asking similar yes now about Jared Kushner, also president obamas Homeland Security chief testified on capitol hill, the Republican Senate leadership continued writing a Health Care Bill in near total secrecy and democrats agonized over two big losses last night at the polls. So as we said, a lot happening. The president s motorcade has just arrived in cedar rapids. Cnns jeff zeleny is there for us. Jeff, any sense of what we expect the president to talk about tonight . Reporter theres no question, President Trump is going to talk about georgia, yes, hes in iowa, he won this state back. No november by ten percentage points. The