she watched two of them die. they died in front of her. i got my daughter and she s alive. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. we begin with quite an update from mexico. two americans are dead this morning. two are alive though. they are back on u.s. soil after those four were kidnapped at gun point in mexico. we ll break down where they were found and what we re learning about the man who has been detained. later, the family of one of the survivors will also join us. more exposure for fox news. a trove of private text messages and e-mails have been revealed as part of a lawsuit against the network. what tucker carlson said about donald trump leading up to the january 6 attack on the capitol. also, a bipartisan group of senators are now trying to give president biden more power to ban tiktok in the u.s. cnn this morning starts right now. we gun with that deadly cud nap kidnapping of four americans in mexico. two of them have been found dead. the two
top of the hour this wednesday. i m jim sciutto. and i am erica hill. right now several key hearings happening on capitol hill. a pretty busy day in washington. this hour lawmakers will grill active administrator billy nolan after multiple close calls on the runway and some of the aviation incidents sparking safety concerns. also federal reserve chairman jerome powell appearing before lawmakers for the second day defending his decisions to raise interest rates in an effort to tamp down inflation. we re also watching the top u.s. intelligence officials testify, among them fbi director chris wray, the director of national intelligence avril haynes as what they see the biggest global threats facing the u.s. today. cnn s melanie is live on capitol hill today. several events and several bits of testimony on the hill today. walk us through what you re watching. yeah. a very busy day here on capitol hill. we are tracking a number of high-profile hearings, and i want to walk yo
i don t know how you feel about that. but i you know, i think that you know, decorum and courtesy and kindness always works, but everybody i know has an opinion about something. i just think we have to figure out a way to have a good conversation without tearing each other down, and i think that we can do that question. today was the first day of the show. what s got what s going on in the world. what s going on in sports? let s go on what would be the topic today? today i think the thing me and ernie actually touched on it on the podcast the other day. i don t want to be the person. they re like every time we want to have one of these mass shootings be like, oh, another mass shooting happened. let s get to the next story. like nah, man, we ve had three mass shootings in the last week. the one in alabama. the young black kid who got shot and knocking on the wrong door. the girl was in the driveway in the driveway who got went to the wrong house and got to do didn t even ask f
unfolding in the banking sector has boosted the odds of a recession in the u.s. within the next year. but treasury secretary janet yellen is about to wrap up her senate testimony and she argued the fallout has been contained. i can reassure the members of the committee that our banking system is sound and that americans can feel confident that their deposits will be there when they need them. this week s actions demonstrate our resolute commitment to ensure that our financial system remains strong and that depositors savings remain safe. now, the market seemed skeptical until they got word that chase and morgan stanley are considering rescuing the struggling first republic bank. regional bank stocks are mixed, which is actually a major improvement from earlier today. elsewhere in the economy some promising new data on jobs and mortgage rates. we have cnn s matt egan, who s here once again to help make heads or tails of all of this for us. okay, matt, let s start here wit
just faced a judge standing in court in shackles, his family also in the courtroom. what we re learning this hour about when he got his top secret clearance are a stage now set for some big name republicans trump desantis haley pence, all heading to the gun convention of america s gun violence crisis right now, parisian authorities are tightening security as protesters prepare to learn the fate of the pension reform changes they ve been fighting against four weeks. these major stories and more right here on cnn news, central. this just in to cnn court documents show that dak jack to share a had top secret clearance . 20 run your 21 year old massachusetts air national guardsman appeared in a boston federal courtroom this morning. he has now been charged with allegedly being behind that massive leak of classified military documents, according to new detail from uh, new deal t of detail from court this morning to share allegedly began posting the documents around december of las