Another jet skidding off the runway in houston. A tire coming off at takeoff. And this engine fire. Have americas skies hit a new crisis in confidence . Also tonight the inescapable rematch. Its Biden Versus Trump kicking off today. Theyre both in battleground georgia. Hello, georgia. Im thrilled to be back in rome. And new airdrops today in gaza on the brink of famine. In tel aviv, were just ahead of ramadan and hopes for a pause in fighting fading. Wicked weather. Tornados shred the south while the east coast gets soaked. Millions under flood watches. Plus spring break begins in miami with a buzz kill, a crack down. In miami beach with the Spring Break Crack down under way. And later, catching up with the atomic clock, proof that if you needed it, that every second counts. You just add a second to one day. You keep everything aligned. Its mindboggling. Its pretty wild. Announcer this is the Cbs Weekend News from washington with adriana diaz. Good evening. Im Mark Straussman sitting i
Trial. Well have expert legal analysis for you on that in just a moment. Also ahead, the end of an era for Senate Republicans. The partys longest Serving Leader in the Upper Chamber is stepping down at the end of the year. Well take a look at Mitch Mcconnell legacy and who could replace him. And that comes as congressional leaders now have a deal to fund part of the government for a few more weeks, giving lawmakers a little more time to get a lot done. O get a lot done good morning, and welcome to way too early on this thursday, february 29th, a weekday, just what we needed this year to be a little longer. Im jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. And we begin with some massive news that broke late yesterday. The Supreme Court has agreed to consider former President Trumps claim of president ial immunity in his federal election interference case. The conservative courts decision to hear the case will further delay a potential trial. The high court has scheduled argument
lives of your children are damaged and destroyed. mr. zuckerberg, you and the companies before us i know you don t mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands. you have a product you have a product that s killing people. i just want to get this stuff done. it s been 28 years, what, since the internet. we haven t passed any of these bills because everyone is double-talk, double-talk. it s time to actually pass them. that s just a small sample of a contentious senate hearing yesterday with social media ceos. we have much more to show you including the moment that mark zuckerberg apologized to the parents there in the chamber. also on capitol hill, a couple of republican senators involved in the border bill negotiations are calling on members of their own party to stand up to donald trump. and meanwhile, a top advisor in trump s campaign makes a shameless pitch to wealthy donors. we ll tell you what that is just ahead. good morning and welcome to way too earl
few hours. you want to see that picture up, oropeza, the reason we want to put it up is we re trying to help the sheriff s department in that area about 45 miles outside of houston find this man. what we ve learned so far, the neighbors nextdoor heard gunshots and went next door and asked him, could you stop shooting, we have a young child trying to go to sleep. he responded angry and said, i can do whatever i want. at some point, according to the sheriff s department, he went next door and started shooting people. five people killed execution-style. listen to the sheriff talk about this shooting. my understanding is that the vi victims came to the fence and said, could you mind not shooting in the yard, we have a young baby that s trying to go to sleep, and he had been drinking, and he says, i ll do what i want to on my property. fred, when you think about the details of this, you have an 8-year-old shot as well. there were also two children that were found under the bod
very dangerous, and i hope that as the nation watches that we to say we should sound the alarm across the nation we re entering dangerous territory. that was one of two democrats in tennessee that was just expelled after participating in a gun violence protest on the floor of the statehouse. we ll have much more on this partisan punishment just ahead meanwhile on capitol hill one of donald trump s most vocal allies in congress sends a subpoena to a former prosecutor in the manhattan district attorney s office we ll explain why this move may backfire on jim jordan, and we ll dig into a bombshell report exclosing years of lavish vacations taken by supreme court justice clarence thomas, all paid for by a gop mega donor all right, good morning. and welcome to way too early on this friday, april 7th. i m sam stein in for the irreplaceable jonathan lemire. republican legislators in tennessee voted yesterday to expel two black democrats from the statehouse over their protest o