just in, brand-new charges against bob menendez of new jersey, going further then the accusations of the luxury cars and cold hard cash, now another country is in the pockets of the new jersey senator, allegedly. the scramble to learn how two planes ended up on a collision course before bursting into flames, video shows the panic on the passenger plane as nearly 400 people on board s escaped alive, and later, breaking news, the first major court filing for donald trump just a short while ago, as his team appealed the decision to remove him from the states primary ballot, this is just one of many legal issues facing mr. trump, colliding with the 2024 presidential election. what is trump s team basing this appeal in maine on? reporter: what they are saying is the main secretary of state exceeded her authority to disqualify the former president based on the 14th amendment, also the 14th amendment of section 3 which says you can t hold certain offices if you have engaged in in
fresh election results in this morning and some hints of democratic optimism. i m john berman. brianna is off, cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins here in morning. a lot to see in these races from last night. it really s when you look closely again, hints, which was, scents. everyone is wanting to pick up on those to know what to say come november. there were some big names on the ballots in several states but it s the special elections in new york that could point to national trends. cnn projects that democrat pat ryan will win the battleground 19th district, this is a district that joe biden narrowly carried in 2020 and that republicans really had hopes of flipping. democrats worked to make abortion rights the central issue in this race, much more on this in just a moment. also here in new york powerful committee chair jerry nadler defeat carolyn maloney which illustrated redistricting struggles for democrats. in florida val demings the former po
had the chief of the local police department on scene here, and what role did they play and why didn t they step up and say, listen, we need to go in, we need to stop this gunman. the fact that he s been singled out by the director of the dps certainly made him unhappy, has ruffled some feathers here, but there are so many more questions and then yesterday, john, you know, we were told here that the swearing in for chief arredondo who was elected on the city council seat was not going to happen, and then we get word here late last night that, you know what, it did happen. they did not invite the media to witness any of this, it was supposed to be a public event, that did not happen, what they did was they had every new city council member come in, on their own, just so that they wouldn t have to call a public meeting for this swearing in, john. shows you their state of mind about maybe what they think of the visuals there. shimon, this door, the door that the killer used to
a teacher was killed. a taxi driver just to mention a few. and celestine cheney, survivor of breast cancer and brain aneurysms. i m sorry we re talking under these circumstances. can you just tell us a little bit about your mom? what was she like? oh, she was a beautiful person, outgoing, life of the party, you know? strong woman. she raised a single son by herself, you know? she was a beautiful person. and she must have loved her grand children. she definitely loved her grand children. how many grand kids does she have? six. wow. and one great grand. wow. that s amazing. and i know your family has said that she just would like to spread joy wherever she went. yep. that was her. she just was the life of the party, happy person. i mean, for for you know, she s a survivor of breast cancer, two brain aneurysms three brain aneurysms. three? wow. how are you how are you dealing with all this? day by day. i understand your mom was at the store wi
building, it was just a complete shock . there were no military facilities around here. the capital, kyiv, putin s target of choice. almost 100 missiles of various types, at least 70 missiles were shut down, almost 60 were shot down in the kyiv area, the country s top general telling cnn, civilians will die without continued western support. the air force of ukraine shut down all 10 russian missiles, using patriot service missiles, this is a record, if they reached their targets, the consequences would have been catastrophic. the missile, one of russia s fastest, and potentially ukrainian civilians biggest threat. there is no reason to believe that the enemy will stop there. that is why we need more