good saturday morning, everyone. and welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. and i m boris sanchez. all eyes on the sky this morning as a chinese spy balloon continues drifting over the united states. where it is expected to go and why the white house has not ruled out shooting it down. and a brutal blast of dangerously cold air sweeping across the northeast. in some places it will feel like 50 to 60 degrees below zero. where we re seeing the cold air and when things will start to warm up. plus new developments in the tyre nichols case, why another officer is out of a job and why some first responders are now losing their licenses. plus important new testimony in the alex murdaugh trial, twists in the case and what it could mean for murdaugh s defense, coming up on cnn this morning . hi, everyone. if you are not keeping track, it is saturday. not time to go to work for most of you. february 4. thanks for waking up with us. i m amara walker in atlanta. an
Or out. Detectives will be looking at video and things like that. Reporter after waiting for an hour outside employees were allowed back into the store and shoppers were individually questioned before being allowed to return to their cars. Meanwhile police are asking for the publics help in finding the shooter. We got red Hyundai Sonata 2009 make of the vehicle black male black shirt with a white emblem on it gold chain blue jeans height about fiveseven to fiveeight. And there is breaking news. Another shooting in north philadelphia. In this case we know officers opened fire. This happened just about an hour ago. Chopper6 was over the scene along the 3100 block of darien street. Police are still trying to sort out the details but we know that one person was shot. It is not clear at this point if the gunfire came from a Police Officers gun. We do know no officers were injured. Well continue to monitor this situation and bring you an update as soon as we can. Firefighters quickly got the
It for the long haul. At the roberts avenue yard in tioga nices town. They were blocking the Employee Entrance to the Regional Rails running on schedule but septa warns the pickets could disrupt service through the evening rush. At midnight the Union Workers hit the picket lines here and across the city. Am here since 94, this is the first time i can remember this part of the gate being shut off. At the fern rock transportation center, striking workers give us a long list of issues they hope they can resolve with the transit authority. Pay, pension and health care but however there is still work rules. For me the priority is the pens, for me its do or die. Many prepared saved money some how knowing the strike would come and some open to get back to work soon. There is anxiety. Are they talking making progress . How long will we be out here. But we are out here for the duration however long it takes. We are hopeful, we dont want to stay out any longer than anyone wants taos be out. They
Stops, right on the fence line, just yards away from that home. Neighbors we talk to, says it was fast, furious and frightening. The neighbor came down and banging on the door saying theres a fire you need to get out. So i looked up and it was right there. Reporter allison was able to snap these pictures from inside her living room. She said the flames were so close, she could feel the flames on her face inside her home. It just took off like that. It was behind the house and coming this way within minutes. Reporter the fire company said they have the fire was under control behind the homes and the park community. She says, she and her neighbors just sprung into action. There were landscaping, people werbing across the street, so everybody reasoning around and turning sprinklers on in the backyard. Reporter josh is one of those landscapers. A lot of people freaking out. They were all going crazy. Reporter he said, when he the homes, he just took out his hose and started spraying. I was
For years, he didnt speak. And then his father, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist ron suskind, made a remarkable discovery he could communicate with his son by acting out scenes from disney films. Owen, when did you and i become such good friends . And he said, when i watched aladdin, you made me laugh. And then we talked. Owen and iago, for a minute, a minute and a half. It is the first conversation we have ever had. Amy owen and ron suskind join us today at the Sundance Film Festival along with the Academy Awardwinning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams who directed a new film about owens life titled, life, animated. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In oregon, rightwing militia leaders ammon and ryan bundy have been arrested and Group Spokesperson Lavoy Finicum has reportedly been killed following a traffic stop along highway 395. The stop took place near the National Wildlife refuge, where the bundys