meetings, and the ballot box. communities nationwide are reckoning with big questions about parental rights, k to 12 classrooms, and what children are taught in schools. and virginia governor glenn yang comes made education the centerpiece of his consecutive all campaign. and his agenda. and tonight, our audience is made up of parents, teachers, and students from across the commonwealth of virginia. we ll have a chance to directly question governor youngkin about these issues. that impact children s futures. so, let s get right to. it please welcome glenn youngkin. [applause] how are you? good to see. oh how are you? thank you, thank. you have a seat sir if you. will good education is the key issue for you, perhaps more so than any other governor in the country. you ran your campaign on it, you wish you first executive order on it. why, why is this issue your main focus? first of, all jake, i want to say thank you. thank you to cnn for hosting tonight. and i want to t
hello, everyone, thank you for joining me this sunday. i m fredricka whitfield. and we begin in east palestine, ohio, where backlash is growing over the toxic train deraiment and pressure is mounting to do more. the epa stopping the transfer of millions of gallons of contaminated waste to michigan and texas as the agency reviews disposal plans. federal teams are now on the ground in east palestine, checking in on residents, door-to-door, passing out flyers with information on getting health assessments and clean water. but for many in the town, that is simply not good enough. residents are worried about their health and their homes. many are questioning how this even happened after an initial ntsb report said that the derailment was 100% preventible. cnn s jasmine wright is in delaware this morning where the president is spending the weekend. so what more is the administration planning to do for the people of east palestine? reporter: yeah, fred, well that door-to-door effo
china says that contraption over the united states is just researching weather. yeah, okay, sure. the lead starts right now. china is calling it a civilian airship. the u.s. calls it a spy balloon. whatever you call it, it s causing a huge diplomatic riff between two global superpowers as the pentagon contemplates shooting it down. and hate in home schooling. the discovery of disturbing pro-nazi and disturbing teachings to kids in ohio sparking a debate over what parents can teach their children at home under the auspices of education. chatgpt growing faster than tiktok or instagram, bound to revolutionize how we operate, maybe even about to take your day job. welcome to the lead. secretary of state blinken is talking about his canceled trip to china. let s listen in. in our skies is a clear violation of our sovereignty, a clear violation of international law, and clearly unacceptable. and we ve made that clear to china. any country that has its air space violated
reporter: we were going basically to the scene of where that missile strike took place last night on that residential building that killed several people because of course there is still a big rescue operation going on there. and we had just arrived at the scene, left our vehicles when the house in front of which our vehicle was parked was hit by a missile strike. it was a really heavy explosion, very close by. i would say maybe 40 or 50 yards from our location. so we then tried to go into a sheltered building. and as we were doing that i turned around, and you could see the second missile hitting the exact same area. we already know that there were people who were severely wounded on the ground there. it s unclear if and how many people were killed. of course right now there s a big rescue operation going on there. but i think it s important for our viewers to understand this area this was in, there was an active search and rescue operation in a residential area. and today
nightmare before christmas, snow, ice and a dangerous winter blast sweeping across the u.s.. as thousands of flights are canceled, we are live in the cnn weather center with what s coming next. plus, the january 6th committee releases its final report on the deadly attack on the u.s. capitol. laying out the case against former president, donald trump. and for the first time, vladimir putin uses the word, war, to describe his invasion of ukraine. we begin this hour in washington, where the house committee investigating january 6th has released its final report. without specifically mentioning donald trump, the panel concludes, anyone responsible for an insurrection should be barred from holding public office. the report goes on to detail a concerted effort by trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election. chapter titles include the big lie, i just want to find 11,680 votes, and a coup in search of a legal theory. the committee outlined a scheme to submit fake electors fro