the most powerful rocket ever built a major setback, but not a total failure in the goal of sending humans to mars. one day basketball rules into a man s yard and he opens fire on the neighbors just trying to retrieve it. now a six year old and her father recovering from gunshot wounds. and a manhunt is underway for the suspect. this guy is not a stranger to local police. this is just for the country also latest example of an innocent mistake leading to a shooting and right now, more than 50 million people are under a severe storm threat after a tornado outbreak already tears apart parts of three states. at least three people are dead as search and rescue efforts continue. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news, central. we begin with liftoff and spacex s historic starship rocket, but it s planned journey around the earth didn t last long. just take a look. part into the power was icing on the cake. alright so despite
dana: dramatic moment as homeland security secretary mayokas is forced to face the family of a grandmother and 7-year-old girl killed in a texas car crashed with an alleged human struggler. he turned to face the family expressed condolences but refusing to offer an apology for his failure to secure the border. very emotional day on the hill yesterday. welcome to a new hour on america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning. a heated hearing as republicans hold secretary mayokas accountable for the historic crisis on the border calling his leadership an abject failure. this grieving family of that little girl and grandmother later meeting in private urging him to send thousands of troops to secure the border saying he needs to do that first before any attempt at immigration reform. dana: lawmakers calling out the secretary for being complicit in fentanyl deaths of 100,000 americans. these are some of their faces. bill: bill melugin has spent
then this photo of star swimmer riley gaines and leah thomas after they raced each other spurred this issue. gaines was shouted down when she spoke out to support herself and other women athletes. so today the majority gop in the house of representatives passed a bill to protect female athletes while democrats called this bill and them for doing so trans bullies. this bull fuels a virulent hate campaign against kids. you want to be a transgender, that s your right. but what about my rights? what about the rights of my daughters? house republicans make trans kids participating in sports sinister and conniving. that couldn t be further from the truth. women wake up early and train from a young age, sacrifice only to find a biological man to compete. extreme maga republicans are trying to sensational an issue that doesn t really exist. the very class of biological females that they want to uphold with abortion rulings and things like that, they re coming after you gi
options. neil: up, up and not going away. a suspected chinese spy balloon flying high above the continental u.s. and over several sensitive u.s. military sites. u.s. officials did consider shooting it down. no more. antony blinken cancelling his trip to china. china confirming, yeah, it s ours but blames high winds. some people don t believe that. we are all over it regardless with jennifer griffin at the pentagon on how the military is reresponding to this. griff jenkins with growing calls for investigations into this. senate armed services committee mike rounds on how long the administration may have known about this. general jack keane on the new tension with china because of this. i m neil cavuto. who saw this one coming? new signs that we might have seen it for quite a while. so why are we just finding out about it now and growing concerns about what we re going to do about it now to jennifer griffin at the pentagon. jennifer? neil, secretary state antony blinken is
paid tribute to the late queen, elizabeth ii. you are watching bbc news. now it s time for sportsday. hello, and welcome to sportsday, i m gavin ramjaun. a miserable start to the new yearfor spurs unai emery s aston villa come away with the points at the tottenham hotspur stadium. sterling s on the mark for chelsea, but did they hang on to beat forest and continue the kick start to their season. and high fives all around, as great britain reach the play off round of the inaugural united cup. hello there, and welcome along to sportsday. it s a been a new year s day to forget for tottenham fans the opening game of 2023 saw them beaten at home by an aston villa side, enjoying a resurgence under unai emery. the loss piles the pressure on spurs boss antonio conte, yet to win since the season resumed last month. jo currie was watching. inconsistent form left tottenham starting to entry three in fifth, a win against aston villa would take them back into the top four. a lackluste