good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. i m a.m. a.m. a.m. ra walker. all eyes on the sky as this chinese sky balloon just continueses drifting. where it s expected to go and why the white house has not yet ruled out shooting it down. and a brutals blast of dangerously cold air is sweeping across the northeast right now. in some places it will feel like 50 to 60 degrees below 0. where we re seeing the cold air and tell you when it s going to start to warm up. plus police in new jersey searching for the person who murdered a local councilwoman outside of her home. what local officials are saying about that case. plus the usda rolling out new changes for school lunches. the proposes they are changing, just ahead on cnn this morning. welcome to the weekend. saturday, february 4th, we reesht you joining us for a lot of you out there, it is freezing cold outside, yobd beyond treezing cold. we re going to get to that in a moment. we start with this balloo
that chicks aren t funny. i hate to tell you it s still very much a thing. there are some people that can t get their heads around what they don t know. i said i wanted to be a comedian, she said. maybe it s better if you just die. i think they thought of women as a different species. very few ladies are capable of being a comedian. and so everybody sits right up. here s somebody that thinks she can do it. great argument that women are doing much better work than that. you re welcome. what s the hardest part? about being a female comedian. what is it? what s the hardest part? like, what would you guess? well, it s the rape. i have a deep camaraderie with tough hardcore funny as comedians because it s been a long road for all of us. what would make a woman turn from some decent thing like housewife ingle cash shearing in a private school or dental hygiene and turned her to comedy as as a career. it s definitely easier for us now because we pushed our way in. but back then ther
the energy regulator ofgem has asked suppliers to pause the forced installation of prepaid metres. it follows revelations that a debt collection company working for british gas broke into the homes of vulnerable people to install the metres. prepayment metres require customers to pay for their energy in advance. it s more expensive than paying by direct debit, but are sometimes the only option for people who have struggled to pay and are in debt to a supplier. ben king has more. an undercover reporter from the times newspaper joined a team of debt collectors, entering the home of a single father with three young children. they count as vulnerable. but, these workers from arvato financial solutions, working for british gas, opened the door and installed a prepayment meter anyway. installing prepayment meters by force is legal, but it s meant to be a last resort, and should not be done to vulnerable households. if people cannot afford to top up the meters, they will be left wit
steve: we start with fox news alert vladimir putin picture they are threatening to use nuclear weapons declaring he s not bluffing which meansu are bluffing. steve: the threat as hunter biden heading to address the leaders gathered in new york. ainsley: that is right. jacqui heinrich from downtown new york city, good morning to you, jackie. good morning, ainsley, steve, brian. the head at the summit was food shortages from the war in ukraine but that statement that speaks putin a threatening use of nuclear weapons and partial mobilization of the country s reserve troops. the first of its kind since world war ii. putin basically claimed nuclear threats of its own and framed a statement as a defensive move accusing the rest of nuclear blackmail and saying the last encourage ukraine to show the russian controlled nuclear plant in southeast ukraine. he accused the west also trying to divide and destroy his country. speak with those who tried to blackmail us with nuc
but i think it does. as elie points out the intent issue has always been a question mark. we didn t know what he knew and whether he realized his act was going on. it was a with full act which requires a statute. but now, this reporting indicates it had apparently the conversation that they didn t know priceless to date. it is like 2021. so herschmann is not talking to him as his lawyer. but he s probably trying to give him some good friendly advice. because, trump is, at that point and a hefty discussion with the national archive and is trying to get documents back. so, it is after that, in january of the next year. that he starts returning up to 15 boxes that have 184 classified documents. that is when it goes to the department of justice, and investigation starts. so this reporting, we don t know why it has come up now. but this is certainly a key witness. her shin was a witness in from the january six committee. we had clips of him. he is very strong witness. and, appar