hello and a warm welcome to those joining us. just ahead on cnn newsroom former south carolina governor, former u.n. ambassador formally announcing her ca campaign. she s certainly willing to be the first to go up against the president. both presidents really. now some people here will have to be trdrinking bottled water. this train apparently was not considered a high hazardous material train. children were throwing up, parents were panicking. seemed uncomfortable, nervous and fidgety. so that is why i started getting suspicious. his instinct was correct. these are nine checks and the name on each of them, george santos. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is wednesday, february 15, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington and south carolina where this just a few hours nikki haley is expected to speak at campaign launch event. haley has formally entered the 2024 race for the white house. and in the months
maybe you want to keep those seat belts fastened. the lead starts right now. major questions raised today about your safety in the air as senators grill the faa why the agency cannot be so sure there will not be more runway near misses and grounded flights. plus, nikki haley officially kicks off her 2024 campaign, bringing a pledge to bring in a new generation of leadership. but how long can she maintain this delicate dance, throwing subtle shade at trump while not alienating his supporters? and hayashi, you know, that first flying object shot down, the one that was deemed a chinese spy balloon. u.s. intel says maybe it wasn t supposed to be over the continental u.s. after all. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and the airport chaos taking over capitol hill after the series of near collisions and the nationwide ground stop that led to thousands of delayed and canceled flights. the acting head of the federal aviation administration
acid rain. the community says it s like someone dropped a toxic nuke on them. basically nuked a town with chemsz. so get a railroad open. i was kind of surprised that when they quickly told the people they can go back home. there s a lot of what-ifs and we are going to be looking at this thing five, 10, 15, 20 years down the line and wondering gee, cancer clusters could pop up, well water could go bad. jesse: the state government s top doc came out today and said those cancer clusters no big deal. you have been exposed to these things your whole life. if you get cancernot because east palestine looks like chernobyl. most of the chemicals that we are worried about and that we re talking about fall into a category known as volatile organic chems. vulnerable organic compounds or vocs it s important for us to recognize are actually a part of our everyday life. so, if you go this afternoon on your way home to pump gas in your car, you re being exposed to volatile organic c
down in recent days and how or whether they may be part after larger chinese surveillance program. just a few questions that congressional lawmakers are considering tonight, earlier senators leaving a classified briefing on the hill with you said it more questions than answers, despite learning that these aerial objects are not believed to be alien in nature. still the who what and the when remains unclear. i think the american people deserve to hear more from the president on all these issues. there is a lot of information presented to us this morning that could be told the american people without any harm. there are things to consider not the least of which is the potential risk. so i think most republicans that feel could have been shot down sooner. yes president biden as mentioned still has not addressed the nation about how the u.s. is going to continue to respond to this apparently growing threat. white house petersen secretary jean pierre tells fox news that quot
meeting and i did not learn anything i couldn t learn from watching the news channel and reading the newspaper. president biden owes the american people an explanation. president biden should speak on camera directly to the american people today. ashley: lucas tomlinson has more on the outrage and the white house s silence. good morning, lucas. lucas: good morning, four objects shot out over north america in just eight days, unprecedented in u.s. history. that spycraft was the size of three buses, blasted out of the sky and mysterious three objects in alaska and lake huron. the white house says there are no ufoshgs, this is not invasion of ailen whys. john kirby says actually these are unidentified flying objects. these could be balloons of completely benign nature, perhaps commercial or scientific research focus there. lucas: officials tell fox it could be little timmy s science project. here is jacqui heinrich in the briefing room. will you be releasing to us or t