this object has been described as roughly the size of a small car, much smaller than the suspected chinese spy balloon which the air force shot down last saturday. to say it was shut down to say nothing from the facts that comments from the podium at the white house today is raising questions tonight. it was downed off the alaska coast, again, about the size of a small car. it had been seen flying at approximately 40,000 feet and was deemed to pose a reasonable threat to aircraft and other civilian operations. still, there are few answers about the object, even as the white house attempts to draw distinctions between this episode and the episode i previously mentioned last saturday. now, we are told that the president based on the advice of the pentagon believed it posed enough of a concern that it needed to be shot down. he ordered it, and it was. asked about the intradiction, the president said simply it was a success. we re going to remain vigilant about the skies
were close to him, everyone who thought they knew he was who he was, he fooled them all. don t let him fool you too. wow. everyone is fascinated. it is on the cover of people magazine. i really need to bone up on this. i m not following. it goes to the jury maybe today. so verdict could be very soon. we re glad you re with us. we re talking about really dramatic closing arguments in the alex murdaugh double murder trial. the defense gets a chance to close fist. but first, this. terrifying moments in the sky on two different flights. a cabin filling with smoke after fire breaks out. a retired firefighter jumping in help a crew put it out and also several passengers hospitalized this morning after severe turbulence on a flight from texas to germany. reports of blood even splattered on the seats. and at the airport. an alarming discovery. a plane loaded with an explosive before loaded on to the flight. what we heard about the device hid non the luggage. and
erin burnett: outfront breaking news, former vice president mike pence subpoenaed by the special counsel. we re getting new details into cnn this hour. we have the very latest as this story is breaking. plus, new video into cnn of russian brutality against their own soldiers. we have this video out russians running over their own dead and injured. and new questions tonight about congressman george santos. we have a new report saying he was charged with theft after a series of bad checks were written to dog breeders. a lawyer who has known him since middle school said he asked her to help fight the charges. let s go out front. good evening i m erin burnett. out front, subpoenaed. former mike pence has now been subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. pence, of course, was at the center of trump s efforts to cling to power. trump repeatedly pressured his then vice president who, of course, was the one who wa
the fbi and police were able to crack the case. here s what we know. according to law enforcement sources the suspect is 28-year-old bryan kohberger. he was taken into custody in scranton, pennsylvania, by local police as well as the fbi. 2500 miles from the murder scene. he appeared before a judge this morning, we are learning it was a phd student at washington state university. investigators have been tight-lipped since the murders took place in mid-november only revealing they were searching for a white hyundai a elantra. a criminal defense attorney is standing by. fox team coverage. david spunt has breaking details on the fbi s role in locating the suspect. now we go to william la jeunesse our west coast newsroom. after more than a month and a half, 19,000 tips, thousands of police on the case, law-enforcement has made the arrest in connection with the death of four university of idaho students. according to bay board filed by the pennsylvania state police 28-year-old
of keep to themselves. but this family is grieving right out in the open. i m not sure that that makes it any easier though. that the podcast you have, i think it is amazing. thank you for doing that. but anything you want to share? i think in watching these family grief i think everybody who watches it is reminded of their own losses and of degrees that they have experienced. i heard you say something earlier on the air which i thought was really right on the money. that there is that shot of the vehicle, with the king, and camilla driving off alone back to the palace after the burial. and, you pointed out that it is often after the funeral, after the crowds of gone away, that the reality of death and the reality and pain of the loss really send can. the adrenaline is gone and you are left still feeling all these things. and yet the world s not morning with you. so, that is a lot of the discovery we explore this podcasts. i was stephen colbert and others about the residual