former january 6th committee member adam kinzinger here to wee in. a flight attendant attacked by an unruly passenger. federal investigators say this man tried to open the emergency exit door during a flight from los angeles to boston and then tried to stab a flight attendant in the neck with a broken metal spoon. other passengers tackled him to the ground and he was zip-tied until the plane landed. cnn s pete muntean with more on this. good morning to you. he told investigators he wanted to jump out of the plane? reporter: yeah, good morning, don. this is the second high-profile incident of an unruly passenger we have seen in as many weeks. department of justice now looking into this. you know, it s really interesting here is that the number of unruly passengers went down by half over last year, but this has to be one of the most dramatic we have seen recently. the flight crew became alerted to this when this passenger tried to open the emergency exit door and they got a
officials locate four kidnapped americans after they were stuffed in the back of a pickup truck. now two are dead. two alive. plus a new exclooifs be interview with ukraine s president. a 45-minute conversation including volodymyr zelenskyy s take on a setback in bakhmut. and ron desantis tries to grab the moment. the governor delivers the state of the state address, and previews his 2024 plan to make america more like florida. up first for us, devastating words from a mexican border taunt. officials announcing two american kidnapped victims are two, two others are alive. a source tells cnn that one of those two locked in a battle to survive. the race against the clock to find the hostages started last week. just across the border with the brazen attack. you can see it here. gunmen firing on the van before pulling americans from the car. john miller is working his sources. we begin with our security correspondent josh campbell. what s the latest on the sad tragedy here?
it s about getting rid of cons. antifa doesn t care about the environment. i haven t seen them in east palestine and we haven t seen them at the jersey shore protesting windmill whale murder. when police started kicking the forest defenders out of the trees one of the members known as little turtle started shooting at cops. a state trooper was seriously wounded and little turtle was killed. and now antifa is avenging little durettle s death. hid inside a group of peaceful protesters outside the construction site. they had comedy shows, music festivals, they even gave tours of the forest. and that s when things started turning mostly peaceful. and then 150 antifa militants pealed off, changed into camouflage clothing and black mask was and stormed the construction site. the antifa militants chucked bricks and molotov cocktails at police. lit construction equipment ablaze. this was a highly organized attack. and it won t be the last. antifa is getting stronger. they are interna
mission control. a 21 year old us air national guardsman will appear in court later today charged with the most serious leak of secret intelligence documents in years. jack teixeira is expected in court in boston in the next few hours. the leaked material first appeared on an online chat forum, and has exposed details of ukraine s war plans. it also reveals the extent of the us s spying on its allies. here s what we know about jack teixeira. the 21 year old is a us air national guardsman. he was listed as a member of the intelligence wing of the massachusetts air national guard based at otis air national guard base in western cape cod. according to his service record, which was obtained by our us partner cbs news, teixeira joined the force in 2019. his identification first came on thursday when the visual investigations team at the new york times tracked him down. it s an extraordianary story. christiaan triebert from that team told the bbc how they managed it. these new
china has tried to calm tensions after two chinese spy balloons were spotted over the united states and latin america. the chinese foreign ministry has spoken to the us secretary of state, antony blinken, after he cancelled his trip to china this weekend. beijing says the matter must be dealt with in a cool headed and prudent manner. our north america correspondent barbara plett usher reports from beijing. americans are looking up to spot the spy balloon in the sky. it s actually a weather balloon that blew off course, the chinese said. but the pentagon s convinced it s more than that and that it s not the only one. we re seeing reports of a balloon transiting latin america. we now assess it is another chinese surveillance balloon. the ballon burst plans for america s top diplomat antony blinken to travel to beijing for rare talks about covid, trade disputes and the security situation over taiwan, but mostly to calm sky high tensions. this crisis shows just how fragile re