International correspondent Jim Bittermann joining us from paris and cnn aviation analyst peter goels joining us from dallas. Jim, walk us through exactly what the copilot did on that earlier flight how investigators now came to the conclusioning that it was a rehearsal for what eventually wound up doing. Right. Exactly. Basically the earlier flight was the outbound flight from dusseldorf to barcelona and during that flight at one point, the pilot left the cockpit leaving the copilot lubitz in charge and he dialed into the setting on the autopilot, he dialed in the lowest setting, 100 feet. He had been ordered to descend according to air Traffic Controllers, descend from 37,000 to 35,000 and instead of setting it at 35,000 he set it to 100 feet and then just about a minute later, he again was ordered to descend by the air Traffic Controllers and they said to go down to 21,000 feet. Instead of setting in 21,000 he again set into motion the setting of 100 feet. So it was either a rehears
According to authorities. In boston it isnt just the snow but now authorities are concerned about the dangers of the dropping temperatures. Overnight a fatal deep freeze stunning the northeast. A dangerous trifecta of high winds, over a foot of snow in some parts and belowfreezing temperatures from new jersey to maine. Were asking people if you cant stay of the roads boston declared a snow emergency once again. Setting the record for the snowiest week in the citys history. The new fear ice as accidents litter the roadways. In new jersey its icy, rain which makes the roads like impossible. The new England Patriots parade postponed. And scores of schools closed. Many not for snow but its more of an ice day. Sidewalks, students getting on the bus. In maine, wind gusts produced bitterly cold wind chills up to 20 degrees below zero. Ive seen the buses slip back down the street. Other states dropped to the Single Digits. Cant see the road right now, everything is all blurry. West of boston o
Shooter is a [ bleep ] moron. Good night. Im christi paul. Im victor black well. Cnn newsroom begins right now. Donald trump is defending how he handled one of his supporters claiming that president obama is a muslim. Trump is tweeting up a storm about the controversy. He says, this, am i morally obligated to defend the president every time somebody says something bad or controversial about him . I dont think so. This is the first time in my life that i have caused controversy by not saying something. If someone made a nasty or controversial statement about me to the president , do you really think he would come to my rescue . No chance lets talk about it. I am joined by jeffrey lloyd, cnn political commentator and talk show host, ben ferguson. Your reaction to trumps response but first, lets remind people of what sparked this controversy. Lets listen to that. In this country, we have muslims. With he know our current president is one. We know he is not even an american. Birth certific
Not hes an arab. He is not no. No . No, maam. No, maam. Reporter trumps camp the billionaire did not hear the question, saying the media want to make this an issue about obama, its about him waging a war on christianity. Still, democrats quick to pounce. Hillary clinton at a Substance Abuse forum in New Hampshire earlier in the day tweeted not denouncing false statements about the president and hateful rhetoric about muslims is disturbing and wrong. Cut it out. This is jeb bush ratcheting up a strategy to keep his debate momentum going on the campaign trail joking at a rally in las vegas. I hope i will be so brilliant and so eloquent and so high energy. Reporter and calling out trumps gaps in Foreign Policy knowledge. Im not going to get my Foreign Policy based on watching the shows or say dont worry about it, ill figure it out later. You need a president with a steady hand because this is a dangerous world. Reporter and the chair of the Democratic National committee calling trumps com
Pictures and also to have the video of his landing to cuba. Lets keep in mind this is his first visit to cuba. Theres huge expectation. He has big speeches coming up, as you know, and from here we head over to the United States. As i was mentioning earlier, as soon as we got in the air, pope francis came back to the plane, greeted all of the journalists, spoke a little bit about he said it was a very emotional time because he was able to visit with one of the syrian families at the vatican. As you know, theres a huge refugee crisis. Very emotional when i met this family, i feel very emotional right now. He said this is a time when we have wars, immigration crisis, refugee crisis, and we need peace. We need peace in the world. So all of these words, clues perhaps as to what were going to be hearing pope francis say, but he came through and walked through and talked to a lot of the journalists. A lot of photographers are getting off right now, chris. If you have a live picture outside, y