Good evening, everyone. Im kate baldwin in for erin burnett. Breaking news. An important new clue for investigators searching for mh370. A second identifying number has been found on the piece of debris discovered in the indian ocean. Sources tell cnn this number is also consistent with a boeing 777. This as malaysian officials are increasingly confident tonight the debris say piece of the missing plane. One malaysian official saying today that it most certainly belongs to a boeing 777. We know mh370 is the only boeing 777 unaccounted for in the world. Right now, this piece of debris a planes flaperon is expected to arrive in france shortly for analysis. We will begin our coverage with rene marsh. You broke this story. A second identifying number on this flaperon it seems very little doubt now that this is in fact mh370. Reporter thats right. We are waiting for the official confirmation. A source is telling me in photos boeing engineers spotted a number 11 digits long. Its consistent w
Charges. Alexandra field is in the courtroom and is getting to a live location to tell us what she saw. Obviously you see Joyce Mitchell was emotional. Lets bring in paul cowan who is here with us as well as gary hayward who worked as a prison guard and ultimately also served time in prison so has some experience on both sides. Paul, the deal, 2 1 2 years to 7 years in prison, pleading guilty. What does the county get out of, it what does she get out of it . She got a great deal. I think her attorney negotiated a very, very good deal. Lets face it, this is a very serious offense. These guys are murderers set loose on the community. They could have killed somebody. Ound this deal she could be out in as little as approximately 2 1 2 years. Its more likely shell serve more time but shes parole eligible after that short period of time. So thats a very, very good deal for her. Now, she could do the entire seven years depending upon what the parole board things. Good deal for her but then wh
From cnn World Headquarters here in atlanta, im George Howell. This is cnn newsroom. Good day and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. We begin with the mass migration happening Across Europe. Within the hour, the eu Foreign Policy chief is set to arrive in luxembourg to meet with eu ministers to address this growing problem. Crisis there, in the meantime, thousands of migrants who made it to the border between hungary and austria crossed overnight and there are many, many more on the way. Buses from budapest dropped people off just before reaching the austrian border, then they walked the rest of the way. Translator the situation has been very bad but we were detained at the train station. We were at the camp for three days with no food or water. We are now supposed to be taken from the austrian border. We heard from those already there there is no food or water. We dont know whats happening. According to austrian public televisio television, Austrian
Good evening, im erin burnett. Out front donald trump defending his personal attacks on bill clinton, speaking to reporters onboard his private jet. Trump asked if his own personal indiscretions would be fair game, too . Yes, they would be. Frankly, hillary brought up the whole thing with sexist. All i did was reverse it on her. Shes got a major problem. Happens to be right in her house. If she wants to do that, we are going to go right after the president , the expresident and see how it comes out. At the same time, it is a lastminute push for votes as the clock runs out on 2015. Republican candidates blanketing the primary states to win over voters. Chris christie, marco rubio, donald trump are in the buckeye state. Jeff, 25 degrees there. Theres been bad weather. Hows turnout . No question of course its cold and snowy. Look behind me at this crowd here. You can see i would say 1,000 or more, perhaps thousands have gathered here in council bluffs, iowa. We are five weeks away from th
It comes as sanders and clinton are in final preparations for the cnn president ial town hall. You can see live pictures of the stage. This will be sanders and clintons last chance to state their case to voters before the Iowa Caucuses. Clintons once lead narrowing under the sanders surge. Clinton leading sanders and she is leading still 52 to 38 . Clinton leading among women and nonwhites. Sanders leads with men and independents. And his lead when it comes to independents is nearly 35 points over clinton, as you can see on the screen there. 35point lead. More breaking news tonight. We want to show you live pictures from New Hampshire. In a few moments, donald trump is going to be appearing at that podium. He said the republican establishment is starting to get on board with his campaign. You know, look. At a certain point, youve got to make deals. We cant have a guy who stands in the middle of the senate floor and not every other senator thinks hes a whack job, right . We begin with t