On a new push to enforce laws against fare jumpers. First alexis is live in brooklyn with more on the shooting. Alexis, no charges filed against the shooter . Sandra, thats right. For what we are hearing, the d. A. Office in brooklyn says it was an act of selfdefense. More to what happened in a second. But basically one guy you just saw there skipped the fare, pulled out a gun, he was d disarmed, one man is in critical condition. But you are getting on the subway, Evening Commute during rush hour, people are heading to their house from work and the shots ring out in the subway car, people yelling for help as they ducked for cover. Watch. Let me out, let me out [gunshots] police say that fight there led to the shooting on the train yesterday as it traveled between stations in brooklyn during rush hour. The violent incident comes days after kathy hochul called in the National Guard to patrol the Subway System following a series of deaths and attacks. National guard helping with random ba
Nikki haley . What she needs to prove on Super Tuesday to stay in the race. And if she does not stay, will she abide by the rnc pledge to endorse the nominee . What shes signaling now. The rnc is now not the same rnc. Youre no longer bound by that pledge. No, i think ill make what decision i want to make. And what the u. S. Is now saying about the war in gaza. Could harsher words turn into a change in policy toward israel . Good to be with you. Im katy tur in for Andrea Mitchell. The Supreme Court just gave Donald Trumps candidacy a big win. In a unanimous 90 ruling, the justices declared stated have no authority over federal candidates, overruling colorado Supreme Courts decision citing the constitutions insurrection clause to disqualify donald trump from the primary ballot. Quote, Congress Rather than the states, are responsible for enforcing Section Three against federal Office Holders and candidates. Colorado primarys tomorrow during Super Tuesday and this decision secures Donald T
with christmas eventually cancelled in bethlehem, we ll get a live report from that region coming up. former president donald trump releasing a new ad in states where primaries are set to begin in weeks. could he be worrying about his opponent s gaining ground? plus, 2023 was a year of weather extremes. record heat across the country, with phoenix sweltering for 31 days with temperatures over 100 degrees. and from blue ivy to barbie, some of the moments that blew up on social media this year. all that coming up. we begin with the escalation in the israel-hamas war. right now, the israelis are fighting on multiple fronts. first in gaza, where idf forces are taking casualties as ground and air operations killed dozens of palestinians, including civilians caught in the cross fire. israeli troops are also taking fire to the north in fresh exchanges with hezbollah forces while iran-backed militants in yemen ramp up attacks on u.s. military and commercial ships, all signs
tonight may soon be the top story in the markets or even on main street. the president summoning leaders to the white house scheduled for next week to face what they re now calling a far more urgent threat of default with some republicans threatening to take the economy hostage. the final deadline is earlier in the month, republicans doubling down on threats which you may recall picked up in the obama years that instead of voting against new spending, which is the standard way that a politician or a legislator can curb the size of government, totally fine, you say, hey, let s not spend as much. nowadays you may have heard, republicans try to hijack the process of paying the bill, the debt, and they do that as a sort of a voodoo to scare the market, scare the white house, e tract concessions and keep the government from paying the bills it has, that includes naturally bills run up by both democrats and republicans, including recent spending under former president trump. we
that s 184494200. wellcare medicare done well, melanie s nana in washington and this is cnn. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me in new york. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin this hour with the formal expulsion of two black state democrats from tennessee s house of representatives. the expulsions coming a week after they let a gun reform protests from the house floor in response to a school shooting that killed six, including three children in nashville, justin jones and justin pearson. we re also joined in that protest by their colleague, representative gloria johnson. you see them all there. holding hands, raising their fists. vice president harris met privately with the so called tennessee three on friday, she was in nashville to advocate for stricter gun reform. cnn correspondent isabel rizal is joining me now with more on this, isabel. what are we learning about the expulsions and what s next? good afternoon to you, fred? yeah we re hearing from t