at this hour stock sell-off. the u.s. market sharply lower at this hour because of worries about a europe-based bank. what s happening and why republicans hold a hearing with the border patrol chief at the texas border but all 15 democrats on the committee skipped it the latest sign of the immigration divide also in texas new details from inside that courtroom where a trump-appointed judge is hearing arguments over whether to pull an abortion pill off the market nationwide. presidential prescription. president biden in las vegas about to push his administration s new plan to lower the cost of prescription drugs. we ll bring you his remarks as soon as they start our reporters are fanned out all across the country following the latest developments. but we begin in the battleground state of nevada where any minute now president biden will speak about his plan to lower prescription drug prices mike memoli is traveling with the president. i think that state has one of or the
in a crush at a school in the yemeni capital sana a, during distribution of charity for ramadan. video footage on social media shows chaotic scenes after the incident, in the bab al yemen area of the city. a warning, some of you might find this distressing. this visit this find this distressing. this visit this find this distressing. this visit this this - find this distressing. this visit this this vision i find this distressing. this - visit this this vision comes visit this this vision comes from a tv station affiliated with the houthi rebel group. as you can see here, this is distressing video, apparently a crush of people, many of whom looked to be in distress. it s the middle of the night right now in yemen. we are working to reach journalists now in yemen. we are working to reachjournalists and now in yemen. we are working to reach journalists and aid organisations on the ground. we ll bring you an update on this story as soon as we get further details.
newsroom. we begin this hour with more breaking news. yet another shoot-down of a high-altitude object, this one confirmed a short time ago in the skies over the yukon in northern canada. president biden and canadian prime minister justin trudeau gave norad the order to shoot down the object early in the day. a u.s. fighter jet successfully brought it down. it s not clear if this latest shoot-down is related to yesterday s downing of another object off the northeastern coast of alaska. that was near the canadian border, nor is it clear if it s related to the chinese spy balloon that was shot down last saturday. arlette saenz is at the white house. the president was just making some remarks to some governors there in the white house a few moments ago. doesn t sound like he took any questions or made any remarks there. but obviously this is top of mind for the administration after what you and i were reporting on last saturday which was the shoot-down of that chinese spy ballo
scrambled, and a u.s. f 22 successfully shut it down. it s unclear whether the latest object has anything to do with the chinese by balloon shutdown off the coast of carolina s just last week or the object that was down over alaska on friday. nbc is in washington with the latest. ben, tell us what we know about the jets taken down a short time ago in canada. we do not know really anything more than what you just pointed out, which is this tweet from the canadian prime minister saying that they took down this high altitude object so this is 24 hours since a another high altitude object was taken down off the coast of alaska by a another u.s. fighter jet, another of 22. we still don t have any answers on what that object was other than that it was roughly the size of a small car, and it was not manned. in this case, this was spotted over northern canada, there were u.s. and canadian aircraft tracking it, and the f 22 fighter jet shut it down. what altitude was a? what s beat
standoff between its allies. lloyd austin meeting with european defense ministers at ramstein air base in germany. we are also, though, just getting in some breaking news, cnn white house reporter natasha bertrand, oren liebermann joining us. what are you hearing potentially about what more we re learning? even this secret meeting that the cia director held last week with president zelenskyy? yeah, so about the meeting between ukrainian president zelenskyy and cia director bill burns we are learning that burns went there really to brief the ukrainian president on what the u.s. believes are the potential battle plans by russia to launch an offensive in the spring. now, of course, bill burns has been a very key emissary between the u.s. and ukraine as well as even with russia over the course of the war and this really just signifies the urgency the u.s. feels in this moment getting ukraine the information the intelligence it needs ahead of this potential russian offensive see