shoppers running for cover, hiding in stores as officers race to the scene. one person killed, another wounded. what we re learning tonight. a family s nightmare. a 6-year-old traveling alone to be with his grandmother for the holiday put on the wrong spirit airlines plane, arriving in the wrong city. the tense moments for his family and what the airline is now saying. this in the middle of a record-breaking holiday travel season with millions of hitting the roads and taking to the skies. we re following a cross-country storm making its way in the south. millions on alert for potential flooding and the blizzard warning in the northern plains. christmas celebrations canceled in the traditional birthplace of jesus where the fighting in gaza hangs over what is usually a time of joy as relentless in the israel-hamas war takes a toll on the civilians and both sides of the fighting and the grim death toll. prime minister benjamin netanyahu under pressure inside israel, rick c
reminder if you or someone you know is facing a crisis, you can call the national suicide prevention crisis lifeline at 988, that s 24/7. the news continues. errol burnett out front starts now. a special edition of out front next, president biden ready to announce he s ready to run again. why it has everything to do with ron desantis. plus, why a special election that flipped control of the pennsylvania house of representatives is giving democrats across the country a reason to celebrate, something you should be watching. and biden going after the chinese president xi jinping by name, china responding tonight. we re going to go live to beijing. let s go out front. good evening and welcome to a special edition of out front. i m erin burnett. it s biden versus desantis. the president is heading to florida tomorrow and he has his sights set in large part of the state s governor. this is new reporting from phil mattingly, and it comes as biden is expected to announce his own
a special edition of out front next president biden albert ready to announce he s running again, as we are getting new details into out front about his visit to florida, tomorrow. why it has everything to do with ron desantis. plus, why a special election of the control the pennsylvania house of representatives is giving reason democrats across the country reason to celebrate. something you should be watching. and biden going after chinese president, xi jinping, by name. china responding, tonight. we go live, to beijing. let s go out front. good evening and welcome to a special edition of out front, i m erin burnett. the president is heading to florida tomorrow. and he has his sights set in large part on the state s governor. this is reporting from phil mattingly at the white house this hour, and it comes as biden is expected to announce his own run for reelection in the day. in fact, in a new interview with judy woodruff, he took the question about his age head on. lis
options. neil: up, up and not going away. a suspected chinese spy balloon flying high above the continental u.s. and over several sensitive u.s. military sites. u.s. officials did consider shooting it down. no more. antony blinken cancelling his trip to china. china confirming, yeah, it s ours but blames high winds. some people don t believe that. we are all over it regardless with jennifer griffin at the pentagon on how the military is reresponding to this. griff jenkins with growing calls for investigations into this. senate armed services committee mike rounds on how long the administration may have known about this. general jack keane on the new tension with china because of this. i m neil cavuto. who saw this one coming? new signs that we might have seen it for quite a while. so why are we just finding out about it now and growing concerns about what we re going to do about it now to jennifer griffin at the pentagon. jennifer? neil, secretary state antony blinken is
at last check, they ve tried a few different ways to troubleshoot it, to fix the problem. no word yet on whether they ve been able to stop it at this point. this follows monday s scrubbed launch which was largely due to an engine cooling problem. it was a tricky sensor that was off. but engineers remain optimistic that today there will be a launch. for now, the weather has been cooperating so that helps. nasa meteorologists predict about 60% favorable conditions, which increases to 80% as the day goes on. of course this historic mission marks the next chapter of lunar exploration and will land the first woman and first person of color on the moon in a matter of years. let s go now to cnn s space and defense correspondent kristin fisher live this morning from the kennedy space center. i don t think kristin has us. can you hear us? reporter: hey, guys, i m having a hard time with my earpiece so i can t quite hear what you said. let me bring you up to speed from the kenned