i m lindsey reiser, we ve got a jam-packed hour ahead. right now, 50 million americans are waking up to winter alerts, including heavy snow, ice, even some tornadoes. a fast moving storm system tearing across the great lakes into new england, dumping heavy snow and complicating the morning commute for many. new york city is seeing its first steady snowfall of the year. take a look at this, the normally bustling bridge in the daylight hours eerily empty covered in a soft bed of snow. illinois dealing with its own severe weather. two tornadoes touching down, setting off terrifying sirens. we re tracking all of it for you this morning. plus, growing frustration in east palestine ahead of the epa administrate s third trip to the town since that toxic train derailment. federal officials knocking on more than 500 doors in town checking on residents, some of whom have been diagnosed with health conditions like bronchitis. others are fearful of getting sick in the future. i m sca
now, people are using the clock to speed up other things. look at this interview from the president. is your age into your own calculation as to whether to run again? first of all, look, first of all, to look, they the no but yes. there you go. it worked. jimmy fallon having some fun with baseball s new rule. we have a lot to get to this morning. a major conservative conference is going to be missing some star power. we ll go through the big names in the gop who are skipping cpac. we ll tell you which event many of them are attending instead. meanwhile, ron desantis takes control of a key figure in his so-called war on woke. we ll explain what is happening in florida. and we ll have the latest bombshells to come out of court documents in a lawsuit against fox news, including rupert murdoch s testimony on false claims about election fraud. also ahead, we will be joined by education secretary miguel cardona, as president joe biden s plan to cancel student
the story. i didn t need the times to tell me that the people of palestine doubted the e.p.a. we have been doing this story all week. we have been talking to the people there all week. we sent a producer out there this week. so the times reporting guys with primetime s reporting. these people don t trust the government because the government hasn t given them a reason to trust them. and we can go down the list. why? the story ends on page a-17 and then next to it was a second story on the toxic train wreck. this story headline chernobyl 2.0? feverish speculation after derailment, fire and toxic smoke. stuart thompson of the times is saying that right wing commentators are speculating that the toxic train wreck could be really catastrophic and people shouldn t trust what the government tells them. yeah, guilty as charged. the new york times then mentions this show, quote: you better punch in at 9:00 a.m., ohio, even if it means inhaling mustard gas on the way in said
palestine are running out of patience with the administration s response or lack thereof to the derailment and the cleanup. what federal response? if it were in washington, d.c. it would be cleaned up taken care of answers done. white house defending what the federal government has done and will do. we are committed to supporteding the people of palestine every step of the way and will be helping them long as needed. some residents are mystified why the transportation sect buttigieg hasn t even visited the area. to me eye his job. this is something he should be here for. this is pretty significant the amount of chemicals cancer causing chemicals that were released. we need guidance i think this deserves a pink slip for his job. buttigieg said he s more focused generally on rail safety which is by his admission nowhere near close to good enough. while this horrible situation has gotten particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly 1,000 cases of a year
of our viewers around the world and to our viewers joining us from the u. s and canada. i m leila rock and you re watching cnn newsroom for nationals have been evacuated from sudan as fighting between the military and paramilitary forces stretches now into a second week . hours ago, the us confirmed that all american diplomats were on their way out of the country and that the u. s embassy in the capital khartoum has been temporarily closed. cnn s oren lieberman has the details. a successful mission carried out in the dark of night in sudan to evacuate the u. s embassy in khartoum, according to us officials. three chanukah helicopters took off from djibouti some 750 or 800, miles away from khartoum flew into the country landed, secured the embassy and then brought out all of the embassy staff and their family members, a group of just under 100 people, according to us officials, who briefed reporters on the operation and what happened around it during the operation and afterwar