good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, march 15th. thank you for waking up with us. here are five things to know this morning there are new tensions between the u.s. and russia over the downing of a u.s. surveillance drone. they clipped the drone over the black sea forcing it to crash. russia denies the accusation claiming the drone fell on us own. yeah. and another day of jitters over the fate of america s banking system seem to be easing slightly. stocks of some regional banks bouncing back after suffering declines. fallout is far from over. doj and scc investigating the collapse of silicon valley bank. also this morning high stakes case over abortion pills set to get its day in court. a federal judge in amarillo, texas, will hear arguments over a lawsuit that could disrupt access to the pills nationwide. protests are planned outside the courthouse. also the faa is convening a rare safety summit after seven close calls at airports. the faa says the flight cros
the former president s attorneys do not like one of the requests. the judge wants to see specifics on what trump claims to have declassified. kaitlan, first, what are we expecting today from his hearing? what we are expecting today is to see how this judge that s now the special master, raymond dearie, how he interacts with the justice department and the trump team. we re listening for tone and also timing. how fast this review process is going to be where dearie works with these parties to go through all of the documents that were seized out of mar-a-lago, and especially those 100 documents marked as classified and could still be classified. judge dearie right now has proposed a plan to both sides and the trump team has indicated they have some concern with that. that s a possibility that could come in court today. they re a little concerned about the timing he s proposing. he wants everyone to move really fast to get through the documents in two weeks or so. he also wan
now her people are here for her. i m in westminster where people have less than one full day left to pay their respects to the queen. i ll be speaking to the tens of thousands of people who already have. in other news, millions of people in south western japan have been forced to leave their homes as a region braces itself for the biggest typhoon in decades. ukraine says more than 59 bodies have now been recovered from a mass burial site in the recently liberated city. welcome, if you are watching in the uk or around welcome, if you are watching in the uk oraround the welcome, if you are watching in the uk or around the world. king charles iii will host a reception for hundreds of world leaders at buckingham palace later today ahead of queen elizabeth s funeral on monday. tens of thousands are still queueing to file past the late queen s coffin on the final full day of lying in state. officials are deciding whether to temporarily suspend queueing and they have asked members o
fighter which is longer. what you re seeing there is really a relative comparison. this is a smaller aircraft. it is a highly effective aircraft. these guys can fly faster than the reaper can. is that a typical size? yeah. that s the average size of a reaper right here and of the fighter. that is about average for a fighter of that type. all fascinating. colonel, thank you very much. you bet. we re going to be joined by john kirby from the white house a little later in the program. where do things stand now? what did they learn overnight? he s here on cnn this morning. we want to move to the extreme weather battering both coasts. in the west, rain. the rain just keeps falling. more than 13 million people there and in arizona are in flood watches this morning. in the east, it s a it s snow, a lot of it. the nor easter that left parts of new york and new england buried under at least three feet of snow. more is actually on the way. some areas of the mid-atlantic and north