to a very special edition of outfront. the breaking news, chris christie drops out. the bombshell coming just two hours before cnn s gop debate, the last debate before the first votes of the 2024 election. i m erin burnett in new york, and welcome the our viewers here and around the world. and i m anderson cooper in des moines, iowa. behind me, the stage is set for the debate tonight between nikki haley and ron desantis. and christie s surprise announcement just raised the stakes here in a big way. here is chris christie in his own words. it s clear to me tonight that there isn t a path for me to win the nomination. which is why i m suspending my campaign tonight for president of the united states. the question, of course, who will christie endorse. conventional wisdom says nikki haley. but christie was caught on a hot mic right before his announcement saying this about haley. she s going to get smoked. and you and i both know it. she is not up to this. well, obvi
menendez, and we are breaking news out of california. lloyd forsman sediment described as a positive suspect in the monterey park shooting is dead. officials are expected to hold a press in the next half hour they take a look at the case, we will see it here on american voices life. law enforcement, earlier today, expected a white man they believe was connected the gunman. the man was nearby towards california, the men inside who was possibly the suspect is dead. saturday night, ten people were killed inside the dance studio. ten more were injured. working with the worst mass shooting out of that state in recent memory. the shooting have been near the city s lunar new year celebration. thousands have gathered saturday night in the predominantly asian community. police, today, released this photo of who they believe is the suspect. he s a scrap as an older asian male with a dark complexion wearing glasses, and started about five foot ten and 150 pounds. here s how wanted witne
state antony blinken made two unannounced stops in the middle east. he met with palestinian president mahmoud abbas in the west bank and traveled to bagdad for high-stakes talk with iraq s prime minister. blinken has held a series of top-level talks with arab leaders as israel intensifies its attacks against hamas. cnn s jim sciutto is in northern israel. you have new reporting that secretary blinken is not the only u.s. official visiting that region. reporter: that s right, cia director bill burns is traveling to the mid east as well. a u.s. officials tells me the following, that burns is traveling to several countries in the middle east where he s meeting with multiple intelligence counterparts and country leaders. the u.s. official said they ll discuss support for hostages negotiations and u.s. commitment to continuing to deter state and non-state actors from widening the conflict. that particular message has been a consistent one from when president biden first commente
thanks for joining us on cnn newsroom i m michael holmes with our continuing coverage of the israel-hamas war. in a few hours from now the israeli military is expected to open a road corridor so people in gaza city can flee south, that s the plan. the idf is offering what it calls safe passage during the four hour window beginning at 10 am local time. but, it is unclear if people in gaza will even get the message, given the widespread power and communications outages throughout the war. or whether hamas will perhaps try to prevent them from leaving. meanwhile this was the scene overnight as fireballs light of northern gaza. as seen by cnn crews just across the board in israel. israel has not yet commented on the strikes. even as israeli forces say they are encircling the city hamas rockets continue to fire into israel, the idf says it intercepted six rockets near tel aviv so far no casualties reported. the idf also released video of the chief of staff just inside gaza on sa
of both of these candidates. the immediate reaction from nikki haley is she congratulated chris christie for running a hard-fought campaign. those two served as governors basically at the same time, she in south carolina, he in new jersey. in an entirely different pretrump era of the party. but you heard that hot mic moment there, and that is what florida governor ron desantis seized upon. he says he agrees with chris christie s assessment there, that she is going to get, quote, smoked. so we will see if that dynamic sort of continues on stage tonight. but the reality is, anderson, this does not affect the iowa campaign that much because chris christie was not competing in iowa. but going into new hampshire, which this race is going to do in less than a week s time, it certainly does. so there have been behind the scenes for reach-outs from both campaigns. i m told that nikki haley has not spoken to chris christie. we will see if that changes. she certainly is likely to get perhaps som