They say ride it like a cowboy. Just ride it, ride that sucker right through. Thats where the 2. 2 Million People come in. Would have died maybe, but it would have been 1. 6 to 2. 2. And thats not acceptable. But there are a lot of people that said, i thought about it. I said, maybe we should ride it through. You always hear about the flu. I talk about it all the time. We had a bad flu season. Were in the midst of a bad flu season. You know we had a bad season last year as an example, a bad flu season. And you have 35, 36, 37,000 people die, sometimes more, sometimes less. But this is different. And part of this is the unknown and part of it also is the viciousness of it. I had a friend who went to a hospital the other day. Hes a little older and hes heavy, but hes a tough person. And he went to the hospital and a day later hes in a coma. I call. Hows he doing . Sir, hes in a coma. Hes unconscious. Hes not doing well. The speed and the viciousness, especially if it gets the right perso
Deployed throughout the country. Were going to first to the white house and nbcs monica alba. Monica, good day to you. Something else happened big time overnight. That was the president fires a state department watch dog. What is this about . Reporter exactly. Alex, the president notified congress he wishes to remove steve linik, and democrats indicated he had opened an investigation into secretary of state mike pompeo, and a political appointee who may have been doing some personal tasks both for the secretary and hi wife. I want to read you what eliot engel said in a statement. He called this outrageous, and also indicated that this firing, amid such a probe, strongly suggests this is an snowfall act of retaliation in engles own words. Whats also striking here this is nots first of the inspector generals. The president hayes made moves to out others since the pandemic began. And also the defense department, alex. They usually happen late at night, sometimes on a friday evening, sort
Life. This photo moments after the capture shows him bloodied and in full camouflage guard. You can see shots to the chest. I ran out. All of a sudden, the cops swarmed. He was spotted by jake hook during a routine patrol. He was alone when this happened. You go home tonight and tell your daughters you are a hero. The fugitive was jogging along the road. Sweat took off, making it back into the woods before Sergeant Cook opened fire. The terrain is so dense, you cant see five feet in front of you. If sweat made the tree line he would have been gone. Reporter investigators say sweat and matt used pepper to try to throw off police tracking dogs. We did have difficulty tracking so it was effective in that respect. Reporter the capture 48 hours after matt armed with a shotgun, was killed in a shootout with police. It was an extraordinary circumstance and the first escape in over 100 years. One escape is one escape too many. Reporter sweat was captured about 16 miles from where his partner,
Sonar sonar technicians are sweeping the bottom of the ocean looking for a ping. How do they do it . And how can they fly for so many hours without anyone looking for it. Well talk about the delay and the dysfunction in the malaysian response. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Right now theres new optimism in the search for flight 370. Five weeks after the airliner disappeared, australians Prime Minister says that the search area has been cut down significantly and he is very confident that searchers are closing in on one of the two black boxes. More confusion, though, from malaysian authorities a week after the Prime Minister said that all of the passengers have been cleared. The defense minister said, quote, everyone on board remains under suspicion. Air crews are et going ready to resume their hunt for flight 370 which may have drifted hundreds of miles since the plane went down. Our analysts and supporters are standing by here in the United States as well as around the
Russia. A move the rest of the world has not recognized. It is also where those masked men took over the police headquarters. This video, all new in to the cnn newsroom, Security Forces claimed to have launched an operation to clear the prorussian protesters out. A crew in the city saw no sign of a large ukrainian force. And this video just in this afternoon. Its social media video that purcha purported toly showed protests beaten and bloody. Lets take you over to Nick Paton Walsh who is in donetsk. Reporter well, it seems as though were into a new phase here. This violence, which is effectively prorussian militants back you had up by prorussian protesters on the outskirts of the area that im standing has been escalating and people are positioning themselves to actual violence being normal currency of what is happening here. Thats prompted a response from the government which this morning was in effective. They called an anti terror operation and one security official telling us one of