From the krn kcncnn live today krn center, this is cnn saturday morning. Im Brianna Keilar in for randi kaye. December flation florida. Searchers there are battling time and gravity in their attempt to recover a man swa swallowed up by a sinkhole. Well take you live to the scene. Seeing it believing. Students fed up with a crook on campus. After weevgs weeks of warn threats, americans face 85 billion in federal spending cuts. President obama siren aobama si order. What happens now . Political correspondent jim acosta is live at the white house. What happens now . Reporter a good question. Well find out at the same time. The president said in his press conference yesterday that this will not be what he called and apocalypse, but if you look at what the office of management and budget in his own administration is telling congress about these cuts, this will be serious. This is the order that the president issued last night initiating automatic acrosstheboard budget cuts. Look at the lett
Ravine after a terrible car crash. 18 month old lily survives and her entire rescue is caught right there on camera. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Hello and thanks so much for joining me. Im fredricka witfield. We start with a state of emergency declared in the South Pacific after Tropical Cyclone pam with the power of a category 5 hurricane struck the island chain nation of vanuatu. The fourth most powerful storm ever to make landfall took direct aim op the capital city of port vila. At least six people are confirmed dead. 20 others injured. And there are fears the death toll just could rise. Wind gusts up to 200 Miles Per Hour tore houses apart and knocked down trees. The australian red cross says shelter, food and water are urgently needed and an official from world vision it looks like a bomb. Joining us is unicef acting chief parker. How bad is it in your assessment . Ive seen many emergencies, fredricka, and many cyclones, typhoon typhoons. This is as bad as any. Certainly the
Back. What that does is give you an outline in the image of the object. That also tells you its manmade. Its not natural. What theyre hoping for in the next 24 hours is actually take a closer look. Maybe take photographs. And potentially bring the objects up. At least one of them out. Just for context, that 60foot object just to put it in perspective. Wing span about 120 feet wide the length also about 120 feet. Well see what happens when search gets throughout in the morning. Fred. And david, theres other situations. Locating of the wreckage. Where is it . And where are more bodies . And what happened in the first place to bring this flight down. And preceding that because now apparently were told airasia didnt have a permit to fly the route they took. Explain is why that is important or is it an aside to the various investigations . Reporter yeah fred i think at this point in the investigation, we dont know what happened to 8501 so everything has to be taken into account. What we do
Against russia, perhaps rolling back some of the sapgs that were put in place in the latter days of the Obama Administration including perhaps opening up that compound that was shuttered by president obama in maryland. But its also important to point out, fredricka, that the senate has passed a new tougher sanctions bill against russia that pass ld by a bipartisan margin in the senate, and the house has still yet to take it up. So that sanctions bill will not be in place before the president has this very important meeting with Vladimir Putin later this week. And what kind of reaction are you receiving there in washington about the president s continued, you know, tweeting, tweeting again this morning about the tv hosts . You know, something, fredricka, if there was one message that politicians from all stripes, republicans and democrats would say if they had the president in a room, it would be stop, stop talking about issues like this. But yet the president is not getting that messag
To become more free market capitalist. This is not a small mistake. This is a strategic mistake of incalculable problems. Cnns Boris Sanchez live right now from the white house. Boris, bannon was outwardly promoting President Trump. Any reaction from the white house on that effort . None yet, fred, but this is really something weve seen from steve bannon before. He has a track record of going after these republican establishment figures like senator bob corker or the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. Just last week he compared Mitch Mcconnell to julius caesar, saying people on capitol hill were searching for his brutus. This, however, is on a different level. These visual attacks on a former president fully questioning his intelligence, saying that he didnt know what he was saying. When former president bush gave that speech on thursday in which he talked about the dangers of nativism and of trade protectionism. He also talked about bigotry, being emboldened in our country. And h