top of the hour this wednesday. i m jim sciutto. and i am erica hill. right now several key hearings happening on capitol hill. a pretty busy day in washington. this hour lawmakers will grill active administrator billy nolan after multiple close calls on the runway and some of the aviation incidents sparking safety concerns. also federal reserve chairman jerome powell appearing before lawmakers for the second day defending his decisions to raise interest rates in an effort to tamp down inflation. we re also watching the top u.s. intelligence officials testify, among them fbi director chris wray, the director of national intelligence avril haynes as what they see the biggest global threats facing the u.s. today. cnn s melanie is live on capitol hill today. several events and several bits of testimony on the hill today. walk us through what you re watching. yeah. a very busy day here on capitol hill. we are tracking a number of high-profile hearings, and i want to walk yo
good morning, everyone, and welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, march 4th. yes, it is already march, and i m amara walker. and i m paula reid in fur boris sanchez. it s so good to be here this morning. it s so good to have you. you look refreshed and like you had some good sleep. thanks for joining us this mor morning. professional hair and makeup. here s what we re watching this morning. it just came up. 20 seconds later, it was gone. i mean, total chaos. wind, glass breaking out everywhere. severe storm sweeps through the south. at least ten people are dead this morning, a million people without power. we re going to take a look at the damage and where that system is this morning. the white house with $4 million more for eastern ukraine. a look at bakhmut. he admitted that. he s not a murderer. alex murdaugh will spend the rest of his life in jail after being convicted of murdering his wife and son. reaction from his attorneys and what s next fo
top of the hour. a busy wednesday morning. we begin with breaking news this morning. cnn has learned that the fbi conducted a search at president biden s home in rehoboth beach, delaware. the search taking place this morning as a special counsel investigation into the president s handling of classified material picks up. mj lee is at the white house. paula, what more can you tell us about this search. was it expected? sfwlr it was absolutely expected. back when the classified documents were discovered in the office, his attorneys went and also searched his two homes. one in will mington. they say they did discover classified materials at his wilmington home, but they did not uncover any at this property. once this baim the subject of a special counsel investigation, ten days ago the fbi conducted its own search of the wilmington house. it lasted 13 hours and did uncover additional classified materials. so it was very much expected that the fbi would also go back to the reho
locations of these shootings this weekend, three people killed there, 11 wounded after multiple shooters in this case opened fire at a crowd. first, polo, begin with what we know about the shooting there in philadelphia. reporter: and, jim, unlike those cold-blooded massacres we saw play out or carried out in buffalo and texas, this started as a street brawl but it took a violent and deadly turn when some of the convince involved according to police used firearms opening fire sending people scrambling for safety. in the end three people were killed with about 11 people injured. investigators believe among the dead was one of the individuals involved in that scuffle, but, still, the police commissioner making it clear that there were also innocent bystanders among the victims and that is fueling her frustration and that of police officials in cities across the country this morning. this is the scene following another mass shooting in the united states, this time in philadelp
the scene. those serious questions amid the grief. we ll get to it. thank you all so much for being here. today, the president and his administration are making a major push to refocus on the economy and defend his handling of it. in a new opinion piece in the wall street journal, the president claims that the u.s. is in a better economic position than almost any country in the world. he credits his own policies can helping to achieve the strongest recovery in modern history. he s also facing public sentiment that s making clear americans don t feel that strength, not by a long shot. ga gallop s economic confidence reading is reporting this is likely the lowest public confidence has been in the economy since the tail end of the great recession in early 2009. biden s team is now outlining what they are calling a three-part plan to fight inflation and to turn this around. inflation will be number one, the number one agenda item when the president meets with the federal rese