good evening, everyone. thanks for tuning in i m alison camerota. welcome to cnn tonight. let s start with the culture wars. in the past 24 hours the battlefield has been noisy. more battles about books in the classroom, drama over drag shows, and gaslighting about gas stoves. here is florida governor ron desantis this morning surrounded by and taking urgent action to protect gas stoves. they are trying to take away your gas stove. they are coming for any little thing in your life that they can do, and i think what they want to be able to do is they ultimately want to control the amount of energy you consume. well, it turns 92% of floridians use electric stoves, but let s not let that get in the way. what is this really about? well, governor sarah huckabee sanders spelled it out. we are under attack in a left wing culture war we didn t start and never wanted to fight. sure seems like some people do want this fight. but what s the truth about culture war rhetoric? we
nuclear fuel and radioactive waste at the department of britgy. britain identifies as non binary and gender fluid. , does how does he talk aboute woul holding the bar really high? you know, he d still be there if they didn t have thatr this security footage, by the way. well, for this administration,ea it s failure as far as the eye can see. yet zero accountability.io none still no senior officials ,no cabinet official fired,. not alejandro. mat them all in my caucus at dhs, notyo leave it to boot. a judge at the department ofof transportation, not the queen of transitory inflation, janetey yellen, at treasury.. so the only logical conclusions at this point can be that america s decline is theirco was agenda. now, biden s balloon fiasc ao ws a national embarrassment fors the united states at every turn. and it remindsthe us that weoking really don t have military leaders who are looking out foor us . even wheustin generals austin and molly blew the afghanistano withdrawa
good monday morning. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill. rescuers in turkey and syria are frantically searching for survivors at a earthquake struck the border this morning. that of course is one of the building that is the moment that you can see when the 9.2 earthquake struck this morning and it collapsed into rubble. more than 2,300 people have been reported dead. and the death toll continues to rise, and it is rising exponentially. in this video, the moment that a child was pulled from debris in northwest syria, and that region is also dealing with the impact of heavy brutal civil war there. one rescue there, and so many others feared for here. and now, the chinese surveillance balloon is shot down by an f-22 this weekend, and the pentagon is pushing back against china s threat to reserve the right to use necessary means for what it is calling the similar means around china, and we are told that the u.s. does not conduct similar flights around china, and we will have m
balloon, the pentagon refusing to say whether they re considering shooting down what sure looks like a chinese fly balloon, officials telling cnn they haven t ruled it out either, meanwhile the balloon the size, by the way of three school buss is meandering along thousands of feet up in the sky. it was spotted twice on wednesday over montana and twice missouri today including in columbia missouri this very afternoon, where this exclusive footage was shot. now, the flying about 60,000 feet up 18,000 feet higher than a commercial airplane and the pentagon said there s another chinese spy balloon currently somewhere over latin america. we ll talk about what the heck is going on in the skies tonight here to help us figure this out. cnn tom foreman and animal coldnal layton, let me begin with you, tom at the magic wall, where has this balloon been and where is it going. if we trust what the military thinks about it where it s been was china, flying coming in over canada and drif
world, i m u.s. officials are tracking a suspected chinese spy balloon that s moving towards the east coast. we ll hear how beijing is trying to explain how it ended up floating above the united states. thunder, snow, fierce winds and temperatures reaching triple digits below zero. all part of the arctic blast that s hitting the u.s. northeast this weekend, and millions will feel it. meanwhile, in ukraine there are signs that russian troops are preparing for a spring military offensive. this is cnn newsroom, with kim brunhubber. a suspected chinese spy balloon will finally leave u.s. air space in a couple of days or could be sooner. some new weather models show the winds pushing it over the atlantic as early as today. the pentagon has been closely tracking the object and it s carrying a large payload of surveillance gear. military officials are advising against shooting it down now. china that has apologized and said the balloon entered u.s. air space by accident. bei