already. the blizzard conditions and now the tornado threat as we go into the night. more than 40 states on alert. heavy snow, strong winds, and flooding, and then the east gets hit tomorrow. rob marciano standing by to time this out. also, the breaking news from fort worth. those images just coming in, investigating an explosion. multiple injuries already reported tonight. they are going from room to room in that hotel, searching for possible victims. first responders at the scene. matt rivers in texas for us. the new discovery after the terrifying moments onboard that passenger jet, when part of the door ripped off at 16,000 feet. cell phones sucked out of the cabin. a teenager s t-shirt ripped off. a key piece of the plane found in a backyard in oregon. now, we learned what was known about that plane a month ago and what inspections have just revealed tonight. several other passenger planes affected, and gio benitez reporting. stunning new details about the effort to
right now on early start, the new poll releasing this very minute showing nikki haley is closing the gap on donald trump in one early primary state. plus the republican front runner planning to be in court just hours from now while his lawyers argue he s immune from prosecution. hi, everyone. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. good to see all of you. i m omar jimenez in for kasie hunt. it is tuesday, january 9th. we are we have a lot of news to get to. let s get going. we want to start with 5:00 a.m. in washington. we have a brand new cnn poll for you all. that poll shows donald trump s lead narrowing as nikki haley surges. the former president now at 39% of likely gop primary voters with haley just 7 points behind at 32%. the rest of the field hovers at least 20 points further back in the poll taken just this week. chris christie is at 12% fo followed by vivek ramaswamy and ron desantis in single digits. now trump is roughly where he was
and countries around the world to address that. post counterisis campaign you know, the active operations when isis was defeated essentially in syria, what we ve seen is isis essentially look to we have been watching a news conference at the pentagon regarding defense secretary lloyd austin. the pentagon said moments ago the defense secretary has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and that was the surgery he had in december and it was why he was back in the hospital for complications late december into the new year. they re explaining why there was a breakdown in communication. why the white house was not informed. saying repeatedly that they have to do better. joining us now from outside the white house is aaron gillcrist. in talking about breakdown and the timeline he have we can put up on the screen e timeline of when he was in the . when he started eing complication when he went back into the ital. january 4th is when they told the white house he was inhe for severe
already. the blizzard conditions and now the tornado threat as we go into the night. more than 40 states on alert. heavy snow, strong winds and flooding. and then, the east gets hit tomorrow. rob marciano standing by to time this out. also the breaking news from forth worth. those images just coming in, investigating an explosion. multiple injuries already reported tonight. they are going from room to room in that hotel, searching for possible victims. first responders at the scene. matt rivers in texas for us. the new discovery after the terrifying moments onboard that passenger jet, when part of the door ripped off at 16,000 feet. cell phones sucked out of the cabin. a teenager s t-shirt ripped off. a key piece of the plane found in a backyard in oregon. now, we learned what was known about that plane a month ago. and what inspections have just revealed tonight. several other passenger planes effected. and good owe benitez reporting. stunning new details about the e
we have a lot to get to this morning, including donald trump formally taking his fight to remain on colorado s ballot to the supreme court. we ll tell you what his lawyers are arguing and why the former president is concerned about how the justices may rule. plus, back in 2020, donald trump hired an expert to prove election fraud. instead, that person found the 2020 election was not stolen. we re going to speak with that expert about what his data firm actually uncovered. also ahead, we ll dig into the ultimatum from house republicans following their visit to the southern border. do they want a deal? along with willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. and msnbc host jen psaki. she s a former white house press secretary. good to have you all on board this morning. willie? let s start in colorado. former president trump s legal team officially has petitioned the supreme court to overturn last month s co