i i m wolf blilitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, trump appeals to the supreme court. the former president asking the nation s highest court to overturn colorado s ruling banning him from the ballot. his legal team says what happened on january 1 was not an inrex. also tonight on the drink of a global war after explosions killmore than 100 people in iran. the president there pointing the fing they are at the united states. is the war in the middle east about to get much bigger? and we are live tonight in iowa as nikki haley and ron desantis face some tough questions about days to go before the caucuses here. who has more momentum? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. we re live from des moines, iowa, where cnn will host back-to-back town halls tomorrow night days away from the republican caucuses. we ll have much more on that in a moment, but we have breaking news tonight at this hour. former presi
a plane, a beechcraft turbo-prop, owned by a local doctor and took it over tupelo and flying around and around and around and flight tracker is keeping track of what he s up to. hope he hasn t been making good on his threat, but he s running out of fuel in the process. charles watson is in mississippi. neil, obviously, this is a developing situation we were here in jackson, mississippi covering the water crisis when we started seeing reports of a man flying low and a plane circling a walmart this morning. we were told from tube low police they started receiving reports this morning of the low-flying plane. people were concerned with what they saw so they decided to put a call in to police. we re told by police that that pilot later got into contact with police and threatened to intentionally crash that plane into a walmart. about two hours later, we re then told the pilot moved out of the tupelo, mississippi air space and headed towards blue springs, mississippi where he be
Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Chased the plane. So that addresses what Josh Campbell was telling us a second ago. Two f15s chased the plane but were not involved in the crash. So, again, if this is to be believed, the f15s did not shoot that down that play. Lets bring in zack helm. He sat the Seatac Airport right new and joins me on the phone. Zack, i understand you saw this plane while it was airborne . I did not see the plane airborne, but i was this the terminal where it supposedly came out of. Okay. Tell me a little bit what you know, what you saw. Anything you can tell us. Well, i was in the plane, about to take off in the time that it was hijacked. In that very plane . I was not in the plane that was hijacked. I was in another plane in the Alaska Airline industry. And i did not see it take off. But i was told to get out of my plane because if there has been a hijacking. In other words, how long before departure was this . H
Midterms because trump believes its return to the headlines will help republicans win votes. There it is. Today donald trump reupping his attacks on nfl players over the kneeling. This is on a friday heading into the anniversary of course of that Charlottesville White power rally. Were not going to read the tweet tonight from the president attacking the players in last nights game because it is not particularly newsworthy and were not going to show you all the headlines it sparked. You can imagine there were many of them. The actual developments we are going to show you because that is what trump is distracting from. They include mueller pressing for a wider interview with trump than hes willing to give which would launch a Supreme Court fight, an associate of roger stone in the Grand Jury Box today and getting another roger stone aid held in contempt today for refusing to testify at all in this probe. It includes the issuance of a new subpoena to an associate of
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The latest news from around the world. Is like on takeoff, but yeah, it its burned quite a bit faster than i expected. That is the plan flying the plane. He did a loop. A very dangerous maneuver on a Turbo Prop Plane that he was up there flying. As you can hear in a strange situation. We heard a short time ago from the Chief Operating Officer for horizon air. Heres her statement. Good evening, im Constance The Horizon Chief Operating Officer. Im sorry to share with you this evening at approximately 8 00 p. M. One of our q4 airplanes made an unauthorized takeoff from seatec airport. We believe it was made by an employee and no other passengers or crew were onboard. Shortly therefore it crashed by
it was carrying somebody from the government because i had seen two f15 fighter jets behind it. Maybe its nothing big. As im jogging around a bank, i see the plane start banking right like towards the island. A little gap between the water and the land, if you look in my video. You can see the