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
across the country. i m fredricka whitfield. thanks so much for being with me today. jim acosta is next. you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with new details on president biden s classified documents saga. the president s special counsel confirming that several additional pages with classified material were discovered at biden s wilmington home thursday evening. the documents in addition to ten documents discovered in a biden affiliated think tank. a small closet to the left of biden s desk and storage spaces in the adowning conference room including top-secret material and dealt with matters involving ukraine, iran and the united kingdom. also a memo from biden to then president obama as well as two briefing memos prepared for biden s phone calls with british prime minister and president of the european council. all under investigation. arlette saenz has more. what more can you tell us? reporter: jim, so many twists and turns in th
An endangered hooded vulture escaped from a zoo aviary in the San Francisco Bay Area that was destroyed after a massive tree fell on it during a storm. The male hooded vulture and five other exotic birds, including two pied crows and three superb starlings, flew out from the aviary at the Oakland Zoo on Tuesday amid a wind-packed storm that pummeled the Bay Area, zoo spokeswoman Erin Dogan said.
animal cruelty as well as several burglary charges. so far investigators here say he is connected to the theft of those two tamarin monkeys, which were found in an abandoned house several miles away from here. and they are safe, and currently being quarantined. as well as the cuts to the enclosure of a clouded leopard. if you remember, that s how this story really sprang to national attention, that clouded leopard was able to escape. it never left the zoo grounds. it was actually very close by to its enclosure when zoo officials found the animal. and then there was a cut to an enclosure of some langer monkeys. none of those animals ever escaped but it did create the sense here that there was something nefarious going on because the cuts to those cages were deliberate and suspicious, officials said, at the time. there was also been the death of a rare vulture that was found with a wound. so far investigators say that this 24-year-old suspect has not