Starts right now. Hi, ari. Hi, nicole. Ill share what we talked into the hallway late into the night. Everybodys working. Im watching. You made this great point that there are so many ways we are limited sometimes and the Taylor Swift endorsement matters to her fans and it matters to her listeners and you haveinvolved, involved and its tailor made for Girl Dads and i stewed in the hallway and ill tell the viewers, you are so poetic, taylormade and you said my synapsis are no longer firing. Id been on tv since 4 00. You know whats funny . I peaked in the Ride Home to see what folks are saying about the Coverage And Taylor swift fans were so mad, her fans are not young. No, i didnt mean theyre all wrong and i said her massive and vast base of super fans also includes my friends kids, because im old enough that my friends are buying tickets for their kids to go to Taylor Swift concerts. So its a Family Affair for just a sliver of her fandom and that is the young fans, but i am not i am a
good morning good morning, everyone. let s get started. it is wednesday, april 26th. a debt ceiling plan vote today. it s no the clear if they have the votes, right? president biden says he is going to veto the bill. sounds like they don t. also today, the taliban killed a suspected isis mastermind who was behind that 2021 suicide bombing at the kabul airport. that is when they killed 13 u.s. service members. this is according to the white house. the pentagon says the u.s. was not involved in that operation. also, the woman who says president trump raped her could take the stand today in her battery and defamation lawsuit against him. court is going to get under way in the e. jean carroll case. and the former ( gorepublica governor of arkansas is running so far in the primary. and kim kardashian says she is willing to step away from the cameras and become an attorney full time. our wide-ranging conversation coming up. cnn this morning starts right now. i like how
welcome back to cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. new this hour. dramatic new details about the unidentified object shot down by fighter jets just miles off the coast of alaska yesterday. unlike the chinese spy balloon last saturday, this demanded more immediate action yesterday. officials say it was flying much lower at 40,000 feet making it a dangerous potential threat to civilian aircraft. now we are learning u.s. military pilots who approached the craft have given conflicting accounts of what they saw. this new report coming in from cnn national security reporter natasha bertrand. this is interesting. this is kind of unusual that these pilots saw different things and that is sort of, i guess, adding to the mystery of all of this. not even the pilots were able to identify what they saw. just to take you back for a sec. on thursday the u.s. defense officials sent f-35 fighter jets to try to figure out what this object was flying around near alaska. those pilot
oh, my gosh. this is the nightclub district in seoul. it was a halloween party. it s being described in local media as a stampede. we want to show people how narrow this street is. the husband of nancy pelosi violently attacked with hammer. he kon fronted mr. pelosi shouting where is flan si. nancy. this is what happened when you convince a third of the country the election was stolen. candidates are bringing out big name surrogates. every republican politician seems obsessed with two things, owning the libs and getting donald trump s approval. we ve seen something of a momentum shift towards dr. oz. trump is still very popular in pennsylvania. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. heartbreaking scene has been unfolding all night in the south korea kran capital. 146 people died in a nightclub district. many others are injured tonight. some of the video we re getting in is graphic. it appears the people got trapped i
during halloween festivities. the husband of speaker nancy pelosi remains in the hospital recovering from a violent attack inside his home as police say this was not a random attack. plus record early voting continues across the country. in georgia, almost 1.5 million ballots have already been cast. and an 8-year-old has accomplished what no other kid his age has ever done before. climbed to the top of el capitan. you re in the cnn newsroom. we begin in the south korean capital, seoul, where a halloween celebration went terribly wrong. the death toll is now up to 149, and many others are injured. some of the video we re going to show you, it is very disturbing. many of the victims, they are young adults looking forward to their first big halloween party since covid restrictions were lifted. it appears they were trapped in a crowd crush in a packed and popular nightclub district. investigators are trying to piece together how this tragedy happened. south korea s pres