the definitive autopsy of washington s latest failure to govern, that is tonight on news night. good evening, i am abby philip in new york. for years, for the better part of the decade, the republican party has made the border issue number one. the demanded change, legislation, any kind of fix, and there is, in fact, a crisis on the border whether democrats want to admit it out loud or not. new laws are needed to keep up with the influx of migrants. the problem is, republicans latched onto this issue for political reasons, and there is proof of it. to explain how this border deal died the quickest of deaths, i will use the inverted pyramid to help convey the who, the what, when, where, and why republicans ended up tanking the very type of legislation that they demanded. first and foremost, the who. of course, donald trump. the wear, capitol hill. the y and the when, republicans we ll tell you they are rejecting this deal because it doesn t go far enough, even
sandra: a short time from now the white house is set to hold its first on camera briefing since former president trump s victory in iowa, the landslide victory in iowa on monday night. that historic win brings him one step closer to a rematch against president biden. and vice president kamala harris has this thought about all of it. i am scared as heck which is why i m travelling our country. we have done a lot of good work, we need to let people know who brung it to em. and so we have to do that. sandra: ok. hello and welcome, everyone, sandra smith in new york. john, great to be with you. john: good to be with you as well, what is she scared of heck of. i m john roberts in washington. this is america reports . as president biden works to improve his campaign message, his son s legal message only adding to his re-election headaches. prosecutors found traces of cocaine on a pouch hunter biden used to store his gun. sandra: he s trying to dismiss the charges filed
they are so cute! good morning and happy st david s day. it will remain very cloudy, a little bit of rain here and there but not a lot, colder into the weekend and especially next week. all of the details later in the programme. it s wednesday the 1st of march. our main story. a major search is still ongoing for a two month old baby who police fear may have come to harm in freezing conditions near brighton. the child s parents, constance marten and her partner mark gordon, are being held on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter but are refusing to give any information about their baby, as vincent mcaviney reports. monday night in north brighton. after 53 days on the run, constance marten and mark gordon are spotted on cctv walking down a residential street. while shopping in this convenience store, they were spotted by a member of the public who called 999. shortly after, they were filmed again. officers arrested the couple without their baby walking towards an allotme
scene in pennsylvania. he s been charged with four counts of first-degree murder as well as felony burglary. the officials reeling kohberger is a graduate student at washington state and had an apartment a few miles from where four university idaho students were stabbed to death. officials say mostly tight-lipped throughout the process of the investigation but are now providing the public with answers. springer is in idaho with the details,, what are you learning? they only provided some of the answers. they said at the news conference which we attended 30 minutes ago, they can t say anything what led them to the suspect. kohberger and to speck in the physical state of idaho, they cannot unseal the probable cause affidavit. for they were very vague about what they know about him and what led them to him and what tips did but they did say they made that arrest at 3:00 this morning. this was eastern pennsylvania in monroe county 100 miles north of philadelphia at his parents
just after 3:00 p.m. east coast, the eye crossed over a barrier island near ft. myers, florida. this is a live look at the satellite right now. you can see the immense size and strength mof the hurricane. the winds are 150 miles an hour. that s just shy of making this a monstrous category 5. this was the scene just ahead of landfall captured by a storm chaser in pine island, florida. these conditions are expected to worsen in the coming hours, believe it or not. more than 850,000 customers are without power across the state of florida. another major concern today is the storm surge. the storm surge is the abnormal rise of ocean water that s generated by the storm. the lee county sheriff expects that to be, quote, life changing today. that area includes ft. myers and the city of cape coral where the emergency management manager tells cnn, hurricane ian will likely be one of the worst the region has ever seen. we are covering the storm as only cnn can with our team of journalis