jim acosta. i ll see you again next weekend. good night. mar-a-lago. welcome to the whole story . i m anderson cooper. last week at tokyo s haneda airport, a plane collided with a smaller aircraft. five crewmembers on the coast guard plane died. but amazingly, all 379 people on the airbus survived. they were safely evacuated before the plane was engulfed in flames. investigation into what happened is still under way. it got us thinking about utah miraculous story of survival that happened 15 years ago this month. us airways flight 1549 took off from new york s la guardia airport heading to charlotte, north carolina. there were 150 passengers on board and 5 crew members, including the pilot, chap tain chesley sully sullenberger. it should have been a quick two-hour flight. but soon after takeoff 2 plane collided with a flock of geese. the plane went down. captain sully headed towards the hudson river for an emergency landing. his decisiveness saved the lives of all 158 peop
welcome. i m paula newton. passing this budget agreement was critical. the stakes could not have been higher. president biden speaking to the nation sharing credit for the budget deal and showcasing his brand as a deal maker. we ll look at whether it will impact his approval rating. hello, south carolina. the 2024 race is full steam ahead as a parade of republican presidential candidates make their way through early voting states. the latest on the war words and what it says about that race. sblmpblts and we ll have a live report on the deadly train crash as the search for survivors continues. we do begin this hour in washington where president biden is expected to sign the debt ceiling bill in the law in the coming hours. that will end the political d drama that gripped congress and the nation for weeks. now just 48 hours ago, there were doubts that the highly contentious bill would survive in congress, but it did. last night the president spoke from the oval offic
and if so, how might that happen? we ve already seen some service-based and manufacturing jobs turned to ai in a big way. but what about other industries? can ai replace journalists or news anchors? perhaps it already has. anderson cooper: because what you just saw and heard a moment ago was not actually me. this is me, anderson cooper. anderson cooper ai: and i am an ai-generated anderson cooper. anderson cooper: that wasn t my real voice. and i never spoke the words you just heard. we asked a young student in california to create a fully end-to-end ai version of me. looks like me sounds like me and it didn t take him very long to do it. anderson cooper ai: this ai version of me was created in just a few weeks actually, with open-source tools. anderson cooper: and remember, this technology is still in its infancy. it s only going to get better and faster and more accurate, which raises all sorts of questions, like how will we know what s real? anderson cooper ai: and what is
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