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
floating above the continental united states, and we don t know what data it s collecting. you can see it right there on your screen and it s visable to people on the ground in montana. at least it has been since wednesday. today beijing confirmed it is theirs, claiming it is a, quote, unquote, civilian research air ship that went off course, but minutes ago, the pentagon flatly rejected that claim, calling it a surveillance balloon. secretary of state antony blinken s upcoming trip to china has now been postponed. the pro vocative move is inflaming a u.s.-china relationship already on the brink with tensions over everything from taiwan to tiktok. cnn s natasha bertrand is here to break it all down for us. natasha, there is so much to talk about here. so let s start at the beginning. what do we know about this balloon? yeah. so here, just to get a sense for the scale of this thing, this is the balloon, and what we know about it is that it is the size of about three busses.
it led to the firing of five memphis police officers and two fire department employees. question is there it finally show us what happened when 29-year-old tyre nichols was pulled over by police and three day later was dead after what an independent autopsy calls extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating. and will anybody face any charges? plus. some teachers in florida locking down every book in their classroom libraries. why? out of fear they could face criminal charges if get this, they let kids read books. it hasn t been preapproved some new state law. that s right. how books in a classroom could suddenly just break the law. and there was a speech on house floor tonight like nothing ever happened before. it was written by an artificial intelligence program, we told you about that last night. it s called chat gp t. and tonight, congressman jake will be here to tell us how he used it to write this speech on the floor. a lot to cover tonight i want to begin with the conc
officers in this encounter shouted at least 71 commands. 71 commands, in approximately a 13-minute period. i want to play a clip frankly from that initial stop for a moment. listen to this. i didn t do anything. turn your ass around don t do that. ok? get on the fing ground. i ll tase your ass. i m on the ground. i ll tase you. get off the ground. . just hearing this yet again, frankly, it is anxiety producings at the the least. and i wonder about this the screaming, the confusion that must have ensued the disorienting nature, how disorienting to receive the com the initial stop. know what he was getting pulled over for, i went to the police academy we were trained not to do that. i ll let law enforcement analyst get to the nuts and bolts when you go to the police academy they struck you to have one individual interacting with that with that person, she don t that you don t have those conflicting type of commands, because people know what to do and the more it e
a warm welcome to our r viewers joining us from all the around the world. just ahea j just ahead >frigid temperatures across the nation. and whites got canceled. it was a police legend and we have to call out the severity. everybody should be immediately terminated. somehow this attack getting through multiple lines of security to hit a mosque that is typically attended by members of law enforcement. it is particularly abhorrent that such an attack occurred at a place of worship. live there london, this is cnn news room with max moss ter and bianca and a half lowe. and about 40 million people from texas to virginia will be dangerous winter conditions. the multistate storm stretches about 1500 miles, and it will bring snow, ice and below freezing temperatures and will come in multiple ways today into wednesday. arkansas has already declared a state of emergency and activated the national guard this and it is pace of the hazardous road conditions. flights have