Man, different country. The American People staring out a contest like none other. What does it all mean for voters. Plus, the president of the union reveals growing cracks within his party. A congresswoman on if biden can bridge the divide. And also how he plastic each year in New York City. Lets do this. This. We want to begin tonight with a misconception about the november election in case you hear it over and over again before we get there. As of this week we now know the 2024 General Election will be a contest between President Joe Biden and former president donald trump, a redo of the 2020 election, except it is not quite accurate. While the candidates may be the same this country has fundamentally changed in the last several years. For a brief moment the violence of january 6th united us, but it was just a brief moment. Partisanship prevailed and authoritarianism revealed itself. It has pushed approximately half of america into a complete alternate reality. Consider the fact tha
measured in feet. so much snow, some ski resorts close. cars buried, roads shut down, some people trapped in their homes as another major system barrels towards the state today. a high-profile hearing on china s threat to america, a new host panel meets in primetime, as global tensions are rising amid the spy balenciaga. and fears china will provide lethal support to russian forces in ukraine. plus, at least 32 people are dead after two trains collide head on in greece. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. while, california under blizzard warning, parts of the golden state have been buried in up to seven feet of snow over the past few days, as a freezing cold system moves inland over the u.s.. on tuesday, 23 million americans were under winter weather alerts, with many those in california. the surprise snowstorms also bringing high winds, streaming across the southwest. and more snow tracking up across the pacific nort
this train was almost 1.8 miles long and had 158 cars, 38 cars ultimately had derailed. 11 were containing hazardous material and there were some five toxic chemicals on board, including vinyl chloride. that s the one that has a lot of folks worried right now because even though it s colorless and you almost wouldn t know it or sense it or smell it, some can. and that was the one that would have normally alerted people along a path of the train carrying it that you ve got a train coming into town that s carrying it. now, there are different interpretations of the laws and requirements around that. be that as it may, norfolk southern has promised to provide whatever help the town needs. better that and million dollars has been distributed thus far and we don t know the details of that, but more money was coming. a lot of lawyers, some of whom i have been talking to, who are pondering class action suits saying that s a drop in the bucket with the obligation that norfolk souther
fema, the ckc and and health and human services are heading to east palestine as we speak today. but despite additional assurance, resident fears are mounting and mounting fast. they re still reporting illnesses, they re still suffering symptom from the air, and many are still worrying about the safety of the water that s right around them. we re going to the hear from members of the community today. we ll also hear on a separate issue from house foreign affairs committee chairman mike mccall, why he s not at all satisfied with the handling of this chinese spy craft and the three objects we ve shot down since. and former secretary of state mike pom mike pompeo, the current secretary, antony blinken, could have a chance to meet with his chinese counterpart this very weekend. will he take it, should he take it, and what if he doesn t take it? we ll ask mike pompeo himself. welcome, everybody, glad to see you, i m neil cavuto. let s go to east palestine where we ll find our luca
jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. hi, jacqui. hey, gillian, good evening to you. u.s. officials revealed today that the u.s. has not formally requested a phone call with chinese president xi jinping despite president biden saying yesterday that they expected to be talking soon. we re learning that they re hoping that secretary of state antony blinken will first be able to smooth things over and make contact with his chinese counterpart at the munich security conference next week. but, if no meeting ends up happening, it will be a telling sign of where u.s.-china relations stand. chinese spy balloon lifted from the ocean store from south carolina. quantico. we learned a lot already from the balloon by surveilling it while it was flying over the country. we re going to learn even more, we believe, by getting a look at the guts inside it. but u.s. officials are warning we may not learn much more about the three likely harmless objects sho