classes resume at a virginia elementary school for the first time since a first grader shot his teacher. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans this monday morning, secretary of state antony blinken in egypt this morning, the first leg of his three-day tour of the middle east. his visit coming at a time when violence is flaring between israelis and palestinians. iran and ukraine also high on the agenda as blinken prepares to leave cairo for israel where prime minister benjamin netanyahu new right wing government is causing turbulence at home and abroad. nic robertson has the latest from jerusalem. what is blinken hoping to accomplish on this visit? reporter: i think the best hope here of people on both sides, palestinians and israelis is that he can lower the tensions at the moment. how does he do that? well, he s very likely to appeal to prime minister netanyahu to reconsider some of his cabinet s decisions over the weekend o
hello and welcome. coming to you live from studio 4 at the cnn center in atlanta, i m michael holmes. appreciate your company. coming up on cnn newsroom i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. the u.s. has shot down a suspected chinese spy balloon after it traveled across america for days. recovery efforts now under way. china says the balloon entered u.s. air space by accident, heightening already tense relations between washington and beijing. live in hong kong with the latest from there. it s not the only one. the pentagon says a second balloon is flying over latin america. a report ahead. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. we br to show you the dramatic moment a u.s. sidewinder missile took out the suspected chinese spy balloon that has caused so much havoc this week. the balloon was so high up, nearly 12 miles or 20 kilometers, that it took a few seconds for the shockwave to reach the grou
search teams desperately digging through the earthquake rubble and praying for miracles. plus former vice president subpoenaed, what could mike pence tell the special counsel about trump and january 6. and the fight over america s social safety net, both sides ignoring the cold hard truth, not touching it is not an option. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is early start. and we begin with the earthquake disaster in turkey and syria where they are clinging to hope that survivors can still be found alive but that hope fading with each passing hour. but there are miraculous stories. overnight two teenage sisters were pulled from the rubble. and the staggers death toll now approaching 22,000, the number of injured in these two countries near 80,000. and salma abdelaziz is live in istanbul. and the story of the sisters is a heartwarming story amid all the tragedy. and now a secondary tragedy, many are forced in to the freezing cold. what i
transportation secretary pete buttigieg and breaking down tr ch transcripts from the january 6th investigation. welcome to the viewers in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer. you re the situation room. > let s get to the breaking news. significant developments involving the united states supreme court decision and impact on the migrant surge at the border. cnn priscilla alvarez is following the story here the situation room. tell me more about this important ruling. the supreme court shar sayin title 42 in effect since march 2020 will e remain in effect including the court hearing arg mtds in the next session in february of 2023. now, this is a order that summit mittly a victory for republican led states to stop the termination of the authority. what it means on the ground, border officials will be able to continue to expel migrants back to mexico or their native countries for the next several months. the administration has been preparing for this
viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with the buffalo bills revealing just a short time ago what happened to safety damar hamlin who collapsed during last night s game in cincinnati. the team says hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest on the field. he remains in critical condition. right now here s a live picture outside cincinnati s uc medical center where he is being treated this hour. carolyn manno has the story. reporter: one important note is that his heart was restored on the field. you saw the startling, chilling images of cpr right there. of all of the nfl players around him. he s being administered cpr. he was transferred to that hospital. right now he s sedated and still in critical condition. they released a statement a couple of hours ago. i don t anticipate they will add to that. i think that s all we re going to hear from now. the hospital is expecting to update us on his condition but, again, i don t think th