the union. mom and baby are doing great and both are gorgeous. our coverage continues with wolf blitzer in the situation room. happening now, donald trump and nikki haley are making final appeals in new hampshire with the republican presidential race now a two-person showdown. and the first primary votes just hours away. we re following the candidates and the contest that could effectively decide the gop nomination. plus, a cnn exclusive interview with vice president kamala harris. she is speaking out about the biden campaign, throats democracy and whether she s personally worried about a repeat of violence on january 6th. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first, the countdown to the high stakes new hampshire primary. the granite state now holding extraordinary power to speed or slow donald trump s march to the republican presidential nomination. cnn s jeff zeleny has more from salem, new
world championship match. hello, i m mark lobel. here in the uk the veteran tv presenter phillip schofield is to step down from the programme this morning with immediate effect after more than 20 years on the itv programme, thatis that is according to the broadcaster. the 61 year old tv presenter will not return to co host the morning talk show with holly willoughby, with thursday s show being his last. in an statement, itv said that holly willoughby will remain on this morning and will co present with members of the this morning family. despite his departure from this morning, phillip schofield will continue to present peak time shows for itv. this is the statement mr schofield has posted on his instagram a short time ago: his long time co host, holly willoughby, posted a statement on instagram, saying: with more on this, we canjoin robin brant in the newsroom. give us a contact for what has happened here. give us a contact for what has ha ened here. ~ . , . ., happened
airlines 777 jet crossed a runway as a smaller cargo plane was landing. and then days before that, an american airlines flight at jfk crossed in front of a delta plane trying to take off. and then there is the near miss in austin, where a fedex plane almost landed on top of a southwest flight. i want to bring in our aviation expert david soucie, who has tried to make me feel better about these things. but david, i m starting to think these are not all anomalies. it s going to feel like there s one of these a week that we report on. it seems like they are a lot more often. and that s only because they are more often right now. if you look at the traffic that s going on in boston right now, boston is at 12,000 flights in january 2021. and now it s come up to 29,000 into january 2023. so, it s nearly three times as much traffic. and they re spacing the airplanes a lot closer together to try to get them out faster. this particular one, alisyn, to make you feel more comfortable
several hours. you can see it on screen. you can see the unpredictable path, very unsettling for local authorities in the area. the suspect was taken into custody some five hours later. nadia romero has been tracking this all day for us. also with us is cnn transportation analyst mary sciavo. what are we learning about the suspect and how all of this came to an end? and thank goodness it did, nadia. reporter: thank goodness it came to the end it did, jim. that s what we re hearing from the mayor of tupelo. saying he was woken up early this morning by police and fire and he said usually when he gets those calls it s always something bad so he feared the worst, that this pilot would go through with his initial threat, the threat he made was he was going to take that stolen aircraft and crash it into a walmart there in tupelo. that s when authorities evacuated the walmart, they blocked off the streets nearby just awaiting that threat to play out. we know it did not. we know th
president hopes to as the president tries of add this this bill to the suddenly bill to the stunningly good jobs numbers good jobs at which numbers as wet might is being shape up to be the best called the best week of his presidency so far. week of his presidency that s for. plus, just days after plus just days after a majority help clear majority firm in state of of indiana abortion rights, the has taken a major step to state of indiana has taken a major step to restrict those rights. i will talk to the women who spearheaded the kansas effort. we re first gonna start in washington, senators have taken to the floor to begin that rare saturday session where democrats hope to pass that spending package. some republican senators promised to create some problems today to elongate the process, democrats appear to be a united front, with senator brian schatz tweeting out that all 50 democrats will vote amendments on the floor today to ensure the passage of the package. this coming