lawn of the white house with more on this this incident was seems safe at the moment, but has certainly rattled otherwise quiet sunday afternoon. lucas question eric. it s not often hear sonic boom in the dc area, and that s exactly what people heard around 3 p.m. eastern time. the big boom is a sonic boom coming from an f 16 fighter jet as you mentioned launching the d, c national guard at andrews home, 100 and 13th win the reason they scrambled because there was an unknown cessna. we re told, flying a radically in the dc area ignore radio calls that have 16 was cleared for supersonic and but when the jets responded that cessna the faa says crashed outside of stanton, virginia, which is not too close to dc but certainly a strange twist, but certainly has a lot of people s attention here on a sunday afternoon in washington. there certainly is this especially at that says no 1, 72 or 1, 50, or skyline crashed. it s very odd. we don t know what may have brought that plane down.
it s kinda scary out here like the apocalypse is about to happen. it s hard to breathe. it feels like i am at a camp fire i don t want to be at and there is no s mores. good morning. it s the top of the hour. glad you are with us on cnn this morning. phil mattingly is here. good morning. there is a lot of news. a lot of important news. s mores sound good. delays at laguardia airport as thick smoke from canadian wildfires smother the east coast. where the smoke is heading this morning and which cities could see the worst of it. it is the clear sign that donald trump could be indicted over his handling of classified documents. sources telling cnn the justice department has informed the former president that he is a target in the special counsel s investigation. and van der sloot will face justice for allegedly trying to ex start natalee holloway s family. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. this is where we begin this morning with new developments in
complaining of illnesses since the chemical exposure they are. welcome to fox news live. hello, everyone. we have two other big stories that we are this moment. presidential race 2024 talk heating up as the republican candidates, they sharpen their attacks on president biden. he has not yet announced he is running for reelection. the former governor now says he is out. tensions with china rising yet again amid fears it plans to invade taiwan. beijing just announced a $230 billion increase to its military budget. house foreign affairs military on that in just a moment. eric: talking about china and the threat from beijing, but first we have live team coverage. lucas with the latest on the presidential race but first nate with the developments on ohio train derailment. it s happened again. yeah, it has. the good news is it does not appear it is a repeat of last month s toxic derailment in east palestine. they say that there is no evidence of any spillage after this most r
good morning. we begin this hour with a look at one of the most influential and controversial figures in the world today, elon musk. it was just over a year ago the spacex and tesla ceo completed his acquisition of twitter. since then, he s had no shortage of battles, we spoke about it with walter isaacson, his biographer. talk about writing at elon musk during a volatile time of his life publicly. talk about the challenges and awards as an author you got out of that. first of all, he has been volatile his whole life. as a kid, 2018, he s going just as crazy at times as you see him in the past couple of years. when i started this book, when we first started talking about it, he was the guy bringing us into electric vehicles and the only person who could send people into orbit in the u.s. i thought, good technology story. then a year into my reporting, he is secretly buying up twitter, going to hawaii in a two- to three-night binge and deciding to take it over. it became a
which brought down that country s president. hello, and welcome to bbc world news. one of president trump s signature policies has hit the buffers. his plan to build a wall along the mexican border. mr trump says he accepts he ll have to wait until at least september to get the taxpayers‘ money he needs to start construction. that cash was part of federal spending plans which democrats in congress are blocking. if it s not removed from the draft budget, that may lead to a government shutdown, coinciding with his 100th day in office. our north america editor jon sopel has more details. reporter: mr president, are you going to insist on border funding? donald trump made his fortune as a builder. now the president is staking a huge amount of political capital on the most controversial construction project of his life, a 2,000 mile long wall to separate the us from its southern neighbour, mexico. and no one can say it has come out of the blue. it was almost his campaign theme t