Good monday morning, everyone. It is 8 00 a. M. Here on the east coast, 5 00 a. M. Out west. So happy to have Victor Blackwell with me this week. Glad to be here. Good weekend . Very good. We have a lot to get to. Breaking overnight, helicopters collide while fighting wildfires in california. Three People Killed including a fire chief. An investigation now underway. Plus, thousands of beyonce concertgoers forced to take shelter as severe storms swept through d. C. How much her tour spent to keep metro trains running. And simone biles is back. Blowing away the competition after a twoyear hiatus. This hour of cnn this morning starts right now. This is where we begin this morning. Donald trump just hours away from a crucial deadline in the 2020 election interference case. A federal judge has ordered him to respond to special counsel jack smiths request for a protective order by 5 00 today. Smith is trying to block trump from disclosing evidence and making Public Comments that could intimi
Thats tomorrow right here on the source. Thank you for joining us tonight. King charles starts now thank, you. Okay. Mr. Barak a cnn studio in New York City. Its king charles. Were not going to waste your time. No. Gayle king. And say, but you can call me gail and Charles Barkley. I probably the night cnns own van jones author and Podcaster Coleman Hughes and from the New York Times, Wesley Morris, in j work them king charles starts now let. Me go and rainy night in New York City but we dont let the rain stopped was do we turn ill pop the be here tonight that if this morning i said, i wonder what charles is going to where you were grayson, look, charles in our 20 tonight. Oh, you look right, gail. You look great deal. I dont know if you know, normally, you know, were sitting here and we dont make the news, but this past week, charles, i dont know. But youve been in the news for some comments you made on our last show. Do you remember do your which he said, i do remember what i said. Ok
Im going to keep fighting. We will restore peace through strength. Get that war settled. Its a bad war. And putin, you know, has so little respect for biden, hes throwing around nuclear. Thats nikki haley while donald trump mixed up president obama from President Biden. Thats straight ahead. Plus Kamala Harris called for a ceasefire and it comes as the Biden Administration continues to face pressure over the growing humanitarian crisis in gaza. And also ahead, well bring you the latest from capitol hill, where lawmakers faced another short deadline to avoid a partial Government Shutdown. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, march 4th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day and week with us. We have a lot to get to this morning and well begin here. For the First Time Since announcing her run for president over a year ago nikki haley has won her first primary. She won the washington, d. C. Republican primary with more than 60 of the vote. Shes now the first
go dark? if there is a strike, yeah, i think we will, yeah. they are entitled to make a living. i think it s a very reasonable demand that is being set out by the guild. these are our writers. i will stick myself in there because i am wind gust, too. they are so important to the show. they write the monologue, the meanwhile, the cold open. without these people this show would be called the late show with a guy rambling about the lord of the rings and boats for an hour. good morning. we are glad you are with us. the writers strike. what is it? 15 years? 2007. hollywood writers, 11,000 plus of them on strike this morning. coming up, what it means for late night, your favorite shows and movies in production right now. house speaker kevin mccarthy has accepted president biden s invitation to meet next week about the debt limit after a new and urgent warning from the treasury secretary janet yellen. and three stabbings in less than a week in college town. uc da
just ahead, epic snowfall in california, measured in feet. so much snow, some ski resorts closed. cars buried, roads shut down, some people trapped in their homes as another major system barrels towards the state today. millions of americans will wake up this morning without a pandemic era benefit that helped them buy groceries, even as inflation has caused food prices to soar. plus at least three dozen people are dead after two trains collide head-on in greece. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks for being with us. well, california under blizzard warning. parts of the gelden state have been buried in up to 7 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 of those in california. the surprise snowstorms are also bringing high winds streaming across the southwest, and more snow tracking up across the pacific northwes