this is not who we are. oh every patriotic american knows how, president biden painting the upcoming elections as the battle for the soul of the nation. more on that up. ahead leading with the breaking news in tupelo, mississippi, where a man flying a small plane is in custody, following ordeal as he left the skies saturday morning. he threatened to crash the aircraft into a walmart which led to the store becoming evacuated. the plane eventually came down. more with nbc correspondent blaine talk to us, we just heard from the officials a short time ago. whatever we learned about this individual who took this plane and perhaps as motivations here? yes, but we are learning and continuing to learn more by the hour how this unfolded and how it became unbelievably v to a peaceful and with no injuries. more about this individuals. he s 29 years old. he actually worked at that airport, in tupelo. he worked there for about a decade. he was responsible for refusing the aircraft.
Issues private and it seems like lloyd austin may have forgotten that he is now a civilian public servant, he is a member of the cabinet and details like this, i don t know if you can make a great argument that it s the public s right to know. i think it is the public s right to know, but it s definitely the president s right to know and the gang of eight members on capitol hill whose job it is to watch security and all of them were kept in the dark. so this issue is going to run and run. all right. we, again, know that he we re told at least that he has resumed his full duties. kimberly dozier, thanks for being with us. thanks. the nfl season has come down to one day and there s still plenty to play for, but one team is already celebrating after a win or go home game last night.
9:00 p.m. eastern. the nfl season has come down to one day, and there is still plenty to play for. one team is already celebrating after a win-or-go-home game last night. be sure to stay with cnn for state of the union at the top of the hour. this morning jake tapper sits down with former vice president mike pence and democratic congressman james clyburn. that s at the top of the hour right here on cnn.
Celebrating the stay with them. i spoke to one grandmother who was in the crowd, her name was christina, she lost a family member in the robb elementary school shooting. i asked her, what does it feel like on the ground now? how would you describe it? take a listen to what she shared with me. it s really sad to me because my great granddaughter was there and i lost my nephew s daughter. but i really care about all the kids. they were not supposed to go through all this. this is what i was telling sylvia. they would ve been here all of them. celebrating also. oh yes. celebrating everything. oh and, so even as the community celebrates the undefeated football team who won their first home game last night and celebrates a labor day holiday, their lives lost and the loss of this communities feeling still being
But we still fly. we re built different. we re tough. we can get through any type of adversity thrown at us. we re strong. our whole community s strong. our kids in our school are strong. we got to get through the hurt and pain and do great things. god left us here for a reason. stoneman douglas won their first home game last night by 17 points. 17. the same number as the victims killed in the school shooting there this past february. fredricka. wow. all right, thank you so much, andy scholes. we ve got much more straight ahead in the newsroom and it starts right now. hello, thank you so much for being with me. i m fredricka whitfield. we start with the obsession inside the white house. the hunt for the anonymous op-ed writer who claims to be the resistance inside the administration. president trump now calling on u.s. attorney general jeff sessions to investigate.