general keane i m not sure if you can see this. we have a live shot now of this balloon going down. this balance has been taken down. that is great. it is falling from the sky. reporter: air force f-22 fighter jet shot down the fighter plane that floated down across the u.s. last week. shortly after president biden claimed he wanted to shoot down the balloon earlier was overruled. president biden: on wednesday i briefed on the balloon i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down as soon as possible without doing damage to anyone on the ground. they decided to do that when it got over water, within the 12-mile limit. reporter: the 12-mile limit biden mentioned that the coastal states right to claim 12 miles of nautical ocean as their territory. closing the airspace around the balloon, closing air traffic from wilmington, myrtle beach and charleston airport while the balloon was shot down. militariliry official said it was the first chancer to target over the balloon while f
print we are the back tomorrow night at 5:00 p.m. eastern, good night. the videos are disturbing. their names are well known. traffic stops where drivers pay the ultimate price. quick shots fired subject is down too. in a system fraught with bias. with a black man four times more likely that a white man to be searched. how did we get here? are you training traffic stops or the most dangerous things that could happen? you are because they actually are. these stops can exact a huge cost on the black community. physically. what has is done to you? i can only move my arm this far for. emotionally. it is the humiliation and financially. how much money have you paid in fines and fees? over 10,000 dollars. tonight the problem and some controversial reforms. i don t believe you need somebody with the gun to pull someone over in a traffic stop. unarmed citizens during traffic stops. horrible idea. cnn special report, traffic stop dangerous encounters.
super bowl and neal tee de gras die tyson talks about pop culture. and the next hour of cnn this morning starts right now. good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i m boris sanchez. and i m amara walker. all eyes are on the sky this morning as the chinese surveillance balloon continues to drift over the u.s. where it is expected to go and why the white house hasn t ruled out shooting it down. plus a brutal blast of dangerously cold air sweeping across the northeast. and some places it will feel like 50 to 60 grows below zero. we ll tell you where that is and when things might finally start to warm up. and a developing story out of ohio, hundreds of firefighters are on the scene of a train derailment there. you can see the huge fireball lighting up the night sky. the mayor of that town is joining us with an update. and new development in a strange case out of dallas, it has been a weird few weeks for the dallas zoo and now a man has been arrested after police sa
richard engel is in ukraine as the country prepares to mark one year of war. reports tonight that donald trump s daughter ivanka and son-in-law jared kushner have been subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating january 6th. it comes as mr. trump visits the site of a toxic train derailment in ohio. how he attacked the biden administration s response. will alex murdaugh take the stand at his double murder trial? what his attorneys signaled today. the newly revealed image taken by an american pilot of that chinese spy balloon as it overflew the u.s. and the surprise in space. new images of distant galaxies captured by the webb telescope. why they left scientists stunned. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. it is massive, it is powerful, it is historic. tonight much of the northern half of the country is feeling at least some of the effects of that coast-to-coast storm with more than 100 million people under winter alerts, wind a
our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world, i m bianca nobilo. i m max foster joining you from london. just ahead on cnn newsroom. when that tape comes out tomorrow, it s going to be horrific. this evil is russian aggression, can and should be stopped only with adequate weapons. the terrorist state will not understand anything else. i m not sure the news could have been any better. economic growth is up, stronger than experts expected. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, january 27th. 9 a.m. here in london. 3 a.m. in memphis, tennessee. that s where a vigil was held last night for 23-year-old tyre nichols. he died after a violent altercation with five memphis police officers. tyre nichols, a lifelong skateboarder, a vigil was held at a skate park. his mother warned of the graphic nature of the video that will be made public today. have a listen. i d like to say to