hello and a warm welcome to those joining us. just ahead on cnn newsroom former south carolina governor, former u.n. ambassador formally announcing her ca campaign. she s certainly willing to be the first to go up against the president. both presidents really. now some people here will have to be trdrinking bottled water. this train apparently was not considered a high hazardous material train. children were throwing up, parents were panicking. seemed uncomfortable, nervous and fidgety. so that is why i started getting suspicious. his instinct was correct. these are nine checks and the name on each of them, george santos. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is wednesday, february 15, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington and south carolina where this just a few hours nikki haley is expected to speak at campaign launch event. haley has formally entered the 2024 race for the white house. and in the months
of course the biden administration is going to be under pressure to take some kind of decisive action against this balloon that satisfies the hawks on the hill who have already been saying that the biden administration has not been harsh enough on china. it will be interesting to see how this plays out throughout the day, guys. we re going to bring you that live. anytime now the fbi could search the home of former vice president mike pence for any additional classified documents. up next i m going to speak to a bipartisan pair of congressmen who have drafted a bill to make the penalties tougher for mishandling classified material. also ahead, a killing without a known motive. a new jersey city council woman gunned down inside her own car. i will speak to a friend of hers about what they ve learned about the investigation so far. and later an italian mafia boss on the run for 16 years is finally captured. turns out he was hiding in plain sight, get this, as
retailers are trying to jump-start holidays to get consumers kind of in the groove early to start buying, teeing them up because they know that consumers are going to be getting hit with higher prices. so they want to get retailers in the mood to shell out their money earlier. victor? three weeks ahead of halloween and folks are already buying christmas trees. alison, thank you. thank you for staying with me. i m victor blackwell. jsh joe biden and world leaders are condemning russian missile strikes that targeted civilians in ukraine. [ explosions ] wow. overnight, russia unleashed a barrage of missiles in kyiv. multiple other cities too across the country, knocking out critical infrastructure. at least 11 people are dead, dozens more injured. today, putin is boasting about the attack and vows there will be more. he says this blitz is retaliation for the weekend attack on a key bridge that links annexed crimea to russia. joe biden says russia s attacks demonstrate the
overshadowing the game on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com and good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, november 30th. ali velshi is off i m christine romans along with carol costello. good morning. good morning. the dismantling the occupy l.a. camp is under way right now. hundreds of riot police moving in. more police officers than protesters by some accounts. police issued several ten-minutes warnings throughout the night, that were pretty much ignored. how much arrests so far, sandra endo? reporter: still no exact number, carol. the scene is very active. you can see cops in riot gear. also the fire department is on-scene. the bomb squad. look at this. the massive movement of hazmat suits methodically going through the park trying to get rid of all the tents and debris and everything that people have brought into the encampment. this is how it all went down. just a little after midnight these protesters heard the warning that this was bas
markets are up because of things happening around the world and action happening. that is a good thing. let s turn to los angeles where police have cleared out and shut down the camp set up by occupy protesters. they ve arrested dozens of people who still refuse to leave. about 1400 los angeles police officers moved in after midnight. the camp had been there a couple of months. 200 people arrested. police say the operation was mostly peaceful. another alleged victim speaks out about the child sex abuse allegations at syracuse university. mike lang is his name. s a former syracuse ball boy and he told cnn that the assistant coach, bernie fine, molested him. fine has denied the allegations but yet he has not been charged with any crime. he kept touching me. where? where did he touch you? in my leg and my penis. did you say something to him? yes. i said, bernie, please stop this because i m not that kind. i won t tolerate it. if you don t want me to come over he