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hello, everyone. thank you for joining me this saturday. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin with the frigid, final stretch before the first votes of the 2024 presidential election. freezing weather causing major disruptions at the iowa caucus campaign trail. there are now just two days until caucus-goers make their picks. today, much of iowa is under a blizzard warning. temperatures dropping into the single digits. that s cooling off what s typically a fiery, final blitz for campaigns. candidates are scaling back in-person events across the hawkeye state, even as they try to lure those still undecided voters. cnn s jeff zeleny and jessica dean are braving the elements on the campaign trail. jeff, you first. how much of an impact is the weather expected to make leading up to monday s caucuses? reporter: frederica, there is no doubt, it will impact the number of republicans who turn out to the caucuses on monday night. all campaigns are scrambling to sort of assess how i ....
degrees below zero. alex perez live in chicago. rob marciano timing this out tonight and tomorrow. also tonight, the new video just in. the u.s.-led air strikes against iranian-backed militants. the houthi rebels in yemen. the u.s. firing more than 80 tomahawk cruise missiles, dozens of targets hit. what the white house is saying tonight about concerns over a wider war. mary bruce with late reporting. new images not seen before from inside the cabin of that alaska airlines flight just moments before the door plug tore off at 16,000 feet, leaving that huge hole in the cabin. the haunting images of what it was like in the holes near that row in the plane. three days to go until the iowa caucuses and this is what they re dealing with. tonight, ron desantis still campaigning. nikki haley had to call off in-person events. donald trump isn t there but trump does lead in the polls by 30 points. a win by that margin would be historic. but it all depends on who turns out. ....
time. the windchills coming 20 to 65 degrees below zero. alex perez live in chicago. rob marciano timing this out tonight and tomorrow. also tonight, the new video just in. the u.s.-led air strikes against iranian-backed militants. the houthi rebels in yemen. the u.s. now firing more than 80 tomahawk cruise missiles, dozens of targets hit. and what the white house is saying tonight about concerns over a wider war. mary bruce with late reporting. new images not seen before from inside the cabin of that alaska airlines flight just moments after the door plug tore off at 16,000 feet, leaving that huge hole in the cabin. the haunting images of what it was like in the rows near that hole in the plane. just three days to go until the iowa caucuses, and this is what they re dealing with. tonight, ron desantis still campaigning. nikki haley had to call off in-person events. donald trump isn t there, but trump does lead in the polls by 30 points there. a win by that margin ....
the white house had been under pressure to more directly confront the iran backed houthis. they were hesitant to do to the risk of widening the risk in the middle east. the question now is will that houthis respond as they have promised to? or and is live for us at the pentagon. walk us through the logistics of this attack. this is clearly a coordinated attack, the u.s. and the uk acting in a connecticut fashion, actually hitting targets here, but with the backing of several other countries australia, canada, and the netherlands. that gives you an idea of the planning and preparation that had to go into an attack like this. there is now a briefing going on about the operation itself. we are told there were 28 sites struck, more than 150 munitions used point this is video from yemen of those strikes as they took place. again, nearly 30 sites belonging to the houthis, the iranian proxy rebel group that controls west yemen, a number of cities there. right on the coast ....
report. we have a lot to cover in our second hour of chris jansing reports, let s get to right to it. at this hour, demanding answers, nearly two weeks after that massive train derailment in eastern ohio, residents are growing more worried about the safety of the air they breathe and the water they drink. ahead of what s expected to be an emotional town hall meeting tonight, what the governor and the epa administrator said today on msnbc. and in an emotionally charged buffalo courtroom, a man lunged for the gun room just before sentencing in the mass murder in buffalo. later in the program, i ll be talking with the son of one of the victims. and nbc s shaquille brewster reporting from michigan state after the deadly shooting. trymaine lee covering protesters targeted governor ron desantis in florida, and nbc s julie on capitol hill. but first, students are set this hour to return to one of the buildings where the shooting at michigan state university happened. m ....