Escape. Also breaking overnight, ohio voters delivering a major win for Abortion Rights in a special election. Does it spell trouble for republicans in 2024 . And lawyers for donald trump and the Special Counsel due back in court friday. Their fight over what trump can and cannot talk about as the former president strikes a defiant tone on the trail. I will talk about it. I will. Theyre not taking away my First Amendment right. Good morning, its great to have you with us. Its 10 00 eastern. Im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york. We begin with a win for Abortion Rights advocates that could have major implications for 2024. Voters in ohio overwhelmingly defeated a gopbacked Ballot Measure that would have made it all but impossible to enshrine Abortion Rights in the state constitution come november. Now, ohio was the seventh state to put Abortion Rights on the line. 14 months since the Supreme Court struck down roe v. Wade and the seventh to back Abortion Rights. Were talking a clean swe
a good saturday morning to you. it is saturday, february 4th, you re live in the cnn newsroom, thanks for joining us so much for sharing part of your saturday morning with us. we begin with an eye toward the sky. we re getting new reports about the location of that chinese spy balloon that has been drifting across the country. according to reports, it has been spotted over north carolina an officials say it could move off the east coast and out over the ocean in a matter of hours. and as you would imagine, the balloon is raising national security concerns, and it is adding to the tension between washington and beijing. it was people on the ground in montana who spotted the balloon as it passed overhead. that thing is not the moon. the moon is right there. this thing is so weird. it is definitely moving. the context and the timing of this are really important. the secretary of state antony blinken called it an irresponsible act by china. keep in mind, this comes just day
hovering over the northern u.s. plus, do you know what negative 60 degrees feels like? well, tens of millions from the northern plains to new england are under alerts for what could be some of the coldest windchills in a generation. and an nbc news exclusive, new reporting on why more than half a million migrants living in the u.s. are in legal limbo. migrants telling us quote, i couldn t believe what i was seeing. fresh outcry over another police killing. a double amputee missing both his legs trying to run from police. in just minutes, president biden expected to address those huge numbers in the latest jobs report released just this morning. what those numbers mean for our economy. we begin this hour with the pentagon on alert. nbc news was first to report that the u.s. is monitoring a suspected chinese surveillance balloon that has been hovering over the northern u.s. a witness in billings, montana, captured this footage on wednesday the same day the pentagon sa
chinese surveillance balloon that flew over montana. it comes as secretary antony blinken makes his first trip to beijing. plus, a new estimate on the number of russian soldiers who have died in ukraine. it could show how desperate vladimir putin has become in this nearly year-long war. meteorologists are predicting the worst wind chills in decades in the northeast this weekend. look at that. it could get as low as negative 50 in some parts. negative 50? the times said yesterday that the top of mount washington, negative 100, willie. now, you and i, of course, have done that in some of our you know, willie and i, sometimes we ve done the antarctica thing. we do that extreme, like, mountain climbing stuff. i forget what you call it. little rough for you. minus 100, willie. yeah, well, when we summited norway excuse me summited everest, it got close to that cold. thank god there were the sherpas who helped us get up there. it gets breezy up there, too. it
seems a little odd that the black kid are there with a white santa. it s all good. to each his own. you was scared of santa. he s got the cutest things. you can t really see my phone. there s a black santa and white santa stocking that we found. ryan, you re the best. thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. so glad that you could join us this morning on the eve before the eve of christmas. good morning, everyone. poppy and kaitlan are off and i m here with the lovely and smart and talented sara seidner. i was wondering where you were going with that but you re good. we re going to catch you up on the five big stories this morning. more than half the population is under winter storm and wind chill alerts as a major storm moves across the country. it s not like a snow day when you were a kid. this is serious stuff. please take this storm extremely seriously. more than 820,000 power customers are in the dark, thousands of flights have been cancel