made an extraordinary contribution to move this country toward being a more perfect union. the film rustin is streaming now on netflix. please watch it. it s great. audra mcdonald and aml ameen, so honored to have both of you here today. thank you so much. thank you. thank you very much. that does it for us this morning. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. hello on this monday. it is 10:00 eastern. happy caucus day. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. all eyes on iowa with the official start of the 2024 election season. republican candidates all making their final appeal to iowans ahead of tonight s gop caucuses. the caucuses will be called to order at 7:00 p.m. local time, 8:00 p.m. eastern. the vote will be held by secret ballot. our final nbc news des moines register poll shows donald trump maintaining his nearly 30-point lead over the rest of the field with a tight race for second place. one major and potentially dangerous obstacle stands in t
and she s already told me that if it s snowing or ice you re going to come pick-me-up in your four-wheel drive pickup. we know what cold weather is, just have to warm the car up and put another coat on. the weather never stopped us, blizzards, cold, rain, snow, it doesn t make any difference. neil: they re a hearty bunch, the iowans. but not the airport. and there s great food. that was not meant to be and we had to stay in new york, which isn t a bad alternative, it s beautiful here, but the backdrop in midtown manhattan is slightly different than the beautiful state of iowa and des moines where we will be because we re flowing out after this show for the big event on monday and all weekend coverage. in the meantime, there s this nasty cold wave that you ve heard a lot about, not only affecting iowa. in michigan, it s one doozy of a storm and certainly record low temperatures and in grand rapids, max. it s not as cold as iowa, but chilly temperatures in the 20 s and qu
our main story: the foreign secretary, david cameron, has said the uk had no choice but to take military action against houthi targets in yemen following weeks of attacks on vessels in the red sea. the uk and the us launched dozens of strikes on thursday night after houthi fighters had caused major disruption along the shipping route. simonjones reports. they are af typhoon jets called into action on thursday to strike targets in yemen. action the foreign secretary argues that the uk had to take stock writing in the sunday telegraph, lord cameron says. and this is what the houthi militia have been doing, targeting ships off the coast of yemen. sometimes boarding them, other vessels have been attacked with drones and missiles. what the group shows although to support. today marks the 100th day of the ongoing conflict between israel and hamas. yemen has a key strategic position in the middle east, especially when it comes to global shipping. the red sea shipping route typi
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
life-threatening cold already moving into the midwest. the northeast bracing for wind chills in some places 50 below zero. rob marciano with the late forecast. was a potential mass shooting plot hod foiled by the lapd? tonight, the suspect in custody, and what they found in his 18th floor apartment over sunset boulevard. an arsenal of loaded weapons, high-powered scopes. matt gutman reporting. the new jersey councilwoman, a rising star, just 30 years old, shot and killed in her car. that community in shock tonight. police now appealing to the public for help. on the hill tonight, the vote in the house. the gop majority removing democratic representative ilhan omar from the foreign affairs committee. the congresswoman and her speech today, and what she said this was really about. rachel scott live on the hill. a dramatic day of testimony in the alex murdaugh trial. the defense grilling authorities about what they found or didn t find the day after the murders. and pros