good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. i m a.m. a.m. a.m. ra walker. all eyes on the sky as this chinese sky balloon just continueses drifting. where it s expected to go and why the white house has not yet ruled out shooting it down. and a brutals blast of dangerously cold air is sweeping across the northeast right now. in some places it will feel like 50 to 60 degrees below 0. where we re seeing the cold air and tell you when it s going to start to warm up. plus police in new jersey searching for the person who murdered a local councilwoman outside of her home. what local officials are saying about that case. plus the usda rolling out new changes for school lunches. the proposes they are changing, just ahead on cnn this morning. welcome to the weekend. saturday, february 4th, we reesht you joining us for a lot of you out there, it is freezing cold outside, yobd beyond treezing cold. we re going to get to that in a moment. we start with this balloo
good tuesday morning, i m erica hill. and i m jim sciutto. some major news just in on your money. new key inflation data finds that americans overall are paying less for items. still, however, some sticker shock out there. will the fed now pause its ongoing rate hikes? we re also closely watching bank crisis fears following the sudden collapse of two regional banks. markets open soon. we will look at where things stand today. plus, loyalty loss. former president trump taking his first stage in iowa since announcing his third bid for the white house, sharpening his 2024 attacks. why he says he regrets ever endorsing florida governor ron desantis. and state of emergency in parts of new england this morning. a dangerous nor easter slamming the region with heavy snow, coastal flooding, powerful winds possible. boy, looks dangerous. that is one big storm. we do want to begin with your money. banking concerns across the nation, we have priscilla alvarez, lauren fox and chri
you understand what it s actually worth. then they auction it to their network of professional buyers get more for your jewelry with worthy .com. good morning, everyone we do begin with breaking news this morning. you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with the catastrophic destruction and rising death toll from the most recent outbreak of tornadoes here in the u. s. more than 50. tornadoes have been reported in the south of midwest. beginning yesterday afternoon. this afternoon, the death toll more than doubled. 21 people are now confirmed killed by these storms. this is do video we re receiving from when arkansas, one of the many devastated communities. take a look at this video. it s just heartbreaking. there are reports of at least a dozen tornadoes touching down in that state. the national guard in arkansas, also rolling in to help and in northern illinois. one of the storm related deaths came during a crowded concert last night
that overdoses can be prevented . our next guest is working to do just that. theo chris wicki joins us now he s the founder and ceo of and overdose, a nonprofit working to end overdose deaths. theo i mean, this is a huge milestone. first of all, thanks for being with us . we appreciate it. i mean, as someone who was on the front lines of this epidemic. how big of a deal is this? how many lives could this save? this is a huge win. and jim thank you for having us. uh we re really we re really grateful for this, um, for the harm reduction community . this means that we re going to be able to get more naloxone out all across the country. uh the rx status was a huge barrier, and now we re gonna see an uptick in life saving procedures throughout the us and obviously you see drug use at concerts and music festivals, and your organization has teamed up with the nation s leading electronic music festival organizer if i have that right to provide harm reduction resources at these events, um, mig
11, 2025, so two years. reporter: about an hour north of the border this man helps lead the refugee center in montreal. a dramatic increase from the numbers we are used to seeing historically in canada. reporter: a nonprofit working with the government to help guide asylums through the process. january saw an increase from december, february saw an increase from january. reporter: government figures show a record 39,000 unauthorized entries into quebec into the u.s. in 2022, nearly all according to experts entered through rocks and road. in january alone crossings here neared 5,000, compare that to more than 2,300 a year before. u.s. and canadian officials are discussing potential changes to the safe third country agreement, a loophole in that treaty is incent stridesing migrants crossing from the u.s. to use rocks and road. the way to close rocks and road is to renegotiate the safe third country agreement with the united states, which is something that we ve been working o