Look at the us capitol. Beautiful evening, actually, here in washington as we jue just moments awas. Capity fm President Biden and tonights state of the Union Address. Y frompresidengood evening from. Im brad there. Good evening, everybody. Im martha maccallum. Any moment now President Biden will be announced on the house floor with the familiar callilia of the house sergeant of arms. He will make his way down cate, greeted by lawmakers all along the way. There you see mitt romney talking to joe awmakers manchin. Seems like theyre pretty engaged in some conversation ses that happens on the sidelines as you have a lot of lawmakersnh waiting a long time in the chamber. A lot of folkse chambe, you knos expressing themselves different ways. Republicans, some of the more in buttons, die of about the bo. Others dressed in white on the democratic sidemocratic in solidarity. Lets set the stage now with White House Correspondent I Peter Doocy with a preview of the president s speech. Good eveni
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debris from a suspicious chinese spy balloon. what we know, and how it could affect the relations between the u.s. and china. plus, the biggest changes to the primary vote that we ve seen in decades. what it means for 2024. on the other side of the aisle, ron desantis has a culture war in florida. hoping that fear in anger could be a winning mix for him and republicans. and i will ask our legal experts about the former president s finance guy. potentially facing more charges. this is american voices! we begin this hour with breaking news. experts have recovered the debris from the suspected chinese spy balloon caught underway. people watch from the south carolina coast. their phones at the ready of course. as u.s. fighter jets downed the balloon. the debris field is reportedly seven miles wide. the balloon had been slowly making its way across the u.s. for several days. president biden said he ordered the balloon shut down earlier this week, on wednesday. and explaine
nashville. as i said, the students go down to 3 years old up to sixth grade and we re waiting to get more information. they said, you know, inside of this hour, we ll learn more. stay with us. we ll get another update. i would ascertain that they have information that they are almost ready to reveal and they re likely making sure that everyone has been notified before they reveal this other information. we learned quite a bit here about the suspect in this case. a 28-year-old white woman who they believe went to the school. we ll get more information on that. they said she had two assault-type rifles and a handgun with her. she was killed on the scene of this horrific killing at this beautiful christian school that is up a long windy road. it s not this easy to get into this complex if you take a look at it from the other side. it s up a long windy road. he also said interestingly that her car, her vehicle, the vehicle they found nearby, gave us a clue to what she was. i don
we are learning new details about the tragedy in connecticut. two officers were killed in the third critically wounded and what police believe was an ambush following a phone 891 call for help. critics say anti- police rhetoric is only making things more dangerous for the men and women in blue who risk their lives daily to keep us safe. correct alexis mcadams is live in new york city which much more on this tragedy. what a shocking thing to happen in connecticut. how many people in that committee are grieving the loss of the families who have to say goodbye to their loved ones but across the country though crime against police is up. and up a lot for the national fraternal order of police funding at all on failed policies and anti- police rhetoric. this comes as crime is more the top priorities for voters right now. just a sense of monday at least 12 police officers have been shot. four of them killed. you can see right there on the map the shootings happened in half a doze