He was abducted thursday morning while serving in their Community Near the capital of haiti. I want to bring in cnn National Correspondent athena jones for the latest on this. What are officialsg about this alleged abduction . Reporter hi, frederica. We know u. S. Authorities are working with our haitian counterparts and agencies to try to resolve this crisis. We dont know or it is unclear who is responsible for this kidnapping and whether theyve made any demands, whether for ransom or anything else. We do have a statement from the christian humanitarian organizationriginally from New Hampshire that alex was working for. Ey say alex is a deeply comp compassionate person. She has worked tirelessly to bring relief to the suffering of people of haiti in the name of jesus. Their highest priority is to return safely alex and her child. They want to limit the information they provided. They say it happened thursday morning at the campus near the capitol of portauprince. The context of all of
Thanks britley ritz for that. Sorry, our lights are a little bright right there. Its almost like being outside, very bright. Im fredricka whitfield, good to see you. We begin this hour with the overseas kidnapping of an american nurse and her child. Alex was reportedly abducted thursday morning while serving in their Community Ministry in haiti. The two were taken from the organizations campus near portauprince. She is married to the director of the christian humanitarian aid group. Pa Paula Hancock is following the story for us. Reporter the charity did confirm the abduction and the details are quite disturbing. Remember, this was a nurse from New Hampshire, working for the charity. She was abducted along with her child and this was actually on what they call is the campus of this charity close to p portauprince. They said shes a deeply passionate person who considers haiti as her home and her passion. She works tirelessly to bring relief as she loves to serve the people of haiti in t
buckingham palace announcing king charles iii has been diagnosed with a form of cancer. he is in good spirits, but of course we re talking about cancer here. stay safe and off the roads. only leave your house if it is absolutely necessary. this was the first time in california s history that there was a warning issued for hurricane-force winds. i don t believe that the senate bill meets the criteria that is necessary to solve the problem. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us from around the world and the united states. max is on royal duties today. it is tuesday, february 6, 9:00 a.m. in london, but we begin in washington where republican senators are signaling that newly unveiled border deal may already be dead before a key vote tomorrow. and republican leaders in the house are calling it too weak saying in a statement any consideration of this senate bill in its current form
this is cnn news central. this just in, the u.s. coast guard is set to hold another update in a couple of hours on the continued effort to find the missing oceangate sub near the wreckage of the titanic. cnn will bring that to you at 1:00 p.m. eastern. one key area of interest is the banging sounds picked up by rescuers overnight, bringing some hope that the five people onboard the vessel may still be alive. the underwater noises are being described as being consistent in 30-minute intervals and i spoke to an ocean explorer who is a friend of one of the people missing. tom detweiler told us this. his background in submarine, this is exactly how he would try to indicate that they were still alive and try to communicate with the surface. he would do some banging and a regular schedule so that it was distinguishable from the background noises. is that p.h. improvising or is this some sort of standard protocol or procedure that you re familiar of when it comes to underw
we ll have a live report in moments. there is no further danger to the public. the community is safe. we re just now working backwards, trying to figure out everything that happened. please be patient with us so that we can talk with these victims and their families and try to figure out what happened. also, the middle east on high alert today, with iran and there proxy militias vowing retaliation, despite the twin bombings that killed 84 people at a memorial yesterday for the country s top general. he d been assassinated by the trump organization four years ago. as we learned that a mother and a service member trapped in gaza when the war broke out have been rescued. the biden administration tried to contain this with secretary blinken heading to the region tonight. and this hour, inside analysis from two former cia directors, leon panetta and john brennan. and you trump legal team asks the justices to overturn the decision banning him from that state s primary ballot.