happy thursday, everybody. so sometimes the univers einsometimes the univers you that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. like jesse watters getting jesse the 8 p.m. hour after being diagnosed with micro. yes here s here s another example. the wildly popular comedian named shane gillis.me if you ve never heard of them, here s a taste. the tonight, the united states killed the leader of isis. trump comes out of the situation room at midnight. he walks up and for the entire world at midnight just goes abu bakr al-baghdadi is dead. he died like a dog in front of of the whole world. abu, we can hear him crying ,said abu, don t let me tell you something. abu kraidy great, great. a bit. i wouldn t have crie quitd, right?ve crie baghdadi that s when we were all going. he s funny and he does trump better than alec. tha plus, plus, he hasn t shot anyone yet.. but what s special about gillis is that he beat cancel culture.e in 2019, he was hired as a cast me
developments this morning following the military s shootdown of the suspected chinese spy balloon off the south carolina coast. the fbi analyzing the pieces of the balloon as china sends a warning to the white house. our team is covering this story from multiple angels. plus, new details on that train derailment that sparked a massive fire in eastern ohio. officials now saying train cars contained hazardous materials. the latest on that cleanup effort. and the fbi offering a $25,000 reward for information about the attacks on two power substations. why officials say these stations are increasingly being targeted by extremist groups. and could artificial intelligence soon put us all out of work? you may want to polish your resumé. it s all ahead on cnn this morning. we are starting another week and we are grateful to have you. it is sunday, february 5th. thanks so much for waking up with us. amara, i don t think as much attention has been paid to a balloon since tha
and a sober newsday with us. a source telling cnn criminal charges are coming this afternoon in memphis in connection to the beating of 29-year-old tyre nichols and we also are told to expect tomorrow the release of the video of that police encounter and we are told that is three minutes of savagery. memphis police officers brutalizing nichols. right now that city fed up. it could have been your son. it could have been you. don t gavel me. i m here to let you know. i can see without we want it now. plus, the new temperature check of the u.s. economy. new data gives president biden reason to brag. the economy growing faster than expected. it is more proof a recession is not inevitable but it also comes as some big name companies slash thousands of jobs. releasing right now brand-new cnn poll numbers, here s what they show. you think leaders in washington, especially house republicans, are out of touch with what you think, your government should be doing and doing first
From their friends, family and a few famous faces. Hello, tim, mike and andy. Its george ezra here, just with a little message to say congratulations on everything youre doing, raising awareness. Yeah, thank you for what youre doing. Andy, mike, tim. Just incredible what you achieved last time around, and what youre about to do now is just truly, truly heroic. Im sending you love and my best wishes. Shout loudly. I know youll be heard. All my very best. Good luck. Flippin heck. That was brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Oh, wow. Imean. Oh, wow. 0h, amazing. I leaked again. I leaked straight away. Ive got to say, its very easy, for me, to be very flippant and say its obvious cos hes envious about our bodies and the way we conduct ourselves 0ur Chiselled profiles. Yeah, all that. Thats it. They laugh to see him, you know, wishing us good luck and telling us to shout loudly, it was like, wow, 0k. Thats another person just pushing us in the right direction, just constantly giving us support
a change in the way young people learned about the risk they pose to themselves. tim, andy and mike the three dads walking. three dads to three daughters who all took their own lives emily, sophie and beth. it all started in 2021, when they were brought together by their grief and decided to shine a light on the issue. there they go. andy, mike and tim walking 300 miles over the next 15 days to raise money and awareness about suicide prevention. - on that walk, they raised almost £1 million. but the dads knew that finishing that challenge was not the end of their work. and there seemed to be a glaring gap, that we should be talking to our young people, and one of the solutions would be to actually get the schools involved. i think when we crossed the line and showed them. you know, when you said to me, what s it like to finish? it s like, well, we re not finished. we knew then we weren t finished, but we didn t know what it was going to be. you didn t know the shape