i m poppy harlow. i m jim sciutto. the u.s. president defiant while kabul remains in chaos. president biden pushing back against criticism in a new interview saying the report by the wall street journal that he ignored advice from top generals to keep at least a small number of troops in afghanistan while seeking a peace agreement is not true. your top military advisers warned against withdrawing on this time line. they wanted you to keep 2,500 troops. no, they didn t. that was split. it wasn t true. they didn t tell you they wanted troops to stay? not in terms of whether we were going to get out in a time frame, all troops. they didn t argue against that. so no one told you, your military advisers didn t tell you, no, we should keep 2,500 troops, it s been a stable situation the last several years, we can do that, we can continue to do that? no, no one said that to me, not that i recall recall. the united states is increasing, ramping up its efforts to evac
cast across the state. let s get to the results. the big races everyone was watching the presidential primaries on the republican side, donald trump got the win with more than 40% of the vote. senator ted cruz was 40,000 votes behind at 37% followed by ohio governor john kasich and senator marco rubio. in the democratic race, hillary clinton wins with 55% of the vote compared to bernie sanders and his 41%. christine: five states held primary elections. hillary clinton taking the wins in florida, ohio, and illinois. trump won the state of florida as well and the state of illinois. governor john kasich took the other big prize for republicans, all 66 delegates in his home state of ohio. now this morning, marco rubio has decided to drop out of the race after losing his home state of florida. john: the results in missouri greasy get overlet s get over to kristen miranda watching the results. kristen: we have to talk about missouri and what is next for the candidates. on a
let s look at the mapping systems, if you re outbound, if you need to, it would be north sharon amity over to central avenue put you around the fire scene there. there you see it inbound lanes all over, outbound, one lane is open but fire trucks still blocking at least one or two of those outbound lanes there as mark said. let s take a live look, john belk and up toward bank of america stadium, volume of traffic here pretty light, running along smoothly in center city. let s take a look at john belk, brookshire, no significant problems. both highways running in the green. further up to the north, just north of noda, accident statesville avenue at atando, so expect you will find a few delays there, if you re inbound along statesville avenue, and looking at the overall commute, most of us still running in the green with a few slow downs, providence road inbound and independence boulevard before albermarle. you re never more than seven minutes away from weather and christine:
Investigators found disconnected and missing hardware aboard a helicopter that crashed in 2022, killing the pilot and a North Carolina television station’s meteorologist, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. The NTSB's final report on the 2022 crash, which was released Thursday, said the probable cause was inadequate inspections by the pilot and maintenance personnel, resulting in an eventual loosening of the hardware and subsequent loss of helicopter control. WBTV meteorologist Jason Myers and pilot Chip Tayag died after the Robinson R44 helicopter crashed along a Charlotte-area interstate.