and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave [cheers and applause] rachel: good morning. it is 6:00 in new york city and i m happy to be here with will and pete. love that national anthem. love your photos. please keep sending them into friends@foxnews.com. will: good morning. rachel: nice to be here. i ve been reminded of that. pete: what is everybody right now? 10? it is lower than 10. rachel: this is like your childhood. will: that is why i fled as quickly as possible. if it was over 40 °, we didn t wear a jacket. pete: that was a warm day. will: it was a warm day. over 40, you could go light. we had an ice storm all week in texas. everything was an ice-skating rink. your driveway, your grass was an ice-skating rink, not snow, ice. pete: do you use the acquired skills of ice-skating
happening now, cnn is near the tense front lines in eastern ukraine right now with just a few hours to go before russia s war hits the one-year mark. ukrainian forces bracing for the possibility of new russian strikes tonight. also this hour, a top safety official declares the toxic train wreck in ohio was 100%, 100% preventable as initial findings in the federal investigation are revealed. the transportation secretary, pete buttigieg, visiting the scene where frustrated residents are growing more and more concerned about their health by the day. alex murdaugh takes the stand in his murder trial. the disgraced south carolina lawyer admitting under oath to lying and to stealing while denying he killed his wife and son. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with a grim milestone for ukraine and the world, for that matter, a full year since russia s brutal invasion. ukrainians bracing f
our politics nation. i will host keisha lance bottoms, senior white house adviser, as well as martin with the king the third, congresswoman terri sewell and the reverend jesse jackson. american voices with alicia menendez starts right now on msnbc. thank you so much, reverend sharpton. hello, everyone, i am alicia menendez. we begin this hour with breaking news, showing donald trump s stronghold on the republican party on full display at the conservative political action conference, also known as cpac. in the last hour, he won the cpac straw poll with 62% of the vote. florida governor ron desantis with only 20% of the vote. at this hour, trump speaking to the crowded cpac, who want former years of trump in the white house. we are not going to show you trump s comments live, but our producers are listening so you don t have to. you are welcome. for the past four years, trump s turned the must anticipated conservative conference into the trump show, focused on his divisive po
sanchez. i m amara walker. thanks for joining us. i ve been checking the poll enforecast every day. it hasn t been good here. how about you? we may be getting the cherry blossoms. here s what we re watching. the white house rolls out another $400 million in aid as fierce fighting continues in the eastern part of the country. our alex marquardt has a look at the bat tle for bakhmut. it sounded like a freight train going by the house. at least ten people are dead after severe storms hammer the south. where we re seeing impacts from that system this morning. alex murdaugh will spend the rest of his life in jail. the judge s worjs for murdaugh during the sentencings and why the former south carolina lawyer will likely find himself in court again on dozens of other charges. also, cnn still in east palestine, ohio, as residents there begin to recover from that toxic train derailment. they care about their food. they want to know what they re getting. they want to kn
wondering what this balloon is after. this spy balloon has been over uss space at least two days now. it is a chinese government, high-altitude balloon that s being seen in videos like this one from montana posted on twitter. officials believe the spying balloon have been flying over sensitive military site to try to gather intelligence. montana is home to the air force space. that had one of the country s three nuclear missile silo fields. president biden did not response to shoutout questions about the balloon today. thank you. the pentagon press secretary did issue a statement confirming the balloon is being tracked and adding that it is, quote, currently traveling altitude at well above commercial air traffic and does not present military or physical threat to people on the ground. the senior official says it is not the first time these kinds of spy balloon have been seen over the u.s. it is obviously a diplomatic issue coming days before secretary state antony bl