high interest rates are real bad for people who are buying stuff they don t pay for right away. that s my ba-humbug. thanks for joining us. i m christine romans. cnn this morning starts right now. it s friday. friday. we love our jobs but it is friday. i think i love friday. tgif. we made it guys. we made it. we made it. good morning, everyone. don lemon here. poppy harlow, kaitlan collins and it is friday and we are happy to be here but we re happy that it s friday and we get a couple days off, because next week is going to be a marathon. we have a lot going on next week. wait until you see how long we re on television. we have cots behind us we re going to be sleeping on. it s going to be a busy week. it is. and leading into next week there is an oprah size endorsement we have to talk about. it s in pennsylvania s senate race. will it make a difference? big one. hours from now thousands of twitter employees will learn if they are fired through email. wha
libby. the next hour of cnn starts right now. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. boris did you forget my name? i put sorry and boris together and said soris. i didn t mean to step on you. it s all good. great to be with you, amara. officials in alabama say they re in recovery mode after severe storms swept through the state killing a dozen people, the latest on the recovery efforts just ahead. the white house is trying to go on with business as usual amid mounting questions over president biden s handling of classified documents. what we re learning about the special counsel investigation and why republicans in congress say they re now looking into the department of justice s response. and new details in the case of a missing massachusetts woman. what police are now looking into their search for clues. plus, new questions about america s aging infrastructure after a massive faa software glitch grounded planes across the country. that s ah
and briefing materials on topics including ukraine, iran and the u.k. all of this at the center of a special counsel investigation. let s get right to cnn senior justice correspondent, evan perez, who is following all of this. evan, what more can you tell us about these classified documents that were found? not always a good thing whenela saturday. not always when you fix a statement that was provided a day earlier. what the white house is now confronting, they have had to explain multiple times in the past week about the finding of these classified documents. and a lot of it, frankly, they ve known about the documents since at least december, that there were additional documents they chose not to disclose it. what we know is there was an additional five pages of classified documents, that they were found in the president s home in williamington. that s in addition to one document they had disclosed just yesterday. and the issue for the white house is that now we re talking
florida governor ron desantis is ranged to fly 50 people from texas to martha s vineyard off the coast of massachusetts. this is all part of the campaign to protest the biden administration s immigration policies. but the white house says she s governors are using the migrants as political pawns. those taken to martha s vineyard are receiving shelter and help at a u.s. military base. miguel marquez has more on their journey. referee: after less than 48 unexpected hours in martha s vineyard, nearly 50 venezuelal migrants were given a warm sendoff, embracing each person as they boarded buses. then ferries and onto the next part of their long journey. their unannounced rival wednesday all part of a campaign by texas governor greg abbott and florida governor ron desantis to send them to sanctuary cities by surprise. free to the alien but certainly not mandatory. and that way they re able to go and these sanctuary jurisdiction cans put their money where their mouth is. r
this morning. as the u.s. navy moves in aircraft carrier strike group in the waters off the korean peninsula. and one woman is killed in zaporizhzhia after a russian missile strike as intel believes someone in ukrainian government authorized the assassination of a moscow official s daughter. and the white house slamming opec s plan to slash oil production as officials fear it will send gas prices soaring. let s begin this hour with rising tensions offer the korean peninsula. we re following all of the developments from seoul, south korea. we have seen a lot happen here around the korean peninsula in just the last 24 hours. north korea started the day with those two short-range ballistic moi missiles and then we saw the usa ronald reagan off the east coast and carrying out another naval drill. now we ve also heard just this evening from the joints chiefs of staff here in south korea that north korea carried out its own drill this afternoon. now this was with 12 north korean