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good evening, everyone. thanks for tuning in i m alison camerota. welcome to cnn tonight. let s start with the culture wars. in the past 24 hours the battlefield has been noisy. more battles about books in the classroom, drama over drag shows, and gaslighting about gas stoves. here is florida governor ron desantis this morning surrounded by and taking urgent action to protect gas stoves. they are trying to take away your gas stove. they are coming for any little thing in your life that they can do, and i think what they want to be able to do is they ultimately want to control the amount of energy you consume. well, it turns 92% of floridians use electric stoves, but let s not let that get in the way. what is this really about? well, governor sarah huckabee sanders spelled it out. we are under attack in a left wing culture war we didn t start and never wanted to fight. sure seems like some people do want this fight. but what s the truth about culture war rhetor ....
i mean, the situation there is there aren t words. the devastating. there are no words i don t know if it would describe it. you think about how many people died. 17,000 people. think about that. good morning, everyone. we re so glad you could join us. we hate to start your day with terrible news. but what you were just witnessing, was a miraculous rescue, children pulled from the rubble days after a catastrophic earthquake. but time is running out to find survivors. we ll take you live to this disaster zone. the staggering death toll just keeps soaring in turkey and syria. also, this overnight, senator john fetterman is back in the hospital. doctors are making sure he didn t suffer another stroke. we ll bring you the latest. president biden is going on a cross country blitz after his state of the union address. the next stop is florida. we re going to speak to the state s republican senator rick scott. he is the gop leader president biden accused of wanting t ....
reading faces, biological and environmental reasons why that could be, but that s what they found. poppy, kaitlan? elizabeth cohen, thank you. fascinating. cnn this morning continues right now. we didn t get any texts or any message telling us it canceled before we came. flight s canceled. hang out with pops a couple more days. call my boss and tell him, i m sorry. hope this wasn t a bad decision. good morning, everyone, who s not at the airport today. don is off this morning. as you can see there, it has just been chaos at the airports over the last several days and it s not changed as flights have been canceled, travelers have been stranded. southwest airlines forced to scrap more than 60% of its flights today. also, the death toll is rising amid a record-breaking blizzard in buffalo, new york. we re live on the ground there. also this morning, ukraine s foreign minister is aiming for a peace summit in the new year. could russia potentially be invited ....
With, quote, duct tape. let s bring in cnn s gabe cohen from december. gabe, great to have you tonight. so what were the messages that the southwest dispatchers were sending to pilots. i alluded to it in the open during this whole mess. yeah, alisyn, it s stunning. cnn has obtained this testimony we re expecting from the pilots union tomorrow and includes those messages you re talking about that was sent by southwest dispatchers to specific pilots on their cockpit computer actually onboard these flights and they really paint an alarming picture of the chaos that was happening behind had the scenes during this melt down. in one of those messages the dispatchers asked the pilots to identify themselves because it appears the airline didn t actually know who was onboard amid all of those crew scheduling problems. and the message then ends with, quote, it s a mess down here. and in another one of those messages dispatchers told the pilots, quote, no updates here, ....
Moment through a lens rather than with their eyes. back with me andrew yang, van jones, and george conway. i see you clutching your phone. i can take a picture, i can take a video of what s going on here and see you at the same time. there i got you so that s what you think is happening. they re raising their hands on that. is it any different than holding up a lighter at a concert, you know? they paid thousands of dollars to be there to witness that moment, and they needed to videotape it so that they could share it with their friends that they had spent thousands of dollars. if it s not on the gram it didn t happen, that s what people are saying. i ve been a jordan fan my entire life. van s growling. ....