♪ a violent explosive event. that is how the lead investigator is describing what happened in the air when a piece of the alaska airlines night just blew off. the pieces the ntsb has now recovered and the new questions about earlier warning lights on this very same plane. >> gird your loins. the/with a caucuses are next week, so he has a big lead in the polls, but what does donald trump fear most this morning? a, nikki haley, b, expectations, or, c, the long arm of the law? >> plus, questions and scrutiny at the pentagon after to fence secreta -- defense secretary lloyd

austin kept his hospitalization secret leaving president biden and top lawmakers in the dark for days. i'm sara sidner and kate balduan and john berman with here with me. this is "cnn central." this morning, boeing 737 max 9 jets are all grounded meaning hundreds of flights forces to be cancelled as investigators are urgently trying to figure out why a big chewing of an alaska airlines plane tore off mid-flight. a ton of questions left behind and a huge houle. a pressurization warning light had began off three times which led alaska airlines to actually restrict the plane from flying over water on long-haul trips to ensure it could return quickly to an airport, if necessary. on friday passengers describe a violent explosion when the

plane's door plug blew off shortly after takeoff from portland, oregon, and then head rests were torn off, extra oxygen masks were sheered off. some seats were even twisted from the force of the debrush you'rization. one passenger says a child's shirt was ripped off. thankfully the two seats directly next to what became a massive hole were not occupied on this plane. also this morning, a crucial piece of evidence has been recovered. the refrigerator-sized door plug found in someone's backyard in portland but another key piece of the investigation has been lost. the cockpit voice recording. the ntsb says it was completely overridden. >> we can learn a lot from that cockpit voice recorder. we have urged the faa to extend the cook pitt voice recorder time for two hours to 25 hours because we want to hear communications, noise, alerts on the right there deck which may help us prevent future

tragedies. >> cnn's mike valerio is in portland and aviation correspondent meet muntean is in d.c. pete, let's start with you. what's the latest. >> reporter: the ntsb has inspected the interior and the exterior of the plane featuring that twisted and contorted seat metal from that 400 miles per hour rush of air through that refrigerator-sized opening in the left side of the fuselage, big investment this is the smoking gun here. the piece that fell off of the plane has been found. ntsb chair jennifer hamdi rushed back to the podium last night to announce that, found in the backyard of a portland schoolteacher. we only know his first name is bob. that part is known as a door plug, and it fills a spot on the plane where an optional door could be installed at the boeing factory. finding this is key because it will hold some major clues.

the ntsb chair hamdi told me, was this a manufacturing defect by boeing or its contractors and that's the key because the airplane is only months off, took its first flight october 15 and flew 150 flights for alaska airlines. investigators now say a pressurization warning light came on in the plane three times before this incident, once the just day before, it and that caused alaska to restrict this plane from long flights over water like to hawaii could. have been an early warning, and it's something that investigators are probing but are still unclear about. listen. >> that alert that illuminated those three times certainly is very disconcerting to our investigators, and we want to look at that, but it may have absolutely nothing to do with what occurred in the cabin of the aircraft on that -- during that event. >> what is missing from this investigation?

the audio from the cockpit voice recorder? that was overwritten automatically. hamdi calls that very disappointing. there's been a pushed to make reporters to make that information available for longer. still a lot of offer. the cockpit dewer blew open. investigators have been able to tell that. also the pilots aheadsets and checklists were then by the force of the depressurization. alaska airlines and united airlines are the only two airlines operating the boeing 737 max-9s, still grounded this morning awaiting new details on inspections mandated by the faa. 279 max-9 night were cancelled or the weekend. >> pete, thanks for being on top of it. >> cnn's mike valerio is in portland, oregon where this investigation is taking place on the ground, mike. what are you seeing? >> reporter: well, you know, i think it's important to mention

there are two critical human dimensions playing out. members of the public who found the door plug that we've been talking about for the past couple of minutes and members of the public who found one but not two cell phones that fell out of the compartment blown out of there from 16,000 feet, but i think it's the most important element of the story line at this very early morning hour to talk about the passengers who experienced these harrowing moments, our worst nightmare, so when this happened just a few minutes into the flight, it was a violent, intense feeling of an explosion happening 26 rows behind people who are sitting up in front. a lot of people did not know what was going on, jon. it wasn't until the aircraft landed safely that people turned around and saw a hole in the back of the aircraft. we'll may a sound fwhit a couple of seconds from a passenger stephanie king, and she's describing of ice actually coming in the plane and being sucked out by the pressurized

air coming out of that home. listen what she told us over the weekend. >> it was really, really scary, as you can imagine. initially when the piece flew off, there was almost multiple explosions, and it -- at first it felt like all of the air from outside rushed into the cabin, and particles were flying everywhere. i'm not sure what that was, if it was ice or debris from the plane itself, but it came forward, is and then it got sucked back out. very dramatically. >> so in her video, which we watched all of, it continues on for another minute or two. it's such a beautiful poignant moment. when the plane lands and everybody erupts in applause, applauding the flight crew, the pilots who made the safe return possible, and i will tell you such a dramatic cop draft from the intensity of the moment to

how calm everybody remained in all the video that we eseen over the weekend. so moving to the people, let's start with bob. god bless bob was the quote from the chair of the ntsb late last night when we were in the news conference. everybody brought back into the room when the first news conference ended and the chair said and came become and say bob found the door plug. two cell phones again found in perfect working condition, so we'll see what else the investigators are working on today. probably hocking at portions of that door plug under a microscope and deciding which portions of the door plug to send back east to ntsb headquarters. >> mike valerio on the ground in portland with bob and many others, thank you very much for that reporting. keep us posted. >> you bet. >> i'm join by john strickhand, the director of the air transport consulting firm jls

consulting. thanks so much for coming in and talking about this today. look, so many of us fly. the 737s have been a problem in the past. they were grounded in 2019 for a year and a half after a couple of crashes involving the max 8 aircraft that killed 346 people. i mean, can you give us some sense of is this a different incident? is this something else wrong with the 737? is this just a fluke, or is there a major problem with the 737s? >> yes, you're right. the 737 max family, at that time it was the max series 8 which had the two tragic fatal crashes that resulted in the 18-month grounding. the 9 was not in service at that point, but it is another member of the same family. the incident of the fuselage panel, that blocked off the optional emergency dore that detached on the alaska airlines

flight is something quite different to the cause of those two fatal crashes and the reason for the grounding. that a piece of software used by the pilots on the flight damage of the mcas system. it was something which caused both crashes which had to be completely reworked before that aircraft was able to get back to being recertified as a safe aircraft and commercial operation. it also, of course, affected boeing as a company which lost an enormous amount of trust and confidence during that period, and they had to work hard to brick that back and rehabilitate the aircraft into service. so last week's incident quite different. we don't know what caused it yet. i think as one your reporters commented there. it's important. this is also quite a new aircraft, only about two months off the production line. we wouldn't expect something like this to happen on any well-maintained aircraft be it old or young but certainly it's particularly surprising to get

this news of a very new aircraft. i don't think it reflects a wider problem with the 737. the 737 as a type goes back to the 1960s the it's a tried and tested aircraft which has been modified, updated into far more advanced technology versions such as the max that we're flying on today. it's delivered millions of hours of service and carried of millions of people around this. we need to get to the bottom of this problem as quick as possible and keep all folks safe. >> i know my colleagues have flown a lot of 737s in our lifetime with all of the traveling that we to. i do want to ask you something that "the seattle teams" reported according to alaskan airlines, in the days before this particular incident pilots had filed several reports of warning lights that indicated some sort of loss of cabin pressure and that the plane was restricted from long distance flight over water as a result.

should this plane have just been grounded period? >> well, it's difficult to comment without knowing more than those facts. we have heard that, and we heard from the lead there in your report from the accident investigation team that this is something of interest, of concern, too. there can be many warnings generated on flights every day to pilots, largely these are quite routine. pilots report it or more and more these days automatically from data systems through aircraft flight jet decks to the ground air maintenance control teams. it's difficult to say what the significance of the pressurization warnings were. it seems potentially more than coincidental, but it could have been something very, very minor. it could have been something completely different. pressurization embraces a lot of elements on a aircraft, but certainly that needs to be

checked out, worked out as quickly as possible. >> absolutely. there's a lot of people who fear flying is a real thing and to see this is a real thing. john strickland, thanks for giving us this analysis this morning. appreciate you. >> kate? >> this is cnn breaking us. >> we do have breaking news just into cnn. a senior hezbollah commander has been killed by an israeli drone strike in his car in southern lebanon today the that's according to a lebanese security source and also according to hezbollah. this is the most senior hezbollah militant to be killed by israel since the dale exchange of fire has been happening across the israel-lebanon border since the october 7 terror attack by hamas. cnn's anyc robertson is in tel aviv joining us now. bring us up to speed. what are you learning about this attack and about this man? >> yeah, he was hezbollah commander, senior commander from

what we understand, and i think we get a sense of just how senior he was through the people, photographs of the people that he's met. he was photographed with qassam soul s soleimani and he was photographed with hasran nasrallah and photographed about imam mu gnir, responsible for a horrendous attack on u.s. forces back in the 1980s in beirut, so he's been associated with some very senior figures within iran, within lebanon and within the fight against israel, so israel is not saying they are responsible for this strike. okay, it does bear their hallmarks. it does appear to be something of an escalation. they were operating fighter

jets, drones in that area and helicopters as well where they have taken out a couple of sites where they said anti-tank mills were launched in their positions across the border inside of israel so they were certainly operational there, and the reason that this will cause a little concern that this could look like a potential escalation is because or the weekend hezbollah fired 62 mills, they said, at an israeli military base on the top of a mountain near the border with lebanon which they said was in response for the killing of that hamas commander wednesday last woke in beirut. they said they would take revenge for it, and that was the biggest strike yet on an israeli military base, so if this looks like potential for escalation, it may or may not be, but it's certainly going to feel hike it to a lot of hezbollah people on the ground in southern lebanon. >> nic robertson, great to see you. thanks so much for the update.

stay on top of it. >> coming up, we are one week away, finally, the iowa caucuses is coming up with trump still way out in front in the polls. what the other candidates are saying about where they plan to finish? and to fence secretary lloyd us a ten still in the hospital after complications from an elective surgery. why it took so long to inform the president and his second in command. and big wins for "succession" "barbie" and "oppenheimer" at the golden globes. we'll have highlights from the season's firstst award shohow j ahead.

the iowa caucuses are next week, so what are the candidates doing about it? cnn's kiely atwood is in sioux city, iowa this morning. lay it out for us.

>> a flurry of activity here over the weekend with trump, desantis and haley all in the state this morning. we're at a nikki haley event, and we should note, hour, over the weekend trump real escalated his attacks on nikki haley. we've seen him go after desantis for a number of months here, but going after haley, saying that she soo going to sell out voters, being critical of a democratic billion air who has donated to her, a whole host of attacks, cheerily trying to blunt her from gaining any momentum at the iowa caucus if she were to do well and trying to tell voters not to act like he's up by 35% here in iowa but act like he's up only 1% and he believes they will still vote for him here in the iowa caucus. listen to what he said to voters on saturday. >> you know, pc stage they say to me, sometimes, sir, don't tell them that they are going to vote for you. that sounds so demeaning. he said i got them $28 billion for their farmers.

of course they are going to vote. we're going to win iowa so big. i got them $28 billion. of course i'm going to win. >> now desantis telling voters here in iowa that he's in it for the long haul, effectively saying if he doesn't do well in the state he's still going to continue battling it out in the republican primary process. haley for her part saying that she hears people who are telling her that she should hit trump more but telling voters that she's just not going to do it. she has hit trump. she's defended herself on specific policy issue, but when it comes to questions about trump's ability to defend democracy or about the four criminal court cases that he's currently facing, she really hasn't opinion hitting him on those issues. she's been focusing on her electability telling them how she would beat biden, if it were her versus biden in the actually voting and they are out with two ads over the weekend, new ads, focusing on her electability saying she's not a name of the

past like trump and biden and also focusing on her pro-life position. that's important for evangelicals here in iowa. we should note, guys, she has spent more than $7 million in the state since the beginning of the year. that's her campaign and the pacs supporting her, more than the two candidates combined, desantis and trump. >> if you've got it, got to spend t.kiely atwood in sioux city, iowa. >> no reason to hold on to it at this point. join us is cnn political commentator and former special assistant to george w. bush scott jennings and cnn political commentator republican commentator alison stewart. the final week before the first votes, friends. we know one thing in the last seven days they are important to say the very least, but what's the most important focus as someone who has been on the ground and you know iowa strategy for an iowa campaign. what's the most important focus for the campaigns in the last

few days? >> i don't know about you, kate and scottance and i couldn't be more excited about the next week ahead as we're all inside baseball on politics. the most important thing, all three of these candidates have done the job of getting out there -- of getting their message out there on television on the debate stage and in the newspaper and online. the most important thing this last week is connecting with the voters, making sure this person understands, hey, this person really understands what i'm going through, this person understands what it's like to have to put food on the table because one of the most important characteristics of voters in electing someone is their policies for sure, but likability. these candidates have to become likable to these voters for them to come out and vote and also, kate, look, it's cold. you've been out there in these early states. scott has been out there in iowa and new hampshire. it's really cold and we have snow in the forecast and single-digit temperatures next week. you have to really motivate someone and get people to really be invested in your campaign to

get them out in the cold tell tours on a cold iowa caucus night to get them out there, so that's another thing is motivating and really boosting up the enthusiasm with your voting base. >> get the hand warmers ready for sure. >> yeah. >> kiely atwood was laying out the final pinching the final argument that we are hearing from the candidates. part of that final pitch is also, i'm interested in, how they are responding to and attacking each other. let me play this for you from the weekend. >> nikki haley and ron aren't working for your interests the they are working for the interests of other nations and themselves and so are those two. nikki would sell you out just like she sold me out. >> if you watch the speeches and compare that to the trump of '16 this is not the same candidate by any stretch of the imagination. >> for those who want me to hit trump more, i just am not going to do it. i told you i'm not going to do it. if he lies about me, i'll call him out on it.

if he's done something wrong, whether it's the economy or how he talks about dictators and those things, i'll call him out on every one of those issues, but i just think politics is personal enough, and i think let's focus on the issues and getting america back on track. >> scott, what do you hear in all of that? >> well, i think desantis has been steadily building a case that he delivers on promises and trump doesn't. that's obviously become the core of his message, and he's really delivered it quite well in his public appearances, so you're going continue to hear that. with haley, you know, i still get the feeling she's trying to have it somewhat both ways. she's trying to be the candidate that appeals to the folks who are desperate to move on from trump but is also trying to throw a few lines in the water to trum fans out there who maybe at the last minute decide to change their mind. i don't think there's many votes for her there in that fishing hole, but i guess we'll find out. i do think the expectations for

both desantis and haley here are critical. i mean, obviously trump has had a massive lead in the polling. haven't had a lot of polling out of iowa since mid-december, however, and we may see more this week. we'll see if anything has changed, but the real question for desantis can he reel in trum? i don't know if he could reel him into single digits that would be a huge night. for haley expectations were lower. if she were able to jump over desantis and do a surprise second place finish even if she was far back of trump that would be a pig night for her so as much as the policy and the attacks and the juxtaposition, it's the expectation-setting that you'll hear out of the campaigns this woke. >> that's interesting. i also want to get you guys both on this. president biden is headed to south carolina today, and he's going to be doing -- giving a speech at mother emmanuel church. south carolina is jim clyburn, his words we know carry weight with the biden team. he helped save biden's primary campaign in 2020. cliburn says that he is worried

about biden's standing with black voters right now. let me play this. >> i'm very concerned, and i have sat down with president biden. my problem is that we have not been able to break through that maga wall in order to get to people exactly what this president has done. >> alice, what do you hear in that answer from cliburn? >> well, it's interesting. we're hearing the same thing from him as we eheard from former president barack obama, and their concerns about biden not being able to connect with black voters, also his panic voters. he's losing support amongst them, but the reality is they can blame it on the maga wall all they want. it's not the maga wall they need to break through. it's the perception by the people. biden is on the water on many cross-tabs with regard to inflation, the economy, security, education. those are issues that are real, and despite the fact that the

biden straights may tout these successes, people don't feel that way, and it's not a messaging issue. it's a reality issue, so they need to make sure and hopefully turn these numbers around with regard to the economy, maybe hope for some type of cease-fire in gaza and certainly progress on the border. those kind of progress points will be able to help turn things around with black voters and hispanics and others, but they have a lot more to worry about than how these being perceived by the so-called maga wall. >> yeah. it's not just talking about it. it's make people hear it and believe it. >> right. >> good to see you both. lots more to discuss the thanks soap, guys. programming note, this wednesday 9:00 p.m. eastern, jake tapper, dana bash mod rate cnn's republican presidential debate live from iowa. and still ahead, the latest from the pentagon as defense secretary lloyd austin remains hospitalized and he has apologized for a lack of transparency. we now even know now that the number two of the pentagon

learned of his hospitalization days off. he was admitted to the hospital. we'll talk about it coming up.

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jurek th jurek. this morning defense secretary lloyd austin remains at walter reed official and the fallout continues as to why the president and others were not note feud for day while he was this the hospital. the omissions include the defense secretary number two. two defense officials tell cnn kathleen hicks didn't know he was in the hospital even after he began his duties on january

2nd after being taken to the hospital by ambulance. we know that lloyd austin is a very, very private person and is in a public role. what are we learning this morning? >> nine who knows austin knows he's an intensively private person and he did not want the details of his elective surgery that led to the surgery to be public and has that right according to current and former officials that we've spoken tomorrow the issue is less that and the more of the fact that he entered the hospital on january 1st and spent several days in the intensive care unit and senior national security officials and the white house were in the aware that have until about three days later with the one exception of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff who is not in the chain of command. other officials in the chain of command were not notified until much later in the week so the question is why was there such secrecy surrounding secretary

austin's hospitalization, and had a officials other have been telling us is that this really constitutes an unforced error. if the pentagon had disclosed he was hospitalized within 24 hours, you know, of his admission into walter reed, then there likely would not be so much contention around this issue, but pentagon officials here are deeply frustrated with the way this played out, particularly because there is so much happening right now in the worlding right? i moan, there are two wars, that are major tensions in the middle east, and just last week there was a u.s. military strike in baghdad during the time that the time the secretary was hospital used. so all of this not helping matters when the secretary of defense was essentially unavailable throughout the entirety of last week. now we did get a statement from secretary us ain' on saturday, and he acknowledged that there were concerns about the transparency about this issue, and he committed to doing better. we still have not gotten many answers from the pentagon about

why these notifications were not made to senior officials until much later except to say that austin's chief of staff was out sick herself and was up able to make the notifications of the obvious response to that is, well, was there no one else to be available around the secretary to inform the white house at the very least that the secretary was hospitalized, but we've yet to get a answer to that question, sara. >> natasha bertrand, we'll be following the story. thanks. does drew have immunity for crimes he may have committed in the white house, a huge argument before a court tomorrow.

so a huge legal moment for donald trump and the country. tomorrow he'll be at the federal appeals ghourt washington, d.c. arguing he should have immunity for whatever actions he took on january 6. with us now senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor elie hopig. i want to talk about tomorrow because the argument before the federal appeals court, a panel of three judges, correct? >> yeah. >> is over immunity. >> yeah. >> what exactly does this mean? >> let's understand donald trump's argument, big picture saying i can't be prosecuted in this case because what i am charged with doing other was in the scope of my job as president. important distinction though. donald trump is actually not arguing that every single thing that happened during my endure four years is president i cannot be channelled for. his argument is a little narrower. saying -- i can't be charged while i was president but also in the outer scope of my job as president. he lost that argument before.

the judge forcefully rejected that and lost variations of that argument in other contexts as well as mark meadows. >> this has been decided at many different levels and many different ways, civil and criminal, mark meadows when he tried to remove the case to federal course. the judge said this wasn't part of your federal judge. >> no judge state, at any level claim for something that they did in relation to january 6 was within their job. no judge has accepted that. the people claiming they were acting within the scope of their job are zero for all time. nobody yet has opinion given any legal benefit on that road and this is a reason why trump has a steep uphill climb. >> you say that of course because there will be a live audio stream of tomorrow's argument but not cameras in the courtroom many we're at the middle level here, the district court already has rejebtd his argument. this is the federal court of appeals for the d.c. circuit. this will be a three-judge panel

selected randomly from the 15 judges on the circuit. one of the judges is a george h.w. bush, the father nominee from 1990 and the other are biden nominees. the lawyers will be in the courtroom and trump will be, too. the lawyers will stand at the podium. the terrorism side will get to minutes to argue their case and then jack smith's side, not jack smith himself and doj and those time limits go out the window pretty quickly and it will sound a lot like a law school classroom, a q&a on the law of the matter. >> relatively quick though as far as these things go and a lot of what will be argued is in briefings and papers that the judges will have to look at the next few days. when i say the next few days will be the timing which is most important of this. >> jack smith will probably win this, but how much time will it take to win this? in ordinary course let's assume donald trump loses tomorrow

he'll exhaust all his appeals. he can ask the entire circuit court enb paranc and then can if to the supreme court. in ordinary dhoors would take us well foot summer. we know jack smith is not willing to wait that long. one thing he's asked to do is five days after you make your decision send it back down to the trial court. we need to get the trial proceedings back on track. really important decision. not only will the court of appeals rule for or against jack smith, but if they rule for him will they send it back to the district court or keep it on pauchts the district course right now is stayed meaning it's an pause until the whole appeal gets resolved. >> this they accepted it back to work and say, start this can trump appeal that? >> he said i haven't had my full appeal rights. i can ask the circuit court and then the supreme court and that it make or break as to whether we see the trial before the

election. >> the supreme court could have this in front of. >> yes. >> thanks so much. cnn will bring special come of this appeals court process beginning at 6:00 a.m. eastern time. kate? >> coming up for us, winter weather alert stretching from arizona to wisconsin right now. what everyone needs to be prepared for, and the official kickoff to the awards season. last night's golden globes, one big moment of the night had nothing to do with the movies. it had to do with a host and a heckler. >> yo, i got the gig ten days ago. you want a perfect monologue. >> yo, shut up. you're kidding me, right? slowdown. i wrote some of these, and they are the ones you're laughing at. look. to duckduckgo on all your devie

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and the golden globe goes to "oppenheimer"! [ cheers ] >> and the golden globe goes to "succession." [ cheers ] >> the 2024 awards season kicked

off last night with the golden globes. "succession," "oppenheimer," they were the big winners of the night. "barbie" walked away with only two awards. one for billie eilish's song "what was i made for," and another for a new category recognizing cinematic and box office achievement. let's get to it. we have more on all of it. elizabeth, there are the awards, and there are also the most-talked-about moments of the show. what are people most still talking about this morning? >> absolutely. good morning. everybody is talking about this big night for "oppenheimer." a really massive success for one of the biggest films of the year. walked away with five awards including the first-ever golden globe win for director christopher nolan in his entire career. as you said, "barbie" did not come out as we predicted. but let's be honest -- when you make $1.4 billion at the box office, you don't really need many awards.

a lot of people are also talking about the host, comedian jo koy. a lot of people didn't know who he was before. he is a major comedian, has netflix standup specials, sells out in arenas. but this was really his first big moment. but it is a joke about taylor swift that is being talked about so let's take la look at that. >> as you know, we came on after a football double header. the big difference between the "golden globes" and the nfl, on the "golden globes" we have fewer camera shots of taylor swift. i swear. just more to go to. >> now a lot of people think that this was some shade toward taylor swift, but i actually think it was shade toward the nfl, kate. i think that jo koy was trying to say the nfl keeps cutting to taylor swift. maybe we're not going to do that. as you saw, she took a sip of her champagne there, maybe didn't love that joke so much. maybe was taking it in good fun.

that's another moment to talk about. the existence of taylor swift at the "golden globes" is a huge deal in itself. she was nominated in the category of best box office and cinematic achievement. lost to "barbie," but taylor swift is really never losing, right? >> that's what i was going to say, taylor swift can sip her champagne all the way to wherever she wants to go after the year that she's had. >> exactly. >> also -- i would also ask you because there's news that happened also this morning in the world of entertainment. actor jonathan majors, he has given his first interview since being found guilty of assault and harassment a former girlfriend. he spoke with "good morning america." what is he saying now? >> yes, jonathan majors is saying that there was absolutely no physical violence. he, of course, as you said, was convicted just a few weeks ago. and in this first interview, he is maintaining his innocence. we have a clip. let's take a look.

>> i'm not in the car -- none of this is happening. if i leave the relationship, none of this is happening. if i'm man enough or brave enough to say i want to see somebody else or i'm -- i'm done now, i'm not in that car. we're not here. i'm responsible for those things. >> but none of her injuries? >> i can't say that. none of her injuries. >> so as you see there, he is taking responsibility for some of his actions in that relationship which has been described as toxic and volatile. but he is, again, saying that there was absolutely no physical violence, and that the injuries that his ex-girlfriend claims that she obtained, he is not responsible for those injuries. now of course we know jonathan minimum wagers after this conviction was fired by marvel.

he was set to be the future star of marvel. so it remains to be seen where his career goes from here. >> good to see you, elizabeth. thank you. all right. get ready for a massive winter storm that is taking aim across the middle of the country starting today. nearly 70 million people across the gulf coast and southeast are at risk for severe weather including tornadoes, damaging wind, and flooding rain. by this afternoon, storms could start forming along the gulf coast. the storm is expected to move quickly and cover 1,800 miles in just 72 hours. peaking, by the way, tomorrow as it heads into the eastern united states. and the first u.s. lunar mission in decades took off into space this morning. >> five, four, three, we have ignition and lift off of the first united launch alliance

vulcan rocket, launching a new era in spaceflight to the moon and beyond. >> i still nerd out at these things. i love watching that. the privately built lander is scheduled to touch down on the moon next month with equipment to gather data for future missions. it's part of nasa's preparations for eventual missions to mars. an astonishing rescue in japan. a woman in her 90s was pulled from the rubble of a two-story house more than five days after that powerful earthquake struck the country. she was rushed to the hospital where doctors say her legs were injured after being pinned by some furniture, but she is well enough now to talk. officials say more than 3,300 people remain stranded in the area where that quake struck on new year's day. the death toll has now risen to 168 people with 323 still missing. the iowa caucuses just one

week away. what are the can't-miss moments to see on the campaign trail today.