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welcome to all of you watching here in the united states, canada and all around the world. i'm kim brunhuber ahead on cnn newsroom. candidates are in new hampshire ahead of tuesday's primary. what a new poll says about taking on joe biden and how one candidate is reacting to a big snub when it comes to an endorsement the. the israeli prime minister seeks to explain his position on the two-state solution with palestinianss. we'll have a live report from the region. and missing out on the american dream. how one generation sees a different economic landscape than what the indicators say. new hampshire's primary is just three days away. republican contenders are campaigning during the final weekend before the votes are cast. donald trump, ron desantis and
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nikki haley are all taking aim at each other, but also beginning to focus on the man each candidate hopes to face in november president biden. >> with your vote four days from now, we're going to win another historic victory in the great state of new hampshire. then we're going to defeat crooked joe biden, the worst president president in the history of our country. and we're going to make america great again. >> it's a question of what's in contend for november and how the base is going to be energy yiezed. we know the democrats probably wouldn't be energized with biden in the absence of a trump nomination. we also know that if trump is the candidate, i think you're going to see big time just tick in enthusiasm. i think it's going to give them an advantage.
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>> if you look at any of the head to head polls, trump and boyden on a good day are even. he might be up by 2 points. it's going to be a nail biter of an election. we're going end to upholding our breath again. i'm in every one of those same general election polls. and beat biden by 17 points. >> it shows trump lagging behind booiden in a hypothetical ma matchup, but the gap is much closer. people were asked whom they would support if the general election were held today. 52% picked biden compared to 45% for trump. now the poll was conducted
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between monday and wednesday. on friday night, former presidential hopeful senator tim scott can made it clear whom he backs in this. >> here in the warm state of new hampshire. to endorse the next president of the united states. president donald trump. >> now the endorsement was supposed to come ahead of the south carolina primary next month, buts was pushed up because the spike ananikki hale has gotten in the polls. they need a president who will unite the country and close our southern border today. i spock with the university of new hampshire and i asked how
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much of the blow scott's endorsement is to the haley campaign. >> personally,s it's hard because they had a relationship in south carolina. she brought him into the u.s. senate. for a fellow south carolinian to not endorse her, i don't know she was expecting he would endorse her instead of him, but as we enter into the primary, it's one more thing that she has to overcome. when you're a candidate like nikki haley and you're down by double digits, you're thinking about the future and you're trying to finish the best you can while you're managing expectations. it's a lot. and trump seems to be rolling through and nothing seems to bother him or the people backing him. so when you're nikki haley or a challenger, you're almost kind of hitting your head against a
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brick wall trying to figure out how to bust through. antiabortion ed advocates converged on a snowy washington, d.c. friday for the annual march for life event. it's the second one since the supreme court overturned federal abortion protections in 2022. participants who gathered at the national mall say they are now looking to states to pass abortion bans. at least 14 states with republican majorities have banned the procedure with little to no exceptions. more than a dozen states plan to hold their own marches in the coming weeks. president biden and benjamin netanyahu are down playing the differences of a future palestinian state. the two leaders spoke on friday for the first time in nearly a month. the person familiar with the conversation tells cnn benjamin netanyahu explained the public comments he made in which he
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appeared to reject the idea of a palestinian state weren't meant to foreclose that outcome in any form. the white house says the president reiterated his support for a palestinian state once the war between israel and hamas is over. biden says he believes benjamin netanyahu would agree to a two-state solution given the right one. scott mcclain joins me live frommist stand bull with the the littest. the conversation between benjamin netanyahu and biden, take us through what was said and how you think that rift might impact the war. >> the american push for the israelis to transition this war to a lower intensity phase, the two-state solution was very last on that read out. perhaps that's because it is the least realistic thing of happening any time in the foreseeable future. this shouldn't come as a surprise. you pointed out already that
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prime minister benjamin netanyahu has signalled this before . he said he wouldn't make the same mistakes. the closest that israel has come to a lasting peace. so the white house thinking has been to brush it off to the side and say that benjamin netanyahu has made these statements before and come back to a more moderate position. at least according to to a person familiar with the call, he did yesterday saying his comments on thursday were not meant to close the door entirely on the possibility of a two-state solution. he found the possibility of a demilitarized state given security guarantees from abroad is something he found intriguing. this is something that's been pushed by the egyptian president before and something that
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appears president biden is interest ed in as well. listen. >> there's a null of countries that are members of the u.n. that still don't have their own military. so think there's ways in had which this could go. >> the americans think that once the war is over, once the dust settle thes, there maybe more of a pathway to talking about a two-state solution and the foundations of a palestinian state. they are ultimately talking to about this. the popularity in israel is sinking to new lows. there are calls for fresh elections. the most recent people to call for that is a minute of his own
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war cabinet and a former prime minister as well. benjamin netanyahu certainly won't be in forever pz. >> take us through the latest on thes last round of strikes and the reaction. >> this is the sixth round of american strikes in yemen on houthi in tooargets. the pentagon says there were three targets that were hit. antiship missiles pointed at a the red sea that were we priored to fire. the americans saud this represented a threat not only to commercial shipping in the red sea, but also to u.s. navy ships that were in the area. that's why they went ahead. you had the houthis successfully launch some of those missiles. they say they are not deterred by these american strikes.
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even president biden a acknowledged they are not working, but they will be continuing. so there's no sign at all any of this is going to stop. the ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee in the united states was asked about this. he said that, look, the houthis may still have ammunition, but at least now they have less of it. >> appreciate it. it should be a joyous time since the hamas attacks in october, gaza has had 20,000 births amid thement bombardment and supply shortages. mothers are being forced to undergo c-sections without anesthetic. the medical staff is so overwhelm ed they can't help women deliver their stillborn infants and some mothers are too weak to breast-feed. >> becoming a mother should be a time of celebration. but in gaza, it's another child delivered into hell.
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humanity cannot allow this warped version to exist any longer. >> cnn is able to identify the claims. the u.s. is looking for answers after confirm a citizen was culled in the west bank on friday. palestinian media reported a 17-year-old palestinian american was shot to death. the state department is looking to the israeli government for more information on the circumstances around the death. defense forces and police told cnn that an investigation is underway. russian troops are taking heavy losses in fighting near one ukrainian town. next, why ukrainian soldiers are worried they won't be able to keep up the pressure. plus the baltic country's new plan to defend themselves by possible attacks by russia. that's comoming up. stay with h us.
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ukraine says russian troops are suffering heavies losses in fighting neern the eastern city, but soldiers tell fred pleitgen they are not sure how long they can hold out. this report contains graphic video. >> it's a sight troops see all
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too often. an assault force coming right at them. the russian infantry moves with virtually no cover. ukrainians call meat assaults because they have virtually no chance of survival as drones hunt them down. the assault with a large number of personnel, the assault after assault, nonstop. if we kill them with drones in a day, the next day they renew their forces and continue to attack. it's been going on for several months as russian president vladimir putin seems hell bent on taking the area. russian vehicles under artillery fire as they get close to ukrainian positions. the ground littered with dead and dying russian soldiers trying to overwhelm the ukraine defenses here. the ukrainians say they are holding back most of the assaults but are outgunned and
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the outman ned. we need more people, more military, more equipment. we need more ammunition more drones, he says. unfortunately, we don't have the amount needed to win. we need a lot. and the russians not face ing t same shortages are dropping massive amounts of ordinates on the ukrainians. heavy guided aerial bombs. one of the key defense points, a massive plant at the edge of town. and that's where these guys are setting up their defenses. under constant fire, elite snipers from the special forces. here they have the cover to hit advancing russian soldiers. their anger vizable in the hoodies they wear for our interview. with the weapons we have distances up to 1,000 meters, the effectiveness is 90%. for that kind of precision, they need to keep their weapons in pristine condition all the time.
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at the beginning, it seemed the russians could encircle very quickly, but as we see, they have been ours for three months and we're holding on. holding for now, even as assault after assault eats away at ukraine defenses. fred pleitgen, cnn, ukraine. >> belarus has adopted a new military doctrine to serve as the first step towards deploying nuclear weapons across the country. on friday the country's minister said the nuclear option is considered as an important measure for deterrence from potential adversaries adding it demonstrates belarus does not treat any nation as its enemy regardless of the actions of the nations. the doctrine is still awaiting final approval from the people's assembly to be held in april according to russian state m media. they are going to build new
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defensive installations on the borders with russia and belarus. the agreement between the countries includes a network of bunkers, support points and distribution lines at the end of this month, they will hold the largest military exercise sibs the cold war. all member nations will participate in the military committee says the organization has no choice but to prepare for possible war with russia. >> not everything is going to be hunky doory in the next couple years. i'm not saying gone wrong tomorrow, but we have to realize it's not a given that we are in peace. and that's why we have the plans. that's why we are preparing for a conflict with russia and the terror groups. if it comes to it, if they attack us, we're not seeking any conflict. but if they attack us, we have to be ready. >> 90,000 troops will take part in the drill.
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a member of ukraine's parliament the and leader of the countries party was at the world economic forum this week in switer is is land to discuss security issues and joins us now from brussels. thank you for being with us. you have been traveling trying to get more support for ukraine. how important is that given the political turmoil here in the u.s. that's threatening aid from america. >> thank you so much for having me. indeed, it is incredibly hard to explain to the people who are fighting at the front what is going on and why they are everything that they need. and given that we have received the political promises, this famous stay with ukraine as long as it takes, it is incredibly important that as long as it takes happens now. because we need the weapons now. we need the financial support now. and every single day of the delay is showing russia that it
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can be consecrated on the political differences and the promise to ukraine. >> you're emphasizing the now on the timing. here in the u.s., there seems to be a growing realization in washington that this might be the last chances for military funding before the presidential election. obviously, as you know better than anyone, the stakes couldn't be higher. is there a sense of desperation in ukraine that this is your one shot now for quite some time? >> well, exactly. we were expecting the support to come in the end of 2023. and that was the general understanding. and the fact that we entered 2024 without it was already a very bad sign. and right now when we are discuss ing our plans for the future, we know we have to rely on it. and the sense of desperation is there, absolutely.
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so it's hard to explain to people who do not very deep into the political differences in the united states on why there is this delay and what are the chances of it being resolved. >> this political paralysis that's affecting that aid, what damage do you think that this is doing to america's worldwide reputation? >> well, it means that even if there are political promises to stand with the country, that there could be many ifs. the ifs could be if there will be political will or if will be no bureaucratic to that. and again, who is winning in this matter and who is very happy about that, it is poutin and his a allies. they see that they basically can do whatever they want. then if there is political decision in the united states,
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it may not be coming to life because there are things inside the country. >> meanwhile at the world economic forum, you were attending that this week. one of the ideas that seemed to be gaining traction was using frozen russian assets to pay for reconstruction in ukraine and help fund the war. st it's something your president has called for. what kind of support have you been getting for that idea? >> first of all, we have khan that has passed the necessary legislation to do that. kcanada does not have many of te assets confiscated and froze right now, and i'm here in brussels, and i met with the prime minister, who has championed steps forward to confiscate the taxes on the
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frozen russian assets and use them for the ukraine fund this will buy certain things for ukraine and will shoulder the precedent of using russian money for the sake of ukraine. it is very important as the first step as the president to show that it's not that one country can start a full-scale invasion and make the whole democratic country's taxpayers to pay for this. it's completely unfair. it's completely wrong. russia needs to pay. and their best legal way of making them pay is to use the money being held by democratic countries right now. >> you mention ed a precedent. a precedent can cut both ways. there are many legal hurdles here, but even if you can take the capitol, could it set a dangerous precedent for other countries to seize inappropriate funds.
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>> i think the dangerous precedent is not to have those assets froze and to show russia that they can do whatever they w want. and then the democratic countries will still be saying we will keep them safe with us no matter what you do. for all the other aggressions. >> we'll have to leave it there, but good to speak with you. thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us. >> thank you. glory to ukraine. >> still to comome. >> t this is t the amerirican d bubut at what cost?? >> m millennialsls speak outut ththey now regegret going g to collllege. the e debt isn't't worth it.t. that's c coming up. stay with us.
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join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today. welcome back to all of you watching here in the united states and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. get back to one of our top story this is hour. just three days to go before a big republican primary in new hampshire. front runner donald trump picked up an endorsement from one of his former rivals for the nomination. tim scott got opt the trump train on friday in new hampshire. >> we need a president who will close our southern border today. we need donald trump. we need a president who will
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unite our country. >> scott's endorse the is a bit of a snub to his fellow south carolinian nikki haley who said interesting that trump's lining up with all the washington insiders when he claimed he wanted to drain the swamp. haley and ron desantis are trying to drum up more support in the race to beat trump in the granite state. omar hawaii jimenez has more. >> we are super excited. >> reporter: all the candidates are backing in new hampshire. ron desantis, nikki haley and donald trump are making their final pitches to voters heading into the last weekend before the primary. one that haley says carries enormous weight. >> this is a wakeup call for the republican party. >> she's not going to make it. she has no way. maga is not going to be with her. >> reporter: he's continued to single her out, even calling her
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names on social media based on her birth name. >> the name calling, i know president trump well. that's what he does when he feels threatened. that's what he does when he feels insecure. it's not going to waste any energy from me. i'm going to focus on the things that people want to talk about and not get into the name calling back with him. >> reporter: haley polled within single digits of the former president in the past month and has focused her attacks on him. >> the reason he's throwing these temper tantrums is because he knows i do have a chance. the reason he's doing this is because he's not able to defend his record. >> reporter: she sees the granite state as a two-person race as ron desantis apparently scaled back appearances. >> it's a little chilly. >> reporter: as he stresses the road for him doesn't end in new hampshire. >> as long as i'm in the hunt, that tells me i'm seeing a a pathway. the minute i don't, i'm not going to do this for my health. >> reporter: desantis wouldn't speck lit on what future states
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he believes he could win, buzz hi campaign stressed he's in it for the long haul. haley tried to keep her momentum going despite any endorsement. she is had a flurry of events over the course of friday with more planned into saturday. as well as former president trump continuing his campaign push, but also is expected to be back in civil court monday, a day before the new hampshire primary, as sources tell cnn. omar jimenez, cnn, new hampshire. presidential election later this year was a hot discussed topic at the world economic forum in switer is listened. it just wrapped up after five days of meetings, but there was plenty of talk about including israel and the challenging global economic outlook. >> the ukraine conflict is a
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challenge. gaza and israel is a challenge. the red sea issue is a challenge. the question really is how much does this get broader versus being relatively localized. the red sea has the disadvantage also creating instability around the movement of goods to the canal. i think there's a lot of work to be done there. but in general today, it's less of an impact than so many other things that these countries are dealing with. >> you're pumping money into that. can it survive a trump presidency? i know we're predicting ahead, but the u.s. is a big shareholder. >> i have no idea who is going to become the next president, but in the first trump presidency, the bank did get a capital increase and the u.s. was the contributor. so remember the magic of the bank, which everybody gets. you put a dollar into the balance sheet as capital. i can generate six from it
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because they try the it. that math everyone understands. so if you believe that there is logic and rationality in this math, i feel you can work with governments. not everybody will agree on everything. that's my job. i have to work this. >> can we talk about ai? i think we have seen both extremes here this year. the good, the bad and the ugly. the crisis threat, it's the world bank using ai? where do you stand on where we are today and the risk? >> in general, ai has so much good going for it. productivity, medicine, cancer, cures, all the good stuff you could talk about. the bank use it is in various places a as well. including to inform our work. but like everything else, if you don't have the right guide rails and rules of engagement and just allow it to be blooming, it
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ruins the opportunity to harness the good and allow it to get out of control. how you find that balance, how you toggle those switches is going to be the magic. >> a strong finish, the week for the stock market. the s&p closed at a record high for the first time in two years. the dow is all positive for the year. some investors are hoping the federal reserve will cut interest rates in march. meanwhile, the university of michigan's survey of consumers shows u.s. consumer sent meant is up 21% from last year. they are supported by confidence that inflation has turned a corner. now those strong market numbers don't necessarily translate to welcome news for millennials. some of them said they are struggling to achieve the american dream. they can't afford a second child, buy a house or go out to dinner when they want, even though they are college educated. >> i see $400 going towards student loans.
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i see $500 for hoa. and i see groceries averaging about $150 a week. sure, maybe for my wife's retirement portfolio might be looking great, but we need to get there first. we heard how metlife is preparing for the world cup final. >> he did not plan to be a tiktok creator. >> if fist ta decided to sell tickets. >> reporter: that was not his goal when he graduated with a history degree on a scholarship from the university of virginia and started working at a nonprofit. >> i was at the $60,000 mark of my salary. and the only way i was going to crack $8 the 0 was to get a grad school. >> he went back to school for a masters degree in public administration. >> i had to take out $ 0,70,000n loans. we're basically thrown into the hole. right away, we have to start climbing out of it. >> you're first generation. what was the dream for you?
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what was the dream if you went to college? >> etscape poverty. for immigrants that are coming to this country, that's always the thing that they tell you. >> danny juggles three jobs, soccer coach, tutor and tiktok video creator. >> i don't have a full-time salary job since november of 2022. and it's not without trying. i have applied to about 100 jobs. and a couple of them have gotten to the final round, but just not been selected. >> my life is very different than what i envisioned it would be. >> rachel and garrett followed the road map that previous generations said would spell success. go to college, get married, work hard, buy a house, start a family. >> this is the american dream, but it's at what cost. we have all of those things.
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we appreciate every single the one of those things, but we think about how we could lose those things very quickly. if one of us loses our job, we're in a not good place. >> between their college debt and monthly mortgage payment, think feel they have slipped into a lower economic class than the one they grew up in. >> do you describe yourselves as middle class? >> like to think we are. >> i would say lower middles class. when i think of middle class, i think about people who are a able to get and go and do things within their means. be able to go to dinner whenever they want or maybe take that trip. we don't have that luxury. >> rachel works at a nonprofit. garrett as an insurance underwriter, but their paychecks barely keep pace with their $3,400 monthly mortgage payment. rachel's 26-year-old sister moved in to help offset costs for all of them. >> so all of this is a affecting
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your family plan. >> once we started getting daycare costs, it was like we cannot afford to have another child until he's in a public school system. i would love for him to have a partner in crime, but we can't afford to give him that for at least four years. >> is that sad? >> i'm sad. our family is dictated by our financials. i just never thought it would be that way. >> we have $435 left until the end of the month. actually until february 4th. >> that's even worse. >> so what would they do differently if they could do it all over again? avoid student debt, even if that means rethinking college. >> i think this idea of going to college is something that i don't know if miles will do. we have decided we're not going to push him there either. i think a lot of millennials were forced into saying you need a four-year degree in order to be successful. i have a communications degree
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and i did not need that to be successful. and so i think it starts with when you turn 18 you're already put into a disadvantage. we need to change that mind set for the next generation. >> did i go to college to do tic videos, no. but is that the place i can make money potentially, let me make my tiktok videos. hopefully find a new way to live the american dream. >> still ahead, alec baldwin facing new charges in the deadly had shooting on a movie set we'll have details on a a grand jury's indictment, after this break. stay with us.
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kield. child. he says it's investigating peterson's claim he's innocent. 51 years old, he was originally sentenced to death following his conviction in the murders of lei sit peterson and their unborn son. he reported his wife missing before their bodies were found months later in the san francisco bay. meanwhile, the innocence project filed a motion this week requesting documents which were not available to the defense attorneys during husis trial. in new mexico the a grand jury indicted alec bald one with two counts of involuntary manslaughter. this is the second time he's been charged with the shooting on the set of the western film "rust." josh campbell has the latest. >> reporter: alec baldwin criminally charged. that according to an indictment issued friday by a grand jury in the u.s. state of new mexico. the actor's new indictment for involuntary manslaughter pertains to his alleged role in the shooting on the set of
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"rust" in which a gun baldwin was holding discharged killing a woman. he's long proclaimed his innocence insist issing he never pulled the trigger on the gun. his attorneys issued a brief staumt after the indictment was announced indicating we look forward to our day in court. he had been previously charged with involuntary manslaughter the lead prosecutor describing a culture of alleged negligence on the movie set. >> there was such a lack of safety standards on that set. there were live rounds onset. they were mixed in with regular dummy rounds. nobody was checking those. and then they somehow got loaded into a gun, handed off to alec baldwin. he didn't check it. he didn't do any of the things he was supposed to do to make sure that he was safe or that anyone around him was safe. he pointed the gun and pulled the trigger. >> those initial charges were dropped last year after authorities learned the gun in
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the shooting may have been modified. that according to a law enforcement source speaking with cnn. prosecutors said the case could be refiled at a later date. forensic analysis commissioned by authorities indicated the gun could not have been fired without someone pulling the trigger. in october prosecutors said additional facts have come the to light that we believe show baldwin has criminal culpability in the death. and signalled a grand jury would decide on recharging the actor. if convicted of the new accusations, he faces up to 18 months in prison. josh kacampbell, cnn, los angel. a special grand jury has been chosen to investigate thes police response to the 2022 mass shooting at robb elementary school. that's according to a local newspaper. it marks the first known development in the criminal justice system into the botched response. it follows a scathing new report from the justice department that called law enforcement's actions that day a failure. cnn has reached out to the local the prosecutor and court officials about the special
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grand jury but hasn't heard back yet. just ahead, a tragic accident with a heroic ending. how a teen saved her neighbor's baby after a falling power line killed three. stay with us..
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a commuter plane made an emergency landing on a busy highway in virginia on friday. southern airways flight took off from dulles near washington and headed to pennsylvania. flight awe ware shows the plane climbed 800 feet for two minutes before landing on the roadway. the 27-year-old pilot and crew member and five passengers were aboard the small plane. there are no reports of injuries either on the aircraft or on the ground. the cause is under investigation. in florida, a car ego flight was forced to return to the airport in miami after one of the planes's ebb gins malfunctioned minutes after takeoff. the witness captured this video and droibed seeing fire and sparks come ing from the boeing 747. the flight crew declare d a an emergency. the sobl-sized hole was discovered one of the enjins.
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the safety board has opened an investigation. china report ed a record lo birth rate in 2023 as its population shrank for the second year in a row. the demographic trend is set to have a significant impact on the second largest economy. mark stewart reports from china. >> reporter: 35-year-old jesse on the move. her focus, a career in marketing. having children, not on her agenda. >> do you want to have children? >> no. not at palall. >> reporter: that is a big problem facing china. for the second year in a row rgs its population dropped. a loss of more than 2 million people according to the government. >> translator: i think having children will disrupt all my life plans. i think life is already very hard. >> reporter: besides commitment, there's also the question of cost. right now in china, a sluggish economy makes it hard for young people to find a job.
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getting married and having babies just isn't a priority. >> translator: giving birth to a child is only one of my choices. it should be up to me, not anyone else. >> reporter: among countries with low birth rates, china has more people who die each year thoon those who are born. this is not one of those issues where the government is staying silent. it is talking about it and has taken steps to encourage young people to have children. this includes everything from financial incentives to more holidays for pregnant parents. at a women's conference last year president xi jinping told female leaders to actively promote the idea of marriage, childbirth and family among young people. >> this is my first. >> reporter: do you want to have more children? >> no. >> reporter: for some parents who already have children, her little boy is enough. a reminder of the recent past when the government fearing
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overpopulation only allowed most urban couples to have one child with forced abortions and sterilizations linked to its somewtimes brutal enforcement. but this isn't just about choices. the population slump is a demographic blow to the world's second largest economy as it struggles to find a workforce for the future. mark stewart, cnn, china. a portland, oregon, day corey worker jump ed into actio after a live powerline fell on a vehicle killing three people. portland fire and rescue officials say a branch fell on to a family's suv bringing the power line down with it. attempting to exit the vehicle, they slipped causing them to come into contact with the the electrical current resulting in their death. while still in the arms of his father, the baby survived. the 18-year-old neighbor saw what happened and risked her
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life by running to the man and bringing the baby to safety. >> i honestly didn't think about it. i wasn't thinking i could be electrocuted. i was more so thinking i have to grab this baby. >> rescue officials say the acts were selfless and heroic. finally, a 16-year-old will have a lot to celebrate when he turns 17 in a matter of days. the english teen threw a rare nine-darter on his way to a world series title. if you play darts, you know how hard it is to do. and not only did he do it, he became the youngest player to throw a nine darter. he defeated a former world champion in the semifinals and the current world number two in the finals to win the crown. that wrap this is hour of cnn newsroom. i'll be back with more news in a moment. stay with us.
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