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>> joe biden and donald trump both heading to the border as close to a face-to-face clash that they've come to this election cycle raging out of control told historic fires in texas turned deadly as crews rush to save lives and homes more than 1 million acres snell burned >> the us supreme court, thrusting itself into the presidential election. again, the back the justices will now have on donald trump's legal and political future i'm kate baldwin with the one and only john berman. sara is off today. this is cnn news central >> as we have all been told,
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>> everything's bigger in texas. and today that even includes the political clash headed to the border. both president biden and donald trump are headed there it as they each try to make the migrant crisis really a pillar of their reelection bids. biden is going to brownsville. trump is going to eagle pass, texas and speaking of big the numbers, speak for themselves and showing how big of a problem the migrant crisis has become. and big political and big policy-wise migrant encounters along the border are breaking record after record in december, those encounters peaked at nearly 250,000 the highest since 2000 today's texas showdown comes as biden is considering, executive action to restrict migrants ability to seek asylum. and it also comes as action on the hill to truly address the problem here remains stalled in part because donald trump and other republicans say a solution would take, a, would take way a potent political tool this election, donald
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trump for his part, donald trump's team for his part says that joe biden is only making the trip today because donald trump himself is headed there. let's go there ourselves. cnn's kristen holmes, rosa flores, they're both in texas. rosa talked to me about the locations that these men are headed to. why brownsville, why eagle pass >> ok. that is such a great question because if they both really wanted to go to the border and see where the biggest challenges are happening. right now. largest number of migrant encounters, the biggest challenges for agents on the ground. we're trying to enforce federal law. they would go to tucson sector in arizona. that's where the largest number of migrant encounters are going on right now. but instead president biden, like you mentioned, is going to brownsville, texas in the rio grande valley and president trump is coming here to eagle pass, but let me start with the rio grande valley because what president biden is
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going to see it's very robust infrastructure and look, the rio grande valley was the epicenter of the migrant crisis for several years, starting in 2014. and since then, the federal government is learned a lot about how to deal with migrant surges. it has a robust infrastructure. the law enforcement arm of border patrol, there is a very robust, i've talked to sources there who say, look, we know how to deal with migrant surges. so president biden would probably get briefed by those individuals who have done this for a really long time and know how to do it. now, down to president trump, he's going to be here in eagle pass, texas. he's going to be in the park that you see behind me. i know it's a little dark, but you're going do see some lights back there. it looks like a military zone. what president trump is going to see is soldiers with long guns, razor wire, shipping containers that line the rio grande that create a border wall. there's gonna be a lot of photo op opportunities. now, this is where the biggest stage on the border is when it comes to the border battle between the state of texas and the federal government. this is
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where the border buoys are. this is where the legal battle over the razor wire is the park that you see behind me was taken over by the state of texas and texas doesn't allow border patrol to get into that area and enforce a federal law. this is the stage that president trump is going to be he on today. it's the biggest age, it's the biggest attention. and kate, it's where he's going to get the biggest political points and that's why he's going to be here today >> what they're going to see fitting with their political needs is what i'm hearing from you, rosa rosa, stick with us and kristen, donald trump last night, he vowed on social media good to conduct the largest domestic deportation in american history if elected, that's kind of setting the stage for what as, as he and his team head to texas, what are you hearing from people around donald trump? what they're planning for today? >> we'll get a lot of the same as we know donald trump's fear, stoking rhetoric on immigration has been something that he has
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really doubled down on. in fact, it helped carry him to the white house in 2016 and he's already promised that if he was reelected in 2024, he would expand on his hardline immigration policies. you saw his first term? flooding as you mentioned, those mass deportations. he wants to make a general election which we believe he looks likely to be the republican nominee against joe biden all about immigration, particularly as you've started to see universal agreement, that there is a crisis at the border. now today we expect to see donald trump meeting with texas national guard, taking a tour the border, getting briefed, giving a series of formal and informal remarks. so one point, they say that he's going to take questions, but as you can see behind me, there's a pretty in-depth security presence here, so it's not entirely clear how people are going to be able to ask him questions, including even us. we're not clear clear how much access we're going to have to him while he's here. we also expect him to be traveling with governor abbott as well as senator ted cruz for parts of the day. >> he >> gave a little bit of a preview of what you can expect to hear from him last night,
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take a lesson as president. i will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in american history during >> joe biden's illegals and murderers because that's what many of them are again there's that fear stoking rhetoric and you should expect to hear a lot of that today, we are told that >> donald trump is going to point to a series of alleged crimes committed by migrants. he's also going to particularly focus on the murder of a uga student, laken riley, the obviously as we have learned, the alleged suspect in that case is an undocumented venezuelan migrants. so something he's going to really touch on and doubled down on as he tries to make comparisons between his administration and biden's administration. >> all happening today. kristin great to see you, rosa. great to see you. thank you, guys, both so much for your reporting, much more in common. john. >> a record setting out of control wildfire, tearing through texas more than 1 million acres, burned already, were dry winds that could make things worse there was a house
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sunday at ten on cnn we are standing by this morning good to see just how many actions the supreme court will take this week on donald trump. of course, they agreed to take up his immunity claim. will they say today whether trump can be on colorado's ballot? there is new urgent pressure for them to answer that because overnight, illinois boy became the third state to call him an insurrectionist and ban him. the illinois primary is just 19 days away in early voters are already casting ballots. as for the course decision to hear the immunity case politico notes, this creates the possibility that quote as voters cast ballots, this fall to decide whether donald trump should win another presidential the a federal jury may be weighing whether he attempted to steal the last one. let's get right to cnn's kaitlan polantz, live in washington. i feel like legal analysts around the world have calendars out this morning counting weeks to figure out what can and can't happen now, kaitlan i was just doing that,
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john. yeah, we're looking at calendars all over. >> but what's happening here is the legal fallout and the implications from the 2020 election. donald trump's actions after that election and the january 6 capitol riot by his supporters. so on the lawsuits side, there are states that have successfully or have looked at lawsuits and said yes, donald trump can be removed from the ballot. he's ineligible to be on the primary ballots in this state. illinois was the surprise yesterday, saying that yes, they too believe that donald trump's should be removed from the ballot for their primary on march 19 or any votes cast for him should be suppressed or not counted. they join maine and colorado as well in that decision. a lot of appeals around all three of these states, the us supreme court is looking at whether states evening and can do something
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like this. and in illinois, things are on hold so that there can be more appeals from donald trump in that state. but a lot is going to depend there on what the us supreme court decides. if trump can be eligible for the ballot. he is being deemed an insurrectionist by courts in both the states of illinois and colorado at this time. and they say that the presidency is part of this, that he can meet, be not eligible for the presidency. and then john, there's the criminal situation that is the presidential immunity claim that the us supreme court also is going to be looking at in the coming months that has derailed his federal case, donald trump's federal case related to the 2020 election. it's a charge of obstruction and conspiracy, and that is something that will be in the supreme court's hands until they decide potentially by the end of the term it's right they will decide they'll hear the case in april. it could be weeks, if not until june when they rule and then people are trying to figure out if and
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when the case could get before judge tanya tucker and assuming the supreme court allows it to go on. so there's that which people have talked about ad nauseam the last 12 to 24 hours, kaitlan. well, there's also tomorrow were there is a hearing in the mar-a-lago documents case is other federal case against donald trump. and i understand trump is going to be there >> we do believe that donald trump will be there. his plans can change, of course, but it is a pretty pivotal hearing. we are expecting it to go several hours and it's going to address time hey, ming first and foremost of this classified documents, criminal case in florida right now, it's on the calendar for late may, but it could be moved to trump's team is expected to ask the judge to move it back into july, into the summer, and then that sets up a popcorn and sort of scenario which case may be able well to sit on the calendar this summer or later closer to the election. that's going to entirely be up to judges and
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also what the supreme court does in that other case, the presidential immunity case that we were just talking about, the other thing that's going to be discussed at this hearing tomorrow in florida in his classified documents case is going to be the possibility of the harassment of witnesses and jurors. there are a number of things on the table where the justice department wants to keep things secret or confidential out of the public's eye as this case moves forward toward trial, because they fear that donald trump does cause harassment across the board in many of his cases. and they are fearing that this could show witnesses as well as jurors in this case as well. >> john. all right. kaitlan polantz, a lot on your plate this morning. thank you very much for all that. >> so catastrophic damage, that is how a texas official is describing what is now left behind from the wildfires there more than 1 million acres burned. >> and it's not over yet >> and boeing is now facing a
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is only 3% contained, which is why the danger is not past and it has also oh, become deadly 83 year-old joyce blankenship. you can see are there she was killed and her home of nearly 40 years destroyed in the flames. >> so >> much of this entire area is now going to need to be built, built up again, a texas power company says, they have to rebuild 115 miles of line. that's just one measure of what they've got ahead of them. cnn's lucy kafanov is on the ground for us in texas that half the town was forced to shelter in place. while night, the mayor of canadian texas, grateful that no lives were lost as local homes burned in a firestorm raging in the texas panhandle, fueled by dry growth and windy conditions the texas smokehouse creek fire is spreading out of control on average around 200 acres per minute, devouring more than three acres per seconds since
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it began two days ago. >> oh, world on fire. >> danny williams has spent 30 years and fritch texas his home survived the inferno that spread through town. >> you came this way really fast and the authorities were trying to evacuate everybody. >> and >> smoke was everywhere. >> he had to wake up a neighbor and get them out of his home before it burned he was sleeping and i told him i would wake him up if it got bad. and when it got bad, he just barely got out he only had the shirt on his back and his dogs. he lost everything. >> the fire which began monday in the texas panhandle near amarillo has now cross state lines into nato you bring oklahoma in amarillo official said early wednesday morning that flames have not reached the pantex nuclear weapons plant, and firefighters have made some progress in that area. >> the last containment numbers i had 90,000 acres burned 25% contained, but the first responders and borger texas
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were initially unable to control the blaze you're out of there. >> the flames have now scorched hundreds of thousands of acres so far, according to the texas a&m forest service, threatening to surpass the largest fire on record to spread across the state is the fire danger over the danger is not over. >> so the winds have died down. they will be back this weekend. it will be high winds and dry conditions again >> now erased or herd livestock and horses from the fire as churches setup shelters for those who've been evacuated. >> most of the people that have come in, they have lost everything as we were leaving, we could turn around and it did it looked like armageddon. it looked like our town was just being engulfed in black. >> parts of at least five texas counties are still under evacuation orders and all the residents evacuated from the town of fritch are being told some homes are still on fire and they can't get return firefighters in some areas overwhelmed by the blaze
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>> out, everybody hi winds are the greatest threat now, on tuesday, wind gusts exceeding 60 miles per hour fueled the greatest destruction >> with us now is jeff qizan, texas ranch or who has lost land and livestock in the fires. thank you so much. >> for >> being with us this morning. sorry for what you've been going through. just walk us through what the last 24 hours have been like for you >> will actually been since monday, we started fighting this fire when it reached us came from the west we fought it all rest of the de and up to 07:00 the next morning? then we got a little bit of a break and it broke out again about a 30. so it finally pretty much burned through us yesterday afternoon. or day before yesterday? and so we're we're
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we're in the clear now >> can you give us a sense of what you lost biggest thing we >> lost was our grass. we did lose some cattle fortunately was as bad as what you would think or what we had thought it would be so it's just it's it takes it takes quite a while to regain your resource, your grass, so we need some rain. good thing about it as it happened in spring, are close to green up. so we're not in the dead of winter and waiting longer. so just waiting for the rains and hopefully some snow or something that kinda puts some moisture back in grounds so we can get the process started again. >> some of the worst fires the texas has ever seen. have you ever seen anything like this? >> i don't know. six we had a big fire came through i believe
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those those fires were over 1 million acres and it was horrible. i mean, it looked like the moonscape. i mean, it destroys everything and but this one it seemed worse. honestly, it, this one was water was about it, but it affected more people i think and especially the town's you know, we didn't have to deal with that as much back in 06, although we did lose some houses and some lives and hate to hear about ms blankenship this morning well jeff days and we do appreciate you being with us. we know how hard this week has been for you but we know you're going to pull through best of luck, rebuilding. thank you >> appreciate it, john. have a good day. >> all right. breaking news this morning, witnesses say more than 50 people were killed by gunfire while waiting for food in gaza it did boeing commit a crime, a new federal
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>> i'm buying nights. this guy who's a crusader against human sex trafficking is actually a customer, united states of scans with jake tapper, new episodes on day nine on cnn this just in to cnn, the israel defense forces is now saying that is investigating reports from the palestinian >> red crescent and other eyewitnesses that over 100 people were killed by israeli gunfire as they were waiting for food from aid trucks let's get over to cnn's jeremy diamond, who's pulling together more details as we're
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learning about this season, tel-aviv, jeremy, what are you hearing about this >> well, the palestinian ministry of health now says that 104 people at least were killed in this incident, 760 people injured. this happened on al rashid street in western certain gaza city, where we know that in northern gaza, the situation has grown increasingly desperate with about a half 1 million people on the brink of famine. and so what appears to have happened is that hundreds of people were surrounding these aid trucks trying to get aid from trucks that addressed i've done northern gaza very few trucks have actually been able to make it into northern gaza over the course of the last month. and at some point, it appears that the israeli military, both tanks as well as drones open fire machine gun fire, according to eyewitnesses on those crowds. now, some of the individuals appear to have been killed by israeli gunfire. others appear to have been killed in the ensuing chaos
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with several of those trucks apparently running over individuals amid all of this. now, the israeli military and a statement says that during the entry of humanitarian aid, gaza and residents surrounded the trucks and looted the supplies being delivered see that during the incident, dozens of gaussians were injured as a result of pushing and trampling and separately and israeli military official is telling us that the crowd approached the forces in the area in a manner that they say posed a threat to the troops. and they say that those troops then responded with live fire. the israeli military also saying that this incident is under review. but obviously the bottom line here is that over 100 people were killed as they were desperately trying to get much needed food aid. and this also just underscores a broader point about the situation in northern gaza. and that is that even as very, not only have very few aid trucks actually been able to make it into the northern gaza. but when they do, they have very little actual
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security around them. and that is in part because the israeli military has been repeatedly targeting police forces that have been around some of these aid trucks in the past, there's very little security for these trucks and the people on the ground or so so desperate for this much, much needed aid. but we he will i suppose get more information in the coming hours and we'll bring that back to you, kate >> all right. jeremy, we'll get back to you as this continues to develop. thank you very much for the update. john quite a few hours, president biden and donald trump will battle for the spotlight at the border as they both had to texas, each trying to prove they're the best person to handle the crisis. there the trip comes as the president is weighing new executive action to restrict asylum claims with us. now, white house press secretary karine jean-pierre. thank you so much for being with us this morning. what does it tell you that both president biden and donald trump are going to be at the border on the same day. >> here it's. there's a difference here and i want to be very clear about this because the president is going to, as you just said,
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brownsville, texas, to hear directly from the border patrol agents, to hear directly from the frontline personnel on what is going on on the ground. and let's not forget the president was at the border just about a year ago and january of 2023 to do the same, this is not about politics for the president. let's not forget, on the first day of his of his administration three years ago, more than three years ago, he put forth a a comprehensive immigration policy. and what happened over and over again is that republicans kept on getting in the way. they kept on rejecting any effort that we asked to get more more resources. we took four months, four months to come up with the bipartisan deal that came out of the senate for months. and it was not about politics, it was about an issue when you think about the border, you think about the immigration that's been broken for decades. it's about an issue that majority of americans care about. the president wanted to get to work and came up with a bipartisan bipartisan deal out of the senate. again, republicans rejected it. why they, they do that, they did that at the behest of the
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former president who donald trump, who asked them to not take it up because of hit for his own political gain. this is not about politics for the president. this is about the american people. the american people are going to hear directly you from president biden today about what he has done to continue moving forward in dealing with this issue and how republicans have gotten in the way you say it's not about politics. what then specifically will be improved by president biden's visit to the border today i think the president said this and he did say this that once republicans rejected that bipartisan deal that came out of the senate, that would >> have dealt with the board of challenges that would have dealt with some of the issues that we're seeing with immigration. let's not forget that bipartisan bill was supported by the border patrol union, us chamber of commerce in this political time, it is unreal, unheard of to see that type of support for a bipartisan bill. and so that's what we saw. look and when they rejected it, republicans
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rejected it again because of, because of the former president, the president said, he's going to take it directly to the american people. the american people are going to hear from him about what happened about how they put, republicans put politics, they put politics ahead of dealing with issues that matter. so let's not forget the presence is gonna go to brownsville. brownsville. the mayor brownsville is republican. so he's going to hear from people who are directly affected by this day in and day out. so again, not about politics this is coming together in a bipartisan way to try to deal with an issue that majority of americans care about. and that's a broken immigration system that's been broken for decades and dealing with the border challenges we're seeing. >> one of the things that some americans are focused on are crimes that are allegedly being committed by migrants who are in the country illegally. there was a death of laken riley in georgia. there's been an arrest made. >> their republicans >> are directly blaming president biden for this republican senator josh hawley
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said, quote, these deaths are on him what's the white house response to that >> so first of all, i want to offer our condolences to the family of lake and i mean, this is a horrific, horrific loss for any family. and obviously any if whoever is found guilty, we need to make sure that makes sure that that happens. and obviously we don't want to, we don't want to see anything happened like that again, but here's the thing we have done, the work to make sure we dealing with a broken immigration system. the republicans have gotten in the way they have gotten in the way. and that's what we continue to see over and over and over again. and so look, this is a serious, this is a serious matter that's why the president's going to the board of the president was at the border a year ago in el paso, visiting the border back in january 2023, he put a comprehensive a comprehensive immigration policy on day one.
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this is really the folks who are getting in the way here are republicans. they are getting in the way. they are doing it because of what donald trump is telling them to do for their own, for his own political gain and so this is where we are right now. so the presence is going to take it directly to the american people. he's going to hear by from foot, from when people who are, who are directly impacted by what's happening with this broken immigration system. but the president is not going to stop. he's not going to stop because this is not about politics, is about the american people and what they want to see coming out of this, of, out of washington you see has the president spoken to his son hunter since hunter biden's testimony before the house committee yesterday >> so i've get asked this question all the time, john, as you can imagine at the podium and i've always been very consistent. i'm just not going to comment on the president's private family conversation, so just don't have a comment for you on that. >> well, the white house publicly sent a letter to fox news criticizing them for their
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coverage over the last few weeks of alexey smirnoff, who was assessed by fbi informant who's now been arrested for allegedly lying about hunter biden and president biden, why did the white house to decide to send that letter? >> so look the letters from my colleagues speak thanks for itself, and you're right. that letter was sent. what i will say this more broadly is that we understand how difficult it is for all of you. we understand how difficult is for and you know this john, how difficult it is true. the reporting and we understand how important it is to report on the facts and to be accurate. and that's what we're asking. let's get four. we're asking to make sure that when reporting about issues that are critical that american people are hearing about a need to be, it needs to be factual, and it needs to be accurate. and again, the letter speaks for itself that my colleague sent out. >> does the white house feel as if the supreme court is acting urgently? in regards to the federal case against donald trump decided to hear the immunity case in late april
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>> so i got to be really mindful here. it's an ongoing criminal criminal case. i'm just not going to comment on ongoing criminal case. i'm just going to leave it there all right. >> finally, the president came to new york earlier this week and had ice cream with late-night host seth meyers. and that seemed to be triggering for some people. i want to read you a quote from jesse waters on fox who said a grown man, especially the president, should not be looking ice cream in public. i wonder if you ever reaction to the outrage over the public eating of ice-cream >> that's just false outrage. i don't really have more to say beyond that, the president went out there to new york. i was with him, i traveled with him. he did he did an interview with seth meyers. he met he met americans where they are he reached more than 1 million people in that interview. he talked about really important important issues that matter to the american people and gave substantive answers. obviously did it in a late-night show
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fashion and look, this is what this is important. the president needs to meet different, different, different americans different in different vehicles, different venues. and he was able to do that. and he was happy to be what seth meyers that day. >> all right. white house press secretary karine jean-pierre. thanks so much for being with us. appreciate it. >> thank you. thank you so much >> on a very serious topic, the where the line is is when you put toppings on the ice cream, that is when it becomes absolute outrage that it's 24 hour coverage then he charter a jet to cover that. yeah. it's rolling and especially if it's gummy bears because they get frozen with the frozen ice cream, it's an outrage. >> moving on. >> coming up for us. it was a remarkable rescue caught on camera, how authorities tracked down a five-year-old girl with autism in the middle of a swamp and the images now coming out, we want to share with you also this a measles outbreak sparking new controversy in florida, putting the state's top health official directly at odds with health experts across the country money this morning
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missing five-year-old girl wandering around the tampa wetlands, all caught on video. watch this >> let's get you >> just sweet boys. any pfizer? the child she has autism and wandered away from her home on monday, and the sheriff's office says that she was found without injury. thank the lord. and is now back to save her family, john, that is a wonderful story by the way anheuser-busch is a very muscular beer. i >> guess. >> it is only one misspeak. one was speaking. you get me this morning. caitlin clark is the all-time leading scorer and women's college basketball history 3,650 career points. and counting. cnn sports anchor
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andy scholes is with me now and she's got more insight. andy certainly does, johnny. no, i tell you what march madness is going to be so much fun with caitlin clark and it's going to start sunday and our final regular season game as she's just 18 points away from becoming college basketball's all-time leading scorer men's or women's and clark, she was in minnesota last night and she just had it all going. what does she do best? those long three-pointers and right away she went from almost the logo. then moments later, she did it again. >> and the fourth quarter clark >> hit her eighth, three of the game with it. she passed kansas is lynette watered for the most points in major women's college basketball history, woodard played for the jayhawks from 77 to 81 when women's sports was governed by the ai a w in twa took over women's sports in 1981, but didn't carry over the players stats. many of those still recognize border. does the true record holder, but now it's clark's. you're finished with 33 points, 12 assists, and ten rebounds, and i was 48 point win over minnesota. so up next for clark has pete
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maravich's all time college scoring record. clark is going to need eight team points at home sunday on senior day against second ranked ohio state. now, pistol pete's record at lsu has always been very highly regarded, especially considering he didn't only three seasons with no three-point line. and clark saying last night the chance to pass maravich it's gonna be very special >> obviously, pizza records getting closer and closer and that's somebody that i've vividly remember even people in high school coming up to me and talking about p and being like you need to watch him on youtube and certain things like that. so super special closing in on that and i my first goal is focusing on ohio state and beating them, but it's super special just to be in the same realm of a lot of these really talented players that have done a lot of really great things for not just men's basketball or just women's basketball, but just basketball in general? >> ticket prices for sunday, which could potentially be clark's final home game and where she sets that record
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john, the rivaling a national championship game, cheapest ticket right now this morning going for more than 500 bucks. >> oh, wow. all right. i have say, 18 points for caitlin clark. like what's the over-under of that happening in the first ten minutes of the game hey i'll state rank second though, john, it's gonna be injured. what if they are like, we're going to we're going to try to clamp down and not let her get that record. it should be definitely fun to watch. i can't wait. all right. andy scholes. thank you very much. >> another reason to be mad at ohio state? yes. getting up, getting just kidding all right. let's move to this. >> the measles outbreak in florida is growing. there are now ten cases reported, reported. all but one among children and broward county with a cluster which is where the cluster is linked to an elementary school. seven of those children are between the ages of five and 14.2 of the children are under four years old so as cases rise, the guidance offered by florida surgeon general, dr. joseph ladapo has faced serious scrutiny. he is still not urging parents to vaccinate their children against the highly infectious disease. also not urging parents to keep
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unvaccinated children home to avoid infection, which is against long-held cdc guidance when it comes to measles, you see what the guidance is right there from the cdc joining us right now is democratic congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz of florida, broward county, where this all happening is in her district. congresswoman. thank you so much for coming in. >> in. >> all of this happening. you are calling now for the surgeon general of florida to resign over this. why? >> well. because ron desantis has appointed a surgeon general who has been a k6, a consistent opponent of vaccination, and who is himself a misinformation super spreader. i mean, i met by the way, this outbreak is in my hometown, the elementary school is down the road from my house. i'm a mom you're a mom. i mean, it is the responsibility of the surgeon
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general of a state to make sure that they give the best and most supported by science information to parents so that they can make decisions properly that are going to keep their children safe and he reached into this school, sent a letter to the parents went around cdc guidelines that recommend that unvaccinated children are kept home. and i'm vaccinated people are kept home for 21 days, did not declare a public emergency and left the burden on parents and didn't even recommend that children unvaccinated children get vaccinated. this is insane. i mean, this is what happens when you have a confluence of measles, misinformation, and maga, and it can be deadly what's head-scratching as i looked through the letter that he had sent out, is he spends basically the first two paragraphs to families >> listing out, as he describes, it would quote unquote, is normally recommended when there is a cluster of measles cases, which
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is broadly accepted truly across the country. and then he launches into the however and why it is not supporting what is normal >> have you >> received any further explanation or defense for the position that he is taking from the state level? >> no no. as a matter of fact, they won't respond to any of our questions. they're not responding to local press questions at home. they're not that they're not saying that the public health department is not responding to questions that's that's part of the state department of health and remember, this is the same surgeon general kate that altered a state study to make the covid vaccine look more dangerous? that literally, whether we have studies in florida that showed that we had more deaths than we should have as a result of the surgeon general's and ron desantis is downplaying of the need to get the covid vaccination last month. this guy recommended that people don't get the covid vaccine so he has fueled
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vaccine hesitancy. and that's why we're only at 92% vaccination rate in our county as opposed to 95, which is where herd immunity is indicated. yeah. he's actually said last month he said that he thought the covid vaccine was not appropriate for human use, kind of pushing largely deep, i mean, widely debunked fears about the covid vaccine. a reminder, a few things for people, what we're talking about. we're not talking about covid, which, you know, people were learning about color. we're talking about measles. it's been around forever and studied and understood for what over a century mean measles was declared, eliminated by the united states in 2000. measles is rare in the us because of the high vaccination rate and because of the widely expect accepted protocols have you, this is your district, this is your hometown, as you said, what are you hearing? from the parents about this. do do do you know how kids are doing? we've gotten gotten infected
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>> i am not familiar with the kids who are infected cases, but this has caused a tremendous amount of anger among parents. i mean, i can't imagine what as a parent, if i didn't vaccinate my child and i was left to fend for myself on whether or not to keep them home or not, that an emergency was wasn't declared. this is the most commute one of the most communicable diseases that we have. and yes, it was eradicated initially in the early 2000s, but we have the maga infused vaccine hesitancy that has created more people who have decided not to vaccinate their children. and that's why we're not at herd immunity. that's why we have two lower percentage of vaccinations. and it's why one of the most communicable disease is spreading through our community. i mean, where a tourism driven state, the number one industry in our state is tourism. how many people are going to want to say, hey, i'm going to take my family down right before spring break down to south florida
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with a measles outbreak, spread, outbreak spreading. it's nuts. he should be terminated or asked for his resignation. and ron desantis needs to do that today. to keep the public safe >> i mean, this cluster or the outbreak is not over. it does take 21 days. we'll see to get past the infection period. so it's still unclear if you're past the danger quite yet. congresswoman, thank you for coming on. appreciate your time, john. thanks for having me. thank you so much. >> right. thanks so much, kate. a new federal probe just launched into boeing. this news just in the justice department is now reviewing last month door plug blow out the door plug flew out of that alaska airlines flight mid-flight this is a story first reported by bloomberg in the new york times, the department of justice is investigating if boeing it can be held criminally liable. cnn's pete muntean is with us now with the details here, pete, what have you learned? >> this is not good for boeing, john, if facing a mountain of
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