>> i felt emotionally melted. i don't have any words for what i was feeling at that very moment. when i heard those words, i -- i'm going to let you in on a little secret here. i almost started crying. >> the kids of glenn elementary made those eight children feel loved, making sure they could also play on the playground with them and have those moments. >> i love that term, emotionally melted. i'm using that from now on. >> i love the disco party right there. >> to announce it. thanks to that donor who donated all that money. >> a perfect way to end the show, especially considering the meltdown that happened yesterday with the airlines and george santos and the documents, on and on. a good way to end the show. think about that as you go about your day. we'll see you tomorrow. "cnn newsroom" starts right now.

good thursday morning. top of the hour. i'm erica hill. >> i'm jim sciutto. major economic news this morning and good news. inflation showing signs of easing in the month of december consumer prices post the biggest monthly decline in months, also easing in the annual growth rate. the impact this could on the fed's decision to race interest rates. how much, how long, we'll break down the numbers just ahead. president biden's legal team has discovered a second batch of classified documents. the white house has declined to comment on the matter. republicans certainly have much to say. we'll discuss the legal political ramifications facing the administration, also the differences with trump's handling of such documents. the airline industry this morning recovering from that massive damage done by a single corrupted file yesterday. what is the faa saying as they

investigate the cause for these thousands of delays and cancellations yesterday. we'll bring you up to speed. first we have more on president biden's legal team finding that second batch of classified documents at another location. >> with us, cnn correspondent paula reeva steenkamp and white house correspondent m.j. lee. paula, first to you. tell us what this discovery was and what they did with the documents. >> we don't know the answers to any of those questions. all we know is the headline that biden's legal team discovered an additional batch of documents that includes classified information. the white house is making a deliberate decision not to get in front of this matter and allow this to leak through the press. i'll let m.j. handle the reporting on why that is. this is the second batch of documents discovered. previously we learned they discovered ten classified documents in an office they were cleaning out. those documents included top secret information and we've

learned those documents cover subjects like iran, ukraine and the united kingdom. we have more questions than answers. we're asking where were these found, how many documents, what did they contain. the other big question hanging out there, is this it? so far they've been very careful not to definitively say the first batch or now the second batch is all there is. the other big question, of course, is what will attorney general merrick garland do with this? he has tapped the u.s. attorney in chicago to review the first batch. it's unclear what is happening to the second batch that was part of this review. now that you have batches, plural, of classified information potentially mishandled, the odds of a special counsel are increasing. >> m.j., when we do look at this, the white house is being very careful about what they do and don't say. they're not saying very much. do you have any more insight into this strategy, i guess, is the word by the white house

communications department and why this is the approach we're seeing this morning? >> reporter: erica, so far the white houses has not commented at all on the second batch of documents. really they haven't said much about the first batch of classified documents either as evidenced by the white house press briefing yelled when the press secretary basically evaded answering question of question and really just wouldn't say anything new. so what we're left with right now, and paula ran through some of those questions, is a whole bunch of things that we don't have answers to including on the timing factor here. why was it that folks knew about the first batch of classified documents going back to november, but the public wasn't aware of it until several days ago. what were some of the details of how those documents ended up at the private office? of course, when it comes to the second batch of documents, where exactly was that found and who put those documents there? i think the biggest question

probably is, and paula got to this, whether we're about to find out about the discovery of additional documents. it's not going to be helpful to the white house, to say the least, if this ends up being a sort of drip-drip situation. we know based on what we've heard from republican lawmakers so far, they're very intent in adding this to their growing list of investigations targeting the biden administration and the biden white house. in terms of the political timing, all this is looming over an expected decision coming soon from the president on a potential second term. >> paula reid, m.j. lee, thanks so much. the economic news, the key measure showing inflation is continuing to cool. the labor department released new numbers minutes ago. they show inflation eased once again in december, both a monthly decline but also a slowing at least of price growth on an annual basis.

it's the sixth straight month of slowing. >> cnn chief business correspondent christine romans joining us with more. so this feels like good news. is that what the data is essentially saying? >> unless you're buying eggs, this is good news. jim, you're exactly right, that monthly decline in cpi, we haven't seen that since the beginning of this inflation nightmare. that's the first decline from one month to another in the cpi since may 2020. when you look at the chart, you can clearly see those six months of slowing annual inflation growth. 6.5% is still too high. the fed has a long way to go. we'd like it to be more like 2%. there's still work to be done. it looks like the worst of this national nightmare is behind us. when you dig in the numbers, it's gas prices declining month to month and year on year. you've probably been seeing that if you've been filling up at the gas station, but food prices still high here. shelter up 7.5%. egg prices up 59.9%.

you're still seeing these higher prices at the grocery store for a variety of reasons. overall inflation everybody, a lot of kmiskts, it looks like it's peaked here. the fed meets again in february, and the feeling is those days of 75 basis point interest rate hikes may be behind us. the fed will continue to raise rates but maybe not by such big moves. >> we'll take it. christine, thank you. joining us now to discuss, rana fer row har associate editor at the "financial times". good to have you on today. prices still going up, right? but they're going up more slowly on an annual basis. christine noticed something there that stuck out to me, the first month-to-month decline in prices since early 2020. so early may 2020, the early stages of the pandemic. how significant are these numbers in your view? >> for sure these are big-deal

numbers. i think they really show the fed's efforts have worked. the central bank has been trying to land this plane without crashing it as elizabeth warren has been saying. i think they're doing that. we've still got inflation. christine is right. we've got inflation in wages which that's always a mixed bag, right? that's something the fed is still worried about. on the other hand, people need more money in their pockets. it's a delicate balancing act, but these numbers say to me, look, the efforts are working. i do think -- and this is good news for consumers -- i think we'll go back to the days of quarter percent interest rates. >> you're saying in february that increase could be as low as a quarter percent? >> i wouldn't be surprised if at least in the next few months we're going back to that more normal environment of rate hikes. i don't think they're going away

yet. i think people worried about interest rates are probably going to be in a good place going forward. >> let me ask you this, there's been a lot of talk here from a political perspective. republicans saying this is all about stimulus money. that clearly was a factor. but we've seen inflation around the world and there was certainly a pandemic factor here, a supply chain factor. on that side of things, are we beginning to see that not just here in the u.s. but around the world, that that pressure is being relieved on the economy? >> oh, for sure. if you look back at the pandemic, this is kind of a once-in-a-generational event, at least in terms of the kind of supply chain disruption we saw. now we're seeing a more regionalized world. companies are saying, wow, we can't just have one highly vulnerable supply chain going from china to the u.s. we've got to have a lot of different supply chains. we've got to create more resiliency. over 90% of multi nationals are

going regional, going local. i think that's going to be good for local communities. >> rana, always appreciate your insight. great to see you. >> good to see you. airlines expected to get back to their normal schedules in the next few hours, this after the logistical nightmare created by the nationwide ground stop yesterday. >> 10,000 flights delayed, about 1,300 canceled. that hurts when you're traveling. now the faa says the chaos created by a system outage was sparked by a single solitary corrupted file. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean joins us live from reagan national airport. pete, we've all had corrupted files, shut your computer down for a little bit. are you telling me one single file set down this key system which had these carry-on effects for flights around the country? >> reporter: jim, we were the first to report it was a damaged

database file at the center of this meltdown in the notams system, the notices to air mission systems that pilots need to get critical information before they take off. they most read the notams. it gives information about the airport they're going to, the airspace along the route. we're learning the damaged data base file caused the system to melt down on tuesday evening. the faa first realized it then. they tried to reboot not only the main system, but the backup on wednesday morning when they thought it would have the least impact on air travel. that ultimately failed, paralyzing airports around the country for about 90 minutes. a nationwide ground stop, we have not seen that since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. what's also interesting that we're learning from sources is that the faa isn't totally clear just yet on whether or not one person is behind this damaged database file, whether or not it

was a particular entry into the notam system. they simply unplugged it and plugged it back in, for lack of a better metaphor, and that didn't work. i want you to listen to transportation secretary pete buttigieg. he's been very critical of the airlines' meltdowns over the summer and this winter. this was not an airline problem. this was on the faa. there's been so much criticism about the faa's own systems, whether or not they're outdated or underfunded. pete buttigieg has directed an internal review here. he says the agency owns its problem. listen. >> these kinds of disruptions should not happen. my primary interest now that we've gotten through the immediate disruptions of the morning is understanding exactly how this was possible and exactly what steps are needed to make sure it doesn't happen again. >> reporter: a lot of questions facing the faa now, especially given that criticism based on the fact that so many folks say

they're underfunded and understaffed and these systems are outdated. it all comes during a time when the faa is going into its reauthorization process to fund the agency. we'll see how that pans out. we'll also see if this lands in hearings on capitol hill sometime soon. a lot of pressure from congress as well. >> probably would not be surprising to see that. pete, appreciate the update. thank you. an important update on a story we've been following all week. more than 7,000 nurses here in new york city back at work this morning. this ends a three-day strike. the nurses union struck a tentative agreement with mt. sinai and montefiore hospitals after workers demanded, not just higher pay, but really what was key was more staffing. >> the union says the new deal will provide enforcement safe staffing ratios and at montefiore, the hospital agreed to financial penalties for failing to comply with agreed-upon staffing units. the hospitals are calling the

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>> cnn's melanie zanona falling this from capitol hill. house gop leadership including the speaker still stopping short of pushing santos to resign. has anything changed overnight? >> i will say the reason kevin mccarthy says he will not call on santos to resign is because he says it should be up to the people. this morning we heard santos echo that. he told reporters i was elected by the people when he was asking about these growing calls from his colleagues to resign. i'm told there is a political calculation here for leadership as well. the reality is, if santos were to step down, this will tee up a special election. this is a very blue district, a biden-won district. it's very likely that democrats could flip that seat. that would make the gop's razor-thin majority even slimmer. this could all change if santos is indicted or there's an ethics investigation that turns up more information. leadership might feel forced to call on him to resign or

intervene in some way. it's remarkable what we already know. i want to tick through this "new york times" resume of santos obtained by the publication, because it's just remarkable. it says on the resume santos was a project manager at goldman sachs. he never even worked there. he said asset manager at citigroup, never worked there. he said he got an mba from nyu, never attended the university. this is just the stuff he admitted to lying about. there's probably a ton more that we don't know about. everyone on capitol hill is waiting for the next shoe to drop. jim, erica. >> melanie sa kno nah thing. joining us heidi przybilla. >> kevin mccarthy does not want to lose another seat and they might lose a seat if there's a special election. you have five members of his own

party calling for him to resign. which wins out? the party math here or a sense that this guy just can't survive? >> jim, i think right now mccarthy is making the calculation that he can continue to say innocent until proven guilty. santos has not been charged with anything. while federal, state and local officials are investigating things, there are no indictments against him or anything like that. i checked in with leadership this morning. the calculation is they can't force him to resign at this point, because then they set the standard that every republican lawmaker who somehow generates bad headlines or potential accusation, they'll have to take the same move. they want to see this play out a little bit more. they have told him to get a good lawyer. they have advertised him he cannot talk his way out of this. that being said, as you said, five members of his own party have already come out and said he should resign. we expect more if more

allegations come out. just this morning, "the new york times" reported there was an unregistered super pac that funneled thousands of dollars to his campaign that wasn't even registered with the federal election campaign. every day it's this drip, drip, drip of more accusations. if this continues to happen, this could become an untenable situation for leadership. >> heidi, when we look at the political calculus, there's the very thin margin and the concern if there's a special election the seat could flip. the other part of that equation, though, is when he is up for re-election, if he does, in fact, stay in that seat, this could also cause some blowback, especially on the republican party in new york state which just had some pretty significant and important gains. >> erica, i think this demonstrates how fragile this situation is with mccarthy's leadership in the house, is that the longer-term risks clearly are much more significant. it could go to democrats short

term. but long term it could swing decisively towards democrats and it could pain a stain on the entire delegation in a state, new york state, where arguably republicans made some of their biggest gains. new york state gains accounted for about one-third of the overall gains republicans made in the last midterm elections. what you see there is practically unified delegation at the local level as well saying this guy needs to go. while speaker mccarthy may not be able to force his resignation at this point, there's other levers he could be pulling that he's not. for instance, censuring. we saw in the last congress paul gosar, he's out of congress now, he was censured for putting up a cartoon that depicted him violently -- i think it was pointing a gun or killing alexandria ocasio-cortez. so censure is definitely a tool he could be using that at least right now he's not using.

certainly this is concerning the entire delegation. >> censure would avoid a special election which might also lose you a seat. there's also that part of the calculation. heather, on the issue of the president and a second discovery of classified documents here, is it your sense that they're looking now. they found this second tranching because want to see there's no more out there. >> they did come under significant fire for not reporting this to the public until it leaked. we know federal officials have known since before the election about the first trove. now i think they're definitely in damage control mode, and this really -- on the hill, it's a gift to house republicans in many ways because they're coming out of last week when all the attention was on kevin mccarthy and his conference was in chaos, the new majority couldn't

govern. now they have this classified document issue to rally around. if you ask them, they look at it and they're like, well, democrats, they say former president trump did all these things and want to investigate, but they're not holding biden to the same standard. of course, the circumstances that have been reported for president biden and what was found are much different than the situation with donald trump, but that hasn't stopped house republicans from using this as a rallying cry, talking about launching investigation, really uniting around it. >> we know it's not exactly apples to apples. heidi, the fact that the white house is being so tight-lipped about so much of what has come out, that's not exactly helping them. is it your sense that there is any plan by the white house communications department to try to get ahead of this and get a handle on it? >> certainly there's pr strategy. this is also a legal issue and the department of justice potentially getting involved here. they know part of that process, it does not help you to start

speaking out before you know everything, right? the situation here is different in that it appears these documents were handled by aides or mishandled potentially by aides. biden may not know if there's more out there. it sounds like they're doing a search. so right now the best strategy may be just to allow his surrogates to point out the differences. republicans certainly will liken this to the situation with donald trump, but it's up to the president's allies to point out that number one, this is different because these were the aides who most likely were responsible for this, that they were turned over after they were discovered. whereas president trump knowingly took these documents to his residence, refused to turn them over, to the point where he was accused of engaging in obstruction and federal agents had to issue a search warrant and the doj get involved.

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that and the paycheck. this morning idaho murder suspect bryan kohberger is expected back in court. lawyers set to discuss how to move forward in the case, this

as we're hearing more from the victim's family members. here is the father of madi mogen. >> i just -- i broke down and i just cried -- i could only take so much of that, and i just -- i cried and i still haven't read the rest of it. >> cnn correspondent josh campbell is in moscow, idaho, with more. josh, what do we expect to see today? >> reporter: so in just a couple hours' time, 28-year-old bryan kohberger will have what's called a status hearing, largely procedural in nature. we'll have to wait to see if there's anything of substance that comes out. this s as we've been mentioning, a precursor to a preliminary hearing where we could see additional evidence from prosecutors, additional witness statements. of course, this all comes as kohberger has been charged with four counts of first degree murder. an attorney for him says his

client will be exonerated. authorities have already unsealed a trove of potentially damaging evidence that include a dna connection between the suspect and the crime scene. police analyzed the movements of his vehicle, his cell phone which put him in the i have tinity of the residence where these murders took place at least 12 times before the killings. we're getting new insight from people who new bryan kohberger. one of his neighbors spoke with cbs news and said in discussion after the incident, kohberger actually brought it up saying it appeared that police had no leads and kohberger felt this was a crime of passion. so chilling this neighbor says this occurred after the fact. we know the suspect in this case was studying criminology and criminal justice. a lot of questions here about the motive here, whether there was any connection to these four victims. we're waiting to hear more from authorities. t the suspect will be back here in court. >> so heartbreaking for the

families as they go through this. josh campbell in moscow, thanks so much. parts of california now bracing for yet another round of rain, this after being battered by heavy flooding, mudslides and toppled trees over the course of the last several days. flood watches in effect. at least 40 state routes have actually been closed. >> on the central coast hundreds of national guard members are searching for 5-year-old kyle doan. this after rising floodwaters swept him right from his mother's arms. >> i want to switch places with kyle. i wish kyle was the one that was rescued. >> that poor mother. i can only imagine. cnn national correspondent camila bernal is in california. camila, horrible to hear, a personal story there of loss through all of this. now there's more rain. i wonder how that might complicate the search. >> reporter: it's a really

difficult search. the family right now is in shock. they say it's so hard to process this. they're not giving up. they want to find their son. they want him back. they will be searching in the water here behind me. this is the creek where kyle was last seen. i want to go over this creek because it is still flowing somewhat rapidly, and the terrain is really difficult in terms of the search. that's why you're not seeing anyone out here this morning. they're waiting for the sun to come up. we're expecting national troop members -- national guard members. we're expecting many of the neighbors, the family, the friends, who have been out here day after day looking through the mud, looking through the waters. the reality is that this mother says she tried to hold on to her son. she describes saying that he told her, it's okay, mom, don't panic, it is going to be okay. she did everything she could to hold on to her son, but the

current was so strong that he was swept away by that water. here is his father describing what that mother told him. >> he was too far in the middle of the current in the creek, they couldn't reach him. they could get to her because she was closer to them and was able to get a rope to her and get her over to the side, but they couldn't get to my son. the husband that was there saw him, he was floating back. his head was above water. he was looking out, and that was the last time they saw him. >> reporter: they are not giving up hope. that car is still here, just a couple of feet behind me. it's really hard to see because the sun has not come up yet. it's part of the reason why they're not searching yet. i was here when his brother, 18-year-old brother came for the first time and saw the car.

it was emotional for him. he was hugging -- the friends out here helping him search. it's a really difficult process for this family. we'll have to wait and see what happens today as they continue to search. jim, erica? >> it's such an awful heartbreaking story. camila, thank you. >> our hearts go out to that family. still ahead, incredible mu images of what one ukrainian soldier somehow survived. that's an x-ray showing an unexploded grenade inside his body. we'll be live close to the front lines coming up.

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u.s. customs and border protection says a new migrant processing center in el paso, texas is now open. officials say that tent-like facility will boost processing capacity by 1,000 and will ensure migrants are treated with dignity while in custody. >> cnn's rosa flores is live in texas. we know el paso has become the epicenter of this crisis. practically speaking, what will the impact of this new center be? >> reporter: well, practically, it will double the holding capacity in the el paso sector which is important because it will give the federal government a way to mitigate the impact of migrant surges. what happened in el paso, and the reason why el paso became the epicenter of the current immigration crisis was because a very large number of migrants crossed into the united states during a very short period of time. this overwhelmed the federal government, the local government

and even non-profit organizations. so it looks like a giant tent. we have video of this. what this giant tent does, it allows the federal government to manage that migration flow a little better because they're able to have more processing capacity. that giant tent is climate controlled. it has areas for eating and sleeping. it's important to note that all of this is part of the department of homeland security's plan to prepare for the lifting of title 42. part of that plan is to increase resources and also to add ten soft-sided facilities like this along the border, and this is one of them. the one in el paso is one of them. that's expected to help the federal government mitigate the impact of the next migrant surge. erica and jim, as you know, title 42 is still in place. border communities are bracing for the lifting of title 42 because a migrant surge is expected after that. >> we'll see if that makes a difference. rosa flores, thanks so much. russia is reshuffling its

military once again, this as president vladimir putin seemingly demoats his military commander in june. >> the general will now head up the invasion. sergei ser rof kin who was in charge only since october is going to be one of his deputies. cnn's ben wedeman is joining us. the general is out. does this mean any change in the nature or the strategy in the east for russia? >> reporter: certainly, jim, it represents an attempt to get some sort of more cohesive operations going in the east, but the general is somebody who doesn't exactly have a record of success. he was overseeing the initial phases of the russian invasion of ukraine which went disastrously wrong, particularly

in the kyiv region. now, regarding the dangers faced by ukrainian soldiers, we've seen these pictures -- the x-ray pictures of a soldier that had been hit by a russian grenade, launched by a grenade launcher. apparently surgeons were able to remove this live grenade from his torso. there were two sappers in the operating theater to make sure when the grenade was successfully removed from his body, that it didn't go off. jim. >> ha is really something. ben wedeman, appreciate it. thank you. still to come, the supreme court handling a momentary loss, an advocate handling new york's gun control laws. it's something two of the justices said is giving them hope. what were those comments? stay with us.

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veteran detained in russia for a year has been released. this comes after months of negotiations spearheaded by former new mexico governor bill r richardson. >> natasha bertrand joining us now with more. so what are the details? what more are you learning about this? >> so this just happened moments ago. 35-year-old taylor dudley, a lansing, michigan, native, was released to bill richardson and his team there in poland. after being detained in collin grad in april of 2022. it is not clear how he ended up in collin grad. he been in poland for a music festival and he crossed the border and was detained in that tiny ex clave that is russian territory sandwiched between poland and the baltic states. but this is a process of months

of the richardson team trying to get him release and actually what we are told is that the former new mexico governor who now has a nonprofit dedicated to these kinds of hostage negotiations did bring his case up with the russian officials, kind of around the same time he was trying to negotiate the release of paul whelan, and brittney griner and trevor reid. and reid and griner have been released and paul whelan has not. and so we're told that taylor dudley is in good health. he's been released moments ago to this -- the team that has been negotiated his release and the russian officials did not demand anything in return for his release. so they're very pleased about how all this all went and they are emphasizing at this point that they're still working very hard to get paul whelan home. he remains in russian custody. >> remarkable. no quid pro quo for this one. natasha bertrand, thank you so much. the supreme court on wednesday allowed new york's

restrictive gun law to remain in effect as legal challenges play out. so in a brief order, the justices rebuffed an emergency request from challengers who said the law violated their constitutional rights. and two justices stressed they're not ruling on the merits of law but declining to intervene in this dispute. >> so what are the tea leaves there. supreme court reporter avian devogue joins us now. you have two conservative justices saying what. >> you remember they changed the language of second amendment. and they got rid of that in new york, but they changed the fame work that judges will use to look at any gun regulation going forward, right. so supporters of gun rights were emboldened, they went back to court on a whole host of issues and we really saw a ripple effect going on right now of these cases back at the court. the one that came back for the first time now to the supreme

court came back just briefly. but it was about that new york concealed carry law passed after that supreme court ruling. and these gun owners said, look, this law is in defiance of what you said last spring. you should look at it again. the court choose not to step in at this early -- at this early time. but these two justices, justice samuel alito and clarence thomas, they wrote their own little opinion and they have a message. they wrote applicants should not be deterred by today's order from again seeking relief if they don't get the quick action by the second circuit. that sends two messages. it sends a message to the gun owners, be vigilant, watch the lower courts. but it also said to lower courts, work quickly here. these two justices do not want this to linger in lower courts. they don't want the lower courts to thumb their noses at what the supreme court said and they're worried it is going to happen. so the bottom line here is that

this message has been sent out there and now you've got liberals, progressives, supporters of gun regulations echoing what the liberals said in dissent last summer and said at this time of mass shootings, these states need flexibility and the supreme court has just taken that away from them. so that is what is going on and it is really fascinating to see this ripple effect. >> just quickly, that was an invitation to come back at a later time. >> invitation to come back and we're going to see a lot more invitations from the court. >> thank you so much. also in new york, four men are charged with trafficking more than 50 firearms. this is the first prosecution in new york state under a bipartisan gun safety bill which president biden signed into law last year and includes a gun trafficking offense which state prosecutors used here to charge the traffickers. >> you talk to cops and they

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top of the hour now. this thursday, i'm jim sciutto. >> and i'm erica hill. any moment president biden set to speak about the economy. this is on the heels of new data this morning that shows inflation on a downward slope. we'll bring you the remarks live. we're also watching to see if the president will make any comment or answer any