come on in, john tapper, host of bar rescue. he also rescues restaurants.es and a shake, how do you change the perception of mcdonald's? that is what mcdonald's has to do. >> 4% domestically for february 1.7% globally, much higher than projected. there is an issue. millennials react to stories. look at chipotle. food with integrity. look at sonic, projects and flavors, all the shakes and different rinks they have. mcdonald's doesn't represent any story now. there is no health message, there is no neat blend to the burger, no quality statement. other brands are connecting with a story or purpose that sends a message that millennial are connecting with. mcdonald's isn't. stuart: i think the elites heat mcdonald's. be elites run the establishment media, they hit mcdonald's. it will be very tough for mcdonald's to put off a positive message which changes the image of the burger, a shake and some fries. i would say they are almost impossible and you say? >> i agree with you. remember howard johnson's? they had an orange seats and. counters when the rest of the w

john berman is in for jake tapper. "the lead" starts now. >>> al qaeda is there, isis is there and now the u.s. is gone. i'm john berman and this is "the lead." >>> the world lead. a civil war unravels the country and creates a terrorist melting pot. this is a script we already saw play out in syria and now that u.s. special forces have evacuated yemen, are we seeing it happen again? the politics lead. ted cruz takes a texas-sized leap into the presidential bull ring the first to make his 2016 bid official. but can the fiery senator ride social conservatives to the republican nomination or will he get the establishment's horns? >>> the buried lead. he gets mobbed like he's a one direction drummer, if they had one. the pope spent the weekend touring through naples grabbing a slice, lecturing the mafia and oh you know, performing a miracle. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm john berman pinch hitting for jake tapper today. we do begin with the world lead. in yemen, which just might be the most dangerous strip of land on this

john berman is in for jake tapper. "the lead" starts right now. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm john berman in for jake tapper. we are following two major breaking stories this hour. all the latest on the plane crash in the french alps and whether the co-pilot murdered 149 innocent people. but first, this. breaking news in our national lead. you are looking at pictures from just moments ago from the east village in manhattan. we are live there. this is second avenue and east seventh street where a building there has essentially just collapsed. earlier, not much more than half an hour ago, there apparently was some sort of explosion in this building in this crowded neighborhood in the east village, a multi-purpose building where you can imagine there was a restaurant at the ground level, residential above. sources tell cnn that there are several people hurt. there could be people trapped inside that building. we have seen firefighters on that scene right there. there were flames flying out of that building moments ago and apparently just shortly ago, that building all but coll

john berman in for jake tapper. >>> a passenger jet obliterate ready. i'm john berman and this is "the world." the world lead. the plane and 150 souls on board reduced to rubble when this it smashes into the french alps. recovery crew beginning to sift through the debris. >>> plus the drop 14,000 feet in six minutes aumll the while the pilots kept eerilyrieareriely sigh lint. how soon before we know why this plane went down? and the loss. we're learning the first details of exactly who these passengers were. families, babies 16 high schoolers. their class trip turned into a tragedy. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm john berman in for jake tapper. we begin with breaking news in our world lead. right now in the french alps. recovery crews just suspended operations. darkness forcing them to stand down. that word "recovery" is all too telling. the 150 people on board this plane, germanwings flight 2555 are all likely gone. french aviation investigators are in possession of a black box. they're trying to figure out just why the jet went down this morning. aif f

john berman is in for jake tapper. "the lead" starts right now. >>> welcome to "the lead." man in for jake tapper. we are following two major breaking stories this hour. all the latest on the plane crash in the french alps and whether the co-pilot murdered 149 innocent people. but first, this. breaking news in our national lead. you are looking at pictures from just moments ago from the east village in manhattan. we are live there. this is second avenue and east seventh street where a building there has essentially just collapsed. earlier, not much more than half an hour ago, there apparently was some sort of explosion in this building in this crowded neighborhood in the east village, a multi-purpose building where you can imagine there was a restaurant at the ground level,

john berman in for jake tapper. >>> a passenger jet obliterate ready. john berman and this is "the world." the world lead. the plane and 150 souls on board reduced to rubble when this it smashes into the french alps. recovery crew beginning to sift through the debris. >>> plus the drop 14,000 feet in six minutes

john berman is in for jake tapper. "the lead" starts now. >>> al qaeda is there, isis is there and now the u.s. is gone. i'm john berman and this is "the lead." >>> the world lead. a civil war unravels the country and creates a terrorist melting pot. this is a script we already saw play out in syria and now that u.s. special forces have evacuated yemen, are we seeing it happen again? the politics lead. ted cruz takes a texas-sized leap into the presidential bull ring the first to make his 2016 bid official. but can the fiery senator ride social conservatives to the

i'm john berman in for jake tapper.ing our breaking news coverage in the investigation into the crash of germanwings flight 9525. right now, investigators are carefully examining the plane's recovered cockpit voice recorder with the hope that it might contain a treasure trove of valuable information in determining what caused this plane to crash. but they also continue to focus on the flight's path. cnn's tom foreman is in the virtual room. tom, what can you learn from the path of this plane compared to past airline disasters? >> well maybe a lot if you can find similarities. let's start by looking at some plane flights just as they are. here's one we will look at alaska air. this was a terrible crash over the west coast, flight 261. they had a massive mechanical failure on this flight. let me bring in a chart that will show the last 15 minutes of the flight. let's talk about what this plane did. as this plane lost its ability to be controlled by these pilots you can see them wrestling with the plane for a moment or two

i'm john berman in for jake tapper.situation room." >>> happening now, unfit to work. investigators find ripped-up medical leave notes in the co-pilot's apartment including one for the day he crashed an airliner into the alps. what illness was he hiding and how did he keep the airline in the dark? co-pilot's mind. what could have motivated a young man with a love of flying living his dream of being a pilot to set the auto pilot for a collision with a mountain? cameras in the cockpit. investigators are basing their findings on audio recordings but wouldn't it make sense to have visual evidence of what was actually going on inside the cockpit? why not install cameras? >>> and a proxy war. the u.s. is helping to fight pro-iran forces in one country but it's fig

i'm john berman in for jake tapper. i turn you now over to wolf blitzer. >>> happening now. obliterated. rescuers make their way to the remote and extraordinarily rugged site where an airliner slammed into a mountain. a scene of absolute devastation. new details on what may have caused the plane to go into a dive suddenly during what should have been the saich safest part of the flight. a black box has been found. what clues will it provide? >>> allegations that israel spied on secret nuclear negotiations with iran and leaked what it learned. >>> a blistering report reveals a huge number of shootings by philadelphia police with half of the suspects turning out to be unarmed. what's behind the shocking numbers? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room". >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> our breaking news. investigators are now starting to pore over a black box from an airliner that went down with 150 people down. the germanwings airbus a320 from barcelona to dusseldorf with 154 passeng

i'm john berman in for jake tapper. i turn you over to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >>> happening now, unfit to work. investigators find ripped-up medical leave notes in the co-pilot's apartment including one for the day he crashed an airliner into the alps. what illness was he hiding and how did he keep the airline in the dark? co-pilot's mind. what could have motivated a young man with a love of flying living his dream of being a pilot to set the auto pilot for a collision with a mountain? cameras in the cockpit. investigators are basing their findings on audio recordings but wouldn't it make sense to have visual evidence of what was actually going on inside the cockpit? why not install cameras? >>> and a proxy war. the u.s. is helping to fight pro-iran forces in one country but it's fighting alongside pro-iran forces in another country. who stands to gain? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> stunning new details tonight about the co-pilot who prosecutors say intentionally crashed an airline

cnn has learned that the speaker of the house john boehner and mitch mcconnell are just a couple of lawmakers who will be conspicuously absent. jake tappers from washington. jake who else isn't going and have they explained why not? >> reporter: well, there are a number of democrats, rank and file members and the top democrat in the house, the number two democrat in the house, the number three, others all planning on attending. but as you mentioned, republican leaders in the house and leaders the closest you can get is senator rob portman who is a counselor to mitch mcconnell though not really in the top ranks of leadership. there really is no decent explanation when you ask why they're not going to be there. they note that all republican who is are going to be there and one of the cochairs of the event is tim scott from south carolina and they note that congressional gold medals were given to the marchers by congress but there really isn't sort of satisfying explanation as to why they're not going to be in attendance. >> are they missing an opportunity to extent the arm to try to reach out to minority voters? we know they've struggled w

tapper. our world lead. the fight against isis being waged with force on the ground and with words in congress today. secretary of state johnry facing down senators from both sides of the aisle who have problems with president obama's plan to deal with the terrorist group. this as u.s. and coalition bombers flew missions inside both syria and in iraq overnight, hitting 15 terrorist targets in total, they say. and they say joint iraqi forces some 30,000 combined fighters from the military as well as those shia militias won back an isis-controlled hospital in tikrit we are told. but as iraqi forces made headway there, in ramadi which is much closer to baghdad and where the u.s. military presence still looms large, there, iraqi officials say isis terrorists have that city flanked and attacked from all directions early this morning. let's get right to cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr. as all this was going on in the middle east here in washington, d.c. on capitol hill the secretary of state and defense secretary testifying before the senate foreign relations committee. they took a lot of heat. >> reporter: they did. thi