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Maryland gov: clearing bride wreckage is a daunting task Mar 30, 2024

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Specifics measures revealed on the massive operation to reopen a critical shipping port and to get that collapsed bridge off a cargo ship in Baltimore including cutting the bridge into pieces, tug boats, barges, and cranes. We ask a Republican who calls himself a budget hawk about the role of congress. Plus, what has so many fish freaked out near Florida spinning and swimming upside down?

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Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison Mar 29, 2024

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Sentencing day for Sam Bankman-Fried who will spend decades behind bars for one of the biggest financial fraud cases ever. Will the customers he swindled ever get their money back? Also, in the wake of the Baltimore bridge collapse, how many other bridges across the country are at risk of falling?

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Search underway for six presumed dead in bridge collapse Mar 28, 2024

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Investigators all day were aboard the ship responsible for the catastrophic bridge collapse in Baltimore, interviewing crew and doing inspections as the families of six bridge workers hold out hope remains will be recovered. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg joins to discuss. As well, the head of the Army Corps of Engineers joins to discuss the enormous effort to clear all that mangled metal and reopen this major east coast shipping port. Also, CNN's John King on how Arizona voters feel about Biden or Trump as the November election creeps closer.

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Major Baltimore bridge collapses after being hit by cargo ship Mar 27, 2024

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State and federal officials have confirmed there is an active search and rescue effort in Baltimore after a cargo ship struck a bridge, causing it to collapse. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott joins to provide updates as crews search for six missing people.

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Appeals court trims Trump bond to $173M Mar 26, 2024

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Donald Trump was given ten more days to pay his bond and the amount he owes was cut down. Also, Trump’s hush money trial will begin on April 15th. Plus, Israel cancels a high-stakes Washington visit after the United States allows a UN Gaza ceasefire resolution to pass.

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Russia: 40 killed, 100+ injured in concert hall attack near Moscow Mar 23, 2024

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Gunman opened fire on crowds at a concert hall in Moscow. At least forty people have been killed and one hundred plus people have been wounded according to Russian media who have called the attack an act of terrorism. Plus, Catherine, the Princess of Wales, has been diagnosed with cancer.

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Dow closes at record high as global markets rally Mar 22, 2024

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The court filings are going in to start the process in case Donald Trump cannot meet the requirement for his New York bond. Plus, outrage on Capitol Hill as Republicans are furious over the last minute release of a bill to fund the government through September. Also, CNN is on the ground in Haiti as violent gangs try to take over the few parts of the country they don’t already control.

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Confusion in Texas as border law zigzags through courts Mar 21, 2024

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The controversial Texas immigration law that was on hold, then not on hold, then on hold, could soon be not on hold again. An appeals court today weighed whether state authority should have the power to arrest and deport anyone the United States illegally given that immigration is typically a federal enforcement issue. CNN is in Texas with what happens now. Plus, a push by Israeli extremists to take over Gaza and kick Palestinians out. How out of the mainstream in Israel is this proposed ethnic cleansing of Gaza?

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Trump says he would have to hold “fire sale” of his properties to post $464M bond Mar 20, 2024

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Will it be a fire sale for former President Trump as Trump himself floats the idea while he comes up with a way to pay New York State for his financial fraud and his multi-million dollar bond that grows interest by the day? Plus, CNN is at the prison where a former Trump aide now sits behind bars. Also, sentencing day for members of the six Mississippi law enforcement officers whom prosecutors say brutally tortured two black men.

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C.J. Rice is freed after more than a dozen years in prison Mar 19, 2024

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Where disinformation prevails and democracy fails Putin celebrates a resounding win, cementing another six years in power after the Russian presidential election. Plus, Haiti collapses into a gang-state and CNN is in the capitol to capture how violence is the law of the land. Also, Jake meets C.J. Rice after he finally tastes freedom after spending 12 years in prison for a crime he says he could not have committed.

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