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CNN 5 Things

12 PM ET: Alaska airlines investigation, Trump goes after Haley, NRA lawsuit & more

CNN 5 Things

CNN

Daily News, News

3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Federal investigators are trying to find out why a huge chunk of an Alaska Airlines plane broke off mid flight. Former President Donald Trump sets his sights on Nikki Haley ahead of the Iowa caucuses. Fears of a wider conflict in the Middle East are growing as a Hezbollah leader is killed in Lebanon. A civil lawsuit against the NRA starts today, with officials being accused of using the nonprofit as their “personal piggy bank.” Plus, some patients are being denied diabetes and weight loss drugs on their insurance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello from CNN I'm Joe Beck, with the five things you need to know for Monday, January 8th.

0:38.0

Hundreds of flights have been cancelled over the weekend and into today, as the FAA temporarily grounds some Boeing 737 Max Nine planes.

0:47.0

That's after a chunk of an Alaska Airlines aircraft blew off mid-flight on Friday, leaving behind a hole the size of a refrigerator,

0:55.0

while passengers were 16,000 feet in the air.

0:58.0

Luckily, no one was seated next to the door plug that broke off,

1:02.0

and now federal investigators are trying to figure out why it happened.

1:06.4

And today we've learned that a warning light for the plane's auto pressurization

1:10.5

had lit up three times in the past month and the airline had stopped the plane

1:14.6

from being flown over the ocean as a precaution. He is the chair of the National

1:18.8

Transportation Safety Board Jennifer Hamedi. We want to look at that, but it may have absolutely nothing to do with what occurred in the cabin

1:28.6

of the aircraft during that event.

1:30.9

The NTSB says it's also missing the cockpit voice recordings because they were automatically

1:35.8

overwritten.

1:38.2

We're just days away from the Iowa Republican Caucasus, elections that could make or break candidates' momentum.

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