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Local Station KOLD Receives Second "Message" in Guthrie Case; Trump Won't Apologize for Racist Video; Trump Pushes Republicans to Pass Voter ID Bill; Trump Says Nuclear Talks with Iran to Resume Next Week; U.S. Appeals Court Upholds No-Bond Immigration Detention; Millions under Extreme Cold Alerts in the Northeast; Seahawks and Patriots Face Off at Super Bowl. Aired 4-5a ET

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KIM BRUNHUBER, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Welcome to all of you watching us here in the United States, Canada and around the world. I'm Kim Brunhuber. This is CNN NEWSROOM.

A new message in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie as authorities resume searching her home. We'll have the latest on the investigation that has more questions than answers.

President Trump faces swift backlash for sharing a racist depiction of the Obamas. The video has been deleted but the president isn't apologizing. We'll have details on the fallout.

Plus, the latest on high-stakes nuclear talks between the U.S. and Iran. We'll have a live report from the Middle East.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): Live from Atlanta this is CNN NEWSROOM with Kim Brunhuber.

BRUNHUBER: We begin with a new development in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, mother of "Today" show anchor, Savannah Guthrie, a new message connected to the case.

Investigators headed back to the 84-year old's home Friday after a second message was sent to local news station KOLD. Officials are checking its authenticity.

A KOLD anchor who saw it said there were no deadlines and, based on the content, she doesn't believe officials are treating it as a ransom note. She shared more crucial details with CNN. Here she is.

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MARY COLEMAN, KOLD ANCHOR: We did get some information from them. I'm going to read some of my notes here so I don't speak incorrectly. But they say that this is not the same IP address. But it appears the sender used the same type of secure server to hide their IP address.

So that's all that we know about the sender at this point, which, unfortunately, really isn't much. And this new note does contain something that the senders seem to think will prove to investigators that they're the same people or person who sent the first note.

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BRUNHUBER: Authorities returned to Guthrie's home within an hour of receiving the message. Late Friday. They towed a blue Subaru from a spot near the residence. CNN's senior U.S. national correspondent Ed Lavandera is in Arizona with more on the investigation.

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ED LAVANDERA, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For nearly a week, the desert neighborhood where Nancy Guthrie was abducted from her home has felt frozen in sorrow.

LAURA GARGANO, NANCY GUTHRIE'S NEIGHBOR: You see that there that's called a pack rat nest.

LAVANDERA: Laura Gargano has lived around the corner from Guthrie for 11 years. She's tried to help investigators searching her home security cameras, hoping to find the clue that could identify the culprit who abducted her 84-year-old neighbor. But she says it doesn't feel like enough.

It's also like a helpless feeling, right?

Like there's not much you can do. Or do you feel -- do you feel that?

GARGANO: Yes, I think that there are some people who feel that way, for sure. I definitely feel that way. I wish there was something more I can do. And it almost feels like time is standing still right now, that it almost feels inappropriate to go on and continue with our lives.

LAVANDERA: Investigators keep scouring the neighborhood, returning day-after-day, looking for any evidence that will bring them closer to bringing Nancy home.

There are no videos or photographs that you guys have been able to release. Does that mean you're not getting anything that is of true value?

SHERIFF CHRIS NANOS, PIMA COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT: We're still in the process, right?

But so far, we've gotten some things back but there's nothing that's that you would say, aha, this is it. So we're just working. It says -- these things are done in an hour on law and order. This is real world and it's just take some time.

LAVANDERA: This is not a television show and it's time that stretching longer as each day goes by with no word of Nancy's whereabouts. For neighbors like Shirley Harvey, it's hard to make sense of a tragedy that hits so close to home.

What has this week been like for those of you who live around Nancy Guthrie?

SHIRLEY HARVEY, NANCY GUTHRIE'S NEIGHBOR: There's still no news. So I think the general consensus is people are in shock because we still don't know where she is.

LAVANDERA: She says they're haunted by what's happened to their neighbor taken from her home in the middle of the night while those around her slept.

HARVEY: And I can't even imagine how she would cope with something like that.

What she would even do and how it would affect her if that happened to her in the middle of the night, it's just a very unnerving thing to happen to somebody, especially an elderly woman.

LAVANDERA: Another day passes, investigators keep returning to the rolling hills in this neighborhood, searching for a clue that might be hiding in the desert brush, while everyone desperately waits for this dreadful moment to end.

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This search that started Friday night here in Nancy Guthrie's neighborhood, started right after news of the second message from the alleged ransom author emerged and was reported by CNN affiliate KOLD.

We do not know if the search here or the return of law enforcement activity is connected in any way to that letter and we don't know what investigators have found here but we do know that they were put down evidence markers in various areas and that they were on top of the roof belonging to Nancy Guthrie's home.

So the wait here continues after this sixth day of the search for Nancy Guthrie -- Ed Lavandera, CNN, Tucson, Arizona.

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BRUNHUBER: And CNN got perspective on these new developments from law enforcement analyst Jonathan Wackrow, who's a former Secret Service agent. And he talked about what stands out to him and what it could mean for investigators working to find Guthrie. Here she -- here he is.

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JONATHAN WACKROW, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: Well, right now it's hard to tell, right?

Because I think if you look at it from a technology standpoint, there is a level of sophistication by sending encrypted messages and targeting but you know, as John just said, you know, everybody is a suspect but not everybody had the opportunity to have access to Nancy Guthrie.

And I think that's really what investigators need to focus on right now. We heard that they spoke to the landscaper and those first-degree contacts but I'm sure that the FBI is going back now and reinterviewing and then going to second- and third-degree contacts.

Because we just know that to get this crime done, to execute it as it was, there had to be a greater working knowledge. You either did one of two things.

Either you had the inside information about what the property looks like, had the opportunity to know when she was vulnerable, when no one else would be around, have some working knowledge to execute the abduction or you have to go through and conduct pre pre-attack surveillance on the property and collect all of that information.

The latter is more difficult. You're telegraphing, you potentially can get caught in that activity, that surveillance activity.

The closer contacts is where I would be if I was investigating this. That's where I would be looking because it's the group that has the opportunity to cause harm to her as opposed to a stranger coming in and trying to execute on this abduction.

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BRUNHUBER: President Trump is refusing to apologize as he faces bipartisan backlash for posting a racist video. It depicts former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes. Listen to this.

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TRUMP: I looked at the first part and it was really about voter fraud. And the machines, how crooked it is, how disgusting it is. Then I gave it to the people. Generally, they look at the whole thing but I guess somebody didn't. And they posted it and we took it down.

QUESTION: A number of Republicans are calling on you to apologize for that post.

Is that something you're going to do?

TRUMP: No, I didn't make a mistake.

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BRUNHUBER: The U.S. president eventually removed the post after it was up for nearly 12 hours. I just want to warn you before we show it that it is obviously disturbing and offensive. But we feel it is important to show what was posted on the account of the president of the United States. So have a look.

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BRUNHUBER (voice-over): You can see here the faces of the Obamas put onto the bodies of apes. His decision to delete the post came after the White House initially doubled down.

KAROLINE LEAVITT, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: It was a meme that was posted by a staffer on the president's Truth Social account. It was from a "Lion King" video depicting, as you pointed out, different Democrats as different animals.

I think Kamala Harris was depicted as a turtle in this video meme. The president did take it down. He spoke with lawmakers today out of respect for them, including Senator Tim Scott. The post was removed.

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BRUNHUBER: And Senator Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, called it the most racist thing out of this White House. And a number of other Republicans also slammed president Trump for this post, including Republican strategist and CNN political commentator Shermichael Singleton. Here he is.

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SHERMICHAEL SINGLETON, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: This does not make me happy. This does not bring any type of satisfaction to me to see the president, one, who represents my party but two, who represents the entire country posting this type of garbage.

And I know the White House is saying, well, maybe someone else posted it or it was tagged at the very end of a video.

Well, at a bare minimum, should we at least not be conscious to watch every single thing we're posting on our feed?

That alone should bring into question, what the hell is the president doing at 12:00 in the morning just posting any and everything with no regard for what it may be?

You cannot excuse this. Again, I'm not happy about this.

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ASTEAD HERNDON, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: It is both shocking and not shocking at the same time. Right?

Like at one, you have the reality of the president, United States engaging in offensive racist behavior.

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But you also have a president who has had his whole political rise tied to those very same things. I mean, the origin story of Donald Trump is a racist conspiracy about Barack Obama. So I mean, we could not extract Donald Trump from the trail of racism that he has left or encouraged.

But I think this reflects the White House is increasingly at a credibility loss to they have they are putting their officials out there, Karoline Leavitt included. And whether its Minneapolis or whether it's Trump's health or whether it's this video, they're increasingly asking the public to not believe what's in front of them.

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BRUNHUBER: Joining me now is Natasha Lindstaedt, professor of government at the University of Essex.

Good to see you again. Thanks for coming on with us here. So president Trump refusing to apologize for posting this racist video. He says he only saw the beginning of it before he shared it.

I mean, how do you read his response to all the fallout here?

NATASHA LINDSTAEDT, UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX: Well, he refuses to apologize. Like you said, I don't think he's ever apologized for anything, ever. He just doesn't seem to be able to get himself to do it, even though he was receiving some pressure from Republicans who were understandably outraged by what he's doing.

I mean, this is the type of post that you might think the KKK would be spreading, not the president of the United States. And I think this is really a sign that he is just out of ideas. He isn't doing well. He knows he's not going to do well in the midterms.

And as Michelle Obama has stated in the past, when he's out of ideas, he doubles down on racism and misogyny because he knows he just doesn't have much more to offer at this moment.

And he was saying in the clip that this was about this voter fraud idea, that voter fraud is widespread, which, of course, is false. He knows that the midterms are coming up and his approval ratings are incredibly low. And so he tries to distract by posting on social media.

But he's completely out of touch with these types of posts. It really only appeals to a very small segment of the U.S. population.

BRUNHUBER: Yes, I mean, we can expect some of the criticism that we've been hearing from his opponents, from independents, but we did see pushback even from Republicans.

Do you think that kind of criticism within his own party will actually carry any weight?

LINDSTAEDT: Well, we keep thinking there's going to be some issue that is going to be the nail in the coffin for Trump, that the Republicans will finally feel like they have had enough, especially as they go into the midterms. They know that he is not popular.

And the last time he was president, the first midterms that were held, the Republicans didn't do well because of his low popularity.

So why they keep clinging to him? I really don't know. I mean, I think if I were a Republican, I would want to drop him because he's too much of a liability at this point. You don't know what he's going to say or do.

And you did see the rare rebuke from, as the piece mentioned, from Republican Tim Scott, who normally is so incredibly loyal to him. And a few other Republicans have stepped up and said, you know, this is just completely unacceptable.

But they didn't go as far to really condemn him.

And, you know, I think that there may be still some feeling amongst the Republicans that they have to get in line with whatever he says, that that he just kind of moves from one scandal to the next and that they will get hammered in their primaries by him, as he will unleash all kinds of anger toward anyone that goes against him.

But we're seeing with the handful of issues this and the Epstein files the Republicans are willing to push back a little bit.

BRUNHUBER: Yes. Remains to be seen whether they'll have any impact with voters. He did -- Trump did relatively well with Black voters, especially Black men. So we'll see whether that has any effect.

Tying this with another issue here. I mean, critics are connecting that racist post to the push for the Save America Act, saying both are targeting communities of color.

Chuck Schumer has called this Jim Crow 2.0. Critics say it could block millions of Americans from voting.

What is the real impact here for voters who, you know, don't have a passport or a birth certificate?

LINDSTAEDT: Well, it's a huge impact. And it's been reported that it will be about 21 million Americans that will be affected, because you have to show some kind of proof of citizenship. And some of these documents aren't that easy to just get.

It's like you said, going to affect people of color; could be affecting someone who was recently married, could affect the elderly, as it might not be that easy for them to get this kind of documents.

And the law is also targeting election workers that, even if they are helping out someone who actually is a U.S. citizen, if they don't accept the right or proper documentation, they can face five years of prison time. So what they're trying to do is send a really chilling and threatening message to voters and election workers.

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Making it more difficult to vote at a time when we need more people involved. And they continue to peddle this conspiracy theory that there is fraud in U.S. elections, which there isn't.

I mean, the 2020 election, the one that 70 percent of Republicans, I should say, thought was fraudulent, was one of the most fair and free elections in U.S. history. This is something that election officials and experts have said again and again.

So this is an attempt at voter suppression. And I think this falls in line with some of the things that Steve Bannon has said, that they're going to have ICE agents at the polls or that they should have ICE agents at the polls. They're trying to suppress the vote at a time when we need more people involved.

BRUNHUBER: We'll have to leave it there. But I always appreciate your analysis, Natasha Lindstaedt. Thank you so much.

LINDSTAEDT: Thanks for having me.

BRUNHUBER: Well, the 2026 Winter Olympics are officially underway in Italy. The opening ceremony kicked things off on Friday night, with a 3.5-hour celebration, paying tribute to the country's rich history, art, fashion and culture.

Italy's president formally declared the games open at the main event in Milan. For the first time, two Olympic cauldrons, one of the symbols of the games, were lit simultaneously and will burn throughout the competition; 2,900 athletes from more than 90 nations will compete in these games.

The full competition heats up in the hours ahead, with five events awarding medals on Saturday. CNN's Amanda Davies is in Milan with the latest.

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AMANDA DAVIES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Friday night may have been the official start of the 25th Winter Olympic Games here in Milan, Cortina. Dancing coffee pots, catwalk models Mariah Carey and all but for so many of the athletes, their main job is well underway already and that, of course, is the competition.

Whilst we were enjoying that always iconic moments of the lighting of the Olympic flame here in Milan, up in Cortina, Lindsey Vonn and her team were working on creating magic of their own.

After the 41-year old made her much anticipated first appearance on the snow for her first downhill training run in Cortina on Friday, just a week after that crash in Switzerland that saw her rupture her ACL.

Her coach, Aksel Lund Svindal described it as smart skiing as she posted the 11th fastest time from a group of 43 athletes. It wasn't perfect but she made it down much to the relief of those of us watching on, holding our breaths and wincing with every landing.

And the decision now is whether or not she takes part in Saturday's second training run or goes full steam ahead to Sunday's race and her quest for a fourth Olympic medal, 16 years after her first.

You wonder what will be running through the mind of U.S. figure skater Ilia Malinin, too. He is finally set to make his Olympic debut on Saturday.

The superstar known as the Quad God, the reigning world and U.S. national champion taking to the eyes for his short program as part of the team competition. His teammates have given themselves a two point lead over Japan after the first day of competition.

And also on Saturday, the fastest male skiers on the planet will get their moments on the mountain to shine their downhill race set to take place in Borneo. The man known as the Alpine's version of Shohei Ohtani, Marco Odermatt, because he excels in all forms of the game of skiing, as is the case here.

He's many people's favorite but the USA is Ryan Cochran-Siegle won his only World Cup victory on this course and home favorite Giovanni Franzoni would love to follow up the best season of his career so far.

Winning Kitzbuhel just a few weeks ago, he is hoping to bring home Italy's first gold of the games -- Amanda Davies, CNN, Milan.

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BRUNHUBER: President Trump's using a good cop/bad cop strategy after new nuclear talks with Iran. He's praising the dialogue but ramping up the pressure on Iran's economic lifeline. We'll have that story ahead. Stay with us.

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BRUNHUBER: President Trump is taking a carrot-and-stick approach following Friday's indirect nuclear talks with Iran. He's praising the negotiations in Oman as very good and says they'll resume next week.

But hours after the talks, he slammed new sanctions on Iran's oil and some tankers that carry it. And he reminded Tehran that the U.S. is continuing its military buildup in the region for possible strikes. As a caveat, he warned Iran there would be consequences if there is no nuclear deal.

For more, Nic Robertson is standing by in Jerusalem.

Nic, take us through where things stand right now.

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Yes, well, those new sanctions, the State Department says they're designed to target the money that the Iranian regime is using to support terrorism in the region, which is one of the things that's supposed to be being negotiated, and support the oppression of the people of Iran.

Again, another thing that is supposed to be the subject of the negotiations. This is a narrative that we've heard from the United States before. This is a continuation and amplification of sanctions.

These go on vessels transporting Iranian oil, oil products and entities and individuals supporting that. The Iranians, for their part, came out of the talks yesterday, the foreign minister saying that the only thing that had been discussed in those talks was the nuclear issue, their enrichment and stockpiles of enriched uranium.

So that seems to fly in the face of what the United States had said going into the talks, that they wanted to talk about ballistic missiles, that they'd wanted to talk about Iran's use and support of proxies in the region.

That said, both sides are characterizing the talks as going well and leading to more talks in the future. But president Trump very clear Iran does need to show willingness in these talks

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TRUMP: The results today were with Iran. It was a meeting we're going to meet again early next week.

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And they want to make a deal. Iran, as they should, want to make a deal. They know the consequences. If they don't, they don't make a deal. The consequences are very steep. So we'll see what happens.

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ROBERTSON: Yes. But we're also hearing from the Iranian side today, being quoted in state media. The Iranian foreign minister, speaking today when he was talking with the Qatari foreign minister, saying that, if Washington strikes Iran, then Iran will hit back at U.S. bases in the region.

So Iran talking tough. A newspaper aligned with the supreme leader in Iran is saying that we still don't trust the United States. There's a deficit here. We need to go into this with a hand on the trigger still.

And another state-aligned newspaper saying very clearly that nothing on the nuclear file or nuclear enrichment at least is a right of the country. That cannot be taken away. And Iran not willing to put aside its use of its long-range ballistic missiles.

So there's still a lot of ground to be covered. Not clear if it can all be covered. So these talks really are the only very, very early stages.

BRUNHUBER: Yes. Still a long way to go, as you say. Nic Robertson, thanks so much.

We're getting word of new Russian strikes on Ukraine's energy system.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BRUNHUBER (voice-over): Emergency officials released this video, showing firefighters battling a blaze about 50 kilometers southeast of Kyiv. They say the fire broke out after a Russian drone struck a warehouse there, while energy facilities were reportedly hit in several other regions.

The energy minister called the attack massive and said emergency blackouts have been implemented throughout Ukraine. Meanwhile, president Zelenskyy says more than 1,100 buildings in Kyiv are still without heat. That's after months of Russian strikes.

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BRUNHUBER: All right, we'll take a quick break. For viewers in North America, I'll have more news in a moment. For our international viewers, "CNN CREATORS" is next.

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BRUNHUBER: Welcome back to all of you watching us here in the United States and Canada. I'm Kim Brunhuber. This is CNN NEWSROOM.

On Friday, investigators returned to the home of Nancy Guthrie, who has now been missing for nearly a week. Authorities say they've received a second message connected to her disappearance and are checking its authenticity.

Law enforcement is now appealing to the public for help, asking for anyone with information to come forward. CNN's Brian Todd has more on the investigation unfolding in Tucson, Arizona.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A new message regarding the search for Nancy Guthrie, a message sent via email to CNN Affiliate KOLD. According to a reporter there, a message that the station is not sharing the specifics of but which adds new urgency to the case.

STEVE MOORE, RETIRED FBI SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT: The biggest concern going forward now is time. We have a person out there who's missing, who needs her medications, who is a person very much at risk and time is not on our side on that.

TODD (voice-over): Criminologist Dawn Cecil believes the Nancy Guthrie case has crossed into the crowdsourcing realm where law enforcement not only asks the public for tips but also solicits the public for things like surveillance video.

SHERIFF CHRIS NANOS, PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA: We take the leads from everywhere and where those leads take us, we'll get there. Crowdsourcing for leads, Cecil says, can backfire with an avalanche of information that can distract investigators.

DAWN CECIL, PROFESSOR OF CRIMINOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: There's going to be a lot more of the junk, for lack of a better term, than there's going to be those actionable pieces of information.

TODD (voice-over): Cecil says that was the case in the investigation of the 2022 Idaho University student murders when police cast a wide net for help and amateur internet sleuths got out of control.

CECIL: You had especially the true crime TikTokers inundate that area and they tried to make content in the guise of trying to solve this case. And what you ended up seeing were false accusations, false leads.

TODD (voice-over): The Guthrie case has already drawn its share of TikTok detectives weighing in.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm a forensic scientist and a former CSI. Let's talk about the evidence.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Because it's a high-profile case, the name of this game is CYA.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So I just have questions as to who ordered the Uber?

Why did she Uber?

TODD (voice-over): But Cecil says crowdsourcing can also help investigators as it did in the 2021 Gabby Petito murder case when bloggers helped authorities locate Petito's van.

CECIL: A family who had seen information about where Gabby had been, they looked at their own dash cam video and they were able to locate the van. They were able to work and find where Gabby's body was.

TODD (voice-over): Former FBI Special Agent Steve Moore says all that information has to be cross-referenced.

MOORE: What they're going to be looking for in all these tips are parallels between different tips, similar names, similar locations, people with similar backgrounds as possible suspects.

TODD: Steve Moore says when investigators request that kind of data and information from the public, about 90 percent of what they get is not useful. He says the crazy information from people on the fringe is easy to handle because you can toss that out quickly.

It's the information that seems plausible, he says, that's difficult because, often, investigators spend a lot of time chasing that down before determining it's a dead end -- Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.

(END VIDEOTAPE) BRUNHUBER: Starting Monday, members of Congress will be allowed to review unredacted versions of the Jeffrey Epstein files at the Department of Justice. That's according to a new letter from the DOJ obtained by CNN.

Lawmakers are asked to give 24 hours' notice of when they'd like to view the materials. They won't be allowed to bring in outside electronic devices but can take handwritten notes.

Now the latest Epstein file release includes a 2006 flight manifest from a private plane that lists current U.S. Secretary of the Navy John Phelan as one of 13 passengers on a flight from London to New York.

Other passengers include Epstein himself and French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, a close associate of Epstein's, who died in French custody in 2022 while facing charges of sexual assault and rape of a minor. Six other names on the flight manifest were redacted. Phelan has declined to comment.

A federal appeals court sided with the Trump administration over its policy that allows undocumented immigrants to be detained without bond hearings.

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The 2-1 ruling from the conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals means that detained immigrants can be denied without the ability to challenge their detention. The ruling only impacts detainees in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.

While a number of lower courts have repeatedly blocked the policy, other appeals courts are still reviewing it.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to release body cam footage showing a Border Patrol agent shooting a protester last year. Marimar Martinez, a U.S. citizen, was shot five times in her car. CNN's Omar Jimenez was at Friday's hearing and filed this report.

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OMAR JIMENEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This is really a significant moment and it happens more than four months after the shooting actually took place, the judge clearing the way to release body camera footage and other text messages from the day of the shooting.

Really, the delay at this point is so that both sides can work out a set of redactions that both sides will agree with. So that's going to be going through some of the video. That's also going to be redacting some of the names and numbers in these text messages as well.

But the reason this is significant is that, even after the charges brought against Marimar Martinez were dropped at the request of the government, the government has continued to refer to her as a domestic terrorist. And for Martinez and her attorney, they have argued that, well,

they've been cleared of charges. That referral should basically stop. She should not be a domestic terrorist or referred to as such to this point.

And they feel that the release of this additional evidence will help significantly push back against that narrative and, in other words, essentially help clear her name. Take a listen to some of how her attorney characterized things after the hearing Friday.

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CHRISTOPHER PARENTE, MARIMAR MARTINEZ'S ATTORNEY: Judges essentially, you know, ruled fully in Ms. Martinez's favor. Everything can be released. We are going to release the body cam video, which again, I don't want to get your hopes up.

But it's not going to be dispositive either way because the agent was not wearing his body camera. So I know we're talking about there's funding for this. He had a body camera. He did not have it on.

So as we debate whether these cameras need to be funded, we should also debate instructing agents to turn on their body cameras because that would have solved everything here and would have saved a lot of time and money for Ms. Martinez. The second thing is the text messages.

So remember, there were 220 text messages by Agent Exum. We were given 20 and then the judge ordered them to give us another 20. So now, there's 40 in total, we'll release all of them. Some are obviously more interesting than others but those will all be released.

And then, you're going to see in the discovery itself, some really good things that just completely destroy the credibility of the narrative that she drove at these agents, that they were boxed in.

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JIMENEZ: And again, we talked about the charges that have been dropped to this point. But on the text messages themselves, more broadly, the reason they wanted those out is because they wanted people to understand how the Department of Homeland Security and its agents respond in real time after incidents like these.

And they specifically pointed to Minneapolis, for example. And they believe that the public has the right -- or at least they hope the public gets a better understanding from the release of this evidence -- so they can better understand if something like this happens in a city they live in.

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BRUNHUBER: And Martinez's attorney says she will attend president Trump's State of the Union address later this month. Illinois Democratic congressman Jesus Chuy Garcia invited her to go as his guest. The state murder trial for Luigi Mangione is set to start in June. The

judge overseeing New York's case accelerated the timeline at a hearing Friday. Mangione is facing state and federal charges in the shooting death of UnitedHealth care CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street.

State prosecutors say the Feds reneged on a deal to let their case go first, so the timeline was pushed up. That leaves the defense in a rush to prepare. Mangione has pleaded not guilty.

A suspect in the deadly rampage 13 years ago of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, will face charges here in the U.S. Zubayar al-Bakoush was brought to Virginia on Friday after he was arrested in Libya.

He's described as a key participant of the terror attack in 2012, which left four Americans dead. Officials say he'll face several charges, including the murders of U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and a State Department employee.

Court documents say the suspect was a member of an Islamist group that claimed credit for the attack. Two other men, including one of the operation's leaders, have already been arrested and sentenced in the U.S.

The push to limit teens' access to online platforms is spreading across Europe. Still ahead, why a growing number of countries see social media bans as a necessary protection for their young people. That story and more coming up. Stay with. Us.

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BRUNHUBER: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze billions of dollars in funding to New York. The administration withheld more than $16 billion earmarked for a new rail tunnel to connect New York and New Jersey.

New York officials warned a funding delay would force them to shut down work on the project and lay off roughly 1,000 workers. The judge found that the public interest would be harmed.

And president Donald Trump reportedly told senator Chuck Schumer he would reinstate the funding if Schumer supported changing the names of New York's Penn Station and Washington's Dulles International Airport to Trump. Now Trump claimed it was all Schumer's idea but Schumer denied the claim.

More than 90 million people from Virginia to Maine are under extreme cold alerts this weekend. Many in the Northeast could see the coldest temperatures of the year. Meanwhile, people in the West could see record highs. (WEATHER REPORT)

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BRUNHUBER: The Dow hit a new all-time high on Friday. The blue chip index soared over 1,200 points, hitting 50,000 points for the first time ever. The tech-heavy Nasdaq and the S&P 500 also closed higher.

This was a sharp rebound after tech stocks dragged Wall Street down earlier this week. Investors had gotten spooked that AI would disrupt business models, which hurt software stocks.

The push to ban teens' access to social media is spreading across Europe, as more countries look to limit the technology's influence on their children, CNN's Lynda Kinkade reports.

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PEDRO SANCHEZ, SPANISH PRIME MINISTER (through translator): We will protect them from the digital Wild West.

LYNDA KINKADE, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Spain's prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, announcing Tuesday that his country is joining a growing list of nations looking to ban access to social media for children under the age of 16.

He says Spain has joined forces with five other European countries to coordinate and enforce regulations. Sanchez did not name the other countries but several European nations have already started moving toward a ban.

LAURE MILLER, FRENCH LAWMAKER (through translator): These social networks promised to connect but they have fragmented. They promised to inform but they have overwhelmed. They promised to entertain but they have confined. The conclusion is clear: our children read less, move less, sleep less and compare themselves more.

KINKADE (voice-over): Last month, France's national assembly backed legislation to ban social media for children under 15 after a request from president Emmanuel Macron to fast-track the ban, to have it in place in time for the start of the next school year.

Similar legislation is being considered in Denmark and the U.K. while a senior Greek government source told Reuters the country is very close to announcing its own ban for children under 15.

The proposed crackdowns in European nations come after Australia in December became the first country in the world to block social media access for children under 16. So far, prime minister Anthony Albanese says the landmark law has been a success.

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ANTHONY ALBANESE, AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER: This is working; 4.7 million accounts gone, suspended, stopped, meaning that young people, instead of being on their devices during these school holidays, have been cycling around facilities such as this, have been reading books, have been engaging with their friends and family.

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KINKADE (voice-over): But some experts have warned that bans might not be the best long-term solution. Instead, they say government should focus attention on the tech companies behind the platforms.

In Spain, Sanchez says his government plans to introduce additional legislation to hold social media executives responsible for illegal or hateful content on their platforms -- Lynda Kinkade, CNN.

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BRUNHUBER: It is the moment NFL fans have been waiting for. Super Bowl LX, the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots are set for a championship rematch more than a decade in the making. We'll preview the big game next.

Stay with us.

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BRUNHUBER: Well, it's a jam-packed weekend for sports fans. Beyond the Winter Olympics in Italy, the NFL championship game is on Sunday with Super Bowl LX in California.

The Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots will face off in a Super Bowl rematch 11 years in the making. CNN's Andy Scholes has our preview of the showdown.

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ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORT CORRESPONDENT: The Patriots and Seahawks continuing their prep for Super Bowl LX here in the Bay Area as we head into the weekend.

Now the Patriots trying to make some history on Sunday become the first team ever to win seven Super Bowls, Seattle. Meanwhile, they're trying to win their second and we know all eyes will be on the quarterbacks come Sunday, Drake May and Sam Donald and both say they are relishing the moment.

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DRAKE MAYE, NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS QUARTERBACK: I'm really excited. You know, a chance to play in this game is a dream come true and what you work for all year long. I still don't know as much as a lot of people do in here.

But trying to -- you will figure out what's at stake and how much work needs to put in to come up with wins in the win column.

SAM DARNOLD, SEATTLE SEAHAWKS QUARTERBACK: I've just learned a ton throughout my career. And every single year, I just -- I do what I can to make sure that I don't get ahead of myself.

And I take it one day at a time because I feel like that mindset, you know, has proved successful for me in every aspect of life, whether it was growing up, high school, college and now here, on the biggest stage, I'm just continuing with that mindset.

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SCHOLES: Now Sunday's game is being dubbed the Malcolm Butler revenge game, because the last time these two squared off butler intercepted Russell Wilson on the one yard line to win the Super Bowl for the Patriots. And earlier this week, I caught up with Butler.

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He ran me through what he was thinking on that last play.

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MALCOLM BUTLER, GAME-SEALING INT FOR PATS IN SUPER BOWL XLIX: When I got in the game, I'm like, man, what can I do?

I really can't do nothing. If they run the ball, I'm not going to make that tackle, right?

I'm not going to make that tackle. I damn near want to leave from the quarterback position and go in the box and play linebacker.

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BUTLER: But I said, I'm just going to do my job. And I went against the odds. They did, too. It didn't work out right. God made a move like he was going to do something. And I said, I'm going to do something, too.

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SCHOLES: And the Patriots are going to be wearing white jerseys and white pants on Sunday. It's combination they've never worn in the Super Bowl. They are 4:2 in Super Bowls when they wear white jerseys with blue pants.

The Seahawks meanwhile, they're going to be in navy blue jerseys and pants. They're actually 0:2 in Super Bowls when they wear that combination. So if you're superstitious over the past 21 years, the team wearing white jerseys is 16:5. So that's definitely good news. If you're a Patriots fan.

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BRUNHUBER: All right.

So how much would you shell out for a five-inch, 500-year-old drawing of a foot?

Well, if it's this sketch, believed to be produced by Michelangelo himself, well, the answer is more than $27 million. That's what it fetched at auction at Christie's in New York.

It's thought to be one of the Italian master's long lost works, a study for one of his large frescoes at the Sistine Chapel. Now Christie's says, only 50 sketches for those magnificent murals are believed to exist.

After a bidding war, it went for 20 times the estimate. It's now the most expensive Michelangelo work sold at auction.

Well, that wraps this hour of CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Kim Brunhuber. I'll be back with more news in just a moment.