at this hour, a mysterious explosion behind russian lines in annexed crimea, what we re hearing on the ground about who is responsible. and president biden announces major conservation action just moments ago. is it enough to get him back in the good graces of environmental groups? we ll have a live report. and in los angeles, that teacher strike is under way today which means for 420,000 students, no teachers, no bus drivers, no lunch, and no options for countless parents scrambling to find child care. and a small group of trump fans making a show of support on the bridge at mar-a-lago as the manhattan grand jury gets ready to reconvene tomorrow. our reporters are following all the latest developments. and we begin with vaughn hillyard near mar-a-lago. what is the scene like there today? obviously even though trump said that he was going to get arrested today, that hasn t happened. but is there any sense of when i something might happen? reporter: and donald trump ca
back home? and listen to this and unexplained delay in the start of a once in a generation trial as the news channel that made millions promoting the 45th president election lies is now under oath were following these major developing stories, many more all coming in right here. to cnn news, central. alright any moment now, opening statements are set to begin in the historic trial of dominion voting systems versus fox news in this sketch, the fox defense lawyer is on the right dominions attorney on the left defamation case could set legal precedent for journalists for generations to come. dominion we should remind you is seeking $1.6 billion for fox news. news is repeating false claims that dominion machines rigged somehow 2020 presidential election against donald trump flipping votes they claimed paying off politicians. the jury is now in place. the two sides were getting contentions contentious even before the opening statements, but now we have some sort of delay. cnn s da
about it. those questions are significant enough that we wanted to find someone who could provide a definitive answer. elon musk seemed like the right person. musk has been thinking about ai and worrying about it for most of his life. nearly a decade ago he help founded a non-profit research project called open ai. the pint was in the name. if we re going to have artificial intelligence, and apparently we are, it ought to be open, open to the willed world. that would help inner ensure it s used for good and not evil. that was the idea. as the years passed and musk town himself preoccupied building a couple of enormous companies, open ai gay gotway from him. as of tonight, open ai is nut open. it s not a non-profit research project dedicated to artificial intelligence to serve humatin, it is in fact backed by micro microsoft and control to some extent by the democratic party. elon musk thinks that s a problem. in fact, he thinks it s threat to human civilization. mount tantamo
victims in an alleged plot to kill, quote, anyone that is jewish in the michigan government. those words are from a man now in federal custody according to an affidavit. his first court appearance was wednesday on charges of making charges along state lines. and has tweeted the fbi has confirmed i was a target of the heavily armed defendant in this matter. it s my hope that they take this just as seriously as the federal authorities takes the offense just as seriously as my hate crimes and domestic terrorism unit takes plots to murder elected officials. he has three handguns and one that is an mia military-style weapon, polo sandoval has more. what have we learned? we actually see on the page, linked to jack and jane carpenter ii, the suspect in the case. and not just anti-semitic and quite alarming especially this tweet that federal investigators saw back in february, february 17th to be exact. and what he allegedly wrote, including, quote, he would carry out death to an
comcast business. powering possibilities. top of the hour now on cnn newsroom. good to have you. i m victor black well. and i m bianna golodryga. any minute now the jury will return from lunch and receive instructions from the judge. just before the defense was getting ready to begin this morning, a judge dismissed a juror for discussing the case with people outside the jury. you have had some discussions with some folks not on the jury, which is going to require me to remove you from the jury. i m not suggesting that you intentionally did anything wrong, but that in order to preserve the integrity of the process and in fairness to all the parties involved, we re going to replace you with one of the other jurors. cnn national correspondent diane gallagher is outside the courthouse there in walterboro for us. walk us through this final day of the closing arguments. reporter: victor, right now we are waiting for court to return essentially so the judge can charge th