news starts now. maurice: tonight, 62 million americans are under threat of severe weather from alabama to new york. good evening and thank you for being with us on this memorial day. i am maurice dubois in for norah o donnell. tonight, storms a part of the same system that brought deadly tornadoes to the central u.s. this weekend. this is valley view, texas, where tornadoes bulldozed through, turning homes into unrecognizable piles of lumber and metal. at least 23 people have been killed, including two children, in texas, arkansas, oklahoma, kentucky, and virginia. the force of the winds clear from the sheer scale of the damage tonight. now that system is drenching parts of the northeast, slowing down returning travelers. more than 5,000 flights have been delayed in major hubs like atlanta, chicago, and new york, with alerts posted up and down the east coast. cbs s meg oliver starts us off with more on these catastrophic storms. reporter: shattered homes and debris
doctors preferred better science, better results violin earth with we have trimer premiere sunday at nine on cnn trump s lawyers and prosecutors will square off trying to win over the jury of seven and and five women. they may well try to pitch much of the jury on their closing. that trump was really relying on his lawyer in this instance the anc can fill stadiums, yes. but it also has a formidable ground game. look at the electoral support every is going down. always difficult let me to talk. i don t know. it s going to be the last time that i gonna be here in front of all of you live from london. this is cnn newsroom with max foster hello and a. warm welcome to our viewers joining us from around the world. i max foster is tuesday, may the 28th, miami. i m here in london, 4m in new york city. were closing arguments will soon get underway in the historic donald trump hush money case. jurors have been away since last tuesday due to the us memorial day memorial day we
i am here because of crooked joe biden. the worst president in the history of our country. he is destroying our country. this country is being destroyed rapidly. not slowly. rapidly. this is the time to stop him by voting him out once and for all. we don t want to wake up after the election saying again? my god. what the hell have we done. we can t have that happen again peered we have been here for six weeks. nobody has said trump did anything wrong. we have a highly conflicted judge with unconstitutional gag order and everybody sees this case for what it is. sandra: a live look now from the new york state supreme court there is nowhere manhattan where the defense just wrapped in donald trump s criminal trial. they are in a lunch paper that was a former president moments ago as he departed the courtroom and prosecutors will have their chair. and welcome. john, great to be with you today kicking off a new week. john: it will be of big week. i m john roberts from washi
future cnn this morning with kasie hunt. next it s tuesday, may 28, right now on cnn this morning, donald trump s defense team preparing for closing argument since in the hush money trial, they plan to keep attacking the prosecution s star witness, plus i have never prayed so hard in my whole life. at least 23 people, including four children killed by severe storms during a deadly holiday weekend and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu calling an attack on rafah that killed 45 people tragic error all right, 5:00 a.m. here in washington alive. look at capitol hill on this tuesday morning. good morning, everyone. i m kasie hunt. it s wonderful to have you with us. we are nearing the conclusion of the first criminal trial ever brought against a former us president. today, closing arguments begin in donald trump s historic criminal hush money trial prosecutors from the manhattan da s office will have to weave together weeks of evidence and salacious testimony as they
situation room, stay with cnn are special live coverage of this truly historic criminal trial continues right now. on the lead with jake tapper cnn breaking news and welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, donald trump s hush money trial is in its final phase as the prosecution is in the midst of giving its closing arguments, court will be back from break at any moment. the prosecution has been arguing that president trump, quote, quote, corrupted those around him, and he got them to lie and covered up unquote. trump picked michael cohen as his fixer. the prosecution says, quote, because he was willing to lie and cheat for donald trump this follows nearly three hours of closing arguments from trump s defense attorney todd blanche, who attacked michael cohen using trump like nicknames, calling him the gloat not the goat, the glutes. the greatest liar of all time. he also said that michael cohen is quote literally like an mvp of liars and added quote, i don t know how many leinz