and activating the national guard as the storms gutted entire communities. she spoke about the destruction earlier today. i have had the opportunity over the last couple of hours to speak with both the homeland security secretary as well as president biden, who have offered a tremendous amount of support anything that arkansas need from a city county state and federal perspective, i would say that everyone is working in total lockstep and we re going to do everything we can to make sure that people of our state are back on their feet again. and more devastation in several other states, including indiana and illinois. people are waking up to their homes and businesses destroyed their neighborhoods littered with debris. but the threat is far from over. some 70 million americans are now bracing for more severe storms. today cnn has teams tracking all of the latest developments from these destructive storms. derek van dam is in wynne, arkansas. at this hour. derek to you first. w
shooter s background. the suspect was under doctor s care . anything explained this senseless act plus taking a break. the manhattan grand jury investigating former president trump set to pause for almost a month. this is a very unusual development in washington to federal probe steamroll ahead. the former vice president is ordered to testify in the january 6th investigation. obviously have nothing to hide so well, he comply and urgent warning. the biggest names in tech called for an immediate halt in artificial intelligence development. i think artificial intelligence is something we need to be quite concerned about technology moving too fast. cnn prime time. starts now. good evening. i m katelyn polantz alongside my all star team of fellow cnn anchors here tonight. sara seidner, michael smerconish and laura coates. we re going to be breaking down all of the day s biggest stories together tonight , but we start in nashville and an emotional vigil tonight for the six victims
related to covid. it s unclear the leader of the world s nearly 1.4 billion roman catholics will be able to lead the celebration of this weekend s palm sunday mass. and holy week ceremonies at the vatican leading up to easter on april 9th. the news continues. cnn s primetime with katelyn polantz starts now. tonight morning in nashville, a grieving city honors the victims of monday s tragedy just two days ago was our city s worst day. details emerge about the shooter s background. the suspect was under doctor s care . anything explained this senseless act plus taking a break. the manhattan grand jury investigating former president trump set to pause for almost a month. this is a very unusual development in washington to federal probe steamroll ahead. the former vice president is ordered to testify in the january 6th investigation. obviously have nothing to hide, so will he comply and urgent warning. the biggest names in tech called for an immediate halt in artificial intellige
also tonight, donald trump s first rally in the 2024 campaign. the former president went to the manhattan da could that be a new line for prosecutors. meanwhile, trump allies says that they are going to accuse january 6th rioters and are trying to remind us of the reality of that attack, this is american voices. what was shadowing at trump s first investigation was in manhattan, georgia, and washington d.c.. now, it is no surprise that trump continues to paint each of these investigations as nothing more than political richter, reporting for nbc news, jonathan allen writes, quote, trump is reeling about robbing him of power and freedom. it is about those government officials investigating him putting a dark warning for what happens if you were to be charged. it could continue even after nbc news. [crying] [inaudible] discussed a social media post attacking brag. yeah. there was a picture of a bat that someone had put together that he re-posted. let the witness ans
of republicans have bought into this narrative. we ve seen him on social media going after alvin bragg. talking about how he s a democrat trying to link him to joe biden. we also know that he went after that judges. you said that he expected to appear before on tuesday, saying that this judge specifically quote hates him. hates donald trump. and it s not just the former president. what we ve seen on social media from the former president is clips of allies of republicans going on air going on conservative media attacking brag, attacking the district attorney s office, attacking this indictment overall and defending former president trump and really, this goes to a plan of action we have seen from the former president and his allies for years. the theme is that if they can go after trump, they can go after anyone. if they can go after trump. they can go after you. but one thing to point out here is that no one has actually seen the indictment. so this idea that they continue to push out