gone. us president joe biden back home after meeting with prime minister justin trudeau in canada, why illegal immigration across the u. s northern border was a hot topic. and people all over the world getting ready to turn off the lights to mark earth hour. it s a way to help raise awareness about the climate crisis. from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with leila harare. we begin this hour with extreme weather in the southeastern united states, where multiple tornadoes barreled across mississippi in the past few hours, the national weather service says a large tornado cost significant damage in several towns, including rolling fork and silver city, leaving homes and buildings flattened and trees and power lines down. search and rescue teams and first responders are on the scene in the area northwest of jackson. we spoke with the president of one of the town s hard hit in mississippi should described what she went through. we watched this tornado form. through the lightning
good morning, everyone. happy new year! and welcome to this special edition of cnn this morning. s this sunday, january 1st, 2023. i got to say it first, boris. i m amara walker. 2023. isn t that crazy, amarah. where does the time go? yeah. thank you so much for joining us on this new year s day. i m boris sanchez. we hope your new year is off to a fantastic start. is it, amara? it s too early to say, but i ll tell you this, i do not set new year s resolutions, because i just disappoint myself. i take it literally day by day. let s survive today, january 1st, and see what the next day brings. i am fully with that sentiment. here s what s ahead for you this hour on cnn this morning. the new year comes with new rules when it comes to filing your taxes. why that could mean a larger paycheck this year. plus, if you ve been to the store lately, there s a good chance that there s an unexpected item in the bagging area. sound familiar? coming up, we ll talk about those
Mike baker is a New York Times correspondent, he joins me from there. Mike, you were there during these clashes. What did you witness regarding the shooting that occurred and do we have any information as of yet on the victim . Yeah, so the shooting occurred while there were a bunch of trump pro trump vehicles driving through downtown. As you guys covered there, there was a gathering in the suburbs of Trump Supporters and they were going to drive around the outskirts of the city, but a lot of them decided to come through into downtown where they met a bunch of protesters who were there wanting to confront them. And sort of during the hours of that happening, there were reports of gunfire, went over to the scene and the police had blocked it off. There was a man who had been shot in the chest, who was being treated at the time, and he appears to have been wearing a Patriot Prayer hat, a far right group here in the portland area. Tell us more about the clashes between these two groups, m
Protection program is open again, giving Small Businesses a renewed lifeline. But today we are watching the house voting on sending 2,000 checks to americans and override the veto of the defense spending bill, all of this comes as the United States is entering a pandemic. Consider this data point as well. Nearly 1. 3 million americans pass through airports on sunday. Thats the highest level for air travel since the whole pandemic began. Well have more on science and data in a couple of minutes. First, lets go to kaitlan collins, live from west palm beach, florida. Kaitlan, is there a strategy to the president s decision to sign the stimulus . Reporter i think if there is, brooke, even the president s own staff doesnt know what it is because when we were talking to white house officials yesterday as the president tweeted, good news is coming, that was the tweet a few hours before he did finally sign this deal, white house officials werent sure what he was going to do. A lot of it had to
Thank you, again, for joining us, we begin with election 2020. If there was any question for right now its being put to rest. Bernie sanders is the undisputed frontrunner among president ial candidates. Cnn projects that sanders won the nevada caucuses. Just how decisive a win it was for him. Half the votes in sanders has now more than doubled support of his next closest rival joe biden. Amy klobuchar and tom steyer rounding out the field in single kijts. Looking ahead and address supporters in texas shortly after it became clear he won nevada. I think all of you know we won the popular vote in iowa. We won the New Hampshire primary. And according to three networks and the ap, we have now won the nevada caucus. Bernie. Sanders hopes his nevada win will propel him to victory in the states to come. Our ryan nobles is traveling with the Sanders Campaign and has this. Senator Bernie Sanders will spend his sunday in texas this after being able to claim victory in the nevada caucuses. A conv