of the 12 page report also places blame on the trump administration. area bruises at the white house. tracking severe storms of this hour, dangerous thunderstorms and damaging winds in washington, d.c., to philadelphia to new york. heavy rain and flood watches from texas to tennessee into the weekend. rob marciano times it all out. the massive avalanche near a ski resort in utah, ski patrol and rescue dogs search for possible victims trapped under the snow. israel strikes back. israeli forces hit targets in the gaza strip, retaliating after accusing palestinian groups of launching 36 rockets from lebanon into israel. matt is in israel tonight. you re at home, the new report accusing supreme court justice clarence thomas of accepting luxury trips for years from major republican mega donor and not reporting them. that donor is now pushing back and defending justice thomas. a doctor charged with allegedly trying to pose and her husband by putting drano in his drinks. her husband
was targeted. and we re getting a disturbing look at the moment that suspect who police say is a transgender person and a former person at the school shoots out the school s windows and walks inside to carry out the attack. we re also learn much more about the six victims. three students, just nine years old and three adults in their 60s, including the head of the school. the lost, once again, renewing calls to do something to prevent the next shooting. the mayor of nashville sharing this call to action earlier on today. the country needs to pick itself up and say no to an assault weapons lobby that, again, is making it too available and too convenient and too first of mind for people to go out and commit terrible acts. and that is where we begin today. yasmin is in nashville for us. you were on your way home from one disaster in mississippi when you got the call to reroute to another tragedy. this time in nashville. i know you as a mom, your two boys, you keep thinking a
lot going on. we re glad you re with us. let s get started with the five things to know for this wednesday, april 5th 2023 donald trump defiant after pleading not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records during a speech last night, he vowed to fight the charges and railed against the prosecutors and the judge. i ll let that sink in. what you just said is a lot and look at that. so their celebration, at least in chicago , there s a new mayor in the windy city senior projects that progressive brandon johnson has won the runoff in chicago. he s going to join us live right here on cnn this morning, eight o clock hour 88 a. m eastern time a seat change for wisconsin cnn projects, liberals will now hold the majority on the state supreme court. that is a significant flip that could have major implications for abortion rights and future elections. also house speaker kevin mccarthy is set to meet with the president of taiwan in california. today it s a rare meeting on
ruling to testify in the special counsel s january 6th investigation. pence is now poised to recount for the first time under oath. his conversations with donald trump leading up to the january insurrection. also tonight, kevin mccarthy leads a defiant show of force in the face of stern warnings from china, the speaker and a bipartisan delegation of u. s lawmakers holding a historic meeting with taiwan s president on american soil. speaking with top democrat who was in the room for the talks. and later this hour, we will go live to jerusalem amid rising tensions in the middle east. there are new fears that violence could boil over after israeli forces raid one of the holiest sites in islam for the second straight night. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today . i m alex marquardt in your in the situation room. let s get straight to our top story tonight. special counsel jack smith notches a major victory, securing a
and for the first time, we hear the cockpit audio from the f-16 fighter pilots tracking the unidentified object over lake huron off michigan. the remarkable exchange as they try to take down the object. martha raddatz with new reporting. tonight, the miracle brothers, nearly 200 hours after the earthquake, they re pulled out alive. and tonight, turkey s president erdogan under fire for supporting the push to forgive construction violations in the past. and real questions mounting about whether many new buildings were actually built to code. james longman in turkey. here in the u.s. tonight, the alex murdaugh trial, and for the first time, we hear from the dead wife s sister. what she reveals about the day of the murders, and about the marriage. the race for president. on the republican side. she was once in the trump administration, now she ll challenge former president trump for the nomination. what nikki haley said today during her announcement. tonight, we hear fro