president biden has arrived in the republic of ireland. we are going to show you some pictures of his visit now. this was him visiting dundalk, in county louth, the home county of his ancestors. thousands of people came out to greet him, and he paid tribute to his irish heritage and met distant relatives. he s back in dulblin now, and tomorrow he ll go to county mayo. earlier, he was in northern ireland, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement, the deal that brought an end to decades of violence in the region. this trip though, comes at a time of political deadlock in northern ireland, after its power sharing government here at stormont, collapsed over a year ago. our correspondent chris page has more. president biden has begun what, for him, is a very personal tour of places in ireland where he has ancestral ties. he began by visiting the village of conferred income to allow the, that s the place where his great, great grandfather left to emigrate to t
hello and welcome. president biden will address the irish parliament in dublin this afternoon, as he continues his visit to the island of ireland. today, he s expected to affirm the strong ties between the republic of ireland and the united states. our correspondent, charlotte gallagher, is in dublin. hello. take us through the day. it s reall hello. take us through the day. it s really back to business forjoe biden today, yesterday, he had some personal time, biden today, yesterday, he had some personaltime, ending biden today, yesterday, he had some personal time, ending the day in a pub chatting to locals, taking selfies, going to behind the bar at one point. today, it is diplomacy and politics and he is going to speak at the irish parliament, only be fourth us president to ever do that, he is going to meet the irish president at his official residence and they are going to plant a tree together. the final stop here in dublin is at dublin castle where he is going to have a
hello and welcome. president biden will address the irish parliament in dublin this afternoon, as he continues his visit to the island of ireland. today, he s expected to affirm the strong ties between the republic of ireland and the united states. our correspondent, charlotte gallagher, is in dublin. he is already here this morning, he is going to meet the irish president at his official residency. they are going to plant a tree together and then they will be in the city centre speaking to politicians at the irish parliament. only the fourth time a us president has been invited to do this so it is a huge honourforjoe biden who is incredibly proud of his irish roots. we saw yesterday he was meeting his family members and locals there and at times, to be honest, it looked like he was on holiday, he was having such a good time. let s see what he got up to. an irish homecoming for a us president. joe biden, who describes himself as a proud irish american, arrives in his ancestra
canada and all around the world. i m kimberly, who were coming up this hour on cnn newsroom historic rainfall in south florida leads to serious flooding power outages closing of the fort lauderdale international airport will tell you when the extreme weather will move out of the area, plus a late night ruling by a federal appeals court on the suspension of the abortion inducing drug. we ll have details, and president biden celebrates his family roots during his three day visit ireland just ahead we ll go live to dublin for a preview of today s events. live from atlanta. this is cnn newsroom with kim bruun huber. and we begin with what some call a once and a half century extreme weather event happening right now in florida, up to 20 inches of rain has fallen in parts of south florida the past few hours with more in the forecast. well that led to a flash water emergency, the highest possible level of flood warning. so what you re seeing here is the ford lauderdale hollywood int
bianca nobilo live from london. max foster has the day off today, but he ll be back tomorrow just ahead on cnn newsroom. this is the worst i ve ever seen. this is an unbelievable amount of rain pull on the side. streets were flooded everywhere. we have the threat for flooding, as well as the threat for severe weather and record warmth on top of it all. this person murdered my friend. but still i can t imagine how his parents must be feeling amazing grace. how sweet the sound we will get through this together. if you can see the smoke, you re in the smoke. get out of the smoke. this person has been negligent and irresponsible and it s led to putting a lot of people in danger. live from london. this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is thursday, april 13th nine am here in london at four am in south florida, where historic amounts of rainfall have caused what one city has made describes as the most severe flooding he s ever seen. up to 20 inches of rain have