oh good morning. you should have woken me up like your last hit me. i hope your wig reason why you re here to shake me awake. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday. april 2nd. i m like, why is he looking at me? i m amarillo walker. april fool s day was yesterday. i m victor blackwell. thank you for spending some time with us this morning. here s what we re watching. it s just surreal. you know, you just everything you ve worked. we ve lived in this house 44 years and you know everything we worked for. paid for it. it s gone. it s gone. communities across the south and midwest are cleaning up after powerful storms ripped through at least seven states. the damage is catastrophic team is live in arkansas ahead of fema s arrival there. we have new cnn reporting on the mood among former president trump s advisers ahead of his court appearance tuesday that concerns about where a potential trial could be held back to work. how pope francis is spending thi
and without question in my mind, speaker emerita pelosi will go down in history as the greatest speaker of all-time! [applause] throughout her time, throughout her time, though in congress she has been a legendary legislator. a fabulous facilitator, and a no nonsense negotiator. we know that nancy pelosi is a woman of faith. a loving wife, a mother a five, a grandmother of nine. a defender of democracy. a voice for the voiceless, and a powerful champion for the children, the climate, charles cynthia, california, the caucus, the congress, and the constitution. thank you madam speaker for all that you have done! it is an honor to stand on your broad shoulders! [applause] as well, as well as the shoulders of the great steny ona, and the great jim climber. two consequential leaders in their own right. [applause] now, scripture says angulation s, let us now become weary and doing good. for at the proper time, we will reap the harvest if we do not give up. over the last two years
and it appears, though obviously it is not done yet. that kevin mccarthy may in fact have the votes. steve, can you give us a bit of a history lesson here. compare this to any other time in modern history. any other time in modern history there is none because,, the last time the speaker s vote went past one ballot was 1823, but, we will come right back to this, but just to put in some perspective, what the history of this is, you are looking at here, this is every speakers race in history, that s gone past one ballot. we put this together earlier, only 11 ballots, this is the 15th ballot, so right here in history is where the speakers race ranks, this is the fifth longest speakers race in the history of the country, and you can see the four that were longer than this were all pre civil war, this is going to finish well shy of a record of 133 minutes, if it does indeed finish here, 15 ballots will be the fifth longest in american history, and again we haven t seen this go p
a member of congress, she adopted the august faintly exotic title, alexandria akutsu of corte sz, which sounds like the name of one of che s girlfriends in revolutionary bolivia because his picture her in the back of the motorcycle in a beret, and then once she ascended, still higher and became cardassian, this very same person began going t queen ofthús ticktock. but along the way, most peopleee dooing a not know this.k she had still another name during the twenty eighteen democratic primary in which she beat party stalwart joe crowleyo by attacking him for being white. sandy cortez went the nament alex . jus bt alex , your friendly neighborhood gender nonspecific bartender alex on alex campaign website. at the time, there was a section explaining what alex believed. one of alex s views read this way, quote, alex believes wes wo must end the forever war by bringing our troops home and ending the airstrikes and bombings that perpetuate the cycle of terrorism and occupa
in the rugby league world cup quarter finals. they see off france in bolton and have now played two, won two. we hear how 10 year old quinn became one of the youngest people to conquer scotland s 282 highest mountains. good 282 highest mountains. morning. if you are travell the good morning. if you are travelling the sunday morning, bear in mind there are heavy, thundery downpours out there moving northwards through the day. some sunshine as well. all the day. some sunshine as well. all the details coming up. it s sunday 23rd october. our main story: as the deadline to enter the contest to replace liz truss draws closer, two of the likely contenders borisjohnson and rishi sunak have held private talks. neither have publicly declared they are entering the race, but the bbc s tally indicates that mr sunak has already received the backing of at least 128 mp5. that s significantly more than the 100 needed to enter the ballot, which closes tomorrow afternoon. our political cor