good morning. buenos dias and welcome to cnn this morning. we are grateful you are starting your sunday, march 19th with us. i m boris sanchez. i m amara walker. is there a good morning? it is a very good morning for me. it is a great one. because boris is going to getting a lot more sleep on the weekends. look, there is really no bad news. there is some breaking news. i guess the bad news is that you won t be able to see boris bright and early in the morning saying buenos dias, but, for all the boris fans you will be getting a lot more of boris during the week. we don t want to disclose all the details. look, i think you and i channelled each other because we are kind of in mourning with all of our black. sadly, because we won t be together. that s the bad news. the good news, you will get so much more of boris. you are too kind. more of that in a sec. here is what we are watching today. russian president vladimir putin makes a surprise visit to the russian-o
That will determine the course of your life going forward. So weam te sendhe our team outs tonicourse of the year to find the real stories tonight. I those include the global water crisis, which is rea. L, e the rise of americas Fastest Growing professionalt an sports league, which you may not have heard of, and theing, vindication of prepping people made fun of it. They dont anymore. And then the stunning suppression of Civil Libertiesof and human rights in the nation of canada wholly ignored in this country. We begin tonight with a reportso on something that matters to everyone, to every human bein g, the food that you eat. Ma and that food may be changing. , all of a sudden, the people in charge, politicians, billionaire oligarchs, celebrities are telling you Yout Haveelli to fight Climate Change by changing what you eat. They may not want to change what you eat. No one ever voted on that. It o but democracy doesnt matteroo when it comes to the food supply. Heres a Firsk Att Look at
Laura coats, and this is cnn tonight. Weve got two huge stories tonight that were following, of course right here in the nations capital, our continuing coverage of the state of the Union Address. Meanwhile, another sided country in los angeles, we have breaking news on another major story, in the world of sports. Entertainment, and frankly american culture. Lebron james tonight breaking the record to become the nbas alltime leading scorer. Passing a fellow laker, Kareem Abduljabbar. Once he broke this record the game was actually stopped for the celebration that was certainly do lebron joined on his court by his family, by the man he also passed, Kareem Abduljabbar. And even the nba commissioner, adam silver. In other words, everyone was watching to see whether tonight would be the night that he actually did it. I came into the game, and watch what happened in this really important, powerful moment. Lebron, for the record, hes got it. Hes done it. Lebron james is now the alltime leadi
grand jurors, what did he tell them about trump and the 2020 election. plus a deadly barrage of missiles strike ukraine leaving raging fires and at least a dozen dead at the hands of russia. and destruction after a tornado rips through a florida town, parts of the south bracing for more severe storms today. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. happy friday, everybody. i m christine romans. we begin with vice president mike pence testifying before the grand jury looking into former president trump s efforts to subvert the 2020 election. grand jury testimony is of course secret, but we have a very good idea of what pence was likely asked about his former boss, now his republican rival. katelyn polantz has more from washington. reporter: former vice president mike pence testified before a federal grand jury on thirst fo thursday for more than five hours. it would have been what happened after the 2020 election leading up to january 6, all of
engin jerry was the most influential man in my life. everything i have in my life i owe to him. cnn this morning continues now. the first time in modern history a vice president is compelled to testify about the president he served beside. mike pence has likely provided intricate, direct, first-person testimony. this lasted for five hours. gives you an indication of the painstaking detail that prosecutors want to get into. let s keep in mind, there is no other witnesses to these conversations. prosecutors say teixeira could still be a threat. he may still have more classified information. authorities say he had an arsenal of weapons just feet from his bed. court documents mention his social media post. if i had my way, i d kill a ton of people. i think he s a danger to the country and a danger to himself. on the third day, her civil battery and defamation lawsuit, e. jean carroll grilled on her allegations that donald trump raped her. the most intense mo