ahead. it was a busy night and you are waking up to history. america waking up to the historic news that president donald j. trump has been indicted. he is the very first president. we ve never seen this before in history. so here s the latest on this friday, march, 31st 2023 sources tell cnn trump faces more than 30 counts related to business fraud. this case prosecuted by the manhattan district attorney centers around the accounting of hush money payments made to adult film star stormy daniels. as of now, this is how it s supposed to go down because multiple sources say trump will turn himself in next tuesday. he is expected to appear in court for his arraignment in new york. the nypd getting ready for any sign of trouble. all officers are being told to report to work in uniform people prepared for deployment today. meanwhile republicans in the house senate and even some 2024 rivals are rushing to trump s defense, calling the case political and outrage and even one of them
new tornado emergency for you that storm right there is on the ground producing damage. we do know that it is a large and damaging tornado right now that just moved through winnie and parts of arkansas just to the north west of memphis, likely mrs memphis, but we ll keep watching that iowa city big storm just to your northwest was rotating for awhile. tornado was on the ground and things but on the ground since ottumwa, iowa, a long path so this area here from chicago through devenport all the way down to louisiana and mississippi, all part of the same system with e f to e f three s and larger likely with this not by tomorrow, this thing even gets to some of the big cities. now i m not e f two and e f three s. but watch this is hour by hour. i set this up because i know you all don t live in parts of arkansas but hour by hour as we roll this through the ohio valley down through tennessee, we go from seven o clock to nine o clock in advance again. back into the evening hours.
that s 184494200. wellcare medicare done well, melanie s nana in washington and this is cnn. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me in new york. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin this hour with the formal expulsion of two black state democrats from tennessee s house of representatives. the expulsions coming a week after they let a gun reform protests from the house floor in response to a school shooting that killed six, including three children in nashville, justin jones and justin pearson. we re also joined in that protest by their colleague, representative gloria johnson. you see them all there. holding hands, raising their fists. vice president harris met privately with the so called tennessee three on friday, she was in nashville to advocate for stricter gun reform. cnn correspondent isabel rizal is joining me now with more on this, isabel. what are we learning about the expulsions and what s next? good afternoon to you, fred? yeah we re hearing from t
. former president donald j. trump has beenrand jury investig hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels. it is the first time in american history that a current or former president is facing criminal charges, and cnn is now learning that trump is expected to be arraigned. early next week. now the grand jury has been hearing evidence and witness testimony related to $130,000 that trump s former fixer, michael cohen, paid stormy daniels before the 2016 election. that money was paid in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair she had with trump now source telling cnn and this is really important information. we re just getting that trump was completely caught off guard that right now he s in florida at a mar-a-lago that he had been caught off guard and that he thought that this was sort of. maybe maybe over. maybe bragg had gotten cold feet, so he suddenly released a statement after this news broke, saying, quote. this is this is in part. it s a longer statem
all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and around the world. i m kim bruun huber ahead on cnn newsroom, we re getting a better look at the case against the air national guardsman who is accused of leaking classified pentagon documents and the charges he s facing republican hopefuls for president climb over each other to show who has the most support for gun rights at the annual nra convention. and an explosion leads to the japanese prime minister being evacuated from the place where he was giving a speech at what was behind the incident. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with kim bruun hoover. u s government is moving quickly with its prosecution of the suspected leaker of classified documents that included detailed intelligence assessments of allies and adversaries alike. 21 year old air national guardsman jack to share a has now been formally charged under the espionage act. jason carroll has the latest on the charges and the continuing fallout fr