and activating the national guard as the storms gutted entire communities. she spoke about the destruction earlier today. i have had the opportunity over the last couple of hours to speak with both the homeland security secretary as well as president biden, who have offered a tremendous amount of support anything that arkansas need from a city county state and federal perspective, i would say that everyone is working in total lockstep and we re going to do everything we can to make sure that people of our state are back on their feet again. and more devastation in several other states, including indiana and illinois. people are waking up to their homes and businesses destroyed their neighborhoods littered with debris. but the threat is far from over. some 70 million americans are now bracing for more severe storms. today cnn has teams tracking all of the latest developments from these destructive storms. derek van dam is in wynne, arkansas. at this hour. derek to you first. w
regulators seize control of first republic bank, selling its assets to jpmorgan chase. what does it mean for your money? a mundt under way in texas. hundreds of police officers are searching for a gunman accused of killing five people, including a 9-year-old boy. the latest on the search ahead. fleeing sudan. thousands are l leaving. we re live where a u.s. ship carrying american evacuees has just docked. we re following these developing stories and more coming in to cnn news central. overnight, regulatorings seizing control of first republic bank and its $230 billion worth of assets. jpmorgan stepping in as a buyer and assuming responsibility. we re less than 30 minutes before the opening bell. we want to see how wall street reacts, futures down but only a little bit. wall street seems to be taking this in stride. this is the second largest bank failure in u.s. history, the largest since the 2008 financial crisis and the third u.s. bank to fail since march. cnn chie
that they don t want to default. they want to avoid that, but they don t agree on how to do it. mccarthy wants to hold it at hostage in return for massive cuts on discretionary programs meaning basically everything but social security and medicare which along with defense, make up the clear bulk of the budget while president biden has been adamant that no cuts are on the table. none. so what are these guys going to talk about? and how will mitch mcconnell, chuck schumer and hakeem jefferies factor in? they will also be at that may 9th meeting. does it end an agreement to disagree until this fall? in other words, a short-term deal to avoid collapse? because that is what economists are worried about, a default that will send the markets into a freefall, add rocket fuel to inflation, slash millions of jobs, cut off social security payments and veterans benefits and drag the u.s. economy into an ugly and potentially prolonged recession. no one wants that. joining me now is nbc n
i m boris sanchez. and i m paula reid. it is great to be with you. great to be with you as well. i was looking at amara walker s social media. looks like she is skiing somewhere with her family. great for her. and there is a lot to get to. here is some of what we re watching for this morning. wake up, wake up, your house is flooded. and i looked on the ground and there was a flood. he seems to be in a good food fo mood for a natural disaster. california was soaked with another storm and prompted evacuations. would we have the latest on where the severe weather is headed next. and overall we ve created more jobs in two years than any administration has created in their first four years. president biden takes a victory lap following a strong jobs report. where we re seeing those jobs. plus the stunning bank collapse that has some small business owners wondering how they will pay their employees. and in politics, testing the waters. presidential hopefuls swarming i
manipulate the media in this way, plant stories get their views in the media? it goes beyond your wildest imagination. the extent to which the cia has gone to manipulate public opinion with the objective essentially of manipulating the mind and attitudes of workers throughout the nation and the world. jesse: if you think journalists should be smarter than that, well, here s a story. i also was interrogator and, indeed, briefed the press. when we, the cia, wanted to circulate disinformation on a particular issue, we would pick out a journalist. i would go do the briefing. and hope that he would put the information in print. what was your percentage of success? usually, the journalist would go with it because it was it looked like some kind of exclusive and i would say our percentage of planting that kind of data was 70% to 80%. jesseof this about 40 years . but we have forgotten it. from w.m.d.s to russia collusion, to covid to the laptop. the population has been