Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning everybody on this wednesday. Well start with the deadly weather on the move right now. At least two people have died, from the storms pounding states from mexico to the canadian border. See the concentration of the storm. A fairly narrow band. Some of the most severe cells over iowa, nebraska damaging storms and even tornados possible overnight. Flooding and travel delays likely. One person died in elk city, oklahoma, panhandle there. Where a tornado completely destroyed 40 homes. 75 others heavily damaged. Some residents were trapped in the rubble. Another fatality when a tornado hit a Mobile Home Park in western wisconsin. About 40 miles north of au claire, dozens of trailers destroyed. I know there was walls on top i would describe it as total destruction. There is a whole row where there should be trailers, nothing but debris. More than a dozen reported tornados touched down in texas panhandle alone. Also heavy rain and
Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning everybody on this wednesday. Well start with the deadly weather on the move right now. At least two people have died, from the storms pounding states from mexico to the canadian border. See the concentration of the storm. A fairly narrow band. Some of the most severe cells over iowa, nebraska damaging storms and even tornados possible overnight. Flooding and travel delays likely. One person died in elk city, oklahoma, panhandle there. Where a tornado completely destroyed 40 homes. 75 others heavily damaged. Some residents were trapped in the rubble. Another fatality when a tornado hit a Mobile Home Park in western wisconsin. About 40 miles north of au claire, dozens of trailers destroyed. I know there was walls on top i would describe it as total destruction. There is a whole row where there should be trailers, nothing but debris. More than a dozen reported tornados touched down in texas panhandle alone. Also heavy rain and
Hundred homes in oklahoma. This pickup spinning out of control on the highway. And now a new round of severe storms taking aim at the midwest. Good morning, america. A very busy wednesday. Well get to those tornadoes in just a moment. But first that report about the president and james comey. Robin, we have had a week of stunning stories from the white house. This is the motion serious one yet. What weve learned in the last 24 hours means that the course of trumps presidency will turn on his coming public showdown with james comey. The big question, did President Trump try to block the fbis russia investigation, commit an impeachment offense . We know he made contemptuous notes with the president , that dinner in january when the president reportedly asked him if he was under investigation. Requested a pledge of personal after asking his Vice President and attorney general to leave the room brought up the fbi investigation of his fired National Security adviser Michael Flynn. I hope yo
Through the summer and fall, which were used to inform senior u. S. Officials, including president obama. The work also was leveraged for the Intelligence Community assessment that was completed in early january. Second, it should be clear to everyone that russia brazenly interfered in our 2016 president ial election process and that they undertook these activities, despite our strong protests and explicit warning they do not do so. Along these lines on 4 august of last year, i spoke to the head of russias federal security bureau, the fsb, russias internal security and intelligence service. The bulk of the scheduled call focused on syria, as he was my principal russian interlocker on matters. I took the opportunity to raise two additional issues with him. I first told him as i had several times previously that the continued mistreatment and harassment of u. S. Diplomats in moscow was irresponsible, reckless, intolerable, and needed to stop. Over the years it has been his fsb that has b
Okay, good afternoon, everyone. My name is marcel womba, im president of the gulf states institute. I would like to welcome all of you to our talk on financing terrorism. One of the many attempts to prevent terrorism, cutting off the financial flow is the most crucial. It allows them to recruit, control territory, plan and carry out violent operations on a global level. There are emains a top priority for the u. S. As we seek to defeat Islamic State and other terrorist groups, the u. S. And its gulf arab partners have taken significant steps to stem the flow of funds to terrorist groups over the past 15 years. Really a very robust effort since 9 11. However, despite the various measures and regulations put in place, terrorist organizations continue to generate and come from the region to finance their activities. What more can be done, regionally and globally to stem the flow of money to violent extremists. We have a very distinguished panel with us today to answer that question and ex