you made it. you made it to saturday, april 29th. always my favorite day of the week. good to have you along. i m victor black well. welcome to cnn this morning. and i feel like it s starting to warm up. it gets warm, cools. we re settling in, folks. we are. thanks so much for sharing part of our saturday morning with us. here s what we re watching. more than 20 million people are facing severe threats of storms again after parts of the south were pelted with baseball-sized hail this week. the main threat we re watching out for. the president can no longer ignore by not negotiating. we are still waiting for house republicans to produce a budget. they produced a ransom note. democrats and republicans spar over the debt limit. will this week s republican plan force the white house to negotiate spending cuts? we ll discuss. at least 23 people are dead after russia unleashed a deadly attack on ukrainian civilians yesterday. our team is live on scene where rescue e
moment. that is it for us this afternoon. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. the state of our union is the lead is starting right now. president big tonit s address before a died congress and country to tout his accomplishments. and perhaps lay out his case for another term. but how might his message land with the american people who according to polls disapprove of the job he s doing. rare cries of joy as a little girl and her younger sibling are pulled from the rubble alive. a small bit of good news amid the growing death and destruction from the earthquake in turkey and syria. the death toll now soaring to more than 7,200 people. then, if you ve flown in the past few weeks, you know the skies are not very friendly. cancel takeoff clearance. delta 1943, cancel takeoff clearance. an i-team meltdown, one airline grounded during the holidays, two runway near misses, now lawmakers want answers. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper on capitol hill
hello, and everyone, welcome to cnn newsroom. right now there is a desperate search and rescue operation under way across turkey and syria after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake ripped through the two countries before dawn. the death toll now tops 2,700 and will like will keep rising as crews dig through the rubble. more than 120 aftershocks hit after the earthquake, including one almost as powerful as the earthquake itself. buildings crumbled to the ground. people feared trapped inside. others having to run for their lives. rescuers having to reach those who are stuck under piles of concrete and debris, like this boy in northern syria. you can just make him out buried under the wreckage. thankfully he was pulled the safety. rescuers also pulling this little girl from the debris in another syrian city. the u.s. and other countries are offering whatever help they can. and president biden said he has directed his team to provide any and all assistance immediately. cnn s juman
circumstantial. the stolen is expected to be called to the stand. bret: backed the blue. welcome eric adams welcome toe nyc happy to speech you something about values. more americans fled new york city maybe it s you who can learn from ron desantis. brian: here we go straight to a fox news alert. moments ago, vladimir putin announcing amongst other things that russia is suspending its participation in a key nuclear weapons treaty with the u.s. steve: great. the move comes as president biden is set to meet poland s president about an hour from now, this morning, after a surprise visit to kyiv. ainsley: alexandria hoff is live in washington. he just spoke at 4:00 a.m. eastern time. tell us more about what putin said and more on this story. this is a very prolonged speech. vladimir putin has just said that russia is suspending its participation in the new start nuclear weapons treaty that reduces the number of missile lawrges. he said russia must stand to missile t
the death toll from a russian missile strike in ukraine is expected to rise as search crews dig through the rubble of an apartment building. the attack happened on friday as many people were sleeping. this is the deadly est known single strike on civilians sit january. nic robertson arrived on scene shortly after the attack. he s at the site still in ukraine. is this still a search-and-rescue mission trying to find potential survivors, or has this moved on to recovery? reporter: this is really about recovery. we knole who died in this missile strike. ofhose girls, an 8-year-old, an 11-year-old, and a 14-year-old, and the two boys. one was 1 1/2 years old. the other was 16. let me step out of the way so