on tuesday. and pope francis is expected to participate in palm sunday mass at st peter s basilica just a day after leaving the hospital. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with michael holmes. and we begin with those powerful storms that battered parts of the u. s. and the death toll is rising yet again, at least 22 people were killed, dozens more injured after tornadoes and storms hit on friday and saturday, the latest fatality just hours ago in delaware, and this is what it looks like in wynne, arkansas, where four people were killed. the mayor told cnn. her city was basically cut in half by the damage the storm so powerful it ripped the turf off the football field at the high school. similar scenes in the state capital little rock, where at least one person was killed and 50 hospitalist. many of the tornado s moving so quickly. people had little time to prepare like this driver who rode out the storm in his van. neighbors and neighborhoods and businesses were dec
the rubble, the latest on the severe weather just ahead. plus after being indicted, donald trump started making a lot of claims about manhattan and it s just district attorney will fact check to see if any of them are true and we re alive in rome. pope francis presides over palm sunday mass. just one day after leaving the hospital. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with layla, harare. we begin with those powerful deadly storms that battered parts of the us over the past two days, leaving dozens injured after tornadoes and storms moved through, and the death toll continues to climb. the latest fatality was saturday evening in sussex county, delaware county officials say it happened after a structure collapsed. the same storm system left behind a trail of destruction across multiple states beginning on friday. listen to this resident from tennessee. it s just surreal. you know, you just everything you ve worked. we ve lived in this house 44 years. and you know everythi
specifically should dajuan china , a city some 200 miles south of beijing, known for manufacturing , pharmaceutical drugs and once a major hub for fentanyl production in may 2019 facing mounting us pressure, china took a major step and banned the production and sale of all known forms of fentanyl, including any variants of the drug. that was a big step that stopped fentanyl. fitting all the powder coming in from china directing the united states. matt donahue worked for the d e, a for more than three decades, retiring last year as its chief of foreign operations . while he says finished, fentanyl is no longer flowing out of china. precursor chemicals. the ingredients to make fentanyl or if you can get to the precursor chemicals, you re going to have less fentanyl. you have less fentanyl. you have less over those deaths using that same approach in recent years, the us levied new sanctions against a handful of chinese chemical manufacturers to combat the
this is ground zero for illicit fentanyl smuggling. we will probably double what we saw last year within the next month or two. that s double the amount of fentanyl seized in all of 2022 just the first four months of this year, but before the fentanyl even reaches the u. s border, you need to know where it s coming from. and for that we start not over there in mexico. but in china specifically should dajuan china , a city some 200 miles south of beijing, known for manufacturing , pharmaceutical drugs and once a major hub for fentanyl production in may 2019 facing mounting us pressure, china took a major step and banned the production and sale of all known forms of fentanyl, including any variants of the drug. that was a big step that stopped fentanyl. fitting all the powder coming in from china directing the united states. matt donahue worked for the d e, a for more than three decades, retiring last year as its chief of foreign operations