viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i m rosemary church. just ahead on cnn newsroom, the mastermind behind the 2021 suicide bombing at kabul s international airport taken out by the taliban. what we re learning about this. countries rush to evacuate their citizens from sudan as the latest fragile ceasefire appears in danger of collapsing. and day-oh, day-oh reporter: remembering the king of calypso. a look at the life and legacy of harry belafonte. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. well, the white house says the terrorist leader behind the deadly 2021 suicide bombing at kabul airport has been killed by the taliban. the attack came in the final chaotic days of the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. 13 u.s. service members and nearly 200 afghans were killed. so let s bring in cnn senior international correspondent ivan watson. good to see you, ivan. what more are you l
the judge considers bail for the suspect leaks case. why prosecutors say he is a flight risk. and reports of fighting in khartoum, despite new cease-fires. foreign citizens rushed to evacuate. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. a former vice president compelled to testify about his direct conversations with the president he served. that s a situation mike pence found himself in on thursday before a grand jury in washington former vice president testified before a federal grand jury for more than five hours. that testimony would have been about what happened after the trump the president at the time, at a time when donald trump was pressuring him to overturn the vote. hints pence refused to do so. pence has also spoke about this conversation publicly. he s right about them in his book. the on a tour of really regularly. whenever before as an investigation, as a grand jury and have prosecutors gotten pence under oath to reveal
united states and all around the world. i am rosemary church. just ahead on cnn newsroom, u.s. house republicans and narrowly pass a bill to raise the country s debt limit, the fight with democrats and the white house is far from over. explicit and dramatic testimony, as the woman accusing donald trump of sexual assault takes the stand. plus prosecutors and now say the classified intel stolen by the 21-year-old in national guardsmen exceeds what s been reported. and the human side of the conflict incident, we will hear from a man whose mother died in his father s arms. after a mortar attack. good to have you with, us well republicans in the u.s. house are claiming a major victory passing a bill to raise the nation s debt limit potentially avoiding economic catastrophe. but their celebration will be short lived. the measure is dead on arrival in the senate, where democrats object to huge cuts in federal spending. the bill passed by only two. both but republicans say it will st
been timid and it has been hesitant to testimony that has been considered to be unfavorable to donald trump it s not so clear to me that mark meadows and all the other people that might be called into a grand jury are going to take the same approach at some point people are going to start to realize that they themselves may face criminal prosecution and legal jeopardy if they are not forthcoming with information that they have about what happened, leading up to january 6th. yeah, and that s why he would need the immunity, precisely for that reason. we will have to leave it. there thank you so much for your analysis. both of you. areva martin and ron brownstein, again, thank you. thank you. thanks, kim brunhuber. the suspect in the pentagon leak s case will remain in jail for now as a judge considers bail. prosecutors called 21-year-old jack teixeira a risk to national security with a history of violent threats and they say he may still have access to top secret documents. c
across the southern u.s. on wednesday, affecting people and animals from florida to texas. large hailstones the size of tennis balls hit the small town of texas, even forcing a ball to head for cover from the storm. some areas could see continued until morning. on thursday, the storms will push east, putting parts of the u.s. gulf coast at risk for more severe weather. and, along the mississippi river is expected to get worse as melting snow causes waters to swell. up the midwest, state including iowa, wisconsin, and minnesota we will see the worst of it. cnn s emily schmidt reports. there is a realtime math equation playing along the mississippi river to explain what, or at winter, snow melt you get a massive problem. people say that it is the storm of the century, the year