flattened. hundreds of thousands are without power and our derek van damme standing by in the hard hit town in arkansas, with the latest former president trump will appear in court tuesday after being indicted by a manhattan grand jury. what we know about the charges he s facing and how we expect that court appearance to play out there s some much needed good news when it comes to the economy. the trends that show inflation may be moving in the right direction. undefeated season comes to an end and one team mounts an epic comeback haywire, standing by live in houston with the highlights. we re starting, though, with the severe weather ripping through the middle part of the country. this was the scene across seven states friday afternoon. at least five people are dead. dozens more injured, there were over 50 sightings of tornadoes, including 22 in illinois, 12 in arkansas, eight in iowa and illinois. 200 people were inside the apollo theater in belvedere when the roof collapse
arkansas governor sarah huckabee , sanders declared a state of emergency as the storms ripped through several towns. she spoke about the destruction a short time ago. i ve 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. but the storm threat is not over. a new round of severe weather is threatening 70 million americans today. cnn has teams following all the latest developments from these deadly storms. let s begin with derek van dam. he s live for us in hard hit. when arkansas derek what s the situation? yeah fredricka. you know the devastation here is immense, quoting the mayor of when arkansas, he said. it s lik
of bloody weekend with two separate shooting incidents. wholly intolerable situation. silicon fallout after at collapse. and new york community bank is expected to buy out a big chunk of signature bank for 2.7 billion. 19 at the free-throw line and a turnover. walker comes in and he scores. [cheers] steve: 6:00 here in new york city. it s 1:00 in the afternoon in russia and we start this hour and this program with a fox news alert. chinese president xi jinping will arrive in moscow within the half hour, we believe, to meet with russian president vladimir putin. it s xi s first visit to russia since putin ordered that invasion of ukraine last year. rachel: part of china s plan to counter the united states and establish a new world order with beijing at the forefront. brian: i like the last world order but we will see what happens. the chinese president wants to brand himself global peacemaker stand with ally face international arrest warrant for war crimes in ukraine
separate shooting incidents. banks making big moves to ease the fallout after silicon valley banks collapse. more than $3 billion. new york community bank is expected to buy out a big chunk of signature bank at $2.7 billion. at the free throw line. walker comes in. and he scores! [cheers and applause] steve: good morning, syracuse, new york. it is 8:00 in the east. you got 30 degrees for a daytime high of 50. by the way, today is the first full day rather the first day of spring. it eventually arrives the vernal equinox doesn t 5:24 this afternoon. welcome aboard. our number three for this monday march 20th 2023 in ainsley s place today, we ve got rachel. it s great to have you. rachel: it doesn t feel like spring. steve: it is 30 degrees. brian: grab your tank tops, your muscle starts. put on your tight pants. rachel: is this your wardrobe at home? brian: when it is spring, i have no choice. rachel: he is from long island. brian: let s get to it. i
president trump or if this was a democrat it should be equal justice in america. and stop going after people because you have political differences. house speaker kevin mccarthy pushing a popular defense within the gop when it comes to a possible indictment for donald trump. we ll have the latest on the former president s legal troubles in new york in just a moment. plus, chinese president xi jinping is in russia this morning meeting with vladimir putin for the first time since the invasion of ukraine. and also ahead, new investigations into tiktok amid allegations that former employees spied on journalists good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, march 20th i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us we ll begin this morning in new york where amid mounting legal trouble across multiple states, former president donald trump could be criminally charged for the first time, and that could happen as early as this week according