with this breaking news. rescue teams are now on a desperate searching rescue for survivors after powerful destructive storms ripped through the south tornadoes tearing through mississippi overnight. at least 23 people are confirmed dead. another dead in alabama. dozens more injured and at least four others are still missing at this hour and many of the deaths happening in the town of rolling fork, mississippi neighborhoods there are simply leveled extraordinary scene there. the mayor sharing this bleak assessment of the damage on cnn this morning. right? that s all i see. a lot of families here are affected. uh lot of families are hurting. uh this community is. in the situation that we never expected by city is gone. but we will resilient and we re going to come back. wow my city is gone. cnn s isabel rizal is on the scene in rolling fork. right now that the sun is up, the heartbreak is becoming a lot more noticeable for the residents here at rolling fork everywhere you look
political ones development as well on the federal side. lawyers for the former vice president were in court today behind closed doors, trying to block a grand jury subpoena for his testimony in the january 6th case, and in the classified documents case. tomorrow is the day the former prisons attorney , evan corcoran, is expected to give additional testimony and turned over documents after the d. c district appeals court. upheld. the judge is incredibly rare decision to set aside attorney client privilege under the crime fraud exception. now we have reporting tonight on all of the above cnn s kara scannell on them and hadn t case and kaylen poland s on the federal action caress canal starts us off. so any idea why things have slowed down with the grand jury in new york. this grand jury has been hearing evidence in this case since january. we ve seen a number of the witnesses close to this david pecker at the national enquirer. um michael cohen, who is trump s fixed or the man
decision very, very shortly in that discussion to authorize the strikes against these particular targets. is there anything you can tell us about the u. s contractor killed. i m afraid not. i mean, we re trying to give the family some time and in space here to grieve. they just got devastating news yesterday. we do know that he was an american citizen and a contractor working for us at that particular base. but again , poppy, i think you can understand where we re going to give them a little bit of privacy right now, just to follow to poppy s question there. what are the things that us can the us do anything to help keep the personnel and u s contractsafe tre? well, the actions that we took yesterday are part and parcel that effort, don, i mean we re going to work to protect our people and our facilities as best we can. it s a dangerous environment. you said it at the top were there to defeat isis to ensure the enduring defeat of isis. they are still a threat in syria. they a
hit a base housing u. s personnel. they believe that drone was iranian. it made u. s forces quickly struck back targeting facilities used by iran s revolutionary guard, so, says u s officials say u. s officials this morning cnn got reaction from the white house. we don t seek a war with iran. we re not looking for an armed conflict with that country or another war in the region. we do seek to protect our mission in syria. all of this is unfolding as president biden is set to meet with the canadian prime minister justin trudeau. we are alive in ottawa. we re waiting to hear from the president himself. on this attack in syria. also just a few minutes ago. you can see him there in the back of him. that is trump attorney evan corcoran, arriving at a washington dc courthouse. he just entered the building. he is going to testify today before a grand jury in the mara lago classified documents probe and he will do so without the protection of attorney client privilege. first that we
president and his team today retaliatory strike by the united states in syria, the pentagon says president biden authorized the strike after an american contractor was killed and five u. s service members injured in syria. the administration says the americans were attacked by a drone officials say came from iran. let s begin at the pentagon with cnn s oren liebermann or what are you learning about the u. s personnel involved here and how frequently attacks like this happen? the latest update we have on the u. s personnel involved here is that there were five service members injured. they are in stable condition. two of them were treated at the scene. three of them had to be taken to coalition medical facilities in iraq. there was also one other u. s contractor injured that, in addition, according to the pentagon to the one u. s contractor who was killed in this one way, you wavy attackers. suicide drone attack . the pentagon says the drone was of iranian origin, likely indic