mississippi officials reported least eight deaths and sharkey county, which includes the town of rolling fork, where homes and businesses were flattened, and trees and power lines were knocked down. humphreys county. at least three people were killed and at least two people are in critical condition. search and rescue teams and first responders are on the scene in the area northwest of jackson, and we spoke with the president of one of the towns that was hard hit, who was on the phone with her grandmother when the tornado went through? listen to this. you could hear the tornado in the you could hear the roar in the background and she started screaming. for help. and she said that, um she wants it stopped roaring her, she said. it s raining through my roof. it s raining through my roof, so we rushed down to evacuate her immediately. officials in morgen county, alabama, say first responders freed up to seven people who were trapped in a group home and as the storm system moves
and 30, others wounded when a bomb exploded in a cafe and st petersburg today we are now hearing from russian state media that the explosive device may have been hidden inside a figurine presented to the blogger. the dead blogger had more than half a million followers on his pro military blog, where he aggressively supported the war in ukraine yet openly criticized the setbacks. russian troops face there. let s get right to cnn s matthew chance in moscow. matthew was this looking like a targeted attack. i mean, you ve got to be thinking that way, haven t you, given the circumstances that are being set out by the investigators and the eyewitnesses that are speaking to russian state media, saying that basically this character, this pro war military blogger who was the guest speaker at an event packed with other supporters of the war in ukraine was basically given a statue figurine, a little statuettes by somebody in the crowd. who was supporter of his supposedly and shortly aft
young. and uh and so it s a it s not exceptional that that young people are doing important things in our military. that s that s really not the issue. the issue is and by the way he had a top secret clearance. the issue is, uh, you know how, uh, you responsibly execute, carry out your duties and how you protect the information. as the pentagon tries to contain this, a secret document not previously reported on shows the chinese military is preparing a supersonic spy drone unit. we have cnn s alex marquardt here with us on on this story. what do we learning about this drone? it s pretty incredible. it is pretty remarkable. it does show significant advancement in china s drone capabilities. and as you noted, this is an assessment that comes from the national geospatial intelligence agency. it was a document was obtained by the washington post, which we ourselves have not seen. verified but what it does indicate is that they have made significant leaps to this drone , which is
into the business activities of the president s son. all of this comes on a dayothers name, robert f. kennedy jr. officially launches a primary challenge. white house correspondent peter doocy joins us live on the north lawn with the latest. good evening, peter. peter: bret, this whistleblower s lawyer says that he is a career official in the irs criminal division and he is alleging that a political appointee at the irs lied to congress about the hunter biden tax investigation at some point in the last few years. and this whistleblower is alleging that politics and preferential treatment are interfering in the hunter biden probe. we are awaiting reply from hunter biden s representatives. the chairman of the house ways and means committee says they are going to meet with this whistleblower soon. and this does come at a politically delicate time for the president. remember, he and his political team retooled the democratic primary calendar to put south carolina first because
minute since we had seen that as well. a lot to entertain us in washington. gillian turner in for sandra smith. tensions on the rise now as we fast approach a year of war in ukraine. stand strong. ukraine will never be a victory for russia, never. attack against one is attack against all. john: president biden blasting russian president vladimir putin for his assault on ukraine, but issue was left out of the speech. gillian: the president did not address putin s major nuclear warning to the west out this week, russia is suspending the nuclear arms control with the united states, opening the lid for potential weapons expansion. john: all of this as russian is looking to get a boost from communist china. xi jinping plans to visit moscow in the coming months. beijing wants to play the role of peacemaker. some skeptics wonder if xi might have another agenda and if biden will do anything to stop him. tiktok is here, the ford chinese battery plant is coming, farmland is