oh good morning. you should have woken me up like your last hit me. i hope your wig reason why you re here to shake me awake. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday. april 2nd. i m like, why is he looking at me? i m amarillo walker. april fool s day was yesterday. i m victor blackwell. thank you for spending some time with us this morning. here s what we re watching. it s just surreal. you know, you just everything you ve worked. we ve lived in this house 44 years and you know everything we worked for. paid for it. it s gone. it s gone. communities across the south and midwest are cleaning up after powerful storms ripped through at least seven states. the damage is catastrophic team is live in arkansas ahead of fema s arrival there. we have new cnn reporting on the mood among former president trump s advisers ahead of his court appearance tuesday that concerns about where a potential trial could be held back to work. how pope francis is spending thi
russian military blogger has been killed in an explosion at a cafe and st petersburg, russia. here is new video showing the aftermath. several others were injured in the blast. that s according to russian state media . the explosion also caused the building s facade to collapse. cnn s matthew chance is in russia. matthew what are you learning? wow. i mean, you know you can see the pictures there. there s a police cordon all around that cafe in st petersburg, where there was an explosion inside, and it is killed, one of the country s most prominent pro war military bloggers. his name is vlad lynn to task. at least that s what he goes by, and his blog he s got his real name is something else called maxim farming, but that s that s what his blogs called that s. that s the name under which he writes and he is well known in russia has got more than half a million followers on his channel, his telegram channel and is well known for being very aggressive, very pro war he wants in
to games. now he s taking the aztecs and her first ever national title game. and what a way to get there. fredricka florida atlantic was leading by one with nine seconds to go going for the dagger, but they missed the shot. and instead of calling a time out, coach dutcher let his players play and it pays off lamont butler letting go of the ball just before the buzzer and legend 70 to 71 pure elation for the aztecs, russian the floor. some of the students told me they drove 1500 miles 20 hours to be there in houston for this, and at the same time, though, it s hearts and dreams shattered. for f a. you after the game, the aztecs hero lamont butler talked us through that iconic moment. the plan was just to get downhill. they cut me off a little bit. i looked up. it was two seconds left, so i got to a shutdown comfortable with and i hit it. most guys dream of making one of those plays. and he s made a couple already this year and on his biggest stage as
bit. i looked up. it was two seconds left, so i got to a shot that i m comfortable with, and i hit it. most guys dream of making one of those plays. and he s made a couple already this year and on his biggest stages there is in the national semifinals to make that shot was incredible. so i m gonna i can t wait to go back and see it on tape. san diego state will face the yukon huskies for the chance that one shining moment you can t continue its run of domination against miami last night, winning 72 59 advancing to the championship game for the first time since 2014 star center adama sanogo. he had a game high 21 points. 10 rebounds. he grew up in mali, five older sisters, one younger brother. speaks four different languages, and now they are just one win away from 1/5 national title are the huskies incredible stuff they re perfect for and oh, victor and amber when playing for the national title safe to say, march madness spilling over into april, giving