good morning and welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, april 16th. i had to be reminded of that just a few minutes ago. i m aymara walker. i m victor blackwell. she was talking about yesterday on sunday. and i m thinking we do the weekend. so clearly yesterday wasn t sunday . i thought today was monday is with us. all right. thanks for spending good morning with us. here s what we re watching for you. at least 56 people are dead. excuse me in sudan. there were explosions repping night clashes between the military and armed group or escalating will tell you what we know about how this started and what the rest of the world is doing. in response, congress returns from recess this week with a laundry list of to do items among them coming up at the plan to fund the government look at other major priorities for both parties in the coming days. the $1.6 billion defamation trial against fox news starts this week. what s at stake for the company and watch fox apologized to the j
school libraries and reading lists in more districts and states, according to a new report. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start with our national lead. hurricane fiona wreaking havoc on several caribbean islands. the storm made landfall as a category 1, but expected to become a major hurricane after it hit puerto rico on sunday, knocking out the entire power grid there. puerto rico, still recoverining from hurricane maria in 2017, is suffering catastrophic flooding. you can see this bridge, which was rebuilt after hurricane maria, being swept away by the rushing waters. another river, rising to 29 feet, surpassing the record set in 2017. we re going to start our coverage with laila santiago, in part rico, where most communities are still struggling without power. reporter: almost the entire island of puerto rico remains in the dark after hurricane fiona slam into the southwestern coast of the island sunday afternoon. pounding rainfall causing catastrophic mud
millions of floridians in this storm s path. those who have not evacuated are urged to shelter in place immediately. almost 800,000 people are already without power. that s according to florida utilities. the director of fema has warned that recovery from hurricane ian will be a very long road. that agency has already begun to pour resources into the state. in an event earlier today, president joe biden said he spoke with florida governor ron desantis and added he already requested aid saying, quote, the federal government is ready to help in every single way possible. ali velshi who has been doing the heroic job of bringing the story to all of us from naples, florida, is our first guest. ali, tell me what you re seeing. i ve been watching all day long. please tell me how you re staying safe. reporter: we always appreciate that. what did we just lose there, peter? something has come off the building that we re in. in fact, we re seeing a lot of that. moments ago we saw a fr
if you are capable of getting out now, get out now. evacuations are under way in parts of mississippi in anticipation of heavy flooding tomorrow. the mayor of jackson is going to be joining us live with more on how his city is preparing and why this could be the second round of flooding for some residents. on the eve of history, one day away from the launch of artemis i. how the forecast is shaping up and why this mission is so critical when it comes to getting americans back on the moon. it is sunday, august 28th. thank you so much for waking up with us. good to be with you, boris. good morning, amara. i hope you enjoyed the cupcake you had for breakfast. i enjoyed my prosciutto i have every morning. i m still working on mine, slowly. we hope you are enjoying your breakfast wherever you are. we re grateful that you made us part of the start of your week. up first, assessing the damage to national intelligence from classified documents that were found at donald
states because of a little known exception the government has been making. let s go outfront. good evening, everyone. i m poppy harlow in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, team trump s response. trump s legal team up against the clock to respond to that bombshell 54-page filing by the justice department. we should be getting that response at any moment now. it is due in less than an hour and the filing, which is expected to be no more than ten pages or less, could give us the first look at the strategy from trump s new legal counsel. that is florida s former solicitor general. for the first time, we re getting crucial insight into trump s defense against damning new evidence from the doj, which, according to the agency s new filing, investigators have evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed in the storage room and efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. the doj detailing in this filing the depth and the breadth