day weekend right now, more than 100 million people are at risk of severe weather as deadly and destructive storms. sweep across the central us these new threats come just hours after powerful storms killed at least 13 people across the south overnight, at least four of those killed were children homes were obliterated. 18 wheelers flipped over and power lines knocked out coming back to visualization right now for the first time, knowing that i was just here and it s all destroyed. it it s mind-blowing. i m still trying to process it. it s shock this everything you had worked so hard for all these years is don cnn s ed. lavandera is in valley view, texas and meteorologist, at elisa rafah is tracking the storms from the weather center. so ed, let s begin with you. i mean, bad. i mean terrible damage behind you. how are people doing? trying to capture the magnitude of the devastation that we re finding here invalid the texas, which is just north of the dallas, fort worth
house. and this is cnn you re in the cnn newsroom. hi everyone. i m jessica dean in washington and we have breaking news this memorial day weekend as powerful and dangerous storms are threatening millions of americans. it s as many communities in texas this arkansas, oklahoma, and kentucky have spent the weekend digging out from under debris, at least 15 people have been confirmed dead as a result of these storms as rescues continue in valley view, texas, at least seven people have died. here s texas governor greg abbott. the same, time, that we are going through the heart wrenching loss of life including the heartbreak of a family losing a two-year-old and a five-year-old child we have cnn s ed lavandera, valley view. we re going to go to him in just a moment. but first let s check in with cnn meteorologist lisa rafah, who is tracking the threats that will continue through tonight. elisa yeah it s really sad when you hear that about the losses of life and unfortunate
states and around the world, i will blitzer a, you re in the situation room a live view from cnn studios in atlanta, where anticipation is building for a presidential debate. hello, like any other think if you re donald trump is going to take away this sort of circus-like atmosphere that we saw in previous debates. the interrupting that s what a yellowing the surface now alpha off of the crowd energy. and i think in some ways it didn t poses a seriousness to donald trump that he wouldn t get otherwise if it was a sort of crowd like atmosphere. and so in that way, i think that advantages him, right? i think the disadvantage for somebody like donald trump is you have to be serious. you have to fill up the time with coherent arguments, coherent talking points. so we ll see if he s able to do that. it s a two-minute he has time to respond, but he s got to talk policy and he doesn t often like to do that. listen, i think biden is an experienced debater. he, if you lo
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mexico sunday at age on cnn welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper this hour. it s hard to forget the images of a cargo ship crashing into the baltimore bridge in march causing a devastating and deadly collapse. but while the cleanup and investigation have moved forward, those 21 crew members have been stuck on the ship for almost three months. today, there was a hearing about letting them return to their families, mostly in india and sri lanka. and we ll bring you those updates plus is the united states at risk of being pulled into yet another global conflict. the white house is issuing a stern warning after video emerges of a major clash in the south china sea and leading this our supreme suspense as the country he waits for blockbuster decisions from the highest court in the land. the justices issuing four rulings today. but we re still waiting on the three janiot highly consequential ones that we have talking about for weeks now, former president trump s claim that he has