mexico premieres tonight at 10 on cnn. brought to you by guilt , visit guilt dot com today for up to 70% off designer brands, designers that get your heart racing prices everyday. hurry on in a flash sales it up to 70% off guilt .com today. you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin and tornado ravaged mississippi, where people have lost their homes, their possessions and, sadly, some have lost their own loved ones. but right now there are new concerns hanging over the ruins of these communities, a new threat of severe storms, including tornadoes is looming over some of the hardest hit areas. that includes mississippi , where 25 people are confirmed dead from friday night s tornadoes today, top state and federal officials saw the damage for themselves, and they vowed to help these communities. face the years long challenge of rebuilding. but we ve come to do we have come to see it in person to communicate to the people of mississippi. that we are
the devastation. it s just we re looking at the video. now. it s incredible. it is striking jim to see this devastation of close and in person, you know, it s not really an exaggeration to say that there is very little of this town that has remained untouched from the tornado that ripped through here on. uh, the buildings that we re seeing here throughout the area have been reduced to rubble. there are individuals that we smoke into that don t understand how they got out alive, considering so many around them perished. as you mentioned at least 25 people have been killed as a result of the storms that we re continuing the machinery being brought through these areas clear out the records, and it was earlier that i spoke to one of the tornado survivors. ernest hall, who says that he was asleep when the initial storm came through. woken up by a phone call of a family member asking for help to erased across town to a trailer park where we re standing in front of that is among the
process. previous testimony uncovered the networks promotion of trump s 2020 election lies among its biggest stars on the network. cnn senior media reporter oliver darcy joins us now. oliver you know, it s interesting. i mean, how many texts and other testimony we got during the build up to this potential trial if it in fact takes place next month, and i think one of the biggest prospects in all of this is that the potential to see rupert murdoch actually testified. do you think that could happen? it seems like that could happen. jim dominion has obviously expressed interest in calling rupert murdoch to the stand. and earlier this week, a judge the judge that s presiding over this case suggested that he might want to also see rupert murdoch . take the stand. now this could come via zoom or some other form . it doesn t have to necessarily be in person. but it will be notable particularly because rupert murdoch himself ironically gave some of the most damaging. uh, in his deposition.
things more in play in terms of article five from the nato treaty, i those kinds of elements could be used against putin should he employed these kinds of weapons. so the risk of escalation is definitely layer, jim, but it is something that we really have to, you know, have to watch very carefully. and let s turn to syria over the last couple of days, iranian forces in syria launched at least five drone attacks on us targets and retaliation. the us launched strikes of their own. these iranian groups in syria left the us with a stern warning, saying that their revenge will not be easy. national security council spokesperson john kirby made it clear the u. s is not going to back down and let s listen what he had to say. the mission in isis is not going to change we have under 1000 troops in syria . they re going after that network, which is while greatly diminished, still viable and still critical, so we re going to stay at that task. colonel
progress pretty far, including, you know the release of these discovery materials, these text messages and emails, so it s possible they do want to move into a trial. i do think outside the legal risk. it s a huge reputational risk for fox. i mean, you could again have some of the most high profile personalities. take the stand and admit under oath, as they did in that the depositions that they knowingly advanced election lies that they knew were not true. and i think you know again outside the legal risk there. that s going to be really damaging for fox reputational e and it will be covered for weeks and weeks on end if this does go to trial, so we ll see what happens. jim i would imagine that they want this to go away. but so far it looks like this will go to trial in mid april. it s just a remarkable case. alright oliver. darcy. great to see you. thanks again. appreciate it. still ahead. cnn is in tornado ravaged rolling