hello, everyone, thanks so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield in atlanta. in wisconsin a deadly shooting left a former judge dead and sources tell cnn the gunman was planning to target several other high-ranking government officials. former juneau county circuit court judge john roemer was gunned down in his home friday. police say the shooter then shot himself. sources say the gunman was also planning attacks on wisconsin governor tony evers and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. we have details now. what more are investigators sharing. reporter: sources tell cnn the suspect had a list of targets, a long list of targets. officials say this was somehow related to the justice system. was it one case, several cases? that is simply not clear. what i can tell you this began friday morning when someone ran out of judge roemer s home, called 911 and told police someone had broken inside and shot two rounds inside that home. when police tried to negotiate with the s
Holiday weekend, more than 70 Million People are under a Severe Weather threat as intense tornadoes baseball hail add Near Hurricane Force Winds hit the Central Plains and parts of the midwest. Lets bring in now cnn meteorologist, at elisa rafah. So at least so what areas are you watching most closely . We are really bullseye in parts of oklahoma and kansas today. Again. And whats been a very active Severe Weather season. We have a moderate risk level four out of five there you can see in the red from its your todd down towards Oklahoma City where we could find baseballsized hail intense, strong, long live, violent tornadoes possible, and damaging wind gusts. Notice is if youre Weather Threat though, does stretch down across the deep south, including places like atlanta. And then theres another little portion of it up in the northeast as well. But where we could find these ef2 or greater tornadoes with the intense winds that could pack up to 100 or more miles per hour. Thats in the bul
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Begin with breaking news. And what is now one of the deadliest day is for Launch Horseman in america. Cnn has learned that will fourth officer has died after a shooting and stand off. It shot with karolina were told to us marshals taskforce was trying to serve a warrant for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. But local police chief says that as officers approached the suspects home, someone began treating with the high highpowered Rifle Officers killed assess back, but as the police approach, they faced more gunfire, for other officers were injured, and hes got a photo of one of the officers killed child officer joshua ire. Please say the sixyear veteran died with his wife and his family by his side everyone of us wants to be in a situation where they got you get up this morning and get to come back home . And someone didnt today keep your prayers, keep your faith, makes sure that these officers who we have families have people to reach out and held them up because they all n
Officials in the area have already reported widespread damage and injuries and several counties and more than 45,000 customers are waking up to no power. This severe storm threat is far from over more than 50 deep Million People from texas to wisconsin are under severe storm warnings. And the Storm Prediction Center raised sunday severe storm threat for the Southern Plains to a level three out of five the threat includes possible damaging wind strong tornadoes, and very large hail. Cnns lucy kafanov joins us now from elkhorn, thats a neighborhood in omaha, nebraska where the people there are still recovering from the major tornadoes that hit friday i understand from your last hit that people are just trying to rummage through the salvage anything they can, especially those important papers thats right vector because when a tornado like this hit hits, when it destroys homes, flattens, cars snaps old growth trees and half as if they were twigs the Rebuilding Part is going to take months.