there s no way around it, that s just the best one. believe me, i ve tried it every which way, and it really doesn t get better than pete butt. but this would have never happened under my administration. people are saying i made the trains less safe. not true, okay? not true. i did a lot for trains. i made them bigger, faster, less safe perhaps, but yeah, perhaps you did. perhaps. saturday night live s take on donald trump s recent trip to east palestine, ohio. meanwhile, president joe biden says he doesn t have plans to visit the town devastated by the train disaster, and we ll have his comments on why. plus, the first lady seems to have given away the president s plans for 2024. we ll play for you what she said. also ahead, a weekend of deadly russian strikes in ukraine brings more attention to the debate over supplying ukrainian forces with fighter jets. and a new report from the department of energy on the origins of covid. good morning. welcome to morn
i ve been policing for more than 30 years. i ve devoted my life to this profession, and i m grieved, frankly, i m shocked, i m sickened by what i saw. i ve seen the video, and as stated, you will too. in a word, it s absolutely appalling. good morning, everyone, i am in live in memphis. kaitlan is in d.c. we have it covered for you. the questions are what happened? what happened to tyre nichols? we are hours from finding out, police body camera video set to be released after 7:00 p.m. eastern. video described as appalling, horrific, inhumane, video that has memphis and the country bracing for what could come next. justice for tyre. it has been 20 day as since a traffic stop led to an arrest so violent that tyre nichols ended up like this, hospitalized in critical condition. three days later he died. five ex-police officers are now charged with murder. cnn is covering this from every angle. over the next three hours we ll talk to the police chief, cj davis. this incide
first to william la jeunesse live in the rnc meeting in dana point, california. william? voting is almost done. they re on virginia. a few more dates to go. that s it. the voting is taking place over my shoulder. each state and territory has three votes. those will be counted and observers to witness, if you will, the counting of the ballots. they re put in three piles like clubs, spades and hearts. bam, bam, bam. the magic number is 85, which is half the number of members here. ronna mcdaniel has been for six years the chair woman of the party. she was expected to win this thing going away. that is not the case. it s going to be closer than anybody expected. harmeet dylan is a trial lawyer from california. she has put on the full court press in about the last month and repealed off of a lot of those voters, as few as a dozen last night separated the two candidates. very different in terms of their strategy going forward. ronna mcdaniel, there was a conference, for members
good wednesday morning. i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. tornado warnings in effect for parts of the southwest. this after severe storms yesterday. more than a dozen tornados reported tearing across the south. look at these pictures here. homes, buildings disappearing. we ll speak with the mayor of deerpark, texas. new this morning, germany will send those leopard 2 tanks to ukraine and it comes as the u.s. is sending abram tanks to ukraine. bottom line, is it enough? we begin with those destructive tornados slamming parts of texas and louisiana. rosa flores is in pasadena, texas, with more. rosa? reporter: this tornado activity was so powerful. let me show you what we re seeing on the ground. this was a power pole that simply snapped. if you look down, you ll see a mangled piece of metal wrapped around parts of the debris and the rest of the pole is back here. beyond the pole you see it s shear devastation. there s a trailer that s turned on its side. it s upside dow
with. a twist after twist. instant panic. instant, instant panic. i still get chills. people have secrets. people have a lot of secrets. the family that lived in this cozy house on this quiet street never came back after the awful thing that happened here. it s terrifying. it s terrifying to think of. it was april 10th, 2008. fort smith virginia portsmouth, virginia, police was right nearby when the all points fullerton went out to law enforcement. and then the call comes out and it s literally one block away from where i m standing. did the address ring a bell? it did and it didn t. all he knew was that someone had been killed inside that house. so, you go there and what do you discover? i went into clear the house out of anybody who was inside of the house to make sure this scene status pristine as possible. and when i looked down, i realized, then, that it was meghan. meghan landowski the teenage victim was someone he knew. he knew her who