times of tragedy in times of crisis, they stand up and they show up. mississippi s governor visits a town flattened by a powerful tornado for the neighborhoods that were leveled . the recovery is only just beginning. political turmoil in israel, benjamin netanyahu is under pressure from his own government to halt plans on judicial reform. now we re hearing an announcement on that could be imminent. we alive in televisa and jerusalem. with the latest and the manhattan grand jury is expected to continue its investigation and donald trump later today we will ask our political analyst if an indictment is likely. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with rosemary church. good to have you with us, and we begin this hour in the southeastern us, where millions are under the threat of more severe storms, bringing large hail and damaging winds to areas already struggling to recover from an earlier rash of storms over the weekend, at least 10 confirmed. tornadoes strike mississip
johnson s team focusing this past year. advocating for increased taxes and social programs to combat that crime. here is what he had to say in his victory speech tuesday night. tonight is just the beginning, with our voices and votes we ve ushered in a new chapter in the history of our city. to chicagoans who did not vote for me, i care about you. i value you. and i want to hear from you. moderate democrat valpaul vallas gained endorsement of the police union. i ran to bring this city together and it is clear based on the results tonight that the city is deeply divided. tonight we believe every vote should be counted, i called brandon johnson and told him i expect him to be the next mayor of chicago. former mayor lori lightfoot applauding johnson s win saying, i congratulate brandon johnson on his hard-fought runoff victory. i will continue to root for the city i call home and work toward more equity and fairness. johnson will focus on issues like defunding the po
le learned about you is how hard you are on yourself. sometimes there is nobody that holds the leader accountable. it was not always about winning and losing for me. it is about being worthy of winning. and good morning, everyone. we re covering a lot today. we begin with tensions on the rise after the pentagon says a russian fighter jet hit a u.s. spy drone and forced it to crash. two russian jets intercepted the drone over the black sea yesterday. u.s. says one of them dumped fuel on the drone and then collided with its propeller forcing the drone to go down. putin is about to make a public appearance in moscow. we re waiting to see if he weighs in on the incident. following the crash, russia s ambassador was summoned to the state department. he claims there is no collision and that drone crashed on its own. here s what the white house had to say about that to our very own jake tapper. well, it won t surprise you that we refute that the russian s denial. i think any
following new details about that chinese spy balloon traveling across the country. new video into the cnn newsroom showing the balloon now hovering over asheville, and charlotte, north carolina in the last hour. and it could make it out to sea at any moment. the balloon was first spotted over montana on wednesday. china claims it s a civilian research vessel that blew offcourse, but the u.s. isn t buying that, calling the balloon s flight over u.s. soil an irresponsible act. secretary of state antony blinken postponing a planned trip to beijing in response. cnn s oren liebermann is at pentagon for us. oren, officials say the balloon doesn t currently seem to present a threat, but why is the pentagon also preceding with caution on it? reporter: so the pentagon has said for now that it will not be shooting this down, because of the risks from two different perspectives, first there s the risk to what s below, blow something up at 60,000 feet and that could be scattered over q
elections. and house speaker kevin mccarthy trading partisan political fights for a diplomatic one, meeting this hour with the president of taiwan mccarthy says the meeting will help make the world safer. china says it s doing just the opposite so a lot to get to we start with today and donald trump embarking on an effort rarely tried in american history running for president while simultaneously fighting criminal charges. his late night speech at mar-a-lago gave us a glimpse of what s to come, a defiant trump surrounded by a loyal band of ardent supporters thumbing through a well-worn political playbook lashing out at his perceived enemies and seeming a little stunned by what happened. i never thought anything like this could happen in america never thought it could happen. the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it one of many things that need fact checking. i want to bring in nbc s vaughn hillyard outside