good morning and welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, april 16th. i had to be reminded of that just a few minutes ago. i m aymara walker. i m victor blackwell. she was talking about yesterday on sunday. and i m thinking we do the weekend. so clearly yesterday wasn t sunday . i thought today was monday is with us. all right. thanks for spending good morning with us. here s what we re watching for you. at least 56 people are dead. excuse me in sudan. there were explosions repping night clashes between the military and armed group or escalating will tell you what we know about how this started and what the rest of the world is doing. in response, congress returns from recess this week with a laundry list of to do items among them coming up at the plan to fund the government look at other major priorities for both parties in the coming days. the $1.6 billion defamation trial against fox news starts this week. what s at stake for the company and watch fox apologized to the j
the first one is brought by a group of republican-led states. the other by individual borrowers who say they were unfairly excluded. bill: the two cases present a direct threat to one of the president s signature policies. the plan would wipe out more than $4 hundred billion in student debt and pay $10,000 to people making less than $125,000 a year and $20,000 to those who got pell grants for low income households. dana: the high stakes legal battle is dividing lawmakers right down the middle. those of us watching this closely are praying and hoping that they will do the right thing and say that the president cannot be the congress and the executive branch. he can t be the legislative and the executive branch. he has no authority to do what he is doing. our government is supposed to be about people. not making money out of us going to school or seeking higher education. dana: shannon bream is live outside the supreme court. good morning, shannon. there are speaker
nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and thank you for joining us we start off tonight with yet another late winter punch of severe weather across the country as we begin this week including multiple tornadoes confirmed today in illinois at least a dozen reported from the plains to midwest since yesterday. but we are also watching snow moving east tonight, potentially bringing new york city its first significant snow of the season. right now there are winter alerts affecting an estimated 42 million people. from wisconsin clear to maine for many high winds will make things worse. and there s no break for storm-weary california rocked by more rain and snow today al roker will take us through it all in just a moment but first let s go to morgan chesky in oklahoma where they are picking up the pieces from tornadoes tonight. reporter: tonight oklahoma facing a mangled mess homes shredded and cars tossed. from terrifying tornadoes striking overnight. there s possi
murdaugh s own brother on the stand and what he said, why he broke down on the stand, and the defense arguing that there had to be more than one shooter. eva pilgrim tonight. there is also breaking news tonight involving fox news and owner rupert murdoch acknowledging under oath fox news hosts endorsed false election fraud claims saying any fox news executives who knowingly allowed lies to be broadcast on the air should be reprimanded or maybe got rid of saying in a deposition, i would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it in hindsight. jon karl standing by. tonight the next question after that toxic train derailment in ohio. where should that toxic waste be taken? the new fight now, states blocking it, and in that community tonight questions over the drinking water. our reporter with erin brockovich. the war in ukraine and the intense fighting under way tonight for control of a key city, and this evening, the u.s. warning to china not to help russia with weapon