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
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being hit with water cannons all over the place. protesters have completely taken over much of the area around the government building here in jerusalem. they say they will stay there in the overhaul legislation is completely off the table. there are efforts at compromise. the israeli president is working to talk to both sides, meanwhile, overnight, we did hear from president biden who released another statement, the second in just a span of a week saying it doesn t make sense for israeli leaders to rush this, he says, the focus should be on pulling people together and finding a consensus. so far it doesn t seem that netanyahu is listening to the pressures. it seems as though, all indications are pointing that they re planning to push ahead with this legislation. this will be the first part of this massive judicial overhaul that will actually pass the three votes needed in parliament and be on its way to being law. hadas gold, thank you for that. to the u.s. now, gun violence over
prime minister benjamin netanyahu is defending his controversial judicial overall as protesters take to the streets and parliament the israeli knesset prepares to cast the first vote on the plan. cnn s hadas gold has more from jerusalem. after isaac herzog addressed the joint meeting of congress and a public warning from president joe biden to back off the judicial overhaul plan, prime minister benjamin net net gave his own short speech to the people of israel on thursday evening indicating he s still pushing ahead anyway. as part of the overhaul legislation is expected to come up for its final votes in the next few days. this legislation that s coming up for its final votes will strip the supreme court s ability of deeming government actions unreasonable. keep in mind, the supreme court in israel is the only check on government actions that israel has. now netanyahu blamed the
day of disruption that these protestors have planned. it started early in the morning and going late into the evening. all across the country. and there have been protests here now for six months at least against this judicial overhaul plan. but the reason that today has been sort of an amped up version of that is because of what you mentioned, the legislation that was passed last night. this is an attempt, first vote of three that this particular piece of legislation meets, an attempt to strip the supreme court of its ability to declare government actions as unreasonable. it is part of the overall massive you additional overhaul plan that the government is pushing forward. but that plan has been frozen in place since march since the massive general strikes and defense minister coming out against the plan. there were attempts at negotiations with the opposition, but they failed. and that is why the coalition government led by benjamin netanyahu is pushing forward to make this overhaul