canada and all around the world. i m kimberly, who were coming up this hour on cnn newsroom historic rainfall in south florida leads to serious flooding power outages closing of the fort lauderdale international airport will tell you when the extreme weather will move out of the area, plus a late night ruling by a federal appeals court on the suspension of the abortion inducing drug. we ll have details, and president biden celebrates his family roots during his three day visit ireland just ahead we ll go live to dublin for a preview of today s events. live from atlanta. this is cnn newsroom with kim bruun huber. and we begin with what some call a once and a half century extreme weather event happening right now in florida, up to 20 inches of rain has fallen in parts of south florida the past few hours with more in the forecast. well that led to a flash water emergency, the highest possible level of flood warning. so what you re seeing here is the ford lauderdale hollywood int
both be president i think is really a little bit ofirish malarkey [ applause ] the history and hope and the heartbreak my ancestors must have felt leaving their beloved homeland to gain new life in america. i said all this not to wax poetic about bygone days, but because of the story of my family s journey and those who left and those who stayed is emblematic of the stories of so many irish and american families, not just irish-american families. and these stories are the very heart of what binds ireland and america together they speak to a history defined by our dreams. they speak to a present written by our shared responsibility, and they speak to a future poised for unlimited shared possibilities. so today i d like to reflect on the enduring strength of the connections between ireland and the united states, a partnership for the ages it begins in our shared history, dating back to the very founding of the united states the irish hearts that helped kindle the torch of lib
and the hard yards that we need to undertake to get this right. hello and welcome to the programme. we will be live in ireland tonight, asjoe biden makes the journey south to his ancestral home. we will be finding what came of his brief visit to belfast today, and what unionists made of the speech he delivered. we ll bring you more of that extraordinary conversation between the bbc s james clayton and elon musk. plenty to disect in that, including musk s confession he only went through with a takeover at twitter, because the judge would have forced him to do it anyway. and who controls the distribution of the abortion pill in america? the us government is in court this next hour, to appeal a decision in texas to suspend the licence. we will get reaction. lets start first with president biden and the speech he gave today marking the 25th anniversary of the good and friday agreement. a speech in which the us president held out the promise of huge us investment if and when stabl
and abortion doctors are urging a us appeals court to uphold a ruling that would take a common abortion medication off the market as soon as friday. ambushed newly released body cam video shows the moment officers come face to face with the louisville, mass. killer and deteriorating health. jailed russian opposition leader alexey navalny s medical condition is said to be severe. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. and thanks for being with us, a group of anti abortion doctors that sued to ban a common abortion medication is urging a u. s appeals court to uphold a ruling that would take the drug off the market. the group filed its response to request requests from the u. s justice department and the maker of the drug mifepristone. asking that a texas judge s decision to suspend that drugs long held fda approval be allowed to take effect on friday, the group says mifepristone is not safe and that the fda did not adequately assess its risks when it a
unflinchingly answered the call to protect and their duty to serve. we have had enough gun violence in louisville. we have had enough gun violence in our country. asking for specific relief to stop interfering with the criminal investigation. republicans believe that alvin bragg was doing this for audit of pure political motivation. they knew what was going on. they always was a step ahead. work like they re never gonna find us like this because they didn t deserve that. none of us none of us deserved it. live from london. this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is wednesday, april 12th nine am here in london, four am in louisville, kentucky, whether police have released bodycam video showing their offices quick response to monday s deadly mass shooting at a bank. the 25 year old gunmen, an employee of the bank opened fire, killing five people and wounding eight others. please dispatch audio reveals the gunman left a voicemail to his friend saying he was go