morning. today s thursday. i know today actually is don t rush time because it moves fast , right too fast too fast. but it is thursday. thank you for joining us. everyone caitlin is off a lot to get to won t we start with five things to know for this thursday, april 20th 2023. we re gonna start with the tornado outbreak striking oklahoma. at least two people are confirmed dead in the town of coal. significant damage, reported the supreme court, delaying its decision on myth of kristen until tomorrow, the justices seeking more time to assure ruling that could impact the accessibility of the abortion pill across the country and a judge here in new york, ordering mark pomerantz to testify today before june. jordan s house judiciary committee, pomerantz is a former prosecutor who once led the manhattan d. a s investigation into donald trump s business dealings also happening today, twitter says it s going to remove you know those check marks. we have one. with legacy blue check
the most powerful rocket ever built a major setback, but not a total failure in the goal of sending humans to mars. one day basketball rules into a man s yard and he opens fire on the neighbors just trying to retrieve it. now a six year old and her father recovering from gunshot wounds. and a manhunt is underway for the suspect. this guy is not a stranger to local police. this is just for the country also latest example of an innocent mistake leading to a shooting and right now, more than 50 million people are under a severe storm threat after a tornado outbreak already tears apart parts of three states. at least three people are dead as search and rescue efforts continue. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news, central. we begin with liftoff and spacex s historic starship rocket, but it s planned journey around the earth didn t last long. just take a look. part into the power was icing on the cake. alright so despite
today secretary mayorkas during a budget request hearing reaffirms the border is control contrary to raúl ortiz has said. do you disagree with the head border patrol agent when he said the border is not secured. congressman i have testified to that issue. so you disagree with your chief of border patrol? i respectfully do in that regard. mayorkas wants an increase in the dhs budget $800 million for new technology and hiring 1400 more people to help secure the border but here s how republicans responded to that proposal. we could give you money to hire a thousand new board earth agents. nobody wants to work are. mr. secretary this budgeted proposal is an insult to americans. you failed in your jobs. those calls are nothing new for mayorkas. he s faced calls to be impeached. mayorkas had said by their standards then no administration has ever had operational control. ranking member and democrat benny thompson came to his defense. under this definition again
self-imposed deadline for the justices to decide what to do with mifepristone. the question is why did he extend are there strong feelings about what the courts should do? is one of the justices writing a fiery dissent? laura jarrett is back with us to explain what we know and what will it mean for health care, specifically women s health care mifepristone is not just used for medicated abortion it s also used to help manage miscarriages, and this is not just a theoretical conversation. we have concrete examples of what happens when politicians and the courts start making the rules on health care after more than a year of fertility treatments and a day after she made the guest list for her baby shower, amanda zarorwski found out her 18-week fetus would not survive. she was then denied a medically necessary abortion in texas because her doctors were too scared to do anything that would put them in jail she joined us to explain how near death she had to get before doctors would
intervene. sandra: you see how absolutely brutal and scary that was, and new concerns over crime and disorder, not just in chicago, but across america. so, how can leaders prevent the culture of lawlessness from overtaking these once great cities? we ll good giano caldwell, he says soft on crime policies are to blame and will join us live what we are learning out of chicago and coast to coast crime on the rise. begin, though, with the fiery hearing from the house oversight committee hearing, disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan. good wednesday to you, sandra. sandra: about halfway there, sandra smith in new york. hearing comes two weeks after the biden administration released the report blaming the shocking collapse of the afghan government on the trump administration. john: a group of inspectors general who wrote a separate report says president biden deserves a large amount of the blame for his exit strategy, removed american resources supporting the afghan govern