this all comes after the tornadoes ripped through mississippi and alabama. officials say so far at least 26 people have been killed. a pastor in hard-hit rolling fork, mississippi says nearly the entire town is completely destroyed. exodus total devastation. it is a wreckage like i have never seen. it s only a miracle of god there are not hundreds of fatalities in our town and in our area. houses leveled, houses completely destroyed. businesses like the majority of the businesses in our small town are completely destroyed. it is just terrible wreckage. alicia: and fortune of the severe weather threat for the region is not over urologist adam s life in the forecast said with the latest pickwick snowstorms continue to push across the south easily continued to the sunday. maybe even a lingering a little bit into monday. here s what we are currently looking at. some of the green polygons on your screen flooding and portions of north-central georgia. you see a severe thunderstor
a russian lieutenant who fought in ukraine has fled putin s army and he s out front to talk about it. the lack of equipment, training, boiling rabbits for food, the atrocities he says were committed by russian fighters. you won t want to miss this interview. breaking news, the pentagon right now is tracking a chinese spy balloon flying over the u.s. president biden asking for military options. what are the chinese doing? plus, fbi agents investigating congressman george santos for allegedly scamming a veteran out of thousands of dollars meant for his dying dog. that veteran is out front tonight. what did he tell investigators about santos? and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front, a russian officer speaks out right here. constantine served on the front lines for three months and is now telling all. the former lieutenant is the most senior russian officer to speak publicly about what he saw and did in ukraine. you re going to see that interview in just a moment. he
i ve been policing for more than 30 years. i ve devoted my life to this profession, and i m grieved, frankly, i m shocked, i m sickened by what i saw. i ve seen the video, and as stated, you will too. in a word, it s absolutely appalling. good morning, everyone, i am in live in memphis. kaitlan is in d.c. we have it covered for you. the questions are what happened? what happened to tyre nichols? we are hours from finding out, police body camera video set to be released after 7:00 p.m. eastern. video described as appalling, horrific, inhumane, video that has memphis and the country bracing for what could come next. justice for tyre. it has been 20 day as since a traffic stop led to an arrest so violent that tyre nichols ended up like this, hospitalized in critical condition. three days later he died. five ex-police officers are now charged with murder. cnn is covering this from every angle. over the next three hours we ll talk to the police chief, cj davis. this incide
hello, everyone, i m kate bolduan. at this hour, we re going to be starting in memphis. that city and far beyond that city, are now just hours from waiting for and receiving the release of around an hour s worth of videos that capture the police beating of tyre nichols. what has been described by every person who has seen it so far as a brutal attack that prosecutors say led to his death three days later. all five of, and we ll show you these now fired officers, are now charged with murder. and other serious crimes. in an exclusive interview with cnn, the memphis police chief said the video is perhaps worse than the police beating of rodney king decades ago. nichol s mother described the injuries that her son suffered at the hands of police. they had beat him to a pulp. he had bruises all over him. his head was swollen like a watermelon. it is horrific. and the humanity of it all. where was the humanity? they beat my son like a pinata. tyre nichols s mother there was ta
of course the biden administration is going to be under pressure to take some kind of decisive action against this balloon that satisfies the hawks on the hill who have already been saying that the biden administration has not been harsh enough on china. it will be interesting to see how this plays out throughout the day, guys. we re going to bring you that live. anytime now the fbi could search the home of former vice president mike pence for any additional classified documents. up next i m going to speak to a bipartisan pair of congressmen who have drafted a bill to make the penalties tougher for mishandling classified material. also ahead, a killing without a known motive. a new jersey city council woman gunned down inside her own car. i will speak to a friend of hers about what they ve learned about the investigation so far. and later an italian mafia boss on the run for 16 years is finally captured. turns out he was hiding in plain sight, get this, as