number one finland borders with russia. then you have sweden, follow the waterways, a key access to the baltic sea. this is what vladimir putin did not want. he thought four years ago it would split nato. some might object. others might say we don t want to spend the time, the resources on this. this is a diplomatic victory for president biden, it is a snub at vladimir putin. putin didn t want nato expanded along russian borders. that is exactly what they re getting with this movement for finland and sweden. as you know it has an 800-mile border joining nato. it can t be overstated how significant that is when you look at what putin was trying to accomplish and what, in fact, he was getting right now. it is also significant as caitlin was noting that the biden administration, european officials didn t necessarily expect this was going to happen today. so the fact that they were able to pull this off is significant and president biden was engaged diplomatically on this. but
Credit report. Thank you so much, ed. Thanks for joining us. The news continues now on cnn its wednesday, april 3rd, right now on cnn this morning buildings collapsed, people trapped taiwan, rocked by the most powerful earthquake to hit the island in 25 years. Powerful storms, triggering dangerous floods and tearing off rooftops in the heartland here in america and donald trump back on the trail predicting the end of elections in america. If he loses to joe biden again all right 5 00 a. M. Here in washington live. Look at capitol hill on this misty wednesday morning good morning, everyone on kasie hunt, its wonderful to have you with us. We begin with Breaking News taiwan rocked by a deadly 7. 4 magnitude earthquake. Its the most powerful earthquake to hit the Island Nation in 25 years. Heres what we know right now, Rescue Efforts are underway more than two dozen buildings have collapsed, and people are trapped. The epicenter of the quake located just south of the tourist city of huali
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John and sandra. Good afternoon. Its a wet friday. Im martha maccallum. Thanks for joining us. We have a big lineup for you this hour. We begin here in the northeast where sandra was just saying millions of new york City Residents are being urged to shelter in place at this hour as torrential and lifethreating rain causes huge highway tieups and subways are flooding in new york city. Theres hundreds of flights that have been cancelled or delayed at this point. Katie byrne reporting live from hoboken, new jersey just across the river. High, katie. Hi, martha. A lot of people that were able to make it in to the city or to hoboken for work this morning are now wondering how theyll get home. We have roads submerged in water here in hoboken. If i step out in the street, the water gets deeper. Weve been here all day. The water has not receded much at all. Its one of those days that you cant get around hoboken by car. Ive talked to a lot of commuters. Were by the Train Station here. Some told
continue to work with our israeli counterparts to be as deliberate as we possibly can as they now go on renewed offensive operations. finally if i could, switch into mexico, the u.s. department of treasury today section 17 targets. that is 15 individuals and two companies that are linked through the boat around a labor organization and were known as bilo to the most powerful drug trafficking organizations in the world and heavily involved in the transportation and distribution of deadly illicit drugs including fentanyl to here in the united states. it has also been ordered to largest suppliers of cocaine to the u.s. market of the last two decades, could lead to department unsealed indictments against 60 defendants on various international drug trafficking offenses, related through the import of illicit drugs like meth, cocaine, marijuana, and of course fentanyl. actions are part of a whole of government effort correlated with the government of mexico to help counter the globa