on tuesday. and pope francis is expected to participate in palm sunday mass at st peter s basilica just a day after leaving the hospital. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with michael holmes. and we begin with those powerful storms that battered parts of the u. s. and the death toll is rising yet again, at least 22 people were killed, dozens more injured after tornadoes and storms hit on friday and saturday, the latest fatality just hours ago in delaware, and this is what it looks like in wynne, arkansas, where four people were killed. the mayor told cnn. her city was basically cut in half by the damage the storm so powerful it ripped the turf off the football field at the high school. similar scenes in the state capital little rock, where at least one person was killed and 50 hospitalist. many of the tornado s moving so quickly. people had little time to prepare like this driver who rode out the storm in his van. neighbors and neighborhoods and businesses were dec
preside over palm sunday services at the vatican in a short time from now, although he s not expected to actually celebrate mass, it is the start of the holy week celebrations leading up to easter. the 86 year old pontiff was discharged from the hospital saturday morning after being treated for bronchitis. brittney griner. us us. athletes once imprisoned in russia is expressing her concern for an american journalist currently held in the country. in a statement, grinder urged the us to bring home evan gershowitz, who was arrested last week on suspicion of spying . his employer, the wall street journal, is also demanding his release. the newspaper says. quote evans case is a vicious affront to a free press and should spur outrage in all three people and governments throughout the world. no reporters should ever be detained for simply doing their job. gordon faircloth is the
preparations at the courthouse, but we begin with katelyn polantz in washington. donald trump will have a busy day in court on tuesday when he becomes the first former president or president of the united states to ever face the criminal justice system. as a defendant in a case he s going to be reporting to the courthouse in manhattan where he is charged around hush money payments, his business empire we don t know exactly what the charges will be, but tuesday is the day that we are expecting to learn quite a bit and also see donald trump moving around that courthouse at least into the courtroom if there are not cameras inside the courtroom itself, we do know that trump will be processed as any criminal defendant would be. he ll be fingerprinted, photographed. we also know that when he enters that courtroom, he s going to be facing the judge for the very first time. the charges that he faces will be read to him. he hasn t learned what those charges are. at this point. we do not know
it s not like a normal situation where you tell the client hey, don t say anything. don t talk about anything because the case is the single most important thing in their life. judge marshawn i ve tried a case in front of him before he can be tough. i don t think that it s necessarily going to be something that s going to change his ability to evaluate the facts and the law in this case. so there s donald trump s one of his defense lawyers. tony down the rhetoric about the judge. we also know that they do plan to try and have the case dismissed . but at the end of the day, it all will be up to the judge to look at the law here and determine whether all of these charges or some of them will go to trial for the first possible trial of a former president of the united states on criminal charges. katelyn polantz cnn washington. security in lower manhattan likely to intensify as we get closer to the day that former president donald trump travels here to new york city to officially face thos
what they are either, and neither do his lawyers. we expect there to be 30 or more and at least one felony in that. bunch it s a lot of things to be charged with for it only to be misdemeanors, and we do expect the donald trump will say he is not guilty at this time. that s the plea. he will enter so that this case can move toward a trial but as he faces the judge for the first time, this is a judge that trump has already criticized publicly. and so there s a question of whether the judge is going to want to bring that up, respond to it or if the prosecutors wanted to be considered as they move forward and get the plan set for how this case is going to progress to trial. on cnn on friday, katelyn polantz was asking trump s attorney, tim parla, tori is not anyone counseling donald trump. maybe not to criticize the judge. at this point. he is going before him just in a couple of days. this is what tim parla tory responded . you know, here s the problem. you have a client who is also a pr