bianca nobilo live from london. max foster has the day off today, but he ll be back tomorrow just ahead on cnn newsroom. this is the worst i ve ever seen. this is an unbelievable amount of rain pull on the side. streets were flooded everywhere. we have the threat for flooding, as well as the threat for severe weather and record warmth on top of it all. this person murdered my friend. but still i can t imagine how his parents must be feeling amazing grace. how sweet the sound we will get through this together. if you can see the smoke, you re in the smoke. get out of the smoke. this person has been negligent and irresponsible and it s led to putting a lot of people in danger. live from london. this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is thursday, april 13th nine am here in london at four am in south florida, where historic amounts of rainfall have caused what one city has made describes as the most severe flooding he s ever seen. up to 20 inches of rain have
the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. this is early start a busy morning. we begin with breaking news. a short time ago, a federal appeals court took action to keep the abortion pill mifepristone on the market. the court blocked the parts of a texas judge order that would have suspended fda approval of the drug. now the fda approval will stay in effect, while the court considers an expedited appeal. but important here, the fifth circuit appeals court is leaving in place parts of the ruling that will, in effect, make the pill harder to get. the fda tried to ease access in recent years by allowing the drug to be mailed and by approving a generic version. for now, those changes that make it easier for people to get the drug. those changes remain suspended. this medication has been approved as safe and effective for uses an abortion pill for more than two decades. but it s possible removal from pharmacies could affect every american senior medical correspo
here. this washington post story is unreal. i thought i felt i was reading it. it felt like a movie script like a screenplay. incredible reporting. we re going to tell you all about it. if you re just waking up with us this morning because this is about those leaked documents and who it was online that leaked them. young person named o g. o g. and then there s a teenager involved, and it involves like a social media gaming site. it s a lot you want to stick around for this critical for national security, so we ll get into that. we re glad you re with us. caitlin s on assignment, so let s start with the five things to know for this very busy thursday, april the 13th a federal appeals court, partially blocking a texas judge s ruling on the abortion pill, mr preston, it means the fda approval of that drug still stands for now, but other limitations have been put in place more than that. in a moment, complicated story. we re going to break it down for you and this we were just ta
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from dublin. hi, peter. dana, we have been told today on the record by a white house official here in dublin the president biden is having the time of his life. that is not something you usually hear about the work trip. and a few minutes ago president biden down played the significance of these document getting leaked. president biden: there is a full blown investigation going on with the intelligence community and justice department and they are getting close. how concerned are you about this leak? i m not concerned about the leak i m not concerned that it happened but nothing contemporaneous that i m aware of that is of consequence. the accused leaker is a man in his 20s who works on a military base and uses the moniker o.g. online according to the washington post , which talked to an unnamed member of a chatroom where classified materials were shared weeks before the pentagon realized it was out there. a chatroom that counts as members some foreign nationals