weather. he was expected to trot out his own endorsements during that event. alexis mcadams is live in sioux city, iowa force. good evening from iowa but this is a redid expect to see former president donald trump headline with they said was going to be a big rally that was sold out with thousands of people bring medicine one of the case but we did catch up with florida governor desantis. i had a chance to talk with him about what he says is a mess right now from the white house. specifically our southern border, watch. anything you want to say about the southern border what you re skiing out there? it is a disaster. it is a man made disaster that policies pretty obvious they re going to continue to about things happens because they re not going to change. the border should just be shut down. that is what you do. if this were like world war ii era they would ve shut this down in 48 hours. it s a country this not getting things done anymore and that something we are goin
Welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and All Around The World im kim brewer. This is cnn newsroom damaging winds, thunderstorms, and tornado threats as severe storms make their way across the us, midwest will head to the Winter Center to track them demonstrators in israel call on Benjamin Netanyahu to do more to bring their loved ones home as Hostage Negotiations remain at a standstill. And concerns grow in the over the spread of burden flu will speak with an expert about how officials are preparing to mitigate the risks of an outbreak live from atlanta this is cnn newsroom with kim gruber and we begin this, our focused on oklahoma, where several large dangerous tornadoes were reported on the ground overnight, according to the National Weather service, state Officials Say there are initial reports of damage and injuries in several counties and around 45,000 customers are currently without power. Now the threat is far from over more than 6 Million People
era, end quote. he also reiterated that taiwan is one of china s core interests which we also heard the previous day with blinken. senior u.s. officials say blinken s main goal here is just to re-establish the channels of communications between the u.s. and china, especially directed military-to-military communications. on sad, over the weekend, we heard from joe biden that he believes blinken s trip could help ease tensions and he opens to meet with president xi, quote, within the next few months. with blinken s meeting under way in less than half an hour that will pave the way for a new meeting. back to you, guys. kristi, we ll be watched. the u.s. is in a series of deadly gun vial. the most recent the side of idaho where four people were killed sunday night. one person was killed and 22 others injured in chicago after
but perhaps some individual sanction measures will be moderated or rolled back to some extent. what is the best-case scenario? i think the best-case scenario is for the chinese side. i mean, what we re seeing right now is actually very interesting. the people s daily, which is the flagship newspaper of the chinese communist party, has not mentioned blinken s visit at all. so i just looked right before getting on here. so i think kind of a victory would be for the chinese government to acknowledge that this visit was an important visit and that substantial progress has been made between the u.s. and china. and if we do indeed see some substantive kind of agreements between two sides, like having a channel of communication between two militaries during times of tension, i think that would be
will be no doubt hours worth of talks as both sides i guess explain their grievances, their frustrations about what has taken place and the deterioration in the relationship. experts would say u.s./chinese relations are at their worst in decades. so a lot needs to be rebuilt. but really, this is about re-establishing those lines of communication. we know that the last time that antony blinken spoke to china s foreign minister was just a few days ago, and that was a rather terse conversation in which qin gung told blinken the u.s. needs to show respect to china and it needs to stop interfering in china s internal affairs. the last time a u.s. secretary of state visited china was back in 2018 with mike pompeo. so a lot is at stake here. as you heard from joe biden, he is now hoping to meet with xi