momentous showdown in tennessee . a white democratic lawmakers survives the vote to expel her from the statehouse, while republicans ousted two black lawmakers over gun protest what the white house is now saying at the sour, plus free luxury trips and lavish trips for more than two decades. yet supreme court justice clarence thomas failed to disclose any of them new reporting on who s been funding those vacations. and overnight violence is erupting in israel and now lebanon two days after israeli forces stormed one of islam s holiest sites live on the ground in jerusalem and beirut. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m omar jimenez in for christine romans. as always , we ve got a lot to get to. so let s get to it. we begin with the extraordinary actions of the republican controlled tennessee house today, expelling two democrats for staging a gun violence protests on the house floor last week. as everything. gallery erupting after the gop super
cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington on a very busy news night. we begin this hour with breaking news out of southeast georgia. this is a look at the massive plume of smoke in the town of brunswick, georgia. people who live within a half of a mile of this are being ordered to evacuate their homes at this hour. it s a fire at the panova manufacturing plant. you can just see some of these images now are the plume is just massive of fire broke out there earlier this morning and was thought to be contained after three hours, but this afternoon that glenn county board of commissioners posted on facebook that the panova plant fire has reignited and the evacuation order was put in place. you can see some of the images coming in from the scene, just showing some of the danger to the community there. it includes parts of the resort community of st simon s island. which of course, is a big holiday destination for people in that part of the country will keep an eye on all of this.
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start, former vice president mike pence will testify against his old boss, what dropping his appeal means for the case against trump and more bad news for the former president. top national security officials testify against him in the 2020 election subversion probe plus put your hands up in some noise for brandon. ahead we re going to have my interview with chicago s new progressive mayor elect brandon johnson, about how he pulled off his upset victory. what s going on everyone welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m omar jimenez in for the wonderful christine romans a lot to get to this morning, so let s get to it. we re gonna start with former vice president mike pence, deciding not to appeal a federal judge s order for him to testify in the case against donald trump. we don t know what date the date yet, but pence will now testify to a grand jury in a special council probe into efforts by trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 20
battle in the case of the abortion drug mythic kristen, this means women girls, doctors can continue to have full access to one of, if not the most common method of abortion amid the preston without any restrictions, at least for now. the ruling. the decision takes us back to how the situation was in the united states before that texas judge ruled in which suspended access theoretically to mifid, chris stone, we re gonna start with cnn s jessica schneider and jessica, this came down just minutes ago. tell us more about the ruling and this isn t the end of this fight, right? i mean, the u. s. supreme court s going to still make a decision on this. this is not the engine that is right. this merely put this on pause for about five days. i mean, you can see it s a very short order here. what this does is this is this is justice samuel alito, granting in part what the doj and fda was asking for here. they were saying, if you if you can t give us anything else, give us an administr