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we have breaking news from afghanistan right now. six american soldiers gunned down during an apparent confrontation with an afghan pilot at a military base in kabul. cnn s nick patton walsh following this live in kabul. nick? yes. as we re hearing today, six american soldiers according to one afghan official gunned down with when an argument with an afghan pilot turned serious. let s put in context where this happened, on the afghan national air force s compound, part of kabul international airport here where nato runs its operation from. so absolutely inside the nato wire, literally under a mile s walk away from the big warehouse hangar where nato runs its operations here. couldn t be closer here. as far as we re understanding from individuals, this from afghan officials, a 50-year-old veteran with the afghan army appears to have gotten into an
good morning. wednesday april 27th. i m ali velshi. i m christine romans here in new york. i m kiran chetry in london. great to see all of you this morning. the anticipation is certainly growing this morning right outside of buckingham palace as we get set now, two days until the royal wedding. coming up we re going to talk about who got invited. there was only one official member of the u.s. government invited. that s ambassador louis susman and was kind enough to let us videotape and get our hands on that invitation. i expected it to be a little bit more formal or just a little bit more ornate, but it was cool. we re going to show you that a little later and also talk about the massive security operation the police, everybody, out in full force to make sure this goes off without a hitch, but also safely. back to you guys. thanks, kiran. this is cnn breaking news.
events. trump will meet with voters and top republicans. trump s birther claims losing steam. in a special investigation cnn found president obama was, in fact, born in the u.s. as the evidence has consistently shown. here s what white house press secretary jay carney had to say about that report. i think cnn recently did a highly credible piece on an established fact, which is that the president was born in the united states of america and, you know, this was a settled issue. its is unfortunate that for whatever reason, this is the subject of that gets any kind of serious attention. i ll leave it at that. tonight john king sits down with donald trump. catch it at 7:00 p.m. eastern on john king usa. a new report out shows home prices are falling again. we re going to discuss whether
during an argument with an afghan pilot. it happened in an afghan military base. the taliban is claiming responsibility saying the pilot was one of their suicide attackers. in libya, nato air strikes may be forcing moammar gadhafi s troops to pull back from positions here the port of misrata. the rebel held city has been the scene of relentless shelling from gadhafi forces. cnn s reza sayah, has laid waste to almost everything in misrata. facing the threat of tornados or severe weather today. nine states stretching from kentucky to texas could see twisters, baseball-size hail and 70 mile an hour winds. overnight in arkansas, another fatality, 11 people in that state have now been killed by powerful storms in the past two days. let s get an update on what s going on right now from our extreme weather center. jacqui, storms moving across the southeast. we have this huge line at this hour, guys. a line of broken thunderstorms, so it s not a consistent line and embedded within this