furniture that floyd home dot com. good morning, everyone we do begin with breaking news this morning. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield and we start with dramatic video from st petersburg, russia, showing an explosion at a cafe that reportedly killed a prominent russian military blogger. officials say at least 25. others were injured, six of them in critical condition and you can see the blast causing part of the outside of that building. to collapse. cnn s matthew chance is in russia. matthew what more can you tell us about this blogger and the circumstances of his death now? yeah flat. lynn to toschi is his name and he s one of russia s most prominent military bloggers , which means he s pro war has got more than half a million followers on his telegram channel, and he is notoriously outspoken. shall we say about the need for russia to do even more in ukraine to go in harder ? he was swept to notoriety after he appeared in one
you re watching cnn newsroom and church just ahead. the hours to come, could see one of two democratic lawmakers in tennessee expelled over a gun before protests reclaim his seat will explain how and what else supporters are planning. another state is making it harder for women to get abortions. details plus a look at what s likely to happen, or pair of conflicting court decisions over a popular abortion drug, plus highly classified pentagon documents leaked on social media sites this hour, one ally the us apparently has been spying on says it wants to talk. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us, and we begin here in the united states were officials in nashville, tennessee, are set to determine the fate of expelled democratic state lawmaker justin jones. in the coming hours. the nashville metro council will vote on whether to reinstate him back into the states house of representatives. jones was one of two black lawmakers ex
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thanks to all of you at home for joining, us we have a lot to get to tonight. i want to start on december 14th 2020, a day we should not particularly remember. it was supposed to be a routine, day a boring day for state electors across the country as they officially cast their presidential votes. as we know very well, that was not the case in some states, including the state of georgia. democratic party electors, they re in the senate chambers, they are official, they are, certified and they vote for joe biden, but, georgia republicans, they met at exactly the same time right behind those closed doors, we re not, official not, certified they still met and certified on a, trump they say to keep his lawsuit alive. even as democratic parties remaining in the georgia state senate for the first time in 28 years to select a democratic president and vice president, one floor below at the state capital, georgia republicans were convening their own meeting to select their own