Them morning. You were live in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We are following Breaking News this Morning Disaster in Western North Carolina as one North Carolina official put it the devastation is quote biblical large swaths are completely cut off in that area. Official say, all roads there are considered closed. These are exclusive pictures coming into cnn showing the destruction in asheville. What you are looking at is the main Road And Biltmore village near the famous biltmore estate. Its a five lane road, usually full of cars now, its covered in debris and mud. People walking down the Middle Of The Road looking for supplies that as a comment in sight these days, helene tore through the historic village, the floodwaters. You can see right here rising to Roof Level and pushing trailers and to buildings, Power And Water are out in much of the city. This is a transform where you can see it right there just lying in the Middle Of The Road leaking fluid. Its been there f
There are injuries here. We just dont know how many, but yet look at the size of that tornado. Lets get to the maps here. Ill show you whats going on. It could be a continuously violent night all the way through good morning hours. We will see tornadoes likely on the ground throughout the night, all the way from really almost texas into nebraska. This red box here thats the tornado watch box, which means theyre possible these pink boxes, which means theyre happening. So for you, bennington, missouri valley, that would be blair right over here. Heres i6 at omaha. But what im concerned about down here south of syrupy county, this are more storms here that are violently rotating and are working toward omaha proper, where the storm here missed the Western Suburbs of omaha. Almost elkhorn really. But this is the area that im most concerned about over the next 30 minutes or so now for she knew can kansas, you have some storms to your west as well . They are also Rotating Down in texas. It is
Breaking news welcome to the lead on jake tapper, right now, right this minute. I knew witness in Donald Trumps Hush Money Cover Up Trial. The prosecution just called its third witness. His name is gary pharaoh. Gary pharaoh is a banker who worked with Michael Cohen at the time that the payments were made to former playboy model, Karen Mcdougal and porn actress and director Stormy Daniels, both of whom alleged romantic entanglements of sorts with mr. Donald trump. This comes after rona graph was called as the second witness in the trial. Rona graph, shes on the screen right there. Shes a longtime trump assistance. She worked for trump since he hired her in 1987 after she cold calls to Trump Organization were on a graph, testified id two contacts you maintained at the Trump Organization were for Karen Mcdougal Stormy Daniels run a graph was on the stand for less than half an hour earlier today, trumps attorneys crossexamined david pecker, the former Tabloid Magnate and longtime friend o
can people expect the worst of the weather is going to hit? john, good afternoon. unfortunately, things could become serious and dangerous pretty soon. in fact, just moments ago, a particularly dangerous situation tornado watch was issued for portions of louisiana and central mississippi. i want to give you some context on what that means. those are only issued when the forecaster has high confidence we could see multiple strong or even violent tornadoes. anything from an ef-two to 5 here, and the threat over four states, including arkansas, mississippi, alabama, and portions of west tennessee here. a threat level of 4 out of 5. a rare occurrence, especially this late in the year. but again, indication of how confident meteorologists are this is a dangerous storm situation. not only the possibility of tornadoes but hail and wind
example along the line separating ukrainian government controlled territory and separatist rebel held territory, a shell that seems to have landed on a kindergarten. some injuries, no fatalities we are told, but every day when you hear about episodes like that, you were wondering, is this going to be the triggerfor something? and while wondering, is this going to be the trigger for something? and while the political situation remains unresolved, the potentialfor one of these fairly routine exchanges of gunfire to explode into something bigger could be interpreted deliberately or accidentally as something bigger, that potential is enormous. that has a long term corrosive psychological effect here in ukraine and that may be the effect vladimir putin wants it to have. ~ ., , effect vladimir putin wants it to have. , ., ., ., just want to bring you some news on the storm situation, storm eunice