world. i m bianca nobilo, max foster joining you live from london just ahead on cnn newsroom. no matter who you are , we cannot and will not normalized serious criminal conduct. they can t beat us at the ballot box, so they try and beat us. through the law extraordinarily distressed by this document. i think this is even weaker than i feared it would be. no power. oh, my god. that s right for severe weather will continue on into our wednesday over the great lakes and the ohio valley. i ll have the threats and the timing. knife from london. this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it s wednesday, april 5th nine am here in london, four am in new york and at mar-a-lago, with donald trump and his legal team are gearing up for a legal battle after he became the first current or former u. s president to be criminally charged. arrested and arrange. trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony criminal charges of falsifying business records in a historic and unprecedented cou
a weather emergency right now. millions are under threat. multiple tornadoes touching down in the last few hours, carving huge paths of destruction. police in missouri are now reporting multiple injuries and multiple fatalities. preview of how nasty the legal battle could get. the former president unleashes on the judge the charges democrats even republicans against him. as he now faces 34 felony counts for falsifying business records. there s a new mayor in chi-town promises chicago s progressive 46 year old merrill it is making for america s third largest city . those major stories and more coming in right here to cnn news, central. so did he just create new legal problems for himself? donald trump pleads not guilty in court out of court. he lashes out at the prosecution and the judge hours after he was warned not to trump s next court appearance for allegedly falsifying business records is december 4th . which of course, is the cost of the 2024 primary season. prosecutors
hello i m abby phillip in washington. thank you for joining us. today we begin with the deadly storms ripping across parts of the midwest. the destructive system spawned at least 11 reports of tornadoes. now, take a look at this. this is video of missouri, where at least four people are now confirmed dead and several others may be hurt. missouri s governor, mike parson, has activated the national guard to assist with the storm recovery and is expected to go on a tour of that area soon, and this is the scene in neighboring illinois. you can see straight into that building after storms ripped off the roof and the danger is not over. yet more than 60 million people remain under the threat of severe storms. meteorologist jennifer gray is tracking that from the cnn weather center for us, but let s begin with cnn s adrian broadus, who is on the ground and kelowna, illinois. adrian i know that you have been speaking to some of these individuals who have lived through the storm and a
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ruling to testify in the special counsel s january 6th investigation. pence is now poised to recount for the first time under oath. his conversations with donald trump leading up to the january insurrection. also tonight, kevin mccarthy leads a defiant show of force in the face of stern warnings from china, the speaker and a bipartisan delegation of u. s lawmakers holding a historic meeting with taiwan s president on american soil. speaking with top democrat who was in the room for the talks. and later this hour, we will go live to jerusalem amid rising tensions in the middle east. there are new fears that violence could boil over after israeli forces raid one of the holiest sites in islam for the second straight night. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today . i m alex marquardt in your in the situation room. let s get straight to our top story tonight. special counsel jack smith notches a major victory, securing a