Protect our water at groundwater dot. Okay. State dot good Sunday Morning to you. Welcome to cnn this morning, it is sunday, april 28. Im Victor Blackwell and im amara walker. Heres what were working on for you this morning. More than 50 Million People are waking up to a widespread Severe Weather threat stretching from texas all the way to wisconsin. As parts of the west pick up the pieces from the lab last round of storms, we will have Live Team Coverage age is an issue and a green man when it against the sixyearold President Biden telling him jokey jokes, taken csm jabs also, donald trump der, and the white house correspondents dinner. More of his comments and those propalestinian protests that greeted guests as they arrived and as propalestinian protests on College Campuses across the country have led to at least 150 more arrest. This morning and one campus to close to everyone except students and the president Flip Georgia Blue in the 2020 election, theres a suburban shift in atlan
Officials in the area have already reported widespread damage and injuries and several counties and more than 45,000 customers are waking up to no power. This severe storm threat is far from over more than 50 deep Million People from texas to wisconsin are under severe storm warnings. And the Storm Prediction Center raised sunday severe storm threat for the Southern Plains to a level three out of five the threat includes possible damaging wind strong tornadoes, and very large hail. Cnns lucy kafanov joins us now from elkhorn, thats a neighborhood in omaha, nebraska where the people there are still recovering from the major tornadoes that hit friday i understand from your last hit that people are just trying to rummage through the salvage anything they can, especially those important papers thats right vector because when a tornado like this hit hits, when it destroys homes, flattens, cars snaps old growth trees and half as if they were twigs the Rebuilding Part is going to take months.
Before go to harrys. Com slash a shave to claim your 7 trial im pete muntean at Reagan National airport. This is cnn you are in the cnn newsroom. Im Alex Marquardt and washington. Thank you very much for joining us. We begin with a pivotal vote on capitol hill after months of delays and political wrangling rare saturday session today, house lawmakers passed a 95 billion foreign aid package for israel, ukraine, and taiwan. Republican Speaker Mike Johnson was finally able to advance the bills through congress with the help and must be noted of democrats. Its a move that could cost him his job as some hardliners his party of threatened to introduce a measure to remove him from his speakership the senate is now set to take up that aid package on tuesday, President Biden now urging senators to send the legislation to his desk quickly so that he can sayyed them into law, quote right away. Lets get straight to our correspondence in both jerusalem and kyiv two countries set to benefit directly
It today, go to pretty litter, im Zachary Cohen in washington. And this is cnn welcome to cnn Special Coverage on big tapper and youre looking live inside the Manhattan Courthouse right now, lets bring up those pictures where the judge has just entered the courtroom and donald trump is about to make history. The first former president in the United States to ever face a criminal trial. Any second, can we expect Jury Selection to start . Whats called void here . And we just got our first look at the former president s inside that courtroom is still photograph cameras are not allowed in general. There he is facing 34 counts of fall falsifying Business Records allegedly part of a scheme to keep Adult Film Star and director Stormy Daniels from speaking out about their alleged Sexual Interlude ahead of the 2016 election, Cnns Kaitlan Collins and paula reid are outside the courthouse for us right now, caitlyn, at the prosecution and the defense are about to start this process of choosing 12
Voting has ended for the fourth and final of the foreign aid packages as of todays very rare saturday session, there in us House Of Representatives. And you look at the toll those 366258 in favor of passage of this 26 israel aid package, 17 billion of it would go to offensive and defensive weapons for israel, 9 billion in humanitarian an aid for gaza. Of course, we still have to hear them officially say that this has been passed, but manu raju, back with this, theyre outside outside there on capitol hill. They have four items today to accomplish. Checkmark on three of them. Youve got to National Security aid package thats been approved the ukraine package approved and money for the indopacific region and allies that of a taiwan as well so this seemingly was embraced by a majority. Theyre just looking at the tally this was to be expected for Israel Package yeah, there was still some opposition and then as you say, it looks like this vote is not yet finalized yet. Im probably going to cl