oh good morning. you should have woken me up like your last hit me. i hope your wig reason why you re here to shake me awake. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday. april 2nd. i m like, why is he looking at me? i m amarillo walker. april fool s day was yesterday. i m victor blackwell. thank you for spending some time with us this morning. here s what we re watching. it s just surreal. you know, you just everything you ve worked. we ve lived in this house 44 years and you know everything we worked for. paid for it. it s gone. it s gone. communities across the south and midwest are cleaning up after powerful storms ripped through at least seven states. the damage is catastrophic team is live in arkansas ahead of fema s arrival there. we have new cnn reporting on the mood among former president trump s advisers ahead of his court appearance tuesday that concerns about where a potential trial could be held back to work. how pope francis is spending thi
rhetoric is escalating ahead of the midterms. we ll tell you about an alarming spike in talk of civil war online. and by some republican lawmakers. and later? our reveal of the day s biggest mystery. why conservatives are suddenly freaking out over scooby-doo. and frankly? why i m not surprised. all of that in more is coming up. and, a good saturday morning to you. i am katie fang. breaking overnight! vladimir putin s military facing yet another critical setback on the battlefield. a massive explosion causing major damage to a bridge connecting crimea to russia. part of the bridge collapsed into the sea, compromising the main supply route for the russian military. and it happened one day after putin s 70th birthday. we ve got kyle perry, he is live now in kyiv. cal, good morning. what can you tell us? he catie good morning. it s hard to understate what a moment this is and how important this bridges to russia s military effort. we ve been talking so much about the ukrainian
we we re hopping on air force one tomorrow, heading to japan and have a good meeting at the g-7 and we ll evaluate the rest of the trip and see where things go. president biden was just moments away from sitting down with congressional leaders here at the white house for only the second meeting between these leaders about a potential spending deal to avert a potential default, which could have in just over two weeks. amid that, you saw as melanie reported the white house is getting pressure from some democrats not to cave too far on the work requirements. the white house press secretary leaving the door open to the president s supporting strengthening of some work requirements as the president did himself this weekend. she also said the president won t support anything that takes health care coverage away from people. that could be an indication that work requirements on medicaid could potentially be a red line, but i will tell you, jim, one thing that is for sure is there is an ackn
reporters on saturday. i ve had the opportunity over the last couple of hours to speak with both the homeland security secretary as well as president biden, who have offered a tremendous amount of support anything that arkansas need from a city county state and federal perspective, i would say that everyone is working in total lockstep and we re going to do everything we can to make sure that people of our state are back on their feet again. all that deadly storm system may have moved out, but there s more severe weather on the way. the storm prediction centers is severe weather is possible today from texas to missouri to alabama, affecting many of the areas hard hit in over the past few days with the greatest threat is centered on north texas, impacting nearly 13 million people, damaging winds, large hail and tornadoes are possible. until the indictment
says offered a tremendous amount of support anything that arkansas needs. they have assured us that those resources will be here and on the ground in northern illinois, four people died. one of the store related deaths came during a crowded concert friday night when the roof of the venue collapsed. violent storms also tore through indiana. three people were killed by a storm friday night at damaged homes and a volunteer fire department near sullivan, state, police said. in medicine county, alabama. one person died and five were injured overnight, officials said during a news conference saturday morning in ponta talk county, mississippi. one person died and four others were injured, according to the mississippi emergency management agency in mcnairy county, which is located in southern tennessee , between nashville and memphis , there were seven deaths, according to the director of emergency management. the same storm system left one person dead saturday evening after a structure collap