blackwell. good to be here. we re back together. now i feel like it s really privileged to actually be sitting together for once. here we are, all right. and here s what we re watching this morning. 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 and paid for it. it s gone. it s gone. communities across the south are and the midwest are cleaning up after powerful storms ripped through at least seven states they left behind catastrophic damage. our team is standing by live in arkansas ahead of fema s arrival and that state and we have new cnn reporting on the mood among former president trump s advisers ahead of his court appearance tuesday. the concerns they have about the about where a potential trial could be held . outpouring of love and support in tennessee as two more victims of the nashville school shooting were laid to rest yesterday. we ve got to look at the tributes that are pou
interior ministry, saying that that that s what they re looking into at this point, and there s certainly there s video, and there s been eyewitnesses giving accounts of this figure. vlad lynn tartasky is the sort of pen name that he had. his real name is maxine forming mandatory isse, russian pro war military blogger. inside that cafe. you can look at the devastation on the screens right now. that s obviously the aftermath of the explosion and at the moment russian health officials are telling us that as well as the one person dead vladan tartasky. there s 25 injured. 19 of them are in hospital, six of them in a very grave condition, according to the russian health ministry. tartasky mandatory isse figure very popular figure inside russia in the sense that his telegram channel has more than half a million million followers, he s one of the country s most prominent military bloggers. he came to notoriety last year when in september he was in the halls of the kremlin, and he p
i m okay with it. sorry see you in a week. good morning. you re going caitlin s gone back monday . welcome to cnn this morning. we re glad you re with us on this friday. caitlin is off. let s get started with five things to know for this friday, march 24th overnight, significant breaking news the us launching strikes in syria. after an american contractor was killed in a drone attack. there are five other u. s. service members wounded. the pentagon suspects it wasn t iranian affiliated drone. developing news soon a top attorney, though for donald trump said testified today before the grand jury in the classified documents investigation. the new york times reports that evan corcoran is not intending to plead the fifth utah banning kids under 18 from using social media unless they get their parents permission. it is the first state to enact this type of law today, the united states and canada announcing a deal to turn away asylum seekers at their border, president biden set to
retaliation that it is designed not to escalate the situation. we do not trust tiktok will ever embrace american values. your platform should be banned. i have seen no evidence that the chinese government has access to their data. they have never asked us. we have not provided i find that actually preposterous . is it a threat to the united states? security i believe that it is. yes it should be ended one way or another. the bottom line. is this american data stored on american soil by an american company overseen by american personnel. the entire country is waiting to see whether trump is about to be charged and arrested or not, sources tell us the manhattan grand jury panel met but did not take up the case. district attorney alvin bragg is unleashing on house republicans . three committees have said they wanted to come in and testify is sending the message. they want congress to back off. it s easier for them to go against alvin bragg that it is for them to go against donal
decision very, very shortly in that discussion to authorize the strikes against these particular targets. is there anything you can tell us about the u. s contractor killed. i m afraid not. i mean, we re trying to give the family some time and in space here to grieve. they just got devastating news yesterday. we do know that he was an american citizen and a contractor working for us at that particular base. but again , poppy, i think you can understand where we re going to give them a little bit of privacy right now, just to follow to poppy s question there. what are the things that us can the us do anything to help keep the personnel and u s contractsafe tre? well, the actions that we took yesterday are part and parcel that effort, don, i mean we re going to work to protect our people and our facilities as best we can. it s a dangerous environment. you said it at the top were there to defeat isis to ensure the enduring defeat of isis. they are still a threat in syria. they a