two nations pointing fingers after an attack on a prison holding prisoner of war. we re live in kyiv with the latest. how russia is getting around sanctions by plundering sudan s gold. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. it s 5:00 a.m. in eastern kentucky where a humanitarian tragedy is unfolding and will likely get worse. president joe biden has issued a major disaster declaration for the state as catastrophic flooding has killed at least 16 people, including 6 children and that death toll is expected to rise. raging waters decimated entire neighborhoods, scores of people are still missing. kentucky governor andy beshear says it s hard to know how many. he explains why here. listen. there are so many areas we still can t get to. the water hasn t crested in some parts of eastern kentucky. so we can t even get in to some hollers and see who is there. there are people out there all across kentucky and america that are scared bec
begin this week as the justice department opens an investigation to the police department. and the president vowing to meet with members of congress about enacting new gun legislation. we ve been i have dealt with more mass shooting aftermaths than any president in american history. it s just so much of much of it is preventible. in a moment, senator rowan gutierrez has this message for my potential school shooters in his county. we re going to shoot you graveyard dead if you come to a campus shooting at our children or shooting at us. we re with jeff paul with more. good afternoon. yeah, trace. the first of many funerals getting underway today as the memorial here in the city of uvalde grows. this is the beginning for the city as they say good-bye to the 21 that were killed and will continue on the next few weeks. if you look at the schedule of these memorials and funerals and visitations, there will be one until mid june almost every day for this city. one of
There are americans who remain unaccounted for. I do expect, unfortunately, that the list of americans confirmed dead will rise today. Miller went on to say that the u. S. Is reaching out to any country it can with ties to hamas to get them to release those hostages. We have reported, kate, that one of those countries is qatar. There are also discussions, we are told, with the israelis, with the eej gyptians with the humanitarian corridor so theyre able to get out of the gaza strip if israel decides to go in. Weve heard from israeli officials that they plan to exact a harsh response to hamas for these attacks. Alex, we will bring those remarks from the Secretary Of State if and when he does come to the cameras to speak and our alex is there. Thank you very much, alex. Top of the hour. Im john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner. We just learned israel has a government in the war cabinet, this is Benjamin Netanyahu who made the announcement moments ago all of this as hundreds of th
thomas. in a 32-page opinion objecting to what he considers a lack of due process. still not delivered by the high court, with only a week or so left in this year s long-awaited decision on whether former president trump is immune from prosecution. and whether emergency medical care can disapprove abortions if necessary. also, the judge in the mar-a-lago classiied documents case raising more questions as she permits outside interest groups to argue long-decided issues. has still not set a trial date a full year after she first got the case. a stunning new york times report that fellow judges had advised her to recuse herself because of her inexperience. have her questionable procedures accomplished making sure this doesn t get before a jury before the election? good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. the supreme court has just ruled 8-1 to uphold a federal ban on gun ownership by people under restraining orders for domestic abuse. the case was brought by
military is to establish or re-establish some deterrents. and you re not going to do that if you are if you are only playing defense in the red sea. if you are not going back after the sources of the attacks on u.s. forces in iraq or in syria. you can t just be spending your time intercepting weapons. and yet, at the same time, president biden is trying to make sure that he does this in a selective enough way that he does not open up new fronts in the war. and it s not at all clear to us that they re going to get this right. it s a really tough balancing act, and you re dealing with a bunch of independent actors. they all have one commonality, which is that iran has been feeding them arms, intelligence, and so forth. but we don t have evidence that the iranians are necessarily calling the shots here. and that s what s making this so