rahel solomon in for christine romans. a stormy and hot independence eve day eve, is in store for millions of people across the country. severe storms are expected to spread from mississippi to massachusetts, with wind gusts, hail and tornadoes possible in some areas. the streets of chicago flooded on sunday after record rainfall. meantime, more than 30 million people across the west coast, mid-atlantic and the carolinas will be under heat alerts today. and the severe weather could also mean another frustrating day at airports. nearly 7500 flights were delayed, more than 600 were cancelled across the u.s. on sunday. and since saturday, there have been almost 1,000 cancellations. so, a lot to get to, let s bring in right now, cnn meteorologist allison chinchar. allison, good morning. what areas are you watching specifically? good morning, rahel. two separate areas of western. the first one kind of slides up and down most of the east coast and a secondary position for the mid
police and inside that police station as we speak. good morning. it s friday. i m bill hemmer. dana: a lot of news on friday. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. moments ago danny penny surrendered to police in manhattan expected to appear in court in a few hours. prosecutors will charge him with second degree manslaughter and it could put him in jail for up to 15 years. bill: penny is the marine who put jordan neely in a choke hold on a new york subway on the first of may. witnesses say neely was acting aggressively toward passengers repeatedly. his death was ruled a homicide. penny says he was trying to protect the passengers and did not mean to kill him. dana: the case putting tremendous pressure on manhattan district attorney alvin bragg opting to charge penny without convening a grand jury. the decision is all about politics critics say. this marine was trying to save those individuals on that subway. i guarantee you every one of those individuals w
president jimmy carter is receiving hospice care at his georgia home. we ll bring you the latest reaction. and plus as blinken meets face-to-face with his chinese counterpart, what the secretary of state said about the balloon shootdown over the u.s. and more on a disturbing report that thousands of ukrainian children have been forcibly relocated to russia. we ll talk to a human rights advocate about what is being done to end that.center, this is have not newsroom with kim brunh brunhuber. from georgia and around the world, people are sending thoughts and praying for peace and comfort for former u.s. president jimmy carter. his family says he has decided to begin hospice care at home. priscilla alvarez has more. reporter: former president jimmy carter has begun to receive hospice care. they say after a series of short hospital stays, jimmy carter decided to remain his remaining time at home with hospice care. and it went on to say that he has the full support of his
daniels during the 2016 election. again, if there is an arrest, that s according to trump. trump also called for protests over his pending arrest to, quote, take our nation back. this development comes as sources tell cnn that law enforcement agencies in new york are also now preparing for the possible indictment of trump. cnn s polo sandoval is outside the manhattan criminal courthouse for us. we can also begin with cnn senior crime and justice report reporter katelyn polantz. what do we know about the announcement on the post? reporter: if it is charged, we don t have the answer to that yet and neither does donald trump. at this point in time his team through a spokesman has made very clear that there has been no notification made to him or his lawyers that he is going to be indicted or when that indictment is going to happen. however, trump is very aware of the politics of this and the bluster and the bully pulpit that he has, and so he is is agitating for his team to tr
airstrikes at a town near the capital. it s hundreds of mile as way from the front lines, and it is an away by putin to instill fear by an army that has been failing on the battlefield. we have graphic new images from today which show the remains of what was a russian caravan near the city of lyman. car after car destroyed. the body of a russian soldier on the ground, russian belongings strewn across the road. it just bears testimony to what we are seeing. russia s retreat and ukraine s advances are both fast and furious. but today putin speaking out, saying that these regions of ukraine where we re seeing all of this are now fully part of russia. he told a conference of teachers that the vote in the sham referendums in those regions of ukraine were well, here s his words. the results of the referendums, frankly speaking, not only pleased me but also surprised me. i think the election observers know this as well. there was no desire to correct something, clean something up,