good morning good morning, everyone. let s get started. it is wednesday, april 26th. a debt ceiling plan vote today. it s no the clear if they have the votes, right? president biden says he is going to veto the bill. sounds like they don t. also today, the taliban killed a suspected isis mastermind who was behind that 2021 suicide bombing at the kabul airport. that is when they killed 13 u.s. service members. this is according to the white house. the pentagon says the u.s. was not involved in that operation. also, the woman who says president trump raped her could take the stand today in her battery and defamation lawsuit against him. court is going to get under way in the e. jean carroll case. and the former ( gorepublica governor of arkansas is running so far in the primary. and kim kardashian says she is willing to step away from the cameras and become an attorney full time. our wide-ranging conversation coming up. cnn this morning starts right now. i like how
a prominent lawyer in the us state of south carolina has been found guilty of killing his wife and son. prosecutors said alex murdaugh wanted to distract attention from his theft of millions of dollars from clients, which he used to fund an expensive drug habit. garry o donoghue reports. a courthouse in south carolina, but a dramatic trial that has gripped the nation s imagination. gripped the nation s imauination. ~ , . imagination. minimum sentence for murder. imagination. minimum sentence for murder. .. after imagination. minimum sentence for murder. after nearly - imagination. minimum sentence for murder. after nearly six i for murder. after nearly six weeks of for murder. after nearly six weeks of evidence for murder. after nearly six weeks of evidence but - for murder. after nearly six weeks of evidence but less i for murder. after nearly six i weeks of evidence but less than three hours of deliberation, the jury returned its verdict on both murder charges. docke
hundreds of thousands without power, more than 4,000 flights canceled. winds so treacherous the airport in buffalo, new york, had to shut down. cnn is live with the havoc being wreaked nationwide. and the january 6th committee out with its final report spelling out why donald trump, in their view, was the one solely responsible for the riot and should be discaqualifi from holding office ever again. new transcripts from the committee. why cassidy hutchinson said she was disappointed and disgusted with her first round of testimony under oath. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with the national lead and this nightmare weather scenario before christmas crippling conditions stretching coast to coast with snow and ice in cities such as seattle and portland, oregon to the massive bomb cyclone system moving east. nearly 180 million in the u.s. are in areas with temperatures below freezing. 70 million are in areas below zero. this system is so powerful meteorologist
You are watching our special extended coverage of the israel hamas war. New this morning, the u. S. Embassy in israel is offering americans and immediate relatives evacuation by sea from haifa to cyprus. On monday, at 8 am local time, it is on a Space Limited basis. The embassy says chartered flights are also being arranged. Meanwhile, the rafah Crossing Point between israel and gaza remains closed this morning as egyptian authorities continue negotiations with israel and the United States over allowing u. S. Citizens to cross into egypt. The State Department urges the more than 500 americans estimated to be in gaza to quickly move south as the window to cross will be brief. A second u. S. Aircraft carrier is headed to the Eastern Mediterranean to help deter escalation in the region. It joins another Carrier Strike group that arrived earlier this week. And according to the Israel Defense forces, at least 1300 people have been killed in israel since the fighting began, with the Palestin
argument about free speech. that makes me more proud to be an american than anything i ve ever heard. russia passed a fake news law that doesn t even allow reporters to call its war invasion in ukraine a war. so, when that is his perspective that we have a free speech problem because tucker carlson is getting fired for, you know, essentially being a part of a defamation suit for airing falsehoods, i listen to those comments and think, gosh, i m so lucky to be a reporter in united states. to me, that s crazy. also classic russia. to try to spin their problems and put them on the u.s. of course. all right. sarah fisher, a lot to track. thank you for joining us. thank you. all right. also this morning, we just mentioned before break, we could be consuming dangerous amounts of melatonin for sleep. there is a study that found the melatonin gummies popular contain way more of the hormone than they advertise. researchers say they found one product even contained 347% more melatoni