jackpot winner, and now we wait to see who that person actually is. i m hoping that hit the jackpot. i m pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. in eastern kentucky the death toll rises, and the catastrophic floodwaters begin to recede. the horrors are now becoming more clear. 25 people confirmed dead, including at least four children from the same family. their aunt tells us that they were between 2 and 8 years old. kentucky s governor tells cnn that the national guard has gone on more than 660 air rescues. the floodwaters washed away roads, ripped away bridges, making the ongoing search efforts even harder. it s unclear how many people are still missing at this hour. the governor fears the death toll will be climbing. i m worried that we re going to be finding bodies for weeks to come. keep praying. i hope there are no. we ought to expect there will be more loss. prayer for the families that have already lost individuals. they re go
mean to step on you. it a huge component. zoe said a couple little things, they re playing it cupkind of c because they will have a hearing next week but i expect in fact, they ve got some real combustible stuff that is going to break big when they do it and she s being kind of coy about it. so i think you can expect some fairly big bombshells. well, let s bring you in here, ron. you re not meant to be coy. i know you re not. you re a straight shooter. cipollone defended trump in the first impeachment hearing. he s no never trumper by any stretch of the imagination. the fact he s from trump s inner circle, the fact he wasn t like jump champing at the bit to come in and testify, he was not witness number one. he s just coming in. how important is it that this is the person, this is the guy that is coming to testify now? how important is this to the overall committee s ability to make the case to the american electret about what happened and led up to it? you know, i m not
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member. for more understanding new allegations let s bring in marshall koehn. marshall, good to see you. what more can you tell us about this new court filing? frederika, this is from the most important criminal cases stemming from january 6th. the dishes conspiracy case against several members of the old keepers and people at the tip of the spear of that attack making their way into the capitol. you laid out the crazy horrifying allegations from the justice department that are trying to bolster this very challenging charge. seditious conspiracy. it is important here for the prosecutors to prove these people did not want to just disrupt what was going on in january 6 that they wanted to use force and violence to stop the transfer of power to president joe biden. in two bolster those claims about violence, these filings mentioned how there were training sessions in the weeks after the 2020 election for what they called unconventional warfare and ambushes. the prosecutors her
night only on cnn. hello again, everyone. thank you for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. we re following major new developments in the capitol riot investigation. the panel just got key testimony from one of the most important witnesses yet, former white house council pat cipollone testified before the committee for more than seven hours on friday. and a source tells us that cipollone provided a great deal of new information. and we also are learning a chilling new detail of alleged plans by members of the oath keepers to prepare for violence in washington on january 6. a new justice department filing said at least one member of the far-right extremist group transported explosives to the d.c. area. and another member had a death list that includes the name of a georgia election official and their family member. for more on these stunning new allegations, let s bring in marshall cohen. what more are you learning about this filing which is just jaw-dropping. it is shock