carter receiving hospice care in his georgia home after a series of health battles. the former peanut farmer turned u.s. president is 98 years old. carter s four years in office from 1977 to 1981 are only part of his incredible story. for decades he s been a champion for world peace eventually winning the nobel peace prize in 2002. isabella rosales is in his hometown. is there any indication of how the former president is doing today? reporter: paula, the family is requesting privacy so we re not really getting an indication as to the extent of his health condition. we have a statement from the carter center which he founded. here is a statement. quote, after a vears of short hospital stays former u.s. president jimmy carter decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention. he has the full support of his family and his medical team. that s as far as we know right now about his health condition. l
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going to be more tornadoes. the problem is it s 10 30 10 o clock there in the central time zone. people are sleeping. you need to get away from this storm. many of these tornadoes that we ve seen tonight are underground tornadoes. you need to get underground to survive them. that s how large they are. and they re still going on right now . alison this is going to be a deadly night. i m afraid i ve seen pictures here in rolling fork, and it looks bad. okay chad, come back to us as soon as you have any updates, thank you very much for that breaking news. we want to turn to win if paltrow taking the stand today, testifying in her own defense in a lawsuit that accuses her of skiing into a 76 year old man on a beginner slope, he says he suffered broken ribs and a traumatic brain injury as a result. but paltrow says it was his fault, not hers. so there s a lot to discuss. let s bring in our panel. we have our defense attorney joey jackson here. former democratic congressman max ros
hello and thanks for joining us. i m abby phillip here in washington. now, president biden makes it official. just moments ago, the u.s. is sending abrams tanks to ukraine. that announcement comes just hours after germany revealed that it will send its own leopard 2 tanks to ukraine. germany had been reluctant to do that but ultimately they bent to weeks of intense pressure from western allies. cnn s phil mattingly is over at the white house for us. but let s begin first with our own jim sciutto. jim, can you walk us through what we are talking about here? what are these tanks, and where are they coming from as it relates to what s going into ukraine? reporter: abby, this is a significant move and let s begin with what the capabilities are. this is a german leopard tank then you have the u.s. sending abrams as well. first thing to say about this, highly capable, it s an offensive weapon, not a defensive weapon and the ukrainians hope here, their aim is to use this as a weap