Severe storms, even tornadoes. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world, im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Lets get right to the Breaking News this hour. The Severe Weather outbreak on the east coast. Millions of americans are facing dangerous storms, including tornadoes. Cnns gabe cohen is tracking the worsening conditions. Gabe, first of all, what do you see . Reporter wolf, we just had an intense burt of rain here, intense wind blowing through the last few minutes. Its gotten darker and darker here in the district, the capitol about two blocks from behind us. You know, one of the things we have heard from officials here in the district and really across the region today has been about the precautions needed to keep people safe as a storm blows through in the next few minutes. Government buildings shut down here at 3 00 p. M. Today, the federal government telling employees to go home in order to be off the
general wesley clark, and george town university adjung professor, jill doherty. jill, how significant is this foiled plot and the silence from russia on this allegation, at least so far. as nick said, there sic a number of attempts to assassinate zelenskyy before, but there really must be something about this. i was looking at the video of the woman who was arrested. she s dressed in civilian clothes. you cannot see her face, but it s unclear. when i have to say where i figure out where her town is, it s east of odesa, a russian-speaking area, if that tells us anything, but not much probably. i think the significant here is that if slerchs can i were to be killed, we all know that he is the best communicator, the
underscores is that this address in person sways people who may have any hesitancy about continuing the funding. mccarthy did speak with senators today. he said he would meet with zelenskyy before, but that he would be attending this speech. they will be there. i think that that is really the central focus here on capitol hill is, will this change hearts and minds, the fact that zelenskyy is taking risk in coming out of his country, coming to the united states here at this point in the war, at a point where they are getting more funding next year, but given the fact that this is going to be a long conflict with, as we have been unable to predict here, of course, whether the end will be, there is a desire to make sure that that funding will still be an open channel. that s what my sources keep underscoring here today. mike, you and i both have known joe biden a long time. we know how seriously he takes himself as a statesman, former