pineapple express, a story of survival. an 81-year-old man trapped for nearly a week in a snowdrift with just croissants and candy has now been rescued. i will speak with his grandson. 30 rounds of russian shelling targets energy facilities and at least seven regions across ukraine, cutting power and killing at least six people. we will have a live report. plus, the skies are getting even more unfriendly why punches flew on this southwest flight. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom we rosemary church. thanks for being with us. we begin in california, where the governor just declared a state of emergency in 21 more counties. that s 34 in total, as a new round of storms move in. authorities urge residents to get ready and be prepared for heavy rain and possible flooding over the coming hours. there are currently more than 17 million people under flood alerts across much of central and northern california, as well as parts of nevada. along with the heavy rain, the h
morning nashville tennessee is the epicenter of an explosive intersection gun violence, racial tension, and seemingly insurmountable political division two black former tennessee lawmakers are now expelled from the state house for taking part in a gun reform protest last week deemed disorderly by the republican super majority. shouts of shame ringing out from protesters crowding in the halls of the capital during those closely watched votes. both men speaking out on the house floor emotional and defiant. we are still here and we will never quit we called for you all to ban assault weapons, and you respond with an assault on democracy a third colleague facing expulsion who is white surviving by a single vote i ll be joined in moments by that third member, state representative gloria johnson who weighed in yesterday about why she thinks she was spared and her black colleagues were not. why do you feel like there was a difference in the outcome between you and your colle
including some of them calling for the immediate firing of the uvalde school district police chief pete arredondo. he went on administrative leave that we would wait for investigative information to come forward to help us enter our decision making process and i will stick to that. all right. i ll tell you this. if he is not fired by noon tomorrow, then i want your resignation and every single one of you board members because you all do not give a damn about our children or us! stand with us or against us because we ain t going nowhere! cnn s rosa flores is in san antonio. rosa, one of the big headlines from this report was multiple failures across multiple agencies, multiple officers, and multiple commanders on the scene. i wonder. we heard again anger and attention focused on the school district police chief arredondo. are the parents asking just for his firing or for something more broad here? reporter: something more broad, jim. they were talking also about the ot
Thing okay, greg. Greg bye. Bret good evening. Im brett bay. Antiisrael protesters College Campuses clashing with Law Enforcement several locations again tonight this after police in new york forcibly evicted demonstrators from a Columbia University building overnight. New protests have begun at another new york school, an antiantisemitic, antiisrael protesters ucla in los angeles fought with projewish demonstrators who tried to tear down their encampment overnight. In the midst of all of this, very little from President Biden himself, his staff putting out statements answering questions about the president s relative silence on the issue. We begin tonight in los angeles with correspondent bill melugin at ucla. Good evening, bill. Bill bret, good evening to you. All classes here at ucla are canceled today after a night of violent clashes here on campus that went on for hours without any kind of Law Enforcement intervention and just moments ago, we heard from uclas chancellor who descri
Tonights lead on politics nation, democracy on trial. Tonight im in washington, d. C. , ahead of the annual white house Correspondents Dinner where there will be no doubt plenty of cocktail hour conversation about the whirlwind week of Legal Proceedings for former President Trump. The first witness in trumps Manhattan Hush Money Trial took the stand this week, and the former publisher of the National Enquirer detailed how farrakhan candidate trump went to like his alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels. Meanwhile, here in washington on thursday heard trumps argument that the presidency itself is Above The Law as his lawyers claim he has total immunity for his efforts to subvert the 2020 election. Some of the courts most conservative justices, many of which were nominated by trump himself, seemed open, if not sympathetic, to the idea. All of that on politics nation, plus well hear from the president of emilys list as the biden takes on another State Abortion Ban and voters prepare