promising them resources and aid as they dig through the rubble for victims. the survivor say their town is unrecognizable. more states were hit by severe weather including georgia, alabama and oklahoma. this hail pummeling parts of arkansas causing damage great everything you need to know this morning. janice, these tornadoes can touchdown anywhere.it ran right through a community. we can warn people and tell them where the location is going to get hit hard which is what we did yesterday. the panhandle was part of that but when you see the devastating damage and folks out of their homes death and destruction. it s heartbreaking and unfortunately we have another day of strong severe storms. look at the last 48 hours. it s rare to see severe weather outbreaks in june. it is possible but we typically see it in the spring and fall when we have a clash of the air mass and the fact we are saying this amount of severe weather this late in the season is remarkable but we do have
the bill moved a step closer last night, passing through the house of representatives on wednesday, but the clock is ticking. and do you know your o s from your e s, your g s from yourj s? the pressure mounts in washington, as the final of the national annual spelling bee gets under way. i ll put our panel to the test. but first the legal challenge launched by the government. it s over demands from the covid public inquiry that ministers whatsapp messages from the pandemic are released. in a letter, the cabinet office said it was doing so with regret but that the request goes beyond the remit of the inquiry. a deadline for the government to submit the messages passed at 4pm this afternoon, but the inquiry says it instead received notice of legal action. in response, borisjohnson said he was happy to hand over unredacted material if asked. let s talk about it with the panel, and, jim, what do you make of this? because the government here is saying we are not going to ha
he is the reason that the oath keepers were in washington, d.c. on january 6th. that was what the judge found today. and he also believes that stewart rhodes poses an ongoing threat to democracy. rhodes made no attempt to try and dissuade the judge of believing that. and the judge certainly did say that explicitly after stewart rhodes expressed no remorse in court today and continued to be very far right in what he said to the judge and not saying that he believed that he had done anything wrong at all. now, the other thing, with kelly meggs, that was the second defendant sentenced today, kelly meggs was much more remorseful. and judge mehta looked at him and reminded him how serious of an offense this is, seditious conspiracy. and then spoke about how he found it so astonishing that american citizens who had been upstanding average americans before january 6th then became criminals. and i want to read for you one of the last things that judge mehta said after this marathon d
bombing that killed dozens at kabul s airport has been killed by the taliban, that s according to us officials. 70 civilians and 13 american troops were killed when a bomber detonated his device among packed crowds as people tried to flee afghanistan, in august 2021. the officials did not reveal the name of the man, who was the leader of an islamic state cell. they said the leader died weeks ago, but it took time to confirm his death. us officials say intelligence gathering and monitoring of the region led them to conclude the leader had died, though they did not provide further details on how they learned that he was responsible for the bombing. and the us began notifying families of the deceased troops about the death of the is leader on monday. in sudan, a shaky ceasefire seems to be holding in capital city khartoum while foreign nationals are evacuating from the country. these picures are from cypus late tuesday local time, when the first uk evacuation flight carrying 3
viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world, i m bianca nobilo. i m max foster joining you live on cnn. just ahead on cnn newsroom. they wind up stopping innocent people and they wind up using brute force to do it. this incident was heinous, reckless and inhumane. helping ukraine defend, protect ukrainian land. they do, however, pose a significant event to forces inside ukraine illegally. the fbi searching the home of a sitting president. the justice department was not fully comfortable with joe biden s team doing the search on its own. reporter: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it s thursday, january 26th. 9 a.m. here in london, 3 a.m. in memphis, tennessee, where any day now we could see the police body camera footage of the arrest of tyrei nichols who was stopped taken into police custody. the family of the 29-year-old black man is demanding answers. the preliminary autopsy says nichols s