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good morning. buenos dias and welcome to cnn this morning, saturday, january 14th. i m boris sanchez or as amara called me earlier, sorbi. i think i said sorez. close enough. i like that better. sounds like a dinosaur. a mixture of sorry and boris. are you my boris saurus, sound like a dinosaur. welcome, everyone. thanks for being with us. appreciate your starting your morning with us. great to be with you as always. we begin in the southeastern united states where recovery efforts are under way after severe storms killed at least nine people thursday night in alabama and georgia. at least 37 tornadoes were reported with one twister wrecking parts of selma, alabama, a historic american city known for its role in the civil rights movement. seven of those confirmed fatalities were in neighboring atauga county, alabama, where the storm caused widespread damage to homes and businesses. it was scary, and i thought about you said it was coming, and we just didn t kn ....
i m bianna golodryga in new york. president biden is avoiding questions and the special counsel is making moves. the justice department has interveered biden s former executive assistant who was on the team that packed up his office at the end of the obama administration. we re told that process was messy and doing high-profile work right up until the inauguration and led to a mad dash to close up the office while biden was still using it. phil mattingly and evan perez are covering all angles. we know biden s former execute assistant had been questioned. we re also learning more about the materials that were found with the classified documents. tell us exactly what the special counsel rob hur will be looking at here? well, bianna, one thing he s trying to do is set up a office and hire and people to bring in to the investigation but a lot of work has already gone on. already happened, during the investigation that was being handled by john lausch, the chicago u.s. att ....
unfortunately the cease-fire is over. izal is launching new strikes in gaza accusing hamas of violating its deal to hand over more hostages. the fighting resumed just hours after a report in the new york times that israeli leaders dismissed warnings of a pending hamas attack. let s start with cnn s jeremy diamond near the israel-gaza border. and jeremy, we ve seen explosions over gaza all day. what is the israel government, what is the idf saying about the renewed military operations? reporter: well, jake, not only has the israeli military renewed its military operation in gaza, it is also expanding it, moving combat operations, ground combat operations into the southern part of the gaza strip and also taking aim at key cities there including rafa as well as han eunice and hamas has been responding in kind. in the last couple of hours we ve seen dozens of rockets being fired from just behind me in a part of the gaza strip. i want to show you some of those rockets. a ....
About fighting corruption, we should also say specifically, burisma in 2016. Mr. Yermak provided me a statement. I wanted to be assured that this statement would actually correct the perception that mr. Giuliani had of ukraine and what they stand for now so that that would also be conveyed to President Trump and solve this problem that i had observed with our may 23rd meeting with the president. The problem being that he is getting a bad set of information, a Statement Like this could potentially correct that. Was mr. Guiliani satisfied with the statement . No, he was not. He believed it needed to say burisma and 2016 specifically or else it would not be credible, would not mean anything. So in fact, mr. Guiliani wanted a statement that Referenced Burisma and the 2016 elections explicitly. One that would benefit, es ....