tornado watches and warnings are in effect right now for parts of mississippi all the way to georgia. it comes as the death toll is rising after those massive storms. toward through seven states, and now at least nine people are dead. dozens more injured. there were over 50 sidings of tornadoes, including 22 in illinois, 12 and arkansas aid in iowa. in arkansas. three people are dead after the violent storms swept through that state. the national weather service has confirmed at least two tornadoes have touched down in the state. girl out of commotion and stuff that it was just over. i go outside, and it s crazy as people get blood all over their faces. three people were killed when an apparent tornado ripped through sullivan, indiana, first responders work through the night to clear the streets so they could get to the places hit hardest. and illinois baseball sized hail damage. some vehicles so badly that they had to be towed from the roadway. but the hardest hit areas a sm
sunday. i m fredicka whitfield. an updated classified intel report saying the u.s. department of energy has assess thad the source of the covid-19 pandemic likely came from a china lab leak, but there is one major caveat. sources at the department of energy tell cnn that the report has, quote, low confidence. cnn s natasha bertrand has been reporting on all of this and joins us on the phone. various intel agencies have been split on this issue for years now. this is from the department of energy, low confidence. what does all this mean? reporter: this is essentially another data point. the intel community has been examining this really closely for the last two years, ever since president biden tasked them with investigating the origins of the covid-19 pandemic shortly after he first got into of office. back in 2021 the intel agencies, roughly 58 of them, couldn t come to a decision about where it came from. what we re seeing is the department of energy has collected some ne
good morning, everyone. it is saturday, february 25th. i m amara walker. good morning, amara, i m boris sanchez. we re grateful you are starting your weekend with us. you are live in the cnn newsroom and despite the vicious lies you may be reading on social media, amara and i didn t plan to coordinate our outfits, it happened naturally because great minds think alike. i think we re ready to welcome spring when it has ppen ukraine enters the second year of war with russia with a message to the world. [ speaking non-english ] [ cheers ] ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy acknowledging the grim milestones speaking before troops in kyiv. he declared 2023 as a year of ukraine s victory over russia and expressed confidence in his country s ability to fend off attacks. in the meantime, ukraine s international allies showed their solidarity with tributes and announcements of new weapons and funding heading to the region. the first shipment of heavy battle tanks arriv
world. i m bianca nobilo, max foster joining you live from london just ahead on cnn newsroom. no matter who you are , we cannot and will not normalized serious criminal conduct. they can t beat us at the ballot box, so they try and beat us. through the law extraordinarily distressed by this document. i think this is even weaker than i feared it would be. no power. oh, my god. that s right for severe weather will continue on into our wednesday over the great lakes and the ohio valley. i ll have the threats and the timing. knife from london. this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it s wednesday, april 5th nine am here in london, four am in new york and at mar-a-lago, with donald trump and his legal team are gearing up for a legal battle after he became the first current or former u. s president to be criminally charged. arrested and arrange. trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony criminal charges of falsifying business records in a historic and unprecedented cou
community near sarasota, a possible levee breech could push a 15-foot wall of water into the neighborhood. sarasota is just one of the many gulf coast communities still dealing with severe flooding. hurricane ian slamming southwest florida as a category 4 storm. the death toll now stands at 45. but that number could rise as crews reach areas that have been cut off because of the flooding. right now, the remnants of ian moving over the mid-atlantic states following friday s direct hit on the south carolina coast as a category 1 hurricane. now down to boris in hard-hit ft. myers. boris? reporter: fred, neighbors here are stunned at just is raw power of mother nature. i m not sure how well you can see it behind me, but there are several vessels, five what appear to be commercial fishing charter sized vessels that were lifted from when they were here in this marina in ft. myers and tossed onto the outside part of that bridge, just thrown around like debris, one of many scenes