Hour of testimony, over 40 witnesses spanning 14 days. Now this all culminates tomorrow as the prosecution has its moment to tie it all together, to tell the jury why it should do something that is very rare in the american Justice System, convict a Police Officer for murder committed on the job. And the defense has its final plea to try to save Chauvins Liberty by arguing that or reasonable doubts about his guilt. We do not know what the jury will do. Nothing that im going to report to you tonight, none of our Special Experts can tell you what the jury will do in the future. Thats the point of a system that ultimately puts a Persons Guilt not in the hands of the government or of professional judges but in the hands of fellow citizens. Now from our reporting, we do know what the lawyers will focus on tomorrow. We can tell you all about that, because Closing Arguments must draw on the evidence and testimony presented in the trial itself. So that means the Prosecutions Closing will indee
the fourth time in just a month. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. well, we begin with a brutal winter storm that s been hammering much of the southeastern u.s. with freezing rain and snow. and the northeast is next. as many as 80 million americans were under winter weather alerts on sunday, stretching from georgia to maine. and the effects of this system could cause problems for days to come. states in the appalachian region are seeing heavy snowfall and high winds. parts of north carolina got as much as a foot of snow, or about 30 centimeters. and at least 25 counties declared a state of emergency. down in florida this system spawned tornadoes on the west coast, which destroyed at least 28 homes and damaged dozens more. downed trees and power lines knocked out power to nearly 300,000 customers across the southeast on sunday. more than 150,000 along the east coast are still in the dark. and more than 3
i am rosemary church. cnn world headquarters in atlanta. i will have the other top stories, including clashes between israelis and palestinians after another week of deadly virus. will take you live to jerusalem. welcome to the show, everyone. it is 9:00 a.m. in ukraine. we begin where hope is finally arriving for hundreds of civilians trapped inside a bombed out steel plant and that the seas to city. on sunday, ukraine s president said more than 100 people were able to escape. we have just learned that city officials will be attempting another evacuation convoy soon. the u.n. and red cross are assisting in those evacuation efforts. local authorities had to put the operations on pause on sunday night for security reasons. that is what they are saying. the ukrainian commander said that russian forces began firing on the plant as soon as sundays evacuations were done. that is in mariupol. to the west, we witnessed hundreds of people fleeing their homes in russian occupied o
two independents will make their way down here and some officials get up and vote and they sat back down, that is how small this community is, it will go behind these american flags and come out and they will cast their ballots in the box here and when it is said and done, the votes will be written up on that white board and we will know how the first community in new hampshire is feeling about these candidates in the first in the nation primary. it has started right now, the first voter about to cast his ballot, this is an exciting process, this all started because the former owner of the resort here, he wanted a way for the people in the community to be able to participate in this process without having to drive nearly an hour away in the snow in the winter and that is why he made this possible and he pushed for dixville notch to be incorporated the people in the community could vote. i love that they were able to have the same process you would see in a larger jurisdicti
address from the oval office, a venue usually reserved for speeches about wars or disasters. tonight he ll instead speak about a disaster averted. that disaster was the deadline just days away, of course, to raise our country s debt limit. if no deal was reached, the u.s. would have defaulted on its debts, likely leading to an economic catastrophe. tonight mr. biden will tout the deal he reached with republicans in congress to raise the debt limit. a deal that passed both houses of congress with bipartisan support, but also with fierce opposition from members of both sides of the aisle, progressive democrats are unhappy with the cut mrs. biden agreed to get the deal including cuts impacting social welfare programs, conservative republicans arguing the cost savings are not enough. and that the national debt is still ballooning. the deal passed the senate late last night and the house the night before it. it now heads to the desk, the president s desk where he plans to sign it