bianca is off for today, but just ahead on cnn newsroom i ve heard another tornado warning, it s like never ending today. this is an early wake -up cal for people living on the southern plains. everyone wants this constam nation gone from the community. the town is rallying around each other and i think we re all on the same page for the first time in two weeks. the chinese were very, very slow in alerting the world to it. i m not entirely surprised. the chinese have mishandled covid at every step of the way. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is monday, february the 27th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 3:00 a.m. in the central u.s. where a powerful storm system is battering parts of oklahoma, kansas and texas with tornadoes, damaging winds and large hail. at least nine tornadoes have been through so much, seven in oklahoma, two in kansas. there are reports of widespread damage. downed power line and debris blocking
it, it s today. good to see you. kaitlan is on assignment. so we re going to start with catching you up on the five big stories on cnn this morning. we re looking more about the suspect in the new year s eve machete attack. sources say the 19-year-old wrote of his desire to join the taliban in afghanistan and diaz a martyr. he s currently in custody in a new york city hospital where he s recovering from a gunshot wond. the three officers injured in the machete attack have all been treated and released. also, this morning, the suspect charged with murdering four university of idaho students will appear in a pennsylvania court tomorrow. his name is bryan kohberger. he faces four counts of first degree murder and a charge of burglary in moscow, idaho. he s accused of killing four college students as they slept in their home in idaho. we ll speak to one of the students who was in one of his classes, co-burger s classes. he ll join us in a minute. tens of thousands of mour
and one confirmed case now in the united states. i m jake tapper. we start with the health lead in the biden administration, warning parents desperate to get their hands on baby formula to beware of online scammers, charging exorbitant prices for formula that does not exist. house lawmakers griled the fda commissioner demanding answers and action. this after the house passed a pair of bills to address the crisis. the first would provide $28 million to the fda to fix the shortfall and prevent it from happening again. the second bill is ensuring low income families can find and buy form law enforcement last night, biden passed the defense production act to direct suppliers to deliver formula to manufacturers. but the slew of actions is not stopping even biden allies from criticizing the overall administration response. nobody did their job here. no one did well. senator casey and i wrote to the fda and to abbott back in february and said, what are you doing? we need to get th
female reproductive condition that begins with fertilization, b, occurs when the woman is carrying the developing human offspring, and c, is calculated from the first day of the woman s last menstrual period. so the definition here is going to be key moving forward, and it s why planned parenthood is preparing for what happens next. they say abortions scheduled for this week in oklahoma will likely go on as planned. but they re making plans to cancel next week. the governor is expected to sign it. he s shown his support for these bans in the past. the governor has said that his state will protect life. he says that churches and non-profit organizations are going to have to focus on adoptions, and he says they will focus on protecting the mothers who of course, this is one of those issues that you have all kinds of opinions on both sides of the aisle. but that will have big implications for women in oklahoma. jake? the legislation has measures in it that would punish doctors
Country. one person was killed and 22 others injured near chicago after multiple shots were fired into a crowd celebrating the juneteenth holiday. police are still looking for the people responsible for that incident. cnn s camilla bernard reports. reporter: no one is in custody at the moment and authorities have not identified a motive, but they are giving a better timeline of what happened. they say this juneteenth celebration started around 6 p.m. and they say law enforcement officers were at the event, but it was at about 12:25 a.m. when they received a 911 call that reported an alleged fight nearby. so these law enforcement officers responded to this 911 call and as they were doing that, they heard the gunfire. they immediately went back to the juneteenth celebration and what authorities are saying now is that an unknown number of suspects fired multiple rounds