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right here to cnn. new central. happening soon in charlottesville, two of these three men who carried tiki torches and march nearly six years ago at a white nationalist rally are scheduled to appear in court today. each has been indicted on a single felony charge of burning an object with the intent to intimidate. which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. 2017 rally ultimately led to violent clashes with counter protesters in 32 year old heather higher, lost her life. cnn s brian todd is in charlottesville. brian i understand there are some new developments, what s going on there? well john. the hearing is slightly delayed because there s another unrelated hearing going on in this court behind me, but in a few minutes we do expect this hearing to take place where two of the three defendants in this case are expected to appear to set the scene for our viewers. we have to kind of differentiate this. these defendants are charged in the case that s related to ....
the beat with ari melber starts now. you were speaking to donald trump s former lawyer, now grand jury witness last night i spoke to his current lawyer, who blames everything just about on the former lawyer. i m curious what you think of it all, including your skills as an established political communicator what we re hearing coming out of this team? well, first of all, i m so glad to get to talk to you i described you behind your back as masterful it was a brilliant interview i watched it when i got home i think that what he is doing is what you said. he was engaged in political communications his defense as he described it to you was that he would have paid it either way because melania would be mad well, the federal crime isn t being charged by sdny. this is a state investigation. it doesn t seem like an apples to apples kind of comment. what i think is about to happen in this country is a giant debate about whether this was just a foot foul, sort of a b.s. kin ....
the rubble, the latest on the severe weather just ahead. plus after being indicted, donald trump started making a lot of claims about manhattan and it s just district attorney will fact check to see if any of them are true and we re alive in rome. pope francis presides over palm sunday mass. just one day after leaving the hospital. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with layla, harare. we begin with those powerful deadly storms that battered parts of the us over the past two days, leaving dozens injured after tornadoes and storms moved through, and the death toll continues to climb. the latest fatality was saturday evening in sussex county, delaware county officials say it happened after a structure collapsed. the same storm system left behind a trail of destruction across multiple states beginning on friday. listen to this resident from tennessee. it s just surreal. you know, you just everything you ve worked. we ve lived in this house 44 years. and you know ev ....
velocity wind, it just explodes and it blew the roof off. communities across the south and midwest are cleaning up after powerful storms ripped through at least seven states catastrophic damage, and our team is standing by live in arkansas ahead of females arrival in the state. ahead of his court appearance tuesday. the concerns they have about where a potential trial could be held. an outpouring of love and support in tennessee as two more victims of the nashville school shooting laid to rest yesterday . we have a look at the tributes pouring in power play how disney invoked the royal family took quietly take back power from florida governor ron desantis handpicked board. we start with the threat of severe weather. it s not over yet for the people hit hard by friday s devastating storm is part of the central us embracing for more extreme weather early into this week, and the death toll is rising overnight. it s now stands at 22 , dozens more injured and the destruction ....
cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with dramatic video. we re going to show it to you right here showing the moment a bomb explodes in a cafe in st petersburg, russia, killing a well known russian pro war blogger. may have been presented to the blogger hidden inside a figurine. the dead blogger had more than a half million followers on his pro military blog, where he aggressively supported the war in ukraine openly criticized the setbacks. russian troops face there. cnn s matthew chance is in moscow for us. well jim. this explosion killed one of russia s most prominent pro war military bloggers, posting under the name of vlad lent tartasky. he accumulated more than half a million followers on his pro war telegram channel in which he was notoriously hard line enthusiastically, for instance, declaring on ukraine we will kill everyone. we will rob everyone we will have our way. and, of course, like other prominent russian military bloggers criticizing asp ....