You are in the cnn newsroom. Im jim sciutto In Washington. We begin with what could be a Major Development from the us Supreme Court. The court has scheduled the release of a ruling tomorrow, driving speculation. This could be the decision on whether former President Donald Trump can appear on colorados president ial ballot. The courts decision likely to decide the matter in several other states that now have similar pending challenges. Those states include maine and illinois boy, he states argue that trumps actions surrounding january 6 and the 2020 election, his attempts to overturn it disqualify him for office under the constitution based on the 14th amendments insurrectionist ban. Cnn Senior Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic joins me now. Joan, great to have you unusual announcement from the us Supreme Court teeing this up. Why do we expect this as the Ballot Decision . Now, all signs pick pointed that direction, jim, first of all, at Close Of Business on friday, there was no ann
i ve seen more devastation than i ve seen in my lifetime. i m on the ground in the middle of it, it looked like a war zone. i never felt so good about the cooperation of the federal, state and local government. ashley: alexandria hoff live from washington with the latest, good morning. alexandria: good morning. the people of mississippi are not the type to wait on help, people came from across the state to lend trucks, equipment and medical expertise. where assistance will be is temporary housing and loans for unsured properties. alejandro mayorkas took a tour of the small delta community where residents say every marker of existence is gone. flower shop, beauty shop, barber, law offices just down the street are all gone. there was an auto parts store, local restaurant that has been there for i don t know how many years, since i was a child. service stations, tire shop, just gone. alexandria: 26 lost their lives in mississippi and alabama, one death was reported.
nearly a mile wide and stayed on the ground for more than an hour. leaving nothing but destruction in its wake. bill: it touched down near rolling fork, mississippi. a town of 2,000 people. that community is wiped off the map. sandra: houses reduced to rubble. some ripped off their foundations. the storm had winds reaching 170 miles-per-hour. that s strong enough to send cars and power lines flying through the air. bill: satellite images. on the left a picture of rolling before the storm hit. on the right is what happened after ward. an elementary school, trees, homes, cars, all of them are now gone. sandra: leveled. a church left unrecognizable with the steeple blown off. the scope of destruction is hard to fathom even for those who lived through it. it was dark. call for help. it was quiet. to hear those little kids hollering help. it s devastating. i look around town and i m saying i know we can rebuild, but what do you do with the devastation? what do you do w
right up federal regulators are scrabbling to prevent a sudden bank failure from triggering a wider financial meltdown. cnn has learned the fdic has prepared to step it and operate silicon valley bank to ensure its account holders can pay their employees in the wake of friday s sudden collapse of that banker that s according to a source with details on briefings between treasury officials and lawmakers for us just one sinner being floated at this hour with just hours left until financial markets reopen for monday trading for less tara spoke with a woman who used to silicon valley bank to run her small business per she says she is not her yet from any bank or federal official about the status of her money, here s what she had to say. note direct communication from anyone at this point. so i m in close communication with a lot of other founders and business owners. and we are trying to share all the information we can find during our own research and piecing it together. fran
it s caught on video. mike: great to be with you, sandra. this is america reports, happened hours ago in new york. sandra: attack lasted nearly 20 seconds before the suspect was stopped. mike: all this coming more than 30 years after the ayatollah of iran issued calling for rushdie s death over his book satanic verses. sandra: it all just happened, brian, what are we learning about rushdie s condition at this time? we do not know much about his condition. we have not received an update on the condition of the novelist, salman rushdie. set the viewers up, an hour and 20 minutes south of buffalo. a place where people live, a community for arts and literary figures who come here and lecture. and that s exactly what was happening. the new york state police says at just about 11:00 a.m. today, salman rushdie was on stage when he suffered an apparent stab to his neck. a man rushed on stage while he s having a discussion with his interviewer on that stage. his conditio