Americans and book your first cleaning today for just 19 this Situation Room with wolf blitzer. Week nine to six point cnn you are in the cnn newsroom. Hi, everyone. Im jessica dean and washington and we start with Breaking News. As Severe Weather threatens more than 70 Million People. This Memorial Day Weekend, intense tornadoes baseballsized hail, and hurricaneforce winds, all threatening parts of texas, oklahoma, and kansas take a look at this storm chaser video in oklahoma city. You see blue sky overhead, but they are also driving straight into that gray sky as well. Its very ominous looking cnn meteorologist elisa rafah joining us now, and at least it looks like those tornadoes are starting to spin up and it typically happens are a lot of times when the suns starts to go down yeah, the sun is what we need to fuel the atmosphere to create these intents and strong thunderstorms. And its been doing that all de the atmosphere has been cooking all day. Thats why the storms are blowing
Stretching from wichita down towards san angelo, texas, the particularly dangerous situation is the one that is for the north sliver of texas and includes much of oklahoma, including oklahoma city, and then goes up into wichita until 11 00 central time this evening, again, labeled that particularly dangerous situation for the possibility of violent long tornadoes that would be ef2 and strength or greater. We already have found a couple of Tornado Warnings that have been issued for the northern part of texas here as these storms start to respond to the daytime heat and fire up, we also have a batch of storms that have been on the decaying trend and a severe thunderstorm. Watch him parts of georgia. This is the threat. You can see that red bulls eye goes from Wichita Falls up towards wichita and then into springfield, missouri were intense tornadoes, baseballsized hail, and those damaging wind gusts or possible, and again, its that fear for the very strong tornadoes, some of the ones tha
watch that thanks so much for joining me today. i m alison chemla radha. i ll see you back here tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. and cnn newsroom continues with jessica dean, right now. here in the cnn newsroom. hi everyone. i m jessica dean and won washington and we begin with former president and now convicted felon, donald trump, saying he d be okay with serving prison time. this of course, just days after he was found guilty of all charges. in his hush money criminal trial. but as he awaits his sentencing for july 11, the republican candidate for president warns a prison or house arrest sentence could lead to a breaking point among his supporters here he is on fox news this morning the arraignment date for four days before the rnc. ella that s part of the game. somewhat suggested you could appeal straight to the supreme in court because of the special nature of this case. when it comes to the legal maze they couldn t the judge could decide to say, hey, house arrest
i ve had hanako montgomery in tokyo and this is cnn you re on the cnn newsroom. hi, everyone. i m jessica dean in washington, former president, and now convicted felon donald trump, saying he d be okay with serving prison time is coming just days after he was found guilty on all the charges in his criminal hush money trial but as he awaits his sentencing is set for july 11. the republican candidate for president warns a harsh punishment could lead to a breaking point among his supporters. this is what he said on fox news this morning judge, could decide to say, hey, house arrest or even jail it could face what i m okay with it. i saw one of my lawyers. he had the day on television saying, oh, no, you don t want to do that to the i don t get a bag for anything you d just the way it is. i don t know that the public would stand it. you know, i don t i m not sure that the public would stand for it with a house arrest for i think i think it d be tough for the public to take
before the republican national convention where trump is expected to be picked as the party s official nominee. trump is planning to appeal yesterday, he gave a glimpse of how he intends to forge ahead with his campaign falsely calling the trial rigged and attacking the judge we had a conflicted judge highly conflicted there s never been a more conflicted, judge. you saw what happened to some of the witnesses that were in our sayyed, they were literally crucified by this man who looks like an angel, but he s really a devil just hours after that vinge volt press conference, president biden for the first time, commented on the verdict saying no one is above the law cnn s priscilla alvarez is joining us now in the studio with more on the response from president biden and priscilla, the president came out with strong words, but they ve been very careful. both he specifically and the broader campaign and the white house to really keep their distance from all of this, they cert