expanding access to affordable child and long term care. and body cam video released of the horrific moments that actor jeremy renner endured after a snowplow ran over him. rescue workers tending to him as you see, blood spilled across the snow and a life or death moment for this avenger and courtroom clash. the blockbuster trial between dominion voting and fox news is kicking off. opening arguments haven t even started and it s already getting ugly. cnn reporters are inside the courtroom, sending us all the details of this story, and many more coming in right now. on cnn news, central. so any moment opening statements in the biggest defamation trial in a generation are about to begin dominion voting systems suing fox news for defamation seeking $1.6 billion in damages in this sketch the fox lawyers seen on the right, the dominion attorneys on the left, the company said the network perpetuated false claims that dominion machines rigged the 2020 election despite repeated effor
i m victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. we re hours away from president biden s state of the union address tonight, his first to a divided congress. instead of nancy pelosi over the president s left shoulder, it will be speaker kevin mccarthy. the speech is expected to draw the largest television audience for the president this year. americans will hear biden lay out why he believes the state of the union is strong as he said last week. he s expected to talk about lowering inflation, improving infrastructure and getting past the worst of the pandemic. he s also expected to talk about america s stand against china. of course just days after an american fighter jet shot down one of its supply balloons. the president will likely increase the urgency for congress to act on policing reform and an adult weapons band. all of it will be a test run for his re-election bid. phil mattingly is with us now. what more should we expect from the president tonight? you know, vict
top of the hour on cnn newsroom. good to have you along. i m victor blackwell. the fbi is searching for four americans assaulted and kidnapped in mexico. we are getting new video of the attack into cnn but we want to warn you, it is disturbing. you can see people being loaded into the back of a pickup truck by armed men. it is unclear if they are americans. according to the fbi shortly after the group of u.s. citizens drove across the border friday, the car crashed with another vehicle and they were taken at gunpoint. authorities believe that they were not the intended targets. the u.s. ambassador to mexico said an innocent mexican citizen was also killed. cnn rosa flores is following this for us. rosa, what are you learning and make of the mexican president and authorities saying these were not the intended targets? reporter: you know, the president of mexico saying these four americans were actually in mat morore mexico to purchase medicine, which is something peo
furniture that floyd home dot com. good morning, everyone we do begin with breaking news this morning. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield and we start with dramatic video from st petersburg, russia, showing an explosion at a cafe that reportedly killed a prominent russian military blogger. officials say at least 25. others were injured, six of them in critical condition and you can see the blast causing part of the outside of that building. to collapse. cnn s matthew chance is in russia. matthew what more can you tell us about this blogger and the circumstances of his death now? yeah flat. lynn to toschi is his name and he s one of russia s most prominent military bloggers , which means he s pro war has got more than half a million followers on his telegram channel, and he is notoriously outspoken. shall we say about the need for russia to do even more in ukraine to go in harder ? he was swept to notoriety after he appeared in one
his departure could happen in the coming weeks and marks a rare and significant turnover for the biden administration. the news comes at a time when the president is dealing with classified document controversy, and questions about his 2024 ambitions. let s get right to cnn s she joins us from delaware where president biden spending the weekend. here we go, some saturday news for us from the biden white house, what can you tell us? yes jim, pretty big news, as we have learned that white house chief of staff, ron klain, is expected to the part his post in the coming weeks. sources said that the transition is expected to happen after the save the union address, which is currently set for february 7th. really, this comes as there has been very little turnover amongst president biden s most senior staff. ron klain of courses within that inner circle of advisers that has been with president biden since he joined the white house, and has worked for biden before in the obama adm