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newsroom starts right now. our top story, u.s. president donald trump fighting back against the latest accusations from lhis former attorney michael cohen. the president again denied having prior knowledge of a 2016 meeting at trump tower between his top campaign advisers and russians. according to our sources, cohen says the president knew about it. if cohen is telling the truth, it could be problematic for the white house. there are at least 20 instances over the past year in which mr. trump and his advisers have said mr. trump was not aware of the meeting. here are just a few examples. did you tell your father anything about this? it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. donald trump jr. put it all out today. did you he know the time that they had the meeting? no, i didn t know anything about the meeting. let s focus on what the president was aware. nothing. it must have been a very unborn meeting because i never h
57 past the hour. more than 40 states from washington and massachusetts and more than 100 million americans are being impacted by winter storms on the move today. take a look at this video out of panama city beach, florida. tornado destroyed homes and overturned cars. in south dakota, snow blowers and plowers are out as the midwest braces for another dumping of snow. bill, what s going on and where is this thing heading? jose, we have many life threatening conditions happening now in many different states. we ll start with the tornados. we can call this a tornado outbreak. we know of one fatality. an 80-year-old woman in a mobile home got hit this morning just outside of dothan, alabama. in panama city, the tornado came through before sunrise and did significant damage there. so the tornado threat continues. we have watches that extend from fort myers, tampa, jacksonville,
Within five years. france s emmanuel mark khan promises notre dong will rise from the ashes today he needs ministers to plan its restoration and japan s cherry blossoms have become a symbol of sprains about what about mexico s jacaranda traits their vibrant plowers are well loved and specially in springtime it s a bit of a spectacle in the country but it was a japanese immigrant who made them popular there in an homage to his homeland goal tell you more about the lost some secret history. welcome to the program limiter results in indonesia s election are pointing toward a significant victory for the country s current president joko widodo he s on.
You know, i think it is just you always want to know where you came from. reporter: neither one of them speaks the other s language, but the love between a mother and her child they say knows no barriers. rafael romo, cnn, santiago, chile. at least it has a good independenting. carrie fisher is gone, but her legacy aspirin says turned princess leia has not. she will appear in star wars: episode ix. the plowers will use outtakes the actress shot during the force awakens before her death. this newest installment of the space saga starts filming next week. it is expected to land in our galaxy in december 2019. and you can bet we ll be talking about it until then. the second hour of newsroom begins with the top stories right after this.