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
Atlanta. This is cnn cnn Breaking News hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me this saturday on for that, the width hailed and we begin with dramatic video of the moment, a russian strike hit a Shopping Center in kharkiv, ukraines second largest city these two people were killed and dozens more injured in the attack two more strikes in other parts of kharkiv followed the initial hit. Cnn nick kate walsh is eastern ukraine. Nick russia has been on the offensive in kharkiv is this stepping up of their attack yeah. Look, i mean, this could have been potentially the worst civilian casualties weve seen since russias offensive about two weeks ago now from the north of kharkiv, from their border areas down to ukraines second city at the moment, the Death Toll Vote is for, has been rising. We could have as many as 40 injured in this one attack on a huge Hardware Store complex in an area in the Northern Areas of kharkiv. Weve been there ourselves, a chain store across all of ukr
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polantz at the federal court in washington. and this is cnn hello, and welcome to allow viewers watching from the united states and around the world. i m anna coren. we begin with relentless severe storms that continue to threaten millions across the us. this memorial day weekend. especially hard hit overnight texas and oklahoma well, this is what s left of a gas station in valley view, texas, north of dallas and it s just one of several reports of major damage in the area officials in denton county, texas. so they are responding to reports of multiple victims and people trapped it s unclear how many people are injured. there are also reports of overturned 18 damaged homes and downed power lines. meanwhile rescue and damage assessments are underway in cook county, just north of denton after a possible tornado saturday night. and in oklahoma, beliefs say the town of clear more is shut down and to avoid the area, will their two reports of extensive damage to homes, as w