everyone. and welcome to cnn. this morning. saturday, march 25th. what victor? what? i m ambro walker. are we doing like another studio change? i m victor blackwell. so here s what happened. the air conditioner in the studio didn t work. so we did the six o clock hour in 80 degrees plus lights sweating. we were sweating. and then we said , we can t do this. so we moved to separate studios that were air conditioned. during that hour. at seven. they fixed the a. c. now we re back in this studio. hopefully it works first weekend back with us. you brought the chaos. bring the heat. you brought the heat. you sure did. i don t like it so much. alright. here s what we re watching this morning. when he came through. it sounds like helicopter real real fast, and it came so fast and quick. we can do nothing but get up on the cover. severe storms ripped through parts of the south more than 20. people are dead more than 100,000 people without power. one mississippi town is described as q
terrifying. i think they re terrifying. i think that when i saw these, i know they re fake. they have fake written all over them. but still, i had a visceral reaction to seeing them. there s something about seeing a former president. let me put up another one. here s another one. this is a this one is about donald trump. it shows him in the middle of a police. fake donald trump, of course, the middle of a police from his falling to the ground and gideon just seeing a former president. in this situation. i sort of viscerally felt sick, and i know it s fake. well this is you know, this is the latest issue of mid journey which is one of these ai image generators. my journey five and it is just leaps and bounds better than the ones that we have been seeing before. and so even though there are lots of ways in which if you look closely, you can spot that these images are fake. it s still the you know the training on trump s face. the ai does that well enough and expressions in the
ever embrace american values. us lawmakers grilled the ceo of tiktok about the wildly popular platforms ties to the chinese government and digging in israel s prime minister vows to push on with a judicial overhaul , despite widespread protests and international criticism. zeye from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with john voyeurs. we begin with it for 10 airstrikes in syria that are having deadly consequences for u. s forces deployed to fight isis, depending on says the u. s has launched a retaliatory airstrike targeting a group affiliated with iran s revolutionary guard in the east . this happened after a drone attack on facility housing u. s personnel in the northeastern part of untr. in a response, u. s defense secretary lloyd austin. said the u. s. will take all necessary measures to protect its people and that no group will strike us troops with impunity. cnn s early even spoke with me a short time ago. a one way drone, essentially a suicide drone carried out attack i
john berman. we have new developments on the u. s contractor killed by a drone strike in syria. we are now seeing video of an iranian military facility engulfed in flames. this is after president biden authorized a retaliatory strike retaliation. from what the u. s says was this iranian backed one way drone attack an attack that killed an american contractor and wounded five u. s service members. president biden is in canada this morning. we re waiting to hear from him on all this. also at this moment, a top lawyer for donald trump, you can see him there. evan corcoran. he is inside washington, dc courthouse and there is no attorney client privilege protection. corcoran is testifying before a grand jury investigating the former president s handling. of classified documents first, though the deadly flare up of hostilities in syria overnight scene as natasha bertrand at the pentagon following this for us new information, natasha. yeah, john. so we are told from a u. s official
vowing to forcefully protect u. s citizens as his administration cast blame on iran and seeks to punish its proxies. also tonight, former white house chief of staff mark meadows is under orders to testify along with other top x trump aides. in the january 6th criminal investigation. it s another win for the special counsel after forcing trump s lawyer to face a grand jury today, and north korea threatens to unleash a giant radioactive tsunami as it claims to test a nuclear capable underwater drone. kim jong un ramping up his dangerous taunts. as we re learning more about human rights abuses on his watch , welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world is on assignment. i m alex marquardt york in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news and let s get right to that breaking news out of syria, u. s forces targeted with rocket fire tonight by suspected iranian backed fighters. this comes after a deadly drone attack on americans and retaliatory airs