also this hour, we re looking at a new report detail the wall along the u.s. southern border. and a large wildfire is blazing through the northern part of the state of neemz. teresaleger fernandez will join us with more. and right now, in ukraine, hundreds of civilians and ukrainian fighters remain trapped inside a steel plant in mariupol. the very latest stronghold in the besieged port city. this morning, the mariupol city council said people are still waiting to evacuate after more than 100 people were able to make it out over the weekend. and we re just now getting an inside look, these are the horrors they experienced. matt bradley has the very latest. we heard from people who have come here, they mostly come, some, a couple from villages and towns outside mariupol. some from only 40 minutes away from here, and still, their cars are little shrapnel marking, bits, it looks like they have fragments of weapons, and they are carrying signs that say children. and white f
a wounded willis to continue on in the case. keep in mind, there are state efforts now to fully investigate this, including possible bar issues. the problem you have going forward for fani willis, she s got to make a real decision here. is it worth going forward with her at the helm with all of this that has been tainted. we have not ruled out bar complaints and also the senate investigation here in the state of georgia. john: a judge in georgia ruling that fani willis can stay on the trump election interference case but one caveat, must remove her former lover, lead prosecutor nathan wade, but willis may not be out of the woods yet as a senate investigation could jeopardize her standing. hello, john roberts in washington. where does all of this go from here? sandra: quite a week. happy friday, everybody. sandra smith in new york. america reports . decision follows a misconduct hearing to have her disqualified from the trump case over here previously undisclosed relati
outbreak on a coronavirus variant. cnn has previously reported that the lab was studying coronaviruses in bats but it is unclear how closely related the variants were to the strain which started the pandemic. as for the energy department s new assessment, it is described as low confidence and a minority view apparently within the intelligence community. that said, it sparked new calls today from transparency from china. we would wish to see from the prc a greater degree of responsibility, a greater acknowledgment that it is in the interests of the chinese people, yes, we better understand the origins of covid-19, but it is in the or to understand the origins of covid-19. today s development also prompted to leading house republicans to send letters demanding the state department of energy and the fbi to provide testimony and documents related to the ongoing probe of the ten pandemics origin. china s foreign minister also weighed in, calling on relevant parties to quote,
doubts today. about whether they could accomplish that invasion. as china, russia, united states reached a critical point in the ukraine war. the cia says beijing s having second thoughts about potentially invading taiwan. and a significant from the head of fox move. rupert murdoch acknowledging the hosts on his network promoted election lies. what this means for the billion dollar lawsuit against fox news. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the. world i m wolf blitzer and this is a special edition of the situation room. tonight, major new questions right at the center of a deadly coronavirus pandemic. that may change so many lives. where did covid-19 come from? the white house weighing in the same thing on the u.s. energy departments assessment. that the lethal virus most likely came from a lab leak in china. emphasis on the caveat here. cnn sources tell us that the assessment comes with quote, low confidence. tonight they say withi
effect for parts of indiana and ohio as severe storms moved across the west. you can see what appears to be a funnel cloud in the distance there. hours earlier, the same storm system unleashed at least nine tornadoes across oklahoma and kansas. at least seven tornados hit oklahoma alone. this is just outside of oklahoma city. officials say at least 12 people have been injured and the national weather service says preliminary data indicates the tornado that hit this area was at least ef-2. more than 200,000 homes and businesses still without power across several states. listen here as one woman describes the moment the tornado hit. before i could even blink, i could hear the wind. all the back windows where the kids bedrooms are, i could hear them crashing, busting out. i got up and then the wind just threw me back. and i m screaming. it was like a blizzard inside the house with all the debris flying. i was screaming for my kids. you know, because they were in their bedroo