Severe storms, even tornadoes. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world, im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Lets get right to the Breaking News this hour. The Severe Weather outbreak on the east coast. Millions of americans are facing dangerous storms, including tornadoes. Cnns gabe cohen is tracking the worsening conditions. Gabe, first of all, what do you see . Reporter wolf, we just had an intense burt of rain here, intense wind blowing through the last few minutes. Its gotten darker and darker here in the district, the capitol about two blocks from behind us. You know, one of the things we have heard from officials here in the district and really across the region today has been about the precautions needed to keep people safe as a storm blows through in the next few minutes. Government buildings shut down here at 3 00 p. M. Today, the federal government telling employees to go home in order to be off the
zest threat to his power. the lead starts right now. he claimed moments ago that any attempt at internal mutiny will end in defeat, and making an offer to wagner fighter. the bombastic leader of the wagner group also breaking his silence, but after a stunning turn, with you major question remains where is yes againi prigozhin. plus cnn is along the front lines. hear the fall outfrom the it s reverberating across the front lines and the entire region. the kremlin right now says president vladimir putin is meeting with the heads of law enforcement agencies after that attempted insurrection threatened putin s iron grip on power. last hour, as bianna mentioned, putin addressed the nation, calling it a mutiny led by traitors who betrayed their country, also offering the wagner fighters who did not participate, a chance to join the former russian military. it s that suggestion that may have led to the insurrection in the first place. earlier today, prigozhin set his was dem
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good wednesday morning. i m erica hill. and i m jim scuitto. perhaps some relief. the first flights taking off moments ago from reagan national airport here in d.c., this after the faa lifted the earl why are ground stop. now restarting all u.s. takeoffs, but the logistical nightmare continues as airports across the country try to get their flights back on schedule. they re still mounting. it all started early morning after a key faa system went down, halting all u.s. flight departures. and that spreads around the world. in london, passengers said they were stuck on the tarmac for hours waiting to be taken off. president biden has been briefed, and they re work ing - and we ll respond at that time. pete muntean is at reagan airport, and athena jones, and emeril walker there in atlanta. this is a vote good sign now that flights are taking off. a very good sign. things were at a standstill. that s when the faa alleviated this ground stop they had in place for a coup
that office. i don t know what s in the documents. laura: hold on a wilmington minute. the man who promised to raise the bar for ethics and trust in government. he is now feigning ignorance? i see nothing. i was not here. i did not even get up this morning. laura: more than two months after these ten classified documents were discovered, the public was made aware of this inconvenient truth. president returned dignity to government, had actually been derelict with government records or someone close to him was. now, when trump was found with classified documents, biden called it totally irresponsible. of course, the media has taken great pains to differentiate the biden situation. accidents do happen. it is not a good reason but it is a human reason. joe biden may never have known that these documents were in that box. other differences here, the volume of documents, the number is smaller. in president biden s case, he and his lawyers appear to have actually done the