nursery school children have been attacked by a man with a knife in the east of the country. two children are thought to be in a critical condition. it appears they were playing in a park by a lake when they were attacked. it happened in the town of annecy, in the french alps. the interior minister says the suspect has been arrested. the french parliament held a minute s silence when news of the stabbings emerged, while the country s prime minister, elizabeth borne, is on her way to the scene. this is the scene in the french parliament a little earlier when news of that attack emerged. in the last few minutes, france s president has tweeted. emmanuel macron says: attack of absolute cowardice this morning in a park in annecy. children and an adult are between life and death. the nation is in shock. our thoughts are with them as well as their families and the emergency services mobilized. our paris correspondent, hugh schofield, has the latest. we hear the detail, more about
good tuesday morning, everyone. we are so glad you re with us. look who s here. welcome back. glad to come back. i let you come back. you were in japan. and paris. and you met beyonce? spiritually. spiritually, absolutely. we re so glad to have phil mattingly with us. five things to know for this tuesday, june 6th. breaking overnight, ukraine accusing russia of blowing up a major dam. you can see the water pouring through a gap in the wall there. hundreds of people have already been evacuated as flooding hits along the dnipro river. 80 cities are in the flood zone, according to president zelenskyy, and water at breach, critical level. federal prosecutors say it s suspicious as former president trump s torrance meet with the special counsel. and two more former trump allies set to clash for the former president, chris christie gets set to file paperwork and mike pence files his own paperwork. the pilot that crashed in virginia was seen slumped over in his s
special counsel s investigation. standing by for the next big announcement in the race for the republican presidential nomination. the former new jersey governor chris christie kicking off his campaign this hour. we ll have live coverage. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get right to the breaking news on the special counsel s investigation of former president donald trump. our senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid is joining us right now. paula, tell us about this new york times report and why potentially it is so significant. reporter: incredibly significant in the special counsel investigation. the new york times reporting trump s former white house chief of staff mark meadows testified before the grand jury, that special counsel jack smith has been using in both of his investigations, both into january 6th and also into the
moment. this is where we begin in the u.p.s. sources say a mar-a-lago maintenance worker flooded a computer server room when surveillance video where surveillance video was stored when that worker drained pool, this happened in october and raising a lot of questions in the special counsel s probe of donald trump and hayes handling of classified documents. we are told this is the same maintenance worker spotted on surveillance footage moving boxes before the fbi executed a search warrant and found hundreds of classified documents at mar-a-lago. it s not clear if the surveillance video room was flooded intentionally or if this happened by mistake. our sources are telling us that it happened during a string of incidents that federal prosecutors find suspicious. surveillance video is a key piece of evidence in special counsel s probe. prosecutors have been involving whether trump and staffers tried to hide the classified documents from federal agents. cnn senior justice corre
royal regalia, and other patriotic knick-knacks. jan, old sleeping under tarps under makeshift camp s. decked in flags, for the occasion. take a look at big ben there. 300 feet tall and about eight centuries of history and has never been seen before. images of the national plants of england, scotland, wales, northern ireland, projected on it. and words dancing over, it including 14, queen elizabeth died, that had not been heard since 1952, god save the king. not far from mayor westminster abby, security tape is it is all around the city, were started warning the king and queen will arrive in a coach built for the kings mother on the 16th anniversary of her coronation. certainly a lot to cover a. bit about the circumstances. we will talk more about pomp and ceremony and the public relations of crowning a king. i m joined now by cnn s max foster. what is the mood like in london as these preparations continue? charles isn t as popular a figure as his mother was, as his childre