welcome back to the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. across the globe, major landmarks are lighting up in the colors of ukraine as the war there enters its second year. it s a stunning milestone for a battle many thought would end with a quick defeat by russia s powerful military. as vladimir putin s tanks rolled across the border last february. there was little hope that kyiv would be able to stand up to moscow for very long, but ukraine has shocked the world and perhaps russia most of all with its strength and determination. that defiance has come at a heavy price for the country and its people. the u.n. estimates have come up and they say more than 8,000 ukrainian civilians have been killed since the war began, a number that is likely much higher. some 8 million ukrainians have fled the country, many not knowing if they ll ever return. yet despite the cruel challenges his country has faced, president volodymyr zelenskyy is optimistic about the future. we st
tornadoes in the last 24 hours and all of last year. this is rolling fork, mississippi, one county constable says the community is gone there and what s left? looks like a landfill. at least 24 people are confirmed dead 23 in mississippi , one in alabama and all of last year across the entire country. tornadoes killed 23 people, according to the national weather service. this is already exceeding that right now, state and federal leaders are already mobilizing help to the hardest hit areas. cnn s nick valencia is in rolling fork, mississippi. nick, tell us what you re seeing there. hey jim. we just got here on the ground and it is just, you know, it s awful. it s striking to see these images anywhere. you go in the country , but you know, our attention was certainly grabbed by the site here and just how much damage there is. throughout this town of about 2000 residents were in rolling fork. this is the mississippi delta and this here is one of the staples of the community. th
announced that they had done so to the clerk. and now they are just waiting for court personnel to return to the courtroom, in which the jury will announce its verdict. they went in to deliberations at 3:50 eastern time this afternoon, so this seems like a relatively quick verdict for what was a very complicated and lengthy trial. prosecutors trying to prove that alec murdaugh killed his wife and son. they say to create a distraction as his admitted financial crimes were beginning to catch up with him. the murders took place on the same day that people from his law firm approached him and started questioning him about large sums of missing funds. alec murdaugh eventually admitted to stealing money from clients, from other attorneys, vulnerable individuals, some of his closest friends but throughout the trial he insisted and his attorneys insisted that he was not a murderer, that he would never bring any harm to his family. the defendant, mr. murdaugh, suggested that the killi
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fbi director christopher wray says it s most likely that covid 19 emerged from a chinese government controlled laboratory in wuhan. in response, china has accused the fbi of politicising the investigation into the origins of coronavirus, and says there has been no new scientific evidence to support the theory. other us agencies believe the virus developed naturally. our north america correspondent john sudworth reports. suspicions have long swirled around wuhan s laboratories. now three years after the start of the pandemic, they have burst out into the open once again. the fbi has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in wuhan. here, you are talking about a potential leak from a chinese government controlled lab that killed millions of americans. from the start, many scientists believed that covid had passed naturally from animals to humans. some of the first cases were centred around this wuhan s market kn