grand jurors, what did he tell them about trump and the 2020 election. plus a deadly barrage of missiles strike ukraine leaving raging fires and at least a dozen dead at the hands of russia. and destruction after a tornado rips through a florida town, parts of the south bracing for more severe storms today. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. happy friday, everybody. i m christine romans. we begin with vice president mike pence testifying before the grand jury looking into former president trump s efforts to subvert the 2020 election. grand jury testimony is of course secret, but we have a very good idea of what pence was likely asked about his former boss, now his republican rival. katelyn polantz has more from washington. reporter: former vice president mike pence testified before a federal grand jury on thirst fo thursday for more than five hours. it would have been what happened after the 2020 election leading up to january 6, all of
all the while, exposing widening cracks in american democracy. plus can win your after the fall of kabul. how the taliban takeover has received daily life in afghanistan. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks so much for being with us. we begin in ukraine, with the two largest nuclear facilities in europe, pumping an outcry from world leaders. 42 countries, along with the european union, now calling on russia to immediately withdraw its troops from these nuclear power plants. it comes after days of repeated shelling around the facility, raising fears of a nuclear catastrophe. russia and ukraine have blamed each other for the attacks. to the south, ukraine says, an underground resistance movement blew up a railway bridge near the russian-held city of variable. ukrainian officials say, russian troops used the bridge to transport weapons and other climate from occupied crimea. meanwhile, a u.n.-charted ship carrying 23,000 tons of wheat
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