Good morning and welcome to cnn this morning, it is sunday, march 10. Them, Isabel Rosales and grammar walker. Im victor blackwell. Thank you so much for joining us this morning. Were following Breaking News out of haiti. The state Department Says its evacuating nonessential personnel from the us embassy because of heightened Gang Violence. Cnns Patrick Oppmann is joining us live from the phone. Patrick, when did this start . So overnight last night, we know a us Military Helicopter did travel under the cover of darkness to portauprince, haiti and evacuated. We dont know how many, but us diplomats were told only us diplomats were evacuated from from the embassy because the ongoing civil unrest in haiti, Gang Violence that is essentially brought that country to a standstill, has made it too dangerous to have the embassy fully staffed. So theyre not closing the us embassy in portauprince, certainly. But they are reducing the footprint that number of spats there. And really the only way t
tapper starts now. what are governor nikki haley and ron desantis s plans to derail the trumps trained? the lead starts right now. after a blowout in iowa, next stop, new hampshire as donald trump pushes his competitors to drop out. ron desantis in nikki haley make their next move is vowing to stay in the fight. were going inside the campaign to learn their battle plans and defiance on display and for sale. we will take you to a store in trump country that has trump memorabilia that really has to be seen to be believed. the new round of strikes on the iranian backed. seizes iranian made weapons on their way to arm. welcome to the lead. i am jake tapper. cue the music. the election jam is underway. a runaway victory for donald trump last night in the iowa republican caucuses. the strongest showing for any nonincumbent in the modern era of the iowa caucuses since the 1970s with trump winning 51% of the vote. that is 10 points higher than the previous record. george
don t. attorney general merrick garland facing the self righteous indignation of ted cruz and other republicans. new reporting tension between the fbi and justice department over the mar-a-lago raid. cpac is back, home of normal conservatives nothing more than a clown show. it does reflect the current state of the republican party. and from performative to alarming, republicans and ron desantis s florida are cracking down on lgbtq people and moving to cancel the entire democratic party. we begin tonight with a lingering question from the 2016 presidential election. what was going on inside the fbi? remember, just 11 days before the election, fbi director james comey announced that the agency was reopening its investigation into hillary clinton. effectively costing her the election. the motivation behind comey s move seemed to be coming from the fbi s new york field office, which, according to reuters, had a faction of investigators based in the office known to be host
that to you as soon as it gets underway. here is the very latest on that. at least 26 people were killed, dozens injured, after powerful storms ripped through several towns. the ef4 tornado spawned winds up to 200 miles an hour, destroying homes, buildings, and virtually obliterating the entire town of lulling fork, doctors in the state s western border. president biden declaring a state of emergency for the area as now certain rescue teams are combing through the destruction, hoping to find survivors, and helping those in need. we have got our lives. [inaudible]. but we are good. [inaudible]. i ve never seen anything like this. i ve seen tornadoes, but not like this. i must embassy joining us from ground zero about that destruction. welcome, let s talk about the situation there. what is it like? what are you seeing? really, there is not much left standing right behind you. exactly, alex, you can say, we are right next to the area where the governor will be speaki
border now away from ukraine. there is no question nato is relevant. it is effective. finland and sweden make nato stronger. the january 6 select committee once again has in its sights a republican member of congress. and republicans are now asking for the capitol police to release the video in question here. live from atlanta, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. minutes from now, u.s. president joe biden is expected to land in south korea to begin his very first az i sia trip as president, he will spend most of the weekend holding talks with the now south korea president and then heading to japan where he will meet with their prime minister and indian and australian leaders. this comes later in his presidency than he might have liked, but he says he hopes to, quote, confirm the importance of our indo-pacific alliances. paula hancock is live in seoul for us. so an unwelcome/welcome gifts of sorts with some kind of weapons tests expected to be conducted during o