Right now on cnn this morning Special Counsel, robert hurs set to testify before congress after releasing an explosive report about President Bidens handling of classified documents and alleged cognitive decline plus a developing story out of haiti, the embattled Prime Minister resigning amid rising gang attacks against the government and former President Trumps justin, hes open to cutting Social Security and medicare after vowing repeatedly, he would never do it all, right 05 00 a. M. Here in washington. A live look at capitol hill, lot of action up there today. Good morning to all of you. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us a First Special counsel, robert hur, is set to testify in a matter of hours before the republican led House Judiciary Committee hur investigated President Bidens handling of classified documents last month. He concluded the president did ms handle the material per however, chose not to prosecute still, it was his assessment of bidens mental sharpness
But it is clearly seeing where this cold front. is the heavy rain and the lightning down to the trailing end of it. and this is all going to move to the east and we were talking about a slight risk, where we can see winds gusting up to 60 miles an hour, some damaging hail, and even a chance of a tornadoes and 14 million at risk and that s the bull s eye, and anywhere from louisville, to columbus, and even into western pennsylvania, pittsburgh, you re included there, and notice by wednesday, back to the plains, looking at the focus for the severe weather, 5 million at risk, and the threat becomes a little bit greater, too. so larger hail, two inches or greater and that causes damage on its own. tornadoes likely in some, some strong ones again and tracking winds gusting over 60 miles an hour, even up to 70 at some parts, and talking about rain, heavy rain, we re talking about the potential for flooding as well. here is the bull s eye, tulsa to springfield, looking at one to two inches, a
Hospitalizations in southwest missouri surpassed winter peak. a doctor rachel key who is treating s patients at the hospital saying, quote, there are so many covid patients. there are so many different units, they re everywhere. doctor keith was sir sent to springfield last week according to the people. she arrived, she said there was so little space for patients that were staying in the emergency room for long periods of time. local health officials in southwest missouri have been sounding the alarm that they are not they are at capacity, they do not have the space for the amount of space patients that is not letting up. they re asking for help, they have been asking for help for a week. remember, last wednesday, health leaders in springfield, missouri explicitly asked governor person, as the state, to set up an alternative care site in springfield to help
Oer you look at saturday and you think something might be changing. that that intensity gap may be shrinking, that the intensity was clearly on the side of the gun control advocates on saturday all across the country. i think that is why remember, victor, after parkland, all of us on tv were very skeptical. we said something different this time and i think journalists were afraid to say it because we have been here before where the country suffered a catastrophic loss at a mass shooting and people moved on to the next thing. this time it really is different. i saw it in new york and you all saw it in washington. i think the most striking where actually in the smaller towns from spokane to springfield and toledo to tucson, the smaller communities there were voter registration drives and calls for action at the ballot box where we could actually see something happen in november. that might be good, that might
Lots of lightning has moved on from oklahoma city and is now traveling along interstate 20 and dallas. you re going to see some showers and storms in your forecast, in the next couple of hours. where you see the green shaded area from lubbock to oklahoma city, to springfield, down towards little rock, this is where we have the flood potential, because days and days of rainfall, and the moisture, the water just can t soak into the ground anymore, so you re going to be very susceptible to flooding, flash flooding, or just flood warnings over the next several days at least, and as we take a look in the forecast as to what s going to happen for the rest of the day, stubborn weather system just languishing across the south central united states, but watch this frontal system. it sweeps across the midwest. as it does, chicago, this really nice, lovely warm temperatures you saw yesterday? well you re expecting temperatures mostly in the 60s as we go into the start of the work week, and still