you good morning everyone. welcome to cnn this morning well, good to be with you. thank you for joining us. here s what we re watching for you this morning. it is primary day in south carolina, polls open in one hour the big question here can nikki haley shocked the political world? and when her home state or opponent donald trump, is looking to win his foreign contest i got indicted a second time at a third time and a fourth time. and a lot of people said that that s why the black people likely donald trump courting controversy as he tries to court black voters ukraine marks two years of war against russia as kyiv pleads for the help it needs against the kremlin s war machine and other university we have georgia and a rust and the on-campus killing of a student s a death that has left the community in mourning of voters will cast the first ballots in south carolina s republican presidential primary in a little less than an hour from now, the state s former gove
uses another network service like verizon or t-mobile. they ve even recommended in some situations, using social media to try and get in touch with police or fire departments. and in some situations, we ve also seen tweets from fire departments saying make sure if your fire alarm goes off that fire alarm may not necessarily be able to connect with or contact the fire department automatically through its own dedicated telecommunications service. so make sure if your fire alarm goes off make a call to 911 just to be sure. now, on the other hand, we have also seen ports that people have been making test calls to 911, trying to make sure that they can get through if if need be, and the massachusetts state police has been warning people that, hey, our naimah one call centers have been flooded by these so-called test calls. and please do not do that. do not call nine 11, just to make sure that you can get through because that bandwidth, that capacity is really needed for real emerg
citizens right now, and it s time to go if you re there, and administration is urging us citizens to leave russia after reporter for the wall street journal is detained accused of espionage case stands and what this says about the current state of us russia relations. details about the cdc team that got sick while investigating the cause of the train derailment in east palestine, ohio that was carrying hazardous. chemicals. we begin with people in the southeast, waking up to the threat of severe and dangerous weather, tornado watches and warnings are in effect right now for parts of mississippi all the way to georgia. it comes as we re getting a better look at the destruction left behind after those massive storms or through seven states over 50 tornado sightings have been reported. at least five are now dead. the powerful storms blew through when arkansas, killing at least two people and trapping dozens inside their home, leading town officials to send out a call for neighbo
tuesday, april 18th 2023 happening right now is don was saying the wall street journal s from florida. evans herskovitz is inside of a courtroom in moscow. you see him there that is images of him behind plexiglass preparing to appeal his arrest in russia. the us maintains he is being wrongfully detained on espionage charges. prosecutors in kansas city charging an 84 year old man with assault for shooting ralph ja rule. er, liz, this 16 year old who says that he was shot twice after he mistakenly knocked on the man s door and then just hours dominions along the way to defamation trial against fox news begins in delaware judge expected to seat a jury before opening statements prison next to disney world governor ron desantis floating that idea . in his latest attack on disney and softer buns. go your cheese , more special sauce. mcdonald s starving, tweaking its signature burgers, cnn this morning starts right now. so as we said, let s pull up if we could these images because t
back home? and listen to this and unexplained delay in the start of a once in a generation trial as the news channel that made millions promoting the 45th president election lies is now under oath were following these major developing stories, many more all coming in right here. to cnn news, central. alright any moment now, opening statements are set to begin in the historic trial of dominion voting systems versus fox news in this sketch, the fox defense lawyer is on the right dominions attorney on the left defamation case could set legal precedent for journalists for generations to come. dominion we should remind you is seeking $1.6 billion for fox news. news is repeating false claims that dominion machines rigged somehow 2020 presidential election against donald trump flipping votes they claimed paying off politicians. the jury is now in place. the two sides were getting contentions contentious even before the opening statements, but now we have some sort of delay. cnn s da