beginning? plus, police release new body camera footage in the deadly shooting of an ohio teenager. the question, does it provide in notice answers about what happened in columbus? and the latest in the fight against covid, with more than 200,000 americans now vaccinated, what is the biden administration doing to build on that success? it is way too early for about this. about this. bout this. out this. ut this. t this. this. this out this ut this t this this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show marking earth day. and we ll start with the news. less than 24 hours after a minneapolis jury convicted derek chauvin in the death of george floyd, the justice department opened a civil rights investigation to determine whether the law enforcement officers engage in a pattern or practice of policing that violates the constitution or federal civil rights laws. attorney general merrick garland announced the investigation. yesterday s verdict in the state criminal
we re sure to hear about this tonight when he takes the stage at a rally in iowa. as he argues that the documents are subject to executive privilege. trump can claim it all he wants, but he s not the executive anymore as we know. it s this guy. president biden. he is rejecting trump s attempt to assert executive privilege. this seems to be a legal showdown as the house select committee investigating january 6th wants these records. they re focusing in on four close trump associates, including steve bannon, who is outright defying a subpoena from the committee. let s go to joe johns who s in des moines ahead of trump s rally. joe, the former president just reached his highest favorability rating ever in iowa. i suppose that explains the reaction he s receiving there in des moines this evening. what can you tell us? first of all, looking at this crowd and comparing it to some of the other state where is the president has been are very similar. this is by far so far the smalle
tornadoes with max gorden and little rock, arkansas and adam in the weather et cetera we start off with more on the roof collapse and belvidere, illinois and this is just a terrible story. it is a terrible story here. it is static, people be waking up this morning, get here in downtown. the chaotic scene of cleanup crews, cleaning up the debris from what we believe to be a tornado last night but you just mentioned 200 people inside apollo theater or the morbid angel concert. a pan over to see what we are seeing, jacqui there are people out here, there is a roof and there is a car underneath roof. it underneath here. we have sound from a witness inside. take a listen to everything that unfolded inside of that concert. there are people in there. i did a witness when i first got here they did have a people out on stretchers in front of the apollo theater look like they re trying to get ambulance access and emts to that. that was definitely something i did in fact witness. ther
some big moves in that already huge search for the escaped killer in pennsylvania. that s where we begin this morning. we just learned moments ago from state police that the escaped killer is on the move, and the search area is now expanding. they released new security cam images of how he was spotted overnight. the photos are coming from an area of a vast botanical gardens, pushing the search area to move and forcing authorities also to close area schools as a result. let s get over to cnn s danny freeman there with the latest. we just we re hearing from the press conference. tell us what it means. reporter: this press conference just wrapped up with pennsylvania state police and chester county officials. what we have learned is, as you said, this manhunt has expanded. initially over the weekend, we were told by law enforcement officials that it the bulk of the search operations were centered two miles south of the chester county prison where that inmate broke out back on
that outbreak probably won t help. the woman caught on tape attacking the judge sentencing her and her husband is right there watching. you re going to see how the whole thing played out. and one more bit of news in the unfolding saga that is casey anthony. as people turn out for a memorial for her murdered daughter, she plans to get out of jail in just a few hours. we re live for you in orlando tonight. plus the pictures that you have to see to believe, a giant telephone tower goes up in flames and what happens next and people scrambling for their lives as it all played out on their tvs at home. and debt talk deadline, a friday has come and gone and republicans stiand democrats st don t agree and republicans don t agree with each other. i m don lemon at the cnn headquarters in atlanta. thank you for joining us, the news starts right now. we have been paying a lot of attention to the contentious debt notion negotiations go og washington, but the fire has been across the