the southern plains with reports of multiple tornadoes, large hail, and damaging wind. plus, a new u.s. intelligence report rekindles the debate over the origin of covid-19. we ll tell you what we know and what we still don t. plus, a shocking new york times investigation uncovers a crisis unfolding in american factories. migrant children found working dangerous and often illegal jobs. we ll talk to the reporter who captured their stories. announcer: live from atlanta, this is cnn newsroom with laila harrak. we begin this hour with the dangerous storm system battering the central u.s. right now, bringing tornadoes, damaging winds, and hail to parts of oklahoma, kansas, and texas. at least one tornado was confirmed in norman, oklahoma, where students at the university of oklahoma were urged to seek shelter. there are now reports of widespread damage there, downed power lines, and debris blocking roads. the system is so strong, a wind gust of 114 miles an hour was r
wow. dozens of missile strikes just like those. some of them deadly, rocking multiple major cities. many that haven t been targeted in months including the capital city of kyiv. across the country. critical energy supplies were struck. there was widespread damage and power outages that are being reported. but it s these images, a playground that was also bombed that provide a haunting reminder of just how brutal vladimir putin s bloody, unprovoked war has become. we have reporters and experts standing by to cover every angle of this. relates start in kyiv, with cnn s fred pleitgen. fred, were you not far from where that playground was. what was the latest there on the ground in kyiv? reporter: hi, there, boris, well, it s an intense situation here in the capital. and really, there are not many people throughout the entire part of the day going through. the mayor told people to stay inside and shelter if they don t absolutely have to go out, simply, because for such a long
intensefying to a category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 115 mile-per-hours. the mayor called it catastrophic. some seeing three feet of rain. look at this. most of the island remains without power and a electrical grid with a checkered past and a bad history. it could be a while before it is restored. two deaths have been reported so far in puerto rico which is still struggling to rebuild after hurricane maria hit five years ago today. crews have rescued more than a thousand people but more could be trapped by the floodwaters. the storm killed at least one person in the dominican republic. cnn meteorologist chad myers is tracking this storm for us. and chad, the latest update just came in from the national hurricane center. what is it showing? it does show one good thing for bermuda. the storm turned a little bit left. you re out of the cone for now. not every storm stays in the cone but one-third could sneak out. that is good news for the people of bermuda.
buckingham palace in london. it s 6 am and the uk where people are waiting up with a profound sense of loss. for the first time in more than seven decades, the country is without its queen. a period of mourning now for britain s longest reigning monarch, elizabeth the second. you may hear the noise around me as preparations are underway for this next ten to ten days to two-week period. flags being hung around as these are images from buckingham palace where crowds have been gathering throughout what has been a rainy night in london. memorials to her late majesty with flowers, candles, and personal messages outside the royal grounds. symbols of the country s immense grief decorate the gates of windsor castle. as well as balmoral, the queen scottish retreat where she passed away peacefully at the age of 96. just two days after appointing her 15th prime minister while appearing very frail. elizabeth the second is coronation happened in 1953. no date has been said yet for the c
plus, a florida federal judge has thrown a wrench into the doj s investigation of the documents, many of them classified, seized from the former president s home at mar-a-lago. granting trump s request for a so-called special master to review the evidence. this temporarily prevents the justice dedepartment s investigative team from accessing thousands of documents taken from mar-a-lago. we ll have more on that in a moment. first, drew griffin joins us with the details of this newly obtained video from georgia county. we should note, taken the same day a voting machine was breached in that office. what do we know? breaches, jim, of these voting machines in swing states are under investigation across the country. this one happened in coffee county, georgia. cnn obtained surveillance video at one of the offices where these machines were breached. and this was all done at the behest of one of donald trump s attorneys. i want to show you the video now. it s cathy lathem, the w