you watching us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i m kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom efforts to air drop aid into gaza turned deadly as a parachute malfunctions. we re live in cyprus with look at what this says about the ongoing struggled to respond to an exploding humanitarian crisis. plus us president joe biden takes his fiery state of the union message on the road. as he kicks off a battleground state tour. we ll look at how his message is resonating on the campaign trail and bragging about turning to roe v. wade. have no clue about the power of women reproductive rights are hot topic this election year will look at how the issue is motivating those going so the polls live from atlanta this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber in the past hour or there has been a new air drop of aid into gaza. have a look here. you can see the parachutes and aid pallets in this video. now we don t know which country dropped this aid, but it s one of many a
thank you so much for joining us. us. ac 360 starts now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com he has the right to remain silent. he s also donald trump. tonight on 360 the former president s eruption over the documents case, and is special counsel s latest move aimed at keeping potential evidence public. also tonight a live report from the texas panhandle, how people are coping in the wake of a sedevastating and deadly tornado. plus to ukraine. first up tonight, the trump documents case in a new sign of how serious jack smith is about keeping the defense and the defendant reined in. also a reminder today, this defendant has no desire to be reined in. virtually everyone is saying that the fake indictment is about election interference and should not have been brought. except bill barr, a disgruntled former employee and very weak person. he knows the indictment is total bull [ bleep ]. a very stupid person named john bolton, mick mulvaney who s got nothing going, a
tornado that ripped through their town. we will take you there live. a cybersecurity agency is warning the government is not the only target. and three years after the murder of george floyd the justice department is set to announce what they discovered after investigating the minneapolis police department. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. tragedy, a devastating tornado touching down in perryton, texas, leaving widespread destruction in its wake. people there had very little time to get ready to protect themselves before this tornado started barreling through the small town of over 8,000 people. here is what we know. three people dead. possibly 100 more injured with some minor injuries, but some very extensive injuries and critical condition and hospitalized. the tornado left about 200 houses completely flattened, nearly leveled. some buildings and also leveled dozens of mobile homes. this is one of several tornados reported across the country. take l
first official re-election campaign rally. cnn s priscilla alvarez is there. what has the president been focusing on for the first big re-election speech? reporter: well, the president has been focusing on his economic message. this is a crowd of unions you see behind me, the different signs and colored t-shirts all representing separate unions and all of which have endorsed president biden. and he is now speaking to all of them and has been for the last several minutes. and he also emphasized a critical endorsement from the afl-cio, and that is a union that had endorsed him early the first time and that s something that he has heralded while he s here, underscoring that he is what he calls the most pro-union president. that has received applause and enthusiasm from the hundreds of people behind me. that s been the theme of the message so far, that he s been pro-union, that he s added manufacturing jobs and made investments in clean energy, that inflation rates have gone do
good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, june 18th. all the pops, the dads, the daddies out there, happy father s day. i m victor blackwell. the dads, daddies, daddy-os, poppies, happy father s day to everyone. thank you so much for spending a part of your special day with us. a lot to get to this morning. president biden makes his pitch for four more years in the white house in his first campaign rally. the 2024 presidential race, the message he is sending to voters on why he feels he deserves a second term. secretary of state antony blinken is meeting with his chinese counterpart in beijing at this hour in what s called a high-stakes, low expectations visit. the purpose of the trip and the issues that blinken plans to raise. ron: i have seen more tornados than i can count. i have never seen the level of decimation to a town as i have seen today. texas governor greg abbott signs a disaster declaration for communities devastated by the tornados. the