lie strategy, the coup attempt and how it all went. first the former president and a huge development in georgia. a special grand jury to investigate how the then-president tried to pressure officials. saying her office has information that the election in her state was, and i quote here, subject to possible criminal disruptions. criminal disruptions. this is big. and it s not just the former president. the da wants to look at rudy giuliani, lindsey graham and others. and remember the then president himself on tape telling georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger exactly how many votes he wants him to in his words find, 11,780. so, look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. not like putting it right out there, just saying it out loud. who knows what would have happened if it hadn t been for election officials like raffensperger standing their ground. the people of georgia are angry. the
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and an historic trip. the first official visit by an israeli prime minister to the uae. a sign of deepening ties between israel and the arab world. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. we begin with the desperate search for survivors after the deadliest december tornado outbreak in u.s. history. dozens of people killed when a series of powerful tornadoes tore through several states over the weekend. kentucky the hardest hit. the governor says in the best case scenario, at least 50 people died in his state. but he says crews are still finding bodies, and he fears the final toll could be much higher. still, rescuers are looking for signs of life as they dig through the rubble, including at a candle factory that was flattened in the small town of mayfield. initially officials feared dozens may have died inside the factory, but a company spokesperson said sunday that most employees fortunately made it out. eight have been confirmed de
candle factory destroyed by this tornado. brian, we just heard from the kentucky governor, what is the latest from him. reporter: as you heard, this is still a dynamic rescue situation going on in this part of mayfield also where you are. but here near the candle factory, they are still trying to sift through debris there. this scene behind me is not the candle factory, this is a complex not far from it. we are not allowed to gets a close to the candle factory as we want. but this is a warehouse, a company that manufactures cellphone towers. look at how it got leveled. they have a large shovel there trying to pick through some rubble, two shovels actually now. and this is kind of what these teams are up against. they have to move huge amounts of heavy debris and rubble just to try to get to possibly some people who could be trapped inside these buildings. this is the check point where resources have been coming in all morning to try to get to that candle factory which is ju