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that's 184494200. wellcare medicare. done well, this is cnn. the world's news network. mm hmm. we are watching history in the making soon. donald trump leaves florida for new york, where he will become the first ever former president to be booked on criminal charges. we have all the unprecedented details. a suspect is in custody , accused in the bombing that killed a well known pro war military brogger at a cafe in st petersburg, russia. what police are now revealing about the woman they say handed him the bomb scenes of utter devastation and now the threat for more tornadoes today, the new forecast just in with the areas
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under the greatest risk. those stories and more here. that's cnn news, central. tomorrow for the first time in our nation's 247 year history. a former u. s president will be arraigned in court two hours from now former president trump he's going to leave mar-a-lago and fly to new york as he gets ready to face. a judge can show you right now. a live look at the plane on the tarmac tarmac at palm beach international airport this morning. we were very familiar with that plane from the election cycle. it is the culmination of a years long probe what we're looking at now into a $130,000 money payment made to adult film star stormy daniels just before the 2016 election. the indictment is said to include more than 30 counts centering on how that payment was reflected in trump's business records. it's expected that the indictment will be made
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public tomorrow when trump appears in court. and take a look. here is what he is like, what will likely happen when he does make that court appearance and appears in that courthouse, trump will be fingerprint fingerprinted, but still unclear if he's going to be photographed for a mug shot. let's get straight to that courthouse, cnn's cares. canal is right outside. carol why is it still uncertain at this point if he will be photographed? well, kate issues here in the uncertainty over whether his mug shot will be taken is on the one hand, he is one of the most recognizable people in the world. there is not a concern of a flight risk, and if someone were to be unable to identify him or locate him, another concerned sources tell us is that what if this mug shot was leaked? right this is against that would be against new york state law, but there is a concern that the monk shot could be made public, so there is uncertainty about whether that will be taken. we understand he is expected to be fingerprinted, but he won't be kept in a holding cell. he will likely have a shorter a time where he is in these in the
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building behind me, both being processed and then when he goes into the courtroom because of the bigger security concerns around him and also around any potential protester disturbances that could take place outside, he will walk down the hallway. that is the hallway that drug dealers walk down is also the hallway that his former chief financial officer walked down when he pleaded guilty and that is former adviser steve bannon walked out when he was charged with fraud charges and inside the courtroom proceedings expected to take place. pretty quickly. the judge will ask him if he wants, the indictment read will likely wave that and they asked to enter a plea. his lawyers say he's going to plead not guilty cape tomorrow what's expected today? okay. today we are expecting the former president to leave mar-a-lago around noon, where he will head to the airport. then he is expected to land here in new york. around three o'clock from there. we were told he is going to head to trump tower, and that is where he will likely spend the night tomorrow around midday
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. he will come down to court will go through that whole processing that we just were talking about. and then be arraigned after lunch. from there. we're told that he will head straight to the airport back to mar-a-lago, where he is expected to give a speech at around eight o'clock eastern time kate team has been saying quite a lot throughout this process. what's the very latest from them? that
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russell's in nashville for us. thank you for being there, isabel. right, kate. coming up for us. the race for the white house is getting a little bit more crowded as former arkansas governor asa hutchinson ounce he's running as well what his entry says about the state of the race, plus, ukraine's president is leaving ukraine for only the third time since the start of russia's invasion, where he's headed and why. sunday night. we're trying something a little different. one whole ststory. one whole hor . world's bestst journalists dig deeper into the storieses. they can't ignore the whole story with anderson cooper premieres sunday, april 16th at eight on cnn. i can't believe this is how you kids talk to your friends. this is tking. did you have a nice day? look at the size of these butterfly shrimp, enormous for shrimp. yeah she's talking. about the best night's sleep you've ever had a temper, pedic
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it's official. the republican presidential primary is getting a little bit more crowded. former arkansas governor asa hutchinson is the latest republican to announce he is running for president as well. here's what he told cnn this morning about why he thinks he's the right person for the job. i've had a history of public service when their country is in challenging times. i want to be able to offer my experience and my vision for a greater america . i believe that our president should call on call on bringing out the brecca and not calling its worst instinct. joining me now for more on this is cnn. political commentators s e. cupp and errol louis. errol is also political anchor for spectrum news. it's good to see you guys to asa hutchinson. he's been around a long time. he's been in politics a long time, errol. but in today's politics how do you describe asa hutchinson? i think of him as a voice from the past , meaning a different kind of politics. this is somebody who's put in a lot of government service. he served in congress and he's you know, led the dea,
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and he's got some enforcement experience and federal experience. and this is somebody who now wants to sort of take us back to where we kind of lost the thread. i think after 2016, and he's really calling out to the republican base. let's talk about different kinds of values . he's an evangelical. he wants those values to matter and for voters to take that seriously. and for all of those reasons, he's saying maybe we can have trumpism without trump. now that's a pretty tall order, and i'm not sure he can pull it off. but that's what he's attempting to do. you describe it really? well i also want to play a little bit more from hutchinson and what he sees or how he describes his appeal his lane if you will, to republican voters, sc, this is what abc news listen to this. this is one of the most unpredictable political environments that i've seen in my lifetime. and so my message of experience of consistent conservatism of hope for our future and solving problems that face americans. i think that that resonates. he thinks that
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resonates. do you think it indeed resonates with republican voters? well, as they say in the south? bless his heart. um you know, i know it's a hutchinson. hutchinson wants to talk about policy. uh he talked there about good conservatism, public service. i mean, those sound adorable in the landscape of today's republican primary voters. this week's to me, but i am in the minority of republican primary voters. that might be a better general election message , but he can't get through a primary with these voters and that message a message of hope. problem solving that sort of the opposite of the destructive chaos that a lot of the republican voters want right now . i'm with him in lamenting the state of affairs, but i don't think he's going to be the one to drag the party back to as errol points out the past. but what you're describing is so interesting because then take
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this edge, also this side of hutchinson's pitch because unlike other presidential, other republican contenders have come out really quickly to defend donald trump. after the after the information, the indictment came out the information of the charges came out hutchison, though not so much, he says, because he is now facing criminal charges. donald trump should drop out of the race should bow out of the race. let me play. what else? why? he says that i've always said that people don't have to step aside from public office if the under investigation but if it reaches the point of criminal charges that have to be answered, the office is always more important than a person. and when i heard that i was wondering what does taking this position do for asa hutchinson? you know it identifies him as again a voice from the past. you know what a different concept of public service and what we've seen in the last, you know, tumultuous decade. it also, i think sort of
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identifies him as a pretty good general election running me. you know, he'd be he'd look pretty good on a on a desantis ticket or something like that, as somebody who's competent grounded in values can speak to the conservative wing of the republican party and also acceptable to middle of the road and independent voters. all of those things are great. the problem, of course, is it won't get you through a republican primary debate, much less a republican primary mentioned. i think it's worth pointing out that one of the reasons i believe trump is running is because of these looming indictments because it is a shield. for him from some of this legal attention. so the idea that because of this indictment, he would take a step back, it's just it's not reality . welcome to some reality. it's good to see you guys. thank you so much, sarah. coming up. nato is growing. with finland officially joining the alliance . what we're learning about tomorrow's ceremony and a bit later. listen to this. a new study is looking at a possible
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john stoltenberg says the move will be good for finland and for nato and ukrainian president zelinsky will pay an official visit to neighboring poland. on wednesday, he will meet with his polish counterpart and highlight poland support as russia battles ukraine, sarah russian authorities have this woman that you're seeing on the screen there in custody, accusing her of sunday's bombing that killed a well known pro russian military blogger and injured dozens at a cafe in st petersburg. here is the moment of that explosion. you'll watch it happen and watch the lower part of the building, and there it goes. the kremlin is calling it a terrorist act and blaming the attack on ukraine. but there's been no evidence yet presented to prove that russian media has also put out these photos of the woman inside of the cafe standing near the blogger who was killed just moments before that blast, but the suspects husband is saying his wife is being set up. cnn's
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matthew chance is in moscow with more details on this, matthew. what more are we learning about the suspect? well. the name is dario trio pva, and she is known to the authorities, in fact, because she got arrested a year ago just over a year ago for attending an anti war protests in the country, and she has been pictured at this speaking event by this prominent russian military blogger at which he was killed in that big explosion. the pictures of which you just showed, and she is the person who, according to eyewitnesses, gave this blogger a gift at the speaking event. it was a small statue or figurine, and eyewitnesses say that shortly after she presented that statue to the to the blogger, the explosion took place. the idea being the line of investigation being that the bomb was hidden. inside of that statute hasn't been confirmed yet by
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investigators, but that's certainly what they're looking into. she escaped the scene after the explosion, and she's been taken now into custody and is being questioned. sarah matthew, can you tell us a little bit about the blogger who was killed in this? i know that the calling him a blogger makes it seem like he doesn't have such a big footprint, but he does correct. yeah he does. in fact, he's as i say he's one of the most prominent bloggers in the country has got more than well over half a million followers on his telegram channel. and he's a military blogger, which means he blogs about military affairs. his name is vlad len to task. it's not his real name is your name is maxim forming? but he's taken on this sort of sort of pen name to do this blog reports from the front line but actually carries a gun at the front line as well and fights in the sort of anti ukrainian forces on all the pro russian forces inside russia.
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sorry inside ukraine as well, but he is known for being particularly hard line in in what he says about ukraine. he's described ukrainians as russians with mental illness. he's spoken about how we russians will take everything from ukraine. kill them all, rob everything and get everything we want. and so he is somebody who is really vitriolic in what he says about ukraine, and he's garnered an enormous following because of that, and of course, it's because of his political position that the belief is that suspicion is that he may have been targeted on this occasion and killed. i want to ask you because there is reporting that russia is basically saying, look, we blame this ultimately on ukraine. have you yourself seen anything to indicate that they have evidence of just that? no nothing in terms of hard evidence that we've seen. but look, i mean, you're right. the right. the russians say that they believe the ukrainian special services
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organized this. they, furthermore say that they believe that the sorry the ukrainian special services organized it. they, furthermore say they believe that alexey navalny's anti corruption campaign was involved as well, something that the navalny campaign has rejected. the ukrainians have rejected any involvement on their side as well. but remember, it's not the first time that a very hard line pro war blogger or spokesperson has been targeted and killed in russia last august, somebody called daria duggan, the daughter of a prominent nationalist politician here was killed in a car bomb and the ukrainians were blamed for that as well, even though they denied it. matthew chance. thank you so much there from moscow, kate. coming up in our next hour history unfolding before our eyes soon former president trump will travel to new york ahead of his arraignment for the case involving hush money payments to stormy daniels were alive from outside mar-a-lago to outside court in manhattan, and also
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morning, everyone so glad you could join us. joining us now are two lawmakers from different sides of the aisle. people are hyper focused on two issues, inflation and crime. violent crime is up, governor. you can't deny that. i understand that. but let's talk about real answers. even when you disagree with people. if you stand for something, they have great appreciation for that. every reporter in washington
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i screwed up. mhm. i got us t-mobile home internet. now cell phone users have priority over us. and your marriage survived that? you can almost feel the drag when people walk by with their phones. oh i can't hear you... you're froze-- ladies, please! you put it on airplane mode when you pass our house. i was trying to work. we're workin' it too. yeah! work it girl! woo! i want to hear you say it out loud. well, i could switch us to xfinity. those smiles. that's why i do what i do. that and the paycheck. or go online to gotham set dot com. phil mattingly at the white house, and this is cnn. mm hmm. about an hour from now. former president trump is expected to take off from florida and head to new york, where he will become the first former president in the united states history to face criminal charges and be arraigned in court. what we're learning this hour about the security threat
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you know they're going to fight these charges. they're going to launch a broad legal attack. they're also saying that this isn't a crime and that, in fact, they believe that he was being extorted. one of trump's attorneys alina habit was on cnn this morning. here's what she said. i think we do know what's in it. we know that this was based on stormy daniels. we know that this was dismissed by the fcc, and this was dismissed by federal prosecutor seven years ago. we know what's in it. it's a bunch of garbage. even if karen macdougal is in this town that is also garbage. that is something that is asia old and that is garbage. this is an
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extortion situation that he had his lawyer handle. i don't even know if he knew about it at the time. i don't believe he did. so lawyer settles and extortion claims gets an end assigned and somehow he's getting indicted. now we have yet to see what the specific charges are in this indictment, cnn and other media organizations have asked the judge to unseal the indictment. deadline is today at one pm for the prosecution entrance team to respond, so it's possible we could see the specific charges unsealed later today, kate all right, karen, standing by to stand by on that one. thank you so much. and john, no matter what happens tomorrow, it shall be something we have never seen before ever. never ever. so you've taken us right up until the moment in court. i want to walk people through sort of the timeline of what happens there and then beyond trump is under indictment, which we said it is sealed right now. we do expect trump to volunteer li surrender tomorrow. but look if he didn't surrender tomorrow, for some reason he would likely be arrested after he turns himself in. he will be processed and arraigned fingerprint. prince
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maybe mug shots now for most defendants, one you know who had not been president before he might be handcuffed and taken to a holding cell. but the consensus here is trump will be released and then pre trial hearings. after the pretrial stuff if trump does not plead guilty, which no one expects, then would come the trial. the trial, of course, is where trump would be found either guilty or not guilty. if he is found guilty, it would go to sentencing keep in mind. trump's team has promised to file all kinds of motions to dismiss and will do whatever it can to delay or derail this process. so this could take months. kate. that flow chart, actually really helpful, john. thank you stick close, please. so the former president's first quarter appearance is at the center of a massive security operation involving multiple law enforcement agencies and thousands of officers. quite frankly, part of the reason is trump's own messaging to his supporters over the weekend, he
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called. he called this case, an active obstruction and blatant election interference and also just a few weeks ago. you will remember that he encouraged supporters. the way, he wrote, it is to take our nation back. cnn's brynn gingras joins us now outside trump tower in new york for much more on this brain. what do you see in there? it's a massive undertaking. as you said, kate, from a security perspective and quite honestly trump tower very different than what security measures we were seeing when he was actually president. i'm going to try to get out of the way, but it's very difficult because we are actually pendant. i actually tried to do this live shot further down the street and we were kicked out. that has been sort of the protocol is to keep pushing us further further away, especially as we get closer to the former president arriving here in new york city, but you can see trump tower there in the distance that street 56th street. with avenue where we are about a half a block away from that is completely shut down and then across the street directly across from trump tower, there are a number of nypd busses that
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are blocking that entire street so you can see traffic is moving through. there's pedestrians that are allowed to walk through here, but those measures are going to begin begin to get tightened again. the closer we get to the former president arriving so massive security ever going on here at trump tower, kate, and of course, this is also going to be the case. tomorrow as the motorcade not only helps them get to the airport today, but tomorrow down to the courthouse as you heard care, described what he is about to undergo their 35,000 officers on the ready. we also want to let you know kate that the nypd commissioner as well as the mayor, they're going to hold a news conference today at noon to just let the public know there are no credible threats against the city. so we'll wait for that as well, guys. absolutely thank you, bryn sarah. let's go ahead and dig deeper into the security concerns. now joining us is jonathan wackrow he has seen in law enforcement analyst and a former secret service agent. so you know this like the back of her hand, except this is unprecedented. let's talk about
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what's going to happen here. usually the secret service is in charge of presidents, former presidents, vice presidents, and they're the ones that sort of make the plan. is that going to be different now? it is different now. the secret service is not the lead coordinating agency for this. the security protocols that we see being put into place. it's actually the nypd is taking the lead role along with the new york state court officers. they're really bifurcating internal security of the courthouse and then external in the city at large, and that's the unique for the secret service. typically, we do see them in that lead coordinating role, whether it's for political rallies, presidential events, but this is different. print this is a private event. this is private business that the former president has to do in front of the court. so from the secret service standpoint, it's almost administrative, their responsibilities that protect bringing him from point a into the courthouse, allowing the former president to do his business before the court and getting out all safely but very well coordinated with other law enforcement entities who are who
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are participating in tomorrow's event. i am curious how long it has taken for them to coordinate knowing all of this that has been happening in the lead up to this, but i do want to ask you what their concerns are. i mean, there are emir. period of things that could happen. when you have a city the size of new york with the speed at which new york you know, flows, whatever the biggest security concerns that they should be looking out for, really, you have to think about like we've known about tomorrow for a while, right? we anticipated it so law enforcement has been coordinating putting together security plan in the overlay of the city, so not just at the courthouse, but the city at large. the challenge is addressing the wildcard events. what happens if there's peaceful protests that actually turns into violence? what happens? it's consequence management, but the nypd does this better than any other law enforcement entity in the world. they're prepared tomorrow you'll see 35,000 uniformed nypd officers in a 24 hour period. making sure that
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the city is safe and secure. they're going to play it extremely cautious. why because law enforcement no longer has to anticipate whether or not domestic violence extremists will actually engage. we know from january 6th. they will, so they have to over prepare tomorrow. prepare for the worst case scenario, hope for the best. hopefully, it's peaceful protest. individuals expressing their first amendment constitutional right, but it doesn't transcend into violence . and we know very similar to january. 6th you are hearing from the former president. he is calling on people to be there to support him. i do want to ask you about this sort of, you know, mandate that every agency has, and everything is political at some point, right when you're dealing with a former president , and certainly he has made it so posting on social media. so when it comes to donald trump, and when it comes to the secret service, handling this particular unprecedented historic case, how do they do it without getting sucked into the politics? listen, there's no
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other law enforcement entity in the world that's drawn into politics more than the secret service, right by the nature of their job there at the white house there with political leaders, but this is a seminal moment for the agency, where they have to remain neutral. the optic has to show that they're not carrying favor to the former president, nor the d. a. they need to focus on their primary remit. which is protection protecting the former president , because that's what they're mandated to do. they work without the law enforcement entities to ensure that the area is secure, but they are not coordinating any special accommodations for the president's side. the moment that they do, they'll they'll be swayed one way or the other and right now it is essential for the agency just to do their core responsibility of protection. jonathan wackrow, thank you so much for giving us all those details. john. the washington post reports. the justice department has obtained new evidence suggesting possible obstruction by donald trump what that means for the ongoing investigations into the former president, plus at least 32 people are dead after violent
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a homicide case regained attention as you know, during the investigation into the 2021 murders of maggie and paul murdoch. and this morning president biden is in minnesota , part of his investing in america tour to highlight his economic agenda and clean energy. today he'll visit an engine and alternative power manufacturing plant. also the wall street journal is reporting that mcdonald's is temporarily closing its u. s offices this week as it prepares to inform corporate employees about layoffs. job cuts are part of a broader company restructuring. john alright, sarah. we have new details this morning about the justice department's investigation into donald trump's handling of classified documents. the washington post is reporting that the doj has obtained new evidence suggesting possible obstruction by trump. according to the post. this is a quote investigators now suspect based on witness statements, security camera footage and other documentary evidence that
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boxes, including classified material were moved from a mar-a-lago storage area. after the subpoena was served, and that trump personally examined at least some of those boxes. let me read that last part again after the subpoena was served, and that trump personally examined at least some of those boxes with me now cnn senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor ellie holding ellie that last line right there. i liked it so much. i read it twice and i wanted to leave it up here on the screen. i think it's important. why am i right? deserves to be up on the screen job because it goes right to the heart of the matter, which is donald trump's state of mind what he knew, and when he knew it to really understand this, we need to take a look at the timeline around mar-a-lago here just to refresh everybody back in may of 2021 is when doj and the archives first started to negotiate with trump's team to get back. these documents now, about eight months later in january of 2022, trump's team turned over 15 documents, but the negotiations continue
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because investigators thought he still has some documents. and that led to this key moment in may of 2022 when doj issued a subpoena subpoena is mandatory. it is a command from the court from the grand jury. you have to turn over these documents. now that piece of information you just focused on trump personally went through those documents happens. here after the subpoena . that's why it's so important because now he knows there's a subpoena, and it shows he knew what was in those documents. after that, they send a certification falsely saying we've given you everything we have. and then, of course, finally, in august comes the search warrant. so that is a crucial moment in time. it goes right to intend. you gotta give us the stuff. that's a subpoena right here is where he is doing things with that stuff. that might mean possible obstruction. ellie. explain to me how obstruction fits in the possible crimes that doj said they thought that trump might have committed. you think back to that search warrant in august. in order to get a search warrant, prosecutors have to go
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to a judge and establish probable cause of at least one federal crime and in this case to get into mar-a-lago prosecutors established mishandling of defense information, destruction or concealment of government documents and crucially, one of the three crimes prosecutors were focused on then was obstruction. now let me give you the technical definition of what obstruction is what you might have to prove what you would have to prove against donald trump. first of all, that he knowingly knowingly altered, destroyed or concealed evidence again. if he's personally ripping through those documents he knows and then seconds the intent to impede and investigation. the intent is so key here. how key is it? it's so key that i asked for it to be written in very big letters to put up on the screen. intense important here and a lot of what in this post article gets to that it's all about intention. and in any prosecution, the easy part usually is proving the physical movements who did what? where did the boxes go? but getting inside someone's head? that's the ball game. in this case, one of the open questions has always been. why did trump want to hang on to these documents? there's some
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suggestion, perhaps in this article, yeah, so it doesn't appear. this has always been one of the mysteries. it doesn't appear as if trump published these documents put them online, sold them to anyone, and this article gives us some indications of what might have been his motive for those retaining those documents. first of all. the article says that investigators have asked witnesses if trump showed a particular interest in material relating to general mark milley. now general milley, of course, became an outspoken critic of trump. so we seem to be very interested in that. and second of all, the article reports that investigators have been asking witnesses if trump showed classified documents, including maps to political donors could give us a little insight into the y here gets to this of intent. ellie honey, thank you for helping us understand this. i appreciate it, kate. former arkansas governor asa hutchinson is the latest republican to announce that he is running for president ahead. we're going to discuss how his jumping in changes the state of the race and new calls for gun safety one week after the deadly school shooting in nashville today, students in nashville they're
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court. he's going to be arraigned tomorrow and possibly 30 charges stemming from the hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels, he said to surrender at a manhattan courthouse, making him the first former american president. to face criminal charges. sarah there is a new tornado watch for parts of mississippi, alabama and florida. in effect this morning. communities across the south and midwest are being hammered by severe weather that includes deadly tornadoes, and unfortunately, more of that severe weather is on the way already, at least 32 people have been killed following 50 reported tornadoes. that ripped through the region. take a look at this new satellite image here . you can see tornado scars as they call them in when arkansas that faded line is part of the tornado that blew through the town, essentially splitting the town in half. derek van dam is joining us live from when some of the same places that have seen utter destruction. might
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have to face some of this again. yeah that is wayne so heavily on the residents here in when arkansas the threat of more severe weather tomorrow and on wednesday, but there's just so many people across america waking up to so much heartache this morning with the path of devastation that these tornadoes have left behind. and you're seeing some of that here within wynne, arkansas, this used to be a home just incredible to see the force of the wind completely demolishing it, pushing it off of its foundation, and unfortunately there was a fatality at this location as well. and we spoke to a resident jesse wilson, who lives within this apartment complex you see behind me, there's actually no more roof there. and she had a very harrowing experience. listen to how she describes she's used to tornadoes here in arkansas, but this one was different. listen. sir. we have
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had tornadoes in wynne, arkansas before it was never nothing black. because this. one so that's where she lived. and if my cameraman could pen to his right, you can see that that's the church. so where some of the debris actually fell off of that building, smashing into her bedroom window and just really incredible to see that force of that nature. she was explaining how when she walked outside she actually came out to see her, her neighbor and her and some of the residents here that were unfortunately found her mother who was killed within this building behind us. so yeah, very somber moments for the people who wrote out this tornado. and frankly, somber moments for you and your crew. thank you so much for being out there all this time and telling
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his important stories. i know there are more storms on the way you be safe out there. there are van damme live for us there on the scene. johnsarah new calls for stronger gun laws a week after the deadly shooting of the covenant school in nashville, the group march for our lives, is calling for a school walkout. the shooting at the private religious grade school left three adults in 39 year olds dead last night, singer kelsey ballerina opened the cmt music awards ceremony with a tribute to the victims. i wanted to personally stand up here and share this moment because on august 21st 2008 i watched ryan mcdonald, my 15, year old classmate at central high school, lose his life to a gun in our cafeteria. i pray deeply. the closeness and the community that we feel through the next few hours of music can soon turn into action like real action. that moves us forward
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together. to create change. for the safety of our kids. and our loved ones. cnn's isabel rossello's joins us now live from nashville. isabelle what do we know about the plans for today? john good morning march for our lives is the organization that was started by the survivors of the marjory stoneman douglas school shooting back in 2018 and parkland, florida so they are urging students to walk out of class at precisely 10 13 am local time. and that is significant because that is the moment that the 1st 91 wall 911 call came in from the covenant school warning of an active school shooter. the plan is for students to bus in and meet up at the square right here in front of the state capital and demand change reform to gun laws also be wearing red that is an honor of the six victims of the school shooting.
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now on thursday, we saw massive protests here inside and outside of the state capital. with children, teenagers, parents here urging tighter gun control , chanting within the hallways of the state capital here, save our children or children are dying, and then john also appointed seen inside of the senate gallery with the child sitting down there holding up a sign saying, i'm nine that is pointing to the fact that half of the six victims were just nine years old. now according to the gun archive, the gun violence archive. this shooting is among 130 mass shootings involving for at least four people getting injured and we are only in april. it is the deadliest us school shooting since you've all d texas. just in may of last year, john isabelle. obviously tennessee is a state very pro gun rights states. so how are these calls
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and these demonstrations that were likely to say today? how are they being received? right and tennessee is an open carry state. it has no red law flag. that is what would allow a judge to temporarily seized arms away from somebody who is believed to be a danger to themselves or to others. it does not have that, john, but we are hearing from governor bill lee, the tennessee and reporting that he on friday announced that he would propose school measures increased security at schools. he's proposing to place armed guards at every two single tennessee public school and also to
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