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ben wedemen, cnn, rome. >>> i'm jake tapper.e lead" with big developments at the white house where for the first time in the history of the united states of america, the department of justice has filed felony criminal charges against the child of a sitting president, the adult child, hunter biden, robert hunter biden. he was indicted on three felony gun charges in delaware today by special counsel david weiss. those charges include making two false statements on a firearms form and one count of possession of a firearm as a prohibited person. the purchase was in 2018, the delaware gun shop. prosecutors claim hunter lide on a federal form when he swore he was not using and not addicted to any illegal drugs. hunter was struggling with a crack cocaine addiction at the time. cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez joins us now. and this was a case minutes away from being wrapped up with a plea deal a few weeks ago, so how did we end up here? >> well, the judge asked some not unreasonable questions about the scope of the prosecuto

ben wedemen, cnn, rome. >> there's been so much loss of life.karadsheh from cnn has just arrived in the affected area. she's joining us now. joumanna, talk about where you are, what you've been able to see. joumanna, it's anderson. you're on the air. if you can hear me, talk about where you are and what you've been able to see. we're having trouble obviously with that connection. we'll try to re-establish it. obviously it is a very difficult situation on the ground there. as you can see just the devastation is all throughout the region there in north eastern libya particularly in derna. we'll have more on that. also when we come back we're going to talk to an american caver named mark dickey who the video is just extraordinary. he started having internal bleeding when he was about 3,000 feet under the surface of the ground. 3,000 feet in a cave in turkey, had to get blood brought down to him. he thought he was going to die. i'll talk to him about his remarkable rescue ahead. with flonase, allergies don't have to be scary. spray flonase sensimist