top of the hour now on cnn newsroom. i m john berman. this morning president biden reassuring americans that the u.s. banking system remains safe. this despite the failure of two significant banks within 48 hours. silicon valley bank and signature bank have now been taken over by federal regulators. all customers who had deposits in these banks can rest assured. rest assured they ll be protected and they ll have access to their money as of today. that includes small businesses across the country that bank there and need to make payroll, pay their bills and stay open for business. no losses this is an important point. no losses will be borne by the taxpayers. the president emphasized the customers will be fully protected while the bank s managers and investors will be held accountable. he also outlined the emergency measures his administration took to protect the bank s customers. cnn s priscilla alvarez is with us. look, a lot of this is trying to ease the anxiety
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downing trees. pete: first responders are actively searching for survivors, and they re just getting started. they re starting to get a better picture of the full scope of the damage now that the sun is up. rick reichmuth is tracking the storm. rick: hey, we have a new tornado warning that is in effect here just to the southwest of alabama. right there. radar-indicated tornado. today i don t think we re going to be talking about as big of tornadoes, as big and destructive tornadoes as yesterday, but some openeds across parts of the southeast concern tornadoes across parts of the southeast we re going to be watching. this is the overall storm the, the north side also will have a severe weather component later on today, maybe a threat for a tornado the around areas of lake erie just to the south of it. but this storm eventually pulls off towards the east. things calm down just a little bit odd. tomorrow a bigger severe weather threat again across parts of the southeast, and a
hello, everyone, i m alisyn camerota. welcome to cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. today the republican-led house voted to remove democrat ilhan omar from the foreign affairs committee. omar calls it revenge. it passed along a party line vote of 218-211. she faced backlash over her anti-israel comments in the past which were criticized by members of both parties as anti-semitic. before he was even house speaker, republican leader kevin mccarthy promised he would take this step. he claimed nancy pelosi set a precedent when she removed rips, marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar from committees, although that was for violent rhetoric and posts. omar told her colleagues, she s not going anywhere. i am muslim. i am an immigrant. and interestingly from africa. is anyone surprised that i am being targeted? is anyone surprised that i am somehow deemed unworthy to speak about american foreign policies? and my leadership and voice will not be diminished. if i am not on this co
and affirm western values rather than rebut russian president vladimir putin s speech which we heard this morning. that s right. dueling speeches. in that speech the russian president blamed the u.s. for the escalation of the war in ukraine. of course it was russia that invaded ukraine a year ago this week. putin also announced that russia would officially suspend its participation in the new start nuclear weapons treaty. we should note the state department said last month russia was already not in compliance with that treaty. the question now is what happens next. this morning the polish president andrzej duda rolled out the red carpet for president biden. they sat down for a closed day meeting one day after biden s secret visit to kyiv. i would argue nato is stronger than it s ever been. as i told president zelenskyy when we spoke in kyiv yesterday, i can proudly say that our support for ukraine remains unwavering. we begin in warsaw where president biden will speak i