it was just to make brag. think twice before indicting a former president. trump even posted this on a social media site, making it look like he s raising a baseball bat against bragg. he also called him an animal. that post was later deleted. on friday, a law enforcement source told cnn that bragg had been threatened with assassination in a letter containing nonhazardous white powder it s a lot to process let me try and sort it out. remember signs initially pointed to the first trump indictment, possibly coming out of georgia, where fulton county d. a. fani willis is investigating his attempts to overturn the 2020 election there. and then it seemed that was going to be lapped by bragg and the hush money case. by the end of the week brag seemed to be slow walking. special counsel jack smith began to sprint. smith was appointed by merrick garland to look both at trump s role in the january 6th case and his handling of classified documents at mara lago. he scored two major vict
tornadoes in the last 24 hours and all of last year. this is rolling fork, mississippi, one county constable says the community is gone there and what s left? looks like a landfill. at least 24 people are confirmed dead 23 in mississippi , one in alabama and all of last year across the entire country. tornadoes killed 23 people, according to the national weather service. this is already exceeding that right now, state and federal leaders are already mobilizing help to the hardest hit areas. cnn s nick valencia is in rolling fork, mississippi. nick, tell us what you re seeing there. hey jim. we just got here on the ground and it is just, you know, it s awful. it s striking to see these images anywhere. you go in the country , but you know, our attention was certainly grabbed by the site here and just how much damage there is. throughout this town of about 2000 residents were in rolling fork. this is the mississippi delta and this here is one of the staples of the community. th
just moments from now, police in alabama will give an update on a mass shooting at a sweet 16 birthday party that killed four people and left more than 30. people injured. we re live in day ville with the very latest air national guardsman accused of leaking classified documents will appear before a federal judge in boston. this as his detention hearing has been delayed. we have new details coming in another honest mistake leading to more young people being shot to texas cheerleaders opened the door to the wrong car, and now one is in critical condition and a 25 year old man is in custody. we re following these major stories and more coming in right here to cnn news, central. all right. we have a press conference happening right now. let s listen in. it s out of date ville. i stayed thrilled investigation. officially arrested and charged. tyreek mccullough. 17 of tuskegee and travis mccullough 16, also of tuskegee, with four counts of reckless murder each that s four counts o
murdered. why did he live stream the attack? why did he target his colleagues? the investigation to get answers as we learn the actions of heroic officers who took out the gunman before he took even more lives, plus. the mayor of louisville with an urgent plea to elected leaders in his state. let us the people of louisville make our own choices about h w gun violence in our city. but will anyone in power he d his request and setting the stage for the blockbuster trial. dominion versus fox, a judge s stern warning today as the murdoch network faces a $1.6 billion lawsuit for its many lies to the american people. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our national lead next hour. we expect louisville officials. to release police body camera video of officers responses to yesterday s mass shooting at a local bank. the city s mayor says the video will be played at a press conference scheduled right now for five p.m. eastern , which we will bring to you live as
john berman. we have new developments on the u. s contractor killed by a drone strike in syria. we are now seeing video of an iranian military facility engulfed in flames. this is after president biden authorized a retaliatory strike retaliation. from what the u. s says was this iranian backed one way drone attack an attack that killed an american contractor and wounded five u. s service members. president biden is in canada this morning. we re waiting to hear from him on all this. also at this moment, a top lawyer for donald trump, you can see him there. evan corcoran. he is inside washington, dc courthouse and there is no attorney client privilege protection. corcoran is testifying before a grand jury investigating the former president s handling. of classified documents first, though the deadly flare up of hostilities in syria overnight scene as natasha bertrand at the pentagon following this for us new information, natasha. yeah, john. so we are told from a u. s official