Oil Prices Surge and stocks tumble as barrage of missiles in the Middle East prompts supply fears in a region that accounts for a third of global oil production. Us Trade Paralysis dockworkers threaten to continue striking for as long as necessary with ports along the East And Gulf coasts remaining shut for a second day. Also on the programme, could technology bring extinct species back to life . We speak to the boss of a De Extinction Company hoping to resurrect the Woolly Mammoth. Live from london, this is business today. Lets start with the Middle East, where, as weve been reporting, israel has warned of grave consequences after iran launched a barrage of missiles at targets across the country on tuesday. Oil prices have been surging as traders fear a full scale regional war could disrupt Energy Supplies to the global market. Brent crude rose as much as 5 to 75. 40 a barrel in intraday trading. Lets Take A Look at the latest Oil Price now. Up up1. 36 , up 1. 36 , 74 up1. 36 , 74 and
off a furious weeklong scramble to find the source of the leak. it also raises questions about who should be able to get access to classified documents. cnn senior national security correspondent alex marquardt joining us now from washington. hi alex. what more are you learning about jack teixeira? good morning, andrea and victor. well airman, first class jack to share as you say, 21 years old. he enlisted in the air national guard back in 2019 surround four years ago, and for the past two years he has held top secret security clearance. now, according to this unsealed affidavit that was unsealed in court yesterday, he has been posting classified information online. since december. at first it was just text that he was posting. but then, a month later in january, he started according to the fbi, posting photographs of these classified documents that we have now seen. so these hundreds of documents have been online for months before they really came to light that was back on a
canada and all around the world. i m kimberly, who were coming up this hour on cnn newsroom historic rainfall in south florida leads to serious flooding power outages closing of the fort lauderdale international airport will tell you when the extreme weather will move out of the area, plus a late night ruling by a federal appeals court on the suspension of the abortion inducing drug. we ll have details, and president biden celebrates his family roots during his three day visit ireland just ahead we ll go live to dublin for a preview of today s events. live from atlanta. this is cnn newsroom with kim bruun huber. and we begin with what some call a once and a half century extreme weather event happening right now in florida, up to 20 inches of rain has fallen in parts of south florida the past few hours with more in the forecast. well that led to a flash water emergency, the highest possible level of flood warning. so what you re seeing here is the ford lauderdale hollywood int
shot because of it. they re gonna have spears that they never thought about in their life that now they re going to think about all the time there is this culture within america that shoot first ask questions later. what is going on in this country? at least two people are dead this morning after severe storms tore across three states overnight tornado left down trees and power lines, creating challenges for first responders to find those trapped in a number of emergency crews all over this area. look at all the damage. the inflow is insane. access to the comment. abortion drug kristen still legal, at least for now, this is a really uncertain time for the abortion rights movement. pandora s box of potential legal issues. real question is, will they hear it? and where are they headed on this? we don t want a supreme court justice in our bedrooms, telling us what to do. not can you hear me? now? can you hear me? we saw a missile land very close to our vehicle. thousands have al
a to be suing account sitting congressman for this. i mean, it s really amazing what we re seeing happen. it is. it s very uncommon. and of course, i mean, donald trump is the first former president to ever be indicted. and so that s also unprecedented, so we re seeing measures. between local courts, and prosecutors and congress play out on a field that we ve never really seen before, and this is a huge escalation in this back and forth. i mean for weeks now we ve seen the tensions between jim jordans and the judiciary committee and the republicans and the manhattan district attorney s off office reached a fever pitch, and this lawsuit is finally alvin bragg hitting backs for a while. he s just been letting some of these requests come out, and he s been in engaging with them, but saying that he does not want to sit down. i mean, they asked for his the weeks ago even before donald trump was indicted, and so this is now finally, alvin bragg is issuing you know a lawsuit of his