searching for survivors, starting to get a better picture of the full scope of the damage. let s go straight to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth. rick: hey, guys, we ve been trying to get our reporter out there, but the cell tower in rolling fork is gone, so they can t get any cell service. sunrise time there, local time, 7:01, so exactly right now. we ll start to get some of these images in daylight. this tornado happening in the dark can last night, we ve not had any daytime, so search and rescue efforts will continue. this is that storm right now, a weakening storming which is good news. today the severe weather threat key minishingses diminishes quite a bit. the tornado first dropped in rolling fork and then cut right here across rt parts of north-central mississippi. at one point it looks like this tornado was on the ground probably for around almost 100 miles. this, obviously, national weather service folks go out and do some investigation, make sure, see if sometim
cruise missiles. at this hour former trump lawyer michael cohen is before a manhattan grand jury investigating hush money payments made to stormy daniels. straight ahead what he told us as he enter had courthouse. and the assurance from president biden to americans worried about their money after the collapse of two big banks in a matter of days your deposits, he says, are safe our nbc reporters are here with the latest developments. and that s where we begin on wall street, where the markets have been up and down all day after the president tried to convince americans the collapse of those two banks is not a reason for alarm cnbc s senior markets correspondent bob pisani is at the stock exchange what s happening there well, there is some relief and there is some confusion, chris. there is relief because the government stepped in and essentially made all of the depositors at silicon valley whole by saying you re not going to lose a dime that was a great sigh of relief o
i m okay with it. sorry see you in a week. good morning. you re going caitlin s gone back monday . welcome to cnn this morning. we re glad you re with us on this friday. caitlin is off. let s get started with five things to know for this friday, march 24th overnight, significant breaking news the us launching strikes in syria. after an american contractor was killed in a drone attack. there are five other u. s. service members wounded. the pentagon suspects it wasn t iranian affiliated drone. developing news soon a top attorney, though for donald trump said testified today before the grand jury in the classified documents investigation. the new york times reports that evan corcoran is not intending to plead the fifth utah banning kids under 18 from using social media unless they get their parents permission. it is the first state to enact this type of law today, the united states and canada announcing a deal to turn away asylum seekers at their border, president biden set to
retaliation that it is designed not to escalate the situation. we do not trust tiktok will ever embrace american values. your platform should be banned. i have seen no evidence that the chinese government has access to their data. they have never asked us. we have not provided i find that actually preposterous . is it a threat to the united states? security i believe that it is. yes it should be ended one way or another. the bottom line. is this american data stored on american soil by an american company overseen by american personnel. the entire country is waiting to see whether trump is about to be charged and arrested or not, sources tell us the manhattan grand jury panel met but did not take up the case. district attorney alvin bragg is unleashing on house republicans . three committees have said they wanted to come in and testify is sending the message. they want congress to back off. it s easier for them to go against alvin bragg that it is for them to go against donal
decision very, very shortly in that discussion to authorize the strikes against these particular targets. is there anything you can tell us about the u. s contractor killed. i m afraid not. i mean, we re trying to give the family some time and in space here to grieve. they just got devastating news yesterday. we do know that he was an american citizen and a contractor working for us at that particular base. but again , poppy, i think you can understand where we re going to give them a little bit of privacy right now, just to follow to poppy s question there. what are the things that us can the us do anything to help keep the personnel and u s contractsafe tre? well, the actions that we took yesterday are part and parcel that effort, don, i mean we re going to work to protect our people and our facilities as best we can. it s a dangerous environment. you said it at the top were there to defeat isis to ensure the enduring defeat of isis. they are still a threat in syria. they a