russian military blogger has been killed in an explosion at a cafe and st petersburg, russia. here is new video showing the aftermath. several others were injured in the blast. that s according to russian state media . the explosion also caused the building s facade to collapse. cnn s matthew chance is in russia. matthew what are you learning? wow. i mean, you know you can see the pictures there. there s a police cordon all around that cafe in st petersburg, where there was an explosion inside, and it is killed, one of the country s most prominent pro war military bloggers. his name is vlad lynn to task. at least that s what he goes by, and his blog he s got his real name is something else called maxim farming, but that s that s what his blogs called that s. that s the name under which he writes and he is well known in russia has got more than half a million followers on his channel, his telegram channel and is well known for being very aggressive, very pro war he wants in
interior ministry, saying that that that s what they re looking into at this point, and there s certainly there s video, and there s been eyewitnesses giving accounts of this figure. vlad lynn tartasky is the sort of pen name that he had. his real name is maxine forming mandatory isse, russian pro war military blogger. inside that cafe. you can look at the devastation on the screens right now. that s obviously the aftermath of the explosion and at the moment russian health officials are telling us that as well as the one person dead vladan tartasky. there s 25 injured. 19 of them are in hospital, six of them in a very grave condition, according to the russian health ministry. tartasky mandatory isse figure very popular figure inside russia in the sense that his telegram channel has more than half a million million followers, he s one of the country s most prominent military bloggers. he came to notoriety last year when in september he was in the halls of the kremlin, and he p
furniture that floyd home dot com. good morning, everyone we do begin with breaking news this morning. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield and we start with dramatic video from st petersburg, russia, showing an explosion at a cafe that reportedly killed a prominent russian military blogger. officials say at least 25. others were injured, six of them in critical condition and you can see the blast causing part of the outside of that building. to collapse. cnn s matthew chance is in russia. matthew what more can you tell us about this blogger and the circumstances of his death now? yeah flat. lynn to toschi is his name and he s one of russia s most prominent military bloggers , which means he s pro war has got more than half a million followers on his telegram channel, and he is notoriously outspoken. shall we say about the need for russia to do even more in ukraine to go in harder ? he was swept to notoriety after he appeared in one
much in moscow. we ll check back with you. as the information more information becomes more available. thank you. alright. we re also watching as part of the u. s are bracing for more dangerous severe weather as the death toll from a violent tornado outbreak on friday is rising. at least 29 people were killed as storms tore through seven states. dozens more were injured. at least 35 confirmed tornadoes carved a violent path of destruction on friday and today. president biden issued a major disaster declaration for hard hit arkansas, where there were multiple reports of tornadoes touching down there. just look at these before and after satellite images of little rock. confirmed ef three tornado blasted the city with devastated 165 mile per hour winds, flattening neighborhoods and now a new threat is emerging tornado risks are increasing across central and northeast texas, and nearly 13 million people are in
rock. well, it tells the story confirmed ef three tornado blasted the city with devastating 165 mile per hour winds, flattening neighborhoods and now a new threat is emerging , poised to put 13 million people in the path of extreme weather in central and north texas. we have teams tracking all of this. let s start with meteorologist derek van dam, who is live for us in when arkansas where the mayor there received the phone call from the president. how are people doing? fredricka people are tense. you know, there s a lot of emotion in the air because this town and when arkansas took a direct hit it was just moments ago that the governor of arkansas, sarah huckabee, sanders, arrived on this location at the wind high school. we ve been reporting from here with the devastated church behind us now for a good 24 hours. you can see the scrum of journalists behind me. the media just waiting to hear what