Officials in the area have already reported widespread damage and injuries and several counties and more than 45,000 customers are waking up to no power. This severe storm threat is far from over more than 50 deep Million People from texas to wisconsin are under severe storm warnings. And the Storm Prediction Center raised sunday severe storm threat for the Southern Plains to a level three out of five the threat includes possible damaging wind strong tornadoes, and very large hail. Cnns lucy kafanov joins us now from elkhorn, thats a neighborhood in omaha, nebraska where the people there are still recovering from the major tornadoes that hit friday i understand from your last hit that people are just trying to rummage through the salvage anything they can, especially those important papers thats right vector because when a tornado like this hit hits, when it destroys homes, flattens, cars snaps old growth trees and half as if they were twigs the Rebuilding Part is going to take months.
all thanks for joining me today. i m alison camp maratha. i ll see you back here tomorrow. and newsroom with jessica dean starts right now. you re, in the. cnn newsroom. hi, everyone. i m jessica lean in washington and we begin today with former president and now convicted felon donald trump boasting a surgeon campaign donations following the verdict in his historic hush money criminal trial the trump campaign says it is raised nearly 53 million since he was found guilty by a manhattan jury of falsifying business records in order to influence the 2016 election. the judge has set trump s sentencing date for july 11. that s just days before the republican national convention, where trump is expected to be time tapped as the party s nominee trump, of course, planning to appeal and yesterday he gave a glimpse of how we intends to forge ahead with his campaign falsely calling the trial rigged and claiming political persecution this is a case where if they can do this to me, they
house. and this is cnn you re in the cnn newsroom. hi everyone. i m jessica dean in washington and we have breaking news this memorial day weekend as powerful and dangerous storms are threatening millions of americans. it s as many communities in texas this arkansas, oklahoma, and kentucky have spent the weekend digging out from under debris, at least 15 people have been confirmed dead as a result of these storms as rescues continue in valley view, texas, at least seven people have died. here s texas governor greg abbott. the same, time, that we are going through the heart wrenching loss of life including the heartbreak of a family losing a two-year-old and a five-year-old child we have cnn s ed lavandera, valley view. we re going to go to him in just a moment. but first let s check in with cnn meteorologist lisa rafah, who is tracking the threats that will continue through tonight. elisa yeah it s really sad when you hear that about the losses of life and unfortunate
states and around the world, i will blitzer a, you re in the situation room a live view from cnn studios in atlanta, where anticipation is building for a presidential debate. hello, like any other think if you re donald trump is going to take away this sort of circus-like atmosphere that we saw in previous debates. the interrupting that s what a yellowing the surface now alpha off of the crowd energy. and i think in some ways it didn t poses a seriousness to donald trump that he wouldn t get otherwise if it was a sort of crowd like atmosphere. and so in that way, i think that advantages him, right? i think the disadvantage for somebody like donald trump is you have to be serious. you have to fill up the time with coherent arguments, coherent talking points. so we ll see if he s able to do that. it s a two-minute he has time to respond, but he s got to talk policy and he doesn t often like to do that. listen, i think biden is an experienced debater. he, if you lo
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