a familiar face at the political act conference in maryland, former president trump makes his pitch to be the republican nominee for the white house again. bakhmut could be on the verge of falling to russian troops but ukrainian forces say they re holding on in the fight to keep the city. over a month since the toxic train derailment in east palestine ohio, another norfolk southern freight train derails in the state live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. with laila during crowd greeted former u.s. president donald trump saturday at the conserve in maryland, trump spoke nearly two hours promising retribution against democrats and republicans an scientific strap hold of cpack attendees found 62% want him to be the next republican presidential nominee compared to 20% who want florida governor ron desantis, cnn national correspondent christian holmes is there to at the conference and has this report. former president trump talking to a therapeutic crowd here at cpack
sanchez. i m amara walker. thanks for joining us. i ve been checking the poll enforecast every day. it hasn t been good here. how about you? we may be getting the cherry blossoms. here s what we re watching. the white house rolls out another $400 million in aid as fierce fighting continues in the eastern part of the country. our alex marquardt has a look at the bat tle for bakhmut. it sounded like a freight train going by the house. at least ten people are dead after severe storms hammer the south. where we re seeing impacts from that system this morning. alex murdaugh will spend the rest of his life in jail. the judge s worjs for murdaugh during the sentencings and why the former south carolina lawyer will likely find himself in court again on dozens of other charges. also, cnn still in east palestine, ohio, as residents there begin to recover from that toxic train derailment. they care about their food. they want to know what they re getting. they want to kn
it just with came up. 20 seconds later, it was gone. total chaos. glass breaking out everywhere. first one i have been in. severe storms sweeping through the south. at least 10 are dead, more than a million without power. a look at the damage and where the system is this morning. the white house rolls out another $400 million in aid as fighting continues into eastern part of the country. our alex marquardt with a look at the battle. not a murder. alex murdaugh will spend the rest of his life in riz. reaction from his attorneys and what s next for murdaugh, who still faces dozens of charges. plus public drag shows are now illegal in tennessee. it s the latest in a string of laws targeting the lgbtq community. the impact those laws are having coming up on cnn this morning. this morning, more than 1.3 million people are without power in the eastern united states as a deadly storm system continues to move north. in the last 24 hours, at least 10 people were killed i
maine, new hampshire and massachusetts. we re finally starting to see things subside at this point. a lot of these areas have picked up a foot or more of snow. it s the snow combined with the wind, making travel very difficult. this wind could trigger more trees coming down and an increase of power outages and we already have plenty of those across that region. now we move from the east coast to the west coast where our next system is beginning to take shape. we re starting to see rain and snow showers across areas of washington state, oregon and northern california. that s going to not only spread south into central california, but also inland. a lot of those intermountain west states are also going to pick up considerable amounts of snow, maybe not necessarily today, but certainly over the next 48 hours. that s why you ve got the weather advisories for several states. it s going to be waves of rain and snow coming in for these areas. the highest amounts are really going to
i m amara walker. i m paula reed in for boris sanchez. you re live in the cnn newsroom. this morning, more than a million people are without power in the eastern united states, as a deadly storm system continues to move north. over the last 24 hours, at least 12 people were killed in multiple states, due to the severe weather that brought tornadoes and major flooding to parts of the south. the majority of those deaths were in kentucky. where hurricane force winds toppled trees and even toppled tractor-trailer trucks. in indiana, the high winds tore the roof off of a church. and in one town, a man says god saved his life, after a tornado swept through his property but left him and his home untouched. the back door started shaking. the house started shaking. and i could see nothing but white. we didn t have time to get anywhere. it was right on top of us, the house was shaking, and we were all close together, in the middle room of the house, still, but wow, this is the