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this weekend as the start of a week of protests and festivities, with the goal of being to stop the construction of this proposed $90 million, 85-acre police and fire training facility. it would be the largest of its kind in the country, if it ends up being built. and what according to police, they say happened, at least 35 people were taken into custody. they say several of those that were detained were from outside of the atlanta area. and this really has become a staging area for activists across the country to protest police and we have seen several acts of violence in recent mon...

gathering where his base has seemingly seized control. and the man who tried but failed to overturn the 2020 election results appears to be his party's front-runner at least for now according to recent polls. late this afternoon, cpac released its very own nonscientific straw poll. trump crushed the politician seen as the biggest rival for the nomination, at least at this point, florida governor ron desantis, 62% to 20%. cnn's kristen holmes joins us from the cpac gathering. how's it been going so far? what's the former president saying? >> reporter: so former president trump still s...

>> at least 10 people have now died because of it. four of those deaths in kentucky where the issue have issued including flooding and damaging winds. nearly 1,000,000 1/2 ohms business or power, kentucky, tennessee and michigan now reported the highest number of outages. the northern part of the storm, and the northeast with heavy snow. which is expected to last throughout saturday, parts of new england might see as much as 16 inches of snow. winter storm warnings are now up from michigan to maine, winter storm warnings are up again and parts of the west as a new system mo...

>> first thing that came to my mind was the movie twister. >> twornds and severe storms move through the south and southeast. we'll tell you where the storm system is headed next. the lead prosecutor in the case against alex murdaugh tells cnn what sealed his fate with the jury. and later. really excited to see senator cruz. >> excited to see ben carson. >> big names in the party and no one is bigger than donald trump but some other big names are going elsewhere. >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with kim brunhuber. and we begin with extreme weather fro...

>> it just came up. 20 seconds later, it was gone. >> tornadoes and golf-ball sized hail pummelled the southern u.s. there's another rournd of severe weather on the way. plus to conviction, the prison sentence for alex murdaugh and what he had to say during his sentencing. and a man accused of plotting to murder, we'll look at the rise in semitism across the u.s. we start this hour with the extreme weather hitting huge parts of the country. at least ten people have died as the powerful storm system marches across the south and into the northeast. the next western storm will be yo...