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is saturday, april 22nd. i'm aymara walker. victor blackwell and you're in the cnn newsroom we begin this morning with the battle over abortion. the widely used abortion bruggeman kristen will remain available to women in the u. s without restrictions , at least in those states where abortion remains. the decision protects access to the drug at least until the appeals process plays out, but the protection could ultimately be taken away again. court ruling in texas earlier this month suspended government approval of the 23 year old drug. it's the latest in a series of moves against ab...

Intense it shut down some roads. we have reports of baseball sized hail to the north of where i'm standing now. today we are looking at the same type of setup. it looks like the best chance of tornadoes across southwestern kansas. it's this entire southern plains region that could see dangerous cloud to ground lightning, large damaging hail damaging wind gusts and the potential for flash flooding. we have had several days of several inches of rain. any additional rainfall will lead to the flash flooding possibly closing some roads. do not drive through those flooded roads. that is number one c...

Of that front. that the best chance of seeing severe weather. you see i cross southern parts of new york state there where that darker shade of yellow is, those are your severe thunderstorm warnings. so a watch box means that conditions are favorable for severe storms to happen. but when you get those warnings, that means a severe thunderstorm is occurring and it is in especially new york state where we have seen a lot of those severe thunderstorm warnings popping up. but we are seeing more and more lightning beginning to develop across parts of west virginia into western virginia and also wes...

Well. jennifer delgado has more on the weather situation. george howell saying concerns about rough weather moving in and how that might complicate the picture. >> we do have a thunderstorm watch just to the west of west, texas. here's the line right here. this squall line. along this we are going to see very gusty wind. winds up to 40 miles an hour. we've already seen some wind gusts up to 50. now, we're expecting it to make its way to west, texas, right around 5:30, 6:00 local time, again that's central time. here's waco, dallas up here. it's located roughly about 65 miles away. it's moving ...

Especially heavy across south dakota and will fill in across parts of western and central nebraska where they could end up with another 6 to 12 inches of snow out of this snowstorm. winds will be gusty, too. it is going to be reducing visibilities. ahead of it across indiana through ohio and kentucky right now, we have stronger storms with a lot of cloud to ground lightning. the biggest threat of severe weather today will be back across oklahoma and southeastern kansas. there is the threat of isolated tornadoes occurring later on this afternoon and evening. but elsewhere in that area in yellow...