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Them morning. You were live in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We are following Breaking News this Morning Disaster in Western North Carolina as one North Carolina official put it the devastation is quote biblical large swaths are completely cut off in that area. Official say, all roads there are considered closed. These are exclusive pictures coming into cnn showing the destruction in asheville. What you are looking at is the main Road And Biltmore village near the famous biltmore estate. Its a five lane road, usually full of cars now, its covered in debris and mud. People walk...

There are injuries here. We just dont know how many, but yet look at the size of that tornado. Lets get to the maps here. Ill show you whats going on. It could be a continuously violent night all the way through good morning hours. We will see tornadoes likely on the ground throughout the night, all the way from really almost texas into nebraska. This red box here thats the tornado watch box, which means theyre possible these pink boxes, which means theyre happening. So for you, bennington, missouri valley, that would be blair right over here. Heres i6 at omaha. But what im concerned about dow...

Breaking news welcome to the lead on jake tapper, right now, right this minute. I knew witness in Donald Trumps Hush Money Cover Up Trial. The prosecution just called its third witness. His name is gary pharaoh. Gary pharaoh is a banker who worked with Michael Cohen at the time that the payments were made to former playboy model, Karen Mcdougal and porn actress and director Stormy Daniels, both of whom alleged romantic entanglements of sorts with mr. Donald trump. This comes after rona graph was called as the second witness in the trial. Rona graph, shes on the screen right there. Shes a longt...

Example along the line separating ukrainian government controlled territory and separatist rebel held territory, a shell that seems to have landed on a kindergarten. some injuries, no fatalities we are told, but every day when you hear about episodes like that, you were wondering, is this going to be the triggerfor something? and while wondering, is this going to be the trigger for something? and while the political situation remains unresolved, the potentialfor one of these fairly routine exchanges of gunfire to explode into something bigger could be interpreted deliberately or accidentally a...

Hunkered down anyway and it's an exponential level of alarm that if you hadn't gotten to shelter you should have been because you had minutes or seconds left. >> you talk with this thing going on for 200 miles, is that common? do you see a lot of that in your career? >> no. this will -- only 1% of tornadoes are, like, ef-4 or ef-5. typically they're only on the ground for a little bit and this is what we call a long track tornado and it was at night. this could go down as one of the longest, strongest tornadoes we've ever recorded. ali, this is the middle of december and two weeks from christm...