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>> live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with kim brunhuber. ukraine's president will be appealing for more international aid this week when the ukraine recovery conference gets under way in lugano, switzerland. on saturday he urged his fellow ukrainians to stay optimistic. here he is. >> translator: no matter how difficult it is for us today, we must remember that there will be tomorrow. and tomorrow should bring maximum benefit to ukraine. everyone should do absolutely everything possible for this. >> relentless rampage in ukraine is now most heavily focused on the key cit...

In the new orleans area on the light side but there are bands off to the east we've been track ing running along the louisiana coast there are areas where you get kind of stuck in one of these. it does not move a whole lot so you can see just hour after hour after hour of downpours in some of these really big thunderstorm lines and then of course i back you up a little bit more and you see there's more moisture still off the coast and all of this still feeding its way inland which means more rain is on the way. additional rainfall and this is added on to everything i just showed you and there'...

>> it's amazing, matt. now of a dealing with that, they have to deal with this. we have had intense winds here today. lightning through out the day. thunderstorm lines continue to move through the area and for the next day or so. that's a real struggle for the teams of rescue workers who are coming into areas just like this one, this a neighborhood 15, 16 hours ago. now as you take a look around and look at it pb it is nothing but debris, splintered wood, twisted metal. a truck in the distance of this mess. they are having to deal with this and with all of this weather. they say they are going...

Martha: stream weather -- extreme weather alert, tornado warnings, spotted on the ground in the southern u.s., maria molina has been following it this morning and is watching it from the weather center. what are you seeing there? >> we are starting to see the thunderstorms firing up and we know that it is going to get worse as the day does progress, we have multiple severe weather watches, in effect, one tornado watch including parts of kentucky, tennessee and mississippi in effect until 3:00 p.m. central time and that means that conditions are favorable for tornadoes to develop along thunders...