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ever miss an episode oled, you can listen to the show once you get your podcasts, the news breaking news the judge just wrapped up pivotal talks on jury instructions that could potentially fluence the final outcome. closing arguments now set for next week followed by jurors deliberations on the former president. it's fake also break the newly revealed images of boxes being moved at mar-a-lago as part of the alleged conspiracy to conceal classified documents from investigators were pulled worrying over court filings that were just released, including a judge's opinion finding, quote, strong evidence of crimes, plus new video and terrifying details on a commercial flight that turned deadly when it was rocked by sudden and severe turbulence
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we'll take you inside the mid-air emergency and get an update on a passengers who were killed or injured on board welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, a urine the situation room the skis, cnn, breaking news we begin with the breaking news on donald trump's hush money trial. >> now nearing its historic conclusion discussions about jury instructions ending justice short while ago both sides resting their cases and now preparing for closing arguments. next week. as cnn's kara scannell reports the defense rested their case on tuesday without former president donald trump taking the stand in his historic hush money trial pierre almost five weeks who on monday, the
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prosecution rested its case having called 20 witnesses, over 19 days, totaling over 50 hours of testimony. meanwhile, trump's team called just two witnesses with about two hours of testimony. the majority of that time came from former adviser to trump's ex lawyer, michael cohen, robert costello the defense hoped to use costello to attack cohen's credibility about costello ended up angering the judge on monday, leading the judge to clear the courtroom to address his decorum one of the case. >> my understanding prosecutors began their case approximately one month ago by questioning former national enquirer publisher david pecker. >> pecker laid out the catch-and-kill scheme at the crux of the prosecution's case. prosecutors allege trump falsified business records to cover up a $130,000 payment to adult film star stormy daniels to block her story of an alleged affair with trump from becoming public to influence the 2016 election trump denies
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the affair. >> was it hush money to stay silent? >> yes the story was coming out again. all eyes were on daniel's when she took the stand, prosecutors sought to bolster her testimony by having daniels recalls specific details of her alleged sexual encounter with trump, any event and surrounding it. the prosecution spinal and star witness with michael cohen, the only one who can directly linked trump to the alleged crimes. >> i just wanted to get through this so that i can start my own life again. >> cohen walked the jury through trump's involvement. we're recounting conversations with trump when he directed cohen to pay off daniel's before the 2016 election as well as the 11 checks, including ones trump personally signed to reimburse cohen for the funds that he paid to daniels out of his pocket and he says to me something to the effect of don't worry, michael, you're january and february reimbursement checks are coming cohen testified to check stubs were false because they said a payments are made
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for a retainer agreement during intense cross-examination. trump's team's main objective was to undercut cohen's credibility, aiming to paint him as a vengeful liar who hates trump michael cohen is a convicted liar and he's got no credibility whatsoever. >> trump attorney todd blanche got cohen to admit he stole from the trump organization in one of the most dramatic moments in the trial, cohen was pressed over his memory of a key phone conversation when cohen said he told trump, daniel steele was getting resolved now, what if this afternoon lawyers for trump and the prosecution's sparred over the instructions that the judge would give the jury to explain the law that they need to apply in this case. closing arguments are expected for tuesday. the judge asks the jurors to come in on wednesday, which is normally a day off, because he said he expects to live gracious to get underway. and this jury of seven men and five women will decide whether donald trump becomes the first former president to be convicted of a crime juror is
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goodell, reported for us from new york care. >> thank you very much. we're also following wiki news in the trump classified documents case, hundreds of pages of court documents were just done. sealed including newly revealed photos of boxes being moved over at mar-a-lago. cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez is in florida. he's got details for us. what can you tell us? seven well, in these hundreds of pages of documents, we're getting a little bit of behind the scenes luck of the scramble that was going on. >> as the government was trying to retrieve documents from the possession of donald trump here in, here in florida. what we're seeing in some of these documents is some images of walt nauta, who is one of the co-defendants. see somebody who works for the former president. and these these these images are from surveillance video appear to show him moving boxes sometime around june of 2022. now, this is after trump had
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received get a subpoena ordering him to turn over documents and his lawyer was going to do a search to try to find some of these documents. what the government is saying is that this is proof that nauta, at the direction of the former president, was trying to move boxes, move classified documents, so that the lawyer would not be able to find it. now part of this is all explaining why judge beryl howell in washington, ordered evan corcoran, who is a former lawyer for the former president, ordered him to provide information to provide documents to the prosecution. what she said as part of her ruling, she said that there was sufficient than evidence that the former president was using person 18, who has evan corcoran identified as having corcoran as an instrumentality or as a front man to obstruct the government's investigation and allow the former president to continue with holding these documents from the investigation. now, howell said
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that there's because there was strong evidence that this was enough reason for the crime-fraud exception that required corcoran to provide information to prosecution. this all comes ahead. wolf, of a hearing. we have here in fort pierce tomorrow where the the defense is trying to remove some of the some of the evidence that they say was gathered as part of this investigation walt nauta and the co-defendants, along with the former president, they're all making arguments against the prosecution here tomorrow. >> well, very interesting indeed, evan perez and florida for us. thank you very much. let's break all of this down with our legal experts and i'll start with laura so it's laura on the hush money trial right now, the instructions that were hashed out today will be what the last words, the jury will hear before donald trump's fate is known, break all this down for us. it's very dramatic and very important. >> it's dramatic after history is already being made by having a former united states president on trial, a criminal i'll trial for matters related
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to the election back in 20 2016, excuse me. and also the idea of him violating are having falsified business records. the jury instructions are the most important part of the case. second owing to the presentation of the evidence, obvious the prosecution has got to meet their burden of proof, but now the jury is going to have instructions that tell us then how they need to actually follow the law, how they need to view the evidence that was given to them circumstantial evidence, for example, a commonly used instruction to tell them they don't necessarily have to have direct evidence. we can use things like their comment or phrases. if you go to bet at night, there's grass on the ground and it's green and you wake up in the morning that it's covered in snow you it probably snowed last night. what can you use for indirect testimony? also, the big part of it will be about the issue of what is substantial. remember, they are trying to show from a felony case that donald trump falsified business records. normally a misdemeanor in new york with the intent of trying to hide another crime that being it seems a conspiracy we're campaign contribution
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that campaign contribution though, has to be made in furtherance of the campaign, not for a private matter the term term for the jury will be how to figure out how to evaluate his motivation. was to protect his wife and family or was it to protect the election in some way or is odd. >> he's going to be really too important. >> aspects of the instructions. but this is going to be the most consequential matter and will hear them in full next week, we certainly will already. thank you very much, laura standby. we've got more to discuss. only go to david shown right now, david, the defense got michael cohen to admit that he still what some $60,000 from trump then brought robert costello to the stand and a very risky witness, i should say, who has sparred with the actual judge in this case, was that a mistake on the part of the defense no, not at all. >> the first i have to say laura coates just gave you a terrific presentation, overview, and detailed summation. i think of what's next in the case and what's important at terrific and very
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informative. no, i think with proper preparation, bob costello would have been an absolute home one witness in the case there was not that proper preparation, frankly, but alan dershowitz wrote an interesting piece today about the whole interchange with the judge. in fact ambassador hi xin is a guest star in that article. and to his tribute, he cleared up some misconceptions, others in the media had written about their conversation. but alan dershowitz, i think, got it right. i've had experience with this, judge notwithstanding what we see in the precedent, even tempered, i find them to be a bully and i find it to be in competent in the case of the night had at least i think it was totally out of order. what he did with bob costello. bob costello is muttering, wasn't appropriate either. >> but as far as whether costello was a mistake or not, because dello should have been and in some sense, and wall street journal reports, he scored some points. >> he should have been a dynamite witness, is a bright guy, former chief deputy chief criminal division, southern district, new york prosecutor.
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and the question of whether he represented michael cohen are not, i think is answered not just by the email exchange between them, but the fed's had michael cohen sign a privilege waiver with bob costello before it got bob costello met with the feds and so on. and what he said is i think a key for michael about michael cohen up, wrap it up without talking too much more. that is is that he told michael cohen at the time his motivation was the greatest at that point to turn over donald trump. if donald trump did anything wrong with respect to the stormy daniels thing. and he said over and over again, michael cohen said to him, bob, i can't do it. it's not true. trump had nothing to do with it. so in that sense, he was an important witness. >> well, david, you mentioned norm eisen. he's with us, of course. and norm, you've been inside the courtroom every day. give us your reaction to what we just heard. what do you think? >> well i think that bob costello was a disaster for the defense here, wealth and the points that they had scored on
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michael cohen we're substantially subtracted from by bob costello's testimony. the problem is that assistant district attorney susan hoffinger, very expertly took castello through his own words in email on cross-examination insinuating that he was attempting to control michael cohen to benefit costello's friend, longtime associate rudy giuliani. and giuliani's client, donald trump, at the expense of cooperating and she used his extremely i thought unsavory words suggesting that the white house was keeping an eye on him. you have friends there, you can rest easy tonight. you are loved it had the aroma of witness interference or possible witness tampering. that's what the prosecution was suggesting. because stela was an unpleasant
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witness i think the judge was right to chastise him, although the judge should not have cleared the courtroom interesting very interesting. laura, let me get your thoughts because the persecution and correct me if i'm wrong, still hasn't necessarily fully spelled out to the jury the second crime against trump that would make this case a felony if there's one crime, could be a misdemeanor to crimes, potentially a felony. why is that? is that enough to just layout all that in closing arguments, there'll be coming next week. >> that's interesting point. the prosecution has the burden of proof of showing that the charges of the crime that they've actually charged had been proven. you have to add the intent to defraud of the intent to actually falsify the business records. there are 34 counts and kunqu comprising invoices, ledger entries also so personal checks. and you had to do to elevate from a misdemeanor to a felony that you were doing so to try to hide another crime. now, it's actually quite mind-boggling too many people that were sitting here today at the conclusion of several weeks of
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trial and don't clearly know what is the precise law they're going to use in summation in the closing arguments to say he here's the crime they were trying to hide. there are two different theories. one could be a conspiracy to commit a crime. the other one could be that they were having a campaign finance contribution that they did not disclose. and that's where the idea of why the money was paid comes into play here. but you don't have to actually prove the underlying crime itself in terms of the spurious your otherwise or for that this actual encounter that was alleged even happen. it has to be the falsified business records. >> very interesting, david, while i have you, i want to get out your reaction to the newly unsealed, ruling in the classified documents case down at mar-a-lago. what's your reaction to this new evidence where the special counsel says trump's former lawyer, evan but greene was essentially his front man and obstructing the government's investigation yeah, i know evan corcoran very well. is a fine fellow actually, former justice department lawyer. >> i don't think it would potentially be in front man for
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any crime. i know that he wouldn't be. i think that a central issue in that case is going to be, frankly, judge, how old? it's rulings ruling on the crime-fraud exception. in other words, she had evan corcoran's nodes, personal notes turned over in wholesale fashion without him even having an opportunity to review the any edit list and all of that based on her finding, there was a crime-fraud exception which pierces then the attorney-client privilege. i think she was dead wrong and i think that that could well be a significant issue in the case. and i can return one one seconds is something this coat said. i think she's absolutely right that it's mind-boggling. we don't know what the target crime is. i think it's worse than that. i think that that's a mix. the indictment defective. the judge said originally, well, the prosecution has given four theories for what that target crime could be, you cannot defend the case consistent with due process and other fifth and sixth amendment rights without knowing that crime from the grand jury, even a bill of particulars wouldn't have sufficed in my view, one would guess it's 17152 of the election law, but we shouldn't
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be in a position of guessing norm what's your reaction? what do you think? >> well to those of us in the courtroom, it's been clear from day one what the crime is. it was stated in the openings. it's been articulated in the evidence. we heard about it again today in the charging conference, number one, feca, the federal election law you cannot make a contribution of 130,000 wealth when the contribution limit is $2,400, was over $127,000 in excess alleged by the prosecution. number two, election conspiracy number three, tax fraud because of those gross up documents, smoking gun, three crimes very clearly stated. now it'll be to the jury to decide if they occurred. >> interesti guys. thank you very, very much, laura, stay with us. we've got more to discuss with you just ahead. today's other big case, rudy giuliani arraigned in arizona,
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is about. today's the raman. but but it was the effort, the drama of trying to get rudy giuliani to appear here for the last three weeks that took center stage and really was the attention getter of the day. so the way it was laid out in court is that agents from the attorney general's office had been chasing giuliani from new york to florida that he had been livestream both in new york and most recently at his birthday party in his 80th birthday party in palm beach, florida. he had also been tweeting from that party saying, essentially, can't find me and this had been this online discussion between him and agents who are trying to find tim. so in court today because he was served as he was leaving the party to appear here in court as the court proceeding unraveled, what you heard the attorney general's office say is that they want him to now be ordered to appear here within 30 days and have to pay a bond. it is something
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that the giuliani certainly felt was unfair. take a listen i've been indicted georgia and appeared on every occasion i've been concerned about 20 to 25 times by very 32 similar to this one which is the lexical we can do to destroy donald trump okay. look at this i've been a complete embarrassment should the american legal system, but i just saw no tendency not to comply i show up for every court appearance and they must have been about 20 to 30 of them. there is no history. >> it's fine being squishes the basis i think could be better this is completely is completely, political case that come very, very late three years. >> i don't want to mute you, but i need to move on. give me
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just a moment. i understand what your position is regarding released the judge was not cuz she did order that he has to appear in the next 30 days, as well as pay a $10,000 bond. >> wolf that means elect to get his mug shot and evening pre-printed when you arrived here in arizona, both mr. b. america's mayor and all of this going on, right? thanks very much. karam law out in arizona for are seeing an anchor and chief legal analyst for cnn, laura coates is back with us right now. all or how strong is this case against giuliani and the 17 other defendants? >> just think about what your point was. just more than 50 defendants now across four states, all stemming from actions taken trying to provide to promote the false notion that donald trump won the election. he did not in 2020. now you have this case where they're all charged with ford forgery fraud and also conspiracy to different degrees. this all comes on the heels of false electors and schemes to try to get that he
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had in fact won the election. now the timing of it, which of course he raises very importantly, is what is going to give the narrative and the promotion of a political motivation here. but the evidence, as it currently stands, is that there is documentary evidence and knowledge about conversations in an otherwise, it's just they in fact, work conspiratorial in this. he has a presumption of innocence as they all do some of the figures who are part of the co-defendant cases are the people who are the former head of the republican party in arizona somebody who currently is election integrity council for the rnc. we're talking about very significant figures even today. >> no unlike the georgia election subversion case, donald trump isn't a defendant in arizona. why is that? >> well, that is one of the questions people have asked. i think he's an unindicted coconspirator. unindicted person in this case as well, we've seen that before at one point in time during michael cohen's case in a very different and distinct matter, but that was one of the frustrations some of these defendants have had is suggests, well, if this was all part of the conspiracy to try to promote him, then why is he not a part of it now that's the discretion shouldn't the prosecutors and what to do. it might be that there's not the
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dots that connect to the actual person donald trump. or it might be that there's evidence that they are not yet able to have or corroborate their claim. they can always sue proceed an indictment and change it. but as it stands right now, he has more than enough legal troubles very interesting. we've also just learned that i'm laura than it a new the new agreement. and we just learned about it. there's giuliani has now agreed to never again publicly accused to georgia election workers of tampering with the 2020 election results. ruby freeman and shaye moss spoke to the january 6 select committee. as you and i well, remember, i want to play some of that powerful testimony. watch this i've lost my name and i lost my reputation i've lost my sense of security all because a group of people starting with number 45 if alla rudy giuliani decided to scapegoat me and my
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daughter shade freeman and mahsa one what, 148 judgment against him. >> so how does this agreement impact that? >> and then they filed another lawsuit. i think the next after getting that agreement and that judgment against them, first of all, for what all that they described her daughter also describe their feeling safe, not wind to have her name said in public because they passed a mint to one another and actual edible meant and they were accused of having committed election interference and different evidence to undermine the election. none of which were spanish. and your true and so defamation case came and was very strong. i can get indictment of him, but we don't yet know whether your course is in bankruptcy, which does not mean you don't have to pay your judgment for intentional actions. i don't know what this stipulation in fact means. he won't have to pay anything. but right now, they do have a lot more power and control over him. if he decides to act again, they have that much more leverage. >> interesting, very interesting. and de laura coates, thanks very much. and a note to our viewers, laura, of course, where you back later tonight 11:00 p.m. eastern for her show, laura coates live.
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price tag, goh to harrys.com slash tv to clean your $5 trial i'm elizabeth wagmeister in los angeles in this there's more breaking news this our president biden now speaking out about a video that was shared. >> i'm donald trump's social media account predicting and i'm quoting now a unified rif. if trump returns to the white house, the president is slamming trump buffer using hitler's language, cnn's kristen holmes has more on the post and the backlash what happens after donald trump wins
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what's next for america? former president donald trump posting, then removing a video to social media site, truth social referring to the creation of a unified reich. if he wins a second term, the 30-second video shared monday feature to hypothetical headlines styled as world war i era newspaper clippings, the american dream is back and the best is yet to come. the text, unified reich, a term often associated with nazi germany under adolf hitler, appears under one headline that reads, what's next for america. and again at the end of the video, under the text maga, make america great. again a spokesperson told cnn the trump campaign it did not create the video and it was quote, reposted by a staffer who clearly did not see the word. the video was eventually deleted tuesday morning from the former president's truth social account. but not before sparking a backlash led by president joe biden's campaign and administration.
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>> this kind of rhetoric is unsurprising coming from the former president. and it is appalling. >> it shows our freedoms and our very democracy are at stake. >> biden calling out his republican rival directly in an online video, a unified reich, that schindler's language, that's not america's. >> the video is just the latest example in a string of comments and social media posts by the former president invoking racist or anti-semitic rhetoric. >> any jewish person votes for a democrat votes for biden to have their head exam trump has also echoed languaged use by authoritarian leaders when describing undocumented migrants that destroying the blood of our country that's what they're doing. >> and those he perceives as political enemies. >> we will root out the communists, marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country. >> the inflammatory rhetoric was an emblem of pumps first run for office. and during his
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time in the white house in 2017, after the deadly white supremacists protest in charlottesville trump delivered this statement. >> you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. >> and during the 2016 campaign, trump tweeted a graphic of hillary clinton that feature a pile of cash and a six-pointed star with the words, most corrupt canada and it did ever, from later claim the star represented a sheriff's badge and not the star of david, though he eventually deleted the post and replaced it with a new image and this posting of the video comes as many on trump's team actually believe there is an opening with jewish american voters including democrats, because they are unhappy with biden's handling of the israel-gaza war. >> they are putting plans to court jewish voters. however, of course, this kind of rhetoric is unlikely to help with that. will all right, chris since thanks very much. i want to bring in sion and
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political commentators, karen finney and david urban and david, let me ask you quickly, how badly did the trump campaign fumble this issue arrive? remember the nazis call their regime the third row shore. so to be clear, api story on this is pretty good. >> very factual. the language is not trump's language, its language it's lifted from wikipedia and posted there. no, no, it was it was reposted. a kid who a gentleman, a person ramble rants, posted the language says specifically after world war ii, germany, german industrial strength and production significantly increased after 18721, driven by the creation of a unified right? that's the language it was posted. clip there historically. now, listen, it's like the third rail of politics using the word reich in any context is bad especially when we should be talking about you know, because the third reich, right? so especially we should be talking about what israel condemn the widely yesterday, as you know, on the floor of the un security the council, we had a moment of
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silence where the un deputy national the deputy ambassador to the un, stood in a moment of science honoring a butcher of tehran, right? this is a horrific person and the biden administration sued for ammonia sides that is what is disgraceful. we should be talking about, not some misstep by a kid on the campaign trail. and yet we're doing it and that's the unforced error here. >> where do you think? well, i think the problem is that as christians piece pointed out, we've heard this rhetoric from former president trump over and over and over again. but i think to david's point, i don't think it's going to have much of an impact, but what it does do, it's a distraction section and it reminds us that we're in that part of the campaign where all these little things matter and i certainly think it won't matter to people who are now being reminded. >> this is what it was like when donald trump was president, right? there were some tweet, some something that got out that wasn't about them. it wasn't about their lives wasn't about what he might be doing to make their lives better. instead, it's
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about his own agenda or his own thoughts all right. >> i want to move out to another sensitive political issue david, let me get your thoughts so there's another trump video getting a lot of attention right now. the biden campaign tweeted this clip from trump's interview with kdka earlier today. watch are related to this is the whole issue of contraceptives do you support any restrictions on a person's right to contraception? well, we're looking at that and i'm going to have a policy on that very shortly. and i think it's something that you'll find interesting and i'd say it's another issue that's very interesting, but you will, you will find it. i think very smart. i think it's a smart decision, but we'll be releasing it very soon. >> now, after that interview aired is, you know, david are the trump campaign quickly released a statement which reads in part, let me quote, i have never and will never advocated posing restrictions on birth control or other
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contraceptives. this is a democratic a democrat fabric. okay, to lie, but just earlier, you heard what he said in the problem. so jon delano, there happens to be a good friend of mine. >> it was a little he was he was he was eager today. we were texting this morning about he was eager to talk to the present. i'm not so sure he's he's is eager now after these created this controversy here create the cow oh, i under president the president, the president fumble. he found with the question, right? he was given a question straightforward answer should have been, we're not going to restrict it, should have been exactly what was tweeted out on his truth, social, and now we've got to clean up on il-6 here, right. so that's where we are right now. and i think it shows also that the president is so wrapped up in his own grievance narrative, he's not actually paying attention to what's going on in the country because if he was he would know that actually measures around access to contraception are making their way through legislature's throughout the country.
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>> republicans are blocking those measures. in fact on 15, 15 states, we've been talking a lot about abortion access measures. well, 15 states actually now have access to contraception measures on their ballot. and there's a measure that will come up with before the senate. we think sometime in june. so this is actually a very real issue that he simply has not been paying attention to characterize sensitive issues, supersensitive he walked away from after the to learn how to talk about these things in a more coherent fashion, because it's going to drive, drive suburban women voters away. >> but i think part of the problem specifically on this issue is certainly in the congress the susan b. anthony group is going to score that vote and it's been, it's another problem for republicans on this issue, for the david. >> thank you very, very much. i'm just ahead. dramatic video, new details on the investigation into a deadly in-flight turbulence issue, aboard a singapore airlines
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learning more right now about what happened aboard the boeing jet and the fate of its passengers, including one who was killed good more than 70 who were injured. brian todd is working the story for us. brian, the flight mate in an emergency landing in thailand. what more do we know? >> wolf and ntsb team is now on route to singapore to aid in the investigation. we have new information tonight on this deadly incident in the air that also left some passengers with broken bones inside the cabin. the ceiling has broken open debris is everywhere. blood runs down an arm rest passengers have to be evacuated. some on stretchers the aftermath of severe turbulence experienced by singapore airlines flight 3201 and incident that left one passenger dead et and more than 70 others injured, some severely. the flight carrying more than 200 passengers and crew members was on route from london to singapore. it was hit by the turbulence over myanmar and had to divert to bangkok
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slash team either claim you're $5 trial cnn news central, tomorrow. >> that's seven eastern were tracking a very dangerous outbreak of severe weather in the midwest right now, including multiple tornadoes western iowa, that i've caused major damage in at least one death are meteorologist chad myers as the breaking news versus chad, what can you tell us well if, anywhere that you see a color, if you live in that area, you need to pay attention this evening these tornadoes, we'll go through the evening hours and possibly even two after dark, they are very dangerous when they're after dark because sometimes you don't hear the warning or see the alert on your tv, whatever it might be. here are the ground shots that were seeing right now from greenfield, iowa that about an hour-and-a-half ago was hit by a direct hit. i'm thinking this is at least ef2, possibly an ef-3 tornado, very large tornado on the ground it was even it was even while it was
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knocking over the power transmission windmills that we're in in the field near this town. it was a devastating tornado all the way up to the town we knew it was coming to the town. i tweeted out, please take cover because this is what it looks like now and then. here are some drone pictures that we just acquired here at cnn about two blocks wide. but the damage is so significant to those middle part of those blocks. this is what the tornado looks like here on the ground obviously the trees are stripped of their leaves. some of the trees are stripped of the bark, wolf and the very large limbs are completely gone there will be more of this potential tonight as we work our way all the way through midnight this evening, farther to the east of here. but look at the damage, how the cars were tossed, how the roofs were completely disintegrated. there, and many of the people there knew what was coming. they got away. they got in their permanent shelter
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wherever what is inside your room. and so far so good. there are injuries, but not hearing of anything else other than injuries in this town. now, let's go to the drone. if we have it, because i think this really tells a story of where this storm started. it started in the southwest corner of greenfield, iowa and i guess maybe we don't have that video. that's okay. this is what i this is a home right here and the home itself is completely flattened. >> if even if you were in the middle part of a room, you would still have to be really rescued from something like this. >> so yes, search and rescue out there still looking for people. we know there's a grid search going on in this town right now. there was also a tornado on the ground in cambridge. and cambridge, iowa, and that storm did damage as well, still searching is how much damage came to that. here are some some, some soundbites here, some words from one of the residents that came home to a house that technically wasn't even there it was actually all god like you
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can't even tell where we live so yeah. >> just kind of crazy i know that's still very frustrating. >> yeah what's going i'm just thinking jesus, there were all here in my last thing he was i knew my daughter was okay. >> she was at daycare and all my family and friends who like live right here. we're all okay. >> but the dog wasn't here. but we founders, so i'm just so thankful to god that we're all here hi. >> i really need to knock the hair down on my legs and on my arms because when puppies are found after that, when you don't know where they are, i think that's maybe more meaningful than anything else in a tornado event like that. so let's get to it here. where are the storms moving through and pass the moyne at this point in time, but into wisconsin, into minute it's soda. and later on today, all the way into chicago, as far south as tulsa, these storms are really in a very long line, wolf, this is when the moisture in the humidity of spring wants to be here and the cold front
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of winter says, wait, not so fast. so yes, this is a low pressure center, the dry air came out of the mountains, the cold air came out of the north. and we're firing these storms up. we still have purple boxes, which means that there are still tornadoes warnings when we're not saying they're on the ground yet some are just indicated by radar. you can see the rotation on the radar but when they get on the ground, this is when they're doing the most damage and you can see some of those right there. this is near glenwood. this would be missouri and that would be on the ground because it's colored in there. so we do know that's a confirmed tornado later on tonight, all the way through chicago possibly into milwaukee as far north as green bay, as far south as the gulf coast. this is a long line of weather that could even bring some flooding. you get 2-3 inches of rainfall with some of these radars echoes and that's what we're going to see here for the rest of the evening. this is a major event for a big part of the country. we knew it was coming severe prediction center said it was coming yesterday. they even upgraded it again today and here's what you get
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when you get this type of weather that does hit a town. so many times will if we just know these storms are coming, we do, but we just hope that they hit the cornfield and not a town. but just like greensburg kansas years ago with the ef5, this wasn't one, but greenfield, iowa took a direct hit here, is really it's going to take some time to all this mess up, at least so far, only one loss of life and with the tornado that looks like that, that kind of damage it could have been a lot worse, could have been a lot worse on the intensity scale, chad, how bad can these tornadoes be later tonight? and you say they're heading towards what milwaukee, chicago, other major cities yes certainly not tornado was heading there. it's possible. but what i see here, ice f3 damage, possibly even very almost an ef4 type damage when you strip the bark off of the tree, that takes some power, even in nebraska and parts of oklahoma that i lived there when you would
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strip the asphalt off the roadway that takes an awful lot of power and you see the pictures here. >> many of those trees are just basically stumps up what they were. and so this is likely an hundred and 50 mile per hour tornado, which puts it on that border, ef-3, possibly if it's hot they don't know if it's a big tornado, unless they find a very large and sturdy structure that got knocked down, you can't tell what kind of damage to a motor home or to a car. there's no such thing as an ef scale for a car. but when you see a brick structure, possibly that the post office and you see that get knocked down, you know, that that that should be standing because it's a brick on stone structure. and if that's knocked down, that's when you get to that ef4 and likely not what this not ef5 because it just wasn't wide enough. i don't believe we're learning. we're learning that chad that at least one person has died because of these storms. reminder of viewers what they should do if there is a tornado warning in the area where they live? >> well i. grew up in nebraska
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and we had a basement and that was very, very fortunate. but when i lived in oklahoma, there were very few, if any basements whatsoever because you are basically building on bedrock. so you had to use blasting powder in dynamite to get to the basement in most people didn't. you need to be inside your home away from the windows, put as many walls between you and the outside is possible. think about your outside wall between your bathroom and all of a sudden you have a closet behind it, behind there. so there's another wall. think about how many walls you can get and that's always on the interior of your room, never on the outside of the room. i remember so i moved in nebraska and 76 they said get in the basement and southwest corner. well, as it turns out, that was the most dangerous place to be. so yes, there are still myths, but look at this damage, this this just drone footage forces the drone video that you told us about earlier yeah. >> i knew we had it. >> it was coming in. we were trying to get it into the system. sometimes it takes a minute even with the speed of sound, the speed of light. but hereou

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