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Happening now, urgent courthouse preparations are underway right now for the

unprecedented arraignment to former President Donald Trump. We're learning more

about how and when Trump will face the historic criminal

charges returned by a New York grand jury.

And as the NYPD sends more officers into the streets of New York, the U.S. Secret Service is playing an active

role in planning for Trump's court appearance. This, as Trump is holed up right now at

Maralago and Florida, rallying his supporters and lashing out at the prosecutor.

And we're following breaking news on the tornado danger, right now in the Midwest and

parts of the South, as Twisters are spotted in Arkansas and Illinois.

Millions are under a rare high-risk storm alert right now.

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in the situation room This is

This is CNN breaking news and we start with the breaking news a very dangerous Tornado outbreak is tearing across the Midwest and South right now with

millions and millions of Americans under a rare high-risk storm alert.

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