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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. A rough night in Mississippi. Officials are assessing storm damage following a series of tornado warnings. Scott Simmons with the State Emergency Management Agency says there are reports of hundreds of structures damaged, including the agency's own emergency operations center.
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Tornadoes reported in Wilkinson and Adams Forest County. Doing the preliminary assessments, we talked about as many as 815 structures between Franklin and Lincoln county suffering some damage right now.
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Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves says multiple tornadoes have been reported in central and western Mississippi, with a major one reported in Franklin county, where damage is said to be widespread, with the reports of people trapped inside damaged homes. US And Iran still officially in a ceasefire, but the US Military said Wednesday that it fired on an Iranian oil tanker, saying in a social media post that a fighter jet disabled the tanker in the Gulf of Oman. The the military says the vessel was trying to breach the US Blockade of Iranian ports. At the White House Wednesday, President Trump warned that the US Will start bombing again if Iran does not agree to a deal to end the war. But he also said a deal is very possible. A new Republican proposal to fund Homeland Security ICE agents for the rest of President Trump's term also includes a billion dollars to secure a new ballroom at the White House. NPR's Eric McDaniel has more.
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It's a nearly $75 billion three year plan to fund the immigration enforcement team's inside of. But there are some smaller pots of money in the proposal to fund other parts of the agency, including a billion dollars for the Secret Service targeted at security measures for Trump's White House ballroom, or as the White House staff calls it, the East Wing modernization project. The draft legislation says the money cannot be used for construction, which the administration says has been funded so far just through private donations. Long shot proposals from Congress to use taxpayer money for the project haven't gained any traction. Eric McDaniel, NPR News, Washington.
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Brazil President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva heading to the US For a meeting with President Trump today. The visit announced at the last minute but in the works for months. As Julia Carneiro reports, the official visit
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in Washington comes with great expectation in Brazil due to the ups and downs in U. S. Brazil relations in the past year. The hefty US Tariffs imposed on Brazilian exports last year were gradually dropped after talks between both countries reignited. But there are big differences between Trump and Lula on matters like the Iran war and the US Intervention in Venezuela, criticized by the leftist leader, making this a thorny meeting. The presidents are to discuss economic and security matters, according to Vice President Geraldo Alkmi, Brazil will propose an agreement to combat organized crime. The country has been resisting US Pressure to designate criminal factions as terrorist organizations. For NPR News, I'm Julia Carneiro in Rio.
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And this is NPR News. CNN founder Ted Turner has died at age 87. He started the first US superstation and owned sports teams, including the Atlanta Braves. Turner previously announced he had Lewy Body dementia, a degenerative disease. NPR's David Folkenflick has more.
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Ted Turner is perhaps best known for starting cnn.
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He was a visionary, a trailblazer, a rabble rouser, a do gooder, and he thought there would be a market for it.
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That's Ethan Jordan, who rose to be CNN's chief news executive. The place operated on the cheap and on the fly.
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Look, we were young and at times very shoddy, but we were the only game in town and we did some extraordinary things.
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CNN came into its own with coverage of the Challenger space shuttle explosion and the first Gulf War. In 1996, with the launch of Rivals, Fox News and MSNBC, Turner sold his holdings. He gave a billion to fund the United nations and helped to inspire the giving pledge from philanthropic giants Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. David Fogenflick, NPR News.
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A federal judge says the Justice Department does not have to return the 2020 election ballots from Georgia's Fulton county that were seized by the FBI from a warehouse near Atlanta. The judge issued the ruling Wednesday. Lawyers for Fulton county had argued for their return, saying the seizure was improper and unconstitutional. Fulton county is at the center of unfounded election fraud claims by President Trump. Japan's benchmark Nikkei leading the way in Thursday trading in Asia. The Nikkei up more than 5.5%, crossing the 62,000 mark for the first time. I'm Jael Snyder, NPR News.
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